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Soar with the Beagles

Ideal studio...party in the sky.

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experimentin'

The program Autostitch is advertised for making panoramas, and it does this perfectly by recognizing similar shades and shapes in multiple photos, and blending and stretching them for a seamless result. When something doesn't match, the program sort of smudges that part into the image anyway. People are usually the culprits, and they wind up looking ghostly.

I love this. The program renders movement in an accidental way that really captures the fleeting fact of the location of a moving physical body. This is Jan, the youngest Catalan boy I took care of.


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Ginger Ale, Rain Coats, Bike, Pumps.

I give you a test take for a collective/miele short film, beware>>>


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art duality lecture

So I went to this Double Visions lecture. I thought I would really enjoy the artist's talk but walked away having more value for science than art. Since then, I have been questioning the use of art and its seeming futility. The doctor who spoke seemed to have such a better understanding of the world and life than the artist who tried to equate the two fields. Like comparinmg learning the new photoshop with learning the newest in Interventional Radiology...science that can blow anyone's mind. I began to think that there has been a reason why art has been a leisure activity (of sorts) for so long and I am being to feel that it shouldn't be the only thing you do with your life; ie starving artist are silly. But then again maybe I just haven't met an artist who is able to move people and make a different in the world or that can leave me speakless. I think there should just be more time for everything. Check out the artist's website...he did a pretty good job i think...esp the animation if you click on his album. The music is interesting... I need to learn how to make websites. http://www.marcusamaker.com/ And I want to know what doctors know! Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty just sound so cool!





Okay so with a CT scanner they take multiple sections(64+sections at once) of your body within 1/3rd of a second. Maybe you guys know all this. SO they are able to find out almost anything wrong with you. Because it is so fast they can tell if your heart is messing up, etc. He said by the age of 30, if you got a full body scan, say just for fun, he garuntees he will be able to find something wrong with you. Ignorance is bliss for real. These are some of the images they can make from these machines. They can then make animations of these images...say to show how your heart is beating or maybe your blood flowing. Cool stuff. i want one of me. I should have been a scientist. PS this is going to be incorporated into my work somehow....
sorry long entry, i WANT TO HEAR YOUR opinions

wierd robot

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pumpkin spice latte

In the spirit of the beginning of fall...I hope leaves are turning lovely colors wherever you are.

Pumpkin Spice Latte
makes 1-2 servings
Ingredients:
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons canned pumpkin OR 1 teaspoon of Torani Pumpkin Spice Syrup (your choice)
2 tablespoons sugar or sugar substitute - you can halve this amount
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1-2 shots espresso (about 1/4 cup of espresso or 1/2 cup of strong brewed coffee if you don't have an espresso machine.)
Directions:
In a saucepan combine milk, pumpkin and sugar and cook on medium heat, stirring, until steaming. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla and spice, transfer to a blender and process for 15 seconds until foamy. If you don't have a blender, don't worry about it - just whisk the mixture really well with a wire whisk.
Pour into a large mug or two mugs. Add the espresso on top.
Optional: Top with whipped cream and sprinkle pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, or cinnamon on top.
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work = more work

donzo for nowzo. (read below to find out about the d & t workshop and studio WEATHERS)

(up) "Wanderings is in pursuit of a 'climatic infrastructure' for commercial and public domains that augments and re-configures existing external micro-climates for occupation and programmatic use. "

on to the design + technology workshop! a biannual 36 hour charette featuring critic Sean Lally from the w-e-a-t-h-e-r-s office out of chicago. check it out. it is pretty great stuff.

teams are made up of 2 returning grads, 2 adv standing, and 2 newbies.
group work, here i come.
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cinema literacy

The following is required viewing for costume design majors to see in their 1st year of the program: Sadly, I have seen five. (Six if you count Annie Hall arriving via NetFlix tomorrow). How many have you seen?

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
42nd Street (1933)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Hall (1977)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Court Jester, The (1955)
Duck Soup (1933)
Frankenstein (1931)
Funny Girl (1968)
Godfather, The (1972)
Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
His Girl Friday (1940)
It Happened One Night (1934)
King Kong (1933)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Magnificent Seven, The (1960)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Nutty Professor, The (1963)
Producers,The (1968)
Psycho (1960)
Red River (1948)
Show Boat (1933)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Top Hat (1935)
Vertigo (1958)
Wild Bunch, The (1969)
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
Women, The (1939)

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mapping parte dos.

making text spatial, along with some simple diagrams.
(work in progress)

p.s. cardinal directions are the new black.

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Enough, with the rain.

Thankfully, we're stocked-up on yellow here.




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my space

i can't wait to move and have an amazing studio space....or just my own space

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So I am working on a text map graphic that i can use for my portfolio cover and maybe another project. Here is where I am at. I am working on a way make the text and the map a composite. More on this later.
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attempt at stealth recording

my boredom in charleston has lead me to record some activities...while my camera isn't dying. from romping around the charleston ghetto to hang out with my ex-heroine-addict friends, to old friends making it in show biz, to a date with someone at the avett bros where "come on" suggests the camera should no longer be in focus on the band. If you where there, you would have sworn Scooby Doo was trying to dance with you. Ruhroh. I find it all comical, and decided to edit it together with the almighty crappy WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER. Probably could have edited more out of the concerts but thought everyone could enjoy some live music...

enjoy this 6min clip of my life in charleston



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