For my final project, I decided to go with Human interactivity and its influence on creativity because from the time I was born, I have been interacting with people from all walks of life. This interaction and exchange of information has molded me to be who I am today. Every handshake, every smile, every tear and every hug has a huge impact on me. Even when relationships fall apart or you lose a friend, there is something you take away from that experience. This is what I wanted to bring forth in this project.
For me there are three elements that I feel have influenced my work deeply. My life in college, I met my closest friends. These people I met in college are my friends, even today! I met my fiance' in college. I was a resident assistant in college and that had a tremendous impact on my life. I learned a great deal from students from different backgrounds and cultures. I was introduced to different foods. I found diversity at its best at school. I will never trade this experience for anything my whole life.
Second thing that influenced me greatly is my military life. i love the military and I am proud to serve my country. The military really pushed me to explore my boundaries. I learned my weaknesses and faced my fear. I have learned to respect my fellow soldiers and understand leadership in its true form. Am I a perfect leader? I don't think i can ever be perfect. I think there is something new we learn each day. In that aspect, I am still very much human and yes I am a leader, a leader in my own way.
And finally, my fiance', Hong, who has always been there to push me forward. We have been together for a long time and the only reason we lasted so long is because she was able to stand by my side through tough times. I learned that even at my strongest point, in front of her I was very weak. She is much younger than me, but she is far more driven. She knows how to talk to people, she knows how to build her bridges and keep them. I still have a long way to go in that aspect.
These three pieces in my life have effected my understanding of creativity greatly. This is what my piece was about. I am glad that I got to share it with all of you. i hope that we all will continue to see each other in the future and we will continue to Network! I want you to all to know that you are now a very important and diverse part of my life! Thank you for being a part of it!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Final Project
Title: A Freedom Complete
Description: Interactive Display
For my final Time-Based media project I decided to design an interactive display piece for homicide victims from gun violence in Boston for the year 2010. In 2010 Boston has experienced a spike in gun violence and homicides. In that year alone 74 people were killed in cold blood. The youngest victim was 2 year-old Amani Smith who along with his mother was
one of the people killed in the Mattapan Quadruple murder.
Inspiration: My personal inspiration comes from being affected by gun violence as a young teenager growing up in poverty stricken Roxbury. In 1990 my older sister was one of four people shot during a dispute between her boyfriend and some neighborhood kids. A pellet from a shotgun bullet struck her in the eye and stopped a few centimeters from her brain. She survived her injury and her eye has healed 100%. Until this day I’m grateful that she survived this horrible experience. 21 years later gun violence still affects inner cities throughout the nation. Why hasn’t anything changed is beyond me.
As an artist I always want to give back to the community. When I have more time my goal is to work with at-risk kids teaching them the tools to become successful adults through art and design. I hope to inspire youth and young adults to make change in their lives and neighborhoods. When a community can come together to fight the problems effecting their neighborhood improvements can be made. We have to save ourselves because the government and politicians can’t do it for us!
Media: Flash I chose Flash because I wanted to make my design interactive with moving images and changing text but also give it a magazine article feel.
Description: Interactive Display
For my final Time-Based media project I decided to design an interactive display piece for homicide victims from gun violence in Boston for the year 2010. In 2010 Boston has experienced a spike in gun violence and homicides. In that year alone 74 people were killed in cold blood. The youngest victim was 2 year-old Amani Smith who along with his mother was
one of the people killed in the Mattapan Quadruple murder.
Inspiration: My personal inspiration comes from being affected by gun violence as a young teenager growing up in poverty stricken Roxbury. In 1990 my older sister was one of four people shot during a dispute between her boyfriend and some neighborhood kids. A pellet from a shotgun bullet struck her in the eye and stopped a few centimeters from her brain. She survived her injury and her eye has healed 100%. Until this day I’m grateful that she survived this horrible experience. 21 years later gun violence still affects inner cities throughout the nation. Why hasn’t anything changed is beyond me.
As an artist I always want to give back to the community. When I have more time my goal is to work with at-risk kids teaching them the tools to become successful adults through art and design. I hope to inspire youth and young adults to make change in their lives and neighborhoods. When a community can come together to fight the problems effecting their neighborhood improvements can be made. We have to save ourselves because the government and politicians can’t do it for us!
Media: Flash I chose Flash because I wanted to make my design interactive with moving images and changing text but also give it a magazine article feel.
Ayumi never be alone
This is my first short film. Actually, during the last year of undergraduate, I once made a short film before but I didn’t want to count that one as my first because I didn’t prepare anything back then and finally it turned out not so good.
But this one, it is really my first. I wrote the screenplay and shooting script. I bought a brand new camera just for shooting this movie.
The story line was inspired by a short story written by a writer in Thailand. His name is Prabda Yoon. You can search his name in Wikipedia.org. He is well known among the readers who like to read sub-genre novels or stories, which are not mainstream. The theme in his works mostly about philosophy of living things or human life.
Ayumi Never be Alone was adapted from one of the story in one his books, Cleaning the Dead. The original title of the story is Ayumi never talk to herself.
I took the idea of a Japanese girl talking to herself because people around her seem mean to her in many ways. Her boyfriend rarely talk to her, sometimes leave her alone, and usually call her weird when she talk to herself. And at the end her boyfriend's friends rape her and her boyfriend got money from that. It is really a cruel story. So I changed it and came up with the twisted ending.
Yi Huang's final project
My final project is based on my wife and my marriage. I picked some photos as recalling my memories. As a statement, I built this flash in two modes as discovering my photos. I used Flash CS4 and ActionScript to build the interface and interactions.
In the "Treasure Hunting Mode", you can click, drag to discover the hidden photos. You can imagine this is a messed desk with dozens of photos on it, you just use you hand to pick up every photo and view it one by one. Find it, pick it up, view it, put it down, and discover the other one.
In the second "Timeline Mode", you can just click on the three stages in the time line, and the related photos will be popped on the screen.
I consider this project as my appreciation or salute to my dear wife, she's one of the most most important person in my life. We have been married for three years, and now she is carrying our daughter. I just want to thank her from the bottom of my heart.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5056406/yi_huang_imomeries.swf
In the "Treasure Hunting Mode", you can click, drag to discover the hidden photos. You can imagine this is a messed desk with dozens of photos on it, you just use you hand to pick up every photo and view it one by one. Find it, pick it up, view it, put it down, and discover the other one.
In the second "Timeline Mode", you can just click on the three stages in the time line, and the related photos will be popped on the screen.
I consider this project as my appreciation or salute to my dear wife, she's one of the most most important person in my life. We have been married for three years, and now she is carrying our daughter. I just want to thank her from the bottom of my heart.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5056406/yi_huang_imomeries.swf
FAMILY
My life revolves around my family. Peter, my brother, has been a cornerstone of my life, always been there for me, through thick and thin. Of course we moved on with our lives, moved out of our mother's home, and started a new life creating families of our own. Peter married Rosa and they now have two beautiful children together, Aaron and Mackenzie. My niece and nephew have become my world, and so has my boyfriend Josiah. But one motto that I have always lived by is blood is thicker than water. I would do anything for my niece and nephew.
There are three parts to this design. The first is the large image of me; this is how I see myself. I dressed up in the clothes that I wear everyday to keep it real. I wore my sweatshirt hoodie and my jeans. I also decided to wear my Emmanuel College shirt because I am proud of my accomplishments. But this pales in comparison to the other part of the piece. There are images cascading from my hands. Images from when I was younger until close to now. Here I am trying to describe the fact that we are in control of our destinies. How we act through out our lives affects the future. But holding the images and letting them fall from my hands makes it seem that even though we are in control of what we do with our lives, these pieces will still fall where they may, leading us to our destiny. Right now, in this present time, my destiny is with my niece and nephew.
The third and final part of this piece is the video displayed in the net book below my still image. My still image is technically the past, you cannot go back and change it, it remains stagnate. But the present is what is moving us forward towards the future, and here is where the moving pictures come into play. I made a montage of a day in the life of my niece and nephew, and used the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." This song is significant to me because it ties in the past with the future. The past represented by the song is a time when I was a little girl and would watch the movie The Wizard of Oz over and over again. The future is my next generation, my niece and nephew. They are the ones that are propelling me forward, giving me reason for life. They are the future generation. I am the past generation, my brother is the past, and with our families we create a new generation for the future of us all.
Technically, to make this project come to life, I created two parts that came together. I placed the image of myself crouching in a blank document in Photoshop. I scanned in old photos of my family and placed those using layers in Photoshop, in my hands. The image of the scanned photographs and me were enlarged and printed on a 24x36 foam board with matte finishing. I made sure my image started 7 inches from the bottom. I then displayed the poster board using an easel, and placed the net book opened underneath my feet and played the movie of my niece and nephew that I filmed and edited earlier. My main still image would literally be crouching on the net book. The movie loops, making it an installation piece you would see at an art gallery. Sit, watch, and enjoy as life moves on to the next generation
Penguin Cupcakes // statement
Over the course of the last few months I have become very interested in cooking—particularly baking. I have a sweet tooth and was given a cookbook with myriad delicious recipes to try. Since then, I have been given several more cookbooks and have thoroughly enjoyed trying new cakes, cupcakes, and other desserts.
For my final project, I wanted to use time-based media to construct a cooking demonstration. I also used this project as an opportunity to test an idea for a component of my thesis project—an interactive cooking website.
In thinking about this project, I wanted to do a demonstration that was a bit more unique and a little more fun than a plain meal or dessert, which is why I chose to make animal-shaped cupcakes.
My goal for this project was not just to film myself making cupcakes, but to provide the viewer with something a little extra. I wanted to bring the recipe to life.
Though the video did not turn out exactly as I had hoped, I learned a lot from creating it and for me, learning from what I did not like and what did not work was more valuable than if everything had worked perfectly or gone according to plan. Because I hope to continue this project on a larger scale, I am able to better strategize.
Many types of media can be considered time-based media, and incorporating different media into a project allows one to create a more dynamic experience for the user.
Cooking television shows and channels exist, but I like the idea of bringing cooking to the web because it allows a user to choose the content on demand. Time-based media on the web also provides more options: viewing the video demonstration while looking at a list of ingredients or instructions, looking at photos, accessing a printable supply list, etc.
This project gave me a chance to further explore a niche area that has a lot of interesting potential!
For my final project, I wanted to use time-based media to construct a cooking demonstration. I also used this project as an opportunity to test an idea for a component of my thesis project—an interactive cooking website.
In thinking about this project, I wanted to do a demonstration that was a bit more unique and a little more fun than a plain meal or dessert, which is why I chose to make animal-shaped cupcakes.
My goal for this project was not just to film myself making cupcakes, but to provide the viewer with something a little extra. I wanted to bring the recipe to life.
Though the video did not turn out exactly as I had hoped, I learned a lot from creating it and for me, learning from what I did not like and what did not work was more valuable than if everything had worked perfectly or gone according to plan. Because I hope to continue this project on a larger scale, I am able to better strategize.
Many types of media can be considered time-based media, and incorporating different media into a project allows one to create a more dynamic experience for the user.
Cooking television shows and channels exist, but I like the idea of bringing cooking to the web because it allows a user to choose the content on demand. Time-based media on the web also provides more options: viewing the video demonstration while looking at a list of ingredients or instructions, looking at photos, accessing a printable supply list, etc.
This project gave me a chance to further explore a niche area that has a lot of interesting potential!
Tonight's the night!
Tonight's class will be the most exciting class for me -- the culmination of everything we've done and experienced this term. We will go back to that elemental question from the first class, "What is Time-Based Media?"
Some guidelines for tonight:
-- In addition to your project presentation, you should have a project statement. Please post those on the blog with using the exact tag 'finalproject'. Feel free to include in that post any links, embedded video or images.
-- I'm inclined to just run through the presentations with just a short leg-stretching/bathroom break in the middle. You'll each get 10 minutes to make your presentations and I'll be looking for each of you to facilitate a conversation. You will be graded on how you speak and present your work in addition to your work!
-- Regarding grades, I'm working through my grades for the entire term. If you are missing an assignment please let me know if you are planning to complete, else you will not get credit for that assignment. Grades are due on Tuesday and I aspire to be on time! ;-)
-- I also will aspire to bring snacks!
Some guidelines for tonight:
-- In addition to your project presentation, you should have a project statement. Please post those on the blog with using the exact tag 'finalproject'. Feel free to include in that post any links, embedded video or images.
-- I'm inclined to just run through the presentations with just a short leg-stretching/bathroom break in the middle. You'll each get 10 minutes to make your presentations and I'll be looking for each of you to facilitate a conversation. You will be graded on how you speak and present your work in addition to your work!
-- Regarding grades, I'm working through my grades for the entire term. If you are missing an assignment please let me know if you are planning to complete, else you will not get credit for that assignment. Grades are due on Tuesday and I aspire to be on time! ;-)
-- I also will aspire to bring snacks!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
River of Wisdom
Traditional Chinese brush paintings... made into an animation!
My parents were in Hong Kong the year this was on exhibition - it's amazing!
My parents were in Hong Kong the year this was on exhibition - it's amazing!
Friday, March 18, 2011
Leave Me
Really a nice piece, very touching. Also we can find a lot of different time-based medias.
Hope you guys like it~
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Animation videos
Wanted to share two really cool animation videos. The first is a stop-motion graffiti video that is really crazy to watch. The second is an animation that incorporates textiles and paper. Both are incredibly impressive!
The Thomas Beale Cipher from Andrew S Allen on Vimeo.
Final Project
For my final project I want to make a PSA on youth and gun violence. The reason I chose this topic is because gun violence is not just a problem in the inner city of Boston, it's a problem that effects inner cities throughout America. I was born and raised in Roxbury where I still reside and there have been times where I'm sitting in my room doing my homework and I hear gun shots outside which is crazy. Why do people in the inner city who work hard had AND pay taxes not feel safe in their ow neighborhood. There was also another time when walking home from class one night two youths I had just walked by where shot one died from his injuries. After experiencing that I came to the conclusion that God kept me here for a reason. In that split second I could have been a victim. I know your thinking oh well why doesn't she just move and yes I can afford to live in the suburbs but why do I have to move away from my roots to a place where a lot of the times people look at me as if I don't belong. It's a sucky situation but I love the city so much. Anyways when these experiences happened I have vowed to dedicate some of my time when I'm done with school to work with at risk kids through art and digital media. For now I can settle with working on small projects like this to try to make small change right now because Superman will not save us!
I plan to design my project in flash. I want to make a simple interface with a slide show of moving text and images. I may add some music or a voice over reading statistics or a poem written by a good friend of mine. Time-based media will work well for this project because it adds and extra element that print can't convey. Using moving text and pictures can make a nice impact on the viewer as well. I'm looking forward to seeing what i can come up with using Flash. I don't have much Flash experience but this will be a good challenge for me.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
This is touching..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3TM9GL2iLI&feature=player_embedded
With everything going on in Japan.. my heart goes out to all the people of Japan suffering. But this video shows.. that people are not the only ones.. and friendship exists even among animals.. I saw this on Yahoo.. thought it was worth sharing.
With everything going on in Japan.. my heart goes out to all the people of Japan suffering. But this video shows.. that people are not the only ones.. and friendship exists even among animals.. I saw this on Yahoo.. thought it was worth sharing.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
PhoneCall--Paul.mov
I changed it a little bit from my original story. I took tons of clips because my storyboard really didn't do its work well. Because I kept changing it when I was shooting. I found out sometimes the pictures that I draw on my storyboard are not so suitable for video shooting as I thought. So I kept changing it.
Then, I decided what If I just took all the clip, and throw all of them into the iMovie to see if it gonna work. The good thing is I finished this assignment. But the bad thing is also very obvious: because I didn't stick on my storyboard, so I have to figure out how to organize my materials from the beginning again after I finish shooting! That is really bad experience... It took me for ever...
I think I will take care of my storyboard more carefully next time. Because I learned how important it is this time!
Assignment for March 17, 2011
1. Email me a proposal for your Final Project at my ravijain.org address -- a few paragraphs at most.
Here is what we are thinking for the Final Project:
Here is what we are thinking for the Final Project:
- A time-based media project that is driven by personal content/experience (doesn’t have to be soul baring)
- A component will be a project statement in which you define time-based media – what it means for you. We’ll look at statements and their importance in the next class.
- Build upon assignments so far, but please push yourself. Don’t be afraid to “fail” – by that I mean, I’m paying attention to concept and to the fact that you only have three weeks to realize this project, so any short comings that are documented are acceptable.
- No restrictions on length or topic.
Don't wait to say "I Love you!"
Thank you to Paul Zhang, Vivianna Yan, Liu Dan and our other friends for helping me make this movie.
Yi Huang's Video: The Inside Man
Hi there,
Here's my video project, about a true story (or a true crime) in Poland. I made a documentary about this classic burglary, but also added some fun elements.
Thanks for watching!
Here's my video project, about a true story (or a true crime) in Poland. I made a documentary about this classic burglary, but also added some fun elements.
Thanks for watching!
Rough Movie
Here's a rough version of my project. I couldn't figure out Final Cut Pro in time to produce this for tonight. So, I went back to iMovie. :( There are additional edits I have in mind, like color tone and some audio adjustments that I'd still like to do. I would love anyone's suggestions. This is my first video project EVER!
I wanted to write a story about how an object changes through time according to our perception of it. As you watch, imagine that the Valentine is the second character.
PS Thank you, again, to all those who helped me with my videos, last night!!!
I wanted to write a story about how an object changes through time according to our perception of it. As you watch, imagine that the Valentine is the second character.
PS Thank you, again, to all those who helped me with my videos, last night!!!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Make up class is ON -- Wednesday 6pm
I got confirmation on our make-up class for this Wednesday, from 6pm to 8pm. I have some things I want to show to keep us on track, but I also want to be able to check in with people in advance of Thursdays "screening".
Update:
I've had to "park" my daughters down at my in-laws, so we'll wrap up more like 7:45. Don't worry, I don't have much to say, it's more about me being there for you guys in advance of tomorrow.
Update:
I've had to "park" my daughters down at my in-laws, so we'll wrap up more like 7:45. Don't worry, I don't have much to say, it's more about me being there for you guys in advance of tomorrow.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Just in case
Hi, in case anyone has recorded footage from the Northeastern Library camera, the movie clips are imported into your computer as .mov files. You will need to use Quicktime > File > Export as ".mp4" file extensions in order to use it in iMovie.
Then use iMovie and go to File > Import movies > (find the .mp4 files)
Then use iMovie and go to File > Import movies > (find the .mp4 files)
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The Ice Book
I was shown this video over the weekend and wanted to share because I think it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen! It's so pretty... and mind-blowing, too! It brings together two mediums in a way I've never seen.
Back on track!
We are back on track for class tonight. Thanks again for everyone's understanding and well wishes.
Our baby arrived late Monday night; we just checked out of the hospital and I'll be getting settled in briefly at home before heading to class.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Reaction for Stan Vanderbeek's art exhibition.
If you have watched The Ring by Gore Verbinski., you could have remembered the storyline about people died by watching a scary video tape. By watching Vanderbeek's films make me feel like I am watching what in that tape in The Ring movie. I don't mean that I feel like I would die within 7 days. But if you remember the story of The Ring, you would know that what in that tape is the memory of the girl in the movie.
To visit an exhibition like this or to watch or to sense this kind of art form which is pretty extremely hard to understand, I think I need to be open that I don't have to understand, I just need to get to know them or just perceive them. It is like to get to know what one person or one artist think. To know what his mind looks like.
So he wrote his mind and his ideas into a movie like the girl in The Ring wrote her memory into the tape. They are both black and white, full of noise, and not continuous.
Also, the very first feeling I got when I entered the Poemfield part was like watching Tron. Not the latest one but 1982 version. Digital computer noisy sound, dark atmosphere, oppressed and uncomfortable feeling is like when you get struck in something small and don't know where to go.
Further, what show on the screens look like the third generation video game or 8 bit era, such as a Famicom.
To visit an exhibition like this or to watch or to sense this kind of art form which is pretty extremely hard to understand, I think I need to be open that I don't have to understand, I just need to get to know them or just perceive them. It is like to get to know what one person or one artist think. To know what his mind looks like.
So he wrote his mind and his ideas into a movie like the girl in The Ring wrote her memory into the tape. They are both black and white, full of noise, and not continuous.
Also, the very first feeling I got when I entered the Poemfield part was like watching Tron. Not the latest one but 1982 version. Digital computer noisy sound, dark atmosphere, oppressed and uncomfortable feeling is like when you get struck in something small and don't know where to go.
Further, what show on the screens look like the third generation video game or 8 bit era, such as a Famicom.
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