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A sampling of some of our group's 35mm photographs, completely un-manipulated in post.  That's exactly how they processed them and handed them to me today.

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Ian Tilghman Photography Happens

•Minolta XG1 •random sampling of my last year

You Hear What I Hear

RESPONSE ENTRY FOR ASSIGNMENT #1A
     Recording sound is an amazingly silly experience.  There's something so juvenile, so inherently childish and deeply connected to one's exploration of their ability to manipulate sounds one perceives in one's self-aware universe, that when one returns to that infantile exploration, one can simple giggle and gawk in amazement.  As a child erratically taps foot and fist to any surface for simple pleasure, so too I regressed to that errant unrest. I sought out pleasure in sound, common and unique, grating and soothing.  As Walter Murch pointed ought, in the womb one perceives sound above all else, and as I sought to perceive only sound, the days and ages were peeled back. I felt only like and unlike, pleasure and indifference. Pleasing sound comes in all sorts. The Cro-Magnan pleasures of crushing and smashing, share equally with the soothing sound of an individual's happy inflection in speech, or the serene calm of soft wind and the drone of the natural world.

Tech note: When recording sound (Foley especially) I found that the Foley actor often recreates a simply sound to create a pattern and often at too close of intervals. In the future I want to record ample silence before and after effects and keep the repetition minimal and singularity high. Also, mic placement and proximity was slightly inappropriate at times, losing integrity only slightly but enough to perturb me.

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Special Thanks: The group really worked together nicely, all contributing in creativity, planning, and straight up fun goddamit. Thanks Kyle, Michelle, and Kristina.

HANNA BARBERA FOR DUMMIES

Some of my all-time favorite cartoons, in animation style and concept, are now (explained and categorized by show and title-character) in this lovely graphic Hanna Barbera for Dummies.
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and if ya don't know, now ya know

Film maker Chris Milk and Google have made an interactive video for Arcade Fire's We Used To Wait.  It blew me away.
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SOUND JOURNAL ENTRY 2

I sit alone in my room typing this entry. The distant seeming sound of the air conditioning is high and steady.  It's white noise.  It's like the sound of television static turned down so low to that just barely audible level.   The jarring introduction of the metallic grind of a circular saw, and it's subsequent introduction to wood give me a jump, as I had been eyes-shut, meditatively still. The saw is loud.  It's just behind my house less than twenty feet from me, muffled by the walls, wood plaster, and shingle. With an abrupt start it then crescendoes rapidly, the high pitched grind of metal and machinery, culminating as it strikes substrate, immediately lowing in pitch, still near steady, but with the slight oscillatory fluctuation of organic matter laboring against the cutting blade.  As it tears the final fibers asunder it again crescendoes in pitch and timbre, before slowly dying to nothingness.

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