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a short film created for art 119 starring a bunch of balloons.
poor, poor balloons

my latest pictorial masterpiece - a narrative starring the girl I love. responses have been good so far - ranging from “hey, I want to buy that”, to the TA for my section:

“whimsical-yet-slightly-uneasy-like-you-are-in-a-dream-that-might-get-a-little- weird-but-not-scary-weird-just-your-head-turns-into-a-watermelon-weird-and- you-float-away-in-a-bubble-weird-to-go-to-a-robot-wedding-weird”

I’d say that’s a good thing.

my latest art project, this one for art 118 - advanced computer art and such. created in jitter and max/msp, the video installation lives inside a fort, and makes it quite interactive and scary. the included films include: the birds, jaws, and the silence of the lambs.

below is a video created using clips from open studios, this past friday (march 16).

For anyone who’s curious, here’s a look at what’s running things.

for my electronic intermedia class, i’m making a fairly unique bottled floor lamp of sorts, and the plan was to make it sound activated. it actually even worked earlier today, we were stomping around, messing with different musical instruments, and being provided with a strange light show courtesy of my lamp. then of course, things went sour. some wires that don’t get along brushed by each other on a crowded streetcorner and, as always when that happens, a freaking big capacitor decided to end its life. lame. so yes, the picture below is of the aftermath. I spent this evening trying to mend things, but the whole thing just refuses to work. thus, no dance-party noise-making light show. regardless, open studios are on friday. you should all come.

update:

although the sound activation never worked, the lamp was completed and now stands in the corner of my room. here’s a picture.