Window dimensions - 52 Princess Street

I've attached window dimension, all windows are about the same size so if you intend of using other windows, you can use this dimensions. There is also the possibility to project on 2 windows. You will have to know the distance between windows so you can map your video/animation/projection.

You can always visit Norman (8am - 6pm) and ask for access into the space for farther details.

52 Princess Street - Info & Meet

Hey there Everyone,

Here are some images of 52 Princess Street. If anyone would like to come down and check out the space i have arranged to meet there at 10am on Tuesday (16th November) Anyone from the lab is welcome to join and if you cant make that time then please just say and we can figure out another day or time.

Have a look at the images and start thinking about some ideas you might like to apply. Once youve seen the space and building you might start to expand your ideas, which would be great. Ill let Paul Mcann know we are coming down and you can
meet him as well.
Hope to see you there,

Matthew

Tele: 07955953591
email: m.d.stanners@gmail.com
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Location:
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Princess Street Photographs

Hi all,

I have put some pics of the Princess Street Showcase on my blog:

http://sophie-pollock.blogspot.com/2010/07/fifty-two-princess-street-exhibition.html

I will be sending you the larger versions of the files, along with some more pictures, via a zip folder to your email over the weekend!

Was a great a night!

Soph

picture frames - the sequel

well, I guess the cheap picture frames from tescos didn't inspire much enthusiasm! But if it's still on the cards, a techno-geek acquaintance recommended these to me - Archos touch screens. Much more high-tec - touch screen, wi-fi, you can play videos on them, use as a keyboard, watch tv, go on internet, etc etc.

I know it's rather extreme just for the 'sigh'nage but considering we may be changing the look of things, and so will Paul, you can just save a load of videos on. Or have a web-page up, so you don't even have to go into the building, just upload onto a website. Relatively cheap considering - 250GB is £198. Click here to look on amazon. Again, the price is likely to go up in future.

spyros-chimneys

Here is some vids I made a while back, coming from spyros' idea of chimney tops for princess st. projection: [could probably dig up a fair bit of raw footage, 20mins or more, if thats what we decide to go with]


+slightly crapper upload quality:



+this is what i used as background clouds - may be of use??

went a bit mad..

with the footage katy gave me of buildings. It looks nothing like buildings now, but pretty nonetheless (I hope). After spending an entire night waiting for rendering, as a result I have no hard drive and probably a greater disposition for epilepsy. Oh well.

This one for the ceiling perhaps? In total these videos run for about 10mins. If anyone wants to shoot more footage of Manchester I'd be grateful, then it can run for longer...



Couple of minor points: The quality isn't great because it's reprocessed/ reformatted camcorder footage so you can see lots of grain when shown large-scale. Second, this is 16:9 (widescreen) ratio, if the ceiling/wall is more square I might need to change it 4:3? Also the next video is inverse, and the projector will be projecting the *white, not black. So we'll need to test it to see if it looks alright.

I made this one into a circle, then duplicated it again. When I played it back, it looked a bit like eyes watching you. Kinda like the idea of moving eyes in the foyer.. "the city is watching you" cliché..


(I was thinking of calling it 'Wall-E takes mescaline' but that would probably be inappropriate..)

Princess St Meeting 19/11/09

The meeting with Paul McCann was attended by Ady (thanks for getting hold of the projector) Matthew, Ste, Ireena & Katy.

• We showed Paul the temporary work and tried out the position of the projector. There is a lowered ceiling under the mezzanine balcony that can act as a shelf for the projector which would be connected to a laptop which would go on Norman's desk. A mirror would need to be angled in front of the lens and masked to stope any light overspill.

• Paul also showed us the interior spaces that could be used for lighting / projection from the inside onto the windows on the corner of the building (to the right of the entrance as you look at the building from the outside). He is happy for anyone to go into these spaces and work experimentally while the building is open.

[The ground floor has no power yet; First floor is occupied; Second and third floors are empty with power.]

• He can also open up for us on a Saturday if necessary. We discussed Saturday 28th as an installation date.
• The question of additional funding was raised again and Paul suggested we should liaise with Marcus Lord on this.
• The building was used this week as a venue for a Man Met event and has previously been used for showing degree show work.
• Florin later showed us a more elaborate version of the carousel idea that he has been working on.

Jobs To Do:

• Cable required to run from projector / laptop for long term use; by Sat 28th (or earlier) Ady
• Mirror / arm attachment; by 28th Katy
• Laptop for long term use; by 28th Ste
• Arrange Meeting with Marcus asap Katy
• Floor plans / measurments; Andrea has these apparently asap Matthew
• Put all work into new carousel by Thurs 26th Florin
• check if Florin has got your work asap everyone

Long Term
Everyone to be working in their sub-group on the idea for the space they have identified, progress to be reviewed Thursday 3rd Dec? Possibility of Sid / Katy work to be installed first with help from others for the installation. Temporary/experimental work in the window spaces can be installed at any time.

portal

found a video of that game i mentioned. It's a puzzle where you have a gun that opens up a portal + you have to think 3-dimensionally (e.g. walk through portal in floor and walk out in the ceiling)

Can be done with webcams+ projections?
Portals popping up on the white walls, looking at yourself sideways on the ceiling? Or seeing outside? etc. etc.

Princess Street

I like your ideas Sid. Thanks Matthew for writing up the discussion notes.

I was out getting my footage today so I revisited Princess Street with a view to the ideas we have been discussing for the long term / exterior project. It's aproximately 17 meters between the buildings on either side of Princess Street. I also tried to get an idea of the view from near the junction.

P.S. I've also been taking a look at the businesses housed at 52 Princess St. to get an idea of who passes through the foyer on a regular basis and the kind of clients they may have.. here are some links.

http://www.creativelynx.co.uk/
http://www.rpsgroup.com/Group/Overview.aspx
http://www.freeindex.co.uk/profile%28cerus-casino-academy%29_167231.htm

Don't have time next week to get any work done, so thought I'd do some today instead. Quickly filmed tops of buildings a la katy and messed about with it, sped it up, put several screens together, so you end up with a dynamic shape that can be moved about. VERY rough video, but if you use ur imagination you get an idea (oh, and ignore any subliminal swastikas):



I think it was thomson/ thomas cook that did a series of ads on busstops where a country was shown like a world (extreme fish-eye view) with its landmark on top. Can't find a picture, but if anyone remembers? Also, anyone remember the car advert on E4 - red car that split up into computer-squares + lines?

You could also see how this can be incorporated into steve's motion-traker program? How about the video moving as fast as people walking through the building? Or the shape getting bigger when you move towards it?

projections. sensors, sculpture

Dear all, here is some footage I dug up from just messing about with shapes. It's a fairly simple idea - two circles that I transformed /morphed according to random keypoints. I thought about it when we were at 52 as we mentioned motion-tracking- what if we could find a way of translating these changes to the movements of an individual/ group of people? I know there are programs that allow you to edit 'live'. This is only a sketch, and we could use different shapes, colours- anything u like really. Never mind the 'twitches', I wanted it glitchy at the time.




Untitled from Sid Volter on Vimeo.


Also, sorry to ramble, but I found this diy : very simple idea but pretty, adds a sculptural element, and also fits into the analogue-digital theme:





256 wires suspended, projector projecting horizontally to correspond with them. Personally I think it would be too frustrating + fiddly - you have to register the pixels with each wire. Eek! Search 'wiremap' and theres loads of tutorials on how to make one, and the code is open-source! People are doing all sorts of things with the idea, including moving 3d objects - a bit like a hologram.