ART74: Network Creature

RESEARCH

Rats

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rats are various medium sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea.

Graffiti

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"Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted."

Power station

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"At the center of nearly all power stations is a generator, a rotating machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by creating relative motion between a magnetic field and a conductor. The energy source harnessed to turn the generator varies widely. It depends chiefly on which fuels are easily available and on the types of technology that the power company has access to."

Thunder Dome Rat
(The Story)

Among the city buildings of San Francisco is an abandoned PG&E power plant where no living human flesh has dared to enter. Rumors of ghosts and unnatural life forms roam deep inside the building. No ghosts, but definitely unnatural life forms. In the early 1950s, there was a young man spray painting signs inside the power plant near electrical energy vaults. He was not aware that the chemicals from the arousal in the cans could cause a nuclear blast when it comes in contact with electrical energy. Oh it wasn’t just any kind of nuclear blast because it didn’t kill anyone. Instead it made everyone in the building go mentally insane. They all began to hallucinate and the entire building was immediately evacuated. During the evacuation, rats were exposed to the nuclear power and were transformed into an unknown life form. Before any of these newly born creatures we able to travel to the surface of the building, the entire building was boarded up and there was no escape. Those that saw these creatures during the evacuation believe that they are ghosts or beasts from hell. Till this very day these rats were given a name called the Thunder Dome Rats. They wonder the floors, ceilings, and walls of the forgotten building. They thrive on their new ability to paint. But not just any paint, they spray painted on the floors, walls, and ceilings of the building with their bodies. Once they run out of paint, their bodies wither and disintegrate while other rats feast on their flesh to regain more energy and more paint to continue their life as a Thunder Dome Rat.

(Photo by Stephen Freskos)

Currently working on...

PHOT 120: Image and Idea

currently working on...

For this particular class, we are instructed to develop a self determined body of work over the course of the semester. At the end of the semester I will then exhibit my work in a gallery. So far my idea is rather complicated and I'm still playing around with different ideas. My original plan is to create a photo (somewhat like the ones below) that gives off an old effect by displying it through a 100 year old glass window. I have the window and it incredibly dirty and very old...wood frame is chipping, paint is peeling, etc. Really, any photo can have an old effect using this window as a frame, BUT the trouble I am haveing is not being happy ENOUGH with the example photo i have taken already (below). Those photos are what I'm leaning towards, but I'm not sure it's what i want to do.Right now I am playing around with different ideas of having my little sister in multiple shots. I used photoshop and lightroom to get these results.

First I started out setting my tripod in the perfect spot and not touching it throughout the entire photoshoot. Then i continuously took photos of my sister using a clicker so i would have the same background. Throughout the shoot I had her change clothes to give the outcome a more interesting look.

After I picked out which photos I was going to use, I went into lightroom and did my best to give each photo the same shade and perfect contrast. Then I used photoshop to bring each photoin as one using the wand. Because the clouds didnt match up in each photo, I used the wand around my sister and placed her in the correct spot by zooming in the photo and placing her perfectly.



Once I felt I was done, I opened the photo back into photoshop and messed around with the lighting and came up with the photo below.


This isn't my final project, but it is along the lines of what I plan on doing...we'll see.

Art74: 1st Project

Insiring Media Art
By Wolfgang Staehle

https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Wolfgang+Staehle

Why I liked it...

•>He captured images of the building every few seconds and transmitted them through the Internet to the
ZKM, where they were projected on a gallery wall.

•>Staehle titled the installation Empire 24/7 in reference to Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), an eight-hour-long
film in which the camera focuses on the Empire State Building from dusk until dawn.

•>Staehle framed the Empire State Building in a prolonged still shot that draws attention, through the absence
of action and camera movement, to the structure of the tower itself, to the effects of light on the building and
in the sky, and to the act of viewing itself.

•>Staehle's Web cam work reflects the temporal compression of Internet communication.

Concerning the News
By Yuri Kageyama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earns_panasonic

Japan's Panasonic cut 15,000 jobs, shut 27 plants worldwide!

YouTube Fascination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRLyygkUt4&feature=dir

RAT CAT DOG??!!!

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRLyygkUt4

Future Technology
By Luigi Lugmayr
http://www.i4u.com/artical23080.html

Robotic Arm for your Desk

Is it necessary???
HELL NO! Don't be lazy and just lift your own arm across your own desk.

Boogie Bot

I just finished a short video project with my other group members, Emily and Chen. The project video is called “Adventures of the Boogie Bot”. It can be found on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmlhS67X3D4 . We were to create a film about technology with a mind of its own in strange paranormal occurrences. So the three of us decided to work with Emily’s wined-up cowboy robot that danced. We started off creating a story board about the robot on a journey through SJSU campus dancing for people and squirrels. We realized that it might be a little hard to get the robot to dance in front of a squirrel without it running away or snatching the robot with its teeth. So we decided to have the robot just dance for people. We messed around with the idea and finally decided that the robot needed a purpose for dancing in front of other students. Finally we came up with the idea of “Spreading cheer, not fear. The adventures of the Boogie Bot.” If you look at the story board, you can see that it follows exactly the way the video is performed. Using imovie tutorials in editing the movie was very helpful. This was definitely my first time using the program and rather complicated at first. The only changes to our film would be the quality of the camera. The video’s picture quality wasn’t as great as I hoped it would be. But I definitely wouldn’t make any changes to the film because I personally like the way it came out.

Our Story Board: