current art and design courses

Jermaine
Chris & Dan

Brandon
Jessica G.
Jacques
Nick
Kirsten
Jessica S.
Zach
Amanda
Eric
Mimi
Jeff
Beth
Natalia
Rebecca
Sage

Max/MSP/Jitter

The Max mothership: Cycling ‘74
Jitter recipes (awesome stuff)
HUGE database of Max/MSP/Jitter ‘external’ objects to add functionality

PureData is Max-like, but less polished…then again, the price (free!) is right
VVVV (”a toolkit for visual synthesis”) is free for artists, utterly nutty (my vote for most idiosyncratic interface evar) and Windows only…but, it can produce absolutely amazing visuals (check […]

Just came across this excellent site for low-budget/no-budget video production techniques which is perfect LoFi video:
GEARBOX
At the site you can find how to:

Hijack CCTV cameras for hard-to-get shots
Create a covert Starbuck’s Venti-cam
Make fake cuts/bruises/blood for cheap
Build a budget reflector
Subtitle your videos

…and much more. Well worth a look.

Flip Video infects the Web

Flip vs. TSA X-ray machine BoingBoing post from yesterday
Videos tagged with ‘Flip’
The Flip Fan pool

Video art archives from around the world

UbuWeb (the mothership)
Danish Video Art
Videospace Budapest
AVAA (Australian Video Art Archive)
iMediathek
game art archive
sendung

Kirsten- Are you popular
Dan- Shake hands with danger
Beth - Angels rush in
Amanda - bird flu
Jeff Zombie Wars
Sage - Sex ed for the ages
Brandon - Brazil war
Eric - Montage Project
Rebecca - Educational Bowling
Jessica - yay love
Chris - Child abuse
Jacques- Drugs
Jessica - Bad Date
Zachary - Vietnam - Soviet Montage Project
MiMi - montage
Nick - The […]

The Grammar of TV and Film from Aberystwyth University (really)
Classical Cutting (and D.W. Griffith) from Understanding Film
Editing Examples from Yale

Via BoingBoing Gadgets:”There shall be a smaller version of Flip Video, the successful miniature camcorder. Revealed in B&H’s catalog, it’s listed at $180 and comes in black and white, with a release date of June 4.” It’s been spotted in the paper version of the venerable B&H catalogue, but that last link will give […]

Articles:

Recording audio with QuickTime Pro (ostensibly for podcasting)
Foley on a shoestring (cornflakes on rice, anyone?)

Software Tools:

Audacity is a no-frills, free and open-source audio editor (Mac OS, Windows, Linux)
Spongefork is a rather odd sound performance and looping sound design tool (Mac OS only)
Plogue’s Bidule is a low-cost, node-based audio generation and manipulation tool (Mac OS, Windows)
SoundHack […]

…but not in time for class.
And that throws a bit of a monkey-wrench into the schedule.  There is no class Monday, in honor of Memorial day, and no lab hours over the weekend; so, that puts the new due date for the Montage project at Wednesday, May 28, one week from today.
Tomorrow (Thursday) I will […]

Art & Culture on Eisenstein with related artists and concepts
Lev Manovich’s brief essay on Avant-garde as Software compares operating systems with montage
Mark Reid on montage, poetry, and (of all things) teaching English…Cinema, poetry, pedagogy: Montage as metaphor