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20|SEP|08 |
| Clouded is going to be
screened in a special double bill with Wrestle
at Permanent Gallery
this evening from 6 - 9pm. |
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08|SEP|08 |
| Clouded starts at Permanent
Gallery, Brighton on Thursday until Sunday 21st September. Also Thursday,
Friday and Saturday nights you will be able to see another stereoscopic
cloud video at Collision in Peckham. |
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30|AUG|08 |
| Clouded is on at Permanent
Gallery, Brighton next month from 11 - 21 September. On Saturday 20
September, 6 - 9pm, Clouded will be shown in a double bill with Wrestle
from the Place Space and Identity project Views
From Here. |
| Another stereoscopic
video called Cloud I will be showing at Collision
at Area 10 in Peckham, South London between 11 - 13 September. |
| Now that the drinking
and dancing is out of the way over in Lewes, Will and I have installed a
couple of large sculptures in the (un)realised show, flat pack has come
out of the boxes for the first time in a two years, click here
for photo |
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18|AUG|08 |
| (un)realised
- selected works 2003-2008, a joint show with Will
Nash, opens at Black Dog Studios, Lewes on Saturday 23 August, as part
of the Lewes
ArtWave 2008. We're open 11am to 5pm for the next three weekends and
there will be a drinks reception at 6pm on Sunday 24 August until around
8pm, after which there will be dj sets by myself, Pablo and Morphosis. |
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28|JUL|08 |
| Shot by the Sea film
festival opened on Friday night, see full programme here.
Take Wing is being screened every day this week from 11am to 5pm at 78 High
Street, Hastings, opposite the Electric Palace Cinema. |
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13|JUL|08 |
| It flew! We went over
to Mill
Hill, just north of Shoreham, today to meet Grahame and see if we could
get some useable stereoscopic footage. Everything went to plan and we have
footage that'll look great stereoscopically. Click here
for a very short, rough 2D edit from today's flying, including some video
from one of the Vado cameras attached to the glider. It's only brief as
I don't want to spoil the final film - you'll have to come to Hastings between
25th July and 1st August to see the final stereo version with the complete
flight from take off to landing! (A red and blue version may appear here
later.) |
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08|JUL|08 |
| The glider is built!
You can watch "The Making of 'Take Wing' (part one)" here.
The eagle eyed amongst you will notice that it's a radio controlled glider
rather than free flight as we were first planning. This is because after
actually listening to the advice of lots of people who knew what they were
talking about we realised a free flight glider simply wouldn't fly with
the extra weight and unbalancing effect of adding a couple of cameras. As
we've never flown a radio controlled plane either the chances are the flight
will still end in disaster. |
| Depending on wind and
rain - the forecast isn't great - we hope we can do some flight filming
later this week. |
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07|JUL|08 |
| After a few delays we
started on the glider build for 'Take Wing' today. Unfortunately we noticed
another small problem when we started to film, the cameras we're using for
the point of view stereoscopic timelapse of the build (see Brian wearing
it here)
are too far apart. The model assembly work is quite intricate so we're holding
things nearer to the cameras than we anticipated. Therefore we need to rebuild
the apparatus with the two cameras closer together. So I'm now the proud
owner of a shiny new bicycle helmet which we'll be gaffer taping and cable
tying some cameras to tomorrow. |
| We also found that the
FlyCamOnes
which we thought would be perfect for the flight part of the film are no
good for stereoscopy due to the fact they don't video at a constant 25fps.
We'd have to manually sync the two videos before we could make the 3D video,
which would be incredibly time-consuming and tedious. We've now got two
Creative
Vados (in pink!) which seem to be fine, and better image quality. I'm
sure we'll find a use for the FlyCamOnes at some point in the future. |
| We've
been getting invaluable assistance and advice from Grahame
Algar, an experienced model aircraft pilot. (Thanks to my friend James
in Miami, genial host of this site, for putting us in contact.) Over the
weekend he made up a bracket with two pretend Vados and performed a test
flight with his glider to optimise our chances of getting a successful flight.
It seems that it will fly, so we just need to get on with it all now and
wait for the right weather conditions... |
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02|JUL|08 |
| I'm really pleased to
say that a full installation version of Clouded will be at Permanent
Gallery in September. So quite a lot happening over the next few months; |
| 25 July
- 1 August: Take Wing*, Shot
by the Sea film festival, Hastings. |
| 30 July:
flat pack talk at Fabrica,
Brighton. |
| 23 August
- 7 September: (un)realised
- selected works 2003-2008, joint show with Will
Nash, Black Dog Studios, Lewes. |
| 11-13
September: as yet untitled stereoscopic, time-lapse
cloud film*, Collision
at Area 10, Peckham.
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| 12-21
September (tbc): Clouded**, polarised stereoscopic
and stereo audio installation, Permanent
Gallery, Brighton. Full details when confirmed |
| 1 November:
Clouded**, red & blue stereoscopic screen version, Sound:Space
sound art symposium, South
Hill Park, Bracknell. |
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| * collaboration with
Brian McClave |
| ** collaboration with
Brian McClave and
Claudia Molitor |
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