December 30th, 2010
We spent the entire day at Disneyland. We took June first thing after breakfast and at around 4pm Grandma Rosie came by and picked her up. After that, Jenny and I rode the big rides and stayed until the fireworks. Unfortunately, the fireworks were cancelled due high winds. It was a super awesome day!
When we got home we were exhausted. Jenny took a hot bath and I perused the internet. Once Jenny was off to bed I decided to attempt to do something creative. I opened the remix I’ve been playing with for the latest MCRP but unfortunately was not really feeling it.
The TV kept winning my attention. That’s how I felt. Turn off brain.
Eventually, I resorted to an idea that occurred to me a while ago while eating a cheeseburger in my car. I noticed the grease on my fingers spread across my iphone’s screen creating these rainbow effects. I thought to myself that might be worth a macro project. I tried to recreate it but I found it to be too much of a challenge to find the grease through the macro. My plan B was to forgo the grease altogether and just focus on the pixels within. What I found was some actual inspiration.
I went from the iphone to my laptop to my television and snapped pictures of them all. It was the television that was the most interesting. The TV is always changing with moving images so at macro levels I was seeing what looked like to me, a Saturday Night Fever-esque 70’s light show. I decided to switch from stills to video and filmed the light show.
Even though I filmed it just to be an example, I brought the footage in and thought it should have some music added to it. I needed a short track because I don’t want to burn your retina with multiple minutes worth of flashing color. I found the right track in a previous Monome Community Remix Project. The track is only a minute long. It’s called “Gunny Fames” and it’s by an artist and fellow reader of the blog named Bite.
I did very little editing to the video. Bite’s track actually just happens to complements the material. Check out more of Bites music at his soundcloud page.
Enjoy the video!