Last night, as a part of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Third Friday of the month series, Santa Cruz had its first MINIfest Destiny, Short film festival. It was a great success and I look forward to the next one.
For the occasion, I made the above film. It’s about the ritual of taking a bath with flowers on St. George’s Day, May 6th. The song is also called Djurdjevdan.
Local artist, activist, video audio media maker, Brooke Bradford of came into KZSC to talk about her work and upcoming event, MINIfestdestiny, A short film festival at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History beginnning at 4pm on Friday.
Brooke owns the Brooke Br
adford Creative Services company that can be found at her website, Sheep in Space. Sheep is Space is full of valuable information that features a Santa Cruz Events Calendar and a blog.
We also talked about Brooke’s involvement with the upcoming TEDxYouth@Watsonville, May 19th at the Mello Center beginning at 10am.
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Local Filmmaker Chris McGlivray came into KZSC to talk about his movie company, Six Finger Films and curating or putting the program together for the upcoming, MINIfestdestiny a mini film festival for films under five minutes long.
A MINIfestdestiny, a short film festival, will be at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Friday, May 17th from 5-8pm as a part of the 3rd Friday May: Photography and Film Night.
Chris and I met when he spoke at NextSpace and presented a Next Talk entitled, the Syntax of Film. On the show, we talked the development of the independent film movement that exists through technology. This movement has made the democratization of the medium as well changed the language of film. For instance, the camera on your smartphone used to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It also allows for experimentation that a few decades ago would have been cost prohibitive.
Chris described a couple of his current projects, Wild is the Night and Smoke and Mirrors. The link is to their Facebook Page. This Six Finger Films short film, Smoke and Mirrors, will be completed in June. The trailer is below.
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On May 5, 2013, Graduating PhD candidate in Computer Science at UCSC, Chris Lewis came onto Artist on Art to talk about his studies & research of “Motivational Design” and the intersection between computer science and psychology.
Chris’ research delves into the psychology literature of motivation theory, to try and find the answers to these questions, and help software designers to make more engaging software. In the process, he’s learning about psychology, motivational behavioral and pattern in design in popular applications to create a software where getting a task done is less important than ensuring that the user comes back tomorrow.
Chris‘s thesis, Motivational Design, presents his understanding into a framework and library of twenty-seven {motivational design patterns}, under the categories of gameful, social, interface and information. Theories and experimental results from motivational psychology, behavioral psychology and behavioral economics are used to explain the power of different design patterns and suggest optimal implementations. Additionally, a set of eight dark patterns are presented. These patterns promise short-term gains, but at the expense of long-term motivational harm, and strategies to avoid their use are proposed.
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On May 5, 2013, local artist/educator and artistic director of Anavami Center, Maijo came into the KZSC studio to talk about the upcoming year-long series beginning May of 2013 through the summer of 2014, Painting Into Our Emerging Cosmological Mythology.
Led by Majio, Painting Into Our Emerging Cosmological Mythology is a year long educational collaboration using the creative Transformational Painting Process.
We also talked about the upcoming 5 day 2013 Fall Retreat at Ghost Ranch , Abiquiu, New Mexico, Georgia O’Keefe’s old stomping grounds. Early Registration is necessary for Ghost Ranch lodging! Contact: Majio 831 420-1349 or anavami@cruzio.com.
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