Creative Gallery

Here's my Creative Gallery video



Credit to A.R. Rahman for the music "Jai Ho" from the Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack.
All other video, stills and audio are created by me and you are free to copy, edit, remix, etc. as you see fit.

To see the finished project and a list of contributors please visit my facebook image. Or here (if you are not on facebook)

The final research paper thst inspired this can be read here.

Progress of Creative Response

Credit: Music = "Jai Ho" by A.R. Rahman from the Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack

This is the video I have right now for my creative response. I still want to add another couple pictures of the board itself and I will be uploading a picture of the completed board to facbook and tagging the contributors so that the tag will have tagged them back. I really enjoyed working on this project.

I am still unsure about the music. Bob Marley's "Stir it Up" is also in the running but it is a little awkward with the videos because they have been sped up to decrease the running time. However, I feel like that song evokes more of the feeling and tone of the project (and it's in English so it is a tad more engaging). Might change, might not, "Jai Ho" has a lot of good energy and meaning behind it too. I am also looking at reorganizing the clips that play over the music. Clips were rigorously and judiciously chosen, but placement might need reworking. Let me know if you've any opinions on these ideas.

So Much Fun, hope everyone enjoys.

<3

My silly, mean movie

or see it in another version on YouTube:

Final Research Paper

Please enjoy my research paper, found here.

My Story

Here is the start of my hypertext story. Check it out.

Here's a map for a possible story (probably will be deleted).


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Thoughts on the Project and Creative Response

I'm feeling better about my own research paper. In many ways I feel like I have too many good ideas to expand upon. I'd like to focus on the development of the tag and its continued relationship with society. However, I feel I could present a argumentative paper about graffiti versus art and advertising in support of creative commons equally as well. I hope to narrow down my focus soon and build my actual body pieces for the paper. I still feel like I'm not properly managing my time though. I have so much work to do for my design classes that I have to force myself to remember to work on this (and other) class work.

In terms of the creative response I think I have a good idea (if I can get the time and motivation to follow through that is). I'd like to do a video about graffiti as social media. In the video I would provide a large board and invite people to come and 'tag' it with their own graffiti. As the people contribute, they will eventually interact with each other and create new images. In this way people would be remixing and erasing and copying all at once. I think I might also provide some stencils so that people who don't feel comfortable with their own artistic abilities can contribute. In this way I will have some standard pieces for comparison as well as an example of instructional graffiti. I think it would be really interesting, though time-consuming. I might want to use acrylic paint rather than spray paint to reduce drying time, air quality issues and provide greater medium control for the participants.

Jessica Center: Paper Draft

Follow the link below to read my first draft of my research paper. It is needs a lot more research references and to be fleshed out further, but I feel that it presets a few of my ideas very clearly.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYdrli-s5I-ZZDZrNDJoY18yN2N0cGZ6OWdm&hl=en

Reflection: In this draft of my essay I feel that I am most successful in presenting my overall argument as well as some key connections. I still need to do a lot of work in getting specific examples and citing my resources. Obviously it is still a little short, but I feel that once I add specific referenced examples to bolster my arguments that I will have a lot more text.