:: MU51C C0LL4B ::

Monday, February 28th, my roommate Julie [BFA 3 composer at CalArts] had an Undergraduate recital, and as the opening show, she had my other roommate, Christy Heyob and I paint on paper over a canvas that reflected our subconscious mood on the impromtu musical graphic noted piece titled Air Loom.  A minute excerpt can be heard here [the full piece is around 12 minutes and is never exactly the same].  Awesome job guys~

Composer:  Julie Assaf [Second Photo, Distant Left]
Marimba:  Tony Gennaro [Center]
Flute:  Christine Linza [Left]
Vocals:  Amanda Adrian [Right]
Painters:  Jessica A.M. Chen [aka JACONNI, unfeatured], and Christy Heyob [Second Photo, Right most]

This is sound check:

I painted on the left easel:

My interpretation.  Air sounds like spinning wheels and spokes to me.  I call this Abstract pinwheels:

This is Christy's complete 180 painting.  Full color, swirly, and soft.  I call it Beauty from Hatred.  I told her:  "We should decorate the walls of our place with these!"  She replied,  "You can; I'm going to decorate mine with the garbage."  I now own the painting.  :]

:: P3R5P3C71V3 ::

Haven't posted in a while...  Been busy with Thesis [see Healing of Snow].  These are from my Perspective class with Dan Hansen.  From one-point to two, our themes have ranged from mice getting into bed, and a person on a wheel-less skateboard with a robot and hard drive.  I created this character after reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash; she rules the cyberpunk air with her stainless steel courier board.  More to come soon~ XD

:: PR4C71CUM 2O11 ::

Colette Fu joined CalArts Experimental Animation for 6 classes in a 2 week span.  We learned the basics of pop-up book engineering, and for the next week or more, were to optionally create something based on what we learned  [see HERE for a scene from my upcoming MFA Thesis, Healing of Snow].  Below is a pull-tab mechanism [the arm / hand waves!]:

::BL4D3 RUNN3R::

Shot studies--value and lighting.

H4N53L + GR373L = p4r7 V

Final renders:

F4LL 2o1o

Back at CalArts as an MFA2, and already it's whizzing by like an unstoppable time stream.  Lots of things happened in the Summer, and lots of things are happening now.  What's been on my mind?  THESIS x 1000.  These was a story I came up with the help of a classmate, drawing from two brown bags:  BIRDS and FLYING MACHINE.  My concepts:

NEVERLAND X

A tee design that never got printed.  Was fun to draw.  Wrist hurt like crap afterwards though, after 2 hours of rendering.