For the second day, I wanted to get out and about and use my legs and eyes. My original idea was to make a list of items to be captured on video, and then go capture them. The process would have been great as a group competition or collaboration, but everyone at 4-in-4 had their own awesome projects to work on for the day, so I adapted the concept to be an exercise for one. I walked and subway’d around the city with a Sanyo Xacti h.264 cam in hand and grabbed any bit of interesting motion that I could find (about 50 clips). Observation with a specific, unusual perspective in mind is super fun. Throughout the day, I kept thinking about how fortunate I was to be spending time in such a way.
I was thinking (a) I could edit the clips I took and slap them on a map according to where they were filmed, or (b) I could just sequence them together with an appropriate tune as a soundtrack. Although I didn’t get to do either of these yet, rest assured that the clips won’t go to waste. If nothing else, they’ll hopefully come in real handy as inspiration for my “methods of motion” class starting a week from today (one week! ay!). For my own reference, starting at ITP, I walked down Broadway, covered some of the Village until mainly 6th ave / 4th St, went up to Times Square, over to Grand Central, out to Queens on the some train called the 7, and then back to ITP. Good times, good times.
A little time has passed. Given shortage of time, I went with option B. Surprise, surprise. The tune is called “Meals To Dinner Time Prelude” from Asheru and Blue Black’s album called “Soon Come.” There’s no obvious correlation, but I enjoy the flow and hope you do too.