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December 8, 2006

Objective of this Web Site: To showcase my a portfolio of work
Target Audience: Colleagues and perspective employers
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1 Bio
1.1 Biography
1.2 Education
1.3 Awards


2 Films
2.1 Short Narrative
2.2 Aesop’s Fable
2.3 Editing Exercises
2.3.1 Video Variation
2.3.2 Director’s Cut
2.3.3 Saturday FMD Unleased

3 Photography
3.1 Faceless Portrait
3.2 Brooklyn Industrial Signs
3.3 Other


4 Art
4.1 Figure Drawings
4.2 Paintings
4.3 Mixed Media

5 Media Log
5.1 Production Notes
5.2 Essays on Media
5.3 Selected Media Links

6 Contact

Flash!

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever made, but not bad for my first time with Flash.

"It is a double grief to me," he
exclaimed, "that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my
own wings."
-Aesop Fable

To Make a Man

So I haven't posted in almost a month... I'm not dead!

I switched my narrative film assignment to the idea of the wife making a new man. Here's the result!

The Witch and the Grocery

Using grocery store pics already blogged and others from the same night, my film will be made using the following story:

We open with frightful images as we hear someone saying spells. A witch is speaking of her hatred for grocery stores due to her ex-husbands grocery fame. We hear her decide to take action against grocery stores.

She studies a recent sales paper from a grocery store and plans ways that she can invade their store and take vengeance on them and their customers. She begins her tricks by putting a hex on the pears that will rot them from the inside out. She turns the peppers into frog hearts. She spots the apples and decides she could actually use a few for poisoning some Princesses later this evening.

She strolls the lanes looking for other things that she can make mischief with. She spots some hot sauce, which she turns to camel’s blood. She spots some spices which she actually needs for an evil stew she plans to make for her house party this coming weekend.

She hard boils all of the eggs in the grocery store. She sees a box of cereal with her ex-husbands head on it and this just adds to her anger. Then she sees that the store is selling some fun Halloween items that she could use for the coming holiday. She jinxes a few bottles of salad dressing, makes all of the ice cream invisible and then decides it’s time to pay for the few items she picked up and leave. On her way to the checkout she notices the meat section and is in awe that she could buy pre-packaged, pre-cut meat. This will cut the time of her sacrifices down dramatically.

After she checks out she takes her groceries to the parking lot and begins putting her bags in the trunk of her Honda Broom when she realizes how helpful the grocery store was. She regrets her mischievous ways. How could she have been so wrong? She says a quick blessing for the grocery store that corrects her wrong doings and protects the store from future witch invasions. Then to show her gratitude, she gathers the stray grocery carts that litter the parking lot.

Reverse Engineered Narrative

Using my photos of the wife at the grocery store, I have come up with 3 story ideas.

1. A wife gets into a fight with her husband. She decides to go to the grocery store to buy things to make the perfect man to replace her husband. She writes a list of things she will need. She buys spices for romance, apples for health, eggs for brains and meat for muscles. As she puts her bags in her car she realizes she loves her husband and doesn't need to make a new man.

2. A student must attend a museum. She chooses La Pathamarka'. She studies the objects of 21st century middle class america in this interactive museum. When she acidentally drops a bottle of rare hotsauce and breaks it, she starts planning her escape from the museum before the robot police can come for her.

3. A witch that hates grocery stores plans a bewitching trip to her local grocer where she plans to replace objects on the shelf with poisined versions. As she walks around she begins seeing things about the grocery store that aren't so bad. She falls in love with the store and regrets playing tricks on its customers. She must fix her mistake.

La Jetee

My appologies to my class for being behind. Allow me to begin catching up with my Narrative Analysis of La Jetee, a 1962 film created with still photos by Chris Marker.

La Jetee is set in a post-appocolyptic Paris after WWIII. Everyone, the ruling group and prisoners alike, lives underground away from the nuclear waste of the world. The rulers are using their prisoners as guinea pigs to test time travel in order to send someone to the future to understand what they need to do to survive. (I would like to stop you now if you haven't watched the film... spoilers ahead) I would like to argue that the precipitating event is when the scientists choose the main character for testing their time travel techniques. They choose him because he holds on tight to a memory of an event when he saw a man die which he can use to get himself into the past. I would say that this memory is not the trigger of events to come because it wouldn't have happened without their choosing of him, but now I'm at the end. Our leading man successfully finds himself back in time where he gets to spend time with a lady from his memory of the event. The scientists continue to send him back in time to test their time travel, and he is happy to continue going so he may spend more time with the woman he is falling in love with. The continued trips to the past represents our rising action. With the success of traveling into the past, the scientists are ready to send our hero to the future to find out their secret to survival. While traveling to the future is not as easy, he does make it and finds a group of people ready to hear his plea. They provide him with energy needed to restart the world's productivity (Climax!). On his return, our hero is sent back to prison now that the scientists have what they need. While he is dreaming of the lady from his past the people from the future travel back into time to visit him. They would like to take him with them, as he is their hero for being the one that provides the present with the needed energy to create the future they live in. However, he is only interested in returning to the lady in the past he has fallen in love with (resolution!). They send him to the past and he finds himself at the event he had held onto in his memory for so long. He realizes his young self is also present but he is only interested in finding the lady. As he is looking for her, he notices one of the scientists that he realizes has been following him through time all along. As the scientist kills him, he understands that it is his own death that was in this memory that had been so important to him (conclusion!).

photo chop!

I changed these two a little bit.

photoshopping

Perhaps there's more I can do to make this exciting. This is inspired by my enjoyment of Norman McLaren (and other expermental animators).



I call this "Peppers Invading a Richard Linklater film"



Someone accused my wife of buying red gala apples at $2.99 a pound, but she was really buying yellow/green granny smith (these look nothing like granny smiths... okay not yet ripe gala) apples at $999 a pound!



Morgan... this meat's for you.