Homage to Brakhage

Inspired by the recent Brakhage symposium at the University of Colorado. The music was improvised on the day the video was made. Probably in homage to Brakhage, the video should have been silent.

Life is short

"Life is short. Art is long." [Hippocrates c. 460 BC — c. 370 BC] This brief history and future of film/video spans the time of one piano improvisation played on June 3, 2006.

Rapt

Moving from rap to rapture, across the rapids of troubled waters to a new kind of calm.
In this video the music was improvised on two keyboards using orchestral samples from the Garitan Personal Orchestra and Atmosphere.

Negotiating Rapture

You may be familiar with Martin Buber’s “I and Thou.” Though I am not a religious person, what he says rings true to me. He says we experience the transcendent through the I-Thou relationship. Most understand the Thou as being another person, but the Thou can be a stone, a tree or perhaps a film. “The extended lines of relation meet in the eternal Thou. Every particular Thou is a glimpse of the eternal Thou.” I believe that we can negotiate rapture in our I-Thou relationship with films, paintings, music as well as other persons.

I-It is the other mode of being. I-It does not know relationship; it is controlling, experiencing, i.e. knowing the other cognitively to have certain properties.

Negotiating rapture can be a tricky thing. It is a matter of being willing rather than willing, being captivated rather than capturing. It is treating the other as an end not a means to some other end. The negotiating then is putting ourselves in a receptive space, to be with, rather than objectifying, no matter how loving or sincere we may be.

But that is where I have trouble with academia and also with medicine. I would prefer to be in relation, captivated, enraptured, but we have to move to the I-It to negotiate life. There is the rub.

Hamilton

This video project was stimulated by a recent trip to the Denver Art Museum's new addition. Those who go there might also be interested in an article in Brain magazine:Visual vertigo: symptom assessment, spatial orientation and postural control http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/124/8/1646

Show in Chicago

This tongue-in-cheek project on a visit to Chicago evolves into a bold dream sequence. Seen from the 37th floor where Lake Michigan meets the river, this video poem is based upon the poetry of Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" and the works of Jeanne-Claude Christo. It is a tour de force panning the city and within the Art Institute of Chicago. See these large flowers paintings in a new light. (4 minutes)

Slice Five

This is the culmination of the slice series. Enjoy

Slice Four

One more slice with variation. See the earlier slices

Slice Three

This is a third slice of many sections pushing the computer to its limits. [see also slice one and two]

Manifold

This video shows the manifold styles of Dr. Young,'s artwork with his music in the background

Cabo

Cabo is a video peom about being handicaped in paradise and rising above it. It compliments the video Poems at an Exhibition about the same theme at http://www.adventuresincreativity.net/video.htm.

Cage Color Three

This is the third of the graphic responses to my free piano improv

Cage Color Two

This piano improv music video continues Cage Color One.

Cage Color One

This music video is based upon a free piano improv that I did on February 4th, 2007. The random but controlled [John]Cage-like graphic response followed. Even Cagier the music is not programed randomness but the color response is.

070220

new age music video improvisation with abstract animation all created on February 20, 2007.

Crime Scene

This humerous sketch evolved from watching too much CSI.

Just Looking

Video, music, animation created all on March 1, 2007

Begin Again

Sometimes starting over is the best thing you can do

Many New Videos on YouTube

Since last time I have added several new video shorts. The major addition is animation as I explore new ways of graphic movement in art.

Begin
This abstract animation was suggested by the free improvisation of the music I created. To start creating you have to begin