Day: November 20, 2005

One Step Closer

The projects are going along well. Having fun with Director. Have tried the Director animation a couple different ways which ever way I have done it, it is a real drag on the processor.

I can’t believe… I can’t remember how to do repeating loops or set up functions. Some other things I remember so well.

The sun is out — would have been a great day for drawing but it is so blasted windy. I am hoping Friday will be better. I have to figure out how I am going to hang the camera for my installation. Seems I’ll be doing a performance piece with the camera mounted above me while I am tracing my shadow on the floor below. The image caught by the projector of me tracing my shadow will be projected on the wall.

Next couple days I will post the floor plan for my thesis show.

Later.

Oak’s Shadow @ MCAD—Oct 20, 2005

Waiting for the sun… having a good time today. I’m working on the animation for my final project, “The Grinder.” It is going well, but I needed a bit of a break. So here I am.

Shadow of a large oak tree cast across a building at MCAD in the morning sun.
Oak’s Shadow @ MCAD, October 20, 2005
Photo by Bill Hendricks

I certainly don’t get tired of taking photos. I took this image on the morning of October 20, before I started drawing.

I worked on the drawing again yesterday, but it got very cloudy, so I had to quit at noon. I’m hoping to resume on Tuesday or Wednesday. The weather doesn’t look like it will cooperate until then. Bummer.

Everything seems to be moving toward the same thing now—finishing my thesis work, getting ready for the graduate show, and completing my MFA. There is still plenty to do.

For today, I hope to finish my animation.