This semester, I’ve been working on building my web programming chops in Dynamic Web Development and Flash of Flash at ITP.  Using some of the new skills I’ve picked up, I have created three ways of presenting Snapshots, an online collection of music I have composed this school year at ITP. Original HTML version PHP/MySQL/Javascript [...]

Safety is Dangerous from lee-sean on Vimeo. Here is my first attempt at animation with Adobe After Effects, inspired by Surrealism, Dada, and early MTV animations. All the source images were taken by me or Kris and can be found in my Flickr account. Music: Netmaster 2 (Safety is Dangerous Glitch Mix) by HEPNOVA. [YouTube] [...]

Noir is the new video I made in Comm Lab @ ITP with Elizabeth, Catherine, and Kristin.  It is a music video for a song of the same name that I recorded circa 1998-1999 under the Ronald Raygun band name, and re-released online in 2006 under the new HEPNOVA brand.  It was the second or [...]

In the February 2007 Harper’s Magazine article, “On the Rights of Molotov Man: Appropriation and the art of context,” painter Joy Garnett and photographer Susan Meiselas debate the bounds of copyright and how decontextualizing and “remixing” images affects meaning.  

This is my response to The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism, by Jonathan Lethem for Communications Lab at ITP. First of all, Lethem isn’t really a plagiarist because he cites the sources from which he lift phrases.  In any case, I get many of his points, and it was a great literary ‘reveal’ at the [...]