If its not fun why do it.

playfulness

Today Judit and I were focusing on video documentation and padding out our respective projects content. going through a colaborative effort of using each other for personal gain.

Today I started exploring the city through play, a blurry spinning mess with short moments of clarity much like the automated way humans interact with the space itself blurring out the mundane and routine which is only broken by glimpses of interest. the way the apparatus interacts is interesting, you apply the power to defeat the inertia in hope of moving it, but then what point does it stop is it how you predict will it deviate will it over travel and have a fall and become a oval? i on purposely restrained from rolling everything in sight with only rolling when I felt inspired or just wanted to see what it would look like.
I might get a more cliche cityscape before the stop filming deadline of Tuesday.

Upon walking to Myers Park a moment of spontaneity arised that it would be cool to put the ball in a child swing, the cage was too big to fit, but a sudden moment of realisation that id be able to augment the swing with my ball by looping the chain through two bars.

Wandering around looking for places to roll made me divulge into a photo safari mood finding all sorts of city intricacies which is somewhat uncoordinated sticking to manual focus and not being able to get your eye to the viewfinder. partially driven on by a peacock moment seeing another photographer taking shots I mentioned would look good seconds earlier.

What I want to create is beginning to piece its self together into my head, and I've even thought of a way of expressing it in my notebook, which is somewhat uncharacteristic of myself. after a year of being able to encompass a entire idea within the confines of a A2 page, my previous notebook documentation was inconsistent and full of empty points, driven on by my inability to order the scraps of thoughts and feelings being away with the fairy's mentally due to a inconvenient cold. so this project will be a attempt to at least bring it back up to the first assignments level if not more cohesive.

I love how my apparatus deforms and controrts as a responce to the actions it acts out. its like in a way it has a personality. a more organic being than a solid mass or sheet of steel every dent scratch is like a scar. it bounces and flexes and even has a small painted heart on the base from when it was still being conceived.

I'm still tossing up whether or not to have a semi narrative element. I'm really vague on my blog posts since I feel somewhat secretive about this project(or maybe its just I write my blog entries at a hour that I should be in bed). At the moment no student has seen more than 3 videos out of the 19, one of the things I dislike about seeing something I've seen the source material is whist watching it my brain goes, I'd do this differently ..... was a much better choice. you no longer look at the work for what the person was trying to portray.
Although I wouldn't mind giving up the exclusivity of my footage to play around with the other students shots, it would be quite interesting since the groups all have to make their own version using the same source apparatus and to a degree would conform to semi-simalar results. whereas a individual who was disconnected from the development and discussion would come in with a less parallel perspective, the result would be their own personal interpretation of what the heck is going on. although the main issue with this is time, the adversary for all the studio projects.