Cardboard Samuria or NINJA!!!!

I really like the idea of being a ninja or a Samurai so I got some pictures of people who have made these ninja and samurai suits. I plan to make something similar. Some of the games I would try to emulate would be Gundam Wing, Ninja Gaiden or Basara Samurai Heroes. 

LINK: http://www.ehow.com/how_12165822_make-cardboard-samurai-armor.html

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The Games

 

Basara Samurai Heroes

Ninja Gaiden

Gundam Wing

Onimusha the Video Game Enemy (Sakon Shima)

"Sleep Walker"Story LINE PIXs Video Game

Game Maker Progress

New Sprite

Dr. Henry Lowood LECTURE

Dr. Henry Lowood did a lecture about Machinima projects that have been done in the past. The basic premise was to document and save these art works. If a server was to go done who is left to document and save the pieces that people have done. Where can we find these on the web? What happens to the piece when there is no documentation that is saved? These where some of the questions that Dr. Lowood had tried to answer. In his lecture he also covered the different ways that people can make Machinima. There are a few different ways but in the end the simple point is that you use a video game to make a movie and tell a story. The main video game he was talking about was World of Warcraft. This game is based on fictional characters of different race; Trolls, Orc, Dwarves, Elf’s or Humans. You can create a character from any of these races and you would have to take your character in the World of Warcraft adventure. Dr. Lowood had shown previews of the different types of Machinima creations. There was one Machinima of a narrative story in which this Troll had made a living making stones, leveling up himself to become stronger, etc. But then the Troll reads in the newspaper that his way of living will become obsolete. Then he looses everything. It was pretty sad.

There was also a story about a video game player that played Doom or a video game similar to Doom. But basically the person who uses to play this game had died in a car crash. But he had recorded video of his game play online for other people to see. His exact movements have been recorded and had become his art piece. These video recordings are a little eerie, but he is now remembering for his game play online because he was very good at this game.

But the main point of Dr. Lowood is that these Machinima art pieces are out in the online world and is there for you to see. But we have to make sure we save, document, etc., all these amazing works in order for future generations to see them.

Exhibition "Postcard from the Grey Area"

Perfecto P. Manuta Jr.

Art 381

“Art Exhibition”

There was an art exhibition in the Church of Fine Arts building. One of the artists that were featured was Kevin F. Kremler. He has an interactive piece in which you become part of the art itself. The name of this piece is “Postcards from the Grey Area”. It was shown in the Sheppard Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno.

You sit on this stool and you are given some instructions to follow. The instructions tell you to position your body in a certain way to make it look like you are painting on a canvas. Then you have to press a red bottom and hold it fro about 10 seconds. When you follow these instructions a picture will be printed out as a postcard. The postcard is yours to keep. When I saw the picture it was pretty cool that I was involved in the process.

There was also another piece that involve different colored sand, shovels, and a rotating device in the middle that dispensed the sand. You had to put the sand in these containers that revolved. Then you had to spin it to make patterns on the floor. Depending on how you moved and rotated the device each time looked different.

I truly like interactive art because you never know what the out come will be. Especially, because each individual is different and will make different out comes. The sand and the patterns you could make made it an interesting and fun piece. Playing with sand was always fun for me as a kid. This just reminded me of memories on the beach. Playing in the sand, making thing with sand and making patterns in the sand.