Verboten
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
An animation I’m working on with Timothy “Tims” Gardener. A test piece for a larger work.
Archive for the ‘Animation’ Category
Tapir – Lawful Evil
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
An animation idea I’m working on w/ Tims Gardener
River – A giant baby head
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
So. Here’s a sketch for the basic idea I have for my video sculpture final project.
It’s changed a bit since I made that sketch. Here’s the skinny:
The orficies of a (giant) baby’s head as an entrance into baby dreams of their past lives.
Using the eyes, nose, mouth and back of head as portals.
For head: A curved surface with broken mirrors lining it..
For the eyes, a rapidly twitching eyeball representing REM sleep in one and an infinitely zooming picture in another (content to be decided: theme is past lives).
In the mouth I want to do something where its big enough to put your head in. On the bottom would be a kinetic sculpture scene reminiscent of philip beesley’s stuff the main interaction would be blowing on it. On the sides would be speakers encouranging to blow in one year and babies crying or eating in another.
In the nostrils.. a tiny screens showing an abstraction of smell.
I’m working on this idea w/ mol-mol
escalate nirvana
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
This is the start of an experiment i did that takes a collection of found movie clips and looks at how small events can escalate into big ones; and the how time and distance turns big events into small events which in turn escalate into big ones again.
Escalate Nirvana from jjohn on Vimeo.
The music is all from the found videos (mostly from archive.org) and the arrangement in the beginning and end is from foundsongs.erasedtapes.com. I couldn’t find all the pieces I wanted though and generating the content by hand would have been against the nature of the piece. So lets call this version 1 =).
Also, special thanks to Nisma and Allison for their modeling time with this.
I Love You
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Po-tay-toe
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Here’s an animation I worked on, telling a story while trying to use very few elements.
Got some good feedback on this. Let’s call this version 1. The next step will be to re-order some of the elements, clean up others and re-do certain pictures to centralize the importance of the potato as the main source of conflict. Just as soon as I have some free time…
Image Recontextualization
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
When thinking of recontextualizing images, the first thing to came to mind was (de)motivationals. So here’s a few with an ITP theme.
stuff I’m working on right now
Friday, July 31st, 2009
So, I’m working on a paper cut out stop motion animation w/ Xue. You can find some really pretty documentation on her blog
My camera is still defunct, which is why I don’t have any documentation of the above. Looking to buy a new one. I spent a weekend playing around with the new Lumix DMC-LX3. It’s pretty sexy and after playing around with the one in the ER for a few days, I think I want it. Unfortunately it’s sold out. 
I’ve been working hard on a Facebook game for WaterAid America with Scott and Asli. It’s coming along nicely, though of course delayed (as these things often are). We’d hoped to be done by this friday but most likely it’ll be another week before we start any sort of serious user testing and another month before the game is in a state to be released to the slavering masses.
My last summer project is going to be located at maximumcuteness.com. It’s pretty much what it sounds like, but that’s the only hint i’ll give about it ^_^
Also, it’s about high time this website got a new look. I’m definetly tired of this one.
A bit late, but here’s Pepe!
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
I worked on this with Nahanaeli Schelling. We’ve come along way, with massive audio troubles along the way but its finally done!
Villans for Vengeance
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
I finally finished the villans project. Thanks for whoever made the anonymous suggestion that I put in subtitles 
