Archive for September, 2008

Getting up on the wall with light

Friday and Saturday (I’m on the buildings and bridges Friday night)

Projecting at Galapagos as part of the Dumbo Arts Festival, with some excellent musician friends.

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http://www.videodumbo.org

Grand Ferry Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

2PM-10PM

Experimentally-minded music and art - exploring the relationships between the concert hall and the dance floor, the austere and the lush, the hypnotic and the startling. I’ll be creating some sun-reflection timelapse recordings, then in the evening, projecting these in incidental spaces in the park. Bryan Teoh Burchan Acar Chris Jordan Jermoe Covington Nick Chacona Nikki (da Nic’) Sauser Sawako Skillcrane Thomas Hildebrand (more online at finediving.org)

Timelapse of the mirror installation that day, as well as some of the performers and the sunset:

rooftop chillout, from dark until 149 east broadway #4 (E. Bway, between Pike & Rutgers) F train to East Broadway (stop is at Rutgers) tunes DJ Too Much (Eat Records / EVR) live sound - P.G. Six / Bob Bannister duo - grg ptrsn - anti:clockwise - Caspar Stracke (www.videokasbah.net) lighting (not lightning, PLEASE no lightning) - by NYC and cj noteworthy - your RSVP is appreciated to anticlockwise@earthlink.net - it’s b.y.o.’ - donations welcome - please don’t cross-post.

Mirrors go with projectors just as much as lenses do, but typically are difficult to work with as they are fragile, sharp, and can be tricky to mount and position. I came up with a pretty easy method of mounting positionable mirrors with projectors, after WAY too much trial and error. This method is for pretty small mirrors, depending on weight..but probably would only be good for mirrors up to 8″x8″. 1. Goop glue. Don’t use anything but this. Epoxy is so so, but a bit too brittle. Goop is the best, it has a bit of flexibility. Not rubber, but a bit more movement. Epoxy doesn’t have any, so if you bump it just right, often the whole thing will come apart in one pancake of epoxy.. (just get Goop, any hardware store). 2. helping hands from electronics store. The ‘Shack would be the worst place to get these, but they have them. best is your local surplus store. 3. Mirror. Often a good hardware store will sell mirror tiles in a box. They’re thin cheap mirrors, but no big deal if they break. And, optically they’re fine. 4. glass cutter - again, any hardware store Depending on how many mirrors you’re thinking, you’ll want to get probably numerous helping hands. Although you can use the alligator clips that come with them to hold the mirror, its a bad idea…I tried this first, even adding some gaffers tape so the alligator would have something to grip to. also you then see the clip in the projections. Not so great. Much harder to position as well. The helping hands joints (thumb screw elbow connectors)…they don’t need to be gripping a little mini ball like they come with..but can also grip a screw head. So one method is to glue a bolt and screw to the back of the mirror, and use the helping hands ball joint grabber to grip a screw head. You then need fewer helping hands, as they come with 4 (I think) joint connectors. So basically all you end up using from the helping hands is the joint connectors. I’ve tried finding these alone, but can’t source them. The results you can get from a single projector with multiple mirrors is fantastic.

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This is a track I created the video for by Erik Stein (wavewhore) called, “More Life”.

Another night of Basement Bhangra, filling in for Fictive’s Paul Clay. at SOB’s with Rekha and the Gang. Email me if you want on the list. Come early for free Mohitos; and the Bhangra Dance Class! A little piece of Punjab on the west side. Ok. Its not a little piece. IT’S A HUGE GET DOWN AND SHAKE IT PIECE, that Peter and I are illuminating and being illuminated by. Amazing summer its been over at SOB’s…