During week 2's class we looked at several videos but the ones I remembered the most was the knife and the one where there's like a spoon balanced on something or whatever. Ironic how I said the ones I remembered... In the videos, all camera angles/views were pretty much stationary and one other that included some simple zooming of in and out. They were focused on more of the performance that was/is suppose to happen than as if it was a first person view of someone's or what not.
I don't remember the particular order of when it was shown but I guess starting with the knife will do:
- a stationary knife
- colour of the knife would change from time to time like a magic trick
- most likely the colours were produced by light shining onto it
- it felt like I was watching a sort of a magic trick as each colour would drain in and out instead of just 'disappearing'
- a feeling of expanded/extended time was added onto it because of the repetitive motions of the colour change
- at the same time, it felt like it was suspenseful because you didn't know what colour it would become and when it would change
- the change was made behind the camera as the object remained stagnent as the focus was on about the change of colours instead
The second video had a name but I don't really remember. In short, I guess about household items:
- the most memorable clip though was the ice on the spoon I believe
- ice was melting, causing the spoon to lose balance on like an edge of some sort
- water would drip down to the center bottom of the spoon in an intriguing way
- it was very suspenseful as it played with the simplicity of the objects
- from what I remembered, at the end the spoon lost balanced and dropped as the ice turned into water
- the simple play of household items were the focus
- everything was actually in front of the camera vs the above video where everything was performed behind
Just remembered another video while typing...
The one where it pans slowly in a hallway forward into the end. People were eating but in a really slow motion because it was filmed where I believe some of the frames were skipped or repeated. It gave off a very hallow atmosphere, it was super slow with it's motion. Perhaps to some point even unbearable with it's speed as it was not exactly synced with my own expectation of what the reality time was like. It also showed some people in it eating lunch, very slowly and they did not look too happy. A weary environment the workers were in especially showed/seen by the long duration.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Synchronism
When thinking about the word synchronism, I think about the syncing process of my iPod while connecting to my MacBook. Synchronism, to sync and to make sure it matches with both parties (in this case the iPod and my MacBook).
In a more conceptual way that perhaps is less of the physical form, I think the way we interact in life with others create synchronism. Similar to my post before, about the way how I think a lot of us are "programmed" like. We are synced in the same ways, to study, get good grades, graduate and head into our career, then repeat process if job has not been found. We seem to get our of sync when we lose balance with life and studies, either or takes over and everything just becomes a chaos.
I often get a sort of synchronism with the world around me. My senses reassures that I am in the real world, in the same time, alive and well. Though there are times when I feel awfully out of sync. It happens when I stare at a screen for too long and suddenly when changing my view away from the screen everything just seems really far away. I honestly don't know what it is, whether it is more of a mental reaction that triggers such an image be seen and experienced through my eyes then to brain or really a hint that I have been spending too much time on my MacBook. It is the weirdest feeling, because when trying to grasp something that is actually really close, I feel even farther away from it.
The sync could be part of the sound and video. Where sound does not sync with the video, like watching a poorly uploaded video on YouTube or perhaps the videoart intentionally created the feel of non-synced narrative. The story rarely to no longer matches the video or sounds. There is an inconsistent flow of development in both video and sound that gives you the thought of whether everything is synchronized right.
Synchronism: the development of something that goes accordingly to the same universal scale or measurement whether it is sound/video, life/time, or senses/reality. All counts, all are inclusive, all syncs.
In a more conceptual way that perhaps is less of the physical form, I think the way we interact in life with others create synchronism. Similar to my post before, about the way how I think a lot of us are "programmed" like. We are synced in the same ways, to study, get good grades, graduate and head into our career, then repeat process if job has not been found. We seem to get our of sync when we lose balance with life and studies, either or takes over and everything just becomes a chaos.
I often get a sort of synchronism with the world around me. My senses reassures that I am in the real world, in the same time, alive and well. Though there are times when I feel awfully out of sync. It happens when I stare at a screen for too long and suddenly when changing my view away from the screen everything just seems really far away. I honestly don't know what it is, whether it is more of a mental reaction that triggers such an image be seen and experienced through my eyes then to brain or really a hint that I have been spending too much time on my MacBook. It is the weirdest feeling, because when trying to grasp something that is actually really close, I feel even farther away from it.
The sync could be part of the sound and video. Where sound does not sync with the video, like watching a poorly uploaded video on YouTube or perhaps the videoart intentionally created the feel of non-synced narrative. The story rarely to no longer matches the video or sounds. There is an inconsistent flow of development in both video and sound that gives you the thought of whether everything is synchronized right.
Synchronism: the development of something that goes accordingly to the same universal scale or measurement whether it is sound/video, life/time, or senses/reality. All counts, all are inclusive, all syncs.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Extended Duration
Week 1 has passed and looking through for what I should be doing next week... Time flew really quickly from week 1 and already week 2 is heading my way. The duration feels shorter when you first experience a new progress or schedule in your life, or maybe that's just me. Then probably after a few more weeks, it'll just feel repetitive with the same classes and similar coursework. It's like we were programmed to become uncanny, going through school like it is a must, study, eat, then sleep. Do we have control or does the whole education bounded world we seem to live in (well for those who do go to school)?
Long durations is really both mind and body compelling. Not that I yearn for long durations in my life, but there are times when things just carried away for too long. Whether it's just a simple panning within a movie or video and nothing really changes in the scene or an actual video art where everything is very settle, it creates this subtly emotionless atmosphere. Eyes perhaps get too deep into the scene and somehow it is like as if I was in a trance. Or somehow the repetitive scenes will cause my body to fiddle around, to gain some attention to something at least versus nothing. The mind would wander if there was no focus in the scene or the focused was just too stable, little to no progress where thoughts become sluggish in speed. I believe we all have limits to long duration, we are all capable of withstanding it. It just depends on the situation, the initial mindset of it all to be able to have limits or endless limitations.
I think the fact that a lot of us depend on senses to perceive (hence perception haha...), we lack the idea of what if we were to perceive our own state without the senses (which is hard). The reason is because, from baby till now we hav been using our five senses everyday of our lives. See, hear, smell, taste, and touch. All are important in the collection of being able to feel and understand the world around us. I think the time when we are most vulnerable, is when we think about the perception of our state. A time when we could be alone, silence generates around us, and our senses of the solitude or lonesome perception grasps onto us. During those times I don't think attention spans are shrinking but perhaps expanding I think. Only because the fact that there are so many things around us that becomes a distraction in our lives.
A boredom state is like when a person has no focus, sleep comes into place (aka the dozing off), or the mind has no interests in whatever that is going on in the world that surrounds us. I guess if boredom was in place, the goal expectation or narrative of something is either not interesting or it is losing the focus where it no longer becomes important or suspenseful for us to continue to watch and sense what is going on.
Long durations is really both mind and body compelling. Not that I yearn for long durations in my life, but there are times when things just carried away for too long. Whether it's just a simple panning within a movie or video and nothing really changes in the scene or an actual video art where everything is very settle, it creates this subtly emotionless atmosphere. Eyes perhaps get too deep into the scene and somehow it is like as if I was in a trance. Or somehow the repetitive scenes will cause my body to fiddle around, to gain some attention to something at least versus nothing. The mind would wander if there was no focus in the scene or the focused was just too stable, little to no progress where thoughts become sluggish in speed. I believe we all have limits to long duration, we are all capable of withstanding it. It just depends on the situation, the initial mindset of it all to be able to have limits or endless limitations.
I think the fact that a lot of us depend on senses to perceive (hence perception haha...), we lack the idea of what if we were to perceive our own state without the senses (which is hard). The reason is because, from baby till now we hav been using our five senses everyday of our lives. See, hear, smell, taste, and touch. All are important in the collection of being able to feel and understand the world around us. I think the time when we are most vulnerable, is when we think about the perception of our state. A time when we could be alone, silence generates around us, and our senses of the solitude or lonesome perception grasps onto us. During those times I don't think attention spans are shrinking but perhaps expanding I think. Only because the fact that there are so many things around us that becomes a distraction in our lives.
A boredom state is like when a person has no focus, sleep comes into place (aka the dozing off), or the mind has no interests in whatever that is going on in the world that surrounds us. I guess if boredom was in place, the goal expectation or narrative of something is either not interesting or it is losing the focus where it no longer becomes important or suspenseful for us to continue to watch and sense what is going on.
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