If you've seen Avatar in the theaters on a 3D screen, you've become acquainted with a technology that carries with it a whole new untapped art form that has just barely scratched its potential.
I'm an amatuer film maker, photographer, and writer. I've been investing into 3D high definition cameras for both video and still photography, display technology to actually view the things I'm working on in 3D, digital professional-quality editing software and computer equipment, and 3D audio equipment to sync with the video.
I am currently writing a short full-length screenplay that could be filmed on a shoe string budget but yet suspenseful and story-driven that I will direct in order to show 3D's untapped potential as an entertainment media art. With 3D, a director can use an entire pallet of untried magic to set the mood and play with the audience's emotions - in a way, putting them in the first person point of view, just like how the characters in the story had through their eyes.
Minor details, such as the swet of a scared character are more vivid and noticable - easily empathized by the audience. By tapping into that empathy, the director can communicate to the audience how scared that character must be feeling better than 2D methods. The same could be said for sexiness. Subtle details of a character's skin or clothing - or lack of - in 3D could bring the empathy of a character's attraction towards another character (an important detail in the story and character chemestry) could be understood and felt by the viewer.
There's a lot more to it than that. Imagine Alfred Hitchcock trying to explain (prior to filming Psycho) how quick edits of hundreds of camera shots of varying points of view and angles of film clips of durations of time measured in nanoseconds artistically spliced together of someone murdered while taking a shower... the creepy music... the loud but strangely silent falling water fades to red... I don't think anyone but Hitchcock imagined the effect that scene would have! Anyone hearing this would likely think he'd gone mad - and yet have a sense of the genius behind it without having to actually "understand" it.
3D in all forms - movies or still photography is a new art form. The genius of the shower scene is the visual construct - in two dimensions - as a TOOL in order to communicate an emotional story more effectively and dramatically than anything Hollywood did previously - a stylish leap foward (quick cuts/angles) in the art of storytelling that filmakers are still using artistically in every genre (music videos, for instance) and that genius - the next leap foward - hasn't even begun to show its revolutionary potential!
Few film makers today actually "get it". James Cameron "gets it". There's an artistic reason Avatar stands out compared to other 3D movies that followed it. Ridley Scott, for Prometheus, also "gets it". I think I also get it. Instead of trying to explain it (like in my Hitchcock example), I think the best way to actually communicate these untested concepts floating around in my brain like a continuous broken record that never ends is to actually make it and show it.
While my film project is years away before it can be realized, there are smaller projects I can do in the interim that could demonstrate what I'm talking about. I can make short artys films in 3D and I even have ideas - using my 3D art concepts - for fashion, glamour, and even erotic 3D still photo-modeling. I just don't have the budget to hire any professional models for the photo-shoots. Keep in mind, what I am doing has not been done before. We will be sailing uncharted waters. My motivation is to push the boundaries of our collective imaginations and be part of something that truly has the potential of absolutely amazing to share.
I don't want to expensive "professional" models and their old ways and snooty attitudes involved and stunting innovation dragging anchors stuck in yester-year. In fact, no or little modeling experience is a plus. If you want to model in one of my projects, send me an email and introduce yourself. The biggest requirement for helping me is that you must feel the same excitement as I do for pioneering a new artform. I'm not doing this for the money and no one is paying me (I'll actually be losing money on this). This is not a commercial project.
HOWEVER, if our experiment succeeds (which I have confidence that it will) and there's a potential market out there for it, the project after our "experiment" will be commercial and put on a payroll for that project! I'm open to ideas, suggestions, help of any kind, and anyone interested in modeling and/or contributing in an artistic way.
Please use this site's messaging system to contact me. I will respond personally to all who inquires.
It's kind of like Facebook, but it focuses more heavily on community photo sharing. There's no porn or nudity allowed, but the girls are hot and they try to push the limits as far as creatively possible. Like Facebook, the photo albums are mostly self-shot pics from their camera phones, etc.
There's a feature that uses the site's fake money system that allows users to "sell" any photo they upload. Those photos then go into circulation on the site, exchanging "ownership" of that photo to the "highest bidder". For money that's fake, it appears that the users of myyearbook.com it has some value at least because more and more users are posting slutier and slutier photos. Of course, some of these are TOSSED because they've crossed a line.
I'm in the process of saving the best I can find on that site. Check my uploaded content here for some examples. I encourage you to find other good ones and upload them to your galleries as well.
