Sunday, January 14, 2007
Summaries of Childrens' Books
Here's something fun. Summaries of those books used to teach kids how to read in elementary school. The ones that are barely 10 pages in length with 16-point font. Looking back, their simplicity is simply astounding.
For example, the book that was either constantly checked out, or stolen from my elementary school's library:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The english alphabet becomes animate and uses it's new found life to race to the top of some tree in correct sequence... I'll spoil the ending: THE TREE BREAKS, okay?
This next book got lost in some kid's desk for most of the year:
Round as a Pancake
Bunch of stuff happens to imply a circular shape. That's it.
I was in primary school in the early nineties, when SNES and dinosaurs were popular so we read:
Thunder
Bunch of kids hang out with some sauropod, some stuff happens. I don't remember if at the end they have a birthday party or if he DIES. Maybe both.
For example, the book that was either constantly checked out, or stolen from my elementary school's library:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The english alphabet becomes animate and uses it's new found life to race to the top of some tree in correct sequence... I'll spoil the ending: THE TREE BREAKS, okay?
This next book got lost in some kid's desk for most of the year:
Round as a Pancake
Bunch of stuff happens to imply a circular shape. That's it.
I was in primary school in the early nineties, when SNES and dinosaurs were popular so we read:
Thunder
Bunch of kids hang out with some sauropod, some stuff happens. I don't remember if at the end they have a birthday party or if he DIES. Maybe both.
Monday, January 01, 2007
I should've called this video something more profound
I haven't made a creative, art-purpose video since that dinky little RT93 commercial (which I was very proud of at the time) in December 2003.
(Actually: I haven't sucessfully made *any* kind of video since then until now.)
Well, I finished a music video last night, (December 30th).
It is for a song called "Put The Sugar In The House),
and it is composed of heavily edited and spliced-up flickery black-and-white public-domain footage from some newsreels on the moon-shot and revival of organisms as well as glitchy, heavily spliced up snippits from a beautiful, stunningly surreal Fritz Lang film, "Destiny".
The song consists of lyrics that my brother came up with being spoken by a speech synthesizer mixed in with some synth stuff. I'm not sure what genre it is.
So it's listed under the IDM genre on SoundClick of course!
(because when you're not sure where to put it... it's probably IDM)
I'm really excited about this, because this is not only the first video I've made in 3 years, it's also the first music video I've put together for a song that I made.
(I'm not counting that "No W" video I made in 2004, because it was all still icons and simple motion graphics, and didn't actually have any footage in it.)