The Dark Knight (2008)

Its hard to believe its almost the ninth anniversary of my first existential crises The dread 0f seeing Mr. Ledger on screen when he had died earlier that year was something i havent felt since. His terrifying performance. I looked up and some worker was walking in the dark steel rafters of this strange Iowan theater...

'Did he know he too would die one day?' wondered 11 year old Jack.

"I need to format these blog posts better and also add pictures because otherwise people don't read them," thought 19 year old me. "I should also stop writing down and publishing every thought I have after I drink too much coffee or are allone for too long or get sad..."

"How about you start now?" he asked himself right afterwards.

Maybe jack was scared that the only thing semi entertaining he was capable of creating was just stream of conciousness bullshit... but he's worried that isn't all that special either..

"Maybe trying to edit would be a good idea!" Thought the young man.

"But isn't language already reductive enough?" he thought, not knowing entirely what he meant and also knowing that editing would definitely help him be less reductive.



Annnyways I just wanted to say that my fiirst existential crisis was when I saw The Dark Night in theaters and I'm proud of that because I'm a pseudo-intellectual sadboi douche...

Digital Revolution Update: Day 7 / Artist Bio

My resolutions have takem a few hits since we last spoke... more on that later.. but Right now lets talk politics. I m gonn just come out and say it: It was me. Mr. putin and his friends had nothing to do with my shenanigins (althought I think he is bad, of course! aha). how i got myself into this pickle was that, actualy, me and john podesta just happened to share the same gmail password nd so, absentmindedly, I typed in his email username by mistake and viola! I had hacked mr Podester and then printed the emails and sent them to the wikileaks dungeon using my Forever liberty stamps that I had stashed from a pretty impulsive Forever stamp shopping spree back in 2005...

anyways now that that that that thats settled.

More about me? I'm a film major from Larry U #LaryyU and I'm interested in the aesthetics and ethics of mass medi, surveillance, documentary... I'm a pretty apolitical person but as you can see above I really can't keep myself out of the middle of things so i figure my art better reflect my values, which are communist.

Day 4 (UPDATE: Day 7) of the digital revolution / my new years resolution to be more positive and try new things

welcome back internet, you might not recognize me.. irl and on line. lots has changes sinde we last spoke .. adn not all so good :( but I'm working on it and a lot of good things will come out of it. I really do feel like I'm starting a new chapter in my life, and its not just because of new years eve 2017 wooo! or becuase i tried shrooms! Its because i have a BRAND NEW positive attitude and because If i;m not doing something or talking to someone or listening to something or reading or somehow distracting myself i get really sad and can't stop thinking about it!


 how do you not know what the voice in your head is gonna say before it says it? I have some ideas about that... but i'm not clueing you in on that yet (Heard of skynet??)

but anyways Reading  makes you hear somebody elses voice in a way. like its the closest thing you can get to sharing consciousness.. theres something poweerful in the written word because you are forced to say it in your own voice in your head. yu are forced to make the thought proccess your own.... Who is it tat said that if you understood n argument it necesarily means you believe it? ... Makes sense to me! Any ways I think it would be really interestig to try to combine this intimacy with video visuals.

It would have to be in a very specific way... text on screen lacks the intimacy of words in a book.. it won't be an easy task... but with your help, it just might work..

The Digital Revolution Lives on through me!

<3 Jack

Ashing in the compost

something we should all do

EDIT: This is not good for plants. DOn'T do this

Deer Web

Hello internet, nice to finally meet you. Heard a lot about you. Attached are a pictre of my teeth. if they look nice enough to you im surewe could make a deal..
 

 

These suckers werent easy to get.. 

Blue Period from jack lucas on Vimeo.

This one's a photoshop animation made with a collage of photographs on my iphone photo roll. A blue projector on my face, and my friends scabs, in particular.

Heres a short stop motion animation I made

and my amphetamine assisted explanation that i think cost me an internship:

A short fluid frame animation using soap, watercolors, spit, motor oil, and paper towels. Thoughts on possibility of beauty after the end of life I guess. Like I was thinking about how everything's dying because of these artificial pollutants and stuff. I was looking at motor oil in puddles in the rain and thinking about how it's this beautiful thing that's killing the earth and I was thinking about how the earth would still be beautiful without any life. But then would it be cause nothing could experience it. But that seems kind of conceited right? Things aren't beautiful just for human eyes but I guess maybe they are. I should've explored the involvement of sentience w regard to the beauty I guess I'll redo it or make a new thing or quit making *art* (I feel weird saying that like I don't really make art hm maybe I do I guess I do. I don't think I'm supposed to explain this thought process or maybe I shouldn't even be having it. I guess I'm committed to being an ARTIST now and I need to be more mysterious 😏. I wonder if emojis work on Vimeo description pages probably not. It was the smug/smirking face. I feel like I should've stopped typing by now. I was up all night writing a paper about Sula except I wasn't writing it cause me and Sabrina were plotting again. Good book though I can't do it justice in a paper I don't think. I've been doing well in the class though so maybe I should stop putting myself down! I hope no one reads this I guess that's obviously not true cause I wouldn't post it if I didn't want ppl to read it just don't think I'm trying to be funny I'm in a serious mood ok. I'm procrastinating, not that I ever procrastinate when I'm on the job, if ur a potential employer reading this :). I definitely can't send this to the place I wanna intern at now or I could just Delete this description but I don't wanna. No one is gonna read this they'll look at it and go "Whoah lots of words" that's what I would do at least, except I'm actually a very hard worker and not lazy, if ur thinking about hiring me! I actually read everything i was kidding earlier. But also not too much so it interrupts my work! I'm gonna stop now cause my essay is due v soon and I have a lot to do.
Animation, editing, and sound design by me. (Jack Lucas).

I got the sounds from freesoundfx.co.uk which I apparently have to say but should I really? Idk. I would have recorded my own sound but I've been doing an animation every week ok relax its just a little exercise for fun ok.