Video Art- Follow The Path

My video art piece is showing how in our generation today, we as college students are forced to stay on the right path and follow it throughout our time here and hopefully after we graduate. The video keeps getting faster and more abstract to show how some people stray from the path and rush their way through when they should be taking their time. It almost has a robotic tone to it to show how people get so caught up in their routines that they lose track of who they really are.

Performance Art

Xerox Project

Grid Art

Mark J Stock

I really enjoyed looking through the artwork of Mark J Stock. When going through his work I noticed that he had descriptions of what the artworks were representing. In his piece " There is no Cheese" you initially would not think that this is supposed to have any deeper meaning. It just looks like a something zoomed in on a grey type of texture with alot of detail. In his description he actually says that the work depicts an imaginary terrain that represents the measurements of "MRna" expressions in the brains of multiple different lab rats. Once I knew this about the piece I respected it alot more and couldn't stop looking at it and all the little details that were actually depicting brain activity.

I also really liked the first few pieces on his website that were paintings with many different colors and flow. I liked the way he would swirl the colors together but still make the piece to appear clean and like there are boundaries  to prevent all the colors from blending together.  It was interesting to see how the swirls that he made all over looked kind of like little eyeballs when I looked a second time.  I felt like with a lot of his work I would see more the second time looking back than I initially would since he seemed to put a great amount of thought into all of his art.

OTR radio show- Adventures of Horatio Hornblower

The radio show that I chose to watch was called Adventures of Horatio Hornblower. This radio series was about a fictional Napoleon war era navy officer and explores the missions and problems that he faces in his travels out at sea.
The first thing I noticed as I started to listen where the cheesy and annoying sound effects that were being used. A loud. ear piercing whistle was the first thing I heard (to mimic some type of bomb dropping). It was interesting to see what they had to resort to back then for sound effects while they were sometimes improvising live during the show. I also found it interesting how the voice that was narrating the radio show sounded so familiar. It sounded like the classic radio voice that I always hear something from back in that time period is being played.  The show only lasted about 20 minutes, and I was confused on what was going on most of the time since I just picked a random episode ( Chasing the Papillion) and it looks like the episodes went along with a story in order, so you would need to watch all of them to get a better understanding of the full story.

The Great Train Robbery

I found this movie to be very different from movies that I am used to watching. When I first started watching I immediately noticed that it was going to be a western type of movie that I have seen from time to time on TV on at weird hours. I noticed while watching it that the shots were alot different than ones that are used in modern movies today. The fact that there was no sound in the movie made me pay more attention to the way it was shot and the different forms of cinematography used. The black and white also made it a bit more bland, so you really were focused on the acting aspect.  I relied on the actors actions and ways the were interacting with the camera to get a better understanding of what exactly was going on.