Friday, December 18, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
flash buttons getURL
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/memorial2.zip
only a few minor tweaks. mostly boring all in all....
only a few minor tweaks. mostly boring all in all....
Monday, November 23, 2009
Short story flash buttons
I did this animation in response to the teddy short story. I uploaded .html .fla and .swf as I wasn't sure which was proper.
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/short.fla
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/short.html
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/short.swf
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/short.fla
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/short.html
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/short.swf
Monday, November 9, 2009
30second animation
This ended up being about 2 minutes, its somewhat grating on the eyes too. The music is called Art by Modeselektor.
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/imaniversion1.html
http://aferriss.googlepages.com/imaniversion1.html
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
weird problem.
For whatever reason blogger doesn't allow you to upload files other than images and video so if you just copy paste the link it should download. Sorry for the hassle
Monday, September 14, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
three inspirations
Below is a photograph by William Christenberry, I believe titled "Red Barn". His images of southern architecture, or vernacular were my inspiration for a number of photographs I took during my junior year at MICA. He photographs always straight on and returns year after year to take the picture from the same vantage point even when the buildings may have been completely covered in kudzu or fallen down. While I don't have 20 years yet to embark on this kind of project I love his perception of time and the way the return voyage allows us to see it.
Hiroshi Sugimoto's long exposure images of entire movies are of a similar vein. We see in one single instance the combination of an entire film. The film becomes completely blown out white and the residual light illuminates the theater. Sugimoto's perception and tricks of film and time I find incredibly alluring.
The third image is from a series titles "Deep South" by Sally Mann. She uses the wet collodion process to create her photographs coupled with broken cameras and a complete lack of interest in crispness or clarity. There is something beautiful in allowing the chaos to reclaim the photograph. She intentionally develops her prints poorly in order to allow room for chance accidents. I found her photos to be liberating to me in this way, but wish I had the capabilities to use her process (It's kind of toxic/flammable).
Hiroshi Sugimoto's long exposure images of entire movies are of a similar vein. We see in one single instance the combination of an entire film. The film becomes completely blown out white and the residual light illuminates the theater. Sugimoto's perception and tricks of film and time I find incredibly alluring.
The third image is from a series titles "Deep South" by Sally Mann. She uses the wet collodion process to create her photographs coupled with broken cameras and a complete lack of interest in crispness or clarity. There is something beautiful in allowing the chaos to reclaim the photograph. She intentionally develops her prints poorly in order to allow room for chance accidents. I found her photos to be liberating to me in this way, but wish I had the capabilities to use her process (It's kind of toxic/flammable).
3 things and 3 things
These three are my images from some of my past semesters. The first image of the power station is from a project I was doing on a small town called Port Deposit. The electrical stuff belongs is part of the Conowingo hydro-electric dam which occasionally releases too much water and floods the small town, which resides right on the river side. I suppose it was inspired by a more documentarian purpose than an artful one.
This second one is the chimney that remained after a house burned down, supposedly due to arson. It was one of the first images I took with a large format camera that turned out ok. At the time I was very interested in William Christenberry and his style of shooting things straight on, though he generally works in color. I was also trying to capture something with a more southern theme and felt impressed by the resilience of the chimney. I would have liked to have taken this in color and included the whole thing in the shot, rather than cropping off the top.
More recently I've gotten my hands on a 5x7 view camera and haven't quite fixed it yet. But while its got copious light leaks, it turns out some quite mysterious images. This was sort of a tangent to the earlier project on Port Deposit. While researching the town I found out about an old naval training facility used during WWII and closed shortly thereafter. All the buildings still stand in their southern gothic brick glory in quite decent condition, despite having been abandoned 50 plus odd years. Trying to emulate some Sally Mann type things with this one. I think it comes through quite well. These are the gears that control the bell in the belfry way up in the top of one of the buildings. The dirty photograph has much more appeal to me than the crisp one.
This second one is the chimney that remained after a house burned down, supposedly due to arson. It was one of the first images I took with a large format camera that turned out ok. At the time I was very interested in William Christenberry and his style of shooting things straight on, though he generally works in color. I was also trying to capture something with a more southern theme and felt impressed by the resilience of the chimney. I would have liked to have taken this in color and included the whole thing in the shot, rather than cropping off the top.
More recently I've gotten my hands on a 5x7 view camera and haven't quite fixed it yet. But while its got copious light leaks, it turns out some quite mysterious images. This was sort of a tangent to the earlier project on Port Deposit. While researching the town I found out about an old naval training facility used during WWII and closed shortly thereafter. All the buildings still stand in their southern gothic brick glory in quite decent condition, despite having been abandoned 50 plus odd years. Trying to emulate some Sally Mann type things with this one. I think it comes through quite well. These are the gears that control the bell in the belfry way up in the top of one of the buildings. The dirty photograph has much more appeal to me than the crisp one.
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