The ability to print photos is a nice touch, since the only thing people like more than seeing themselves on the screen is getting some free personalized schwag to take with them. Of course, if someone really wanted to, they could visit our Flickr page to download and print a photo on their own. The photo’s from Mark’s setup at the Whitney also have a very nice lighting quality, much like ours, which makes all the difference in the world. Their photos are more true to form of the old style black and white photobooth, whereas ours are a more modern fashion-esque interpretation. It also looks like Mark’s setup was a more self contained, appliance-like box rather than the more ad-hoc approach we used. Perhaps we can use the instructions to make our own for the Kara Walker Preview Party. I hope to have automatic uploading to Flickr part of the installation at that point, too.
And, just to make a friendly jab at the Whitney, our installation was three days before theirs. Neener Neener. Sadly, I didn’t see any photos of Ivanka Trump at our party. In Minnesota, we’ve got Al Franken or Prince, neither of which showed up.
Remix culture is something that I am interested in. Before I worked for the Walker, both of the workshops I co-taught for teen programs as part of The Revolutionary Party dealt with remix culture very directly. In the first workshop, we created remixes of television advertisments. The second workshop remixed a broader range of material, this time with music, in a live event. It looks like Computer Music stumbled upon a couple of remixed tv ads. If you’re a fan of drum and bass music and read Adbusters, you might like it.
The exhibition House of Oracles closed here at the Walker a few weeks ago (it opened at Mass MoCA March 18). The exhibition was generally well received by local and national press and also generated several lengthy blog posts on the Visual Arts Blog. One, titled The Herpetology of Huang, sparked an impassioned string of comments that exposed our blog’s potential to amplify negative publicity. Since this is a concern for many people starting blogs and a point we are going to address in our workshop later this week, I thought I’d outline how we dealt with it and what we are doing going forward. (more…)
There was an expansion of the podcasting offerings on mnartists.org recently. For an example, go look at the Radio mnartists page. The podcast is the same link as the RSS (the graphic on the right of the header, near the center of the page). Copy the link off that page, or just use the direct link below, and subscribe to the feed in your favorite podcast player.
Direct link to the podcast: Radio mnartists: http://mnartists.org/resourceList.do?action=rss&rid=82170&pid=219
Subscribing to a podcast with iTunes
Copy the direct link. Open up iTunes. Pull down the “Advanced” menu and go down to “Subscribe to Podcast…” then a window pops up and you paste the url into it and hit return. Then iTunes will automatially check mnartist.org for updates to that set and download them for you.
Seems pretty obvious but here are some pages with tips for Chroma Key lighting. The general tip is to evenly light the backdrop so there are no heavy dark areas that show as black on the video but don’t light the backdrop to heavily or you will get green bleed on the edges of your actor and possibly you will get white spots on the image.
As we know from our hours of work in post production on the Dialog Table those shadows are a killer.
