My background in flash is more on the actionscript/web side and so it was a welcome (read "So Damn Tedious) change to utilize flash as a keyframe animation program. Teaming up with Christian Bovine, we set out to bring to famous illustrator's work to life. Our subjects of choice: Marcel Dzama, Charles Schultz (Peanuts), Frank Miller (Sin City), Aaron McGruder(The Boondocks), Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), and Adrien Tomine. Check out the result here.

Ask me or Christian Bovine what sequential imaging is and we'll say Tough Guy Johnny. Never, ever use plasticine without a proper wireframe.

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My experience with making music has been a fraught one. In elementary school when we were required to choose and play an instrument I chose the viola and was given the 5th chair (out of 5). When joining the glee club meant auditioning by singing a scale my teacher said I was good but wrote a huge "no" on the index card I handed to her with my name on it. Band in junior high and high school - baritone - I was third chair (out of three) and had trouble not only memorizing notes but sight reading music. On that note, making music with the found sounds on the ITP floor and mixing them in Audacity.

My initial storyboards for a video project in 5 parts about Orpheus and Eurydice fell apart after the location I planned to shoot in was renovated (the storyboards called for a warehouse space that was dimly lit, was under construction and had peeling paint and plaster). At a loss for ideas, I went to a performance of Perfect Partner, a film by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison, starring Michael Pitt and Jamie Bochert with a live soundtrack featuring: Tim Barnes, Kim Gordon, Ikue Mori, Jim O'Rourke and DJ Olive.

The work had a dual screen, double projection - one rear, one front. The front projection was a wire mesh that allowed images from the back screen to show through. The effect was amazing.
Inspired, I enlisted Alyssa Rae and Anna Plunkett to apply makeup to their faces and shot them in HD. The hope is that I can isolate each "stripe" (eyes, nose and cheeks, lips) and project two on a front screen and one on the back screen. Shooting in HD meant editing in camera as the ITP labs are not equipped with HD edit decks. It also meant incredible image quality.

Nisa hands her bag to the teacher's assistant, not following the teacher's instructions. "It's your responsibility," says the assistant.
Mother is watching, strike one.

Strike two: in the hallway, Nisa's asked to stay in line. Mother's watching. Strike three: later that day during dismissal. You're out means allegations of child abuse in The Daily News.

I am not sure what The Residents plan to gain by releasing blank CDs to a public that is already buying less of them.

Expecting consumers to hold onto blank CDs while they await each episode to arrive seems doubly preposterous. Why not just release the artwork and booklet with the code contained within and save the blank media that will inevitably end up in a landfill.

Somewhere along the road of 24 hour news, and more recently 24 hour sports we have come to accept the idea of intellectual discourse as a contact sport.

If the show titles were not enough - "Crossfire," "Squawk Box," "Hardball" - the scoring system most certianly pushes these shows into the realm of sport. The elevated voices and increasingly jump cuts between participants and b-roll clips come close to emulating the same camera angle tricks used in basketball, football and any number of sports. So why are the pundits just sitting there?

I propose creating punditry as a true contact sport, where the greatest number of points affords the winner the luxury of beating up another pundit with lesser points. By the end of the show black and blues will be a measure of who spoke the loudest, made the most extreme pronouncements. Maybe after a few successive rounds where the same person is not the winner (and has the scars to show for it) we might actually get a more reasoned discourse. One of the responsibilites of a network given a monopoly by we the people in the first place.