My video

Here is my video project. There are many hours put into this project (lots of help from Peter Christenson), and I used Peter Campus' videos as a kind of guide to try to follow. There is a lot of overlapping, cross fading, and opacity involved in this short clip.

Peter Campus' video shows him rubbing his face to reveal another layer of him underneath, and in another scene he is cutting thru a sheet, with a video of him in front layered over so it appears as though he is cutting thru his own back.

Another influence I tried to follow was a mashup of multiple faces - there were both men and women smiling, laughing, frowning, or making silly faces.

I attempted to follow the above examples but along the way made some changes of my own:

Texting declining

I found this article, and thought, "could this be true?" but then as I continued to read, found the title very misleading. Sure, texting may be decling a little (down by like 25, whoo hoo), but really what this article is getting at is thanks to apps (skype) that allows you to text for free, you can get around having to pay for it with your phone company.

But texting is so big, that it "represented 19% of wireless carriers' data sales" (Goldman). Somehow I thought that percentage would be higher. Nevertheless, this shiz costs $1250 per megabyte (at 20 cents a msg). Gone are the days where we used to just call each other up?


http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/13/technology/mobile/text-messaging-decline/index.html

These pics arent photoshopped!

http://now.msn.com/best-non-photoshopped-pictures

casette tapes arent obsolete?

When I saw this particular article on Yahoo! I immediately thought, "casettes arent obsolete??" I cant even remember the last time I saw one, and I remember using them less and less in the late 90s before moving on to cds.

I liked this article, because in the back of my mind I am always wondering if my computer or whatever electronic device I have on hand is going to crap out on me at any given moment. What I thought was very interesting was that these researchers have created a tape that is 10centimeters by 10centimeters by 2centimeters and can contain 35 TERABYTES. That is damn impressive. I wish the article provided a photo. Anyways, this takes up physical room whereas digital is all, well, digital, but sometimes that can fail and sometimes Im not sure how reliable backups can be. I thought this article was def worth the read and very interesting.

The article can be found here:
http://news.yahoo.com/death-cassette-tape-much-exaggerated-122657792--finance.html

Works from class

Just wanted to put some of the work Ive done on here: