lee graf

so through thinking about what the "nuts" of my project are, i came up with a few essential parts. of course, the rhythm and patterning of light reflection based on audience interaction. but also a kind of quirky, off, subtle humor as well. sound in conjunction with the visual is also important to my idea i think. so going off of these things, and by talking to julia, i brainstormed a couple of ideas that i have no idea how to carry out. the first, which ive mainly been working on but failed miserably, was a callback to chianti when i was spinning my wine glass and it was making all sorts of crazy beautiful reflections on the white tablecloth. thus, i tried to imitate this with...not appropriate wine glasses. the reflections are alright, but theyre not really what i was looking for. i also tried to string them together as i did for my other video, but it just is not working as id like. i think i either have to shoot the videos with more planning, but then that kind of takes away from the idea of the quirky/jerky randomness of the rhythm that i was aiming for. so that was idea number one that im rather unpleased with.

another idea was to make a room with the same contraption as the box, and at the same time to have the video projected in the room in order to make the audience feel as though they are in the box. this can't really be done due to...many reasons including money, space, supplies, etc etc.

then the third idea is a preliminary one. julia showed me an artist who made these huge clear globes and put them in water. i think this would be so cool to make to capture the reflections on the surface of the globes of the light while also having it interactive with the viewers who get to play with the objects to get the random rhythm involved as well. i have not as yet figured out how to do this. i think that really i need to find a material i can use to make a small scale version, and see if it achieves the different parts of my concept. so as of right now, i think i may need to leave the video realm and go in a different direction with this project.