Pissed Off!

So since last Friday I've been fighting with youtube. For some reason, it's not accepting a few of my videos, and I can't figure out why. I've gone back and tried altering them a bit and even tried to up-load them from a new machine. The only thing I can think of is maybe it's not taking them due to a filter I might have used from After Affects. All I can say is that I'm getting really pissed off that it will take some files but not others. I just created a google video account. If youtube continues to mess with me I thing I may end up trying google. The other answer is to try using QuickTime. I've been looking at a lot of different blogs, and many of them have it to where you click on the link of the movie and then it goes to another page to play the movie, and then you have to hit back to return to the blog. I would rather keep it where you are viewing the clip on the blog, but if I have to I will look into other methods.

Squares

Here we have the early stages of a piece I am working on for the show next year. I know it may not look like it, but this footage is actually from a very popular Nintendo game. Anyone want to take a hint? How about a hint? Do the words "Ganon" and “Triforce" help any?

Jack

So video I can do, but audio is something totally different. I took a sound design class last semester, and I did learn a lot, but I still have a long way to go. The class has helped in working on audio for my video paintings, which is a very good thing since everyone tells me that they need sound. Well this video was my group’s final project for the class. We took a clip from cartoon networks Samurai Jack and did our own soundtrack for it. Let me know what you think.

Felix

So video games have become the focus of my new art. I've been coming up with some pretty good stuff. I even have a video called Drac playing at the Continental Gallery at the Continental Lofts in Deep Ellum till August 3rd. The video I'm showing here is just to give an idea of what I've been working on lately. It's not really that great of a piece, just a test piece I’ve used to give me ideas. I’ve started using old 8-bit Nintendo games so far, though the play is to move to 3d gamecube and PS2 games later. The really good news is that some people that have seen my work want me to write up a proposal for a possible show. So if things go right, I will have my first solo exhibition early next year. So with all that said, enjoy.

Gojira

So this is just an experimental piece I was working on. My other works video paintings, but video art encompasses a vast majority ore than just that. I collected these Godzilla clips a while ago, and wanted to do something with them. So after exploring through a lot of art via the internet, I just figured I would through these clips into Final Cut and just have it. So if you enjoy cool. If you get a laugh out of it, awesome. If you just end up think that it's stupid cool to, like I said, I just messing around to see what I might come up with.

Jabari: The Conspriacy Theory

My final project for my video class spring 2004. Who would have ever thought that you could get a gorilla to act on camera.

Art Theft

This was my final project for video class in spring 2003.

So these next couple of videos maybe a little off from what I've been working on, but they are just a couple of short films that I did a few years ago. I said this blog would be a way for people to see what goes on in this head of mine.

Pink Dots

Purple Dots

Dragon

Ok, so I lied. I couldn't find any of the real early samples, so the next couple of videos are actually finished ones that I have shown in a few shows. Enjoy!

So I've been working on trying to clean up my computer her at school. I have so many projects and files on it that I need to start freeing up some drive space. So going through everything, I found the old QuickTime movies of when I first started experimenting with video art. My first attempts were working with footage I shot at the aquarium. I've been going there for quite some time and I could just find myself lost in just how certain creatures would move, such as stingrays. I would watch them and wonder what I might be able to do with video footage of these animals. So I've decided to put some of my early stuff up. Now don't go thinking that this stuff is anything I consider great, these are just pieces that I tried my hand to get feedback on what I was doing and to help get to where I now.

Blue

So here on the eve of my decided to restart the blog I have also decided to add video to it also. This is one of the videos that i had in the Driver show back in January. It's called "Blue". Enjoy.

Starting over once again....

So for the last couple of months I've been struggling with exactly where I want to go with my video art. I have come to the conclusion that I don't want to give up doing other video projects, but I defiantly want to keep doing video art. I enjoy it and love doing it, and I want to see just how far I can take it. So instead of just have a blog that is dedicated to either short films that I might want to shoot, or new video paintings that I am working on, this blog will be a mixture. Probably for the most part it will be a lot on the video art that I will be working on, but it will also be open to me just posting ideas about short films, possible documentary ideas or just random video shit that I come up with. So sit back and if you actually take the time to read this blog, then maybe you might learn a little bit about the crap that goes on in this head of mine about video.