the makings of Zdepth Process Video CLIP

Zdepth Final for BLISS

Zdepth Forever 2 the Extreme

Untitled from Christopher J. Kim on Vimeo.

Zdepth Forever 2 the Extreme

Z depth source CODE

Sony Bloggie 3D camcorder Trail

Sony Bloggie 3D camcorder Trail

Love for films has long been my passion long since I can remember. But this so called passion was merely more than a hobby until I have decided to take an elective course dedicated to reviewing Alfred Hitchcock's movies taught by an American professor during my undergrad years in Sogang University in the late 90's.     

Throught out this one semester curriculm                                                                       

                                                                        

Z-depth project Semi-Final projection

                        

3D Steadicam dolly within Maya program displaying Z-depth footage

makings of Iphone4 steadicam system : home made version

3D Graffiti-Seoul FINAL PROJECT

                                         18 십팔 좆까 18 is standing on the forefront of the driveway entrance. The audacity of this stand is meant to say "screw you" to all the automobile driving snobs in Korea.

                                      Here, I tried to visualize sort of a retro lettering styled billboard probably most famous by Hollywood sign located on the top mountain hill of North Holllywood. The day was gloomy, thus making it possible to composite grey to dark grey Korean words (plus arabic numbers) to either the side of the building to the top of  them without concern for having to add shadows. The colors of letters were sampled from the surrounding making them ever more realistic.


                                     

street Graffiti Korea - 3D digital project Seoul from chriskim on Vimeo.

   It becomes boggle to your mind when hearing street noise of various automobile sounds combined with its klaxon horns whenever walking down the streets of Seoul, Korea. And in today's so-called civilized society, one can only do so much about it except to seek both spiritual refuge and relief else where through some type of "temple-stay" program or the likes. But here I took a bold approach (or stand if you will) against these sort of passive resolutions and actually have done something about it. Such as terrorizing it with 3D creation of mine.

3D Graffiti Composite

my choice of TOOLS for this Graffiti project

Graffiti ---- the Next GENERATION

Graffiti art doest not need to be limited as to remain the domain or medium for the destittue (or pretentious to be so) hoodlums and wannabes only. If not, street graffti  works from the countries like let say Germany, Japan or Korea would have no true sense of authenticity in terms of their origin since there are no true

ghettos in these countries. With this conception in mind, there is sense of urgency to come up with new format in representing these type of works in the 21st century in high-tech cities with higher educated people

with capability of manipulating 3D and 2D graphic tools alike, such as myself in the city of Seoul for instance.

Finding " Nak-Suh "

Despite the conventional wisdom held by majority of Westerners here that Koreans are in lack of graffiti capability and so forth, I have firm belief to the contrary.

Post modern graffiti in Korean form took place in the name of "Nak-Suh" which literally means scribbling messages (whether it be in text or drawing) on the wall. This wall could either be located inside the toilet partitions to the corridors of the small streets among many other places.

I am going to propose a 3D visually conceptive Graffiti Work that befits Korean general public,

well.... perhaps not.

  

Graffiti .... what is 18 street > 21 jump street

 The etymology of the word "graffiti" derives from "graffito" which can also be used to describe things from ancient cave paintings and rock inscriptions to its counterparts in Roman Empire times. But 20th century anti-social gang related graffiti culture is said to have risen in Harlem NY as well as becoming prominent in Southern California in the 80's mixed with gang activities in combination with hiphop culture. And this westcoast side of the tale is what I am interested in deconstructing.

I was exposed to mostly Hispanic influenced graffi works. my understanding is that this Graffiti culture from Mexican (or Chincano) people is coded in their DNA indebted to Mexican wall painting (called " Mural ") legacy. And this tendency spread to the so called " Low -Riders " car painting extravaganza.

WIKIPEDIA definition
18th Street gang is considered to be the largest transnational criminal gang in Los Angeles, California. It is estimated that there are thousands of members in Los Angeles County alone. There are approximately 200 separate individual autonomous gangs operating under the same label within separate barrios in the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, the South Bay, South Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Pico Union, Inglewood, Cudahy, and Orange County, according to the latest figures from the NDIC. Their wide-ranging activities and elevated status has even caught the eye of the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who recently initiated wide-scale raids against known and suspected gang members netting hundreds of arrests across the country.

“The spread of 18th Street’s violence is shown by 154 murders linked to the gang from 1985 to 1995. This only plots homicides within Los Angeles where the killings have been tied to the gang.” The killings on the map show 18th Street as both victims and assailants of murder and one can see a concentration west of the 110 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles, November 17-19, 1996

Hotel Parking LOT

HapJeongDong 4ways CrossSection