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.
posted by Verdi at 8:39 PM
14 Comments:
What I found interesting is the verticle movement on the left frame on the buildings in relation to the robot man's hand and body movement which was also mainly verticle.
Interesting. I agree that the robot man pulls focus. Is that a bad thing (I don't know)?
BTW J. Das, there is no sound from the left image.
I didn't know robots could be epileptic.
Weird.
You realize you need some robot voices to stick over this, right?
Thanks Anne! See that's the kind of stuff you never see until later on (at least I usually don't).
Mike, what are you using to edit your clips? I just upgraded my iMovie, thought it was cool that in the upgrade it's possible to see the audio waves, but now I can't seem to slow down or speed up the clips... I am considering investing in an affordable alternative to iMovie with a few more creative options. Like split screens, masking, etc. Any recommendations?
Hey Stephanie, they moved the speed deal under the effects tab in iMovie. When you click on effects you'll see one called Fast/Slow/Reverse.
I use Final Cut Pro to edit. It pretty expensive. You might look at Final Cut Express. It's a lot like Final Cut Pro with, I believe, most of the difference being in how it handles HD video. Apple used to have a comparison chart but I can't find it now.
ok ok
so now we all gotta start new blogs for our experiments?
i thought our blogs WERE experiments
verdi, why do you have to go messing things up all the time?
The robot man does draw the focus. In fact, if I hadn't rewatched it and focused the second time just on the building, I would have sworn that it started out as a split screen and then went to just the robot man full screen. Interesting.
Yeah, robot man pulls a lot. I had to force myself to watch the left side after a couple of viewings. Even then, I still had a difficult time even realizing the left side even existed.
I wonder if the black bar were thinner or not there at all, if the two sides would still pull away from each other as much.
the reason why they asked to go together are the similarities in colour palette, both blue/grey and similar tonal distribution; and the subject matter presents a juxtaposition of geometric/architectural and organic/performance, which gives you contrast. you did ask for nerdy arty talk
Yes, more nerdy art talk! This is good. So what is everyone's take on this: Putting these two things together just popped into my head - stuff like that happens all the time and then I figure out why, later on - does that happen to you? It doesn't allways happen like that for me but it does more often than not.
I've always felt that when you don't think about it, but put the pieces together, you're allowing your true artistic intuition emerge, thereby allowing us as an audience to analyze not just the video but your view on life, and in this case - on contemporary society - perhaps it conveys the illusion of modern evolution in the way that the buildings are immutable and you are moving the same way that the robot guy is moving but not changing - or perhaps it could be just the opposite and even the performing vagrants are encapsulated by technology and our new world is dominated by it, that your trip through the landscape has nothing truly natural or even a tree but man-made buildings that perpetuate that technological dependency - it can go on and on.
-taxiplasm
http://gnitseretni.blogspot.com
THANK YOU for sharing your "nerdy art" experiments! I really enjoy seeing the work of people who are pushing conceptual boundaries, messing with paradigms, creating moments, and also being wicked groovy. It's the stuff i already gravitate toward in video blogs and I'm glad to see you creating a seperate space for this kind of jiggery-pokery. Thanks MV! Looking forward to seeing more.
I think we always pay more attention to human or human-like images as opposed to sky and buildings.
I kept seeing the glare in the left image as an extension of the head or an extension of hand movements.
I couldn't get the video to load completely by clicking the image. However, when I copied and pasted the address directly into the address bar, it loaded quickly. Why would that happen.
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