DJ Spooky

25Apr08

DJ Spooky’s “Re-Birth of a Nation” he adds music and video to D.W. Griffth’s film “The Birth of a Nation.” I was excited! This is a world-reknowned DJ and he’s here in Richmond showing US his newest project. He’s taking the past, plugging it in the future, and commenting on our socio-political structure. I’ve [...]

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first video EVER!!

25Apr08

It’s hard to specify what the focus of my piece is. I didn’t have a specific narrative to go along with it so much as I wanted to play with rhythm and imagery.
 
The piece begins with me opening up, trying to explain to the audience what the movie is about. But my own emotionally-unstable state [...]

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4/3/08 readings

03Apr08

1. Levine and Peacock stress that one must look at technology in a broader sense in order to make it seem like less of a commodity art form while Lucas chooses to look at techonology as something that is controlling us (while asking us how we use it to our advancement in the end). Considering [...]

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Project Dos

01Apr08

 So, I know, I’m in a sorority but when I saw the works of that artist Jeremy showed in class but I can’t remember right now, I wanted to take my work in that direction. The most “LA” party scene I could think of was rush where everything is seems bright, fun and exciting when [...]

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