To celebrate the winter break, here’s two documentations.
The Hippocampus in the wild.
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
Working on some new installations, I started playing with openFrameworks and Dev-C++ to get the setup I would need.
Teaching yourself c++? why not. It has made the possibility very real for integrating infrared detection with realtime video. In doing so, I could map fireflies to an installation, making it dependent on their patterns.
This week is going to be mostly spent documenting all the work I’ve done in the last 4 months.
I haven’t slept, and I’m due in 2 hours to teach 9th grade Chemistry.
so what was possibly the worst critique day of all time ended in my spectacular failure. i’m still not sure what happened to my projector but it was unable to focus any of the film i made. installation photos soon, and i’m going to set it back up for V2.0 next week.
UPDATE (days later):
I just hooked up the projector and it works fine. Why it wouldn’t work when i needed it to boggles the mind.
My grant proposal to U of H got rejected, and I can’t say I’m surprised. With the artspeak thats become part of my brain combined with my nonconformist ideas, the school must not be ready for experimentation on that level. Maybe I just phrased my ideas poorly? I’ll have to read over my statement a few times.
The “Open-source Film Projector” has a completed prototype, and is about 80% functional. It is constructed of steel, plexiglas, fishing line, foamcor, kodak 3/4″ f1.2 lens, and a flashlight. The participant places the flashlight in its socket and proceeds to move around the transparency, throwing a projection behind the installation (in theory).
Gondry hired some guy in NY to build him a video piano, once again my sketches and ideas postdate conception. i’ll do it anyway.
I’ve also been researching moldmaking techniques and lenscraft, and am almost prepared to begin resin casting my own lenses. We’ll see how that turns out.
And now, back to knitting.
So i test-inflated the large hippocampus in my living room today. It ran out of space before it reached its full potential, but it sure was impressive. I’m currently building the wooden inner structure, and hope to have it finished by the end of tonight. Photos to come soon.
update: waiting for paint to dry on some installation parts, i bounced around some ideas for my obituary.
key phrases I would like to have:
“found in his workshop, the authorities were stymied at what could possibly be the true cause of death.”
“all evidence at the scene points to the fact that he was near completion of a time travel device.”
“while his time on this earth was short, he will leave behind several methods and theories that will be used for the centuries ahead.”
