Day 66 - God is in the bigscreen

The exhibit in short.



How it looked.


Sums it up pretty good i think. 14 hours straight.



If you are out of good new music go check out:

Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
M.I.A - Kala
Moving Units - Pick up the Phone
Bumblebeez - Radio Fabolous
Architecture in Helsinki - Places like this
Fink - Biscuits for Breakfast


And some random new / old warp record designvideos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx5F8q-F3Yo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVkpiILA4rw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxEb2FrQUbE

And something eaven more interesting.
This is a clip dubmood sent me from someone who shot one of his gigs.

Day 60 - Drenched in color

Better than sunday. Worse than friday

We finished parts of the exhibition area today. Tried out the projector angles and worked with the screens. As the installation requires a room much darker than whatever the surroundings might offer we had to cover up the circular screen with blue velvet drapes. It looks pretty dramatic but as far as dramatic sceneries goes, id prefer black silk or grey rough fabrics to match the milky white prints on the outside. The edge of the whole spectacle is blunted by the fact that its elevated and scaffolded around white thin ropes ever visible to attenders. Im really annoyed by this but i have to put it off for the time being. There are much worse things to worry about regarding this installation. One thing that do make me feel better about it is that i finally finished or atleast partly produced what might be a working flashplatform for our films. Felt like we actually got somwhere today and im quite content with where this is leading. Compared to some other groups we seem to be on top of our game atleast for now. I know im gonna regret writing this but somehow i actually see the end of this project, whether its what i wanted it to be or not has yet to present itself.

Carin got some discodamage today falling into a cupboard while building some sort of plastic roof to our little shrine. She got a red little bump on her head! Kims eyes got fucked up by some infection and emil is tense from trying to kick his snus habits. The posters the exhibitcrew put up on sunday is more or less gone today and was replaced by new ones. Im ever puzzled by the works of this city. In gothenburg your poster might get pulled down but is more likely covered by someone elses work. Here they are gone for sure whether it might be an empty wall or a shopwindow-spot you negotiated over with the shopkeeper. Not sure why people accept sponsorship or agrees to host the stuff just to rip it down behind our backs but nothing with this city really suprise me anymore. Just add to my general unrest of moving halfway across the country.

On the domestic side i really had a great evening. I printed out some great works by some of my favourites and covered the walls with. Just standing there for a couple of minutes marveling at what some black and white graphics can do to a mundane workdesk enviroment in a 2x2m prison cell from the 1700th. I hope the fucking radiator under the desk will start working in time to counter the ever so shitty seasonly weather we are promised by those more acustomed to this island. As the leafs around the archipelago turns red the vista we live right next to just amazes me more and more each day. I have a feeling my father will be here just in time to document the best of how autumn treats this place. And if not i will borrow someones camera to do it myself. Being in a constant vicinity of the ocean makes the air just outside the door ever suprising as to what scent it brings. I just love it. If the espresso would just arrive soon.

Oh yeah. I couldnt stand looking at that buttugly default of a blogtheme so i tried to catch some of what autumn might bring us as far as colors go along with the ever present ITC Avant Garde!

Day 56 - Exhibit taking shape

What might be our logo and also poster.
In all a good day. We got some shopping done today aswell as some minor producitonwork. We nailed, more or less, the layout of our exhibit as far as the screen and the framing goes. Kim and emil went downtown to get vp rör for framing and carl and carin went to buy our bigscreen fabric. We should have our first lent projector by tomorrow to start testing fabric response and angles. Not much else to report on this today. Hope to see much of the actual building done by tomorrow night. Also we might already have our minimum 2 projectors solved for us by the exelent exhibitcrew. Adding a cut from the introsequence to the booth below.

18mb quicktime.

Day 51

Its been a while.
Its about a week and a half into the second Hyper Island module called Experience Technology. Had some pretty rough days past weeks. Still atleast 12-14 hours a day in school but alot more sleep.

Autumn has hit karlskrona but its still reasonably warm. Heavy winds and sporadic showers almost always coming in a horizontal vector for maximum annoyance. The island feels smaller at the same pace the weather gets worse. Trying to compensate the lack of personal development from august and september with more computer quality time set aside from school projects.

Dubmood put one of the posters i made him in the mail splashed onto what might be a considered ridiculously large print the size of an average bed. Not sure about what wall i could nail it on yet as it probably outweighs whatever means i have of plastering it to a vertical surface. It should be arriving sometime next week witch gets me thinking about my espresso again. Its been 6 weeks and no delivery. Perhaps i should give old posten a heads up of my whereabouts by putting my company logo on the mailbox. My name should suffice but 6 weeks says it does not.

Anyway, anyhow. This weekend should be spent around the computer screen in contrast to previous brawls. Alot of raw motion material to produce and a lot of technology to pick up on. Taken upon myself to create a multitude of animated shorts that goes into our module exhibition installation. On top of that i also claimed responsibility for developing the flash platform that picks out and plays these clips inside the 360 screening room we are building for the installation. Not only are they displayed in and with flash but they are also going to be sliced and diced decided by witch way the visitor moves under a motion tracking device sitting ontop of the booth facing downwards. The basics of this technology is in place but i feel this module will turn into a rough 20-80 as no one in my crew has a history of either or.

The group works nicely now. I took up project lead and the others seems happy with a more strict project management. We still have to do almost daily followups to levels of ambition and involvement witch has been our biggest problems in the past. Not everyone in the group shares the general ambition but i feel it has nothing to do with the group as such but more of the assignment we got handed to us mixed with the feeling of alienation we all feel at times at this place. Im quite confident this project will be our best sofar, wich in fact does not say that much but our first ambition as a group is that we should leave this module satisfied and with something really breathtaking to put in the portfolios.

Should have a lot more material to splash here by the end of next week but this is what i came up with for concept sketches last night. Some stills of the motion introducing the visitor to the installation.