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an activity that brings you joy and has no particular result!
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arrange it one way, then another way. both ways work.
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you have an idea and I have an idea then we blend them together and find joy.
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Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Still Streaming
More time in the woods this past weekend. I love this stream at Locust Lake State Park here in PA. Some how placing still images over video seems fitting. I mean that's real life. We flow along capturing moments and only holding onto a fraction of those moments. Enough, here's the video.
"Still Streaming"
I dig motion
Oh, and I loath motion
It carries me along
until I get snagged on a stick
I love it when I'm flowing on top
The tumbling over and over under the current
just makes me sick.
I really dig motion
and yes I hate it
It brings me to new places
and it wears away at my banks
I am caught up I have direction
and in the same moment I am not in control
motion is
it is
what it is
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This is just what I think about when I watch the video or it's what came to me this time any way. Next time who knows?
Jeff all wet.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Breaking things up
Okay I took the painting from my last post, cut it up digitaly and made it in to multimedia experience. Check it out!
Sometimes looking close at something changes how we see it. Then again sometimes we look to close. The key is to look and look again.
Here is a link to another artists who I found when I posted my video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfTM_jFgBsQ&feature=related
Jeff chopping stuff up
Sometimes looking close at something changes how we see it. Then again sometimes we look to close. The key is to look and look again.
Here is a link to another artists who I found when I posted my video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfTM_jFgBsQ&feature=related
Jeff chopping stuff up
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Video Finger Paint
Do you remember finger painting? I do. You start with a blob of this thick paint on a piece of glossy paper, I think I chose blue a lot, and you squished it around with your fingers until you became part of the painting. It was hard to stop. I think it was the feeling of the paint starting to dry on your hands that made you realize the experience had to come to an end. In the swirls I can remember seeing so many spaces and things that appeared and then disappeared in the next swish of my fingers across the paper. Great stuff!
I still do this from time to time, no so much with finger paint, but with video images. The theme of this video came out of itself. I just started with video of a late night drive home and piled on layers until it scared me. Darkness became the theme.Then I whipped up a sound track on my audio looping program and I had my video finger painting. Watch or don't watch if you are not good with darkness. (2 Min)
It was in the process of creating the clip that I decide to stick my toes into the dark side. Starting out with a night drive then adding random images and then the hands and face (me) distorted and moving close to the camera, not as scary as the latest movies on the market, but dark enough to start me thinking about my own internal darkness. That's what happens when you create things, you never know where it will take you. Once I embraced my theme the music and spoken thoughts came quickly.
I've met many people who worry about dark imagery in the arts. I have often heard people remark about macabre paintings or sculpture that "who ever did this must have been a disturbed person". From my own personal experience (not that I am one to evaluate my own sanity) I have found that creating things often puts the emotions attached to the creative process into a place where it is more manageable. In other words when I write a song all the feelings related to the song move out beyond me with the performance of the song: this might be a public performance or even when I am alone. The song gives the emotion a place to live out beyond myself. Freeing me up to be able to feel more. So spilling out a bit of darkness eases the artist's ability to move through it and life. Now the mental health of the patron of the art is a subject for another blog.
Jeff in shadow
Here is a video of a professional finger painter. If you find something you love to do go with it! http://vimeo.com/2115211
The Video might play smoother on Youtube. Here is the link to my page. http://www.youtube.com/3randomword#p/a/u/0/rwiAAySnMG4
I still do this from time to time, no so much with finger paint, but with video images. The theme of this video came out of itself. I just started with video of a late night drive home and piled on layers until it scared me. Darkness became the theme.Then I whipped up a sound track on my audio looping program and I had my video finger painting. Watch or don't watch if you are not good with darkness. (2 Min)
"to own my darkness
allows me to begin to make peace
with the shadows that move with me"
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Now finger painting was never that dark, was it?
It was in the process of creating the clip that I decide to stick my toes into the dark side. Starting out with a night drive then adding random images and then the hands and face (me) distorted and moving close to the camera, not as scary as the latest movies on the market, but dark enough to start me thinking about my own internal darkness. That's what happens when you create things, you never know where it will take you. Once I embraced my theme the music and spoken thoughts came quickly.
I've met many people who worry about dark imagery in the arts. I have often heard people remark about macabre paintings or sculpture that "who ever did this must have been a disturbed person". From my own personal experience (not that I am one to evaluate my own sanity) I have found that creating things often puts the emotions attached to the creative process into a place where it is more manageable. In other words when I write a song all the feelings related to the song move out beyond me with the performance of the song: this might be a public performance or even when I am alone. The song gives the emotion a place to live out beyond myself. Freeing me up to be able to feel more. So spilling out a bit of darkness eases the artist's ability to move through it and life. Now the mental health of the patron of the art is a subject for another blog.
Jeff in shadow
Here is a video of a professional finger painter. If you find something you love to do go with it! http://vimeo.com/2115211
The Video might play smoother on Youtube. Here is the link to my page. http://www.youtube.com/3randomword#p/a/u/0/rwiAAySnMG4
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Another Fragment of Everything
From time to time I will share with the world bits of my image play. This is where I put together random or thoughtout collections of stills and video and of course some kind of sound bed, could be music or ambient noise. These are studies to evoke feeling as well as exercises to develop my skills with the software.
https://youtu.be/wx0LyZxHoJQ If the film will not play use this link to Youtube page.
Lines of color
Edges by choice
Motion it leads me
Perceptions the voice
I wait on the skies work
to pull from the earth
I hold a dead flower
to know my own worth
Words I wrote down after I watched the finished video clip. No, I have no idea where this is going . That is not important, knowing that is. Trying to avoid knowledge and hanging with feeling. I'll live with it for a while and see if I find anything, maybe a song, we'll see.
Jeff in the process
If video is not smooth check it out on my Youtube channelhttps://youtu.be/wx0LyZxHoJQ
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