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Fill The Screen With Screens

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Tried to fill the screen of my video camera with as many screens as I could fit in. Managed to squeeze in 12 screens – an old rear-projection TV, another cathode-ray TV, three computers, an extra monitor connected to a computer, a portable DVD player, an iphone, an ipod video, a mini-TV and two projectors projecting onto screens. Filmed from three cameras. Plus, a few extra DVD players were needed to feed signals.
Our household happened to have a lot more electronics than the average one, but what with the proliferation of new TVs, mobile phones, MP3 players, and digital cameras – I’m sure many North American households have their own fair share of screens.
As to why I selected certain images to be on the screens, I’ll leave that to the viewer’s imagination … but I will say more of my energy simply went into setting up the room, and we were in the process of moving out, so there wasn’t time to really work develop the images or create the kind of dialogue between the screens that would have been worth exploring.

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Paralympics Opening Ceremonies

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A month before, I watched the Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony, and was awestruck by some of the projections, such as the whale swimming along the stadium floor with actual water coming from its blowhole. For a bargain price of $30, I was able to get a seat for the Paralympics Opening Ceremony – I made the mistake of assuming I wouldn’t be able to bring in a camera – I could have get a lot of good footage, but instead all I got was this low-quality iPhone film. There were a lot of awesome projections, some of which I show in the brief clip above. Particularly impressive were these balloon/spheres that drifted across the stadium floor with images being projected onto them.
Using a 3D design program (Kinemac), I wanted to see if I could achieve something similar. This is just a practice test, but the results aren’t bad – five ascending spheres with looping images on them:

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