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Stop Motion Pieces

Here are some stop motion pieces I have found interesting while stumbling on Youtube. Enjoy.

Influences (Body Paint)

Blu & David Ellis (Graffiti)

Shirt Wars

Music Video by local band Captain Squeegee

Sound Performances/Installations

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlYTBNjzz0 - Beat For Your Life
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LplphnVnPME - Robovox
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djAmQ5fqYGM Metrics of Mind

The first sound performance given is Beat For Your Life, originally by Daniel Hjorth. This particular piece is performed by Glenn Larsson, a teacher at Music Institute in Hollywood. He is layering 8 rythmic layers (1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 to 6 to 8). Robovox, my second link, was produced by Martin B. Bricelj, Slavko Giamocanin, and Uros Veber. This installation is an eight meter tall robot that accepts SMS and converts it into speech. Put in crowded areas, Robovex will speak the annonymous mind. The third sound installation is called, Metrics of Mind. It is a dance piece within a sculptural sound installation created by Amy Cox and sound artist Edo Paulus. The sound creates an erie and mysterious landscape for the kids within the piece.

Quotes

For this assignment I used three quotes:

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Victor Hugo

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

e. e. cummings

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

I used the paintbrush tool, rotate, and just simply playing with the color and shape of the words

Vector Font

For this project, I used the word "motel".

For this project, I used the letters: K,R, and T

Extra Credit Book Cover: Front and Back

"The Games We Played" is a book touching base on the games we play as children to the games of manipulation, love, and angst we play in our adulthood. For this book I played around in Iphoto for my base image. Afterwards, I changed the saturation, brightness, and contrast of the sunflowers, then posting the image on the ballerina. Things that also came in handy during the project was the Blur Tool, Magic Wand, Lasso, and the Image Adjustment options.

Miserable Jeff: The Raster Project

For this project, I titled the piece Miserable Jeff. The place that I chose for this project was the ever-lasting lunch bench of high school. To display a change in time, I used a repeating person, my friend, Jeff, changing from the stages of high school on through the trials of adulthood. The first frame is a collection of pictures overlapped of our friend surrounded by three other high school stereotypes. As the frames progress, the high school friends dwindle until our miserable Jeff is all alone, hardened by the perils and responsibilities of being an adult. For this project, I took multiple pictures of each frame and combined them together in different layers, messing with the opacity of each picture.