Crowdsourcing

Crowd sourcing:
The article of crowdsourcing was very interesting because I did not know there were that many different ways to do crowdsourcing. I had been involved with Kickstarter which is a type of crowdsourced website which I thought was a really interesting idea. I also knew you could do crowdsourcing like we are doing it in class by getting different products by different people and combining them together.

The birth of Wikipedia:
This TED Talk was interesting. I did not know that wikipedia was a completely nonprofit organization. I love the idea of using the internet and the crowd sourcing idea to collaborate ideas to create the largest encyclopedia in the world.

Aaron Koblin:
Aaron Koblin's TED Talk was amazing! I loved the all the media he displayed in his talk. I loved the Johnny Cash video that he crowd sourced and the ability to view each of the drawings that were submitted. I tried the wilderness downtown video and I thought it was amazing. I actually got very homesick from watching the guy in the video running down my road and in my hometown.

Synesthesia/cymatics

Synesthesia and cymatics has always been something that interested me a great deal. I never really knew what to call it, or if there really was a study of it, but visual sound has always caught my attention. It is amazing that there is such a long history of people studying it. Being a musician as well as a filmmaker, I had always wanted to find a way to visualize the sound of my favorite songs. Ernst Chladni’s experiment with metal plates and sand was really interesting to me. I would love to learn more about how that works and how that could be applied to a visual medium like film. I think Evan Grant put it well when he was suggesting that sound could have had something to do with creation itself. The thought that creation itself is just the form of a sound is a remarkable idea. Daniel Tammet’s TED talk was also interesting as he discussed the way in which he perceives things. The idea that the way we learn and know anything is based on our perception of things I believe is very true. Daniel Tammet sees things in a very different way than anyone else and uses that to create art and even further his research. I believe this could be a new and inventive way to look at filmmaking. I would love to bring some of the ideas of these two speakers into account on my experimental project. 

Response #1: First day Film Screening

The wavy lines looked almost like vibrating guitar strings, and when synced to the sound of the guitar or violin, it seemed like it gave the viewer a feeling of how music would actually look like. It was almost like each instrument had their own shape when it was being played. The film in whole had a happy and joyful mood with its combination of colors and upbeat music.