Authorship

Just right off the bat, I would say a definite example of authorship and not, would be the "One white one black" and the black and white piece with the two gray dogs. The one white one black piece, in my opinion, should not be considered and authored piece. It should be considered a documentary. The white dog in this case is the obvious dominant male. This attitude is standard for dominant males. This piece could be repeated with virtually any two litter mates. I've done, but not filmed, this with my dog and his brother. *Taken out of context, that last sentence could be misconstrued*
The piece with the two dogs following the tennis ball is an example of authorship, because there is direction.
I guess in all, I would consider direction and authorship together in this case.

Thank you for your time.

Originality

After class on Monday I was feeling pretty down considering that I had just watched a piece that had a minimalists view of the idea I had posted on here. It was the guy with the hand mirror and the digital camera. I get the idea, however I had planed on making my presentation more professional. None the less the idea and point was made, and for the sake of not being considered a...., I have decided to change my plan. I really wish I had not known about that project. I'm sure I could still do it, but personally I wouldn't be comfortable. Not that this is about comfort, but originality is important to me.
New idea:
I still want to stick with mirrors, however now I was thinking about turning off the lights in the room and using the mirrors in the exact fashion that I posted previously, however now the main character of the piece will be a beam of light. I will use a clip on light attached somewhere nearby, aimed at the bottom mirror. The light will then be reflected to the satellite mirrors standing by. I think I will fashion a coated cover to go over the bulb itself. The end product will look like a black screen with a large white circle and then smaller circles appearing in different areas. I will keep the previously stated concept, I will just change the variables of light.
In the end, I think this will be a more focused approach to exploring the depth of mirrors.

How come I always need mirrors?

So, I figured out what it is that I want to do for the Table Top Show!
I'm going to place a mirror angled under the camera. The first shot will be of where ever the mirror 1 is pointed. Next, someone holding mirror2 will enter the picture holding mirror2 directly back at mirror1, they will slowly adjust mirror2 until the next person holding mirror3 enters the shot, the second person will then adjust mirror3 until you see the next person, I will continue this to the halfway time marker, the last person at that time will angle back to the person before them and that person will follow suit until it gets back to mirror1 under the camera. I thought of this in a dream, which usually means it won't work.
Early predictions:
I won't find enough mirrors
The angles won't work
The mirror under the camera will have to be huge (I really don't want to remove my closet door)
The images in the mirrors will get smaller and smaller
To make it work properly I would have to zoom each time a mirror is entered(which we can't do)
The mirrors will be too small
Natural hand movement will make it impossible to determine what's in the shot

I've thought of other ideas, but I really really want to shoot this...I will definitely have to practice this...
How come I always need mirrors?

Where am I gonna find these mirrors...I wonder if they have some in some in a drawing class... there has to be... a self portrait class? Or something.

Dog dies, hilarity ensues...

Honestly I cannot get over the comment that Althea Thauberger received for "Songstress", when the "critic" said that it was nothing more than a music video. I think that person nailed it right on the head. I guess what I took away from her visit was that, there might be works that you produce that people misinterpret or just plain old don't understand, but that can't stop you from continuing on. I've had a view pieces that I've shown to friends and family that just missed altogether. That feeling that comes over you like, "what the hell did I just spend all that time on?" I could definitely see where she has a background in photography; just by the way the scenes were framed. Most of the shots looked like post cards with a moving image on them. I also like how she used a crew from the theater in "A Memory Lasts Forever"; it definitely gave the outdoor scene a sort or "fake" look to it. I think I might look into photography courses before I move on.

Deadpan

4'33", I want to do the remix of that...It would just be someone shouting "remix" throughout the 4'33" of the recording. I'll see if I can interest Lil' Jon in the piece. When I think of deadpan I think of comedy. Comedy and expirimental film, that would be something interesting. I was also thinking about art, as in who decides what is art. This subject confuses me in a way. Why are these pieces considered art? Is it because enough reputable names say that it is? Or is it irrelavant anyways. I like the latter. I guess if these creators set out to create art, then they probably created crap. I like to believe that these pieces were created to expiriment and not to entertain. I know we are supposed to be writing about deadpan, but just imagine that I am typing this in deadpan tone...there mission accomplished. Every monday, I leave the theater in a weird funk. The pieces that I have veiwed tend to put me in a different mood. They seem to make me view my surroundings in a non-objective way. They seem to invite me to view the present, from a new perspective. Not quite sure of these feelings just yet, but they definetly affect my stress level in a positive way.

snowed in

Well, we didn't have class due to the blizzard that hit. So, I guess this will be about the pieces we saw on Monday. The Great Pumpkin Race...need I say more. That would have been a time to be a comedian. You could actually judge how funny something was going to be, just based on how far the actor or actors wanted to take the stunt. They had to have dragged a live donkey through a good portion of those situations. Even "stage magic" at that time was still pretty difficult. I wonder what PETA would have done if they remade that scene with the guy pulling on the donkey. Lead shoes...uh. Oh, and then there was A+B in Ontario. I thought it was an interesting idea. I like the idea of just filming everything and then just figuring it out later. I couldn't stop looking at the background in that film, it was definitely a window into the past. I also like when they are on the beach and all the people are laying on their towels and just in amazement over these two people filming each other on the beach. Today that would just be a normal scene, well, almost.

-me

In between comments

Yesterday I had a friend tell me that they were going to leave PSOA after this semester to "finish up" at a more commercial type school in L.A.. This made me wonder what I would be doing right now if I had stayed in Southern California. I would probably working on another movie, I would be watching my name on the credits of Iron Man...Would that bring me satisfaction? Is that really important to me?That's when I remembered why I left in the first place. Having no creative outlets and not being able to grow as an artist and always being controlled by a test audience or what some exec defines as good cinema...is not where I want to be. Money can be tempting at times, but in the case of "The Decision" it is apparent that artistic freedom was more tempting...
Not sure why I posted this...I guess it's like one of those letters you write to someone and then rip up...
I do miss the weather though...