self-portrait video, hokae
It feels quite nice to be shooting and editing again. Kind of like talking to a friend you haven’t really been in touch with…um, even if your conversation isn’t really memorable. Better than not speaking at all? Mmm.
Assez.
as promised…
[view old version here]
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…ugh. Was editing at 50-something % and scaled almost every shot, methinks. But now I know…can’t be working in 2×2 mode unless I’m producing a 2×2.
Still, Dapring was willing and ever-so-helpful. Thanks, Dapring.
2×2: Week 2, first draft
I’m getting too used to producing work for a tiny screen. I’ll post my abstract video (for Video Sculpture) soon-ish, as evidence.
Hi, Keets. I think you’re the only one who reads my blog.
Video Sculpture: Week 1: Light Hideout
For this week’s assignment, I wanted to recreate a similar space with the quality of light I’d have liked in my hideout. I set up a space on my bedroom floor, between a chair and stacked plastic drawers.
space/environment:
- green board as roof
- EVA plastic clothes cover
- scraps of material lying around my room
- stacked books to raise light source
light source:
- long clear tubular showcase light bulb
- power strip
- overturned cutlery holder made of stainless steel
- bamboo skewer
- bulldog clip
- lamp socket
evaluation/comments
My first instinct was to go for bolder shadows and move the light source closer to the ‘roof’ of the hideout, but I found myself playing with roof height and lamp height such that, somewhere in the process, the skewer in my poorly-constructed lampshade shifted, and my lampshade stopped making its cowbell sound. [See video below]
In retrospect, I didn’t make the best use of the bulb, which I liked for its flickering movement–owing to its super long filament–and accompanying electric ting. The lampshade/encasing structure should’ve been closer in length to the bulb, and the bulb should’ve been closer in distance to the top of the lampshade. In other words, I think I would prefer stronger shadows produced by a light source that has the potential to sway and sound like a cowbell.
How a person might use the lamp, with fainter shadows and cowbell sound:
Video Sculpture: Week 1: Responses
I knew relatively little about Futurism prior to reading this manifesto. The entire thing is interesting but what makes me nod are the last few lines that explain 4. of We Fight…capped off with We demand, for ten years, the total suppression of the nude in painting.
That much of this took place in the 1930s surprised me. There are also three things said that I think raise questions/concerns relevant to projects today:
1) “Whenever I had the opportunity, I saw down at the keyboard and ‘played’ the instrument, for the combinations of images of colored light produced on the screen by the lamps within the sculptured object gave me much pleasure.”
2) “The Pesanek-Schulhof performance made a strong impression on me, because it was the first of its kind I had attended. However, I found that the kinetic visual experience demanded so much of my attention that my enjoyment of the music suffered”
3) “I felt at the time I worked with him, and I still do, that he committed an error by attempting to force kinetic art into the molds of the ‘isms’ of static painting and sculpture…In my opinion, kinetic electric light art is an independent branch of the visual arts that requires an entirely different approach from that of the traditional media of painting and sculpture.”
The Turner paintings I’d seen previous to my MET visit are the ones that I’m most drawn to, even afterwards. They appeal to me because they are (mostly) immediate, which is to say that they give me the sense of someone experiencing this storm or extraordinary slice of nature. I find that strong contrasts in light (uh, chiaroscuro) often reels in spectators, and perhaps that’s what also appeals to me. But where there are clouds of haze and/or warm, textured elements, are–in my opinion–paintings of particular power. Also, almost all of them involve bodies of water, which seem to result in rich, delicate reflections…
Frame by Frame: Week 1 - Recontextualization
Hey, it’s Photoshop! Ideally, I’d want to paint in a lot more and clean up the basket and lighting so it’s less obvious…but you know. Time. Chops. Forgiveness.
After some thought, I knew that I wanted to re-contextualize material from a fairy tale. I immediately thought of Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber and by the weekend I’d chosen Little Red Riding Hood. I wanted to focus on the bedroom scene and give it a BDSM slant.
Notes:
1st person dressed up as a wolf, who’s dressed up as a grandmother
2nd person dressed up as a young girl
Masks/performance
1st still: Girl/Little Red Riding Hood collecting basket from mother/shop owner
2nd still: Girl/LRRH entering bedroom with waiting wolf/grandmother/person
or
2nd still: Wolf/grandmother/person waiting in bedroom
Concerns: that it’ll come off as college humor i.e. trying to be/thinking that it is funny when it isn’t.
Solution? Make LRRH a girl. Wolf/grandmother? Debatable.
I ended up managing to do just the first still. LHRR was looking a bit too skanky and not really riding hoody so I painted on a red wolfy hood and front, which actually felt therapeutic. Then I added a mask to her face and goodies to her basket. I chose not to add any text. Can’t tell whether it works…
Frameworks: Meso: Rhythm (Week 12)
Sketch 1 | variation i | variation ii* || screenshot
Sketch 3 | variation i | variation ii || screenshot
Sketch 4 | variation i | variation ii | variation iii | screenshot
Frameworks: Micro: Delays and repetitions (Week 11)
Sketch 6 Smurfdeep | screenshot
Sketch 7 Smurf random | screenshot
Sketch 8 ‘Coptergrain | screenshot
Sketch 9 Mnstrmsh | screenshot
Sketch 10 Dophiltop | screenshot
Frameworks: Week 10
Sketch 1 [a] [b]
Sketch 2 [a] [b]
Sketch 3 [a] [b]
Sketch 4 [a] [b]
Sketch 5 [a] [b]
Frameworks: Annotated Listening
Excerpt - “Nahfeld”
Album: rec.extern (2002)
Trapist
Excerpt - “Observations Took Place”
Album: Ballroom (2004)
Town and Country
Excerpt - “The Bells”
Album: C’mon (2002)
Excerpts - “That Old Feeling” - 1, 2
Album: It All Has To Do With It (2000)
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Isotope 217
Excerpt - “La Jetée”
Album: The Unstable Molecule (1997)
Tortoise
Excerpt - “Jetty”
Album: TNT (1998)
Chicago Underground Trio
Excerpt - “La Jetée”
Album: Possible Cube (1999)