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30|MAR|09 |
| Yesterday I made a short video using some
of the sky footage which I didn't use for the Babel
exhibition, or have shot since the exhibition opened. Most of it hasn't
been used in other videos due to unwanted reflections in windows, etc but
some of the footage is really beautiful so I've made a short edit for here.
Click on the image above to view it. |
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21|MAR|09 |
| Click on the image above to download a
sequence of five videos (45mb mp4 format) that form part of "We are
never tired, so long as we can see far enough" currently showing at
Babel |
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18|MAR|09 |
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| Been in studio since Monday editing for
the show at Babel |
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17|MAR|09 |
| Was out filming at Bymarka and Jonsvatnet
(lake in the hills to the east, still frozen) over the weekend. Currently
editing footage shot around Trondheim over the last two weeks for a show
at Babel opening on Friday. Will be
showing a series of landscape videos that seem to be about a sense of mapping
a place through a process of walking and quiet observation. Working title
of the series is "We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
which is a line from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Nature (1836) which I was
reading on one of the days I was filming up on a headland overlooking the
fjord and mountains beyond. |
| Back in the UK Brian is out filming the
final three stereo time-lapse films in East London this week. I'll try and
get some stills to post next week. |
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12|MAR|09 |
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| Set up a test late afternoon yesterday
to check camera and software for a day long sky film. Turned out to be a
pretty spectacular end to the day in the sky over Trondheim, click on image
above to view video. Unfortunately the window is quite dirty (and it wasn't
possible to clean it) so the image is a bit smeared in places. However I
checked out the newer windows on the floor above and they are better to
film through, plus being a floor higher I can get much better angle towards
horizon. Did set everything up to film today as forecast was good, but it's
actually been overcast and drizzling all day. |
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11|MAR|09 |
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| Been at LKV
in Trondheim, Norway for
a week now. Spent most of that time out and about, predominantly along the
edge of Trondheimsfjord, shooting simultaneously using two video cameras,
and then playing around with the footage back at the studio. |
| Went for a stroll around the docks this
morning and found some interesting views down there so back down there with
the cameras later this week. Tomorrow will explore the hills to the west
of Trondheim in Bymarka. |
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29|FEB|09 |
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| Shot the second stereoscopic time-lapse
yesterday in Victoria
Park. Back up to London tomorrow to finalise the other three locations. |
| We were interviewed about our joint work
for the latest issue of A-N magazine, if you subscribe you can read the
article online here |
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24|FEB|09 |
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| Shot the first stereoscopic time-lapse
on Sunday on Columbia
Road. A lot of sitting and standing around getting cold and deciding
which food shop to buy the next snack from. Fortunately lots of people wanted
to know what we were doing so we me and Brian didn't have to bore each other
silly all day. Had some good chats with interesting people, including Charlie
from Cities in
the Dark amongst others. Thanks to guys Start
Space and Nelly Duff
for being friendly and helpful, and especially Open
House who lent us chairs and the family at no.79 who made me a nice
cup of earl grey. |
| Brian has already converted all the footage
into 3D to test everything worked as we expected. Looks even better than
we imagined, can't wait to get the other films shot now. |
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16|FEB|09 |
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| On Saturday day I
knocked up a maquette of the projection
box and worked out how to construct/assemble real thing, need to get some
drawings done this week. Then we spent Sunday on a recce around
Tower Hamlets looking for locations, mainly north of Mile End Road and out
by the A12. Got a few ideas, and rather typically changed our minds about
a lot of things we'd previously thought about along the way. So back up
there on a weekday to scout out a few more options south of Mile End Road,
around Canary Wharf, and alongh the Thames. |
| We built and tested the camera last week
and have one definite location so we'll film there in the next week. |
| I've posted a mp4 version of Latent
from Views From Here as there
are some similarities - five day-long time-lapse sequences - except Latent
is static 24 hour scenes in a disused pottery, the only change over time
being the light in the space (and Latent is silent and not 3D). |
13|FEB|09 |
| Brian and I will be presenting
five new 16:9 hi-def, stereoscopic, time-lapse videos, with specially commissioned
soundtracks, in Spitalfields Market between 23rd and 30th April during East
End Film Festival 2009 |
| Each five minute video
will be shot over 12 hours, from just before dawn to just after dusk, in
disparate locations in the East End of London, showing the range of urban
landscapes and human activity within the area. The camera will slowly pan
back and forth, for 6 hours in one direction, then turning back until it
reaches the same view as the opening shot at the end of 12 hours. In addition
to being time-lapse the videos will also be stereoscopic, a combination
that hasn’t been seen in the UK before (as far as we know) |
| We'll be stood in various
parts of East London, specifically the borough of Tower Hamlets, during
February and March shooting the videos. I say we, but I'm off to LKV in
Trondheim for my residency in March so it's most likely Brian will be shooting
a lot of them. We're back up to London on Sunday to stroll around looking
for locations, and hoping we'll get at least three or four of the videos
shot before I disappear off to Norway. |
| There's a
non-3D time-lapse trailer, using Site-Eye
footage and my cloud stuff, with audio by Night Night*, that can be viewed
or downloaded as a large mp4 file [23mb] here
or a smaller one [9mb] here |
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Night is an alias of my friend Dana,
if you like the track used it's available on a free download EP from the
Observatory
label. |
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01|JAN|09 |
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| Brian
McClave's "Collaborative Projects 2000 to 2009" exhibition
opens at Focal Point
Gallery in Southend on Saturday 17th January, where Wrestle
will be showing along side some of Brian's other stereoscopic videos, including
Sun and
Aurora**2. |
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