Hayley Morris and Curious

Hello, hello. hope summer is treating everyone well. So I've somehow landed the sweetest job ever aka watching amazing animation all day long at Curious Pictures. So I anticipate a sudden shift towards an animated realm of Jux in the weeks to come. Here is a beautiful piece by Hayley Morris, an animator who works with Curious.

Undone from Hayley Morris on Vimeo.

Alternative Processes Sites Project

This is a video I put together of one of the most fun projects of our Alternative Processes class. All of the projects were to be site specific, so we ended up driving around all around Oberlin and even to Wellington to see each others projects. It was such an amazing experience that it felt wrong when we moved back into the Lab for our next critique. Unfortunately I was having a little too much fun enjoying these projects and couldn't manage to film many of them completely or some at all. so think of this video as more of a montage of the general energy and experience of the projects and not necessarily a documentation. (To see it in HD please go to the vimeo site)

Alternative Processes Sites Project from Jake DeVito on Vimeo.

Mirror Cam

With this I will rule the world!!! Muhuhahaha! Just keeeding. this is a camera that I built, and am still grappling with its connotations and purposes, but it's lots of fun. For lack of a better name I call it the Mirror Camera. as you can see a Mirror is placed in front of the camera's lens so that the subject can view themselves while the picture is taken. This has a few different effects.

1) The subject is able to contort their face into the perfect shape that they desire for a portrait.

2) (and more importantly) the camera is able to glimpse that most private moment when one looks into his/her own eyes in the mirror.

I origionaly built it for my trip to the Coachella Music festival in Indio California.

My first attempt was rather clunky:

this devise was intended for an SLR camera. it worked well and I think it will come in handy for the future, but was rather cumbersome to be carried around a 75,000 person party filled with crazy drunkards.

so I switched quick to a slightly fresher approach. I call it the ipad mirror cam.

here is a short segment of the images that I aquired over the weekend:

Chickens!

Kim's Grocery Sore

I forget who told me about this place, but it's amazing!!! I think she should move to Oberlin!

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spring break

Spring Break oh yes the bliss. here's a snippit. more to come: Gracie and I printed lots of sweet pictures.

Jeff Jacobson on Lens Blog

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