I have a new camera which doesn’t record a ‘click’ when I press a button
Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
A selection of videos from central Australia
Thursday, September 26th, 2013Outer Wilds
Sunday, July 14th, 2013From Building 100
Saturday, July 6th, 2013Yesterday I went to see the exhibition of work by the architecture masters students at RMIT, on the top floor of the very handsome building 100. The exhibition was not so interesting (architecture models and renders are weird and tacky to me), but the outdoor pavilion space is lovely: private feeling, but with great access to 360 degree view of the city.
Let’s Play: Destroy Your Home
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Today I recorded myself playing Juliette Porée’s Destroy Your Home — a ‘Let’s Play’, they’re typically called. It’s a simple game built around Unity‘s built-in physics, the goal being to destroy your home, which is built of uncertainly stacked discrete objects. It’s the kind of game I like, more toy than game, a space for making your own games. These videos are me playing with this approach; playing, sculpting, performing—.
I would like to write more about these types of games/toys, and I have had an empty Tumblr blog reserved for the purpose. I would also like to make more, and make more videos like this.
Last weekend
Thursday, June 20th, 2013Odds and bobs
Friday, June 14th, 2013Five baseball videos
Friday, May 31st, 2013Video Works Catalogue
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013videoworkscatalogue.ryliejamesthomas.net
I’m working on an online version of my video archive. I’ve only uploaded about 100 videos so far, and the website is still in development, but it’s already fun to play around with. Currently you can play 1–3 sequences of videos simultaneously, selecting them by tags.
Things I would like to add include:
Make videos autoplay on selectionRemove the Youtube ‘chrome’but still have to remove that Youtube logoMaybe remove ‘related videos’ at the end of the sequencesthey loop now- Allow order of videos to be randomised
- Allow rearrangement of videos on the screen
- And, ideally, make the whole thing more dynamic: generate the list of tags and playlists with code, to save myself some work.
Cataloguing
Thursday, May 16th, 2013Like I said, I’ve made a preliminary catalogue of all my video work, from when I started making it in 2009. I’m going to do it properly when it’s Winter hols, but this is good enough for now. I’ve been using tags to label aspects of the sources, and then creating compilations based on those tags.
Four years worth of videos
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
This is a stack of stills taken from all the videos I’ve ever made. I am creating a catalogue of the individual clips—both this physical one, and a tagged digital one—to aid in creating new work. There are, probably, another 200 images from the Youtube Responses that I don’t need to print yet.