EXPERIMENT: 001

This is my first experiment for this new site. The footage is taken from last weekend's trip to San Francisco. It was shot on Markus' Sanyo Xacti C5. That camera is very cool. It's a tiny mpeg4 camera, not much bigger than my cellphone. I'm so close to ordering one for myself but I just haven't been able to embrace the low-fi image. I'm torn between that and a small (but about 3x the size) 3 chip Sony DCR PC1000. The Sony would still be way smaller than my giant Digital 8 tank that I have to carry around now. Plus the image quality will better instead of worse in comparison. Decisions, decisions.

Anyway, this video... I'm facinated by split screen images. I think it has something to do with creating a new context via justaposition. In this case I'm not sure what the new context is. These two pieces just asked me to be stuck together. As I look at it now I notice a similarity in the mechanicalness and shinyness of the robot man and the modern architecture. That's what I see right now. What about you? Care to offer an interpretation? I'm always suprised by what people come up with. It's often much more insightful that what see in my own piece. Also, I just wanted to say that I like the black bar separating the two images. For some reason that makes a big difference to me.