New Image

This is my new project for desktop publishing class. It's a composition of only letters, see if you can tell which ones.

Enjoy ;)

Jenni

Museum of the Moving Image

The trip to the museum was amazing, really cool stuff there. The only thing was, we didn't have much time to look around so I'm definitely going back. I took some awesome pictures with my blackberry, and uploaded them to photoshop so it was fun to play around with them.

As soon as we began the tour, I almost get my scarf caught on the kinetoscope wheels, which would have been the first freak accident with a kinetoscope ever, Thomas Edison would be proud :p

The cameras at the museum were amazing, they had ones from every era. Most of the cameras were huge, I noticed a majority of the older cameras came from Chicago and Paris.


In lecture we learned that interlaced scanning is two fields joining together to make a frame in 1/30th second, even odd electron beams. At the museum, I learned that because electronics are rapidly improving in quality and speed, interlacing is becoming a thing of the past. Computer screens do not require interlaced screens. In the future, TV may also not be interlaced, creating sharper images.




It was interesting to see how advertisers in the 1950s marketed the new televisions. The museum guide told us that television sets were modeled after appliances that housewives were already accustomed to in an effort to familiarize them with the product. This television is strikingly similar to a washing machine, ensuring that housewives would have no problem operating the new device.








The
thaumatrope
was invented by John Ayrton Paris. I have always thought this playful optical illusion was cute ever since I saw it featured in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. On one side is a cage, on the other side is a bird, but if you twirl the strings on both sides fast enough, the bird and cage become one. The illusion works because of it's speed, it allows our brain a moment of rest which makes it appear as if the images are moving.


While participating in the stop motion exercise with little props including an adorable green frog, I was able to create a 10 second clip of a frog fighting a dinosaur, definitely Oscar worthy if you ask me. The only thing that topped my little frog clobbering a dinosaur was the sound recording room, where my classmates dubbed over the voice of Babe, which was priceless.


All in all, the museum was definitely worth the venture out to Queens. I learned that throughout the years, people have vastly improved the quality of video and audio, from the first film camera to the first personal, portable video camera, humans have continuously invented ways to express themselves through their filmed subjects.



Until next time...

Jenni

PS: Coolest thing ever!