Waiting At The Church (1906)

One more twiddle-dee-dee....

Working late at the office.

Working on a camera setup...and...

 

...then the lights went out...

I think it was a bad circuit breaker...

Gibberish - a KAFI 2005 moment

Created for random insertion throughout the Kalamazoo Animation Festival Internationale in 2005.  Never used.  Probably a good thing....

Created in Flash, rendered into a *.mov format from the Flash *.mov format using Quicktime Pro.

Old Apple Storage Building in Battle Creek ca 1840s

It stood alongside the site of the old mill race near downtown Battle Creek (the canal has since been filled in).  When constructed, it was on the southernmost part of the town, facing the mill pond and dams built by the city's founder, Sands McCamly.  It was a tour site for schoolchildren through the 1960s, demonstrating that the walls' thickness could store and preserve apples throughout the year without modern refrigeration techniques.
On Memorial Day, 2011, when tornado-force winds tore through the Surreal City, the building's top was blown off.  The rest of the structure was demolished in record time.
I just happened to have shot some video of the building in 2008.  It took me until now to find it!
And so it goes....

Political Asylum - Work in Progress

Calling it a work in progress is actually optimistic...it's been cluttering space on at least six different PCs since 1999.  If ever completed, it will be a whopping 3 minute opus synchronized to a nice, public domain 1917 recording in my collection.

Part one, created in Autodesk Animator Pro (DOS version!!!) plays with an 1846 photo from the Library of Congress:

Part two, created in Autodesk Animator Pro for Windows 3.11 (beta version), works with multiple layers that had to be sandwiched, optical printer style, in the render that took, as I recall, about 8 minutes...

This third clip is a frame-by-frame reconstruction of some 8mm footage shot in 1973 that may be put to use as well:



Experiment with Chroma Keying - ANM 239 at KVCC

The Cinematics/Animatics capstone class wanted to experiment with After Effects for a chroma key exercise.  I demonstrated the same work here using simple ol' Sony Vegas.  It's the technique, not the technology....so much time is spent learning software instead of massaging the mind...