Summer 2017

A collage/mash up of photos & videos of my summer in 2017.

*Song: Let This by Sango ft. AGO

Dynamic: Process & Final

This is the process and the final product of my painting Dynamic. It took between a month & a month and a half to complete. I took one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings, sectioned the large pieces and began to put in different mediums and styles of painting into each section. All in all, I had a great time creating this piece.

Street in Saintes-Maries, 1888, Vincent van Gogh

Generative Process: Alternative Chopped Decades 2

Alternative Chopped Decades Final is a 15-second audio clip that mashes one second from popular Alternative songs from the 1970’s to now. Randomly selected by Google, the first three songs were chosen from each decade. The clip sounds as though someone is quickly skipping through generations of songs on an iPod, trying to land on one that is worth listening to.

I believe this audio clip takes a look at each generation’s relationship with sound, rhythm, etc. and how they chose to express the nature of that time. Even though each segment of each song is one second, the similarities in pitch, tone and instruments are consistent throughout. Times have changed and trends do come-and-go, but there is always one small element that stays constant. It could also be representative of the bombardment of information and the fusion of various pieces, making it seem as one even though they are completely different elements.

Dry Run-Through: Alternative Chopped Decades

Three songs from each decade, starting from the 1970’s to 2010’s, were randomly chosen by Google of the Alternative Indies genre. and were combined to create a Dada-like song.
Song List (in order):

1. Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen), 2. Rock Lobster (The B-52’s), 3. Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed). 4. Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) (The Icicle Works), 5. Just Can’t Get Enough (Depeche Mode), 6. How Soon Is Now (The Smiths), 7. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), 8. Closing Time (Semisonic), 9. No Rain (Blind Melon), 10. In The End (Linkin Park), 11. No One Knows (Queens of the Stone Age), 12. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Green Day), 13. Somebody That I Used To Know (Gotye feat. Kimbra), 14. Hollow Moon (AWOLNATION), 15. Waiting For The End (Linkin Park)

Subject vs. Content: What Were We Talking About? Mashup

What Were We Talking About? is a short 45-second video that takes clips from various new interviews. The first scene is set inside a restaurant with a reporter that’s just finishing her interview with a football fan who is holding a football. The fan turns opposite of the camera, then proceeds to throw the football to the back of the restaurant. Out of nowhere, a man that was crouching behind a table begins running towards the camera, and the reporter; pushing her onto a tale, then falling to the ground. The next scene cuts to a very excited and anxious individual being interviewed on an accident that they just witnessed. That scene is split in half and in the middle of that scene, an owl is shown turning its head towards the camera with wide eyes. Then, it cuts back to the individual finishing their account on the accident while slowly zooming in on their face. Lastly, a clip is shown of a man asking a reporter, “What were we talking about”? Tiffany Hoffman gave me the critique of zooming in on the individual retelling the story. They type of fair use that my material may cover is Satire and Parody, if my material came from copyrighted sources.

There are different sides to a story. It depends on who is telling that story. The accounts of what really happened and the information given by an individual that witnessed it are almost never the same. That information is altered in some way; some pieces are cut out and some are added for flair and excitement. It does raise some questions of how people process that information, how they interpret it, and how does the brain fill in the gaps.