Chaos: push the fader, gifted animator

My artwork pieces.

This is a photo I title Push the Fader, it was taken with a Canon 450D.
Method: It's just a photo with a long exposure. First I stood in the frame pretending to hold the girl, the the photo was taken, the shutter stays open - hence still letting light in - and the girl (my friend Jaide) gets into position. We then shone a torch on her (so the camera would pick up the light).
She appears faded because she is the secondary subject in the photo. I appear solid because the flash from the camera is a much brighter light source than the torch we used to 'expose' Jaide.

This short stop motion, for the purpose of this blog, is titled Gifted Animator (Red Hot Chili Peppers' Dani California lyrics: push the fader, gifted animator, one for the now and eleven for the later).
Method: The photos were taken using the same technique as the above photo: extended exposure. It's a style of photography called Light Graffiti wherein one moves a light source (usually a torch or glow stick) in front of the lens while it is exposed.
After the photos were taken I imported them into Adobe Premier and added the soundtrack which I made in Adobe Audition.

Hope you like it.

Chaos: hey boys

Creation: week 8 tasks

*Sign an e-petition:

*What is Barak Obama up to today?
http://www.whatisbarackdoing.com/

Barack Obama had a meeting with NAASA today. 8/10/09

*Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are:

Federal representative= Mr. Steven Ciobo MP
State representative= Peter Lawlor
Local representative= Councillor Dawn Crichlow, OAM

*The last time Mr. Ciobo spoke in the house of representatives: 15 September, 2009. "SHE IS TREATING QUESTION TIME WITH CONTEMPT!".
Fire-up, Stevie.

Creation: freeware

A nice little piece of freeware: Free Image Converter

This program allows you to re-size photos in batches. You simply save all of the photos you wish to re-size/re-name in one folder, open the program, select the folder which contains the images, choose the desired image size and file name, select the target folder and click convert.

This has been a very helpful piece of freeware for me as I often take photographs using my friend's Canon 350D. The camera produces very large image sizes; often 3 or 4MBs. I use this program to re-size the images so they can be easily uploaded onto sites such as facebook, myspace, deviantART, blogspot.. wherever.
'tis great.

http://www.freeimageconverter.com

Creation: ireport

iReport video officially uploaded. I highly doubt it will be accepted by the site though.

Chaos: glorious

It's a bingo?

Creation: my sketchcast and internet persona

Before you watch this I would just like to point out that Sketchcast is a terrible piece of software. I would rather just use paint.
But here is my alien.



It was supposed to say "Greetings from Stonepiper. I have many orange nipples. Yet no arms. This is quite common on my planet." But it didn't work out and it definitely was not worth redoing.

This was fun. Try searching Brad Pitt (IT IS NEVER-ENDING).


Fame and musical talent... I can deal with that.

Creation: google map is off the tap

View Drinking Spots in a larger map

A google map of my common drinking spots. Check it.

Creation: three short films

Across The Hall: Part One.
A 2005 short film, distributed solely via the internet. Director: Alex Merkin.
The subsequent parts can be viewed here: http://www.anyfilms.net/


I Ran From A Zombie.
A short film about a bunch of dudes talking about what they would do in the event of a zombie break-out. Shot in Weymouth and Blandford on a budget of under £100 for director Matthew Hatchard's Video Prodution degree.



Duck Duck Goose.
A short film directed by Kiyong Kim about a man with an eye-patch.

'Across The Hall' is the most legitimate short film of the three. It appears to be more concerned with form and style than the other two. Although its story is not too great; I found it pretty boring actually.
'I Ran From A Zombie' was a fairly interesting short film, made for a university student's film assignment, it's a story about a bunch of dudes talking about what they would do in the event of a zombie invasion. Despite the obvious flaws in their plans, it's pretty funny.
'Duck Duck Goose' is random. I don't even know what it was made for. It's based in a small office and focuses on a guy who wears an eye patch for no apparent reason. I don't hate it, but I wouldn't watch it by choice.