Pizza My Heart is an interactive Machinima film adventure that explores the limits and flaws of morality within videogames. Using comedy and satire, we’ve designed this project to generate questions about classic systems of morality within gaming, and to perhaps provoke alternative ideas to these dubious systems. As you navigate the dialogue between the arguing couple and attempt to acquire pizza, each decision that you make exemplifies how games often exaggerate—and perhaps, trivialize—moral choices.
A machine like this is a distinct acquisition to the modern picture theatre, for when skillfully controlled it provides a scientific and perfect mechanical apparatus for the production of distinctive sound, correctly, and at the proper moment. At the same time, it is so simple that little practice is demanded to make the operator expert in the art of mechanical mimicry. Source: Moving Pictures - How they are made and worked, written by Frederick A. Talbot Publ. William Heinemann, London, 1912
Green Lantern Hits with the Power Beam | the-weekly-update.com
For my last digital assignment, I decided to do another animated .GIF. This time though, I decided to make one from scratch! I chose the Animated Comic Book Covers assignment. I chose to use a Green Lantern comic book cover for this assignment. Green Lantern has always been my favorite DC superhero. (can we talk about how horribly awful the recent movie was though?!). I’m not sure if this cover is pre or post Hal Jordan - it might be Alan Scott. I chose this particular cover because of the power beam – I thought it would be cool to animate!
Content and Context: Visualizations for the Public? | Visualizing the Past
In the very useful survey of the “history web” in their 2005 book Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web , Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig identify the range of genres that encompassed the historical content on the web: archival sites, exhibits and scholarly essays, teaching and learning sites, and discussion forums and organizational sites. Even though Cohen and Rosenzweig failed to account for the way that blogs, YouTube, and social media would eventually permeate the history web, I like their categories because they continue to the give us a way to think about what we do when we create public history online. We tend to provide access to collections, to offer interpretation, to offer instruction, and to offer a forum for conversation, both general and professional. So, as I began to think about the critical issuing in effectively using data visualizations in public history, I wanted to consider them in relationship to the activities above.
I made this poster for the iconic 1953 movie, Roman Holiday. I love the simplicity of this movie. I chose a vespa to represent the movie on this poster because it stands for freedom and life throughout this film. Audrey Hepburn’s character, Princess Anne, escapes the confined life of a princess during a visit in Rome where she meets an American journalist, Joe (Gregory Peck). Joe, not knowing that Anne is a princess, offers to show her around the city.
I decided to try out the Minimalist TV/Movie Poster assignment. I wanted to do this on a movie that I love, yet havent seen in a long time – Evolution. For those of you who have not seen it, it is a comedy about a group of people who lead an attack on an alien organism which had landed on earth. Starting off as bacteria, it rapidly evolves into a threat to earths civilizations. Instead of going for the comedic or threatening aspects of the movie, I decided to highlight the underlying principle – DNA and evolution. The poster features two plants, tangling into one another with a DNA helix in the middle of them. The word “Evolution” is spelled with with the helix being the “l”.
This assignment was pretty straight-forward and simple. I took a photo from The Big Picture and a song from the Top 100 List, and added the lyrics in Picnic. I ended up choosing a photo under the skating category. I chose “Paradise” by Coldplay because the picture looked pretty paradisal to me, so the song seemed like a perfect match.
As you can see, a saber is no joke. It can cut through anything (except other lightsabers or that force shield stuff). While I was making this label, I thought, what happens if you drop an open lightsaber facing down? I suppose it would just cut through everything and come out the other end of earth (or w/e planet). It’s something to think about.
Transformers – If Movie Posters Told the Truth | Canvas Graphics
Well as most of you know, Michael Bay loves explosions, especially those in slow motion. They are all over his movies, and Transformers is a perfect example of him exploiting explosions throughout the whole movie. So, if Transformers movie poster told the truth…
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I adore the cover art on most all of the Watchmen series, so I had to give one a shot for this assignment. I initially started out with a different cover from the series, spent ages, didn’t come out quite right. So I started over with a simpler one which led to this:
TDC38: How old do I feel? | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
TDC38: Take a photo of an object that represents how old you feel. tdc.ds106.us/tdc38/ Raisin: "I can still be just as fruity as the rest." Well... I don't quite feel like a raisin, but this was my first idea and I just went with it. :) Yes, I still can't get out of my fruit mode.
Brian Brushwood - Bizarre Magic: America's #1 College Magic Show - News - 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
Here's a compositional secret. It's so obvious and simple, you'll say to yourself, "This man is bullshitting me." I am not. This is one of the most fundamental things in all theatrical movie composition and yet magicians know nothing of it. Ready? Surprise me. That's it. Place 2 and 2 right in front of my nose, but make me think I'm seeing 5. Then reveal the truth, 4!, and surprise me.
