Grid-Art "People as Pixels"

I thought this was really amazing & I wanted to share! :)

Flip-Book Critiques: Post #8

Chris Sherman- I would of like it better if the man was dancing instead of only one position. Amazing how the person turned into a face and then crawled back out of the face, reminded me of BLU BLU - wonderful drawer!

Maria Useche-  She had a lot of thoughts and ideas going on and they were done very well. I loved the little rastafarian dancer and the skateboarder was awesome!

Erin Hewitt-  The bouncing ball (even though Santiago said there should of been more on the page) was outrageous, it really looked like it was bouncing. The flying bird that turned into a tree was really really well done - another great artist!

Brian Macedo- The spider shooting the evil box/pumpkin in the face was pretty cool.  I think it would have been easier to see if it was black marker instead of pen.

Juan Setano-  I thought that he should of continued with the Pokemon story. It was very sad but very good.

Kim Adams- There were a lot of ideas here- her pages were sticking together. Very very well done, you can definitely tell this took her awhile.

Lauren Acri-  Laurens was 100 pages short which was not what the assigment was BUT it was definitely one of the best ones. I loved the color and the whole entire idea of the spraypaint can being given humanistic qualities and the grafitii that spelled out her name - AMAZING!!!!

Arielle Speert-  I couldn't figure out what it spelled out.

Cody Thayer-  This was definitely my favorite - it was a really quality flip-book and was hilarious to watch it.  Honestly I want a copy !! :)

Megan- She used pencil, not enough pages - honestly this was not the best I saw, she needed more color. (maybe more time also?)

James Rutter- I loved the bike that rode around the pages, best part!

Michelle- Loved it! Same idea as me only she used a whale, very very cool and well done!

Nakota Wagner- This was a serious story going on - Very sad :( but it was amazing. She should turn this animation into a video.


LAST BUT NOT LEAST ME!
Sabrina Brandsema - I loved my shark eating the fish but like Santiago said I should have continued with that story instead of changing it.

OTR.com "Sherlock Holmes" Post #7

I chose Sherlock Holmes because I love mystery and I actually used to listen to casset-tapes on long care drives with my mom when I was little, we'd listen to mysteries and comedy.  Most of the cassets were Sherlock Holmes. I think this website is awesome, just to think that i'm listening to something that someone a very long time ago listened to and it captivated them. The voices and the music in the recordings are great, they really sound mysterious!  I do find it hard to concentrate on listening to it, which I find interesting since in my generation we have so much visual stimulation that maybe our brains are loosing the ability to visualize without a screen infront of our face - freaky!

MUTO- a wall painted animated BLU BLUE. Post #6

I thought that the video MUTO was extremely creative and imaginative.  The idea that the artists had in the begining was totally transformed when they got to the end, I feel as if they didn't really have a plan but they created the story as they went. I believe that this is what we should do when creating our flip-book animation, start out with a specific thought but let our minds wonder and dont plan it exactly how you want it, let it come together.  I think it's amazing how they create this painted wall animation, someone from the outside looking in would probably just think its cool.  But in class we've been told how much effort flip-book animation can be. You need to draw something many many manyyyy times to make it look like its moving when you go through it fast.  I can't even begin to image how long MUTO took to make.
AMAZING ! :)

Where Does Jazz Come From? Post #5

Back in the 1500's is when slave labor started to become popular, Africans were taken out of their native land and sent over to European countries also known as 'The New World' -- I'm also taking a Intercultural Communications course which believe it or not, we are talking about where Jazz originated! As these African laborers arrived they were begining to be exposed to different types of rythems and intruments, which influenced the style of Jazz today.  As we move closer to the 1600's laborers were working on plantations and being exposed to Catholic Church music, I believe that Jazz came from an array of different influences, including the Blues. 

I believe Jazz has a sexual connotation behind it because of the way that the performers moved their bodies: there are also other sexual references in worlds used in the jazz era. Such as the term 'swing dancing' also known as wife swapping!

Post #5 Stage Door

The first video clip I watched was Godspell on Broadway, I really loved how the stage was set up where its in a circular shape and the audience it all around them.  One creative aspect that I noticed when watching this is how they used the 'Baroque style' of controlling the natural elements, in this situation it was water coming down from the ceiling into a little open board on the actual stage. Another amazing thing I noticed in this same video was how many secret doors they have on stage that open up, one which opened in atleast 7 places where miniature trampolines were used by the past to jump up and down on. They utalized each others trampolines by jumping back and forth which was awesome and extremely creative.

The second video clip I watched was Oliver! which I thought had amazing background scenes for an onstage play.  I really liked how they incorporated the tables the children would eat on with the night life scenes that they had, making multiple uses out of scenery and props is really good.  It was outstanding how they made the sewer hole into something that led to a secret place under the main part of the stage which totally transformed the scene into something different.  Another little, but really cool thing that I noticed was the use of invisable line.  When one man dropped his hankercheif and the child went to pick it up it magically flew right back up into his hand, sometimes the little thigs are the things that make you say WOW! I believe that the scenery used in Oliver! was definitely something that used technology to create, when looking at the scene were they're on the rooftop, the chimneys look so real, and the 3D dimentions of the backdrop are outrageous, it looks like it's actually real!

The third video clip I watched was one of my childhood favorites, The Adams Family. One of the great things that everyone knew about if they watched The Adams Family was Thing, the hand without a body.  It was amazing how they used technology to make a character that was just a hand, and made it walk around and do all these crazy things. A great use of techology on the broardway clip I watched was the moving steel gates, which most likely weren't steel but they looked so real you wouldn't think twice.  Also the fog that they used on stage to give it the errie feel of The Adams Family. I believe that the use of techology in this broadway play in particular was important because without Thing the hand, and the fog... The Adams Family woulnd't be possible on broadway.

Farinelli & Castrato Post #4

I had all my research printed out for class on Farinelli and castrato. Didn't realize I needed to post it on here ! :)

Farinelli also known as Carlo Broschi was known as one of the greatest castrati there was. There is no record or any recording or Farinelli's actual voice but recreations have been made to depict the sound that he would have produced.  Castrati were known for there amazingly high pitched voices, which were obtainted by a surgery performed on them while they're still in their abolencent years. They would remove the testicles of a man in his pubecent years which would allow no testosterone to be released into the body. Since men have a larger lung capacity, castrati singers would be able to hold unbelieveable high pitched notes for more than one minute!