Trying to get the timings worked out for this residency has been consuming…when will things be finished by? Natacha and Michael don’t really know. I am trying to push things back, but still trying to push things ahead. Now that the first screen is working we can take a breath – but everyone has been working hard. Really hard.
I didn’t realise the screen ran with 240 volts of electricity running through it – if you touch it your zapped. It feels dangerous with my little son running around!
For some reason Natacha and Michael haven’t bought the plastic tubes that were used when I saw the screen built in Canada. This poses a huge health and safety issue – and I don’t want to show it until its worked out. Natacha and Michael agree. I hope today we can work through it, – Natacha has bought plastic sheeting to wrap around it. I imagine that this will need to cut and wrapped around the length of pixels
I was hoping the screen may have been released from its plywood backing, and you may have been able to walk through the screen – but this is not possible for this screen. However, the screen has much more resolution to it. I have created a lot of video to test on it – have done one shoot for the screen and then spent some time in aftereffects playing with different scales – a video more focused jut on the eyes and mouth, a video focused on head and shoulder, and then a video shot from the waste up. I have chosen the portraits that talk a bit – to get a secondary channel working.
I am now thinking it would be great to have the Pixy project run from one screen. Jeff’s email mentioned the one computer runnig two cameras. This is exciting.
So, all is good ,really. Things are running. It feels like a big step forward. We are seeing the potential of something beautiful. more seductive.
