Yearly Archives: 2006
Trouble With Unicorns Pixilation Shoot
A Technical Description of the Workflow and Tools Used During the Chroma Key Trouble With Unicorns Introduction Shoot The Pixilation Shoot On Saturday 2006-11-04, the first shoot of the Trouble With Unicorns took place. This was for the opening sequence of the project, which is in a 2D-animation visual style. Instead of characters made of [...]
Learning Updates
I will try to be updating this blog more frequently now, as I make actual progress on my project. As seems to be usual, I had a very busy week all the way from Monday through Friday at 5pm, at which point and for the next 3 days I hopefully actually have time to devote [...]
Film Journal Entries
For my work in SOS: Media I will be keeping a film journal, detailing reactions and notes and impressions of films that I watch during the quarter. Following is all that I’ve written and watched so far. Please keep in mind that these have not been re-written and cleaned up, and thus consider the text [...]
A New Era Begins
I have decided to continue posting in this WebLog as I continue my media education at the Evergreen State College in the Student Originated Studies: Media program. The work that I have laid out for myself is multi-faceted. The largest component is an independent animation project, which will attempt to be structured by and contain [...]
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San Juan Island Adventure
It all started one tired morning with the rumbling dark ambient noises of Necrophorus, in all of its babbling bubbling creeching buttoning demonic glory. Of course at this point I was not in the position to fully appreciate this glory, and stumbled out of bed to turn down the volume of my speakers, eyesight bleary, [...]
Cyclic Punctilious Recompense
Cyclic Punctilious Recompense is a video project completed in response to the (first) July assignment of the Safe Harbor video production group. All videos produced by members each month are broadcast on the Thurston County Community Television public access cable network two times per week, at 11:59pm on Monday, and 11:59pm on Thursday. The assignmental [...]
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Placeholder for Exegesis on Transference Simulation
During Winter quarter, I got in the habit of creating an “exegesis” post for each of my projects. They contained an inside look at the process behind the creation of the project, and my view of the conceptual ideas behind the film/video. Consider this a placeholder for just such an exceedingly extensive and detailed post [...]
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The Last Week + New Title = Transference Simulation
The last week has been good. I took last weekend off, and went to the folk-life festival to hang out with my mother. This is the first break I’ve really allowed myself, and I think it was a good thing to do at that point, to clear my head of obsessing about my project, and [...]
Rough Cut
You can download my Rough Cut here. It is a 25MiB MP4 video file (MPEG4 AVC standard h.264 video, aac audio), which should play equally well in Quicktime and the VideoLAN Client. You can also download this file from a YouSendIt Post, in case the previous link did not work for you. The right-click, “save [...]
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Film Journal: La Jetée