The Mythology of Divorce Children
This is a project for my Digital Imagings Class

It incorporates 1.) stop motion paper cut animation 2.) appropriated YouTube videos 3.) a voice over and sampled music from M83

Minutiae 40: Veni, Vidi, Vici! (The Contra Dancing Community) 

Minutiae 39: Sandal Wood Leather (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 38: I'm About To Take These Off (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 37: The Man Who Picks Me Up & Spins Me (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 36: How 'Bout Ya Just Get My One Shoe (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 35: Tip Toe Trot (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 34: Patterns on the Dance Floor (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 33: I'm Cross With You (The Contra Dancing Community)

useful garage band tutorials
how to edit an audio file
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfRHiVHXsU

class practice with green screen and sound effects 

Another Test on iMovie "You Make Me Melt"
I'm really getting into this project because stop motion animation is just so damn fun!
Here are directions:
1.) set up properties--> file, project properties, timing
2.) click and drag images into new project
3.) set duration--> double click on 1st image and inspector window will show up, change to .1 seconds for duration and check the box to apply this to all the stills
4.) for problems of slight zooming in--> select 1st image (shift) select last one, window, "cropping, ken burns & rotation" fit, done
5.) Export--> share tab, export movie, title, mobile (more views/more likes that way), desktop (or wherever you want to save it)
6.) The End!!

Helpful tutorials for how to do basic stop motion on iMovie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3-UZB1O-aE (adding music)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipE3nCjI0IU (extremely helpful, just the basics)

So here's a lil' demo I made to practice

It's called The Sherbet Disaster! (fixed)

to fix: select 1st one (shift) select last one, window, "cropping, ken burns & rotation", fit, done

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dG_1b1x6Bk0rc5BEeFhN2Q2_43W-k2FVDrzBc8CCwY8/edit#slide=id.p
Here is a link to my story board for my short animated film, The Mythology of Divorce Children

http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/stop-motion-digital-camera/
Helpful animation tutorial

Minutiae 32: Loop Holes (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 31: Fancy Meeting You Here (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 30: The Vintage Duck (The Contra Dancing Community)

short film class practice with sloth circus

Response to the KUTLUG ATAMAN
by mark prince

Since I've never seen any work by Kutlug Ataman I felt a little out of the loop regarding the article about him and all his specific work so this prompted an investigation of him and his films. I am very much interested in the intersection of art and film and this is right up my alley. I am also really interested in philosophy which made me really appreciate the reference to Richard Rorty (the American philosopher who proposed "self-creative" through metaphor as an alternative to the concept of an essential human nature, he also saw identity as a possible language construction--similar to the imaginative narratives produced by a poet or fiction writer) in the first paragraph. For me art has to have a purpose it

just can't be aesthetic  it needs to be grounded and rooted in a rich topic that can help one learn more about themselves and others. That is something that I think Kutlug Ataman does very well. All of his pieces seem to have some deeper meaning to them which makes me appreciate him even more.

Kutlug Ataman is a Turkish film artist who works are formally diverse but what he likes to do is to focus a video camera on a selected individual and listen to their story. His belief is that our attempts at self-definition depend entirely on language and there is no vantage point external to language from which we can qualify that discourse. He does not believe that people have definite identities, he believes that we are rewriting our identity at every moment. His work reflects and addresses "a given community". I found it interesting that Ataman sees personality as the result of our hapless attempts to control our fears and desires. I find many of his projects to be very interesting such as: Women Who Wear Wigs, Paradise (2006), Beggars, Testimony (2006), The Four Seasons of Veronica Read (2002), Never My Soul (2001). I found the reoccurring theme of competing voices on different monitors to be very fascinating. This concept is used in both Women Who Wear Wigs and Paradise (2006). It really is a meditation on the consequences of perceptual overload, both the viewer's and the subjects'.

In regards to our upcoming project using adobe after effects, I want to do a piece that deals with a story/topic that is very important to me, something that I have been writing and drawing a lot this semester. I want to illustrate this concept called The Mythology of Divorce Children which is a story that I developed about a family solar system and how the father is like the sun and the mother like the moon. I would like to work in the style of Michel Gondry but as of yet i still am conjuring up ideas for how to go about this in my sketch book.

Response to North Korea Marine Landing Photoshop: AFP Pulls Photo, Cites Evidence of Tampering
April 1st (Happy April Fool's Day!)

I found this article to be really revealing of our time. With all of our new crazy technology we can create images that are completely fake and fool people (hmm interesting correlation to April Fool's Day). With tools like PhotoShop that are now easily torrented or bought people can learn and use them for good or for bad. This photoshopped North Korean Marine Landing is a prime example of how this technology can be used for the latter. So many people rely on virtual ways of getting their news and if it is tampered or incorrect then this can cause people to mistrust the information that they are receiving and or they can blindly follow it which causes all sorts of other problems. My mom is really into political conspiracies at the moment and this is especially evident in her case. I've been trying to remind her that you cannot always trust what you see on YouTube. Some people just get their kicks from tampering with the facts and this can be harmful for the people who don't look further into it.

Minutiae 29: Casually Worn (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 28: Scrunchie Socks and White Nikes (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 27: Flex Kicks (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 26: Velcro in Old Age (The Contra Dancing Community)

Minutiae 25: Flood Pants (The Contra Dancing Community)

Revised Propaganda Project #1 Men With Funny Hats

with added Tumblr site that links you to a 6 posts about Shriners, Free Masons, The Illuminati, The New World Order etc. with photographs and informative information that I created to further illustrate the message I want to give. I also added an illuminati eye watermark to further illustrate my propaganda message.