One week from tomorrow, I’ll be awarded my MA from Digital Media Studies, and it’ll be time to strike out into the world to seek my fortune. This afternoon, I’m flying out for a job interview. They’re paying for everything, so I hope that’s a good sign. If this goes well, I’ll say a little more. If not, at least I get a free plane ride!

The Masters Project, incidentally, can be found here. It was one of my requirements for graduation. I plan to add Wii Opera compatibility this summer.

Our final assignment for my Typography class at the University of Denver was (in my group’s case) a poster for Buy Nothing Day 2006. Rick Griffith had us working at his studio in downtown Denver, MATTER. My group each produced a proposal in Illustrator/Photoshop and mine was the one we chose to produce. We finalized a design, with some pointers from Rick, and then we broke down the image into color plates (so to speak) for screen printing. I printed each of these plates in black on transparency, then we used the transparencies to expose screens. We took turns printing the screens on some huge glossy paper, and our posters were born!

Our Typography instructor, MATTER‘s Rick Griffith, provided us with the content for a poster and then turned us loose with the type design for it. The copy was from a series the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum put on. This image is one of several color versions I experimented with. The printed version is over 3′ wide.

For my Digital Video class at DU, we were required to put together a live VJ performance. I decided to mix video live with Nintendo’s Electroplankton play on my Nintendo DS. The clip below is the first 5 minutes of that performance. The sound is ahead of the video because the video had to be captured from the DS screen by my iSight webcam, then fed through the video mixing program, GridPro, then recorded with the Audio. Would have been nicer with a dev kit for the DS, but there wasn’t room in the budget.

For my Digital Cinema class at DU, we were instructed to use audio and video from different movies to make a trailer mash-up in the fine tradition of Brokeback to the Future, Shining, and Toy Story 2: Requiem. We were encouraged but not required to use Disney for one component. For mine, I used the unaltered audio from the Beauty and the Beast theatrical trailer and painstaking selected shots from The Rocky Horror Picture Show that I thought matched them best. This was a heck of a lot of fun to do.