WATCH ME.

I don't know if anyone as heard of this or not, but the Empire Carpet commercial sends out secret subliminal messages on frequencies that only dogs can hear.

If you have a dog, try this. It's a conspiracy.

MOOVIE NIGHT

from Gavin's blog:
"So my group and I were talking, and we think it would be awesome if the whole class went to go see a movie (Paranormal Activity) this friday. We were thinking possibly sometime after 6, and the showtimes are 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, and 9:50. I guess we'd just take the Orbit...unless those with cars want to drive? :D

But yeah, we'd love to have a big group go. Anyone want to go?"

Sound Project

I decided to recreate an existing song... damn.

If I would've known this task was so difficult, I would have just made up my own song.

I used the song Planetary Duality I: Hideous Revelations by a band called The Faceless.

One of my favorite bands... I believe I have shamed them by recreating a beautiful song into crap.

I was so naive walking into this project thinking it would be a little simple, but oh how I am wrong. I turned it in the way I wanted it to and I'm not going to try to make it any better because I might just make it worse. So it's whatever right now.

Right now, the dialogue in the song is pretty on spot, but the guitar and bass and drums just sound like the clanging of clutter. I don't like getting all up in my song's grill, but I believe if I chose a simpler song and had more time to think about the process and execute it correctly, it could have been better.

Please listen to the original after if you choose to, so that you're not comparing that awesome song to a not-so-awesome re-creation.
Yessuh Thankya Suh.

here is the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dvw2XChUoM

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

holy shit.

pardon my language, but... holy shit.

I came into the theaters expecting a scary movie, and I got what I deserve.

What a beautiful film. I have never been so excited, satisfied, and frightened about a movie before in a long, long time. It literally gave me chills and generated a little paranoia.

I recommend it. period. no questions asked. go see it. definitely 5 stars out of 4.

And I thought the Blair Witch Project was freaky.

I am going to try to see it again when it comes to ASU (?) if it does.

oh..

and something quite fun I noticed in the movie.

When Micah, one of the characters, tries to record the demon/entity's voice, he uses Audacity :-P

pretty sick considering some of us are using it in class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UxLEqd074

My Deviantart

You should go look :-]
(please)

http://ladylazarus91.deviantart.com

ONG BAK 2?!

This is definitely a must-see.

After a very satisfying first movie (Ong Bak: Thai Warrior), I cannot wait to see this film, featuring one of the world's most beloved creatures, the elephant. Oh, and Tony Jaa of course.

If you'd like to see some elbow-to-face action, or even some knee-to-head, I would definitely recommend seeing the first movie... and then the second :-]

ahhh!!!!

watch these!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNmH1KuJaA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIVOv1JQgsk

Vector Project 1

The three quotes I used for this piece are:

"It's good to trust others, but not to do so is much better"

"The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army is vile"

"Inactivity is death"

All of these quotes come from the Italian dictator of WWII Benito Mussolini.

DISCLAIMER: In no way do I condone Mussolini's actions or who he was in cahoots with. I just find the whole premise of creating a new political ideology (fascism) out of social turmoil to be quite fascinating...

After hearing that this project had a propaganda aspect to it, I sort of took it seriously :-P

My senior thesis last year was all about the art form used as a propaganda tool, and I looked at many different German and Italian propaganda posters. I used that kind of appearance to produce this piece.

Many of the posters I looked at included very vibrant colors, such as red and yellow, as well as astounding contrasts between black and white.

I utilized the banner to create drastic angles and created text using the free distort tool to take form of those angles.

The font I used was American typewriter to get the effect of the mid 1900s text.

After I had put his name at the bottom of this piece, I felt as if there was a huge empty space, so I decided to include his portrait as sort of a trademark.

I'm happy with the outcome and the simplicity of it.