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.

For a class on new media critical theory, we did have one creative project, and that was to detourn a chosen media element by grafting situationist writings onto it. For mine, I injected Animal Crossing with text from Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle.

My final for my Final Cut class at OSU. The overlayed video is my secondary Hard Disk defragmenting. Behind that is DV of me reassembling my keyboard after taking it apart to clean it.

For my Video Game Theory class at Ohio State, we were assigned to conceptualize a game based on an existing property. The property we were assigned was the works of William Shakespeare. I decided to take A Midsummer Night’s Dream and make it a Splinter Cell style espionage game with Puck as the goggle-wearing protagonist. In addition to written support materials and an illustration or two, I produced this video from official Splinter Cell trailer footage and my own sinister reading of Puck’s closing monologue from Midsummer.