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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Budge/t video
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:33:04 -0400 (EDT)
Budge/t video http://www.alansondheim.org/ice09.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/budget.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/ice30.jpg This is a 11x sped-up video of large ships and a Nor'easter in Nova Scotia. Everything's ice-bound. The ships move slowly in the open water. The back-hoe was slow as well. The full video is 11' in length; for online I sped it up to 1'1". It's a different video. I'm interested at the moment in blankness, inertness, the deeply obdurate of the real. On some of the sections I've used 10x echo at +/-.05 to structure the movement; with the largest ship, there's just a slight blurring of outline. It's that slow, that deliberate. The backhoe is framed by text and windows at a media center. These forces resonate for me with the smoothed hard granite boulders at Peggy's Cove and Mahone Bay, and with the fragility of the basal metazoan glade of the ctenophores washed up in advanced of last week's blizzard. Everything impinges, and the nub of a prow impinges greatly. I open up this section with an image of an International Telecom ship's antenna farm, and close it with an image from the icestorm. In between, there's the budget video; the title of the full version is budge.
