Museum of the Moving Image

            The Museum of Moving Image describes to us how far the history of moving image has come.  Starting from something as simple as the zoetrope, we now have movies completed with audio, numerous costumes, computer editing, and HD cameras.  Moving image has always been something to entertain us all.  But as time went by, the audience for it became broader and broader.  Something like the zoetrope isn’t viewed with 500 people sitting down as you spin it, and neither is something you look through a small peeping hole.  As moving imagery became more popular and technological, it began to attract more audience.  Screening it in places didn't seem to be enough, and people weren’t satisfied with just 30 second clips, or 12 minute films.  Technology helped solve this problem, as editing became possible and cameras became more portable and easier to use.  Then, the creation of the television came along, which meant films were possible to see at home.  Because women were the ones staying at home doing housework, the early televisions were made to appeal to women rather than men.  They were designed like housework electronics, such as refrigerators or the laundry machine.  It’s interesting to think now, because in present time, television is more associated with men rather than women, because of the development of games and showing of sports.  

Extra Credit

            The Living Wake, a film by Sol Tryon in 2007 tells a tale about a man, K. Roth Binew who is a self-proclaimed genius, and his final living day (he is diagnosed with a sickness) in which he spends handing invitations to his “living wake”.  Accompanied by Mills Joquin, his best (and only) friend, he goes around the town, mostly being rejected at everything he does and everyone he meets, even his family.  They all show up at his living wake in the end though, most to try and ridicule him thinking that all of this is a hoax and is another one of his crazy acts.  As his time left in the world becomes less and less, he sees his dead father that abandoned him as a child and finally begins to realize about life and its meaning. 

            As his final performance begins, the band starts to play his song and K. Roth Binew begins to sing.  The camera cuts to a three-quarter cut of him beginning to sing.  As he jumps off the stage and walks between his audience, the camera cuts to a long shot of him walking and the audience staring at him confused.  The camera continuously cuts back and forth to medium shots and close ups between K. Roth Binew singing about stopping to dwell upon death and winning over death by living up to his final moment in his life full, happy, and as himself and the audience’s reactions to his words.  As his performance starts to come to an end, the camera mainly stays as a close up of K. Roth Binew, except for a long shot that shows the audience following K. Roth Binew as he marches and sings toward his open coffin.  As the song finishes, K. Roth Binew is shown in a medium shot where he folds his arms on him and dies in his coffin. 

            From this scene, we can interpret, based on camera, action, and dialogue that Tryon was trying to express K. Roth Binew’s last four minutes as fulfilling and extravagant.  The medium shots and close ups of K. Roth Binew as he sings shows the developing process within him of accepting death and his decision to live life to the fullest, even with only four minutes left.  The long shots and close ups of the audience and certain characters express confusion and amusement, showing us that no one really takes him seriously, and everyone still believe this is just him being crazy once again.  

Media Video: Skippin' Town

http://vimeo.com/m/#/23641966
This video describes a couple in a fight and how their surroundings reminds them of eachother.

Photoshop Stamp Assignment

Hunter College: A day in the life.

I walk to school in the morning from the 63rd stop of the F Train.  It's roughly a seven minute walk from the station, walking past various stores and people.  Hunter is always in vision with it's awkward looking bridge between the buildings.  

I buy my food on the way (breakfast, brunch, or lunch depending on the time of the day) from one of my favorite places, Alice's Tea Cup.  it's right in between of Hunter and the train station, a convenient place for buying something for quick relief of hunger.  Their scones are $3 each, and are amazing.  They have different flavors daily, all written down on the chalkboard in front of the store.  My school day doesn't start without an Alice's Tea Cup scone.  Their tea is also quite amazing, they have many differerent flavors and blends of organic tea.  Great for a wake up for an early class, especially the day after a long night of homework.  

In school, I spend most of my time either in class, or up and down these escalators.  For whatever reason, at least one floor of the escalators are ALWAYS broken.  I don't think I've had a single day here without a broken escalator.  Depending on the time of the day, it is also very crowded.  I've crunched up all my classes right after each other to save time for work and hang outs later on in the day, so this become quite a problem.  But what will Hunter do without escalators?  I'd never get to class on time without them.  

Veggie Face

Artist Statement

Media to me is expression; how a person expresses his or her ideas to the world.  It shows the world who and what you are through the use of music, film, art, words, etc.  I like to use the tool of music and film to express who I am.  Music to me is pure originality; using your voice or using your body to play an instrument is like letting a person see a part of you that can’t be explained in words, and to me, that is the core personality of me that I want people to see.  Film is the same way; watching one is like watching a story through eyes of different people.  Tim Burton is a director that I admire most because his movie expresses a world that only he can create.  I’d like my work to be the same way, something one can watch and know that it was me who made it without having to watch the credits.  I want to be someone a person would be interested in because of how original my past work was, and come see my new work from that.  I believe that individuality is what the media needs the most now, and I’d like to be someone in the media to help start the trend.