Oh the things you can do with overhead projectors... and a little custom
software elbow grease:
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----- Original Message -----
From: nat hawks <natbot@hotmail.com>
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2005 6:59 pm
Subject: Re: [idm] Visuals
quoted 90 lines inteeresting thread...
> inteeresting thread...
>
> funny, i was actually doing something like this at work today.. i'm
> a
> seventh grade english teacher in brooklyn and am having one of my
> classes
> create their own plays and try to animate them using an overhead
> projector... i'm just photocopying their pictures in color onto
> transparencies, cutting out characters, with backgrounds and
> stuff... lots
> of funny effects you can do (like a ghost on one sheet, and glowing
> red eyes
> on another, then you can just move the eyes around independent...)
>
> pretty fun, and pretty damned cheap. you can transfer photos,
> anything...
> Staples has bulk blank transparencies, and they work in most Xerox
> Color
> machines.
>
>
> >From: "wobbly" <spacewalker@juno.com>
> >To: mantrakid@neferiu.com
> >CC: idm@hyperreal.org
> >Subject: Re: [idm] Visuals
> >Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 01:56:55 GMT
> >
> >Hoy!
> >
> >Here's a coupla ideas
> >) Take your overhead projector open it up and put a little DVD
> player
> >inside playing loop - maybe tilt the player so that its plane is
> not
> >perpendicular to the proj glass so that the focus is slightly
> different
> >from side to side of the image / make sure it shows in the top
> glass /
> >unfocus the projector head so that the image playing is not
> recognizable.
> >Never tried this - just an idea
> >)Rent an orthographic projector which lets you blow up images laid
> on its
> >table. Put your DVD player down there / project onto stage. This
> method has
> >limited size and brightness, but if you put it on the stage it
> might work.
> >Never tried this either...
> >
> >)Borrow a 16mm proj and the oldest films they have from a school
> / smear
> >vaseline on the lens - or unscrew the lens or defocus the lens
> for
> >mysteriousness / project films onto stage and whatever they happen
> to hit.
> >You might have a friend help with this one. This I have done
> although using
> >1000 foot reels and several projectors (and several friends). Old
> science
> >films and cartoons etc can go abstract really cool! The clacking
> of the
> >projectors is also a very cool rhythmic sound (with several you
> get
> >polyrhythms) that you can work with.
> >)Save the best for last. Mix giant batch of Sangria (red wine with
> cut up
> >fruit in it) mix in about 200 hits of acid. Serve to every guest -
> miss no
> >one! Seconds are OK if everyone has had at least one cup. Turn off
> all the
> >lights except for tiny worklights and play show. Guaranteed
> memorable
> >evening.
> >If I think or hear of any other cheap and easy ideas I'll post
> more later
> >
> >Otherwise, good luck!
> >
>
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