LASERS!

Comm Lab is over. And here is what we have to show for ourselves:

Time After Time from Sarah Dahnke on Vimeo.

A first experiment with After Effects:

Christmas at the Zoo from Sarah Dahnke on Vimeo.

A short:

E E AM I from Sarah Dahnke on Vimeo.

We decided that Photoshopping a bunch of photographs was the best way to get our point across since none of us can draw at all. Peiyu downloaded a storyboarding template to make our lives easier.

I guess I’m about a week late posting this .wav file that Sue, Benjy and myself made, inspired by the ITP Haunted House. We installed the sounds in the men’s and women’s restrooms, turned off the lights and lit the space with a single colored light bulb on a clip lamp. for a few hours.
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A stop motion animation, for Comm Lab:

Fruit Lovin’ from Sarah Dahnke on Vimeo.
Light control was obviously an issue, as you can see. The beginning is very shadowy, while the end is yellower. We tried to correct this (a result of shooting in front of a window without a curtain) in Final Cut, but we were [...]

I think this speaks for itself. (Click to enlarge.)
(c) Scott Wayne Indiana and Sarah Dahnke

I found this reading interesting because I have done a lot of thinking over the years, as I develop my own work, about the concept of aura. To me, aura is a physical experience–a feeling you recognize when you feel it but are generally unable to describe, and Walter Benjamin seems to agree on this [...]

To me, the most striking line of this text was not within the story but was the final line on the page:
“The ‘Machine Stops’ was first published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review in 1909.”
I’m surprised by the fact that this story was published 100 years ago predates even the most popular “machine takes over [...]