Still Motion

 

Photograph from Still Motion

Motion has been depicted in various ways in art, mostly through blur and photography.  This study intends to explore motion through digital photography and the associated technologies available by merging images and therefore creating motion in Photoshop.  
Motion has always been of interest to me and I wanted to share that interest with others in a more memorable way than film or blur photography.  I did this by merging images in Photoshop and juxtapositioning them with stills in my study entitled Still Motion.  I feel the full bleed for the Photoshopped images was effective when paired with the cropped stills in the final book copy, although when continuing this project, I intend to take pictures at a wider angle so there can be a more uniform bleed.   
The way the cover turned out in the preview looks a lot better than I ever could have imagined it without giving the entire idea away, largely in part due to the intense motion on the cover. I do believe that Blurb and Booksmart were so incredibly easy to use, which made this project really awesome, because it allowed for easy editing, easy viewing, and easy ordering (because it was already compatible)
This work even has some aspect of relational aesthetics.  When photographing my subjects, I asked them to do something they like to do that involves motion.  A few of them heard about it and offered more suggestions of things they would want to do.  In a sense, my subjects created the setting as well as the motion.  I merely captured it for the world to see.

Screen Relations

Bourriard's idea that the technology of today effects artists who don't use it.  It causes art to be created in a much shorter amount of time as has been stressed quite often in class.  I think this is entirely true.  I almost wanted to do my video in a low quality film because it would have given it that "old timey" feel that I ended up really wanting, but didn't think the video effects could get right.  Looking back on my approach, using all real props and settings of my grandmother's in the video, What Wouldn't Have Been, was incredibly effective.  When this mixed with the sound that I collaborated with my soundscape artists on it became even better.  Part of me wants to go back and create it in real film, but another part of me realizes the nice soundtrack I have couldn't possibly go with a film version of this movie and it is almost Bourriard's ideas of screen relations screaming at me.  The video just wouldn't be the same without the soundtrack, a soundtrack I know that I couldn't have come up with on my own.
(Due to technical difficulties, youtube video will be posted later.  The technical difficulties are apparently trying to get the point across that you should come to the Warch Campus Center Cinema (2nd floor) at 7pm tonight March 5, 2012 in order to view this video and those of my fellow classmates on the big screen)

Edit: As you can all probably tell my video has uploaded to YouTube