I got this idea to do light projection mappings. There's a lot of inspiring stuff out there, and the last few weeks I've been at SudoRoom there's just a lot of work around trying to figure out what equipment to get, what creative ideas to get. It's been really fun.
I thought I'd share some sketches from my notebooks, because I'm just doing lots of planning right now and bouncing ideas.
- * Starting small - There are a lot of possibilities but it's really good to start small. I chatted with Marc + others about using portable pico projectors to mount on bicycles for the bike party rides and at cosplay events. Someone even mentioned having a projector in a wand!
- so many opportunities to craft a cool mount
- Making more of an effort to "cross fertilize" with the cool artists that are still in Oakland. For example I was at the Drink and Draw at the New Parkway (unfortunately happens on wednesday night meetings for me) and ran into folks from the Rock Paper Scissors Collective (they're back) and a lot of cartoonists! I wish I had gotten more of their art (i'll get it)
- For interacting with other artists, it'd probably fun to build a small "Stage" with foamboard similar to what you see at science fair projects. Came up with the idea for a small puppet theater
- Eventually would love to move to immersive environments (an entire room). people love taking selfies in these places
I'd like to move to Blender eventually and make very sophisticated experiments but it's good to do stuff off the wall and freehand using very old projectors or my hand held pico projectors.
There are a lot of cool video and visual artists who have experimented with light projections going way back into the 1970s and 1990s even, and while the technology is important (man so many different cable formats to review this month) it's really about what's presented and what you're trying to get across. I'd like to do very technology-obvious projects but have been making a point to look at indonesian and japanese puppetry as well.
As we jam we can involve more and more projectors and do really elaborate things. It's just a matter of time and learning blender. I think it'd be good to poopulate with the sudoroom blog wit the creative process as we aren't just our stuff and classes, but also a creative space to highlight the process of making something cool.
So this notebook will be part of it!
OK enough random thoughts. Maybe we can have our version of 5 minutes of fame and do a show and tell!