John Roach

Adobe Premiere – Working with Images

Here’s a handout for adding and manipulating images in the Premiere timeline.
It includes adding dissolves, changing scale, etc.

Posted on: March 3, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Anton Bruhin – In/Out

Here's a good example of an editing style that is determined to some degree my the mechanisms of editing. In…

Posted on: March 3, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Steve Reich – Come Out

Come Out is a 1966 piece by American composer Steve Reich. He was asked to write this piece to be…

Posted on: March 3, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers

Six drummers participate in a well planned musical attack in the suburbs. As an elderly couple leave their apartment the…

Posted on: March 2, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Noise by Kijek/Adamski

"Film inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It's a game of imagination provoked…

Posted on: March 2, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Adobe Premiere – Sound Editing Basics

Here's a handout that I developed to cover the basics of manipulating sound in Adobe Premiere. premiere and sound (PDF)

Posted on: February 26, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

CampusPress and WordPress – Embedding a sound file from Soundcloud

There are many types of media that can be embedded into a Wordpress post: youtube, vimeo, soundcloud, etc. Here's how…

Posted on: February 26, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Pierre Henry – Variations for a door and a sigh (1963)

from a post on the WFMU's Beware of the Blog Listening this morning to "Variations pour Une Porte et Un…

Posted on: February 26, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Using WordPress (CampusPress)

This class blog is created through CampusPress. This is basically Wordpress which is a blogging platform, but it is run…

Posted on: February 16, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Putting a book online – Issuu

There are two popular services for hosting PDFs online where they can be viewed and flipped through easily. One is…

Posted on: February 16, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Using photos responsibly – Licenses and restrictions

Some of you have asked about using images sourced from the internet. As an artist and designer and creator of…

Posted on: February 15, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Tools – Folding Techniques

How to make an 8-page booklet out of a single piece of paper Cut and Fold Techniques for Promotional Materials:…

Posted on: February 15, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Sniffing the Time

Over the course of history, a number of mechanisms have been devised to measure the passage of time. Intricately positioned…

Posted on: February 13, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Tools and Supplies – Mounting

Here is the mounting material we talked about in class. You can use this material to mount your prints rather…

Posted on: February 13, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

InDesign – Adding cropmarks to an object. Great for book-making

There are times when you need to add marks to a layout so you can trim the elements, but you…

Posted on: February 12, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Blending modes in InDesign

So what ARE all of those blending modes in InDesign? Here's the Adobe Help page on the modes and their…

Posted on: February 10, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

The Decisive Moment – Henri Cartier Bresson

"I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to “trap” life—to preserve life in…

Posted on: February 10, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

5-Card nancy

from Scott McCloud Five Card Nancy is a Dada card game using cut-up panels from Ernie Bushmiller's long-running 20th Century…

Posted on: February 9, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

inDesign – Gridify

Want to create a grid in InDesign super fast? http://www.adobe.com/support/indesign/gettingstarted/pdfs/indesign_howto_a_grid.pdf"

Posted on: February 4, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Objects in my house

Objects in My House a project by the photographer Dylan Chandler that talks about time in a number of ways related…

Posted on: February 3, 2014
By: John Roach
With: 0 Comments

Posts by: John Roach