The Soundwalk- Wandering around the Lower East Side is not only is a trip in itself but if you really try and be atentive to the sounds ensuing around you you'd be surprised just how chaotic and crazy things are more so then they already seem. I already am a chronic eaves dropper so tuning into people's conversations as I strolled by was a sinch for me. I overheard this tipsy woman telling her tipsy friend about this guy she went on a date with and how at one point on the date she went to get inside his car and her tone changed as she angrily mentioned how rude he was when he didn't allow her to bring her snowball in his car. That was definitely an interesting conversation. Besides the random banter between people on the streets I heard a lot of what I hear everyday against my will, a lot of cars speeding by and braking with irritating squeekyness, taxi's swerving into puddles to pull over and pick pedestrians up, busses airy brakes, and sirens wailing. High pitched laughter and deep laughter filled the street corner as I approached it waiting to cross. There was a fight on the next block between these this couple and the girl started crying and her foot steps were fast and thumping as she made her way in the opposite direction of where her huffing and puffing boyfriend was headed. Doors swished closed to restaurants as I passed them. Candy wrappers and old newspapers crinkled softly as I accidently stepped on them as I made my way toward this dive bar where you could hear the music from blocks away just blaring in and out, getting gradually louder and louder as I approached to go inside where I decided to end the soundwalk but what actually ended up happening was the shenanigan ensuing the remainder of my night, well for days after that too.

This Class was...

This class was a lot of fun...well the lab portion haha>>the lecture portion was a little rough to sit through just because the duration of the class period and how tiny the slides were projected on the board, but other for that this class was very informative and taught me a bunch of stuff about programs like photoshop and imoive that I never was too familiar with in the past...and cassie was the best TA! :)

The museum of the moving image-The cathedral

            Upon my visit to the Museum of the Moving Image I had the opportunity to see wild exhibits that were beyond trippy and so different than a lot of the things one would normally scout out in a regular art museum. The exhibition that grabbed my attention and caught my eye was the Real Virtuality installations. There were six different installations and all the artists responsible for them are either painters, filmmakers, video artists, or some kind of engineer and they all use similar modern technologies to create these images and visuals that are so crazy and immaculate. The software used to create these different processed images are used to develop “simulated worlds that extend, augment, or disrupt the physical environment of the museum space.” The specific exhibit I spent the most time analyzing was the, “Cathedral,” by artist, Marco Brambilla. This piece was a single-channeled video and is basically captured video and film footage that has been digitally processed and looped. It took over 150 hours of high definition footage captured by camcorders allocated through the Toronto Easton Centre megamall in 2007 during the Christmas shopping season. Brambilla utilized compositing and rotoscoping techniques to coalesce recorded images captured from different focal lengths, points of views and from multiple different angles into one kaleidoscopic video shot. The technique of compositing involves creating an image that appears to look as though it’s always just been a single piece but in reality it is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images. Rotoscoping is an animation technique that involved Brambilla tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame to create animated images.

Time is of the Essence: the time you spend at school is invaluable. The time allocated for your journey around the academic labyrinth is of the utmost importance because every second spent is a tick in the clock winding down the best years of your life.