Submitted by jepsen on Thursday, May 4, 2006 - 12:39

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I seem to be on a Dostoevsky kick lately, so for my video collage I will probably be focusing on him. From what I know, it would be good to talk about him in relation to other writers of his era. Also, the literary aspect would be easy to talk about. What, with him being the author or Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov, and all. Books some people may have heard of.

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Submitted by jepsen on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 01:59

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here's another one everybody's probably already seen, but it's worth seeing again regardless.

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Submitted by jepsen on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 01:48

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This is one you all have probably seen. Not exactly an amateur-shot video, it still makes me laugh...but not as much as this one does. Is it wrong to find that ridiculously amusing? The best part is how the anchors in the last few seconds of the clip can't keep from smirking. Comedy gold.

Watch it. You'll laugh, too. Just wait and see.

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Submitted by jepsen on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 02:13

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For my paper, I intend to explore to what effect the Coen Brothers use color and contrast in their films, specifically Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou.

The use of color and contrast is of predominent import in the two films, especially in the relation between character and setting. In one case, according to the cinematographer, locations for Fargo were picked based on how plain they looked. Watching scenes where a lone character stands in this expansive field of white snow, it's easy to see the cold world the Coen Brothers sought to convey.

Just the opposite, in O Brother, Where Art Thou, the character fill the scenes, rather than simply occupy them. Whereas the characters in Fargo are apart from their environments, the characters in O Brother inhabit and become part of the setting.

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Submitted by jepsen on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 01:55

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Tomorrow morning, Wednesday, April 5, 2006, at two minutes and three seconds
after 1:00 a.m., the time and date will be

01:02:03 04/05/06

This will never happen again.

The last time something similar happened was Friday, March 3, 2001, 5 minutes and 4 seconds after 6 a.m., or 6:05:04 03/02/01.

That also won't be repeated

Also, I'll be turning 22 on the 6th of June, 2006. 6/6/06.

That's it. Go nuts.

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Submitted by jepsen on Saturday, April 1, 2006 - 04:33

final portfolio

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Right then. Here is what I've worked on so far in this class. I've enjoyed being able to stretch my creative legs in manners other than simply writing. I find it interesting to explore other means of expression to see how they tie with and affect related works of literature. That aside, onto business.

-Annotated Playlist-

I was very pleased when we were assigned this as a task. Making playlists is something I've spent many hours doing in leu of homework. I'd never tried to tie all my songs together with a pervading theme, so I was up for this new challenge. Unfortunately, I decided to go with the theme of a relationship, conveying the beginning through the end. Despite being riddled with cliches, this provided me the opportunity to explore a general progression of emotions from song to song. It was even more enjoyable to do the playlist podcast, where I was able to emote more to an interesting effect.

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Submitted by jepsen on Friday, March 31, 2006 - 16:43

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Thinking more about the mix of music and pictures, I remembered how spending so much time making a playlist and putting it in a specific order will affect the way you perceive a song. If you listen to an album, then you come to associate a song with the order it is in the album, as well as what comes before and after it. This new mix of songs, however, can change completely how a person would interpret the song.

That is to say, if you listen to a specific playlist and you take a liking to a particular song, then you won't look at it the same way in the context of the original album.

Of course, this context of how one associates a song is a vast topic.

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Submitted by jepsen on Friday, March 31, 2006 - 14:03

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I don't know if anyone else caught the cd release party of the band The Never, but it was highly enjoyable. The band calls their album, Antarctica, a "storybook record," which is fitting because it meshes with a color storybook that was drawn and written by the lead singer/guitarist. The concert had the pages of the book up on a projection, so it gave the set a performance art feeling. As you flip through the pages of the book, there are notes at the bottom that tell you at what point during the track you should go to the next page. It's interesting as the music affects the story, and vice versa. It seemed related to this class, in that it was another form of literary expression that hasn't really been done.

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Submitted by jepsen on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - 05:27

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Right, so, the playlist podcast is almost done. A little behind on things. Hopefully finish that up good and well by tomorrow, and then onto collages!

With the podcast, I'm trying to do it in a more improvisational manner. And it's harder than I expected. Harder, in that I'll want to redo speaking sections over and over. Once I get beyond that, though, everything's a snap.

Ok. Time to do work.

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Submitted by jepsen on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 18:26

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-Podcast opens with an introduction, followed immediately by a 30-second clip of Animal Collective's "Grass" to start things off.
-"Grass" is explained in how it relates to the beginning of a relationship.
-Grass comes back in for the chorus, which is a key point to make. Maybe less than a 15-second clip here.
-Next song, "Girl o' Clock," is introduced, and the purpose of it, to define the physical aspect of a new relationship, is explained as the 30-second clip fades in.
-Follow up thoughts, commentary, and how it relates in transition to "Paper Thin Walls." Song fades in.
-Explanation of "Paper Thin Walls," followed by an explanation of a more mature, mellow relationship.

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