Bright Color Plastic Cows (posted by Ramiro Trejo)

I remember when I was around 10 years old back in Chicago my class and I went around downtown to see all the different kinds of sculpture cows that had become so famous. Personally, I was a fan of those cows, probably because I was a kid and a cow colored in bright patterns was always funny and interesting to me. Heres a clip from the show 60 Minutes with a critique on modern art concerning modern sculptures.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsfX6xqCBks

Done in Two Minutes! (posted by Ramiro Trejo)

Here is a clip from the movie "Art School Confidential", a 2006 film based on a comic book. The reason I chose this scene is because we, as Intro to Video students, have faced similar artistic questions within us and among our peers. Take a look. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wz2bAByWyI&feature=related

performance piece

I'm not proud of this...

While at home Friday Evening still recovering from the 2nd part of my Root Canal I decided to watch Hannah Montana: The Movie. Still high off the Vicodin the doctor had given me. I created this little diddy for my performance art piece. After watching maybe you'll understand why I'm not so proud of this.

Might as well

Stop motion I did two years ago. Comments appreciated :)

ross and ryan (...sam)

hey guys,
this is our (ross, ryan and sam) stopmotion video. When i transfered this to rhea it kinda messed up the quality of the video, i dont know why.

Sam Belisle

Gabe's Stop Motion Vid

Hope you like it!

Stop Motion (Charles, Colleen, Nick)

'Sea Friends'

Ramiro's Stop Motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf8hzX0JRos

I hope you guys enjoy my 1min film. Thank you for watching.

Performance Art?

Is Flashmobing performance art? (can flashmobing be a verb?)



-Gabe

Gabe's Early Video Artist Response

I know this should have been put up WEEKS ago. But better late then never!

Early Video Response (Ishwar Gill)

This was my video response to Gary Hill. Enjoy!

Performance art?

Steph

Time to Experiment!!! (Ramiro Trejo)

Hey chicas y chicos!

Here is an interesting link I found on Youtube as examples of contemporary performative art. The video
is composed of several art pieces. Take a look and I promise you'll feel inspired. Please let me know which one was your favorite and which one was not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeyEsB3POXU

Ramiro Trejo

Elephant ( A Music Video on A Windy Monday)

"Elephant" with English subtitle. 
 - V.

Early vid artist response

Version I showed in class, not the later, more edited one. For Sheilah to Grade.

To Soothe A Frightened Girl /My Low-Fi Music

Image from Daxiang (A Music Video on a Windy Monday), where "Daxiang" means elephant in Chinese.

Here are some songs that I wrote. I usually videotaped the demo when I was writing the song, that's where a lot of those videos are from. And after a while I really started to make videos for the songs with my Sony T2 (Just a point-and-shoot camera which can do little video clips too).
They are really raw.

Some songs had appeared on the short film that I showed in class.
I just started to work on recording a not-too-low-fi version of each of the songs.
I will post the lyric later.

You can download my music here at Douban:
http://www.douban.com/artist/frightenedgirl/
And my videos are all on Youku:
http://u.youku.com/user_show/uid_TSAFG

I am thinking of a band if anyone's interested.

P.S. Dear Steph we should work on them together!

Love,
V

Dara Birnbaum Response

Hi Everyone,

Here is my video artist response. This is mainly for Sheilah so that she can grade but feel free to leave any more comments that you may have.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvPvgw0cm8U

Thanks,

Josh

Personal Narrative - 1

This is interesting. This person conducted a different type of narrative about themselves. Rather than a narrative on their life, they conducted a narrative of their thoughts and medidations while reading a book.
-Charles Finklea

Click the link below to view this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ijmj9J3PrU&feature=related

Personal Narrative

I thought that this person's personal narrative was very unique. He used imagery rather than using something more traditional. The photos were obviously carefully selected and properly time with his narration.
-Charles Finklea

Click on the link below to see the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gH4ry8NGLM

The above link is a clip from Jackass called the night monkey. I was watching Jackass last night and I realized that they have pretty much became famous for performance art. But I thought this was the good example of performance art from them.
- Charles Finklea

...So for some reason I am unable to post this but you can view it by going to youtube.com and typing in Jackass - Night Monkey.

If this isn't performance art...

....

Steph

A Love Supreme

An example of non-dangerous performance art! XD

Steph

Paul McCarthy Response

Here is my response to some of paul McCarthy's work... I scrapped four or five other projects because he was really hard to respond to.

Check some of his work out if you have a second:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2AWNJiI5Z0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBqv3mkL9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXuFW4vm3EM&feature=related

Feed back is appreciated.

RG

Green Screen Charlie Brown

Yes yes I know this video is incredibly late. Considering it was due on Friday but it is now Monday. My life decided to self implode so I didn't get much done from Thursday till now. I'm also running off of 2 hours of sleep. Anyways here is my video.




-Gabe

The Mold

The third video assignment dealt with trying to create a personal feel using a low-fi, home movie technique. Originally I had planned on "faking" a home movie concept, and I had about fifteen minutes of fictionalized film. but all of it felt too staged and I couldn't bring myself to use it.

The only part I decided to show was a candid film that developed from one of my staged ones. I had planned on pretending to get food out of the fridge, but I was a little surprised to see that there was mold in the food, got distracted and had to stop filming. I tried again to get food out of the fridge, but was once again distracted by the mold in the second dish and had a conversation with my roommate about it and the smell and forgot about the camera.

I cannot pinpoint exactly where the fiction turned into a reality, but I know that it occurs. The viewer does not get to see or smell the mold, but can gauge how bad it is based on our reaction and how we begin to empty the fridge, and it serves to place the viewer at something that actually occurred in my life.

DU construction - Green Screen

Why one should avoid wearing a shirt with even the tiniest bit of green when embarking on a green screen adventure. But hey, at least now you all get a fun summary of the construction taking place at Denison from my floating head!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQKQJpnnxo



-Ross L

The Tracey Fragments trailer

Just some extreme editing that I found rather inspiring. The film took fourteen days to shoot, but ninety-something days to edit. Steph.

Steph's Green Screen Practice

Greenscreen (Nick & Colleen)

Sam's Green Screen

hey guys heres my green screen video

Sam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU-jVsz5VpU

green screen

The quality of my green screen attempt is less than ideal in part because I tried to use the Nikon D5000 in an effort to shoot in HD. I wound up having to convert the footage from an Avi file to an Mov file and I think that is why the sound is a bit messed up. I hope you guys enjoy my first attempt.

Tyler

Green Screen Test - Charles, Josh, and Ramiro

Hey everyone here is our video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJQYNTDlV9k

CArol and Ferd

The Continuing Story of Carol and Ferd by Arthur Ginsberg and Video Free America. 1972-3.  There is a very short clip that is in this link  and the longer version is at the library under reserve for the class.

It is worth watching more of it - the story of them  is emblematic of the countercultural movement at that time. Also interesting to see them 5 years later (!) (the tapes were often shown with them present) and such is the case for the longer clip on reserve at the library.

INteresting to think about them in relation to the idea of narrative and telling personal story.

In this case they were under surveillance by a video crew for a period of a year - kind of a precursor to some of the shows that have become so popular (survivor?? etc.).

SW

Minúsculo

A perfect example as to how narcissism can even be portrayed to the youth of the world.  Shown here is a children's French animated series titled "Miniscule" utilizing Narcissistic principles for an entire 5 minute clip.

Link - Miniscule

-Ross L.

Narcissism - Fred (Goes Swimming)

Hi everyone its Josh. This is a very short video about a kid named "Fred". This guy has created many videos like this one where he makes the pitch of his voice higher and talks about nothing...at all. He has actually become quite famous for these videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEqwKNNQBwc

Narcissim - Charles Finklea

A short video bout "nothing" but the girl on the video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUsJHDz3S8

contextualized Partition

Here is another link if the embedded video does not work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlZ7mS9Fc40 . Response to Rock my Religion by Dan Graham.

Narcissism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJFLfHI8jUI&feature=related
YouTube's tagline is Broadcast Yourself, and that is exactly what YouTube users do without scruple or shame.  YouTube provides the perfect breeding ground for narcissism because it provides a space where people can sneak a peek into the lives of others from around the world.  I chose this particular video because this is a video about a woman filming herself watching another YouTube user who is watching yet another user. This online hall of mirrors leads, eventually, to a woman in Wausua, Wis, called Nornna.  So this whole chain of people are watching themselves watch other people shows how intricate and complicated the web of narcissism is.

Video Diaries

The first video diary that I found was created by a group of college age guys who run a production company called wangfu. The video is around seven minutes long and they talk about going to chipotle and then subsequently about dating if it were more like chipotle. The producers assumption that this video would be interesting to an outsider and his placement of importance on the subject is inherently narcissistic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IcB0FYNCTA

The second video that I found was created by a guy that creates movies about things that have "scarred" him. For the entirety of the movie he talks about when he first started making out and how it scarred him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50zrGxHpUS8

I've come to the conclusion that video diaries and any type of video put up on youtube that the person spends the majority of the time talking about issues within his or her own life is narcissistic. I think that it is the presumption that what you have to say is important that makes it so narcissistic.

Example of Charlemagne Palestine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfun7RbEnRo

Charlemagne Palestine Responce

Narcissism (Sam)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXk4r1YOzU&playnext=1&videos=sJDpVaGXT2g&feature=mfu_in_order

ok, i did what most of you guys probably did and typed in "narcissism" in to youtube. after surfing from video to video  i came across this guy. after watching the first video i watched of him (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6KBswUOrnQ&feature=related) i thought he was just poking fun at narcissism because he was addressing his narcissism so blatantly. but after watching his other videos, i realized that this guy was in fact very narcissistic. This guy is part of this youtube group called "project awesome." Yup. every video is just him talking of nothing in particular, just him talking to the camera about nothing. the filming itself is very narcissistic, but on top of that he has to edit these nonsensical videos. Some videos do not have dialog and even less of a structure. yes these videos are funny, but i definitely think his reasoning behind these videos has to do with his need of attention and self-reassurance. 

So, she's not talking.

Narcissism Response by Vivian



Magibon


Margret Lilian Adams


She's Magibon, popular from two years ago. Blinking, staring at the camera, and in few clips she speaks simple Japanese word. And of course she looks cute.
People like her- she has qaint eyes and a baby face which is considered kawaii/moe (cute) in Japanese pop culture.
People hate her- nobody gets why she was doing those clips.
And they started guessing, where is she from? ect. This was such a myth.
Later the puzzle solved as Magibon revealed herself in a interview in Japan: She's a 22 year-old average American girl from Pennsylvania who loves Japanese culture. She's not talking because she is shy. (Many guesses there is something to do with her crooked teeth.)
But anyway, see how identity can easily constructed under the lens of camera.

Magibon makes me think of another myth. A lot of people have this question in minds: why do we look better when we are in the mirror. My guess is that you are actually manipulating your image in front of the mirror by :
1)adjusting the angle you see yourself
2)posing
3)correcting your pose according to the immediate feedback
when other's taking picture for you, #1's in control by the other; you can of course pose, but the feedback part's taken away. This is why people start to take pictures/ video themselves as how they see them in the mirror. Oops, not "they" but "we".

We all somehow love ourselves to some extent. Maybe not the appearance as what is in the case we talked about. There is nothing wrong.

Narcissism is sometimes too much to the people other than you. But I think it is better to love yourself than to hate yourself. It is not as painful after all.