ART AND TECH

For my final project I wanted to do something that you may have never seen before. I am a big aerial photography/videography guy. It is my passion and I plan to grow a business with it. For my final I woke up early and hit the city with my drone to catch the sunrise. It was a pleasure and I believe that I captured some high quality 4k Video. The video that I created and will present to you is more than just a montage of aerial city shots. I express a vibe in this video that I hope will encourage peace on others. I edited the video to give a sense of calmness, bringing peace to stressful things such as a busy and dirty city.  The overall process of shooting this was fun. I woke up at 6 am with my friend Myles and skated to the city. We reached access to a public parking garage and made it to the roof. It was my first time using my new drone, an exhilarating experience. I had some difficulty figuring a few things out to begin with, but once it was up in the air, we were ...

I took an interesting, unorthodox approach to my Xerox project. Instead of using photocopies of my hands to explain a story/concept through pictures, I decided to utilize my film major and make a video. Let’s begin with the process. I had great difficulty accessing a printer that worked. It took three stops to finally find one that did, hopping around from the art center to the Cass lab to the Library. Once I was finally able to get photocopies of my hand, I started to cut. After cutting out one detailed hand I realized that without the black background my natural hand doesn’t pop like it should. Rather it just looks like a piece of white paper. I made the executive decision to leave the black background behind my hands, a different approach that you can see in my video. For the video I used stop motion, taking individual frames to conduct a story. I made the story based on my most common study habit. The story starts with hands working on a document which can be seen on the c...

CUBAN CHEEKS A documentary created by Gus and I that explores the Cuban culture. Our subject was our friend Javier, a first-year student here at the University of Tampa. Javier, also known as Javi was a Cuban refugee the escaped as an infant via boat. Although he has spent most of his life as an American, he still keeps his native culture alive and spreads it in every way he can. He is known for greeting people through a kiss on the cheek, a popular routine of his culture. I have known Javi since day one, and through an outside perspective I have been able to see people’s uncertainty, discomfort, and confusion when he gives them a kiss on the cheek.  In order to study this furthermore, we decided to conduct a social experiment for my performance piece. We set a goal to reach 100 kisses in one day, but due to time restraints and increased motivation we attempted to do so in one hour, raising the stakes. To answer the questions mentioned in your email, unfortunately we c...