Category: Student Work

7 in 7: Day 3: Wash Away

For this piece I gave myself 2 hours to work on, I also wanted it to be related to the folk song “Down in the River to Pray”.   In some of my past pieces I have explored Appalachian folk music. The song “Down in the River to Pray”, is about washing away your sins. …

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Day 3: 7-in-7

For the third day I continued with my theme of mapping, this time by mapping motion.  I tried to act as sort of a human seismograph, holding a pen on a piece of paper during certain parts of my commute- when I was walking, riding the subway, riding the railroad, and as a passenger in …

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day 3 7in7 project

Video My thrid project is just simply and sort of gernerically called “The Installation” I created a life sized representation of a original mixed media piece. The piece itself is heavy with a political and socio-economic visual language. The main component of the piece is actualy the engagement of the “public” or DT and TD …

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7 in 7 Project# 3: Jedi Tennis for Lucasfilms (Gesture Recognition Game)

Goal: A chance to actually use a toy— lightsaber in a more interesting way.  Waving it around to hear that wooshing sound and impaling each other with the plastic version isn’t really all that fun.  There needs to be an evolution on this particular product even though it’s a novelty item. Inspiration: U.S. Open, Baseball, …

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2nd of 7in7

So I actually created a crude very rough version of the website but my server is having some issues now…so I uploaded some screen shots. When my hosting issue is fix will post site. http://morehousemaleinitiative.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/aa-male-cause-of-death2.pdf The ID’s are randomly generated by the system but basically it assigns every user a statistic related to the black …

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day2 project(7 in 7)

  my day 2 project is another song I composed last night. The constrain: emotions. I planed to use different medias (music or something else) to describe and demonstrate 7 different kinds of emotions. In this project, the emotion is fear. BUT this song sounds not horrible and scared, the inspiration is from the hurricane …

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re-design social network presentation

redesign facebook

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2 Compose a song

Unfungames.com released a MacOs version for the Mario Pain Composer. This brings back many memories. My constraints were to compose a sound piece, and I remembered I had seen the MPC release, so I used this tool for my composition.

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7 in 7: Day 2: You Are Love

My constraint for this project was to finish it before my photoshop demo expired. :-C but my real constraint was to create an interactive piece that would provoke a happy emotion in people.   This piece is a website, “youarelove.com” , when you get to the page it would access the viewers computer camera. From …

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7in7 – 3 [Blues]

I felt very bluesy yesterday. It was this melancholic feeling of confusion that I’m hoping will go away during the weekend. I recorded some sounds in the class while Jonah was showing us examples. credits: the chord progression is inspired by {Jewel : Foolish Games} 7in7-3

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