This interdisciplinary seminar uses creativity as an organizing principle. Human culture and consciousness are explored through reading, writing, the arts, projects, studios, and discussions. An emphasis will be placed the cultural artifact know as the movies or film or the cinema or motion pictures or flicks or history written in lighting, etc. Students will explore the basic building blocks of this cultural phenomenon, business giant, and central art form of the twentieth century.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Wimp.com
There is a website called wimp.com that simply posts interesting videos for people to watch. It shows videos from lectures at TED conferences to people sculpting a bust from clay. There is a particular video on the website of mountain bikers riding a trail they have made through the woods. The trail is full of twists and turns and the video is really cool. I am not sure how many cameras they used in the making of the video, but there are multiple angles, awesome shots of them flying through the air, and it is perfectly timed to the music. It is amazing what people are able to produce on their own. Not only is the trail an amazing creation, but the video is as well. The lighting is darker which gives the woods a magical feel with parts of the sun coming through the tree tops. The camera must be of good quality since it is so clear, but I do not think it is professionally done. It is truly amazing the way it is edited to show the best parts of the trail, using close ups, long shots, and anything in between. The video is exciting and also beautiful to watch.
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