Apartment Tour :D

Ughh, still hate being in videos.. :x

Zooey Deschanel  & Joseph Gordon-Levitt - What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

I rarely reblog things anymore. But it’s a duet (I love duets), and has Zooey Deschanel and is such a sweet little song that I just couldn’t help it~

For my final video project this semester I chose to compare independent businesses with companies that take advantage of, or ruin, independent businesses (i.e. urban outfitters). I included Urban Outfitters specifically because they are well known for ripping off designs of independent artists and mass producing their work.

During critique my professor mentioned how the factory imagery immediately makes him, though maybe not everyone, automatically think of issues regarding factory conditions (I think he liked the video though :o ).

Personally I was trying to represent how a big company with the power of mass-production is prone to bad business practices (stealing work from artists) and hurting independent businesses. I’m thinking of re-editing it with different footage so that my message might be clearer.. not sure what kind of footage that will be yet though.

Sound and found-footage credits are listed in the description on the youtube page. :]

And this was my last project this semester!! I have two finals still but I’m not as worried about those yay. c;

Yesterday (or really this morning at 1:30am) was the first time I got to see my music visualizer in action! I’m so happy I finally got the chance to finish this, and super lucky I was able to convince my professor to let me use it as a final project (if it’s for class I have an excuse to spend time on it!).

I had the craving to make a large-scale wall music visualizer about a year ago, and came up with the idea to use soft circuits on the flight back from San Francisco this past summer. Using soft circuits meant that it could be flexible, light, easy to hang up and super easy to transport (compared to my original idea using plastic LED diffusing plates).

This was created using an Arduino microcontroller, and takes input from ambient noise in a room (not through a cable/mp3 player) using an electret mic circuit. It’s still not completely finished and I plan on making a new and improved one in the near future, but for now I am very very happy I got something done. c;

In case anyone has questions about it or wants to try and create their own, I have a wiki page (for class, haha) full of information and links. :] I would have included the information in this post but it would have ended up obnoxiously long.. If you have any additional questions I’d be happy to help~

Song in the video is Night by Night by Chromeo

There must be something wrong with me.. never before have I uploaded two videos in one week. :o

Toast makes an appearance (stars) once again.

I cut out the part at the end where he knocks my box of plastic rhinestones over.

Err.. I was going to make a gif to show you guys the crop tops I made tonight, but then Toast came along~

I swear I only use that voice with my cat. I hope. (god it’s high pitched..)

Also, I hold him funny because if I hold him against me too much I’ll probably have to shower..

But anyway, I made a couple shirts tonight, one for Melissa and one for the craft show we’re selling at in Chicago in november. :D

I’m so hungry.. can’t decide if I should eat or just deal with it and go to sleep..but my roommate is not home this weekend so I won’t feel guilty eating so late hahaha..such difficult decisions huh