Sunday, 20 November 2011

Throwback- Fishman

So this has become somewhat of a joke around the Integrated Media (INTM) department incase you weren't aware...This was originally an assignment for Non-Traditional Art class in high school. This was  Fishman's second appearance in a work, the first being in a collaborative comic strip with Sam Rosenberg, where animal-human hybrids lived in a world fueled by Wu-Tang...or something of that sort (Sam wrote it, I Illustrated it) The idea was to incorporate serialism in our work and I did this by showing specific parts of Fishman (eye>foot>hand>mouth) in a specific order repeatedly. The cutaways were too rushed so other then the main walkcycle of Fishman's whole body I didn't like it. I ended up chopping up the video and just using the Fishman loop as a screen saver. Then last year in Hybrid Media Lab we needed some footage to remix with a MaxMsp patch Daniel masterminded so I submitted Fishman. Dan loved Fishman and borrowed him for one of his later patches in the course, and I continued to incorporate Fishman into every assignment till the end of the course. Fishman even made it only Bentley Jarvis' computer and he would use Fishman for his demos; Bentley even mused about him being the INTM mascot. I think everyone in my department is probably getting sick of Fishman other then a few loyal followers whom cheered as he came onto the projector in between other student work at this years INTM halloween social. Anyways, if your reading this thus far, your also probably aware that I'm rehashing this idea because I've become absolutely uncreative/uninspired as of late. FISHMAN; EVOLUTION is coming soon...also with some colour hopfully and sound this time, so it will be more experiments, and I'm really out of practice so its been quite challenging, I just hope the motion looks as it does in my head...anyways these rambling intros have become a theme on this blog but I would hope if the few of you that care to read this would find all these shenanigans going on this my head amusing while I continue to procrastinate...Fishman is a blessing and a curse becoming a joke himself, and making me into one...haha

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