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The Dancer Dancer / Voice / Sampling / Sound / Video i'm no good | small space   [ these require the Quicktime plugin ] It might be silly to say that I'm proud of them, but "I'm proud of them." The sounds and images were taken from various video clips and put together with programs and techniques I learned in the month of November. They are huge files compressed to be smaller huge files. It might take years to view, but might I venture to say that it's worth it? Eric Koziol, our very first teacher here at Transmedia, brought in a dancer for us to direct, film, and butcher with programs. I was not expecting to enjoy the process of working with a dancer but was pleased with the result and new experience. (Music Video-esque) I was thinking literal -- the lyrics to Billie Holiday's song, "All of Me" played out by a frustrated dancer moving along to the song. No butchering involved. No bloodshed. No close-croppings. I was preparing myself for a four-minute (an eternity to me in AfterEffects or Final Cut Pro) crappy music video. Then Hein (see face at left), a guy from my class, bless his soul, showed me what he had come up with -- unrecognizable as Billie Holiday to anyone. Forget it being a music video, it was pure experimentation, something I think I might have lost when I figured out what Illustrator and Photoshop could do for me in my world of flat-design. Perhaps I could think outside of my midwestern-turned-bigger-city-cookie-cutter-design-sensibilities...and I gave it a shot. It may sound silly, but it was quite the challenge. No C follows B follows A, but all of them in a blender. .