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http://www.radvsrad.com
This is the Kickstarter Video for a project we are trying to get off the ground.
In August of 2000 Brad Henderson and Ryan Fo...
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http://www.radvsrad.com
This is the Kickstarter Video for a project we are trying to get off the ground.
In August of 2000 Brad Henderson and Ryan Ford met randomly as dorm mates in college down in Savannah, Georgia. Ryan majored in painting and Brad in computer art. Over the last 10 years Brad has been moving between the east and west coast honing his video game developing skills while Ryan has been further developing his painting skills and having gallery shows in New York City.
Brad recently decided that he wanted to move back to Brooklyn and as any good friend would do, Ryan provided him with a couch to sleep on. Overnight Brad thought about the surreal versus paintings hanging all over the walls in Ryan's apartment. And in the morning Brad approached Ryan and said, " Hey man, what do you think about turning your paintings into video games? I was looking at them all night and they just look like they would be really fun to play." Ryan flipped his lid with excitement for the project!
They immediately turned Brad's apartment into the Bromand Center think-tank with scribbled drawings all over the walls. In their new laboratory hide out their creative forces conjoined and exploded which then made other mini-explosions and then further turned into nebulas which further turned into new galaxies of moist heat and erosion.
Brad and Ryan knew deep down that things would never be the same again.
Two cups of coffee later along with sketches covering floor to ceiling that seemed to make sense about something, two hours of shooting video of Ryan drawing 16 Nintendo controllers, one day of shooting 25 takes of 4 minute video couch footage, two days of editing video, and four days of adding animation to the video.
They were ready to unleash their mega idea.
With the funding that they would receive from Kickstarter they would spend the next 3 months in creative harmony (along with a month and a half for testing and fine tuning). Ryan would paint all new versus oil paintings with crazy environments hosting new far out characters. He would paint till his finger tips bled raw with turpentine burns and then he would make a new painting based off that called, 'Bleeding Finger Tips vs Turpentine.' Meanwhile Mad Brad would be in the Bromand Center mixing up the medicine flexing his full digital might turning Ryan's paintings and their character ideas into fully operational interactive video games.
In the meantime they would lock down a hot gallery location in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Upon entering the gallery space 3 months later one would walk into a well lit, white walled room #1. Room #1 would solely be dedicated to showcasing the oil paintings. Then once you got all hype from viewing the twisted versus paintings one could walk into a darker lit room #2. In room #2 projections of the paintings would be laid out in the same format as room #1 but the difference being that you could walk up to any of the projected paintings and pick up an old school NES controller (controllers would be mounted on the wall under the projection of the paintings) and play the characters in the paintings. Room #2 would be a fully interactive video game experience which equals an opening night of kick ass fun and excitement. Not only would it be a celebration between the creativity of two good friends but it would also be dedicated to finally welcoming the video game world into the fine art realm and giving the artists who develop video games the long over due credit that they deserve. We welcome all of you to join us and if we don't know you we look forward to meeting you and sharing creative ideas.
Thank you ,
Brad Henderson & Ryan Ford
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(8 months ago)
Sea of Love, by Cat Power.
nobody reads descriptions so this should be safely unread. i reached a milestone tonight, a million views on this video....
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Sea of Love, by Cat Power.
nobody reads descriptions so this should be safely unread. i reached a milestone tonight, a million views on this video.
i write a confession, what happened. i started to take photographs to take my mind of a horrendous relationship breakup. i didn't want it to end but it did. it was the first time i felt so alone in this world. and then being without her mattered so much that it felt like i was dying.
This song was my anthem around the time. Cat Power it seemed, had suffered a similar fall from grace. it was and still is, a sad song.
this milestone then, a million views, makes me want to write something about why i uploaded this video in the first place, but the fact is that 95-99 % of viewers click on this video to hear Cat power sing Sea of love, and not view my pictures. of course that's why they click on it, they haven't heard of me, but they have watched Juno, and they have seen Cat Power on stage somewhere, or heard her voice on some friends' CD player. don't get me wrong, i am not insecure, i am totally confidant about my ability to take a photograph as a means to express myself. the music i use in my video merely aides the emotional connection, music has always done this.
i am nearing the end of my twenties. in a couple of months i will be thirty years of age. i don't have any children, and i don't have a partner. i make a living as a photojournalist and freelance photographer.
for as long as i can remember, i could never fit somewhere. there's nowhere i could call home. i barely recognise myself from the young man who entered university thinking that a formal education in psychology was going to make me happy, that this prescribed route was going to make me stop wondering, and actually live my life, instead of scratching at it, watching it.
the solace of a camera then seems in retrospect like an obvious thing to do, but as luck would have it, i finally found something that i was truly a natural at, expressing myself. you see i have a lot of pain. of course everyone and their dog has pain and i am no different, but what i find myself trying to do with the camera is just ignore everything that i have ever learned or experienced, just blissfully forget about the taxman, the banker, the things that make up the world around me, and just think about me.
when i take a photograph i am there, being hit by a wave, happy in a graveyard, in a box, or even a garden plastic rabbit, these are all expressions of myself. yes they exist and i didn't arrange them, but i am drawn to them as soon as i sense them, and for however long the scene is as such, i want to take a photograph of it, and when i do, i feel momentarily invigorated, an orgasmic sense of something recognised and understood and captured, a reflection of myself.
so from someone with no artistic background, via a Machiavellian relationship breakup, i find myself with the perfect medium to express myself with, the camera.
thanks for reading.
Raymond McCarron
my facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/RaymondMcCarr...
you can click like, if you like, but only if you like.
website: www.raymondmccarron.com
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piercep favorited a video
(9 months ago)
PUNKCAST1467 - Nov 5 2008. In the fifth lecture in Evan Korth's NYU Computers and Society course featured author, thinker and professor Douglas Rus...
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PUNKCAST1467 - Nov 5 2008. In the fifth lecture in Evan Korth's NYU Computers and Society course featured author, thinker and professor Douglas Rushkoff. His topic:"Open Source Democracy."
Following is the foreword, by Douglas Alexander, to Rushkoff's paper on the same topic:
"The internet has become an integral part of our lives because it is interactive. That means people are senders of information, rather than simply passive receivers of 'old' media. Most importantly of all, we can talk to each other without gatekeepers or editors. This offers exciting possibilities for new social networks, which are enabled - but not determined - by digital technology.
In the software industry, the open source movement emphasises collective cooperation over private ownership. This radical idea may provide the biggest challenge to the dominance of Microsoft. Open source enthusiasts have found a more efficient way of working by pooling their knowledge to encourage innovation.
All this is happening at a time when participation in mainstream electoral politics is declining in many Western countries, including the US and Britain. Our democracies are increasingly resembling old media, with fewer real opportunities for interaction.
What, asks Douglas Rushkoff in this original essay for Demos, would happen if the 'source code' of our democratic systems was opened up to the people they are meant to serve? 'An open source model for participatory, bottom-up and emergent policy will force us to confront the issues of our time,' he answers.
That's a profound thought at a time when governments are recognising the limits of centralised political institutions. The open source community recognises that solutions to problems emerge from the interaction and participation of lots of people, not by central planning.
Rushkoff challenges us all to participate in the redesign of political institutions in a way which enables new solutions to social problems to emerge as the result of millions interactions. In this way, online communication may indeed be able to change offline politics."
http://www.computersandsociety.net/
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