Post 3

Animation has always been near and dear to my heart. Probably because the conventions of animation and the conventions of video games are so closely linked. Regardless, growing up in America, I think it's pretty hard to be a kid without watching cartoons.

I never really got into the experimental scene, though. I never understood it. Sure the designs look cool, but what's the purpose. I think I get it now, though. It's not really about the why, it's just about the result. It's dada.

I'm trying to incorporate this in my Assignment 1 film, actually. In my animation, I have various planes of color fighting one another for the right to exist. At one point an absence of color becomes infected with green. As the infection spreads, the frame becomes filled with larger and larger globs of green ink. I started out by brushing the clearleader with oil. Using the brush with oil still in it, I dipped the tip in the green ink and began lightly shaking it to get the ink to spread out in a tiny, gross pattern. As I move down the strip, I tried joining multiple globs of ink to form larger pools, until I reached the part of the strip without oil, where I could have the ink consume the frame.

In the end, it was experimental. I didn't know how it would turn out, and everything was pretty well left to the laws of chance. Dada. Then again, it was all narratively driven, so is it really experimental? At that point, doesn't it become orthadox?

Post 2

It's hard to believe that this synesthesia thing has been around so long, yet I have never heard of it before. It was never brought up in my history classes, my art classes, or my art history classes, but it seems TOTALLY AWESOME! Man, I wish I had that. It's like bringing a whole new dimension to the world. 4D.

But it does make me wonder, if the number 3 appears in red to a person, what if that same number is colored blue. Does that make purple? I'm sure not, but can you write in a way that would change the color? What if I was to right the number 3 with very jagged lines and sharp points... Would that effectively change the perception of it?

I have experimented with the kind of thing before, and it actually is what I used to do with scripts in high school. I would color code my lines to evoke a certain feeling, so that I could be looser with how I spoke the lines, but memorized what emotion is supposed to be conveyed. It actually worked pretty well for me.

Post 1

It always amazes me to see just how creative people can be. to have been created at a time before computers, or even after, this film is fluid art.

There are a few instances where I could determine what was on the footage (I think). A bird flying, trees passing by, the lanes of a road while driving. Outside of that, I have no clue.

The experimentation of the exposure was absolutely visionary. Even though the film consisted of colors flashing on the screen with no real meaning, I felt like I was watching a dance. It was clearly well thought-out, and none of it happened by accident. It was all artfully used with purpose.