Screen moving

motor pulling cords and driving the screen closed

Foam Experimentation

shaving foam, changing light gave a strobe-ish effect

The Full Projection

Stills from final ballon footage

Ballon experimentation

found that popping with a heated wire was the best way but the mini balloons weren't suitable

the footage was sped up to convey volatile explosiveness- but this needed to be taken further

larger balloons but not as successfully contained, reversed to look like a growing cloud of smoke

Final Projection

Combined with the prog rock track 'Intermezzo Karelia' by 'The Nice'

Creating a mask

A still from my projected film with the mask

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flash/10.0_UsingFlash/WS9388626D-B940-43f3-87BB-7C3159F5EDE4.html

I applied psd photoshop files over my film footage, using photos of my screen and then subtracting everything apart from the shape ie.

scratching projection

screen closing up

Screen up and finished

making and tweaking

I put braces to connect the spokes at 90 degrees, the shorter arm was supposed to provide stability for the outer arms and stop the screen falling backwards, however, it caused jarring and got caught up in the motor.

Having so many connection particularly the arms set at 90 degrees prevented smooth movement around the ring

Having a solid centre looked good but the folds at the point meant that the screen would not concertina in

early model and Sketch Up

Thinking about using fabric and having two arms falling down, rather than a single arm rotating through 360. The model also used a central ring rather than multiple hinges.

I created a similar virtual model on sketch up which meant i knew i wanted each face to have a fold and point to add more depth, this meant that fabric wasn't suitable, and that i needed seven arms.

models

A larger model with thread attached to experiment with the mechanism

looking at differnt shapes, especsially the open shape at the central point

An early model to look into hingeing together the arms

looking at pop up cubes using elastic bands

A paper pop-up farm inspired the use of two arms

early mechanism that i considered using including a Jacob's Lader and an alarm clock with a rotating lid and base

wowsers

Struggling with the electronics has made me doubly impressed by these high tech pieces, definitely something for me to take inspiration from!

http://vimeo.com/9697015

I particularly like how the edges are highlighted at times and the shape of the piece, time to get creative with my folding

Gavin Wolf Creative Paper Engineering

the unfolding are interesting , esp the square opening up into a circle, all fairly simple

http://www.gavinwolfpaperengineer.com.au/examples/slidecards2.htm

scratching experiment

Richard Hammond Invisible World Expolsions

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006w4gz

Slow motion camera shows the impact of the shock-wave

My Heston Flambe Fire

Riga Greenhouse Roof Window Assembly Rev. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7eW9flQJbo

possible mechanism to use, although id have to substitute the temperature control

OR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrM3QDo71-8
windcreen wiper motor

If i have to use an electric motor the set up and system is explained here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4stWDy-bPA

First Hand accounts

Explosions at a fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire were heard in several counties.

Troy Woodland was close to the explosion

"I sat down and all of a sudden there was a huge orange light and a massive explosion which blew the doors through and knocked me off my chair, and the ceiling fell in.

"I was aware of the fact that glass shards and bits of metal were flying past me as it pushed me across towards the wall."

PHIL SOFER, WHO WAS FLYING INTO LONDON DURING THE FIRST EXPLOSION

"I was flying into Heathrow. I was looking out the window to watch the lights of London. As we made the final approach I saw this orange light., which I first thought was a fireworks display. But it developed into a huge ball of flame.

www.sonar.es

International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Arts

Small Explosions 1

Having read about custard powder being used to make flame balls i tried to explosed a paper water bomb containing powder and meths. The paper burnt-an extention on the unfolding i had done but there wasn't enough oxygen for an explosion.

Custard powder and lighter fluid and paper-squares

Heston's Titanic Feast, 20/4/10

"This would not be an Escoffier dessert, fit for the Titanic, without a flambé"

To remove the liquid from the flambe process gas was contained in bubbles and then ignited. For the final desert (an edible iceberg) Heston used egg whites with propane bubbled into it but in earlier experiments he used washing up liquid and methane.

Video Art Exhibitions

Today i went to see Retrospective by Mat Collishaw at the BFI Gallery which combined found objects and moving image devices, powerful use of sound and juxtaposition.

I also saw Seven Folds in Time by Jaki Irvine a video installations at Frith Street Gallery, with television sets and speakers dotted around the room and being connected intermittently.

Kutlug Ataman: fff is a multi screen installation about childhood nostalgia, the title stands for 'found family footage'. At the Whitechaple Gallery.

Topical Explosions

Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupts. The Icelandic volcano is spewing ash into the air and wreaking havoc on flights across Europe

Other volcano eruption: An undersea volcano erupts sending plumes of steam, ash and smoke up to 100 metres into the air, on 18 March 2009 off the coast of Nuku'Alofa, Tonga. The volcano, which is situated approximately six miles off of the main Tongan island of Tongatapu, is one of around 36 undersea volcanoes clustered in the area.

Concept- Scale

This series of photographs was part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, nuclear weapons testing done in America in 1953. Only aprox 2.6seconds has passed from start to finish of the sequence.
What struck me about the image was that the house looked like a model, perhaps because of the lighting, this plays with the perception of scale.


I chose 'Explosion' because it immediate visual impact and the associations with fear and total destruction. This is true because explosions are BIG so have big impact, otherwise they would be far less controversial. I want to play on the idea of scale by layering real footage with explosions I've made using household components-kitchen chemistry. Although I'm doing this to draw attention between big and small in looking up recipes there have been some threatening suggestions. Terrorists fashioning bombs from fertiliser etc. shows that small and lowly reactants still leave a major threat.

Unscrunch

experimenting with adding basic sound effects

Unfold

Unfold

Oragami or Scrunched up paper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poDDRZC3eaQ

The new idea for my screen expanding would be to use an origami cube or square unfolding so that it increases in volume or a scrunched up ball of paper unraveling.

Rubbish wave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDf-TlfuO24

Advert for the Big Yellow Storage, with different soundtrack. Looking at static objects being animated and explosion in terms of expanding volume.

The sound track is really effective.

Battleships

http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/electronic/battery/battleship/index.html

I made a paper automata to start thinking about animating ships and waves

National Theatre

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/38438/video/video-in-england-people-very-nice.html

The National theatre use a lot of video projections in their productions, their online videos explain some of the process. 'Keying In' where you use black in areas where you don't want any projection will be a useful process.

Cornelia Parker

More chaotic than what i was thinking of producing but the back-lighting is effective, with powerful shadows being created.

Jacob's Ladder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63DJPmv9Vs

My screen could be made up of panels of Jacob's Ladders as a way of introducing movement

'We Share Our Mother's Health', Motomichi Nakamura

'Animation in Process' by Andrew Selby has given me loads of ideas and includes animations that links 'Weapon'. One of the music videos that the book focuses on is Motomichi Nakamura's music video 'We Share Our Mother's Health' 2006, for the swedish band 'The Knife'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617ANIA5Rqs

Theodore Ushev 'Tower Bawher'

http://www.nfb.ca/film/tower_bawher

This animation was made in a few weeks with constructivist inspired graphics scanned and then put together in Photoshop. It uses the score 'Time,Forward,' by Russian composer Georgy Sviridov, which has dramatic almost explosive moments, making it relevant to my project. The video connects sound and movement really effectively.

Max Hattler 'Collision'

http://vimeo.com/1295873

Polyecran

Joseph Svoboda, 1967

112 cubes shifting backwards and forward and changing image, with 2 slide projectors in each cube.

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/polyecran/images/1/

Max Hattler also uses a square grid (but a digital one) in a really exciting way in the tour visuals for Basement Jaxx 'Where's Your Head At', the video also shows live footage.

http://vimeo.com/4691323

'Weapon'

Working from a group theme of 'Weapon' I've chosen to look at explosions, thinking about landmines, trap doors and the board game 'Battleships'.

I want to create a mechanised screen that can explode. The screen will show a music video that i will make and will be mechanised to match the changes in the music. The first things i have to think about are finding an appropriate track (or excerpt), working out the style of my video (will i use stop frame animation?) and working out the mechanism and technology behind the actual screen.