Update: not so much a rough cut now that i realize it, but theres audio mastering to be done.
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
I had to make a sign to put on my installation in the Blaffer Gallery at school.
The largest inflatable yet is taking shape, and I had no choice but to work on it in the Architecture building on campus. My previous plans of building it in the Home Depot parking lot were brilliantly thwarted by the strong winds tonight. And so I present this poor quality image to show rough scale. Once inflated, it will be supported by an inner wooden armature which also serves as reel holders for the Super-8 film playing on the walls.
So the inflatable Blob is complete, and ready to be filmed. I just need to devise a way to project extremely wide from a digital projector. stacking wide angle lenses? Fully inflated, it gets about 8 feet high by 12-14 feet long.
The 8mm patterns are ready to be printed, but I have yet to decide what to print them on. I would like to print them on transparency, and have some sort of handheld projector lamp/lens assembly that the viewer could glide along the prints, sort of like Random Access Audio but with film.
So knitting an image 22″x100″ with each inch being a 5×5 knitted square? 2,200 squares. It takes me about 10 minutes to do a square…
Ouch.
Current rate = 5 “pixels” per hour. Estimate for a single row = 4.5 hours. Estimate for completion = 450 hours.
Should I give in to temptation and knit it all at once? Or miniaturize?
Au contraire, I just wasn’t applying my hand-crafted aspects. So rather than do straight prints, I’m going to knit. Here’s a breakdown of what it looks like. Actual print on the left, layout for the knitting on the right.
Apparently you can dye yarn with Kool-Aid.
In an attempt to make my Super-8mm projector throw a wider image, I jammed a peephole for the elderly into the existing lens. The results? Surprisingly good.
