Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit New York City is made of spaces filled with people whose lives brush against each other but leave little trace. For our November Communications Lab assignment, Anna Pinkas, Michaella Johanna Cardona, Rong Yong (Roy), and I tried to represent … Read More →
Category Archives: Communications Lab
Animation and After Effects ~ Storyboard
ANIMATION STORYBOARD ~ PANELS ONE TO FOUR We find ourselves in front of an old, mysterious house – a sanatorium. PANEL ONE Long shot of exterior. Flat photo has been cut to look 3D. Jump through arbor to view in second panel. MUSIC: Ominous, mysterious, … Read More →
A Study in Filmmaking ~ First Step: Storyboards…
Carlin M. Wragg, Anna Pinkas, Michaella Johanna Cardona, and Rong Yong (Roy) Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit New York City is made of spaces filled with people whose lives brush against each other but leave little trace. For our November Communications Lab assignment, Anna … Read More →
Finding old New York…
Are there pockets of old New York in modern New York City? For the last two weeks, Erica Neuman, Diana Huang, and I have been trying to find out. Assigned to compose a one-to-two-minute sound piece that creates a mood or tells a story, we … Read More →
Reflections on “On the Rights of Molotov Man” and “The Ecstasy of Influence”
Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit A key element of Joy Garnett’s creative process in making The Riot series is the deliberate disconnect of images from their context. This series of paintings, inspired by photos of “the human figure in extremis,” examines movement and physical … Read More →
A Study in Stop Motion ~ “Metamorphosis”
Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit Two months at ITP as a 30-second shadow puppet stop motion video. Made with banker box, black construction paper, white butcher paper, wire, thread, desk lamp, photo stills, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere. Produced in collaboration with Ji Hyun … Read More →
On Comics and Storytelling ~ “Flatiron Fugue”
Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit Flatiron Fugue: A comic by Carlin M. Wragg and Ji Hyun Moon ~ (Click on the title to download a PDF of the panels)
Stupid Pet Trick ~ the road to inspiration
Introduction to Physical Computing Professor Dan O’Sullivan Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit This video documents my outing to Manhattan’s Chinatown on September 26, 2010, searching for inspiration for PComp’s “Stupid Pet Trick” project. ~CMW Physical Computing ~ Assignment Three “Make a simple physically interactive … Read More →
The Many Meanings of “Copy”: A Reflection on Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit I read “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” two times — the first for an overview of Walter Benjamin’s ideas, the second to assess them. Having finished my second read-through, I suspect that my desire to … Read More →
“You’re Late” ~ 30-Minute Film Festival ~ Comm Lab ~ 09.20.2010
A typical ITP First Year arrives at 721 Broadway. Will he make it to class on time?
Commit to Creativity: Forster’s Cautionary Tale
Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit “The Machine Stops,” a classic piece of science fiction by E. M. Forster, is an ode to original thinking, to the expressiveness of the human body, and to the difficult work of articulating individual identity and the mechanics of … Read More →
Suits on the Loose ~ An After Effects Experiment
Communications Lab Professor: Marianne R. Petit Conceived with Christine Doempke for Communications Lab, “Suits on the Loose” is a simple, silly animated short in which we explore the relationship between movement, humor, and archival imagery using animated sequences created in After Effects. With two weeks … Read More →