Yay, I'm thinking about sound in video today!

I'm no good with sound, or music, so this is pretty difficult.

Last week, though, I recieved some killer advice for my video/animation on the seven ravens. I was tipped off about John Cage's Suite for Toy Piano.



Pretty cool! I'm having awesome flashbacks to Interlochen and watching 4'33

This is more of a video blog than anything else. I guess that's ok. Remind me to talk about printmaking though, sometime. I've been etching like crazy! Intaglio and relief in the same plate. It's pretty much blowing my mind.

Sometimes I think I'm too casual in the way that I talk about art, espescially on the blog here. I have to write an artist statement for painting, so that'll probably help. I'll use fewer contractions though, don't worry. I'll also use the word "though" less. And I won't write it in second person.

OH, but I was talking about sound. Right, I was also just directed to The Free Sound Project. I am ridiculously impressed by this. Free Sound is amazing. Just fantastic. I had to get sound for an animation I did last semester, and I ended up looking at a Flash resource website that the worst most useless sound on the face of the planet. Never again, I say. Never.

Anything else? I'm going to go to the library and check out John Cage tomorrow (forgot my overdue library books today. yikes.) and meanwhile, I'm going juxtapose some free sounds to my animatic and make a list of remaining paintings. OH and check out a camera, probably.

Go Team.

(there is no "I" in "team" but there is a "me". And there's also no "you". huh.)

L-A-T-E-R that day:

Something I was thinking about in terms of sound and moving image:

The Lost Tribes of New York City

Not really relevant to my projects, I just plain like it.


The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

gathering things in video 2

These are not final images, and are exceedingly low res. It'll do though.






I love horizontals, of course.

The later ones will be used as mostly backgrounds in which cut out figures or objects will be puppeteered in front of.

I love watching things on the internet.

I wish I could swim in my bed with my socks. :/

Video 2 Work

-Presentation to the class my final project
-Presentation of video work. (By BLU)


The Seven Ravens:

Summary:
There was once a man who had seven sons, and no daughter. When his first daughter was born, he was overjoyed, but she was very weak and ill. The man sent all his seven sons to the well for water for the child, but the boys were so eager at the task that in the excitement they accidentally dropped the bucket in the well. The boys were too afraid to go back empty handed so stayed by the well quarreling over what to do next. Meanwhile, their father is angry with them and curses them all and they transform into ravens and fly off.
The young daughter grows up a little completely unaware that she ever had brothers, when one day she overhears someone speaking of them. She is shocked and confronts her parents right away, who admit that her brothers are now ravens and very far away. That night the girl sneaks away from home to find her brothers at the ends of the earth and the break the curse on them.


Formally, the video will be animated through a sequence of static images.
Influences include:
Green Evening Stories by David Troupes
The "Fractured Fairy Tales" Segment from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
( YouTube Link to The Three Little Pigs)
Concept art for Disney by Mary Blair
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Video work by BLU:
Everybody loves MUTO
It reminds me a lot of William Kentridge, except how the graffiti involves the surrounding environment rather than just existing as an image to be a frame in a movie.
But besides that there's also stuff like "ffwd" and "Child" which appear to be more traditional ways of animating.

How's that for now? I'm working on getting some pictures up, but my scanning situation is kind of a hassle. Excuses, excues!