Final project progress

I'm making a decoration for my mom which is a small mirror with a floral ring around it. The ring is made out of plastic spoons. Seen here. 

My mom wants a mirror so I figured I'd make her one. I plan on coloring the spoons though and I'm practicing with some to find out the best way to separate the heads and color them. I figured i would do this before buying over 300. 

I found out the best way to snap them is to just bend them by force. I tried scissors to no avail and snapping it was quicker regardless. 

I then worked on organizing the spoons to reflect the floral pattern and found that an overlapping/underlapping pattern best matched. 

I then pulled out a sharpie and quickly scribbled on the inside of the cut head and rubbed it with my thumb to spread it and coat it smoother. 

Up close it looked rough but it looked seamless when placed in the pattern. I am going to try out spray paint and then acrylic paint to see which works best. 

All in all I like the way it's headed. I still have to find a backboard for it to be glued on but I will probably use cardboard. I'm gonna pick up a mirror from Walgreens and go section by section once I get all the materials. I don't plan on spending more than ten dollars and hopefully it all works out. 

Glitch Art

I decided to use Nelson Mandela as my revolutionary figure due to his actions in the South African Revolution. 

First I used a photo of young Nelson Mandela when he was actively in the civil rights movement and the amount of glitch I used reflects the unexpected trouble that he brought his opponents. 

Next I used a photo of Nelson Mandela in jail and used a larger amount of glitch because this was the point where Mandela was at his most troublesome as an inspiration to others while at Robben Island. 

Then finally I used a picture of Nelson Mandela after being president and I used little to no glitch to represent the change from a revolutionary figure fighting a corrupt government into the president of South Africa. 

The Ballad of a Nintendo Junkie

I was raised off of Nintendo. My parents both played the SNES like it was their job and had two systems in case they wanted to play something different at the same time. Once I hit 3 I started to play on the SNES until my hands grew big enough to play on the Nintendo 64. Super Mario 64 was my drug and when I wasn't earning stars, I was playing Super Smash Bros. I had every generation of Gameboy besides the Color and I've been playing Pokemon for my entire life. I have two 64's, two Gamecubes, two Wii's, and now an Xbox. 

  My brother plays the Xbox for its war ganes but I only play it for FIFA, which is the soccer variant of Madden. FIFA games can either make or ruin my day and it brings out my competitive drive. I've screamed, laughed, cried, and nearly broke my TV in celebration while playing the game. 

   But for all it's worth, I still prefer playing Super Mario or Pokemon over sports and shooting games anyday. I just need to find a 3DS now. 

LinkedIn

Pretty easy to use site. 

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marcus-mitchell/92/b62/421/

Young Money Finale -Disney Remix (EXPLICIT!)

Remix project

This was easily my favorite project that ice had in college so far. Was afraid that I bit off more than I could chew but I managed. Put in about 14 hours of editing into this tiny three minute video. 

I decided to go with vidding so I could work with songs and my initial plan was to remix "Say Something" by A Great Big World with incredibly sad disney moments. But realizing that it wasn't really a remix since the mood and tone was basically the same and I wasn't bringing anything new in. So I decided to switch the song to the most Anti-Disney song I knew, which was anything by Young Money. I connected the two through the fact that they are both corporations who have monopolized their trade, whether it be animated films or rap music. I chose the song "Finale" for its efforts of collaboration between multiple artists which added a challenge, to an otherwise repeated idea. 

My inspiration also came from the observation of the lack of African American culture in Disney movies. Some may argue that there was the Princess and the Frog but Tatiana wasn't even a real princess and the prince was from Africa and not an African-American. So I chose Disney characters who were as close to being black as possible. They include the genie who is pretty gangster from what I've seen. Aladdin is an Arab but he could pull off being Egyptian which is in Africa. The beast from beauty and the beast because he's brown. Stitch is an alien but his speech is pretty thug. Dory was the closest thing to a black girl other than the aforementioned Tatiana. Frozone for obvious reasons. And Steamboat Willie as the CEO of the corporation because he is literally black...and white. 

All joking aside, there is so little "black" culture in Disney movies so I took this opportunity to help them out.