Thursday, December 11, 2008

LOOP WORK

Think this 'Loop Project' is driving me 'loopy'.

A loop is something that goes around and around. Exactly describes my head at the moment.

Two ideas are all I have come up with since Monday
1. Do an animation of the performance piece (Bipolar Balance) I am planning to do at the end of year. Idea would be to do a schematic visual 'first draft' how the piece might look at the end.
It isn't exactly planned to be a loop, but could be adapted to loop. This wouldn't be totally against the idea, since bipolarity is a recurrent condition.

2. Do a different version of the Coombe piece which I was very dissatisfied with when I presented it on Monday.
Problem here is that this definitely isn't a loop, though again, it could be forced into this shape (after all people do go up and down the Coombe over and over.)
Another challenge (must remember not to use the word 'problem) would be the length. The loop is to be 1-2 minutes, Coombe is over 29 minutes.

I've just had a third idea thinking about the 'over and over' concept. This is how TA describes the Games People Play. I could do some animation based on that.
Challenge is not knowing the software well enough to use it, and downhearted at the thoughts of how long it would take to draw and photograph each frame.

Thought I would look up some kind of definition of Games People Play and found this fascinating Stephen Pinker video about what he calls 'indirect speech.


It's long - nearly an hour I think, but well worth watching (or listening to while you do something 'mindless'.

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