Breathe The Scene

Second semester of Freshman year was a bit different than the first semester. It was split up into three periods in which we took five week long workshops. My first was with Brett Reif in titled 'Arting the Find, Finding the Art" which was about making found object art and recontextualizing objects to create meaning. My second course was with Maria Creytes called "Polished Primitive" which was a ceramics class in which we had to polish the pots by hand before we put them in the fire to be cured. And my final class was with Trina Cooper. It was supposed to be a class on Max MSP and Jitter but it ended up being a video installation class instead. It became my first exposure to Adobe After effects. Here is a picture of the rough story board and pictures of the final setup of the installation and of coarse the video itself, please excuse the terrible quality, I had to rip it off of myspace due to some data mishaps.

The Best Day Ever

Then I went to college at the Kansas City Art Institute. The first year at this school is a general studies curriculum in which you work on projects in an array of different mediums, styles, and methods. I was lucky enough to have Nathan Fox for my first semester. He had us working on all kinds of mind numbing projects that really whipped me into shape. Towards the end of the semester he hosted a 24 hour comics day in which my entire class was locked in our studio with the intention to create comics for the whole 24 hours. I made a comic or two and this flip book. It was really a rewarding experience and I would never trade my freshman year at KCAI for anything.