Davíd's Life

DCH · PROJECT No. 6 – EVERYTHING WE DO (IS MUSIC) SOUNDSCAPE "The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all.  This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation" (McLuhan, 119)  Everything is happening all right now. I don't think I have ever felt so overwhelmed. As I've been getting into tech week, along with the most of my vital work in college, and I've felt like I'm drowning, like I can't step back and breathe. Ive had something to be doing, that I could be doing, that I should be doing, that I want to be doing, that I have to be doing every second of every day these past weeks. (I don't mean to say 'woe is me, I am the Lawrence Busiest'; everyone else on campus has, does, or will feel this. No one should get to that point of feeling inconsolably busy.)  This builds on the fact that I won't have the structure of being a student in just a couple of months. I can't imagine the fact that it's been 4 years since I s...

Going from the pictures to the book, I know I wanted to experiment more. I liked the pictures originally, but it needed a push in some type of a direction that wasn't so plain. Some photos were pushed to feel very unnatural through the shifting of colors such as purple skies, green and blue bars, or very detailed and moody portapotties and empty rooms.   I wanted to play with everyday life, disruptions, and altering reality to tie in the drop out/teach in dynamic.  The frozen pipes and portapoties are influenced by the fact that our utilities are or have been broken for quite some time without having any word on when it would be fixed. Sometimes it seems like were left behind, since we pay a crazy amount while being forced to live on campus, yet housing has verbally told us that there's nothing to do about the heating, electricity, or internet not working (sometimes all three at the same time!)  "We are now simultaneously the drop out and the teach in. The two forms are c...

I got in to photo editing around this time last year, when I was talking intro to computer design. I always mess around with all sorts of different things to achieve my vision in my head, but I never know how to replicate an effect I really like from one picture to another. I know I love making the colors on a photo pop like crazy. Not everyone agrees with me, but I just love it when the colors are honestly totally blinding.  For this project, since we were expected to make more subtle alterations, I went less all out than usual. I wanted these to feel a little more natural, but still with a good pop of color.  When cutting down from close to 100 photos down to 20, I realized that a good majority of the photos I selected were taken in my house. Some photos are academically rigorous, others are actively not academic, and some have no one at all. From this I wanted to put the photos together in a way to represent a Friday, which is the day with the most apparent academic to not...

Filmed and edited by Davíd Ciotti Hernández Audio Copyright © – The Decca Record Company Limited, under Fair Use      I wasn't certain of where I was taking this project until I was deep into it. Reading over the assignment, the  McLuhan quote, “march backwards into the future,” really stuck with me. It reminded me so much of my time stage managing The Show Is Over, a devised embodied dance show, which was last spring term's MainStage production.       The first section of the show was around 10 minutes of the cast crossing from off stage left to off stage right while walking backwards (then safely run forwards through the basement back to the other side to continue the cycle), while pealing off layers of clothing. These two images started to lead my mind in what kind of footage I should capture.      My friend taking off many sweaters, in my mind, always came with the meaning of a type of stripping of identity, and I wanted it over...

     My name is Davíd Alejandro Ciotti Hernandez and I was born and raised in New York City. My parents have never been real artsy, but having the fortune of being my parents child, an Irish midwesterner Mom from Kenosha and my Cuban dad, while also happening to be born in and live my life in a place that happens to be a cultural epicenter of the world, meant that I had so much influence constantly being bombarded on me. I also was a part of my community theatre, because of my older sister, ever since the 1st grade.  Final Project for EDST 350. Use any medium to express anything relating to the class.      The thing is that, said "influence" being so constant from the time I was able to start processing the world, lead me to the subconscious conclusion that the art in a museum, at the movies, in the park, on broadway, or the side of the buildings has been here as long as the earth has existed - you can't just add to it. I could do my finger paints as a...