Supermoon--

My friend invited me to watch the Super Moon on March 19th , and he told me a legend of Super Moon, he said the wolf man will come out on that day, human will feel different either spiritually or physically. I don’t believe the legend of wolf man but I feel upset and anxious on that day. So I decide to make a short video to express my feeling and my fear.

On March 19, 2011, the moon will be 3,56,577km away from the earth, its closest in 18 years. Its called Super Moon.
On that day, A handsome guy named Nathan is watching a movie < Wolf man>, he is very concentrated with the plot and imaging him self “changed” the same as the main character in the movie.
He is eating chips and ice cream when he is enjoying the movie. It is a horror movie , the music is creepy and the scenes are horrible, sometimes he feels not well and he can feel him self changing. After he say : oh my god, I feel puff up ! Then he become a fat guy.

Our Web, Our Growth.

Everything in existence has a beginning and an end. Whether they are living beings or inanimate objects, there are remnants left behind when we disappear from our sight. Although I have never been a fan of abstract art and usually take a literal approach to design, I feel more obligated to design something that has a cultural meaning and makes an impact on not only me, but life in general. This piece is not meant to be personal to me, but more of a personal message of how I view the world.

Our emotions, physical beings, and surroundings all start off as a clean slate. It's hard to imagine the theory of evolution bringing mankind so far from where it once was. Single-celled organisms...an Earth before technology existed...life before music...This is what I had in mind when starting the composition with a clean, white canvas. However, as time passes, the composition begins added random elements onto the canvas. They are random, and uncontrollable after their appearance.

The first piece, titled "Our Web", is a piece that starts on the pure canvas. Soon the first dot appears, and begins floating around aimlessly within the alotted area leaving behind a trail behind it. The trail is representative of many things: the materialistic and physical things that human beings leave behind, the emotional growth and connections we've established, and the seemingly growing number of people who contribute to it.

The second piece, titled "Our Growth", is the second piece that starts on a blank canvas. The random paint splashes in multiple colors build on top of each other, never allowing itself to go back to the initial pure clean state. It is about both the physical and emotional growth of us being individuals. Ultimately, we become the whole or sum of all these experiences which is what each individual paint splash represents.

The inspiration for this mini collection is from the need to leave my own mark in the world; I've often contemplated what happens to us after death and the impact we create in society. I wanted to create something that was abstract and expressed a theme with something beyond me as an individual.

I intend to showcase this piece on interfacing white long hallways (in an art gallery). The multiple display throughout the long hallway will show the random effect and be aesthetically pleasing. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations, I had to add in a reset timer to clean the entire canvas for both pieces so that the additional shapes would not crash the computer

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.

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

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.