Hey everyone-
Well, as we all know the semester is coming to an end with a lot of work still to finish.
We have less then a month to wrap it all up and I need to edit two videos for Leslie's class before then end of the semester. The first video is going to be a mini-new clip that talks abou the ground breaking for Grip River's new Town Hall and the second will be editing my State of the Town Address from my opening from Cactus last week.
The ground breaking will have Mira (hopefully) do the voice over for the clip and create a "Grip River News" logo and text and use that for the show in May at the down town campus.
The Town Address will require me to create some opening imagery on the computer, cut out the vocals, and lay them over a power point presentation. When that is completed I will probably do some ending credits to thank the friends of mine who helped me at the opening (Connie, Lusia, Jayne, etc.).
Thats it from Fort Worth, TX (went home for probably the second time this semester).
Later!
Ian
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Monday, April 9, 2007
Opening at Cactus on Friday, April 6th
Okay...
The opening didn't go quite as planned, but it went all the same. Spent last Thursday day (and night) installing the work and putting up wall info as well as attend the UTSA grad show "Mo + PoMo" which was great. I ended up having a mini-opening that night since so many of the faculty were not coming out on First Friday. I got some great responses from everyone and it was fun.... but I still had a lot of work to do for Friday.
I stayed up late (as usual) and edited my resume and put things in order before I went to bed. I got up early on Friday so I could resize my images for my power point presentation for the show, pick up the food, my suite, buy a shovel for my neighbor Charlie (since I put his in the show), and had to meet my other neighbor Joie at his how to load up the sound equipment and take it to Cactus.
Well... needless to day we got it all up and working at the buzzer (6 pm) and we waited for the sound portion/power point to start. I ended up enlisting some help from some of my citizens (Connie Swann and Jayne Lawrence) to help get the projector in place before I made my entrance.
I got a lot of strange questions from the crowed, but I feel that I fielded them well considering. Today I hope to burn the performance (video taped by Luisa Wheeler) onto a DVD so I can put it into Cactus so people can come by and view it.
I am going to try to work on some video editing in peroration for the viewing at the UTSA Downtown campus for early May and work on my skills for the Barcelona class.
That’s all for now folks.... for now!
Ian O'Brien
Mayor of Grip River
The opening didn't go quite as planned, but it went all the same. Spent last Thursday day (and night) installing the work and putting up wall info as well as attend the UTSA grad show "Mo + PoMo" which was great. I ended up having a mini-opening that night since so many of the faculty were not coming out on First Friday. I got some great responses from everyone and it was fun.... but I still had a lot of work to do for Friday.
I stayed up late (as usual) and edited my resume and put things in order before I went to bed. I got up early on Friday so I could resize my images for my power point presentation for the show, pick up the food, my suite, buy a shovel for my neighbor Charlie (since I put his in the show), and had to meet my other neighbor Joie at his how to load up the sound equipment and take it to Cactus.
Well... needless to day we got it all up and working at the buzzer (6 pm) and we waited for the sound portion/power point to start. I ended up enlisting some help from some of my citizens (Connie Swann and Jayne Lawrence) to help get the projector in place before I made my entrance.
I got a lot of strange questions from the crowed, but I feel that I fielded them well considering. Today I hope to burn the performance (video taped by Luisa Wheeler) onto a DVD so I can put it into Cactus so people can come by and view it.
I am going to try to work on some video editing in peroration for the viewing at the UTSA Downtown campus for early May and work on my skills for the Barcelona class.
That’s all for now folks.... for now!
Ian O'Brien
Mayor of Grip River
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Its Almost Show Time!
Its Almost Show Time!
Ian O'Brien: Under Construction at Cactus Bra Space is underway... but there is a lot left to be done!
My neighbor and I created some audio to star off the performance portion of my exhibition. We laid down ambient crowd noise to be pumped in from the back room with various "announcements" dropped in to the audio track with a "Mayoral Introduction" at the end of it.
I have been working on and editing the photographs that I will print off for the exhibition (Thanks to Young and Luisa) and I have cleaned up the frames as well as picked up everything that I need to frame them! The plan is to go in and print them on Monday or Tuesday and frame them along with my drawing that will be installed on Wednesday along with the artifacts (shovel and helmet).
I am going to continue to work on the Town History and the Power Point Presentation that I will use for the opening. I hope to have a dry run of it on Tuesday afternoon during Connie Lowe's painting class (12-3). I would appreciate any and all feedback on the presentation so I can make any last minute changes before the opening on Friday!
I hope everyone had an equally productive weekend and I will see on Monday at 11 AM!
Ian
Also go check out Glasstire... the listed th show and I love the pic!
Ian O'Brien: Under Construction at Cactus Bra Space is underway... but there is a lot left to be done!
My neighbor and I created some audio to star off the performance portion of my exhibition. We laid down ambient crowd noise to be pumped in from the back room with various "announcements" dropped in to the audio track with a "Mayoral Introduction" at the end of it.
I have been working on and editing the photographs that I will print off for the exhibition (Thanks to Young and Luisa) and I have cleaned up the frames as well as picked up everything that I need to frame them! The plan is to go in and print them on Monday or Tuesday and frame them along with my drawing that will be installed on Wednesday along with the artifacts (shovel and helmet).
I am going to continue to work on the Town History and the Power Point Presentation that I will use for the opening. I hope to have a dry run of it on Tuesday afternoon during Connie Lowe's painting class (12-3). I would appreciate any and all feedback on the presentation so I can make any last minute changes before the opening on Friday!
I hope everyone had an equally productive weekend and I will see on Monday at 11 AM!
Ian
Also go check out Glasstire... the listed th show and I love the pic!
Saturday, March 24, 2007
News Article and Town History... and Photoshop!
Town of Grip River is underway and I have been working on additional content for the opening and the website. I have finished photoshoping the new Town Hall built into a construction site and with a truck, signs, and equipment around it. The picture is going to be added to the index page and the Town Hall Map.
I have started building the Court House that I will place in the show along with the Town Hall model. I will photoshop the Court House into another landscape after my opening on April 6th (since I am proposing its construction at the opening).
I have also written out a News article about the Ground Breaking ceremony in Word that will be added to the website next week. I also wrote out a short article informing the public about the opening on at Cactus Bra on April 6th.
Tonight I am going over to my neighbor's house after gallery siting to discuss the music I want to use for my performance. We will edit some big brass band music and put it on his iPod that will be pumped through sound equipment at the show.
Sunday I will start move into a new studio space, work on my speech/performance for the opening, and sketch out the power point presentation that will accompany the performance (I plan on having the speech and power point presentation completed by Wednesday of next week).
I have started building the Court House that I will place in the show along with the Town Hall model. I will photoshop the Court House into another landscape after my opening on April 6th (since I am proposing its construction at the opening).
I have also written out a News article about the Ground Breaking ceremony in Word that will be added to the website next week. I also wrote out a short article informing the public about the opening on at Cactus Bra on April 6th.
Tonight I am going over to my neighbor's house after gallery siting to discuss the music I want to use for my performance. We will edit some big brass band music and put it on his iPod that will be pumped through sound equipment at the show.
Sunday I will start move into a new studio space, work on my speech/performance for the opening, and sketch out the power point presentation that will accompany the performance (I plan on having the speech and power point presentation completed by Wednesday of next week).
Monday, March 19, 2007
It takes a whole villiage....
Town of Grip River update!
Well, the site is up and running with working email addresses and some cool page holders (a lot of the pages will get updated after the opening on April 6th... man-o-man it is getting close.
Luisa, Young, Erin, Mira, Vicki, and I shot the ground breaking last weekend and the pictures look great. I am still deciding which one I am going to use for the show... but I hope to make that choice by tonight. I have been working a lot with photo shop the last week and I have created a page holder and I am almost finished with another "altered landscape" for the site. I haven't decided if I am going to blow one of them up for the show or just leave it on the website... we will see how it looks when it is done.
I also got some video from the ground breaking that I plan on editing into news footage after the opening and placing on the website. I was able to go home for a few days and I picked up some frames for the photographs and drawings that will look great (a friend and I built them when I was in undergrad out of house molding... good stuff good stuff).
Well, that’s all for now.
Ian
Well, the site is up and running with working email addresses and some cool page holders (a lot of the pages will get updated after the opening on April 6th... man-o-man it is getting close.
Luisa, Young, Erin, Mira, Vicki, and I shot the ground breaking last weekend and the pictures look great. I am still deciding which one I am going to use for the show... but I hope to make that choice by tonight. I have been working a lot with photo shop the last week and I have created a page holder and I am almost finished with another "altered landscape" for the site. I haven't decided if I am going to blow one of them up for the show or just leave it on the website... we will see how it looks when it is done.
I also got some video from the ground breaking that I plan on editing into news footage after the opening and placing on the website. I was able to go home for a few days and I picked up some frames for the photographs and drawings that will look great (a friend and I built them when I was in undergrad out of house molding... good stuff good stuff).
Well, that’s all for now.
Ian
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Website... How I hate The (well... actually my computer)!
Working on the Website -
I preparation for my up coming exhibition at Cactu Bra Space in San Antonio, TX I am creating a website to post information about my town, Grip River. Over the past week to week-and-a-half I have been playing around with different web page building programs. Friday I decided to go with a program that I used a lot in undergrad to build websites, Microsoft Front Page.
I purchased Front Page as well as a comprehensive manual to help me with any problems I would face (and man... did I have problems). I worked on the website all day Friday until the late hours of the night (or early morning I forget) and drove to Austin Saturday morning with CPU in hand to work on it at my friend's apartment over the weekend.
Saturday was filled with frustration, but I was making head way and getting a lot of pages laid out with help from my friend. I went to upload the site and found out that the host site hadn't up loaded the directory like they told me they would (on Tuesday)... so now I have to wait 72 hours before I can post it on the web.
Then... just as I finished laying out the index page, template, and other pages that only needing links to complete them, my computer completely crashed on me! I was trying to get some Adobe updates when my Windows registry got corrupted! Instead of being able to site back and relax for a job well done I am scrambling to re-format my computer and pray that I can pull the work off the hard drive when I install Windows in a second folder... no luck... it was gone!
All that work this weekend waisted and I was forced to spend my Sunday running updates and installing software on my computer. Hopefully by next weekend I can have the website up and running before Spring Break hits.
I hope everyone had a more "productive" weekend then I did and certainly a less stressful one!
Ian
I preparation for my up coming exhibition at Cactu Bra Space in San Antonio, TX I am creating a website to post information about my town, Grip River. Over the past week to week-and-a-half I have been playing around with different web page building programs. Friday I decided to go with a program that I used a lot in undergrad to build websites, Microsoft Front Page.
I purchased Front Page as well as a comprehensive manual to help me with any problems I would face (and man... did I have problems). I worked on the website all day Friday until the late hours of the night (or early morning I forget) and drove to Austin Saturday morning with CPU in hand to work on it at my friend's apartment over the weekend.
Saturday was filled with frustration, but I was making head way and getting a lot of pages laid out with help from my friend. I went to upload the site and found out that the host site hadn't up loaded the directory like they told me they would (on Tuesday)... so now I have to wait 72 hours before I can post it on the web.
Then... just as I finished laying out the index page, template, and other pages that only needing links to complete them, my computer completely crashed on me! I was trying to get some Adobe updates when my Windows registry got corrupted! Instead of being able to site back and relax for a job well done I am scrambling to re-format my computer and pray that I can pull the work off the hard drive when I install Windows in a second folder... no luck... it was gone!
All that work this weekend waisted and I was forced to spend my Sunday running updates and installing software on my computer. Hopefully by next weekend I can have the website up and running before Spring Break hits.
I hope everyone had a more "productive" weekend then I did and certainly a less stressful one!
Ian
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