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

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.

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.

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my sweet, sweet photo site

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.

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).

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