Final Project

Laura and I took (borrowed) lines from every classmate's blog and used them as lyrics in a song that we wrote. For the amount of time spent on this project and how we went about creating it I am proud to say that I am proud of it. Yes there are still some technical mistakes and the audio isn't mixed to radio standards but the idea still stands.


Undertheinfluence by goodnightlights

Inspiration Project

For this project Dara told me to find some music that relaxes me and try to create something from that. Often times the most relaxing music for me is music that reminds of something in the past or some part of my life. It's sort of the nostalgic feeling that relaxes me. It can take my mind off whatever is happening and bring back memories of something else. Once I fell asleep listen to a certain cd and now every time I listen to it I get really relaxed but mostly tired. I decided to listen to some music as I was taking a nap. During that nap I had a few dreams. I decided to take the dream that I remembered best and recreate it in a video. This video is not exactly what my dream was but it's pretty close to what I remember it being. I thought it would be cool to shoot a video that recreates a dream that I had while sleeping listening to music no matter how random or unordered it was (and it is very random).

In this dream I dreamed that lights somehow worked without needing electricity and that I needed to go somewhere with one of them. That is all I remember of it.

This was "filmed" with my mom's crappy point and shoot camera. Please bare with the cheesy/bad editing and randomness. It was just a dream after all, anything can happen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs3reOSJCc

class reaction 11/15/10

I feel like during class my ability to contribute ideas doesn't work right. But then right after class my mind floods with different thoughts on the topics that get discussed. Not sure why this is....

Anyways,

I do not think your secrets define you. At least I don't think my secrets define me. All the things that I don't want people to know are normally mistakes I've made or things I regret being involved in, thats why they are secrets obviously. They are who I used to be and things I used to identify myself with. They do not define me currently. If everyone knew all of my secrets I would be percieved completely different then who I'm trying to be. You are defined by what you want to be defined as. I'm not saying I want to be someone I'm not or someone I can't be. I identify myself by what I want do and who I want to be with currently. Not by some secret from who I was.

Identity

For this project I decided I want to completely rebuild my electric guitar that I've had since I was 14. There are many things and people that I identify myself with and one of them is music. I felt this would represent it well once I finished it. I've started by stripping out all of the old electronics and parts that weren't needed.

As you can see it's not a very pleasant thing to look at. But once I order the new electronics and repaint it I want it to look something similar to this but maybe with a little more flair.

I had never thought of doing this until this project came along. I'm hoping to be finished with it in the next few weeks.

11/8 class reaction

When I first walked into the art exhibit, without knowing anything about it, the first it made me think of was dreams. It felt like I had walked into a dream. Everything seemed just a little off to be real life but it would fit right in if I was dreaming. The random octopus, the little wood fort, the clouds and the ominous music playing in the back ground made for a very unreal experience. It was really cool. I actually ended up going back there today to check it out.

Bliss/Final Project

When I found out about this project I really had no idea what I wanted to do. I really didn't want to spend money doing something. Laura and I decided to go to my house to figure out something to do from there. After getting there we sat down and started making up a song. We didn't plan on that but thats what happened and three hours went by very quickly somehow. A cool final project idea came out of that. We want to finish writing the song and then make a video to go along with the song. I want to use After Effects or Motion to make the video and since I don't the either of those programs very well I figure this will be a good learning opportunity. Also it could be fun to post this on Youtube and see where it goes once its done.

What Is It Exercise

I think the point of this exercise was to teach us that sometimes randomness can be a very creative tool. Just like bullshit is sometimes good, randomness is the same. Making something completely random means that you have no control over the outcome. When you take that aspect away from it there is no way you can mess it up, being a human after all. And if you can't mess it up, the final product can't be bad. Why do you think abstract art works so well, its mostly random. This is of course not always the case. But if you can do something randomly other much better ideas can spawn from that. I find if I'm in a creative block randomness can often inspire something great.

 I think the stuff that was in class was just a collection of complete randomness. It was like someone had collected the most random pictures, notes, ads and artwork they could find and threw them together in a package. Not only were the items selected at random the items themselves were completely random. After all, right before Beth showed it to us, we did an exercise on randomness. The items must of had something to do with randomness.