Preview day and night (day 245)

Another day, another preview of things to come.

We spent the a good part of the afternoon working with the cameras and the remote again.  After giving up on finding another set of cameras by going shopping locally, we decided to give our current setup another chance.  We got as scientific as we could with imprecise tools and calculated the drift to be about .6ms per minute with a period of about 15 minutes.  So after 15 minutes they get in sync again.  Once they are in sync we have about 5 minutes to shoot before things are too far out of sync to be usable.  This is an estimate and would depend on the speed of motion in the scene.  So it's workable but certainly not amenable to spur of the moment shooting.  Leila will test it out this weekend.  In talking with Sean, he said that he's had the same issue with recording sound and video separately.  The oscillators were just slightly out of sync so the sound and video didn't match up.  Luckily with sound you can play around a bit and get things to match.  Not so with video.  We haven't found video editing software that will manipulate a sub-frame level.  Changing the frame rate to be a fractional number would not work.

We spent the later afternoon brainstorming some ideas about Breath I/O.  Here are the notes (not edited):

Lungs jostling/bending
Moving around forming clusters, groups, fights, collaborations.
Number of lungs - individual to couple to quartet to nine to multitude (varying)
Environment - rain, wind, snow, vidéo windows in bg
Internal video associated with personal internal space. External video associated with public videos.
When lungs touch each other could generate traces
External videos can affect internal videos (a mixture)
Lines in space delineating groups and boundaries
Breathing patterns affecting video speed and direction
Video particles or atmospheric around the lungs maybe more visible when they are actively breathing. Somehow visualizing sharing of the same air.
Sometimes lungs not having video (tuning out?)
Death/decay (line drawing?)
Events like a bird flying through. Each set of lungs associated with an event that can get triggered. Internal event or external event.
Provoke tenderness in viewer.  A sense of protecting.
Resonance, sound, visual resonance, synching, harmony/disharmony, oscillations that are sometimes in sync, oscillations that affect each other. Rhythms, ebbs and flows, events affect the patterns.

The day ended with the Grad Show preview night.  I toured about a third of the show before going home.  I'll see the rest during the week when it's a bit less busy.  It was great to see the MAA student work all in one place.  The official opening is tomorrow night.

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