Alphabet development

More development of my alphabet today. Managed to get the video camera recording after a bit of pestering the technicians at uni. I fed the picture of the letter into the TV via my mac, and then recorded it with the old camera, I played around with the focus and shutter a bit which gave me some cool glowy effects.

Looks quite nice when like above, but sometimes it was a bit too overpowering so I may just use it a little, if at all.

After filming the letter with the old VHS camera, I then set up a DV camera (too many cameras!) and fed the VHS camera into the TV via scart.

As I fimed it with the DV camera I used the tracking, pause, skip frame, rewind and forwarding to try and create some cool effects. It involved a lot of mashing of various buttons to work out what worked best. Skipping between pausing, rewinding and forwarding is particularly effective.

Here is a little bit of a film to show what kind of stuff I got, this is my favourite bit I captured.


Alphabet: 'A' Experimenting from Amy Thornley on Vimeo.

Hopefully do some more letters tomorrow.

VHS Fun

We have been set a project for our Digital Practice/Media Through Time lesson to create an animated alphabet. Something along the lines of this:

A-Z Experiment typography from urk on Vimeo.

This is an amazing piece of work created by dropping the letters into a tub of cornflour and water.

I'm interested in the idea of playing with VHS tapes and seeing what type of effects I can get by altering the tracking, fast forwarding etc. Managed to find this old VHS camera in the studio that tapes normal size tapes.

 

 Bought it home and it still works, just need to keep it plugged in! I wanted to use it to feed into the TV though so bought a normal red, white and yellow to scart cable and then an old VHS from a charity shop (teenage mutant ninja turtles yeah!)

And it works! Later today I'm gonna try the old selotape over the edge trick and try to record over the tape with a sample letter. First of all I need to get a DVD or something to get the alphabet onto the TV... or to be even more geeky, I could try and feed my mac into the tv, then feed the tv feed into the camera... confusing? Very!

Adidas Originals: Star Wars Advert

Awesome advert for the new star wars collection coming from adidas, can't wait!

A to B

A to B Documentary from Amy Thornley on Vimeo.

This is the documentary from our A to B Project, which went horribly wrong in many respects. Makes for quite an interesting watch never the less.

Faux Photos

Found this post on weburbanist, which showcases 43 stunning faux photo pieces of art. Some of them are simply amazing.

Check it out: http://weburbanist.com/2009/10/22/faux-photography-43-stunning-super-realistic-works-of-art/

Its Snowing!

It's snowing on my blogger page!


Thanks to: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/snowstorm/ and javascript.

Harry Potter Information Graphics

Finally redid the design of these to look a little nicer for my information graphics earlier this year, looking a lot spiffier. Gonna try and get this down to a nice size and get a preloader on it sometime.