BonBon factory

There is a derelict building down the road from where I live that used to house a squatting collective. Since they were evicted, the premises has gone into further disrepair. I was told that the actual land the building is on is contaminated and so worthless (or maybe that is the new squat that they have moved into, again, just down another road from me) - anyway, seeing what more can be done with this photomontage function in Photoshop and here is another example from this old squat - the BonBon factory. 

final day in the warehouse

Unfortunately, yesterday was the final day in the warehouse that I had to get the project up and running and with the problems that I faced relating to the screen/iframe resolution matchup, there was little time for me to play around anymore - so I had to pack down the gear.
 I will hopefully get another chance in the next couple of weeks to have another go, but whether this is as part of school work or just for my own interest I don't know - (though I guess it will be for my own interest whichever way).

from today

just wanting to get this posted before I close the computer for the rest of the day - a hard uphill struggle with screen resolutions today - back to it tomorrow with a little more experience and hoping for better results before i have to pack the setup down.

for 3/3/11

yesterday was just a test to see how difficult it would be to set up the comp and the screen along with the feeds. There are some issues that would have to be ironed out before going into a professional environment but still, I was happy with the results.

Today I will  attempt to make more than one feed and have it on multiple screens coming from the same comp. I will use a triplehead2Go adapter that will hopefully allow the comp to recognise more than one screen thus allowing more than one feed to be displayed at the same time.

results WILL follow :-)

first day of testing in warehouse, 29/3/11

was able to set up the twitter feeds onto two screens. This is just an extension of the computer made onto fullscreen. Still have to play around more with the res of the screen and the size of the iframe that is dictated in the code. Video below is from the setup...

and then sometimes...

and then sometimes you get a doodle that was done i don't know when and there is something behind the madness, the arbitrariness of it, that lets it fall into its own category. What that category is, I can't decipher. But for some reason, the image just holds me and I want to blow it up and plaster it onto a billboard somewhere advertising nothing... here is one such image below. I have a load of these, some of the scribbles are only good for one thing (and you may think that this is one of them but then you would be wrong) and trust me, that is where they end up - then some come along and just hold me...

an aim of mine would be to some day mimic this on the scale that I want to see it, where it absorbs me, smothers me in colours that I understand as a reflection of my surroundings.

sleeping on a pillow

just testing the stitching function on photoshop with some pleasing results - have scanned in a drawing onto my a4 scanner but the drawing is a2 - so you can see the problems right away, what!? did a few scans and then stitched them together and here is the result - whoa (i know, i get a little over the top with these things)

And then just threw in the background on a whim...