chroma chroma chroma chroma chroma Chameleon!

Previously in the year before the break I got asked by a non BCT tutor if I had an idea for a for a task for students doing a computer based task in a certificate course. something a bit less monotonous than a illustrator or photoshop task. I suggested using a chroma studio and doing stop animations which they could then bring into motion and add scenery and their own asthetic to. continuing on with deja vu idea week(yes im typing this up wednesday so 3days counts as a trend). we got setup with a almost the same task stop animation with chroma keying inpired by the matrix's bullet time effect. as dicovered by the robodance project with a large group the efficiency of a group decreases, even more so when there is no heirachy, and Jason and I got consumed looooong discussion of the approach. a attempt at trying to make it look like a circle of people. a break away from Tom into acutaly producing. (thank jellybabies) and I was compiling images and converting into video. we finaly got a steady workflow going.
In class I did a simple colour key and overlayed it over a background he shot. afterwards I urged judit to work with paper based elements instead of creating digital elements, its quite fun whatching someone else develop a sugestion in their own styistic tangent (even thouh I suspect it agravates her somewhat firing off sugestions at a steady tempo) after being abandoned at the end of the day I came up with a startling revalation, I've obtained embarassing source video of bct students and plotted to create a bjork level of random group dance. which has only been iterated into a draft which got shown in the presentation at present but will be realised sometime soonish, with the current tune being sugalumps by flight of the conchords.
all in all it's a nice change of pace returning back to the studio paper with a strong confidence in creating something impressive to end the studio 1 paper.


Time is starting to get more cluttered with constant onslaught of things to do, and balance of working on things and sanity time, with atleast two personal projects being put on standby. I haven't taken a serious photo in a whole 3 days and it feels like atleast week.

Throughout the year so far I have ?joked? that theres only 3ish people that read the blogs, but to my amazement on saturday I got linked by an american fashion blog as about one of my exibtion visits, it's somewhat of a proud moment not just having randoms unexpectingly happen onto my blog or bct students ,but sheep being lead there by someone saying my blog was a "good first hand review/impression of the show." ->HERE<- (warning contains fashion photography which in laymans terms pretty much equates to people wearing not many clothes) Its nice to get some recognition from an outsider. also prompted a retraction of my "post it if its in a semi coherent draft and just put draft in the title" policy to save embarassment.