My final project is a half stop motion, half motion graphics/computer animation version of the child’s rhyme, Humpty Dumpty. It will feature a stop motion Humpty, and possible stop motion horses and men, composited with a computer generated background and world. The rhyme will be told with kinetic, animated text, and the entire image will [...]
After crawling through the lists of best sturdy messenger bags for the real world, I settled on this gray “NY Bike Messenger Bag” from Manhattan Portage.
This blog will catalogue the thoughts and creations of me, Andrew Orsak. I live in Austin, TX and go to school the University of Texas. I study Radio-TV-Film, as they call it here. I hope to fill this space out with my creations and projects, as well as thoughts on media, technology and life in [...]
Pulp Fiction is a classical example of postmodern film that forgoes special effects in favor of intriguing characters, unique settings and smart dialogue to achieve mainstream success. Quentin Tarantino uses myriad techniques to create his unique style, which conveys endless information about the characters, plot and ideology that is beyond what is found merely in [...]
The Soviet Union began as an experiment in communism that was to stand on the shoulders of Marxist theory, initiated by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party. The basic tenets of the abolition of private property, ownership of the means of production by the community and an eventual classless, stateless society were ostensibly the goal of implementing Marxism in Russia. However, Lenin’s ideas of a forced revolution by vanguardism, misconceptions of the theory of history and adherence to an authoritarian government marked a clear break from traditional Marxist theory, while the arbitrary violence, establishment of the totalitarian “socialist State”, collectivization, political repression and rapid, forced industrialization of Joseph Stalin proved to be both a break from Leninism and especially from Marxism.