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Mordume the Opossum 2

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Here’s part two, from the animal’s POV.

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The character I chose for this assignment was an opossum I dubbed Mordume. He was shot and presumably left for dead outside an apartment building. Guarded by children, he was soon picked up by a cop with a penchant for saving wild animals. Taken to a vet who also specialized in saving wild folk, he was given surgery that would have cost $9000 and an estimated $700 more would be needed in terms of food and supplies before he was ready to be released.
Read the original article here.

Ah Mordume. Such a life.

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Most-Portem for Spirit Animals

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Here’s the final version of Monkey Spider (for lack of a better name).

From the beginning I enjoyed doing this spirit animal assignment. Thinking up a spirit animal and developing it was a good exercise in character development.

Initial idea.

Character sheet.

By the end of it, I had a strong sense of who the character was, its desires and the environment it lived in. The only thing I failed at was finding its name. Perhaps its destined not to have one.

The interconnected world assignment was a bit rough though.
Drawing and Story here.

All of the animals in the world came in with strong identities, and making them work together was quite a stretch. In the end, we managed to put together a story to describe how they interacted, but no sort of taxonomy diagram we could think of would have worked without being awkward or requiring our characters to change.

Had we started this series of work with the last assignment in mind it may have made a difference. Perhaps the most interesting thing that came out of this was me figuring out that drawing something by hand and then tracing the path gives me a result that I really kind of like.

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Model Sheet

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

My spirit animal. The toughest thing about him so far is his name. He has a very elusive name. Perhaps it will come to me one day. I feel like it’s close.

About him.

The first thing you must understand is that he doesn’t do it will ill intent. Ever so rarely things go wrong but that’s just an unfortunate eventuality. It’s the risk of it, the thrill of the chase, the satisfied feeling of a plan well laid that really drives him. He is a trickster at heart and it’s what he does best.
Yea, when things go bad he hides. But it isn’t without trouble. Taking the shape of a spider (and the reverse transform as well) is no laughing matter. If he must, he always hides first. No one has ever seen the complete change.

traits

He is calm most of the time, though he may smile slightly if planning a spectacular piece of trickery.

Few things can make him angry, but when he does… watch out!

He sometimes plays human and put on clothes. Sometimes he gets caught, but mostly not. He wraps up his tail and wears custom made shoes to cover his long feet.

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Spirit Animal

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The spirit animal is a guide. It appears different for any given person and interacts with each person in a different way. My task this week was to represent it.

So how to go about doing that? The spirit animal is thought by some to be a piece of your soul. A person’s soul can also be represented by their shadow. Someone without a shadow could be considered souless. So I’ve represented my spirit animal through my shadow.

I chose a spider… or a monkey… or a spider-monkey. Really, a trickster animal. Kind of like Anansi, who can be a man, a spider or a monkey. Sometimes all 3.

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BE

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Final Project for commlab. Worked on w/ Angela Chen

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2 minute flick

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

I worked on this w/ Timothy “Tims” Gardner, Paul Rothman, & Nahana Shelling.

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Soundbites

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Worked w/ Asli Sevinc & Diego Rioja on this project. We took different sound clips and combined them into a one-minute sound piece.

I really like how it came out but I think there’s a slight problem with the noise balancing when going between different size speakers. Also, sorry about the huge .wav file.

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Response: McLuhan & Truax

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Truax

I’ll start with Truax since that’s the easiest. This work came across as just a bit dated, but it was still very relevant. I like how he gave a pretty objective discourse and explained alot of facts. I learned a little bit about sound theory here that I didn’t know before.

I found his idea of “schizophonia” to be a bit amusing and really interesting. I’ve never thought of my relation to sound in that way before, but I have thought alot about how background music and ambient noise affects mood and performance. Some people do their best work in a quiet environment, but I find the quiet rooms here at school to be entirely too discracting!