Stuffed Animal Thing

Ok, so for my stuffed animal thing, I decided to take my Fiances stuffed Dinosaur, and edit it into Jurassic Parks Famous "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" still frame. So that's what I did. With my actual free time that I had, I decided to paint my cars brake calipers. And like everyone else I'm sure, I relaxed and enjoyed some time with nothing to do...For about 5 mins, then I started on a speech I have to give.... yeah...

Heres the dino pic




And here's the calipers!





They look orange in the pics, but they're actually red, my car is orange though haha

Process

Inspiration-Idea-Concept-Trial-Refine-Product is the format that Professor Lykins. I would say that mine is a little different then this. I am a video production major so I am on a little bit of a different side when it comes to art anyway. I would say my process is more like this Idea-Inspiration-Concept-Trial-Refine-Product. Although similar, it is very different in the start. I start out my process with an idea. I have an idea for a movie or some type of video that I want to do, and then I go out and see who else has done something similar, how they did, was it affective? Everything like that. So I somewhat get inspiration from other videos that are close to my idea before I start to create the concept. Other than that step, all the others are pretty self explanatory, I just wanted to clarify what I meant by having the idea before the inspiration.

I really enjoyed going through the tour of the other half of the IT building. I thought that the 3d room was awesome. The tour was a little dry at times, but there was a lot of material to cover so I really can't complain too much. Overall it kind of made me question what I wanted to do with my degree... I have had a lot of doubt's lately anyway. I just kind of pushed them back and didn't really think about them, but for some reason this tour kind f made me dig deeper. Which is a good thing. I think that I have been getting incredibly bored and frustrated in my major classes for a lot of reasons. I have not enjoyed certain professors very much, and feel that they don't treat me fairly on grading. I think that the tour made me want to try a little harder and kind of show professors what I'm really capable of. I think that everyone questions their choices for their major every once in a while, and I think that it is very healthy too. If we just went through life never questioning or critiquing our own decisions, then what would that make us?

Anyway, this is my blog entry, leave me a comment if you have felt the same way with your own major at all...

Rule Breaking

There are many rules in the video field. They are very confusing though. Every time a professor or professional talks about a rule, they end the sentence with "But you can break it if you have a good enough reason." Anyway, I decided to break the 180 degree rule. I wanted to break it with a reason though. I broke it with no reason at first, and it just made the video look confusing. When I came up with the reason to break it, it made since however. If you ever need a scene where you have a split personality character in it, this rule break would make since. I filmed my little brother having an argument with his second personality, and with the rule broken, it made sense! Pretty cool. Unfortunately, I have not had any chance to edit/upload the video. This semester is my busiest semester yet. Anyway, that is the rule I broke.

Class 1/31/2011

Well I actually wasn't at class on Monday, but I will describe what happened. I woke up Monday morning with a headache, I went to my video class at 12. After the video class my headache clearly was getting worse. I went home. It took me 3hrs to get rid of that headache. Burring the video class, it turned into a migraine. I didn't have a very fun day.

What I saw project. (Closed my eyes and saw my eyelids)

So for this assignment I couldn't really choose what particular item I wanted to bring to life. I ended going with the first one on the list and kind of changed it alot. I started making literally the insides of eyelids, then I thought to myself, is that really creative? SO I kind of went more of of a metaphor. What do you see when you close your eyes? DO you see happiness? despair? anger? fear? Do you see anything at all? or is it all just thoughts and random pieces of a world? Anyway, I closed my eyes and though up a scene. It is a little weird and creepy, but I visualized it the best that I could. I love the thought of an alternate reality. So I kind of created this artificial looking scene. Tell me what you think, if you think its awesome, great, if you think it sucks, then whatever haha.








"When I Close My Eyes"

When you close yours, what do you see?

Class 1/24/11

Class on Monday had some interesting conversations. I agree with some of my classmates opinions on how rules can be bad, I also agree with some of the viewpoints on how they are good. I personally think that there are way too many rules for things in society today. The government thinks that they can prevent injury by adding a bunch of rules to things. When in actuality people are gonna do whatever they wanna do, no matter what the "rules" say you can do. I know because I am one of those people. Anyway, I am looking forward to upcoming discussions and projects in this class. This is curently my only class that I somewhat enjoy.

Eggs Benedict

This is my project for the egg. I didn't actually use a real egg but was inspired by it. I had many different ideas that could have taken me in many different directions with this project. I chose this one because I thought it might be entertaining.

I call it , "Eggs Benedict"




Note: this is in no way meant to be offensive to anybody or Mr. Benedict.