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Circular Logic: Around the Block in Fredericton

A few years ago I took a great workshop that Chris Giles gave at the NB Filmmakers’ Co-operative in Fredericton. In the workshop we found out about hand-processing 16mm film and we shot and processed films all in a few hours. This is what I shot with my friend Cathie. It’s a combination of stop-motion animation and slow motion around the old home of the film coop. This happened on May 16, 2004 and it’s silent and just under 3 minutes long.
Formats available:Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by ChrisCampbell with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.

July 15, 2008 , , , ,

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Circular Logic: 6 Loops in Wolfville

I’ve always liked using things in ways that they weren’t intended and in 2003 for the Digital Dialogues exhibition I made an animation with a digital still camera. I went to 6 places in Wolfville, took a picture, took a step to the right, and repeated the process almost 1000 times. The video is silent and just over 3 minutes long.
Formats available:Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by ChrisCampbell with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.

May 29, 2008 , , ,

Filling the Void

gapingvoid cartoonHugh MacLeod draws cartoons on the back of business cards and he’s been sharing those cards as well as his great insights into the creative process through gapingvoid. I’m keen to follow the conversation and to point others at him. He gets it and it’s fascinating to watch the shape of how things are working now emerge. A lot is changing and Hugh is starting to trace around the edges of it. How is he different from others pronouncing on trends and how to be successful? He listens, he’s generous and he’s got a wicked, cynical sense of humour. He doesn’t have to do the blog or draw the cartoons, he wants to. That makes a big difference. I’m glad that he’s doing it. I wish more people would.

October 20, 2004 , , , ,

Circular Logic

Last week I uploaded Circular Logic: 6 Loops in Wolfville to my space at ZeD. The Circular Logic project originally happened for the Digital Dialogues exhibition at the Acadia Art Gallery that was curated by Gair Dunlop. I’d been working with QuickTime VR for a while and was thinking of doing something with that. Then I started thinking about going around in circles and taking stills along the way. When that was combined with stop-motion I thought that I would have something that looked like pixilation but where the camera moved instead of objects.
I tried some experiments and it worked if I made sure that there was a focal point in each image. That’s the reason for going in circles around a building or large public object as it gives you something to focus on and gives me a way to keep the image in the frame consistent. I like to think of it as the (somewhat) inappropriate use of technology. I wanted to use a digital still camera to take single frames that I combined together to create an animation. For the loops around Wolfville I took over 1000 stills that I combined together in QuickTime Pro and then manipulated them in Final Cut Pro.
For the show at the gallery I burned the loops onto a DVD that looped and it played on a television set in the gallery. Later I made a shorter, more linear version for a screening at Salvation in Halifax and that’s what I have up at ZeD now.

June 25, 2004 , , ,

ZeD

I’ve been a member of ZeD for while and have been watching and lurking without uploading anything. In the past the only thing that I’ve uploaded has been a tiny thumbnail image for my profile page which is called bitdepth. ZeD is a great project initiated by the CBC who have some talented, creative people working on digital media stuff. ZeD is a tv show on the CBC and a web site that shows and collects content as well as discussions. It’s a community of creators and viewers and they give you a space to upload and share your work. They also broadcast uploaded work on tv and tv work on the Web. The name of the community is phonetically how the last letter of the English alphabet should be pronounced, which is a point of pride for some Canadians.
Today I uploaded video that I made last summer. It’s called Truro Loop and it is only 3 1/2 seconds long, but it loops so it can be just about however long you want it to be. I’ll be uploading more stuff soon.

June 12, 2004 , , , ,

Why Live Things Are Cool

Right now as I’m typing this I’m listening to Vicki Bennett’s radio show “Do or DIY with People Like Us” streaming over the Web from WFMU. She’s speaking right now, but that’s from a file. She’s updating the playlist via the internet so the text that shows up is live, but the words are from back in time. It’s the last show of the season and as usual it’s a good one. The shows are archived, but I wanted to make sure that I listened to it live. I was thinking why I liked listening to it live since she records it earlier and it streams out from a file. Then I remembered why live things are cool – it’s not the technological part, but the human part. It’s a shared experience. I know that other people are listening at the same time and I also know that Vicki is typing right now as well. Years ago I helped out with some Webcasts and even more years before I had some radio shows. It’s a strange thing to speak into a microphone knowing that strangers are listening. A fascinating, intimate, yet distant thing. Kind of like a shy exhibitionist.
So while I’ll still be able to listen to older shows, I know that the experience will be a bit different as there won’t be as much simultaneity. Thanks Vicki!

June 9, 2004 , , ,

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