4shrooms4u

The 4shrooms4u project has reached a mid-way point in its evolution, and a progress report is called for!

We have created around 8 clips of our practices. Each clip was produced with one of the shroomies as the actor/artist, and others in supporting roles. Each clip presents a particular technique in projection art which can be hopefully easily absorbed and advanced by the budding shroomita.

Technical details: most clips were captured with the Panasonic NV-DX1 or the Sony DCR-VX1000E.  Pablo shot most of them in several 60 minutes sessions at Studio HollerG, and then mixed them using FinalCutPro.

In addition to this, we’ve created a single, longer presentation in video form of one performance, expressing the combination of many artists and many techniques in an unusual setting. This is by way of bringing all the elements together for the 4shrooms4u audience, and presenting a challenging target.

Work so far done was achieved primarily with funding from NetzNetz/MA7-Stadt Wien, some equipment borrowed from CastYourArt, and the self-contributions of our shroomie artists.

The next step is to take each of these clips and wrap them into a presentation layer using standard net techniques: website and DVD. Each clip deserves one page, with text of explanation and artistic merit, accompanied by technical instructions. The pages need to be collected into a cohesive system, for which this blog is the first attempt, as it easily lays out a page-by-page collection, and allows basic formatting and presentation.

Our recent block was how to embed the video into the blog posting, this has now been figured out with help from Nuss, so we can present a first preliminary post: S H A D O W! Next task is to add a soundtrack onto it, so we have these elements for this page:

• Verbal instructions
• Video presentation
• Written description
• Detailed list of things needed

Help needed… in the next phase we’ll try and get the text from the shroomies, and get the rest of the posts up. Yes, we are out of budget, so the work will be limited to total slavery and devotion, but that was always a preferable system anyway.