background idea…

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

… dont think i like it though

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planning stages!

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

we’ve got the storyline all plotted out now

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Thesis Finished!

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

You can find the animation and paper here.

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Thesis Done

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

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Verboten

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

An animation I’m working on with Timothy “Tims” Gardener. A test piece for a larger work.

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Tapir – Lawful Evil

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

An animation idea I’m working on w/ Tims Gardener

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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

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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.

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I Love You

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

An animation I worked on with Tim Haynes.

“I Love You” from jjohn on Vimeo.

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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…

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