Cognitive Zest » Meat http://jedypod.com cerebular exocarp Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:33:58 +0000 en hourly 1 Witty Abandon http://jedypod.com/witty-abandon http://jedypod.com/witty-abandon#comments Sat, 13 May 2006 11:01:10 +0000 jedypod http://grace.evergreen.edu/~smijed07/blog/?p=36 I have decided to scrap my project, which is entirely too much work, and really just isn’t working. In its stead, there will be a 10 minute video quite similar to the following, but likely more seizure-inducing and horrible.

just kidding.
In all seriousness though, the compositing goes well, and very very slowly. Approximately 18 hours of working on the first 1.75 minutes in the last two days.

]]> http://jedypod.com/witty-abandon/feed 2 More Animation, and Plans of Domination http://jedypod.com/more-animation-and-plans-of-domination http://jedypod.com/more-animation-and-plans-of-domination#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:34:50 +0000 jedypod http://grace.evergreen.edu/~smijed07/blog/?p=24 Last night (Mon. 04-10), I did another healthy 8 hours of animation, and captured some interesting things, which you can see below. If, after seeing all of the animation I have completed, you are wondering what the hell I’m doing, and how I’m going to combine it into a form that means something, I’m worried too.

Bio-Circuit Social Network


This took a rediculous amount of time to set up lighting for. Two mini-moles for the rear bluescreen, a light pointing straight down for the floor bluescreen, two lights on stands for fill/key, and a snooted tiny mole for a blue-tinted backlight.
lights-circuit.jpg

The backlight is to make my planned chroma key more convincing. There will be the solder-side of the circuit board layered in the background, to create a box-like environment. Behind the two puppets and their interconnecting wire, there will be what looks like static of a television screen nested in a square between solder pins green etched circuit board channels. Hopefully this will be hinting at the subservient and entrapped positions of those who watch popular media without question, as well as the inescapable interconnection that comes with technology.

[See post to watch Flash video]

This clip relates to the death and decay aspect of the evolution of corporeality component of my video. The mud was really gross.

On the agenda for the next few days, in opposition to my schedule, is further experimentation with Kontakt 2, Absynth, Reaktor, Live, and Max/MSP/Jitter (which I now have a working demo of), and the rough comletion of my soundtrack. I am playing with the idea of sampling portions of pop-songs and making them sound all dark and disturbing, like Alex did in his soundtrack, and so kindly explained on his blog. Anyway, I need to stop playing with ideas and learning software, and actually start creating the thing. I suppose those first two are necessary though, at least for my ignorant self.

On Thursday, there is the proficiency for the DVX100A, and on Friday, I hopefully will be able to pick it up and use it this weekend to capture at least half of the live-footage component of my psuedo-film. Thus: no more animation, at least for a little while. I’m looking forward to using the automated method of capturing frames.

I would very much appreciated any scathing comments on the stupidity, fallaciousness, or downright foul-heartedness of the footage I have posted so far. (With the realization that these are unedited). Thanks.

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