Welcome to My ACTLab Website
Welcome to my webpage, feel free to browse around and take it all in, this is just a small piece of a great website you can visit by going to jtlopez.com
What is the ACTLab?
ACTLab
means many things to many people, but to me it will always
be about "making stuff". I have taken 6 courses,
TA'ed 8+ and have worked on so many special projects I can't
even remember them all:)
To
say that the ACTLab has changed my life would be an understatement,
it has become my life!
The
ability to work with other talented "stuff makers" has given me
experience I would have never ever thought possible in my wildest
dreams.
My
name is Joseph Lopez, I am a graduate school ACTLabby. If you wish to contact me directly email me contact@jtlopez.com
Ok
enough of the plugging, here is the DL on my work.
I am currently working on my PhD where I study under Sandy Stone (aka the ACTLab goddess). Durning the summers I work with the ACTLab Team in the office where we develop software, happenings and in general "make stuff".
While a masters student I wrote a report about independent multimedia
production systems. This report is a big part of what I do in general
and has been a way of documenting much of the work I have performed
over the years.
This all got started when along
with a fellow graduate student and with the help of two very talented
undergraduates, I had the great pleasure of helping create
one of the first IPTV systems, ACTLab.tv .
ACTLab TV started as a peer to peer driven video streaming system. It allowed
content producers to stream large video over small connections
through the use of peer to peer technology and the support of efficient
codecs such as h.264. We have now expanded into many other fields, which you can read about on our site.
If
you look to your up top you will see the links to classes and special
projects I have taken. Each one of the pages is unique in its own
way. I am all about small HTML files and low bandwidth sites. Throughout
the years I have striven to make my videos high quality, yet easy
to view. As these pages are dated, they do not have direct links
back to this page, so make sure you remember to hit "back":)
How
I work
In the fall
of 2005 I TA'ed both ACTLab courses,
thus I was not able to make any projects. Throughout the semester
I would constantly be asked by my students if I was making
a project and what other projects I had done. As the semester
drew to a close many students came to me asking about their
project ideas with great concern about time management. I would
always tell them to make sure they got started early and to
always leave room in case a disaster strike. Well as always
some didn't and really began to tell me how there was no way
to
make a project in just a couple of days, so I thought to myself
"could I make a project in 2 days?"
The
answer was yes and here it is. I am really into photography,
I am an amateur at best though. I do not see myself as being
someone with talent when it comes to taking photo's, however
I always seem to have wacky ideas and take absurd amounts of
photo's while following them through. So I decided to make
a photo sequence. But I knew I had to take it up a notch since
I was
a grad student
and all... So I decided not only to use the photo's I had but
also shoot more within the two days I alloted myself to make
the piece. Over all I counted roughly 3100 pictures with
1500 of those being
from
the photo's
I shot within those two days.
I
really enjoyed making the project as it had a lot of different
meaning and I feel like they came through. To some it
was a visual treat, to others it was a look at emotion and
to some it has been a video about well... everyday life...
Click
Here to check it out (21mb QT7 h.264 vid)
Click
Here to check it out (21mb WMV HD 1280X960)
So
there you go, I have left a lot out, which if you look through
my links and such, many of the answers are there. Thanks for
taking a look!
My lastest rambling of a film is about my Car, check it out, I made it in the Summer of 2007:
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