TMP 3 Final - "Repeat"

"Einstein's Dreams"

Concept for a Final Project

I want to work off of the ideas in my 30-Day-Collection in that with time we grow, everything grows and forms, nothing ever is as it was a hundreds of years or even seconds ago. (ex: The environment of an object changes that changes the object and so on.) Without time nothing would change would be impossible. I want to experiment making an animation similar to the of William Kentridge. I'm very interested in geological time, and drawings of hands. In the animation I want to show something changing with time, obviously, for example: a hand growing, forming, aging, and eventually decaying. I was also interested in, instead, showing the formation of the moon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl1YovaUhgY&NR=1) in this format of animation; draw - capture frame, erasing/redrawing - capture frame...and so on.

30 Day Collection

I made a new design sketch (or a few) everyday to see how many things I could come up with and to watch my personal growth as a drawer and designer.

Body Time & Mechanical Time

I'm debating whether to make and animation or to shoot video

Body Time and Mechanical Time - Story Board

This is a story board for the Einstein's Dreams Project. In this scenario I have a split screen of a person following body time (pictured in the left half of each frame) and a person following mechanical time (right). One uses body time to regulate sleep while the other uses a mechanical clock, he probably would have kept sleeping if it wasn't for this clock.

Worlds of Time

There’s a place where the click…click…click of the second hand’s arm fails to make any sound. Here there is no concept of lateness or delay, everything exists in one continuous moment. Everything is happening at the same time everything ceases to do anything. Everything or nothing can be experienced in this life, this moment, but these experiences do not just present themselves, they must be sought out and made one’s own. The mechanical control of time has never been, and will never be. There is no past, only the present and the space that will soon be this moment, this space isn’t the future only what has already happened, but which has not seen light. Past, present, and future have melded into one system without a beginning or an end. The future is only the past without light. This place is a point without a linear passage. Everything revolves, is layered and is connected, in this point. The concept of tracking movement in space is calculated, only, by the body; the pulsing of the inhabitances’ hearts. There is no lunch time there is no dinner only this moment at which you are hungry and as a result eat. There is no time at which people go to bed, only the feeling of being exhausted and falling asleep.

In other worlds time finds ways to steal the moments that we wish could last for an eternity. Life, in turn, grants us the pleasure of feeling an eternal entrapment in moments of pain, extreme boredom, and discomfort. In other worlds our dreams are over before we can even remember where they took place, while our nightmares drag on in the back of our minds through out the rest of our lives.

None of these are present in this different place, this eternal moment, for time not only stands still but is void. If every thing is still when time stops, then everything must also be in motion, thus allowing anything to happen.

Gnome[an] In Space

Story Board Final

Story Board Draft

The Great Indoors: an audio postcard

click to launch:


All sounds contained is this audio clip contains were recorded indoors.

Audio Postcard Draft

Here is what I have so far:



As far as a pretense, this clip entails a nature scene with rain and wind, with a twist.

Other Sounds

Space


Microwave


Frying the Rain


Play Space right in the middle of Frying the Rain for an interesting combination, I think I will be doing my audio post card based off these two sounds.

My Instrument

The sounds of the instrument:

Music in the Trees: a written audio postcard

One vividly memorable sound that I can recall (in my head) on the spot is the sound of the wind at my families house outside of Battle Creek, MI. It’s not overly windy in this area but the winds can pick up, and when they do it creates an incredible sound engulfing all it encounters. There are various trees around the house, many variety of pines, maples and, most importantly, aspens. The aspen leaves flutter and rattle in the midst of the wind. Just the slightest hint of breeze creates the type of sound you would expect to hear at a calm beach or during a light rain. The constant quake of these trees (where ever I am) takes me home to a state where I can be calm and relaxed. I associate this sound with a clear sky, relaxed day, with a fair temperature; the perfect day. These trees make a sort of white noise you can loose yourself in, one that can take you to a pleasant state of meditation. Every now and then you will be able to hear the faint creaking in a near by trunk of the surrounding trees; not an alarming sound, but instead one that compliments the patter of the leaves. In addition a high pitched whistling can be heard from inside the house on a day like this; the aspens can be heard inside as well. In the fall the sound of the leaves scraping along the cement joins in the orchestra and helps create one of the most astonishing sounds if you actually take the time to become an active listener to the music of the forest.

Telling Time

From Ryan Thurmer:

TELLING TIME:
In Nature
-position of the sun
-temperature of the air or surfaces
-color of the sky
-cast shadows
-tides
-geological strata layers/fossils
-hunger

Man Made Systems
-amount of traffic/parking
-amount of street noise, and what type of noise
-a flip through a photograph album

Haiku
Shadows mountains moons
and sands the color of the
sky says more then hi.