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“Is the nail attracted to the magnet?” “Yes!”
This oddly martial drill on the properties of the magnet comes to us from an old, damaged album of ’50s educational songs. I just couldn’t help imagining what the recording session must have looked like, and out came this little cartoon.
format: DV video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Pittsburgh, 2002.
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What if you’re offered only two options, and neither of them are any good? The poor creature in this short can’t hope to understand that it’s trapped inside a completely arbitrary system.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, FrameThief, Premiere, DVD Studio
Pittsburgh, 2001.
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At the start of the Afghan War, I heard the title’s classic Cold-War motto resurrected by Texas Congressman Dick Armey. Oddly enough, it made me think of the Lewis Carroll poem “The Voice of the Lobster,” in which the Panther and the Owl sit down to negotiate an agreement. The story just seems to have a timely ring about it.
format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Premiere, Audition
Pittsburgh, 2002.
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I began to take a video camera out at night and peek into hundreds of other people’s windows, just for a few seconds at a time. I wasn’t sure quite why I was doing this…
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1999.
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Photographer Dafna Levy took a picture in 1992. It showed a cheerful yellow billboard bearing a syrupy poem about the beauty of mountains, something you scan quickly and break off reading about halfway through. It took me a minute to notice the barbed wire, and a minute more to realize where this photo had been taken…
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Amsterdam, 1998.
