July 2010
7 posts
1 tag
1 tag
Text controlled robots melt ice block containing... →
Not sure if this has enough substance to lift it out of the gimmicky category but it’s for a good cause. Seems like the big money will go for these sort of installations.
1 tag
Cinematic Flâneur
There is no English equivalent for the term [ flâneur ], just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savouring the multiple flavours...
1 tag
WatchGijs Gieskes camera sequencer uses devices constructed from tin cans to provide visual material for his electronic music performances.
http://gieskes.nl/visual-equipment/?file=cam_seq_1#p17
We plan to use a similar technique to provide an esoteric frame for our Cinematic Flaneur.
1 tag
WatchClaude Lelouch’s C’était un rendez-vous give the viewer a high-speed tour of Paris from the point of view of a bumper-mounted camera.
1 tag
WatchDouglas Bagnall’s film-making robot travels on Stagecoach busses collecting frames of video. When the bus passes an available WiFi network the robot’s eyes transmit images to the robot body, which is collecting, combining and projecting a resulting movie in the gallery space.
