Fractured Morning Sky (Spring 2008)
Fractured Morning Sky is the result of my work in the Monstrous Possibility literary theory class. This is almost definitely more an experiment than a project. There are a lot of different places this could go, but I don’t consider it finished or even really a thing. I would definitely recommend reading it over watching it.

Hybrid Music Video (Spring 2007)
Visuals created for my final project for Hybrid Music. Created using audio-reactive visuals in After Effects, utilizing seed footage generated by a geometry generator called Whorld. This video is missing improvised flute that was featured in the actual performance.

Lethe (Fall 2006)
Lethe was originally intended to be the first section of a larger project about the growth and perceptual evolution of an artificial intelligence. Unfortunately my time in SOS: Media ran out, due to The Trouble With Unicorns and my insanity of time overcommitment. Having spent a great deal of time on conceptualization and preproduction for this project, I intend to finish it when time allows. This inconsequential and incomplete segment is all that currently exists.

The Trouble With Unicorns (Winter, Spring 2007)
The Trouble With Unicorns was a large narrative project. I worked on it with a number of other people. My role was as editor, co-writer, camera operator, visual effects supervisor person, and so forth. Our epic hour-long narrative ended up failing due to over-ambition and various essential people quitting. The final product was a half-hour gutted version of the story, but still featured some cool things. This is an excerpt from a scene in which Morgan The Unicorn (former resident of Happyland) comes home from his factory job in Factoryland and watches some TV. As you can probably tell from the primitive compositing job, the images on the television are composited.

Cyclic Punctilious Recompense (Summer 2006)
Cyclic Punctilious Recompense is a video project completed for the first assignment of the “Safe Harbor” student film production group, broadcast at the Thurston County Community Television public access cable network. The assignmental constraints on the style of the video were as follows: –predominance of the color red –preponderance of repetition of objects and imagery –frenetic cutting style — no cut lengths greater than 4 seconds The red substance oozing from the mouth of the subject is Oobleck, a non-Newtonian solid. I was interested in this project as an exercise in the creation of subtle motion or the “injection of animation” through usage of the jump-cut technique of cutting video. In this case it was used to extend the duration of an event

Transference Simulation (Spring 2006)
My Mediaworks Spring project. This represents a great deal of learning on the topics of 3D object animation, digital compositing, and electronic music production (the soundtrack being created entirely by myself utilizing various techniques including granular resynthesis of various pop-music samples such as Britney Spears et al). From the blurb: “Transference Simulation is my final project for the Mediaworks program at the Evergreen State College. It is an animated music video recursively examining the representation of gender and sexuality in popular media. By accentuating morbidity, and asserting the vapid portrayal of the human body as a sexual object, this project attempts to bring light to the superficiality and delusional distraction of pop-culture media, such as the music video. Affected reflexively by this blight, the diegesis is allowed to play out and descend necrotically into the metaphorical consequents of this infection. Specific meaning is intended to be created in a willful dialectic between the viewer and his or her experience of the work.”

Alone in the Dark (Winter 2006)
This is my self-portrait project from the Winter quarter of Mediaworks. This is still my favorite project that I have finished. The video footage is from various caves of Southeast Alaska, near my home town of Whale Pass. There is meaning, abstracted.

Mediaworks Projects of Yore (Fall, Winter 2005-2006)
A collection of various among my Mediaworks projects, most of dubious quality. Thusly, the process of learning, however.

The Bees (Summer, 2005)
In addition to being the first, this is certainly by far the best project I have ever created. I made it during the summer of 2005, during the time period immediately after purchasing my first DV camera, and the time immediately before taking Mediaworks at Evergreen. Though slightly in need of subtitles, I think it’s pretty amusing.

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