Projek Iaght™ (Database Film)

It's a short digital film I made with the help of my students. I asked them to do image searches on Google or Flickr for words like graffiti, body art, party, hiphop, kromp, iaght, street, hood, gangsta, DJ, skateboard, cool, punk, etc. They each grabbed 300 images per word and made 10-second video clips that I edited together. Each frame of this film is a different image. At 30 images per second, that's about 6,300 images. The soundtrack is a series of microsongs - pop songs I compressed in time so each one is five seconds, and I added some additional vocal and electronic elements.

Available on Amazon ( http://www.badmindtime.com/amazon ) on my DVD, "Triage". Other projects at http://www.skyron.org and on iTunes ( http://itunes.badmindtime.com ), plus check out the quintessential YouTube videowall at http://videowall.nfshost.com/ .

(Notes - 1. if film stops, let it all load first. I meant for it to play straight through. - 2. the low-rez version of this film I uploaded to YouTube a couple of years ago has gotten over 1,000 view, mostly from Germany- - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Vj7rH90ds - 3. If you've read 'Infinite Jest' by David Foster Wallace, you might have a special insight into one of the literary sources of 'inspiration' for this project - - although I'm not really an 'inspiration' type of guy.)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• digital art film
• database
• search art
• microsong
• graffiti
• body art
• tatoo
• party
• hiphop
• kromp
• iaght
• street
• hood
• gangsta
• DJ
• skateboard
• cool
• punk
• pimp
• laser
• internet art
• database art
• experimental
• Bargsten
• Joey Bargsten
• SkyRon
• Skynard Ronstein
• FAU
• iTunes
• meme
• media experimental ensemble