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- From: joro@panix.com (Joe Rosen)
- Subject: Re: "this island earth"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.192420.18459@panix.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:24:20 GMT
- References: <19165@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- In <19165@mindlink.bc.ca> KOH@mindlink.bc.ca (Kenneth O'Heskin) writes:
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- > What sort of devices are these, off-the-shelf or home
- > brewed? I'm using photo resistors for image/text
- > manipulation; not "interactive" in terms of individual
- > users-- don't think I'm ready to let them torment any
- > mutants or the art ;) --but responsive to environmental
- > light levels. Low tech. However, current installation
- > will be the last based on cadium sulphide.
-
- all home-brew... to the extent that i don't build the computer i'm
- using (i work with Macintosh, IBM-PC, and Amiga)...
-
- the chip-computer interface i describe -- i don't build the
- chip-computer from scratch either, but instead use a board mounted
- device manufactured by a company called Blue Earth (8051 series micro
- chip computer pre-mounted in a small case)...
-
- i don't write my own complilation software -- alas i used packaged
- C language and Pascal compilers to fashion code...
-
- all electronic components are purchased from radio shack stores
- or through mail order catalogs (the circuits i devise are of my own
- design, however)...
-
- so... the computer is not "home-brew" -- *but* the interfacing
- circuitry and software is !
-
- will not use pre-packaged outta the box hardware or software
- once i get into the level of the "content" of what it is i am building.
-
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- photo-sensitive resistors are cool !
-
- they make for great input devices... two years ago i used one
- mounted in the palm of a gardening glove to detect light changes as
- the wearer opened and closed their hand...
-
- i used the change in resistence to effect z-axis change of an on-screen
- computer object... i called the piece:
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- "cheap and dirty data glove"
-
-
- > Re: _This Island Earth_
-
- > Did the mutants get a fair shake? The Metalunians giant
- > foreheads, signifying advanced evolution, did not jibe
- > with the fact the mutants have even more massive heads
- > --yet they were treated as brute insect-animals. Obviously
- > a product of 1950's xenophobia. If the mutants controlled
- > that planet it mayn't have been convulsed by wars and
- > environmental disasters. Just a thought.
-
- > Are you using captured frames (and if so what about rights,
- > lawyers, heat, etc.?) or hand-drawn renderings?
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-
- i purchased a black and white still of the metaluna mutant at a movie
- trivia shop (jerry orlinger's) here in new york city...
-
- i laid tissue atop the photo and from it produced a rough line
- drawing in pencil (modifying the photo a bit as i hand traced)...
-
- i transfer the pencil tracing to a bristol board and ink over the lines
- with a felt tip marker...
-
- i am careful to use crop marks as i produce multiple copies of all
- the mutant's body parts (so as to get them all to register when i
- digitize 'em into the computer and begin the interactive animations)...
-
- i colored the mutant in with a neat set of "berol" brand coloring
- pencils (they have great colors and spread on paper real nice)...
-
- since i draw the images by-hand (from rough tracings) i am not
- "stealing" imagery direct from the film or video -- i am instead sorta
- re-interpreting existing imagery by hand-drawing technique...
-
- also... since i have no commercial intent for my applciation (pure
- "art" and nothing else) i ain't sure any "rights" are required (?
- am i wrong about that ? -- all kinds 'o issues, i guess in the realm
- of appropriated images).
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-
-
- cool analysis of the movie !
-
- alas... the political ramifciations of the film are beyond my
- giant forehead's ability to ponder -- i just really like the "look" of
- the movie...
-
- the metalunians "looked" real cool (and the mutant, well -- need i say
- more about the cool-ness and disgusting-ness of the look 'o the:
-
- metaluna mutant
-
- ... ?).
-
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- -- joro@panix.com --
-
-
- > I'd like to try something based on _Fiend Without A Face_
- > sometime.
-
- > -koh
- >--
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- > . kenneth o'heskin . art of programming bbs
- > . . . . . (604) 826-9663 24/hr 2400 8n1
- > . koh@mindlink.bc.ca . grafix.midi.800+ forth files.
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