This idea has been brewing for a little while, but since I have now taken the first steps to get the Project going, I feel it is time to start yet a new Blog on a new Project...
This is just a variation on a concept that has been around for years in larger cities like New York or LA, but has not as far as I know been attempted in Birmingham:" Projection Bombing".
The whole thing was precipitated by a few walks through our brand new "Rotary Trail", and the recognition of its huge potential as a venue for Digital Projection and the exhibition of Light Sculpture. It could be the perfect setting for a new "Light Dreams" type Festival.
Since I was the first person to bring Architectural Mapping to this city more than 5 years ago at the first Paint The Town Red Festival, and have done several large scale mapping and projection shows since with Alys Stephens and the ASO, I feel sort of "qualified" to get this concept going down here.
I own four projectors, a regular 5K home theatre projector with a zoom, and 3 matching ultra wide angle 4.5K classroom projectors(with the option to borrow a fourth one from a good friend).
Now, the idea is certainly not new, people have been staging "bombings" in New York and other large cities for several years now, and I can take several forms, at the most basic just a few words or a shape projected on the side of a building:
A more elaborate concept involves the use of an iPad or Android tablet and drawing/painting or graffiti software to create temporary light graffiti or Artwork:
There can be interactivity with the public there letting them create their own designs.If one had a 35Kprojector, it could be envisioned on a huge scale:
I was in fact done on the famous Sydney Opera House several times:
Now, I am not that ambitious, and feel a great deal could be accomplished with small home theatre, boardroom, and classroom projectors.
Another type of projection surface I am interested in would be trees and shrubbery. There was a whole festival in Korea at some point that achieved very powerful effects fitting faces on trees:
This is just a variation on a concept that has been around for years in larger cities like New York or LA, but has not as far as I know been attempted in Birmingham:" Projection Bombing".
The whole thing was precipitated by a few walks through our brand new "Rotary Trail", and the recognition of its huge potential as a venue for Digital Projection and the exhibition of Light Sculpture. It could be the perfect setting for a new "Light Dreams" type Festival.
Since I was the first person to bring Architectural Mapping to this city more than 5 years ago at the first Paint The Town Red Festival, and have done several large scale mapping and projection shows since with Alys Stephens and the ASO, I feel sort of "qualified" to get this concept going down here.
I own four projectors, a regular 5K home theatre projector with a zoom, and 3 matching ultra wide angle 4.5K classroom projectors(with the option to borrow a fourth one from a good friend).
Now, the idea is certainly not new, people have been staging "bombings" in New York and other large cities for several years now, and I can take several forms, at the most basic just a few words or a shape projected on the side of a building:
A more elaborate concept involves the use of an iPad or Android tablet and drawing/painting or graffiti software to create temporary light graffiti or Artwork:
Another type of projection surface I am interested in would be trees and shrubbery. There was a whole festival in Korea at some point that achieved very powerful effects fitting faces on trees:
Yet another avenue to explore is a kind of "rough live projection mapping", whereby the projector covers an entire building, and a drawing is created that follows the outlines and architectural features of the structure. It can be very rough:
or not so rough:
or more precise and refined:
The same thing can be done on cars, trucks, or construction equipment:
and even loosely on trees to great effect:
A last, but more complicated option is to do an actual accurate mapping of a small building, part of a building, or architectural detail. For example, I am working on a test to be projected on the front steps of the Rose Building on 20th Street South:
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