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Looking for a good book to read? Try CONSTELIS VOSS

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The Constelis Voss trilogy is a compelling science fiction series that follows a group of characters as they navigate through a futuristic world filled with action, philosophical ideas, and cutting-edge technology. Written by the talented sci-fi author K. Leigh , the books promise to take readers on a thrilling journey through space and time. What sets this trilogy apart is its diverse cast of characters and the mind-bending storyline that keeps readers engaged and invested in the plot. K. Leigh has created an imaginative world that is both compelling and thought-provoking, making the Constelis Voss Trilogy a must-read for fans of the cyberpunk genre . Readers have praised the series for its excellent world-building, dynamic characters, and empowering themes. The author has a talent for immersing readers in the story and making them feel like they're part of the action. If you're a fan of science fiction , you won't want to miss out on this epic journey. But what if scien...
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Project Review - Tricia Richardson

Tricia Richardson Tricia's movie was wrought with nostalgia, obsession, and collection. I loved the way she used the hands to tell a 'memory' story about item collection, nostalgia, memory, and relationships. The lighting was great, the motions were lovely, and the pacing was appropriate and sweet. The song was great. I didn't mind the bittersweet lyrics, they added to the movie overall, giving it more of a sweet, slightly sad, mood. Pro's: simple, pleasing to the eyes well paced good music appropriate mood playful nostalgic Con's: ending credits too drawn out song lyrics a little too bitter, but still fit. transition from hands to fake hand people a little jarring.
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Website Review - Marissa Poole

Marissa Poole I was pleasantly surprised with how lovely Marissa's site is. I think I'm going to employ a similar type of layout for my own personal site. I hope she doesn't mind. :) The conception is clean and clear, and visually pleasing. Where her site is clean and professional, mine is punky and avante garde. I love how she has all her work just there. Right there to view. I need to stop thinking like a webdesigner and more like an artist. She uses space so amazingly well. The white site appears like a blank white canvas wherein her work is displayed so well. Pro's: clean, simple easy to update easy on the eyes modern looking good sense of space professional Con's: name isn't anywhere margins distract. add leftmargin=0 rightmargin=0 topmargin=0 bottommargin=0 to the body tag. the name of the site should just be your name. not 'revolution' not good for small monitors. will break the code. break code = ugly broken site the css/html markup isn't val...
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Seminar 2 Update 5

PROGRESS Reworked revamped the second version of the film. Upped the contrast, changed the colors. Bad news: The original batch of files was deleted due to some unknown reason. Or. Well. I can't find it. So the video is of medium quality at best. Trying to remedy this as much as possible, but it's out of my hands, now. Things to Do: Nothing. I did everything that was suggested during the crit EXCEPT FOR THE SPLIT FRAMES. I added it in just to see, and it really looked incredibly cheesy, even though I spent such a long time trying to get it to look professional. I just changed the contrast, extended a few scenes, and just generally changed it around. Little tweaks. Here are both versions, side by side. I'm sorry, that split frame pushing thing was really really really lame looking, even though that's what I wanted at first.. Also, extreme lightening of these files = bad fragments. So. Blah. It did what I wanted it to do, so that's all that matters. Now I just need to...
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All the World's a Stage

Overall: I wasn't insanely impressed with the work presented, even though I dearly loved Markus Schinwald's "Bob", and Andrea Fraser's "Little Frank and His Carp". I like last year's exhibit, the Supervision one. That one was REALLY nice. And I almost felt like there was much much less artwork being shown this time. I thought that the idea that 'all the world's a stage' could have been more carnival-like, and a few pieces really didn't connect to the overarching theme or individual themes even WITHIN the pieces, such as Mario Ybarra's "Sweeney Tate". Sure, it's a barber shop. Ok. I dig it. But relating it to Sweeney Todd doesn't make me feel comfy or love the barbershop. It makes me AFRAID of the barbershop. I know he was trying to connect the Tate museum with the piece, and was also attempting to connect the piece to the theater by using Sweeney, because it was originally a play, but that's just text. I cou...
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Pink Review

Kira Maintanis Seminar 2: New Media A Whole New Mind &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp David Pink's novel A Whole New Mind is an elongated analysis full of pop culture references and vague facts which discusses why right brainers will rule the world. It's first half attempts to draw the reader in and convince them that having a creative right brain, with a good amount of logical leftness, will herald all mankind into a new movement of higher thought. Pink then continues onto establish the superiority of right brained thinkers everywhere while still using the 'left brainers WERE good, but now..." buffer in all of his arguments. The second section of Pink's A Whole New Mind talks mainly about what makes up your right brain and how to go about activating it in order to reach a higher mental plane. While all of this is fine and good, Pink is writing for people who generally are not artistic, and thusly, this book falls short of many mainly right-brained...
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Sem2 Final Post 3

CHECKLIST Redid, reworked, revamped the film. Here's version two of the first shoot. Materials to get: Things to Do: Compile a list of songs in case jump rope noise = not good enough Host a list of inspirations/influences. Rent out a camera next week and incorporate "looking at" shots, and also film bag girl standing farther away so I can have two of them. Have yet to overlay in photoshop so there'd be a few bag girl jumpers, was too complicated then. Now with 1 vs 1 film done, can incorporate more. Possibly have them in random areas, like the kitchen, and outside and such, so as to symbolize the fact that competing with yourself at such high standards affects ALL areas of life, universally.
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