portfolio

and the portfolio is done.

it went suprisingly smoothly.

its all in flash, except i didnt have the heart to embed my already too compressed aftereffects movie into it, nor was i planning on embedding my flash animation inside the flash. but its all here. ready to talk about:

Alex Sexton Portfolio


thanks, and good luck on yours.

-Alex

Collaboration After Effects Project

Aiight, I just finished up my movie. I think it turned out pretty good too. I used over eleven different videos and did some green screening too...

My original vision was a little bit different but im happy with the way it turned out. All the video in the background is moving fast and the face of the singer/main character person is completely pasted together from 4 different faces. I used my chromakey green screen to do it. I know its still a little fuzzy on the outsides, but i dont exactly have stellar lighting in my dorm room. Ill just say its there for effect. In the background I have a fast moving view from a train, there are some women dancing too... I got these videos from a British Creative Commons site. I prolly didnt follow the directions of the liscence, but that would have required extra reading... I have a clip from garden state in there, as well as from Kill Bill 2.... you may or may not notice these. The Music is the very end of Modern Drummer by the band American Analog Set. I really liked the music for the feel that i was going for, and thought all the fast movement from the train and the driving and from the chain of dancing women would really accent the song. I picked my friend virginia's mouth to use because i knew she wouldnt be able to keep a straight face, and i kinda wanted the smile to be the theme, or the focus. I made a very fast paced background with a very relaxed and slow moving pasted together person. I thought all the movement would really make it obvious how relaxed and genuinely happy the person was. The lyrics dont exactly go along with anything.... they say a couple of lines with meaning and then repeat the line "Now.... Continuous Hit Music" which seems kind of like a mockery... not real sure what the intent was there on my part, but the music sounds good regardless. Im sure im missing something. but here it is:

by the way, Chris, if you see this before class on Wednesday, if there is anything i could do to make a higher grade, maybe try and tell me in class or something. But i think i at least fulfilled all the stated requirements from class. Technically i think just the face of the person did that...

Here is the required .mov file:
Collaboration
(note: it is 22mb, and I did all the exporting the correct way. Its almost 2 min.)

And for my own sanity here is a smaller 15mb version that is twice the size with better quality in DivX
Collaboration DivX format

give me a shout out and tell me what you think while i still have a little time to fix it... (not much)

-Slex

woah!

read this on boingboing.... woah... cool whether you like linkin park or not...



Linkin Park wants a Warner-free IPO

Linkin Park is looking to float an IPO, but only if it can get out of its deal with Warner: it's not longer interested in being tied to a label, and intends to release its music strictly over the Internet from now on.

The band claims it has been responsible for ten percent of the label's record sales over the past five years. Linkin Park owes Warner Music four more albums, but the band says they're looking into releasing music over the Internet and it does not plan to deliver a new album to Warner.


crazy cool.... (gap rip off)

titanic slide

haha.

there selling this new inflatable water slide in china.



complete with broken ship and iceberg action.


haha. thats detournment right there.

Flash!

Heres my flash vid. It has some story line and some interactivity... and plenty of scenes. I didnt do all 7 minutes but i let the user have creative control of the rest of the song... kind of fun... took longer than i expected. The Whole story is still present though.

The Mariner's Revenge

**EDIT**
here is just the swf file. if you play that alone, the sound syncs up correctly, if you look at it in a browser, its off by like one second.... cant figure it out... so the best way to look at it would be to right click and download to your desktop, that way you dont get all the stuff thats outside of the borders, and the sound is cued up right.... sorry for the inconvienence...

LINK
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and this one is on time.

here is another story i did recently... I talked about it to some kids in class about making it look like it wasnt done in flash, but by hand.... alot more keyframes.
its called Genesis and it was for church...

alex

chuck d

I had been thinking this all monday, and Chuck D. finally said it...

"Putting a hundred small fragments into a song meant that you had a hundred different people to answer to. Whereas someone like EPMD might have taken an entire loop and stuck with it, which meant that they only had to pay one artist."


It seems like there should be some kind of barrier. Someone has spoken everyword i have ever said before... just in a different order... So someone could probably say that i am stealing there words, and just sampling them around. I am very tempted to write a completely original yet stolen paper. I think if I was a lawyer that was defending the bands that sample my opening statement would look something like this:

"Dear" -William Shakespeare "Ladies" -Will Smith "and" -Ross Perot "Gentleman" -Frank Sinatra "of" -George W. Bush "The" -Mickey Mantle "Jury" -Steven Spielberg etc....


then after i read it, i would show them that even though i STOLE every single word on the page, the entire thing was mine. And that I had complete ownership of the statement and shouldnt have to pay anyone of the people who were quoted in the paper.

that would be a good opening statement.

-alex

p2p

this was an interesting comment in a slashdot article on filesharing

thought it worthy...

"I believe record companies have gutted the industry of music by reducing the fare to prerecorded offering of a few.

Every CD is a "free" version of a thing that previously had value - namely live music.

As such I believe they deserve to be comodified into irrelevancy - not at all because i like free downloads - i listen to radio because its fresh - but because they have eliminated a cultural experience from the face of the earth - or so reduced it as to render the making of music a rare and unappreciated talent."


on we go...
-slex

butterflies and hurricanes

hey. if anyone is interested. I.... like many of you... make movies in my spare time. Of course... I have no free time so I make them in my non-Free time. Regardless i just released a new one. its actually not done, but were releasing it in three parts. this is part 2, and part 3 will be filmed this summer. Its a fight video.


you need divx. right click to save: Butterflies And Hurricanes


thanks.