The source and the project behind the final

Alright, so I have made much progress in my final due next week. Lots of my progress is posted, but here is a lil something something as to what's actually going on at this point.

My source has shifted into a real hard look at my own relationship with art, particulaly my own art, and how the process of making art fulfills my needs for human relationship as well as cover my own lonileness. The video is going to be a collage of sped up video image and still images of me painting with a musical score to it.

I feel a video of me working in my primal instinctive nature blended with the music and the new poem I wrote to correspond with the music really show my source and how art fulfills me, as this whole semester I have been investigating a single life vs non single life, trying to figure out why I didn't have someone and how it affected me Somewhere along the lines my source spoke further to me and instead of trying to find all these different pieces to make this puzzle, it told me that the only piece that really mattered spoke inside of me. I realized the only way I know how to really let that voice out is through my hands On the piano, with a brush, anything and everything artistic If my hands are dirty, then I am happy. So for the final I really focused on the marriage between my life and art and the balance art creates for me as a person.

SO CLOSE!!!

DONE-Video shot (thursday)
DONE-images taken (thursday)
DONE-new poem conceived (but never concrete)
DONE-post poem and images to blog

WILL DO STILL-Absolute final proposal. to blog and printed

The Images of the Process

Progress leading into 4/24

vl2 4/24

NOT DONE-Absolute final proposal. to blog and printed
DONE-Video shot (thursday)
DONE-images taken (thursday)
DONE-new poem conceived (but never concrete)
HALF DONE-post poem and images to blog
NEED TO DO-buy and install final cut
OH YAH!-equipment needed: 2 video cameras, 1 digital camera, tripod for digital camera


more to follow

The New Poem

no rules no context
never say forever
dying to be
tightly fastened
absolute destiny
quiet and polite
you also ache too
alone in the dark
drive home all alone
hoping tonights the night
i can live out my plans
whatever it is
im sure ill buy in
looking for someway
to escape my body
woke up the next day
in the model boys bed
i could not believe
what my luck had given
just an hour ahead
with a highway behind
eyes straight ahead
set flight in course
eyes on the road
feet on the ground
so just let it go
don’t shed a tear
ill only hurt you
ill never let you in
its just a sacrifice
ive had to make
in learning the only love
that really counts
is the love you have
for yourself

Today's Progress

Today was a day of discovery for me. I learned that I was trying to do too much that wasn't even what I was really supposed to do. So, with that said, here is my new final proposal.

For my final I am going to be making a video using both film and digital photography, as well as piano and spoken word. After talking to Lana, I went back to my computer puzzled. How can I do this? Her idea was to make a video of my creating of art. liked that idea but how to execute was beyond me. Her suggestion was to either take a video of me creating or do still shots with the piece slightly furthered each shot. After racking my brain, I decided I wanted to do both. My idea is that I will super speed up the video images then just stop with still images of whatever it is i'm making constantly a step further, until finished at the end. Here's the sequence idea:

Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still
Motion
Still

An idea I have is to go backwards after the canvus is done until it is empty again. I am still really unsure of this idea...guess Ill see how it all looks...

Then, I want to take the videos and images and compose small appropriate piano riffs taking from 7 songs of FY that most embody my source. The songs are:

a new light
paperclips
emo mcdreamy
stalking the book
daylight savings time
ill never let you in
could it be

Once the songs are in place I am going to write a new poem made from the most source poignant lines in those songs. I will do a spoken word recording to go with the piano.

So that is my new video project conceived today in class.

Oh and I forgot to mention one big thing... the source behind all this has shifted toward the idea of my questioning of love as well as my relationship with art. I will further detail my source with next weeks postings, s well s my final final final proposal!

LASTLY! New timeline!

Due Next Week:

-Absolute final proposal. to blog and printed
-Video shot (thursday)
-images taken (thursday)
-new poem conceived (but never concrete)
-post poem and images to blog
-buy and install final cut (life is too hard without at my fingertips!)
-equipment needed: camera, digital camera, tripod for digital camera, lights

In Class Next Friday:
-Video rendering and beginning of editing (post clip to blog)
-meet with Lana again

To Finish before due:
-put video and images together
-compose music
-record music
-record poem
-put music and poem on video
-post final video
-put together the DVD

5/1
Judgement day has come!

artists to research!

Amanda Palmer

Dennis Oppenheim

Yoko Ono

Dan Graham

Rebecca Horn

Joan Jonas

Laurie Anderson

Bruce Newman

Henry Flynt

La Monte Young

John Latham

Joseph Beuys

Philip Corner

George Maciunas

Nam June Paik

Alison Knowles

Dick Higgins

Giuseppe Chiari

Philip Glass

Steve Reich

Terry Riley

Herman Nitsch

Julia Heyward

Michael Smith

Adrian Piper

Rose English

John Kelly

Spalding Gray

Sankai Juko