Monday, November 21, 2011

Johnny Cash project




Man with the Movie Camera





then me, now me



Then me--- now me

My crowdsourcing project

For my very own crowdsourcing project I chose to create a website that is the forum for a video-connection dance collaboration project. For a person to particpate, they would upload a video of them dancing 8-counts of movement in either hip-hop, tap, jazz, or contemporary style. For each different style there is an outline to follow, the dancer must begin and end with a specific movement as directed on the website so that when it comes putting all the videos together it will run smoothly and create one long routine performed by hundreds of different people with different settings, backgrounds, style, etc.

Those who choose to participate are required to log-in and become a member of the site, "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, PROVE IT". Participants can upload more than one video and to any or all different genre's of dance. However, in these videos there must be no pre-recorded music. Once videos have been strung together there will be an overlapped soundtrack that will play constant throughout the videos. 


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Questions 11-15-11

The reading focuses on the differences between interactive, reactive, and collaborative artwork. Often the differences between these three specified styles of artworks can become blurry. In the text, the author uses the statement "one rung above" to refer to the styles of these art styles. My question is, what does that mean? If 'one rung above' is referring to the art styles being better, or on a higher level, compared to other art styles that denounce the interaction with others, how is this justified?

My second question follows suit of my previous question, or at least on a similar tangent. There is the question of the audience in projects that are dynamically interactive or collaborative... and if the audience to these projects shares the same audience of fine art projects. These two different leagues of art styles could be separated in many ways, and one could question if it is smart to combine these different art styles in the same gallery or display area. The question is, do fine art and collaborative/interactive/reactive arts differ in such immense ways that they should be separated physically or should they continue to be held under one umbrella label of "art"?


Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Assignment 7 part 2

For the second part of my assignment #7 I chose the subject of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and condom usage, because for my generation, this is a serious issue and quite frankly I think that some more awareness would prevent a lot of people from getting these diseases quite easily. There are already some advertising things out there that I have seen that I find successful, such as making condom wrappers humorous by being straight to the point and aggressive. Such as...


After seeing these images posted on the internet, it struck me that what is written on condom wrappers could really impact the way people feel about wearing/using them. I think approaching STD awareness and pregnancy awareness could be impacted in the same way by dominant public advertising in a humorous/sarcastic style. My idea for condoms is to keep the fun, familiar and tricky innuendo images and recognizable sayings on the front side of the wrapper, then on the back side provide straight up information such as.... "1 out of the 5 people in the USA have an STD, 1 in 4 people will contract an STD at some point in the course of their life." and also add information about pregnancy, "Being a teen mom isnt as wonderful as MTV reality tv shows pretend to be." "imagine yourself holding a baby in 9 months, how do you feel about that?"
Beyond advertising on actual condoms, I would want to see more "in your face" advertisements that young people could see on a daily basis. I think wearing clothing that stated facts boldly about std's, pregnancy, or condom usage would be extremely powerful in an awareness sense.
I believe the best advertising for people of our generation is the advertising that gets people laughing, yet it is still a serious matter. I think if the public were to be plastered with advertisements that were abrupt and bold about wearing condoms, avoiding pregnancy, and avoiding STD's, there would be a lot less of them swarming our communities. I would like to see shirts, posters, and even billboards with ads showing things like this...


I would create a big billboard, very plain, very simple with just bold text saying..

"Condoms Prevent Minivans"

Monday, November 7, 2011

Interventionist Design Assignment


I took the page off of McDonalds' website that is devoted to the return arrival of the infamous McRib sandwich. This web page was created around the slogan "The Quest for the Golden McRib", complete with animation and audio to make it even more exciting. McDonald's had done a good job at making this sandwich look like the most satisfying and wonderful meal a human could put in their body, as well as advertising the rest of the assets of the company by taking an angle that shows the variety, strengths, and positive things about McDonald's. I chose McDonald's for this project because I know how influential McDonald's is over our nation and how brilliant the company is at persuading American's to continuously indulge in their products with fun and creative advertising tactics. I thought this specific web page was unique because they made the return of the McRib into a mysterious and playful adventure. I wanted to show that just because the background images, animations, and electrifying audio on this page with cute little cherubs holding up a banner full of juicy adjectives describing how amazing the McRib is, is not really advertising the sandwich in a realistic way, at all. There is no where on this page where it lists any health information about the sandwich or pricing of the sandwich. Instead, it offers a link to a Facebook gaming site where the 'true McRib lover' can prove their dedication to the sandwich America longs for year in and year out.

I used my re-creation to point out the obvious negative factors that come along with fast food chains, especially and most specifically McDonald's. Such as weight gain, health issues, food quality, etc, and I tried to do it in a fun and playful manner.

Link to Youtube mixer

http://www.unr.edu/art/site/areas_of_emphasis/digital_media/projects/Haleigh_Hoff.html

For my YouTube mixer I decided to film 15 videos of a familiar subject shown in an unfamiliar light. As a dance teacher at Nevada Dance Academy, my job entitles me to work in a field that I am passionate about and I hold much interest in the subject, dance. I began filming segments of my classes that were obscure to film, I was never filming the students during a 'performance' time, and most of the time, they had no idea that they were being filmed. I had the camera at strange angles and at unusual times, I wanted this to be candid, nothing prepared or posed. I chose to to edit each video and put them all into a similar 'theme' or 'filter' so they would all somewhat eery and dark. Each video was also altered in different ways, I sped some up, slowed some down, reversed a few, dubbed the audio by putting a different song over the  original footage or playing with the pitches of the different videos. I chose to do this because I wanted my mixer to come together to create a different outlook of dancing, or perspectives of dance through the classroom, or through my role as a teacher. Using young children in a dark and mysterious way is haunting and made me think of the ways I could use this project to show the alternative side of my job, the side that people don't usually think of when they think of being a teacher to young, cute, and 'innocent' children. I mixed in footage of myself tapping to create an audio and visual deterrence, and by framing only my feet and lower part of my legs in the shots made it less personal. Enjoy.