Ravi, do you still monitor this site? Missed your call Wed. Please try again, talk to you soon. G.F.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons. 'nuff said.

Text adventures

Here are the text adventures by Scott Adams that we looked at last week.

Animations galore

Here's that site I talked about in class last week. http://www.newgrounds.com/
It has some amazing things, if you view the flash portal, the first 20 or so are pretty breath-taking and/or hilarious.

CT2 Bus

Here's information on the CT2 bus which will take you from MassArt to MIT (and back!)

iMovie tips

We are using an older version of iMovie, so it's a bit hard to find support files for this version on-line. I did manage to find these tutorials which we will take a look at tomorrow.

Assignment for 04/03

1. Finish storyboarding your treatments.

2. Shoot your video/animation footage and bring to class to start editing.

3. Go see the current exhibition (David Claerbout) at the MIT List gallery and write a one paragraph reaction to it. It closes on 4/6, so go in the next ten days!

DriveTime

After a bit of a hiatus, I'm back into production of my videoblog talkshow DriveTime.

Portable Firewire for under $100

Here's a Maxtor drive for under $100 (Firewire and 7200 RPM) at Staples.

Portable Firewire Drive

Lacie now makes a Firewire version of their rugged drive -- including a 7200 RPM version. Microcenter has the low-end version. I'll try to find cheaper options...

correction

It's been brought to my attention that I accidentally called him a girl, the editing movie is of a guy. Sorry.

Some cool links, hope you enjoy them

That comic I talked about in my presentation drmcninja.com

And a really cool video with some insane editing

The craziest thing about that video is the girl doesn't know how to play piano or drums, crazy.

I'm posting now

Look Ravi I posted something on the blog

Silent Films with Live Music

Remember when we talked about opportunities to see silent films with live music? Well there's opportunities this spring over at the Harvard Film Archive -- check out their series of landmark early Soviet Cinema.



I recommend Battleship Potemkin!

Hello my students!

Here is a good resource for book binding and book making techniques.

Also -- REMEMBER you need to get a hard drive if you have not. This rugged lacie should serve well (and is not too pricey compared to other drives).

Ball as book

Remember -- your books can incorporated other objects as in this example!

King Ghidorah

Check this out -- he's bada$$.

$7.99 flash drive

Here's the cheapest I could find right now... I was hoping I could find one for under $5. "How low can you go?"!

MatchCutapalooza!

Here's a nifty video chock full o' match cuts. Kudos to Bert for finding this.

Our new blog!

This blog will be a repository for information pertaining to Ravi Jain's Visual Language II class, spring 2008.

Here's an image sequence we all made today: