Wednesday, December 18, 2013

6 things you need to know to understand Goldieblox vs The Beastie Boys

6 Things You Need to Know to Understand Goldieblox v. Beastie Boys

Saturday, December 14, 2013

WEEK FIFTEEN--RECYCLED FINALE!

thanks for the kitty cat Eric Stewart

So check it out!

Film grad Eric Stewart wrote his final paper in the form of a Tumblr project titled

FROM BOXING CATS TO DANCING BABIES: THE ANIMATED GIF AND ITS PRECEDENTS,

Yay!!! All the final remix video projects were amazing and have Creative Commons attributions --they are all posted below for your viewing pleasure! Good job everyone!!
Have a great holiday!

kthxbai.

REMIX VIDEOS:

238 by Asa Lotterhos

KEEP IT REAL by Alicia Ramirez

THE RIGHT TO BE UNHAPPY by Jordan McDonald

EITHER WAY IT BURNS by Lotem Sella

BRAKE THE EARTH by Lex Mobley-White

BE GOOD WITH MONEY by Alex Bozzy

I'VE GOT FIVE ON IT by Raziel Scher

IGNITION REMIX REMIX by Zac Rice

TEENAGE IDOL : Brooke Shields Trashes Miley Cyrus REMIX by Amanda Gostomski

APOLOGY ACCEPTED by Felix Levy

WHATS FOR DINNER by Melissa Kristl

SLOW DECAY TO ZERO NULL DAY by Michael Davis

ARC by Eric Stewart

& Judd Schiffman

PS.
Look at these fun digital collages Lex made from her class notes to include in our class exquisite corpse! (The last one is our class cutup poem made from the NY Times)

Friday, December 6, 2013

WEEK FOURTEEN: Photoshop skillz

Artist Shepard Fairey did *not* make his famous Obama/HOPE poster in Photoshop, or at least not entirely---he did research for images and downloaded one of them from the internets, which led to all the trouble. When Fairey's distributed poster caught on like wildfire soon enough the AP came along and sued him for copyright infringment (even though the photo in question was taken by Mannie Garcia). He immediately counter-sued claiming that his use of the images falls squarely within the boundaries of transformation and fair use. They settled out of court and Faireys image for Obamas campaign has spawned thousands of versions and remixes, like this one or any of these. Well we watched a Photoshop tutorial on how to make a graphic design image like Fairey's, which was inspired by artist Barbara Kruger which was inspired by the Russian Constructivists for whom art was a practice for social change. We started with our own faces and the rest is history. Thanks to Eric for the animated gif inspirations and for showing us how to make them in Photoshop!