After Effects Project

I’ve always had a penchant for victorian aesthetics…and feminism. So for this project, I decided to make an animation to accompany a song called “Sister O Sisters” by Le Tigre with Yoko Ono. I decided to put this young victorian woman in various situations where she “sings” along with the song. While the image originally depicted the young girl at a beach shouting, I imagined her more shouting in protest. Some of the scenarios I had in mind included amongst lower east side immigrant women at the fin de siecle,... Read The Rest →

Final Project Progress

I have made some progress on my final project. I was able to get three feet of LEDs (300 LEDs per 5 meter, if I understand correctly.) They are pretty bright white, stark even. I will be able to make a cut at any two inch point and rewire and solder to power and ground. The LED strips were pretty expensive at almost $20/foot. I purchased three feet.

Die My Darling

This is a video created for Comm Lab with Calli Higgins, Lucas Zavala, Krystal Banzon, and Lisa Maria. They were amazing to work with and I am really pleased with how our project turned out. You can watch below: Die My Darling from Calli Higgins on Vimeo. Share → Tweet

Queen With Benefits

Hey Queen Presents: QUEEN WITH BENEFITS!!!! a benefit for Queers for Economic Justice (QEJ) www.q4ej.org QUEEN OF HONOR: KENYON FARROW!!! QEJ’s INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and BIRTHDAY BOY!!! DJ MARIMACHA DJ SIRLINDA DJ BRYAN BLACK Special Performance by TACTICAL SPECTACLE!!! (Formerly known as Team Awesome, Tactical Spectacle is the dance troupe extraordinaire of the Rude Mechanical Orchestra) HOSTS: Kitty LaKitty Amy Agony Sarah Jenny and Scout $10-$5 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds) Cheap drinks $1 Shots all night long SUGARLAND 221 N. 9th St (between Driggs... Read The Rest →

PComp and ICM Final Project Idea

I am interested in combining my new found knowledge base in computational media (Processing) and physical computing (Arduino) to create an interactive art installation for December 17th, The International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers. My initial plan has been to gather the stories and photographs (high res) of the murder victims of Gary Ridgway (aka the Green River Killer). I am also interested collecting images and stories of other sex worker victims of violent crime for this project. I am also looking for footage from December 17th events,... Read The Rest →

Experimental Audio

Assignment: In teams of two create a 1-minute sound piece in any of the environments we looked at. Again, this piece should can be environmental, create space or mood, tell a story through sound. Upload it to your site in mp3. Bring either the audacity or soundtrack files with all tracks to class. Product: I teamed up with the very lovely Alex Vessels to work on this project. Neither one of us had a background in audio production but we had ideas for the environments we wanted to collect sounds... Read The Rest →

Site Redesign

Our assignment was to redesign our blog. I decided to update my theme and use some of own graphics for the interface. Share → Tweet

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