Wireless Wrap Up: Episode 1

We've just debuted the inaugural episode of Joni Blecher's Wireless Wrap Up! The clip is inspired by the heavily-edited video blogging style used by vlogbrothers. Editing out all the "um's" and "uh's" speeds up the video and better holds the viewers attention.

MNIP returns!

Hello there! I've decided to hold on to what's familiar and return to my old wordpress blog. The truth is, I tried to switch my jpatconnor.com website to a new URL - mylifevisually.com. In so doing, I kind of... deleted my Wordpress admin. I think. The blog posts and embedded videos are still there, but all of the lovely wordpress design has been stripped, leaving the bare bones text, and making the blog look like something directly out of the dawn of the internet. Despite all that, I'm back adding entries to this blog, and I hope you'll join me once again!

mynameispat Has Moved!

Hello,

mynameispat has moved! The blog has been fully translated, so you can check out the new stuff as well as every old post and comment.

Click: http://www.jpatconnor.com/

Sincerely,

pat

Who Are You? or Tunnel, Light, and a Map

In this video, I used a Canon SLR in favor of my older PowerShot to re-shoot the mapping video. Although the camera gave me more creative control, my inexperience with the camera got the better of me when shooting in low light, and the final sequence looks crazily over-saturated. What I did achieve with this piece is an audio track that gives the still images a sense of three-dimensions. As I learned from reading the Final Cut manual, humans use sound to locate objects in space. So, taking advantage of the steady pan in the video, I similarly panned the audio from right to left. The effect is subtle, but I think that I've successfully used this aspect of video (often overlooked) to boost the realism of the still images.

Mapping Test Video

Following is a short test video for a project about mapping. My inspiration was the Google Maps Street View, which is a documentation of various cities across the globe. In the program, the user is free to look in any direction, and move along the street as a car would. I was interested in the process of obtaining the photos, and it turns out that a vehicle is equipped with 9 cameras and a GPS. Those photos are then merged to create a cylindrical image that can be navigated by the user.

In my project, I wanted to stitch together two points on the map similar to the way that the different photos are stitched together in Photoshop. The effect is a constant pan, but one that shifts across space and time.

The Breakup of the Hydrilla

I uncovered this video while using my older external HD. It's dated 3/24/06, but in my memory there's no way that I could have been in Wakulla Springs at that time.

The forest on the opposite bank of the spring is reflected in the smooth water. Invasive Hydrilla breaks up the reflected image. The water and the plant reminds me of a study of surface by Claude Monet in the UMMA called The Breakup of the Ice.

Combination

Alternate edit for Combination. In this case using a diptic to keep each scene separate throughout the video.