Winter Break '14

No blogging done this entire semester but why!

Maybe because this was the hardest semester of my calarts time. No wait, 1st semester was still horrible. I did throw up on the last day of school. I like to tell that story.

My semester was filled with partying it up with my best friends, tempe, julian, isabela. Such good friends who have been there 100%. I can't even imagine going through school without them. I also lost my grandma about 2 weeks ago and is something i'm not ready to deal with yet. I've stored it in the back of my mind for when I have time to give her a proper goodbye.

i've also moved a total of 5 times in the past 2 years which could make anyone crazy. There's always too much going on and all i ever really wish for is a massage and sushi. Or going to the movies. That always helps.

I did manage to crank out this music video with the help of my friends which I feel very proud of!



Hyperbubble - A Synthesizer for Christmas from Ambar Navarro on Vimeo.

It's too late to write now. It seemed like a good idea 10 mins ago. But there you have it! a new film and I have behind the scenes photos. Wish I had more.

I did also manage to work on a commercial stop-motion job a few days ago, which maybe i'll post later on.

My next days will be spent in butler (OF COURSE) can't escape that place and then Christmas with tempe AND julian's family. I cannot wait. I'm going to try to post my newer work online and stop being so blogging lazy!!

see you later internet blog

ambar

SUMMER 2013

My first post about Summer '13

I spent the first few weeks working at my desk in Butler until they finally had to lock up the building.  I managed to move out of Lakeshore and am  now living in a super cute 1 bedroom in Val Verde with my new cat Gravy.

I also have had adventures such as partying it up in Santa Monica, Asavari's Installation in Venice, Werner Herzdog meet with Tempe :), Pizza adventures with Lizzy, swims with Quique, BeardHaus with Melody, BBQ with Jeni, and now all i'm in the mood for is to start experimenting with new art. I want to do it all. Photography, collaging, light art, museums, flower pressing. I'm motivated to get back in my habit of wanting to learn it all instead of focusing on one thing. I guess that's just the way I work.

I'm excited to spend the rest of my summer here with my new kitten and hopefully interning or working on my own pieces and even get into galleries.  I currently have 3 pieces at the international toy theater festival in new york and I really hope someone documented my stuff!

i'm also itching getting back my tumblr.. not sure if that's wise.  Anyways everything seems very open right now and i'm appreciating all my friends company and my new boy cat :)

Last Week of School!

Digital Arts Expo

I attempted making this virtual beach thing, the code worked okay, overall  i think the point across

Thanks Monica for pix ;)

 We also had a great time on the beach together, I am currently in love with Venice. Even though i lost my phone there

Is this Week 10? Week whatever

Some of my mini art got accepted into Great Small Works in NY!

It will be in the gallery during the middle of June, and if I can somehow save enough money, maybe i'll fly out to attend the festival!

My final for Janie Geisers class

Projected onto toy

Karaoke from Ambar Navarro on Vimeo.


Now it's time to finish my bathtub film and mini pet shop film,  I also have a final concert, digital arts installation, and cabinets of curiosity display.  Waiting for the semester to end but also anxious for FALL SEMESTER!!!! Then I can take robotics!!! Yes!!!

So much work to do, not enough money, and too many shoes I wish to own.

ambar

DIGITAL ARTS EXPO SUBMISSION 2013

Ambar Navarro
Experimental Animation BFA-2
Glitching in Real Time - Working Title
CS313 - A live feed iSight camera manipulation that picks up on colors to subtract and then replace by revealing animation/video playing underneath.  This will be like glitch art only in real time and allow interactivity within a room.  There will also be a Green Screen in the background that will also be subtracted allowing for the person to seem fully immersed in the world, or inside the film playing.

So far I have only eliminated the color Red, but plan to also do Green and Blue.  I also need to insert the animation I will be using, currently the image being used is a stock photo for testing.



The Red on my face, backpack, and apple all revealing the astronaut photo underneath.

Need -

Laptop - Provided
2 C-Stands - Film Cage help?
Green Screen - Video Studio
Prefer to be in MachLab to use one of the monitors or would prefer the main projection screen

Week..10?

I have no idea what week of school this is..

Posting some work from Leo's Cabinets of Curiosity.

 Panorama assignment - use magazine, I made burning houses turning into ashes with mountains and a sky back drop

Book art - Do anything with a book. Added mini led lights, story about a scientist dealing with a young girl and boy

 

Polly Pocket art!!! - This was a cabinets of curiosity assignment, I got really inspired by old bug displays pinned with needles and have been wanting to use my polly's.  Too bad i've lost so many more over the years! uh!

I bought this toy off the internet - I'm going to try to attach small led lights onto the penguins to create a sort of light show in a pitch black space for Janie's class

I stil have so much more work to do! ALL FINALS!!!

Janie Final - Karoke installation projection final due in 1 week

Leo Cabinets FINAL

Digital Arts show

Visual Programming performance

3D printing

ahhh!! But I will say that i'm really excited about all of these, just need to get myself back in work mode! and less of eat chocolate in bed and watch l word mode...

my film!! it's sad that my film is always last on my priority list :( but I think it's because i'm so close to the final edit then all I need is sound! So i'm not too stressed yet.. I'm really enjoying my classes but have found myself wanting to just go on adventures with friends instead of working. It's probably because the weather is so nice now and I really want to escape.  Only a few more weeks to go before summer!

Leftover stickers from Portfolio Day!!!

ambar

SPRING BREAK

THE GUN SHOW!!! Me, Tempe, and Liz all had girls night out and went to the shooting range.  This was my 1st time shooting a gun and it was INTENSE.  I was so scared to pull the trigger for the first time but after a few shots, you get used to it.

Me shooting Tempe shooting with an 8mm camera

and then we ended the perfect girls night by going to watch SPRING BREAKERS

Week 7

The week before Spring Break...

FINALS are coming up!

• Projected Objects- Make an Installation that uses projections
• Cabinets of Curiosity- Basically do anything
• Programming- Submit for the Digital Arts show
• Projection Mapping- Final Concert
• MY FILM
• PETSTORE FILM

Snapshots of Butler...

Quique making his creepy hairy puppet, and Grace struggling to cut wood. Haha

and I finally got some j campbells!!!

 My 3D printed box from my AutoCad file

I have more of my work to post...

ps. those are the tiny white houses I  built for Janie Geiser's Clouded Sulphur 

ambar

Week 6

I was so proud of my interactive Su Tissue Programming test.  This week in programming class we learned how to use our mac's iSight cameras to detect ourselves that we then turned into a grid and you could program each specific square to play a certain note or in my case part of the Suburban Lawns interview.  Here is my iphone documentation...

(Put the volume UP!)

This was also finally the first time in our 3D printing class that we got to print out our boxes! mine was pretty plain, but I wanted to make sure it worked before I got too detail oriented.

Also this week,
Men of Butler Calendar shoot, Dirties Screening, editing film, Getting ready for Portfolio day, Jeanne Stern visiting on Saturday!!!, and getting soooo much other stuff ready for finals and my 2 films.


I also watched Eraserhead for the first time..

Such an incredible puppet.

and I watch Angela.. I've been wanting to get back into the habit of film watching.

ambar

Week 5

Week 5 Update..

it's strange looking back at my blog from last year and seeing how different my work has become. This year i've taken on 3 classes from the music tech. department and am finding ways of incorporating new media/technology into my work.

This was last weeks Programming assignment:

Of course it's much better when the person recording can actually use both hands to move the game console but I have to admit that I actually am liking this cat art piece.

Speaking of cat art.. this was my assignment for my Cabinets of Curiosity class.  I have more new work to post, but haven't documented it and honestly isn't really too worth it for me at the moment.

(insert cat vid here..when I record it.)

I have to admit my mind is in a dream and all I can think about is the summer where I want to travel and possibly get a stop-motion internship.  Portfolio day is coming up but since I did not take many animation classes this year,  feel that I am behind.  It makes me a little sad but constantly find myself daydreaming about taking a trip to Europe with my boyfriend or the many puppet workshops I find online.  My mind is just in a dream state at the moment.


I also miss fashion.. fashion!!! where did you go?! These are things i've been eyeing almost every day online:

<3


ambar

Up-Date. Week..4

I never got to post about my trip to slamdance..but luckily we all made a documentary or mockumentary which you can privately view on vimeo if interested..

https://vimeo.com/59391844

password: www.buttfoot.com

This is my life. To sum up this semester, it's me running to music tech tutoring, autocadding nights with quique, now film club with sean, practically living with my boyfriend alvie, and trying to edit my final film any free minute I get.   Everything is going great.. just the usual stress.

Some work from my Programming and Visuals class.

(Put the volume UP! Programming Visuals to Music done in Quartz Composer)

(Done in Processing, changing color ball test)

(2nd Quartz Composer test, make cubes)

(My 1st Processing assignment, draw something)

I actually am starting to miss tumblr a lot.. Might switch blogs over.. :(

sad blog moment.. But in other news last weekend my boyfriend took me out on a Valentines dinner to Mozza, then spent Chinese new year in chinatown, and also headed over to Automata to see Janie Geiser's incredible puppet performance for, Clouded Sulphur.  These were the tiny houses I built for the show that were actually the only set pieces! I feel so lucky to have Janie as a mentor.

Here are the miniature set pieces I created for Janie's show, and boyfriend pics of course. 

ambar

Stills from my film