The Glocal Project…?
The Glocal Project is a cool program that our class has been taking part in for the past two weeks. We learned all about taking photos with a webcam and re-arranging them with two softwares: MotionSequence and MultipleExposure. I took at least 50 photos while we were in the Computer Lab, working with Josh-from Arts Umbrella in Vancouver- and Francesca-a voulenteer from Germany.
My favorite image that I took with Sophie, using MotionSequence is of Sophie’s battery charger:
I like it because it looks really neat and I like the border size on it. The photo was taken at a great angle so it looks bigger than it actually is. I think that the borders are a little big, but they still look good.
Creating the image was quite easy. Sophie had the little webcam, I was in control of the computer. She put the camera at the right angle, and I chose a grid size and border size. I pressed teh ‘H’ button ont eh keyboard to hide the contol panel at the top of my screen, where the buttons were that I could change the grid and border size, and a lot of other things that helped to make an image visually applealing. I hit the space bar-to take the photo.
Thank you to Josh and Francesca for taking the time to teach us all about Arts Umbrella and The Glocal Project!
May 25th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Hey Haley, great photo! the 4×1 grid is very interesting to me photographically. the tall vertical pillars and somewhat unusual. you made great use of them!
May 26th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Very cool indeed! I try to think glocally. Do you?
May 26th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hi Haley,
I’m a friend of Josh’s and he told me to check out some of your work. I worked with Josh on teaching the Glocal tools to high school students and I like that no matter what age group is working with the tools, everyone can make a really cool image. I’m glad you experimented with the border sizes in your image too because sometimes people forget about how much that can chance the way an image looks.
Great stuff! Thanks, Jessica