Spaxels Lightpainting

https://vimeo.com/81813571

You have to go and watch this. The Ars Electronica Futurelab is using 3D model drones to create animations in the sky. It is a fascinating concept and they are able to make shapes in the air.

I enjoy how they were able to implement different colors as well, I really enjoyed it and can't wait to see more from them.

ObamaDub

Well i was certainly not expecting this. I haven't laughed this hard in a while and I recommend people to watch this if they want to have a laugh.

Guerrilla Girls

http://www.guerrillagirls.com/

It is a website for feminist women that want to re-invent the "f" word. The website has many tabs to choose from. There is also a store, videos, and magazines to look at.
They sell posters and answer questions.
Here is an example of a bag they offer:

Fluxus Portal

Fluxus, more than just a type of art. It is also a creative force. It focuses on human creativity, culture, and consciousness. I'm not too sure what the graph explains here but when i visited the website it told me to click on one of the numbers from what path I would like to take and it redirected me to a blank website.

Maria Jose Cristerna

Honestly, I don't know what was going through this woman's mind but I think this is hideous. I would be scared if i saw a woman like this walking down a street. I can't begin to imagine what her family thinks of what she is doing. Now i am not trying to bash on her but I believe this is ridiculously atrocious.

Flex Machine 1967

The story of a college student at the University of Utah in 1966. His professor Dave Evans introduced him to another student called Ed Cheadle who had a local aerospace company and worked on a "little machine." It was basically a personal computer that he wanted to program so it could achieve a higher level language, like BASIC. That's where they decided to collaborate and make the Flex Machine.

Pixel Portraits

American artist Craig Alan creates portraits of pop-culture icons using people as pixels.

     

The Vacuum Tube

 It is a glass tube surrounding a vacuum. It is interesting because when electrical contacts are put on the ends, you can get a current to flow through that vacuum. Thomas Edison first saw this in 1883 and he discovered that electrical current doesn't need a wire to function.

Lee De Forest then created the "audio" which made it so the currents would move in a single direction and this would cause currents to be much stronger and they would come out the main electrodes of the tube.

Video Tape

The first videotape recorder in 1951 captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving that information onto a magnetic tape.
It was developed by Charles Ginsbug at Ampex Corporation and then he decided to sell it for $50,000 in 1956.

History of Photography

The first photograph was taken in 1826 of a view of nature by Frenchman Nicephore Niepce.
Then three years later Niepce and Daguerre signed a partnership to work on perfecting photography.
Later the introduction of computer based electronic digital cameras in the 1990's soon revolutionized photography and now you can take a picture from anywhere in the world with a phone or digital camera. Pictures can be edited and transformed an infinite amount of times. I think it is amazing what some programs can do with images and honestly i don't know what else could be possible in the future. Maybe images being shown in 3D?

Kodak 1888

  

This are some of the first photos ever taken in the 1800's when Kodak released its first commercial camera and gave the ability for people to take every day pictures.

Film evolution

Technology has definitely been an improvement in making films today. Movies today have more vivid colors than they did 30+ years ago. One of the differences in film evolution is that in today's era shot lengths are significantly shorter to keep out attention span focused on the film,
There are also different patterns of shots and that is so our minds do not fluctuate in and out of places.
More motion in today's films compared to older movies has also changed and movies today have more lighting than they did back then.

Acapella - Coldplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2YSo8Z_-a4&feature=youtu.be

I think this was a very good imitation  of the song Paradise by Coldplay, and I definitely was not expecting it to be this good.

Colosseum

Located east of the Roman Forum, the Colosseum was comissioned around A.D. 70-72 by Emperor Vespasin. It was the largest amphitheater in the Roman world made of stone and concrete. There were more than 50,000 seats to watch events that happened in Rome. There were a lot of gladiators who fought here, generally slaves, criminals or prisoners of war. I think this monument is really fascinating and I wish one day I could go see it.

Performance Art Project

http://youtu.be/Lj2DYweRS2k

Pony Express

Basically after reading this I began to understand how the post office role began in the United States and how things were first sent through ships back in the mid 1850s. It usually took three to four weeks for letters to travel from the east to the west. Then Russell and his two partners, Majors and Waddell formed a Central Overland Peak Express Company which concluded of having relay stations that would take people and send them to where they were headed. Also, the first mail by Pony Express took about 10 1/2 days, going from St. Joseph to Sacramento traveling through the Overland Stage which took less than the original three to four weeks.

Camera Obscura Time- Lapses

I think this is a very cool combination and very unique. The camera obscura its when you poke a small hole in one part of a box or darkened room, then you get an upside down image of whatever the hole is pointed at projected on the opposite wall of the box/room.

Like this image Romain Alary and Antonie Levi created of Italy.

Post-it motion

I came across this link in the syllabus and it was a very cool project this person made. I think it definitely took him a very long time but the design was very impressive and interactive.

Here's the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs&feature=youtu.be

History of Nintendo

History of Nintendo goes all the way back to 1889. Nintendo was generally thought and translated as "leave luck to heaven."  Nintendo partnered with Disney in 1959 to print Disney characters on the Nintendo cards. Later in 1970 Nintendo was struggling with sales but Hiroshi requested an "Ultra Hand" after seeing Gunpeo Yokoi playing with one. This was very significant because they were one of the only companies developing toys at the time. After the toy industry Nintendo switched focus to Video games releasing their first game in 1975 called EVR Race and then followed Donkey Kong. Nintendo then decided to create their own video game console called Nintendo Entertainment System. Releasing Super Mario Bros was a huge success and throughout the last 3 decades they have been releasing an abundance of games and hand held consoles that are still huge in today's market.

Pop Art

Pop art was born in Britain in the mid 1950s. First discussed between the Independent Group (IG) which was part of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, begun around 1952-53. I believe it was the start of art based on modern popular culture and the mass media.

Light Bending Dance

Its a combination of video project mapping and sensors to dynamically respond to the movements of the dancer. So every time the dancer moves these 3D objects become alive making different shapes depending on the movement.

Spot Boston Dynamics

Spot is a four-legged robot that looks like a dog and it is designed for indoor and outdoor operations. it is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It seems like this machine can walk through numerous terrains and run as well. In the video I watched it show the robot being kicked and still able to not fall apart and remain stable. This is a very cool robot in my opinion, Spot also has a sensor that helps it navigate and not crash to a wall.

Episteme & Techne

Episteme and Techne, knowledge and art may be assumptions to what we consider theory and practice. This very well thought reading seems a little too long for my taste. After reading the first gigantic paragraph and the table of contents i found out that Xenophon and Plotinus, and The Stoics were other authors that i never heard before. I also find that there is a very close relationship between episteme and techne that this authors were able to use in their works.

9/11 experience

on 9/11 i was not here in the U.S, i was back home in the Dominican Republic and suddenly when this is happening the teacher in my class told us the news, and we didn't really know what was going on. They brought a tv into the classroom and the reporter was getting the information and images of the scene from the other reporters that were in New York city. He had said 2 planes crashed into the towers and another one hit the pentagon and i remember everyone in my class didn't really know what was going on we were not that concerned because it was irrelevant to us since we were so young and didn't even live in the US. My family personally all live in the D.R so the news were not that shocking to us but i know it was a tragic event and i didn't know much about it until i moved here in 8th grade.

Madame Butterfly

This movie got creepy and weird fast. The first scene is a butterfly landing on a woman and next thing you know she's in bed with a guy. I was confused and thought "this is weird." Half way through it looks like she give births to a fish, but its a baby and that was disturbing to watch. A few seconds later the baby was a full grown kid playing with her mother as a kite. At this point I don't know what to say. This is creepy and i am very confused. At the end the guy returns and takes the kid away from the woman separating them as a family. This now turned into a sad story.

In class presentation

Here is the link to my tangible media presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtfD_rJ2hE

Class Grid

 I decided to make a grid out of Oreos.

Blade Runner

When I finished watching Blade Runner for the third time this semester, I noticed they got some things right about the future that we already have and some things that we haven't came close to yet.

The flying cars for instance... The furthest we've gone is electric cars and it will take a long time before we have flying ones. Also, I believe they got the talking trough a screen ( like Skype, FaceTime) right. There were several scenes throughout the movie where this happened. Also, the variety of languages throughout LA came true. The amount of Ads in the city looks just like today's date. Artificial intelligence advancements have came true, and soon we'll see robots doing housework.

Juan Carlos Delgado photographs

After seeing Juan Carlos Delgado's work, I was intrigued by what the purpose of these pictures were.  The first image of the tubes covered in ice, i was not sure of what he wanted to achieve by it, and the little bronze sculpture of the girl with her cheeks covered in ice and then the one with her full face covered in ice still have me thinking what he found so amusing about them. Juan Carlos describes that the image of the girl is what he idealizes true beauty but with a touch of bronze. This is multimedia because this is the way that Juan Carlos expresses his form of art. Multimedia can be shown in numerous ways and this is how he prefers to show his work.

My first blog

My name is Francisco Perez but many call me Frank. I am a junior at The University of Tampa and I am majoring in Advertising and Public Relations. I was born in Dominican Republic and currently stay in Massachusetts. I am exited about this class and I'm really hoping it teaches me more about getting involved with technology in a more creative and artistic way.