On exhibit as a video art installation at the Gasteig Cultural Museum in Munich Germany [Dec. 2008 - Feb. 2009]: gasteig.de.

On exhibit as a video art installation at ZOOarte [July 9th - 12th 2009] in Cuneo Italy.

Will be running indefinitely in 2009 as a part of the Cooper Building's 'video wall' in downtown Los Angeles, California.

I saw this video by MariaNYC (vimeo.com/2246491) and it finally inspired me to make something.

Also, thanks to themacdaddy (vimeo.com/themacdaddy) for his twitters and comments on how to achieve a much better stop-motion workflow in Final Cut Pro 6, I felt trying another stop-motion project might not be so tedious and daunting. It was still pretty tedious, but much more enjoyable this time around. Mainly, because I'm getting pretty fast at editing in Final Cut. It's all about the keyboard shortcuts.

So, like the MariaNYC video, I thought I would just shoot some stuff in the yard. The leaves are changing color right now in the Pacific NW, and it's amazing...

but then, I started wandering out into the neighbors yards. I wandered along fences, got barked at by a dog, found a busted up old TV that had been abandoned in an empty lot, and got a lot of strange looks from passers by.


So, here's the workflow:

All photo's were taken with the Canon 5D using a 50mm 1.4 lens.

Imported into iPhoto and color corrected.

Imported into Final Cut Pro at 2 frame intervals (set in User Preferences/Editing/Still-Freeze Duration).

FCP Project was set up as HDV - 1080p24 (I don't know if that's the right setting for this kind of project, but it seemed to work).

Exported Using Quicktime Conversion.

The main piece of music for this was a song by The Wind-Up Bird off their Night Falls Split EP called 'He Waited And Waited, And Now, At Last, In The Stillest Hour Of Night, The Sounds Got Busy Once Again.' (Pretty much the longest song title ever)... thewindupbird.com/index.html

The crackling and pops of electronic noise was from a piece called 'Campfire' by Sonic Youth off The Destroyed Room CD... sonicyouth.com/main

The Final music tag was from a song by Atlas Sound called 'Recent Bedroom' off of the Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel CD... amazon.com/Blind-Lead-Those-Cannot-Feel/dp/B000ZOSMY2

The Titles were created in Motion3.

Thanks for your comments on my other videos, and once again, let me know what you think.

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