vog (a BETA videoblog)

This is footage while I was working at the University of Bergen. The softness of the light during the long dusks really was something else. It is the third iteration, I haven't bothered to republish the first two. This is a work that I describe as a word storm. The video is tiled and each tile is a sprite track where mousing into it toggles a text track to be visible or invisible. Mouse into each of them and you end up with text everywhere. It is sort of cool but also a pain since it is really hard to control (if that's what you want to do) as things keep appearing and disappearing as you mouse around. But I also like the snow like text that happens.

Below is what originally appeared with the post.

This is footage discovered in a shoe box in an attic in Bergen, Norway. Obviously the work of an unknown Nordic documentarist of light. Or that Dutch guy on holiday.

This is the third part of a work that has sisters. Or mirrors. Or brothers. This is the text storm with interactivity inside the video rather than inside the controller. (Yes in number 2 interactivity is still inside the frame of the movie, inside of qtplayer, but they're just buttons aren't they?) (Word storm ++). Mousing over the video panels toggles the 9 independent text tracks.