Monday, March 10, 2008
Path to enlightenment is a video about the symbolism present in Budhist stupas.
Post-Art and tech Show Status
Well I'm finally done with the video. At least that's how it should feel like. I had much more planned with this video but I ended up doing a more simplified version of it. Several of the things that didn't occur were to incorporate several of the stupa designs into the video and create a sort of explanation of their symbolism. A few other things that I feel are either missing or not as polished are the sound, the incorporation of the images into the stupa and the overall movement of the camera. Well that needs to get worked on as soon as possible I guess. Now, don't think that just because there are things that I felt are unfinished that the video isn't any good. For example I do feel that both the interior of the stupas and the images by themselves are quite good. Also the 3D model of the stupa itself is not that bad. I'll be posting the video very shortly to Blip.tv, hopefully to Youtube as well so that everyone can see what I mean by all this.
So whats left to do? Well my break between quarters start very soon so I'll be spending more time polishing up the video, and submitting it to different shows. Oh wait did I tell y'all that I finnaly ! Ha! I'm giddy just to try them out at my computer. Also I need to finish my installation for the video! aaaah! Artwork. So much stuff to do so little time.
Art and Tech exhibition
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Here you go friends and fellow blog readers, this here is the flyer of the Winter Art and Technology Exhibition where I will have my video in one of the reels.
I have a feeling that the artwork this quarter will be quite awesome so make sure to come early to get some of the free food before watching all of the artwork.
Update: More images
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Well the work is not coming out as fast as I had hoped for. But here we have two more images of 60 that need to be made, and animated in a space (yet to be made and animated itself) that I uploaded to Flickr.
I need food right now, so explanations will come later on.
Ps. If anyone out there has a time machine they would be willing to lend, please send an email to stupasinvideo@yahoo.com. I need to go back in time so I can either work in secret and finish the video, or I to kick my past self in the butt and tell him to get to work.
Old sketches and current state of work
Its Crunch time!
Indeed my friends and fellow readers, it's crunch time. The project is officially due next week and it needs to get done no matter what. Depression, anxiety, stress, life's problems can all go to wherever they're supposed to go because they can no longer stay here. This needs to get done. So what does that mean for you? Well, ironically, it means I have stuff to show you about my project.
Right now I've uploaded a series of sketches for the images that are going to be used in the video. Here's an example of one of the sketches (page 4)
As I found through my research, each level of a Tibetan stupa represents a series of practices that help you reach enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya Dhamma or Shichika Sanjushichidohon). These are the sketches for these practices. On this page I have the images that represent the cattaro iddhipada, which are desire to act, effort, mind and investigation.
I also uploaded three of the finished images:
This is actually the third cattaro iddhipada: Thought.
