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mtw
July 17th, 2003, 09:53 PM
Jason Salavon (http://www.salavon.com) came to my university late last year to give a lecture, but I haven't gotten around to mentioning it until now. Pretty much all the pieces he works on are created with a computer program he writes for each one, and there's a few that I found interesting.

He's done four different pieces that involve taking each frame of a movie and making that frame be only the average color. With Titanic and MTV's top ten videos, he put each frame in order and printed them all onto a piece of paper. Here's a view of the Titanic piece (http://www.salavon.com/TGFAT/Titanic.shtml) and here's the music videos (http://www.salavon.com/MTVsTop10/MTVsTop10.shtml). He's done two other pieces that instead involve playing the movies with the colored frames. There's one that shows the top 25 movies all at once (http://www.salavon.com/Top25/Top25.shtml) and one that shows the top 6 all at once (http://www.salavon.com/Top6/Top6Inst.htm).

Then there's one other similar one, but instead he arranges the frames into a square with the lightest colored frame in the center (http://www.salavon.com/GUT/GUT.shtml).

tyboogie
July 18th, 2003, 12:31 AM
holy shit thats a trip!!! pretty damn cool

hehheh--snow white and deep throat are very similar
coincindence? probably.

Blind
July 18th, 2003, 08:27 AM
That seems like a lot of trouble to go through just to come up with something that looks like your digital cable is on the fritz, huh? I appreciate the concept... but the end result doesn't really do anything for me. Is there something I'm missing? How long was this lecture?

mtw
July 18th, 2003, 05:54 PM
Originally posted by Blind
That seems like a lot of trouble to go through just to come up with something that looks like your digital cable is on the fritz, huh? I appreciate the concept... but the end result doesn't really do anything for me. Is there something I'm missing? How long was this lecture?
I find it interesting because it lets you see how a director uses color. The single solid color isn't necessarily the best way to do it, though, since you will miss out on the interplay between different colors in a single frame, but I still like it.

The lecture was about an hour and a half. He talked about other stuff I didn't mention, but you can see them all at his website.