Markers. Ants. Tectonics. X. & Pain. & Illness.

This is actually the second set-up.

I had the camera on the right moved further back during the initial stages of the drawing.

I thought I could do the whole drawing in one hour (the recording time of the tapes I had bought), but I was wrong.

So when I went and bought more tapes, I changed the arrangement of the cameras so that they would get a more detailed view of the drawing.

Total drawing time: 1.5 hours or so.

Now I just need to edit that down to about two minutes.

And the dang XL-1 video camera kept racking focus, despite the fact that I had it set to manual and had the switch on the lens flicked to manual focus.

If anyone knows why that might be, feel free to e-mail me, especially if it’s not supposed to do that and we need to send it in for service.

Does the lens communicate with the body through some contacts that could be corroded? I dunno, but I’ll check and clean them and see if that helps.

Now:

I just have to edit the tapes down.

Convert the resulting movie to a .mov for use in an old Mac OS 9 laptop, and then build a wooden frame to hold the whole shebang.

Shebang, according to the WordPress spell checker, is a word.

It’s a weird word, if you think about it.

p.s. thanks to Jenn for the little tripod holding up the camera on the right.

So this is step one. Or, if you count scouring the internet looking for the images, step eighty-four.

Next, I print this on my laser printer to make a grayscale image.

That will be enlarged onto a sheet of printmaking paper (standard Rives BFK, double weight).

I’ll video tape myself (three different cameras and angles) enlarging the collage onto the paper.

Where now there are a variety of blocky edges and so on, I imagine I’ll unify the disparate resolutions in the collage in the drawing.

But I’m not sure yet. I’ll have to see what looks best.

Where the blue oscilloscope is on the above collage, I’ll paste a piece of vellum or tracing paper.

Behind that goes a flattened laptop that will run an edited version of the video of the creation of the drawing. (1 minute? 30 seconds?).

That’s the plan. And the whole and sum of the plan. Besides the wooden framing, heat issues of the laptop, etc.

As for the collage, to everyone on the World Wide Web whose images I appropriated for my collage: thank you, you know who you are.

If this collage were the final piece, I would name each and every one of you, but it isn’t.

The final piece will be: drawing, video, and frame, all of which are far enough removed from the originals that I don’t feel like I’m stealing.

Am I right?

If anyone reads this and has a thought, feel free to comment your little hearts out.