vog (a BETA videoblog)

An early work where I was still exploring the idea of cutting up and tiling video. This was an effort to make work that was explicitly recognising that video online is one window amongst others, and so the video itself was also made up of multiple smaller videos. This also meant I could use each of the video tiles as a presentation space so in Bergen Picnic mousing through the bottom image toggles images that overlay the video. These have timers attached, so the effect is to caress, quickly, the bottom of the work so that all the text images can appear so you can read them, then they sort of randomly disappear.

The text is: "It was a summer day and afternoon slides into evening slides into the not dark night. time without so much as by your leave. egg shell blue sky"

The work is small, reflecting bandwidth and processor limitations, but I like this work. I think the tiling is aesthetically effective, breaking the image up into a mosaic of parts that share content but also differ through their playback. The text layer that appears complements the work with it inviting the user to touch, not click.

The video was filmed on the rocky shore in Bergen, over the way from Troldhaugen, a popular swimming spot with the locals when it got warm enough. The weather was stunning, the water cold and it was a lovely afternoon with friends.