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cool video animated by chalk

HVX time lapse

HVX time lapse

Make sure the camera is in the P2 mode.....push the "menu" button on top of the camera....go to option #5 "Recording setup"......Select "Recording Format" and choose 720p/60.......make sure the wheel on the back of the camera is set to F1, F2 or F3......on the same menu page go down two clicks and select "Rec. Function" when you select it, choose "Interval"....then go down two clicks to "Interval Time" and select the number of frames you want to record per second...minute...etc. A good starting point is 1 frame per second. Now everything is selected......push the menu button a couple of times to get rid of it.....now you'll see a green flashing "I-Pause" at the top of the screen. The camera is ready to record timelapse.....push the record button and your off! To get out of the pause mode, switch the camera off for a moment and go into playback mode to check your recording.

Street Art

A friend posted this on Facebook and I thought it was interesting...

Idea for Janice's Line Themed Video

I was watching tv and I saw this commercial for AT&T and totally thought about Janice's project based on line and using a line animation. Check it out!

Sorry: Presence at April 18's Video Meeting

Hey all - Liselle, Joe, Gabe, Danielle, Kelvin, Jessica, Syrus, and Sarah,

I can't be there tomorrow because I'm trying to stay hydrated and well.   I've had a stomach flu and lost 10 lbs!  I've been feeling a lot better since last week though but hope you'll forgive me for missing out on video techniques (my loss eh?), your love for clapping for reasons unknown, finding more trap doors other than the one in the corner (dundunDUN), and getting in trouble with AGO staff at the gallery for intruding into "installation in progress" spaces.

I have, however, come up with a shot list.  I think Sarah might have devised a shooting schedule, no?  I may need a few actors for my shoot day(s) in May, and I'll ask for favours individually:

1. a girl at a bar, with a guy going up to her to talk to her, but girl gets offended and slaps him/throws water in his face (possibly Liselle and Joe? please?) (ok I'm kind of asking favours in the open)

2. delivering a "line", literally, at the door, like a pizza delivery

3. A guy asking a barber to getting a "lineup" done

4. waiting in line

5. wearing in-line skates (volunteers?)

6. wearing a lined skirt and an a-line shirt (does anyone have a skirt with lines on it?)

7. shot of a ballet dancer in an arabesque or whatever position that demonstrates "line"

8. a lot of people in a line-dance class

9. lion dance (could be found footage)

10. Person putting eyeliner and lipliner on

11. Oceanliner (Could be found footage)

12. money clipped on a line blowing in the wind (a line of credit / money on the line)

13. fingers nudging a line or rope to align with another line or rope

14. lining muffins with paper cups

That is about all I have, others (very little drawings) would be pure animation.

Thanks guys, enjoy your workshop!

lovelove!

tweenbots

robot travel interactions with human crowdsourcing form narrative

...cool thesis project 

a clip for CK

1992 Toronto Rodney King related riot clip that i mentioned:

Getting Ready For Greatness

I can't believe how fast this process is moving. Before we know it, it will be August and the exhibit will be up in the AGO with Eye Weekly and The Toronto Star interviewing us in regards to the best thing that has happened to the gallery since the makeover!

As for myself, I am taking little steps in making my contribution work. I am planning out what clips I want to use or research, then looking over a background soundtrack. Where am I going to get all these found footage clips? Is there one magical place I can go to get them?

I'll use Youtube first as a reference and make a rough edit of what clips I'd like to include. Would creating a person doing an "introduction" ruin the art of the video? Do I want the viewer to think about it for them self as opposed to being told that the following clips question "honour"?

I definitely feel that I'm on the right pace. I would totally like to create the mini-book to go along with the video as well!!

I am ONLINE!!!!!

Video Layout Currently

Okay, well I've been saying I was going to type out my plan for awhile now, so I'm doing it now and just putting it up here. It's not exactly scene for scene but sort of a more detailed plan.

• starts instantly (no fade in) with a medium foggy shot with a shower running out of the shot
• the shower turns off, there is a rustling sound as the woman gets on a towel, etc. (all not seen in the shot)
• then the woman enters the short with a towel on her head and a towel, slip, etc. on.
• the camera moves to a close up on the mirror and the woman's foggy reflection
• The woman takes a small wash cloth and wipes off the mirror and consequently the shot becomes clear
• there is a cut to a medium shot of an artist sitting at a desk (preferably tilted diagonally, like a architect's drawing easel of sorts is what I'm think of) putting down a piece of fresh paper and picking a drawing utensil (either a pastel or charcoal) before taking a deep breath and moving their charcoal (using it as an example) to the paper
• cut to the woman in the bathroom picking make-up from a box or bag and laying them out on the bathroom sink. I'm debating as to whether I just want the close up of her face as she looks down or if I want a medium shot where you can actually see her choosing the make-up. Then she starts to apply cover-up.
  
• cut to the artist who has now began sketching. I know with the shots of the artist I want it to move from medium shot, to close-up, to extreme close-up then rapidly pull it all back to a medium short at the end, but I'm not so sure as to what I want in between. I know I want the sketching to get faster and the artist to make mistakes and have to start over but their not as specific as with the woman. So I'm basically deciding whether it even matters what their sketching. But I want it to have an end so I guess they should actually be going for a picture. I figure maybe they can be doing maybe a fashion sketch just because it sort of straddles the line of ideals of feminine beauty and art, which I like. I'm thinking about it.
• The cuts to the woman will go cover-up, eyelash curler, mascara, eyeliner, eyeshadow, blush, lipstick/lipgloss, with a few mistakes where she stops and wipes some things off etc.
• second last shot is the pulled back medium shot of the artist finished their drawing
• cut to the woman, pull back slowly from the extreme close-up to close-up shot. There is a pause where the woman just looks at herself. Then she sighs, takes her hair out from where it's been held up by a towel, plugs in a hair dryer and starts to blow dry her hair
• abrupt cut to credits

so yeah, that's what I have all typed up.

- Liselle

Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World

inspiring things (artist websites) to check out

Janet Cardiff & Georges Bures Miller
Miranda July
Aleesa Cohene
Kara Walker
Christo & Jean Claude
Christian Boltanski

first i also love hot docs and im so glad all is okay!

can anyone out there who is blog friendly give a hand to Lsielle? She is trying to post with no luck and im not sure im much help on this one-

her email is in our email chain- last name sambury- you'll see it there.

So looking forward to our meeting tomorrow!

update from the court

so, i'm not dead! (that was a serious question during the time of our last meeting --- i had accepted & trusted bread from a friend and had an allergic reaction and was in hospital).

most things in my life are more organized now and so i thought i would share.

i've done a fair bit of research on my original idea, including looking at other interventions in the gallery space of walker court etc. this has led me to decide that while i still like most of my idea, i don't like or rather disagree with what i was focusing on and need to change that.

last night i went to the gallery and spent a few hours in walker court and took about 80 pictures (!) from a variety of different angles and places within the space to try to get me to think about things within a limited frame. i'm still mentally processing that right now. it was very useful for me to observe the traffic levels and traffic patterns on a more crowded night.

i'll let you know my new and hopefully greatly improved thoughts on saturday and present my rewrite at that time.

BLU

take a look at these drawings(MUTO - a wall painted animation by Blu) - lines are drawn and filmed in time lapse making there way across the city

I LOVE HOT DOCS!

Visit the website www.hotdocs.ca and pick films you're into.
I'll try to get us tickets.