Sink Babies

Sink Babies is a short video created by Carlin and Nick. The premise for the video stems from the idea of videotaping the 'birth' of a batch of sponge animals that emerge from tiny plastic capsules when immersed in water. Unbenownst to us, the 'Sink Babies' take a very, very long time to hatch, and thus some fast-forward magic and a little upbeat tune (composed by Carlin for the film) accompany the footage.

Click Here for Video (or click image above):

Sink Babies.mov

Lab Report

Hypothesis: Sink Babies will begin to emerge from plastic coatings within a few minutes and grow into cute, spongey animals.

Observations: This was, in fact, completely not true.

Other Observations:
- The results of the animals as identified by color were incorrect. The yellow was not a giraffe, the green was not a turtle, and the blue was not a rhino.
- Animals were also not easily identifiable in sponge form even when fully extended.
- Animals needed to be stirred.
- Certain animals were attracted as if magnetically to each other, hence the video footage at the end where two green animals still in pill shape join together to embrace (or attack, however you want to look at it. what? we're not scientists or nothin') the blue seahorse.
- The inclusion of the blue 'Grow-A-Boyfriend' did nothing to hinder or aid our results.

Conclusion: Sink Babies are delightful, and we hope you enjoy them.

Expelling and Diffusing

'Expelling and Diffusing' was created as part of an assignment for a class studying sound composition. The piece seeks to reflect the nature of sound as having the ability to be plasticized, or sculpted as an art material. The work contains sound produced by computers, synthesizers, recorded sounds from the environment, and voice. The sound is filtered using EQ and manipulated digitally to create resonance and to give the listener a sense of stretching spatial qualities where sound is expelled from different locations in a plane, but also seems to diffuse from the air with no particular point of origin. Run Time: 7:09.

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Expelling and Diffusing.mp3