Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Strategery

Hello again faithful blog viewer(s). Welcome to a brand new one. Yes, this time I have come to you in Vlog form rather than Blog form. For those of you who don't speak-o the internet lingo, a Vlog is, in fact, a video-blog. Isn't that handy? And a blog is...self-indulgent? I'm not sure exactly.
Anyway you may be wondering about all these videos (No, they're not just pictures of videos. Go ahead and click on one with your mouse-like object, just wait for the magic). Well I made them. How? Well with a camera of course. Silly question.
Why? Well because I like walks and I like art. But of course I had some idea of what I was doing other than that before I walked out the door and into that great wide open space of Milwaukee.
I decided to adopt three "image capturing strategies" for this walk. I would take pictures of abandoned objects, water, and I would take a picture of any circular object I came across from a birds-eye view. It was surprising how much the first two of those strategies showed up in the same pictures/videos.
But how did I decide where to walk? Glad you asked. I went No Country For Old Men style and did everything based on a coin toss. Heads I go right, Tails I go left. I did this at every intersection. Got it? Good.
I hope there's some enjoyment in these videos I have for you here. There are eight in all: three of them I consider finished products. The five others I was kind of just screwing around, which is part of what most artists call their "creative process." I thought they might be interesting to look at as well.

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