second try.

Another video... this time tracking the two cleaners... it's interesting because they appear to be friends, and the shape made resembles a heart.
the video has been made to fade out so the 'drawing' becomes more obvious.

Tracking marks

The video is taking a late change-
instead of tracking all people, it might be more effective tracking just one... or a couple.
i have also been looking into the tracks and lines used to track the motion of people and things...
for example... the aboriginal travelling sign used to indicate travel.. (robert barton)
or different lines in orienteering or mapping that mean different things.




Purple (or red) is used to mark the orienteering course on a map. Conditions that are specific to an event (such as out-of-bounds fields in which crops are growing) are also designated in red or purple.

this would then tie in the colours and marks made by the people on the video... or could also change the meaning or conception of the work.

original backup plan

this was one of my original back up plans for the sculpture drawing assignment...
'in process'
i was also planning to create some type of sponges that would fit onto the feet somehow... then soak it into ink so it stamps wherever it goes...
this would have been much more effective on a larger scale.





http://vimeo.com/1609077 here's another cool video of a machine that tries to draw circles...
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First example-

there are still a couple of glitches to combat...



like when the circles appear, it would be good if they were smoother..

after effects- trial and error

i managed to get the effect i wanted with the red line, where when the person stood still the paint would get thicker in that one spot... however for some reson the grey coloured line with the same settings is not growing.. or when it does, it makes the entire length of it thick.

Somehow, by deleting the keyframe of the last position, the blob seems to get bigger..

write on effect

figured out how to make lines in after effects...
there is a draw on feature (see black line below)
i have managed to get the brush size to increase, but it jumps to the larger size, i need to find a way to make it increase slowly.

Backup IDEA

Journey Tracker

Creating a tool that tracks the movement of a journey.
can be a large one in a car or smaller 'machine' that attaches to the body somehow, or travels on wheels behind.

For example, create some rolling type of device that sits in a container on a body...
the paper in the container records the movement of the person.













Or using a cart...

Problems

Some problems so far is :

Technological issues / the camera not wanting to load the video i think the firewire cable broke.
The video that was uploaded was the wrong format.
The video i took there was a bit of camera shake... makes it difficult to create the pictures.

Concept plan.

The assignment was to create a drawing machine.
Because i wanted to learn how to utilize video within sculpture, and because of my interest in sociology, i have decided to create a video work where recording the movement patterns of people in communal spaces would subsequently create the drawing.
In the journal there is a sketch of my proposal, where the people are givcne a colour depending on the colour of their clothing and that colour will follow them like a line, if the person walks faster the line will be thin, if they walk slower then fat and if they stop for a while the line starts to grow in a circle shape.

Learning video blog.

This is where i will be inputting my information and research towards the video works i intend to work on over the semester.
i believe it will be easier to input video and images into here then print at the end of the semester rather than collecting random images off the net and pasting the ones i havn't lost into my journal.
I will still be using the journal for recording other information and sketches.