Projections on a Tote Box from Jonathan PJ Smith on Vimeo.
I was doing some video mapping with an ultra short throw projector. Light spill was hitting the tote box my computer was sitting on. It looked really interesting. I emptied out the tote box and mapped it with water imagery. Wow!
Posted by Jonathan PJ Smith | 0 commentsFor the opening of Sullivan Goss’ exhibit 100 Grand, we projected bubbles in the window and upper wall. Projection was also mapped to the words in the window and given a white frame. It felt like the bubbles were going through the roof, up the wall and out into the ether.
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Projection on the serpent body.
I went on a mission to Cuenca, Ecuador just lately. Clay Bodine, one of the founders of Fishbon, and former board member, Laura Inks-Bodine, moved down there last year. They’d set up Fishbon Del Sur and were putting on their first full-blown event.
I brought down three old projectors to leave there and some lighting and other equipment.
The goal was to learn how Cuenca worked and try to meet local artists and work with them. It all happened. Together with Lakomuna,Kym Cochran and myself, we created a serpent that snaked through Clay and Laura’s courtyard. The three projectors shone close-up footage of Ethan Turpin’s Video Feedbacteria along the Serpent’s body as way of making abstract snakeskin. What was really cool was that the imagery projected through the material to the other side. This helped pull the piece together.
Inside the body.
The Lakomuna serpent head.
Posted by Jonathan PJ Smith | 0 commentsZach Rosen is passionate about beer and especially figuring out how to pair it with other elements as a pathway to perception. This last weekend, Brew Reverie, a company he helped found, put on Hoptopia, an extravaganza based on this very theme. Naturally there were many delectable beers to sample, all of them from local breweries, but there were also foods to try specially concocted by a master chef to match a particular beer’s intricate flavors. And it worked. The tastes balanced each other to a tee.
In two rooms upstairs, we set up video, sound and lighting to pair with two other distinct types of beer.
Hoptopia Pairing Room One
In the one room, we used yellow and reddish imagery of slow moving lava lamps globs and colored suds and bubbles to create the ambience. This, backed by yellow and red lighting and the right ambient music, actually matched the served sample very well. Perhaps you’re thinking that it was all due to directed perception on the part of the sampler. But I assure you, I walked in there with the remains of a dark beer from the downstairs and it didn’t jibe at all. However the crisp, slightly sharp and complex sample beer from the room did!
Hoptopia Pairing Room Two
In the second room, I don’t think we did quite so well. The scene was wonderful; We aimed three projectors at the floor flooding it with overlapping black and white water imagery that gave it complexity and depth. Unfortunately the sound for the room didn’t register and left it feeling oddly empty. The green lighting didn’t help either. In my opinion, this combination didn’t match the proffered beer. In retrospect, I’d say that the video worked but should have been slightly slower, the sound could have been vastly improved and that red and/or blue lighting would have worked much better than the green.
It’s all an experiment.
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Gerard Minakawa’s Bamboo DNA was at EDC again and I was with them doing lighting again .
The installation was made u[ of ten splayed bamboo towers, six of which boasted woven-in projection screens. Albertico Accosta and Jack Vaughan put together the imagery. It was an excellent combination.
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