so I spent about 3 hours trying to figure out my new webcam configuration for this project. I will have 4 cams at different angles. This is what the screen will look like.
The upper right photo will be a closeup of where I am working. It took sooooo long to figure out how to make this work. I won’t go into details. but ugh!
Alright so I have a time frame for all of this. This piece will begin on June 10th in the AM. Is there a reason I am giving such specifics? yes. Am I going to say much at this point? no. Just remember that it shall be interesting to follow and you can probably add your two cents.
Today I bought a bunch of high end poster board and started gluing it onto the face of the circle. It is slow going cause The edges hang off and then I can’t rotate the piece until I cut these edges. But I don’t want to cut them while it is still wet cause it has a tendency to pull off of the wood and destroy the paper. darn. But it will move along quickly and smoothly. I should either finish tomorrow or just get one edge piece done. The other issue when making such a large piece is transport. How would I transport a ten foot disc. Well I can’t really. So I had to make it so it can break down into a few pieces. In doing so this limits how I can attach the paper surface. Just another obstacle, but I have it figured out.
I bought a couple more web cams today. When this piece gets under way the studio cam shot will change. There will be four cameras at different locations all on the same screen. I will have to mess with this in the coming week. I just have to buy some more lengths of USB cable and if I have enough left over I will pick up a sweet camera to record the process. This has been a major obstacle in my work is recording it. I have had a few offers from some random tv stations around the US to purchase my videos, but I send them the file only to find out the quality isn’t good enough and they can’t use it. So I missed out on some dough. But then of course the problem of how do I get the good camera to make HQ videos to sell when I need to sell the videos to buy the camera. Ha! I love it. too funny.
Almost forgot that I did a touch of work yesterday. I say a touch cause for whatever reason it was a serious off day. And I had to wait till overnight to see how the glue would dry. And I don’t like it. So I’m off to mail some posters and buy new paper to cover my circle with.
I was quite happy when I received a photograph from the fella (Chris) that purchased the Daudi print. I thought I would share it here. Thanks so much!
so 3 million people watched me talk about my art yesterday. And guess how many found their way to my site? A whopping 50. Yes, only fifty people. So in my humble opinion posting on YouTube is much better than national television. Seems strange. But they edited the heck out of me. They cut out me talking about my website, and they didn’t give me a “name bar” on screen, so no one could know who I was unless they made it to the …… nevermind. This isn’t worth talking about.
So I started putting some paper on my canvas but I stopped for the moment cause I will have to wait until the morning to see how the glue affected the paper. The paper is rather affected by the moisture in the garage so I need to wait until tomorrow for the glue to dry and then I can make a decision. But already I think I will buy some heavy art board and glue that up there.
phil
Well it is hard to say, hard to even guess what the Rachael Ray show will do for me. When I had a video on Good Morning America it didn’t cause a blip of activity for me. So it’s hard for me to get excited and anticipate a lot. But on the other hand, I do get a couple minutes on screen and get my website name out there, unless I get edited. haha. I hope to find some way to get the video up on my site. I’ll try to figure that out. So all in all my thoughts are a bit mixed on it, not sure what will happen. good cred.
Yesterday I enjoyed a day totally off. Mostly just sleeping. That was a long weekend. But today I was out an about doing some supply shopping. I was slightly delighted at the opportunity to buy a gallon of glue. ha. yes a gallon. I was going to buy four of the large Elmer’s glue and realized that the gallon was the same price. Needless to say I promptly grabbed the gallon.
I guess I’ll post after checking out the Rachael Ray show.
Time to go shopping. Need to buy fabric and stuff.
I found this picture on my camera. This is where I spent a lot of time. Cleaning the garage floor with my back.
here are the couple guys from work that helped set this thing into place. Dave and Brian.
Here is a link to the video. For some reason the blog won’t let me put it in.
well it’s set up. But that is only a step in getting ready. Onward!
Yesterday (Saturday) I was awake at 8am and working away. I spent the entire day cutting, drilling, screwing, and bolting. I got the face of the canvas done.
Unfortunately in the picture below I am blocking the 1 1/2 inch shaft that comes out of the dead center of this thing. It’s attached to that steel plate. Actually you can see it on the right side of the picture above.
After that I spent the better part of an hour struggling to get the base put together, and came to the conclusion that I wasn’t mentally with it. So I stopped, it was nine o’clock. Nine is just too early for me to go to sleep, granted I was incredibly tired but I knew if I slept I would wake up at midnight. So I watched a movie and puttered out.
Today (Sunday) I woke up at 8 and promptly started working on the base. It was done by 2pm, and I cleaned up and took a nap. In the picture below you can see the steel shaft that will be mounted onto the support structure in the back. There are two awesome sets of ball bearings attached to the top of the wooden support structure in the background. The shaft will go into those.
Then a couple of my co workers showed up and helped move the face of the canvas onto the base. The face probably weighs 350lbs, pretty darn heavy. Well we got it all connected and it spins perfectly. At the moment you can see it on the webcam, but I will post a video for this whole process either tonight or tomorrow. I think to date I have spent about 600 bucks on this thing.
I bought some block and 6×6’s today at home depot, then ran off to the welders. I abandoned the plans to have a machinist make a part for me. Instead I am having the welder just weld the heck out of it. I picked up my other pieces from him but I will have to do a late night drive by to pick up the other piece that he is leaving behind the shop.
Tomorrow I get to start drilling and cutting. I haven’t made a big structure in a long time. It should be pretty fun.
This week has been exhausting, I’m ready to just sleep. But I need to be productive tomorrow, I can relax on Sunday. Then it will be back to the grind of getting other parts of this project put together. Needless to say I am a bit stressed out that it may not be what I want. But I won’t know that until I am deep into the project.
phil
ran into a kink today. The pipe that I purchased didn’t fit my ball bearings. which would be okay, but the shaft I bought to go into the ball bearings has to fit smoothly into the pipe as well…. to no avail. it’s loose. So basically what this means is I have to go get a piece machined to the right size. damn.
I will be running around tomorrow trying to get that done seeing as I need to put together the entire thing on Saturday cause I have help coming on Sunday to put my two pieces together. grrrrr.
A gal on myspace saw me in a snipit of a commercial today! totally weird. I’m not sure what commercial, but I’m guessing for the Rachael Ray show. It’s awesome to think they put me in the commercial. I’m a highlight, hahaha.
I’m going to have a handful more posters available next week. I will get Influences and Bruce Lee up, and then I made a poster out of the Che piece I did a while back, and the PB&J Virgin Mary. The one I am more excited about is a piece I made a couple years back of MLK, I used a quote from him and made bubble letters to make a picture of him, kinda in this 70’s style text. Pretty neat.
phil
