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Graduation!

Max Elman — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:10:22 +0000

A quick update that for now, UCSC is behind me. Had my Mom take this picture up by the squiggle:

And also, this new Sigur Ros track from their new album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, somehow sums up the past few days:

open studios

Max Elman — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:11:00 +0000

Yesterday was open studios here at UCSC, meaning that as as Art major, I’m just about done with this quarter. Rock. I’ve been working on two big projects – the photo series that I’ve already posted images from, and a computer-art piece that’s slightly hard to explain. I made a huge digital frame, hooked it up to flickr and skype, and made a slideshow of all images uploaded from cellphones. You then call in to this frame, control the images, and “vote” which one is your favorite. Sounds simple, but really took about a month and a half of coding. Maybe I’ll post what that all looks like just to scare some people.

busy busy

Max Elman — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:16:01 +0000

The general lack of attention paid to this blog can pretty much be blamed on two art classes. As one of them results in something I can’t really put online, here’s some recent pictures from the other. planes! cars! ducks!

it’s finally official

Max Elman — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:41:20 +0000

As of today, I’m a double art/film digital media major. Awesome. Quite the ordeal, I have to say. College 8 was a bit of a punk about it, and the film department was just plain silly at times. All and all, the art department rocked, and was strangely efficient. Weird.

Definitely glad I’ll never have to do that again though. Unless I decide to minor in Molecular chemistry or something. Who knows.

the real world is for losers

Max Elman — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:07:01 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

next up, my final for art 119.
enjoy.

10 unpleasant ways to die

Max Elman — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:00:35 +0000

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

Click here to view the embedded video.

my scary fort

Max Elman — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:54:00 +0000

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).

Click here to view the embedded video.

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

pictures in the dark

Max Elman — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:26:59 +0000

in another strange course of events – I wasn’t able to swing a photo class this quarter, so instead i’m in a film class. which has me taking pictures. it’s seemingly unavoidable, and i’m totally okay with that. i love photography, and i’ll take any chance to get credit for it… but yes – the film class demanded a short series of photographs describing a place. i chose a place which I know and love so well, KZSC. here’s some shots taken at night – they’re nice (in my totally un-biased) opinion.

flickr
my sweet, sweet photo site

and thus winter begins

Max Elman — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:14:43 +0000

I haven’t posted much in quite some time as things have been slightly hectic for the most part. traveling to see family, growing a year older, working on the house, and starting classes again. the class part is interesting. finishing up my lower division art requirements, starting more advanced digital media, and working with the film minor, which looks like this:

HAVC 10E – Africa, Oceana, and the Americas
Art 118 – Computer Art Theory
Film 20P – Film Production

it’s a good amount of geekery, and on average a decent class size. problem is three sections, which is three too many. on a good note, exciting things are happening at KZSC, however, as winter quarter starts. bend to squares will stay at the same time, but I get to make a new program guide. so, the first to see it, here it is:

maybe I can get some feedback, and also the past three years of covers can be seen here.

no power = crazy time

Max Elman — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:08:06 +0000

So, for some reason or another, power was out on the campus grid last night. I was up at KZSC, just having finished my show, and the lights went out. ‘This is bad’, was the thought of all of us there – as it’s hard to broadcast radio without power. There was some emergency power, but routed in strange ways, and soon the next show was good to go. Topher and I decided to explore campus, so obviously we headed to porter. Tons of people there, dancing, raving, drumming, etc, and good times were had by all(most).