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:

Dirty car art

This amazing artist works with dirty cars:

So much better than "wash me"

You can see more at:
http://autos.yahoo.com/photos/dirty-car-art-slideshow/

Random thoughts

So I just have some random thoughts on technology and how things have advanced over the years. These are just very random thoughts that have come to me in the past week or so:

I just recently got my first smart phone (Im so cool now), and thought Id facetime with my dad, because I could (haha). As we were talking, I remembered as a kid thinking, "wouldnt it be so cool if in the future we could talk on the phone, and see each other too?" Well thanks to facetime and Skype, we can. Perhaps its better than the hologrammed images I had thought of as a kid. But there was this weird feeling I had as soon as I had realized it, I dont know how to describe it. It was weird and almost eerie, and of course just made me wonder what else is to come and where else could technology possibly take us.

Other random thing: My brother, who is 8 years younger than I am, is going to the boarding high school I also went to. He has lost his cell phone a few times, so when I went to see him in Spokane a few weeks ago my parents asked me to buy a corded phone (the horror!) to give to him so that they could reach him.

Days later, I asked my brother if he had plugged his phone in yet, which he said no. I asked why he was taking so long, and he said he needed to talk to the deans about installing/activating the phone. I didnt understand and said, "What? Just plug the phone into the wall and itll work" and of course he was like, OOOOHHHH, then took forever finding the wall phone plug. It was then that I realized that the technology he knows is activating cell phones, not simple things like plugging a corded phone into the wall. I never really felt that the age gap between us was that major, but apparently it is.