Broken Time

To create this video, I composited several distinct framings of each location into a single screen of information. Each facet depicts a separate moment in time. The sounds of each facet layer together to create a folded-time cacophany.

I'm not really sure why I like creating composited images so much. There's something about it that's interesting and fun. Maybe the allure is that I'm able to play with time and space simultaneously. Each of these composited scenes is made up of 7-second video elements shot one after the other, but compiled in a unified space on the screen. So in a four-element composite, you're actually seeing 28 seconds of time simultaneously.

This is a follow-up to Break Time, a post I made in September.

Some places featured in "Broken Time":

• Outside Muddy's Coffeehouse
  
• Genie's Cafe
  
• Backspace Cybercafe
  
• Tiny's Coffee SE
  
• American Dream Pizza
  
• Bipartisan Cafe (latter part of article)
  
• Caffe Scozia
  

Jack-o-Lantern

Corinne carved a pumpkin this afternoon. Here's a video of the cosmetic surgery.

From what I read, the original Jack-o-Lanterns were carved from turnips and lit with embers. The pumpkinized form is a mostly American tradition. The tradition started with Irish and Scottish immigrants and their stories of Jack of the Lantern, a fella who'd tricked the devil and peeved God and wasn't allowed into either Heaven or Hell. Jack was left to wander the Earth with his turnip-ember lantern. Or so they say.

I love the Halloween holiday, but it depresses me to see stores full of prefab cutesie crap merchandise. It ruins the mood for me.

Some Halloween links:

• Wikipedia 'Halloween'
  
• Wikipedia 'Jack-o-Lantern'
  
• Zadi's 'halloweenvlogfest2005' collection
  
• Blip.tv 'halloween'-tagged videos
  
• halloweenvlogfest2005 via Technocrati
  
• A Samhain/Halloween e-card by yours truly
  
• Halloween drawing on SITO by the late James Widmark.
  James, I miss you most around Halloween.
  

Unfeigned Cells

Here's a wee bit of video doodling that kept my interest long enough that I thought I'd share it. One part coffee, one part cream, two parts Isadora and a dash of Dr. Who.

Messengers

CrowsRavens flock to a transmission tower. What secrets have they gleaned? See the video.

Tags:
halloweenvlogfest2005

Demonstration

Here is a time-lapse video showing the creation of a composite portrait. Demon, the pseudonym of the subject, sent me several photos of herself depicting a variety of expressions. Using those photos as my palette, I cut-and-pasted this emergent series of temporary portraits.