Click on the "Tulsita animation" link above to see a completed draft (yay) of the whole project. If you can, watch it a couple of times and make notes of things you like changed.
I'm not totally happy with it, as there are things I want to improve and alter, but I want to see what you guys have to say first.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Wicked Googly Book Search
Here are my "notes" from the 2/11 intelligence briefing at that undisclosed location by the old oak tree on S. 129th E. St. Ave.
Instead of thinking of the sound as accompaniment, think of it as a “fourth wall.”
Or: sound as core, visuals radiating out from it and devising different solutions to it.
That would mean that sound comes first, image and text are orchestrated in relation to that.
There are programs that can integrate variability into the process, but could we learn them in time?
Do we want something passive as opposed to interactive? Given the constraints of this exhibition space, probably.
Something will have to be
doable
used to working
From Google Books, search on “Tulsa”:
Indeed Tulsa has steadfastly refused to use Federal funds for this purpose, which Mayor Inhofe considers a key distinction between Tulsa and some aties to ...
When I left Tulsa I planned on coming back in a month. ... When I was in Tulsa next time, there was another guy. 1 split for good." Denver Dave sighed. ...
n 1923 the University of Tulsa, with four brick or stucco buildings and about 260 students, ... Tulsa was a center of wealth, of energy, and of romance. ...
The client didn't want to hit him in Tulsa, but now there's no choice. ... Tulsa, and you'll be met at the airport and somebody will show you around and ...
A Guide to the Study of the Pentecostal Movement - Page 937
by Charles Edwin Jones - 1983 - 1249 pages
The faith adventures of Evangelist TL Osborn. Tulsa, 1950. 285p. ... Tulsa, ? 1953.
299p. 8519 Osborn, Tommy Lee, 1923- . Revival fires sweep Cuba; ...
Our x ray equipment I think was from World War II, so I thank the Senator for the visit to Tulsa, and the x ray equipment did come about. ...
Since then, Tulsa has grown far to the east and southeast and the neighborhood and its people have aged. Retail, industrial enterprises, and major highways ...
Carry Me Back
by Laura Watt - 1997
The Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Tulsa smelled of diesel fumes, cigarette
smoke, and slightly rank bodies. Not a whiff of Dial soap anywhere. ...
Mr. Cunningham, tell me how in the world Tulsa has a port; I didn't know Tulsa ... I served as the first chairman of the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port ...
Third Girl from the Left - Page 109
by Martha Southgate - Fiction - 2005 - 272 pages
The bus ride back to Tulsa was many hours long and many hours uncomfortable. ...
When they pulled up to the bus stop in Tulsa, Angela looked around. ...
But the city fathers of Tulsa had worked more shrewdly. "I was later told," said JB, "that about a half-dozen far-sighted men bought much of the downtown ...
Guy, a native of that city, shouted, "Don't ever write Tulsa, Oklahoma! Just say Tulsa. Everyone knows there is only one Tulsa in all the world! ...
Reg-ular Sunday services televised from various Tulsa churches. Tulsa Council of Churches schedules the appearances. One hour, Sundays, live remote, ...
To Hell in a Handbasket - Page 328
by H Allen Smith - 1962 - 341 pages
She took her ease on a wicker chair and we talked of Tulsa. "I finished high
school," she said, "and one day just walked into the Tribune office and said I ...
They can stay and rot • Tulsa! To this day, in any man who had once been a boy
in a basement, the mere mention of your name suffices to revive the shiver of ...
Tulsa was then a mere collection of wooden shacks on the prairie and just on the
... As Tulsa developed, Hurley developed. He was in on the ground floor. ...
The city of Tulsa lies along the Arkansas River at an elevation of 700 feet above sea ... At a latitude of 36°, Tulsa Is far enough north to escape the long ...
News. a story for Sunday's editions of the Tulsa World. "We had Native Americans in gangs, ... "In Tulsa that's very unusual. Ours are more multicultural. ...
The Bar Flies, Winners at Tulsa Barder shop harmony has once more become a national institution, and in a Big Way. The habit of singing close harmony in ...
I was thinking that we were going to Tulsa, then from Tulsa we'd fly on to Washington. When I was airborne about an hour and a half, I called the stewardess ...
"But I've been trying to get Tulsa to give me its sewage sludge for years." Volentine owns and operates Tulsa Grass and Sod Farm north of the Arkansas River ...
In my hometown of Tulsa, we are experiencing a situation that ... Like many other regions, Tulsa has experienced in recent weeks sharp ...
Yet folks around Muskogee have become accustomed to this former underseas raider resting docilely in the little park just off the Muskogee-Tulsa Turnpike. ...
"The Little Red House" on the University of Tulsa campus, which she directed, provided a library of feminist theoretical texts, a visiting speaker's program ...
Instead of thinking of the sound as accompaniment, think of it as a “fourth wall.”
Or: sound as core, visuals radiating out from it and devising different solutions to it.
That would mean that sound comes first, image and text are orchestrated in relation to that.
There are programs that can integrate variability into the process, but could we learn them in time?
Do we want something passive as opposed to interactive? Given the constraints of this exhibition space, probably.
Something will have to be
doable
used to working
From Google Books, search on “Tulsa”:
Indeed Tulsa has steadfastly refused to use Federal funds for this purpose, which Mayor Inhofe considers a key distinction between Tulsa and some aties to ...
When I left Tulsa I planned on coming back in a month. ... When I was in Tulsa next time, there was another guy. 1 split for good." Denver Dave sighed. ...
n 1923 the University of Tulsa, with four brick or stucco buildings and about 260 students, ... Tulsa was a center of wealth, of energy, and of romance. ...
The client didn't want to hit him in Tulsa, but now there's no choice. ... Tulsa, and you'll be met at the airport and somebody will show you around and ...
A Guide to the Study of the Pentecostal Movement - Page 937
by Charles Edwin Jones - 1983 - 1249 pages
The faith adventures of Evangelist TL Osborn. Tulsa, 1950. 285p. ... Tulsa, ? 1953.
299p. 8519 Osborn, Tommy Lee, 1923- . Revival fires sweep Cuba; ...
Our x ray equipment I think was from World War II, so I thank the Senator for the visit to Tulsa, and the x ray equipment did come about. ...
Since then, Tulsa has grown far to the east and southeast and the neighborhood and its people have aged. Retail, industrial enterprises, and major highways ...
Carry Me Back
by Laura Watt - 1997
The Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Tulsa smelled of diesel fumes, cigarette
smoke, and slightly rank bodies. Not a whiff of Dial soap anywhere. ...
Mr. Cunningham, tell me how in the world Tulsa has a port; I didn't know Tulsa ... I served as the first chairman of the City of Tulsa-Rogers County Port ...
Third Girl from the Left - Page 109
by Martha Southgate - Fiction - 2005 - 272 pages
The bus ride back to Tulsa was many hours long and many hours uncomfortable. ...
When they pulled up to the bus stop in Tulsa, Angela looked around. ...
But the city fathers of Tulsa had worked more shrewdly. "I was later told," said JB, "that about a half-dozen far-sighted men bought much of the downtown ...
Guy, a native of that city, shouted, "Don't ever write Tulsa, Oklahoma! Just say Tulsa. Everyone knows there is only one Tulsa in all the world! ...
Reg-ular Sunday services televised from various Tulsa churches. Tulsa Council of Churches schedules the appearances. One hour, Sundays, live remote, ...
To Hell in a Handbasket - Page 328
by H Allen Smith - 1962 - 341 pages
She took her ease on a wicker chair and we talked of Tulsa. "I finished high
school," she said, "and one day just walked into the Tribune office and said I ...
They can stay and rot • Tulsa! To this day, in any man who had once been a boy
in a basement, the mere mention of your name suffices to revive the shiver of ...
Tulsa was then a mere collection of wooden shacks on the prairie and just on the
... As Tulsa developed, Hurley developed. He was in on the ground floor. ...
The city of Tulsa lies along the Arkansas River at an elevation of 700 feet above sea ... At a latitude of 36°, Tulsa Is far enough north to escape the long ...
News. a story for Sunday's editions of the Tulsa World. "We had Native Americans in gangs, ... "In Tulsa that's very unusual. Ours are more multicultural. ...
The Bar Flies, Winners at Tulsa Barder shop harmony has once more become a national institution, and in a Big Way. The habit of singing close harmony in ...
I was thinking that we were going to Tulsa, then from Tulsa we'd fly on to Washington. When I was airborne about an hour and a half, I called the stewardess ...
"But I've been trying to get Tulsa to give me its sewage sludge for years." Volentine owns and operates Tulsa Grass and Sod Farm north of the Arkansas River ...
In my hometown of Tulsa, we are experiencing a situation that ... Like many other regions, Tulsa has experienced in recent weeks sharp ...
Yet folks around Muskogee have become accustomed to this former underseas raider resting docilely in the little park just off the Muskogee-Tulsa Turnpike. ...
"The Little Red House" on the University of Tulsa campus, which she directed, provided a library of feminist theoretical texts, a visiting speaker's program ...
Wakow prattlings, 2/18
I made up some stuff and am now claiming that we discussed it on Sunday. Next up: City Council minutes.
Wakow 2/18/07
(present: Mindy, David, Nathan)
how to more closely fuse text and image?
Nathan: if you can do illegibly small text, then do illegibly large text too, so large you can see texture
M: more direct ways to tie in text/image/sound:
write text then illustrate?
Write based on images and sounds we’ve collected?
Go out to sites, collect, then write on what we’ve found later.
M is heading toward the one projector idea.
maybe give Grant some of the wicker deer materials, have him try to work into the photo?
M: I don’t want to be another banal Tulsa artist. I don’t care whether it’s interesting to people or whether people like it, I just want to do something that feels right and organic.
Focusing on integrating the various elements seems like a top priority.
Write 4 line poems? or come up with other techniques (only write 4 words)
we could all write a poem and then the edits could be recorded and incorporated into a flash thing: you actually see poems being crossed out and rearranged.
Could also do more with nets—write much more and then work on creating nets
can also borrow from Tom Phillips, cover words with images (small photos?—kind of a fake rebus?)
sound-integration:
Orson Welles: “The art of film is in the editing.” The issue of how we pick and choose is very interesting.
We can also play sound and sit around the table and write, or generate images somehow.
Oil can be used as a kind of backbone that heightens relevance to geopolitical moment
we should try to bring it back to the themes when and if it feels relevant
we don’t need to go to a church in order to produce something on religion—we just need to figure out what interests about religion and how we can engage with it.
Listened to the Church on the Move Sermon—he’s like a stand-up comic crossed w/ a used car salesman: defensive, hyperconscious of the crowd’s interest, then segues directly into the veiled suggestion that the church can make you money.
For next week let’s do some writing: use some image and sound and maybe google books as well as starting points. Perhaps also recoup material from first writing exercise (wicker deer etc).
Meet in evening, probably, since I’ll be flying in at 5.
Let’s think also about sound more conceptually: what is the “sound” of oil?
Gas station
road building
food creation
food as another issue—number one market for chain restaurants, homogenozation of food culture
Tulsa feels like a weird simulation city: everything middle class feels not real. Lower class feels very real. Upper middle class city feels like an idea of city instead of one that’s grown. As if you need to have one of every chain restaurant to be a real town. People here are happy with a certain standard and just feel like calling it New York or whatever.
Deep class insecurity: people want to believe that they are “people of class” and spend a great deal of time convincing themselves of this fact.
Wakow 2/18/07
(present: Mindy, David, Nathan)
how to more closely fuse text and image?
Nathan: if you can do illegibly small text, then do illegibly large text too, so large you can see texture
M: more direct ways to tie in text/image/sound:
write text then illustrate?
Write based on images and sounds we’ve collected?
Go out to sites, collect, then write on what we’ve found later.
M is heading toward the one projector idea.
maybe give Grant some of the wicker deer materials, have him try to work into the photo?
M: I don’t want to be another banal Tulsa artist. I don’t care whether it’s interesting to people or whether people like it, I just want to do something that feels right and organic.
Focusing on integrating the various elements seems like a top priority.
Write 4 line poems? or come up with other techniques (only write 4 words)
we could all write a poem and then the edits could be recorded and incorporated into a flash thing: you actually see poems being crossed out and rearranged.
Could also do more with nets—write much more and then work on creating nets
can also borrow from Tom Phillips, cover words with images (small photos?—kind of a fake rebus?)
sound-integration:
Orson Welles: “The art of film is in the editing.” The issue of how we pick and choose is very interesting.
We can also play sound and sit around the table and write, or generate images somehow.
Oil can be used as a kind of backbone that heightens relevance to geopolitical moment
we should try to bring it back to the themes when and if it feels relevant
we don’t need to go to a church in order to produce something on religion—we just need to figure out what interests about religion and how we can engage with it.
Listened to the Church on the Move Sermon—he’s like a stand-up comic crossed w/ a used car salesman: defensive, hyperconscious of the crowd’s interest, then segues directly into the veiled suggestion that the church can make you money.
For next week let’s do some writing: use some image and sound and maybe google books as well as starting points. Perhaps also recoup material from first writing exercise (wicker deer etc).
Meet in evening, probably, since I’ll be flying in at 5.
Let’s think also about sound more conceptually: what is the “sound” of oil?
Gas station
road building
food creation
food as another issue—number one market for chain restaurants, homogenozation of food culture
Tulsa feels like a weird simulation city: everything middle class feels not real. Lower class feels very real. Upper middle class city feels like an idea of city instead of one that’s grown. As if you need to have one of every chain restaurant to be a real town. People here are happy with a certain standard and just feel like calling it New York or whatever.
Deep class insecurity: people want to believe that they are “people of class” and spend a great deal of time convincing themselves of this fact.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Scene 4 final touches
I think I've figured out a way to end scene 4, and thus Tulsita as a whole, and I'm just making a note of it here. Let me know what you think:
The sounds at the end of this segment are very subtle, so I thought I would have a few texts (ones that you sent me) accumulate in a faded, barely legible form. These words would slowly fade leaving the page blank as the sounds eerily wind down.
The sounds at the end of this segment are very subtle, so I thought I would have a few texts (ones that you sent me) accumulate in a faded, barely legible form. These words would slowly fade leaving the page blank as the sounds eerily wind down.
Question of the Day
What if Tulsa itself were conceived of, promoted as, and run like a mega-church??
Better yet, what if mega-churches promoted themselves like OERB, the oil-industry's public and overly made-up face. I'll give anyone $1 who can figure out what it stands for!
Better yet, what if mega-churches promoted themselves like OERB, the oil-industry's public and overly made-up face. I'll give anyone $1 who can figure out what it stands for!
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Tulsita Animation Update
I've ftp'd the latest versions of the Tulsita animation to Mindy's site--just click the "Tulsita animations" link above, and it should open in your browser.
I'm not sure how I'm going to fix the problem of it opening in the browser instead of a stand-alone player that has the capacity to go full screen.
What do you guys think?
I'm not sure how I'm going to fix the problem of it opening in the browser instead of a stand-alone player that has the capacity to go full screen.
What do you guys think?
Promotional Tulsa
I just went to the Goodwill today to scavenge, and look for things to photograph (inside!) since it's so friggin' cold out there that the thought of scavenging for images outside is not very appealing.
I found two promotional items about Tulsa. I'll show you what they are when you see the photos.
I want to pick up on Grant's earlier post where he was musing about using a fake promotional Tulsa paradigm to enter into this project. I like that, because it's not as direct, and frankly could be fun. One of my major issues with this place is this tremendous disconnect between the image Tulsa thinks it's putting forth and the actual reality.
I won't know how I feel photographing these types of things until I do it, but right now it's appealing to me. Meanwhile, if everyone could keep a look out for these types of items that would be great.
I found two promotional items about Tulsa. I'll show you what they are when you see the photos.
I want to pick up on Grant's earlier post where he was musing about using a fake promotional Tulsa paradigm to enter into this project. I like that, because it's not as direct, and frankly could be fun. One of my major issues with this place is this tremendous disconnect between the image Tulsa thinks it's putting forth and the actual reality.
I won't know how I feel photographing these types of things until I do it, but right now it's appealing to me. Meanwhile, if everyone could keep a look out for these types of items that would be great.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
First Black publisher in OK
Found this on the New York Public Library website--it was the only thing that came up when I searched "photo Oklahoma". Not much, but maybe a future lead. Here are the vitals on the photo:
Image Caption:
S. Douglas Russell, a Black newspaper man at Langston, Cole and Kingfisher, 1895.Created Date:
1895
Library Division:
NA /Description:
18 cm. x 13 cm.Specific Material Type:
PhotographsItem Physical Description:
18 cm. x 13 cm.Subject(s):
African American men
Digital Image ID:
1131162
Digital Record ID:
434483
NYPL Call Number:
Photo # 5494Church on the Move
OK, you all have to check out churchonthemove.com (note the dot com, not dot org)--it's a very slick site. Most of all, you have to see the pastor's full name to believe it. Here are some non-threatening ways we can capture their discourse:
Hear Pastor George Monday through Friday on KNYD 90.5 FM from 11:00-11:15 a.m. and on KCFO AM 970 from 10:30-10:45 a.m. On Sundays, Pastor George can be heard on KRMG AM 740 from 7:30-8:00 a.m. The Gospel Bill Show airs on KGEB Channel 53. (Check local listings for airtimes.)
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