For the final

Here are just a couple more examples of artists who deal with narrative:

1.  This is Michael Robinson.  His work is based in pop culture and dystopia.  It's bananas.
http://vimeo.com/8723551

2.  This is Jeff Wall.  The video is a little slow  but I think it is worth it once you get to the end.  There's no surprise at the end, it just gives a nice idea as a whole of the way he works:

Finally here is an article with the Color of Money dealing with the beginning of the Scorcese film.  It's really good:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-color-of-money,39207/

Now to celebrate, let's enjoy some of the laziest drumming in indie rock:

Making the most of chance

With this last micro project take a chance and do something totally unfamiliar to you.  Often, the results will be totally surprising.  Today we watched videos on Tim Hawkinson, Sarah Sze and this video with Tim Smith, Britteny Denham and George Gregory: http://vimeo.com/27056964.


As a couple of extra things, here is a video about the husband/wife duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/allora-calzadilla


And here is another video with Corey Aumiller and Drew Jones in Thompson:
http://vimeo.com/26749220


Now to celebrate let's watch Joke Lanz do some of the weirdest things on the internet (this is all his voice manipulated through effects pedals and a contact mic–I've seen him perform before and it is totally insane):

Cartoons and what they can do

Here are just a couple of examples if you are having a hard time getting started with project 5.
This is a video by William Kentridge who creates animations by drawing and erasing on the same piece of paper, again and again:
http://www.ubu.com/film/kentridge_stereoscope.html

Here is the art 21 short film on him:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/william-kentridge

And here is a class project that used the rotoscoping technique to create an animation to a Girl Talk concert.  You can dance too, its ok:

Yeah us!