My final project is a short film that explores existential angst and features the questions about art and life that have been plaguing me for months. My original concept for this project was an ambitious multi-media fiasco and I quickly realized while working planning it further that I would need …
My final project is a multi-media audio-visual narrative experience detailing the various artistic interactions I have had in my life which have lead me to my current place in life. Each section details a different artistic medium and is therefore told through that medium.
For my outline, I have divided …
This week, I made a lot of mashups and remixes.
First, I mashed up two songs by Rilo Kiley and Chloe X Halle:
Then, I turned my cat to Brando:
Next, I made a psychedelic “averaged” portrait:
Finally, I made a sick beat inspired by Happy Days …
For my second remix assignment, I created a sick beat with a Happy Days flare. This was a lot of fun because I always love to create music using strange sonic sources or limiting myself to one sample. For this, it only made sense that I used the theme song …
For my first remix assignment, I made an averaged portrait that was remixed to heavily feature the color pink. It came out quite psychedelic, in my opinion (hence the title).
I took a total of 23 selfies, rotating 180 degrees around my front side, and loaded them all into …
For my second mashup assignment, I created a short talking animal segment. Specifically, I took footage of my cat Dinah me0wing and overdubbed various iterations of Marlon Brando’s “Stella!” from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). More like A Streetcat Named Dinah, am I right?
Initially, I was only going …
For my first mashup assignment, I decided to take another shot at properly mashing two songs up. However, as opposed to my earlier Kinks/MF DOOM mash-up, I specifically tried to think of two songs that were actually musically similar in terms of melody and harmony, not just rhythmically.
I …
A great week! I love filmmaking so I had a lot of fun with these assignments. First, I wrote up a blog post building upon last week’s ideas for final projects.
For my video essay, I dissected a scene from Love and Mercy (2014).
For my first video assignment, I …
For this video assignment, I created a supercut of the season three Seinfeld episode, “The Letter.” I decided I would cut together every time the name of one of the main four characters was said. I edited this together in Premiere Pro. It was a fairly easy process, I simply …
For this video assignment, I censored a scene from a movie. One of my favorite films ever is Punch Drunk Love (2002) and Phillip Seymour Hoffman has an especially profane scene while on the phone with Adam Sandler. I decided this scene would work best, so I downloaded it as …
For this video assignment, I created a stop motion animation. I’m a big fan of Seinfeld and have been rewatching it all month ever since it came on Netflix. I’m such a fan that I bought the Seinfeld Lego set that was released this year and I figured it would …
For my video essay, I decided to dissect a scene from the 2014 Brian Wilson biopic, Love and Mercy. I’ve always loved this movie because I adore the Beach Boys and I also relate to the situation of wanting to impress your father with the new artistic directions that interest …
This was a very chill week which I was thankful for because this is the craziest time of the semester, hands down.
This week, I listened to The Ungraduate Monster Wash, a delightful Halloween-themed radio show. Here is my post about it.
I also wrote a reflective blog post that …
I decided to remix my previous audio assignment, “Nightmare Serenade,” which was itself a remix of “Moonlight Serenade” as recorded by Frank Sinatra. In its original form, I was attempting to take the beauty of the recording and create the creepiest, most unrecognizable version I could. In this remix, I …
I would like to create some sort of audio-visual experience that details my artistic journey throughout life. It would display my artistic identity and its evolution, with me beginning as primarily an animator and filmmaker and eventually finding a passion for music which propelled me to UMW. It would be …
This week, I listened to The Undergraduate Monster Wash by Thomas, Mason, Bella, and Grace. This radio show focused on horror which was right up my alley, as Halloween is my favorite holiday. The show was broken up into multiple sections, including a radio play, a monologue about the Zodiac …
This week I worked entirely on the radio show project. I had already recorded my bumper and commercial, so this week I focused on recording my spoken segment in the radio show. I met with my group and finalized our plans and after they had recorded their segments and sent …
Our group made a lot more progress this week as opposed to the first one. Most importantly, we were able to further discuss the structure and format of our radio show via a Zoom meeting. This allowed us to refine the content of our show as well as making sure …
This week, I formed my radio group. I was approached via email by Alexander Ohene, who, in fact, I know outside of this class through numerous mutual music courses. He knew I was interested in doing a music-related radio show and he asked if I wanted to join him and …
For my second audio assignment, I made a fictional radio commercial. This idea was born out of the radio bumper. As I continued to collect sounds in Logic and arrange them in a variety of ways, I ended up with some extremely creepy sound collages. This gave me the notion …
For my first audio assignment, I created another bumper for DS106 Radio. Last time, I did it as an intro bumper and it was simply me playing jazz solo at the piano and talking over it. This time, I wanted to make a bumper for before a commercial break and …
For my radio show design assignment, I created a logo/bumper sticker. I went fairly simplistic with my design, because as Dieter Rams would say, “less, but better.” For this assignment, I worked in Adobe Illustrator. First, I created a perfect 600 x 600 square artboard and started with a light …
I am in a radio show group with Alexander Ohene and Josephine Ohene. We first connected as a group over email but later created a group chat through iMessage to communicate.
We were all interested in doing something related to music. In order to tie it into the course theme, …
This week was focused on design. I have always been a fan of graphic design and especially the creative philosophy surrounding it, so I was extremely excited about the assignments for this week.
First, I read Massimo Vignelli and Chip Kidd’s booklets about design and wrote a reflective blog post…
For my final design assignment, I made a propaganda poster for DS106! I have always loved the aesthetic of propaganda posters, mostly because regardless of the topic or intent, they are so heavy-handed in their rhetoric that they can often be unintentionally comical. I decided to also tie this into …
For my third design assignment, I created a vintage movie poster using a modern film with actors from an earlier era. I took this concept a step forward and decided to fully blend two movies from two different eras. The modern film I picked was Get Out (2017) and the …
For my second design assignment, I created a business card for myself. This embodied our course theme in a way as well, perhaps inherently by the nature of the medium. Regardless, I wanted this card to be an engaging representation of me and my vocations. Here is the result:…
For my first design assignment, I made a fake cereal box. I wanted to tie it into the course theme, so I decided, rather narcissistically, to base the cereal around myself and my identity. Here was the result:
Inspired by Froot Loops and Cheerios, I had the core of …
For my first Design Blitz photo, I focused on minimalism/use of space. This was exemplified by the front cover of Douglas Coupland’s 1995 novel Microserfs.
This cover has a lot of white space, or I suppose I should say ‘grey space’. It presents the necessary information (the book title and …
