Time Lapse

Yesterday was a 10 out of 10 for cloud gazing and recording cloud time lapse. I ran into some technical issues but was able to get some video recording that may work.

Recent Inspirations

found this time lapse video. At 1:11, the sun light is really bright, this is how I want my footage to look. I wonder if the photographer had the camera faced straight up towards the sky. I didn't try filming that way last time I shot film. I'm going to try that maybe tomorrow. PLEASE BE PARTLY CLOUDY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1yKIlDhpB0

Cloud Construction

I have been thinking a lot about what materials would work best for my project. Sara Rockinger used fiber to make the figures in her "In/Visible". Fiber worked really well for her piece but I think for mine, I would like to use a material that will absorb more color. The figures in her piece were very transparent.

Pillows are a possibility. They might absorb too much color though and cast too dark of a shadow unto the  background. But I could play around with the pillow stuffing. Also, I could use some normal pillows and some feather pillows. The different types of pillows may create a different effect.

















Light bulbs could be really cool. I liked the example of a past students work that involved light bulbs. This could get expensive though and I want my clouds to look as fluffy as possible.









Cotton balls could be fun to play around with, but if I use a small material it would be difficult to make my clouds really large. Also I it could be very hard to connect all the cotton balls together.

Video Projection

A few weeks ago, a friend used an iphone to take pictures of these very colorful clouds as we drove to a concert at Red Rocks. For my project, I would like to use film footage of clouds similar to the clouds in the pictures.  I plan on taking the same drive again at the same time of day to record the clouds with my digital camera.  I am hoping the video will be as colorful as the original pictures. I think the more colorful the film, the more impressive my piece will be. I want the clouds I construct to be absorbing a lot of color from the film as well as casting shadows onto the backdrop that the film will be projected on. I think finding this balance will be the hardest part of my project.

Re thinking scale

One of the most impressive parts of Sara Rockinger's "In/visible" is it's large scale. I am moving away from the idea of making a mini scene like David Hoffos' "Scene from the House Dream" this means I have to rethink what I want to project onto the clouds

I would like some of my clouds to be this fluffy, I think if I used cotton balls to create ones like these, then they would absorb light well and would create interesting shadows









I wonder if it would be possible to create something like this, RAINBOW CLOUDS