I laughed so hard at this video

Babies are just little drunk people

Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas from Johannes Nyholm on Vimeo.

My In-Class Project

My Favorite Performance Art

I really enjoyed this piece by "dandypunk." His movements were very fluid, and I loved his use of projections to highlight them. The music that was made for the video is also quite entrancing.

Reading Summary for Martin, pp. 6-20

-Video first considered art in 1960s
-Video translates audio-visual material into analogue or digital code, unlike film and television

• Vilem Flusser defines video as "dialogical memory"
• Jacques Derrida says video art must be considered in relation to conventional artistic language

-Decolage- created through an aggressive act (coined by Vostell)
-1960s saw a rise in televised art galleries (i.e. The Medium is the Medium)
-25fps overseas, 30fps in America
-PAL system creates images overseas from 576 lines, each built up line by line from two half images consisting of 288 lines each, and in America it is 540 lines, with 270 lines per half image
-1970s saw some artists using digital approach to electronic image editing
-1990s saw the recording of audio-visual material on magnetic tapes replaced by numerical storage in data sets
-1997 Sony and Canon release first digital cameras in America

• Digital compositing of pictures, leading to computer-generated images

Stop Motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pob1fprhMVs

Stop Motion Proposal

For my stop motion animation, I chose to go with a typical Valentine's Day theme: romance. I will use a mixture of claymation and live action to film my video. It will feature two flowers through their life cycle, falling in love. They will endure different types of weather together and seem very humanized in their personification. One of the flowers will then be picked, though you won't see who picked it, you'll only see the hand. The flower will be put into a vase by itself on a table. It will wilt and look sad and lonely. Then, the hand will go back to the garden, where the other flower is looking equally sad and lonely. The hand will pick the remaining flower and put it in the vase with the other. They will both return to happiness. The final shot will pan out to look at the rest of the scene: a kitchen (with the vase sitting atop the kitchen table), and a loving couple holding hands while eating breakfast. You will never see their faces, though, as the story is truly about the flowers.