MOMI Trip

The field trip at the Museum of the Moving Image was very interesting and reflective.
It's very easy to take for granted the technological ability we have with these powerful, but tiny cameras like the DSLR's and iphones;

It is pretty impressive to see the older cameras and the sheer size of this equipment and how evolution of filmmaking equipment changed throughout the years was great. Keeping in this topic of nostalgia, seeing all the old arcade and console games such as Donkey Kong, Frogger, Mario and Sonic was awesome!

I also saw the booth in which you saw a clip of a film (I did "The Terminator 2" and "Jurassic Park") and had to change certain sound effects to your liking. I though it would be funny to replace the Velociraptor's roar to a kitten's meow. Very Threatening.
I also got a chance to see and play around with Zoetrope, which was pretty cool.
My favorite part of the chance to create your own stop animation short. They had a machine that was mad it simple to capture your frames. They had various props as well to give the animation more dimension.

All in all, the visit to the Museum of the Moving Image was a great trip to see the trajectory that film has been through until the present. It's one thing to read about it in a text book, but to see it in person elicits a different feeling.

Here are some pics i took:

Here is the stop-motion I did at MOMI:
"Nasty"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgm6Sqm900Q