Christmas Symphonies

The true spirit of Christmas comes early bird gets the worm!

The user that posted this video is bigscreamtv and every other of their videos is halloween based. Will a user with the name bigscreamtv be able to branch out or will their username forever limit their content possibilities? You decide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5G6EggjhMg
Can someone explain to me the deeper significance of this video. This is clearly a metaphor (or videophor), but what is it REALLY saying?

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Must Finish Rule

I often neglect the title of this blog and refuse to post drawings. However, recently as a way to relax and enjoy the process of drawing I instated a new rule into my doodle-process. That is, if I begin even a small doodle, I need to finish it, color it, and ink it. I have found that a lot of times the things that would frustrate me and cause me to quit on a drawing actually don't matter when I bring it to completion (sort of). I guess sometimes it's alright to trust your first instinct-- well maybe not trust... perhaps...tolerate?

Ah, the fruits of toleration.

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Forty Five Seconds of Time Travel

My latest cellphone video project was about collecting moments in time that were noteworthy as experiences (as opposed to just aesthetics) and using my video of those moments as a way to time travel back and re-experience those situations and beats that made up my recent life. Below you will find the video of all of these moments in a little number I like to call Forty Five Seconds of Time Travel. Below the video is a list of each moment as I can remember it.



The following are the moments in the order they appear and their meaning as best I can remember:

1.---last view I ever took from the window of my old apartment
2.---a pigeon was watching me from inside my building as I left my apartment for the last time
3.---a brief ride on the garbage train with garbage men: a crossing of dissimilar paths
4.---police officer browsing interior design books in the middle of the night
5.---waiting for haircut at place where I have a "usual" and my barber always asks my advice on computers
6.---friend marty selling self-made portraits of sock puppets to people in union square
7.---an elderly volunteer at a tiny church tells me about heaven
8.---unknown
9.---man from azerbaijan convinces me and stephen to dance with strangers for him
10.---waiting to cue footsteps on blake's color sync set (they forgot I was outside waiting)
11.---waiting for cory arcangel to arrive for interview
12.---crowd waiting for nick to screen strawberry banana at national arts club
13.---kindergarten classroom for ky's narrative while q plays piano
14.---kid tries to unstuck candy he paid for from a candy machine while I edit at tisch
15.---anton practices break dancing on the floor of the animation department
16.---background music's only audience is a mural in tim, alex, and mike's lobby
17.---apartment hunting in the apartment that would eventually be mine
18.---max discusses the essence of life and death with me and peter in micaela's room at a party
19.---the pilot for the flight from georgia to new york checks his controls
20.---driving past a group of sight and sound students as we return the battered and beaten equipment from georgia
21.---watching as the last employee at the virgin megastore cleans up the empty floor
22.---fourth of july fireworks from a fenced in area with jared, peter, and their friends
23.---marie sits on a book of felini's dreams so she can reach her food
24.---rick litvin tosses me a pack of gum in the middle of the night
25.---hologram of michael jordan spins slowly in an empty and confused four room museum of holograms

Film is the closest facsimile we have to literal time travel and still an incredible amount is lost in translation.

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Post Racial Re-Edit: Michael Jackson's Black or White; separate Black and White versions

Michael Jackson- Black or White [Black Version]

Michael Jackson- Black or White [White Version]


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Flower Light or The Power of Compression

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Dreams From My Fuhrer

So I have been posting this everywhere because I absolutely love it. This is a film by friend and all around awesome guy Red Doyle. From the description:
Footage and photos of Hitler set to the song "Dreams" by The Cranberries.
By the end of this video I honestly feel nostalgic for hitler in this really twisted way, but then I remember it's hitler. I've watched this maybe a hundred times in the last few days.

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Cellular Welkin

This is a piece I put together for abecedarium:nyc per Lynne Sachs' organization in NYUs Media Mavericks. We all had to select one of the words in the project and then create a short web-based video that connects that word to New York.

The word I selected was "Welkin".


In trying to understand the sky and heavens above New York, I decided to take the most simple approach I could muster: observation. Everyday for two weeks I took reference footage of the sky above New York with my cellphone in the off chance that I would capture something that I haven't noticed during my day to day operations.

At the end of those two weeks of observation (after taking nearly my last video of the sky) I met a man Jonathon (with his kids) on the sidewalk outside of a small East Village congregation. After explaining to him what I was doing he proceeded to welcome me inside to the tiny house of god and talk with me about his perception of heaven. I recorded our conversation on my cellphone.

I figure, what better way to record the heavens that a device that constantly send signals back and forth beyond the overhead welkin?

The Face of Youtube

Youtube has a lot of faces, here is one of them:

The Face of Youtube

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Blades Are in a Line

"...but I'm having fun and my boss likes it"

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Grandfathers on Trampolines

So if you couldn't tell, I have recently felt the need to aggregate videos I once used in blog posts and play them in unison for sake of achieving the full and intended experience for which they were original uncovered. That being said, I bring to you:

Grandfathers on Trampolines

These videos really make me happy.

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Cellphone "My Words"

My cellphone is smart enough to recognize words that I use in my texts that it doesn't know. Here is that list of words that my cellphone has categorized as "My Words" in its memory. It seems to clear itself randomly, so this probably only represents relatively current usage.

12
19
bardosh
aight
bitch
aight-ill
clubbing
couldnt
arent
arlins
2009
darius
fischer
dolly
fooding
dooo
37
dslr
fuck
fuck
fucked
fuckzilla
fuxstable
haa
haha
hahah
hahaha
havent
hows
ive
laguardia
laguardia
lastish
katie
jd
jeannie
kelsery
ketki
keyframes
kk
6,
moma
racewar
sethski
sfx
shit
photoshop
slumdog
sophie
prolly
valentine
voodoosalad
theres
tisch
title/sfx
yaffa
weds
yeh
whaddya
youve
wtf
wutanger

It clears itself every now and then, so these are the most recent I believe. I will post the new batch in a while.

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Pee Wee Herman Dance

A new webstallation of mine based on an old blog post you may remember. An ode to modern cultural self-replication. Another webstallation taking up tube.

PEE WEE HERMAN DANCE

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New Web Thing: Rhythm Cycle

This is my new web work. It originally started as an Earth spinning in a star field. Eventually the Earth had buildings. Then the buildings started growing. Then the buildings became beams and the Earth disappeared. So did the stars. Then it became interactive. I had to call upon my Math major friend, Dale, to do some simple geometry stuff for me. Below is our back and forth.
question:

answer:

Math is great. So are friends that are willing to donate Math to you.

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Warriors Recut

So I decided to recut the climax of the warriors.

It just seemed more natural.

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Ninja Turtle Fights Alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEVsusFw9p4

1derful Seconds

Four months ago I got my first cell phone that records video. Four months ago I made a vow that I would film anything that caught my attention. Grossly under-estimating the capacity of my flash card, I also vowed that none of the videos would be over 2 seconds.

This is the resultant film of the past four months.

http://www.vimeo.com/3265383


It's funny how much more vivid your memories become when you have a way to relive them.

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JustDreamingAway.com

Hey y'all.

I haven't been posting lately because I have been tinkering and finishing my new website. It's finally up and running on the internets. Check it out if you got a second!

http://www.justdreamingaway.com

I spent a long time tinkering and working on this, so I'm happy it's finally up. It will definitely be the sort of thing that I continually add to and adapt via random bursts of ideas.



Everything was hand coded. No WYSIWYG or Dreamweaving... just a lot of typing and photoshopping, and a little after effectsing for the mighty animated gif. It's all CSS and XHTML compliant and uses some javascript to liven things up a bit and make things work smoothly.

It's been a lot of work, so I hope you enjoy it or something.

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DanTwoTwo- Homework Sucks

I love this kid's videos. I still feel like he does (in this video) to this day. Mrs. Buttocks does suck and Donkey's are ugly.
Not only does he make this, but he posts it. This kid's got confidence... and boy does he hate homework. Would we all have that kind of passion.

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Monkey Trouble

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Tony Hawk on Japanese Television

This really seems like something that would be in a movie. It's too perfect and stereotypical for it to be real. The young kid (later to be superstar) has his first bout with fame in an unfamiliar setting on a confusing Japanese TV show. He clearly seems uncomfortable.

Tony Hawk on Japanese television in 1984 (part 1) from Tony Hawk

I remember back in the day reading Tony Hawk's autobiography (which is actually pretty interesting) and hearing about how confusing and backwards this whole experience was. You know you've made it (or are about to make it) if you are invited onto Japanese television.

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