As the days get longer and the end of June approaches, I realize that I m more-than-a-little-behind in the film-a-week project. Spent the last week doing JumpCuts for the Victoria Film Festival, and other projects have come up, burying my pet project. For now. I m still working on it, and a whole bunch of other things: a new video for Hank and Lily that we ll finish shooting next week and we re in the planning stages of a new MeatDraw video as well. Getting prepared to shoot an NFB sponsored experimental short film on D Arcy Island, and a video installation at Open Space in July. And then there s the feature. We ll talk about the feature later. For now, here is the next installment of the film-a-week project. Last year, I found a dinosaur on my doorstep. It turns out that a friend of mine found it and left it for me. I doesn t use tapes, it just has a composite video out. I tested it, with no luck, so I left it in my closet. Recently, I fished it out to disassemble it for parts to use for the Hank and Lily video set, but before I could bring myself to take it apart, I decided to test it one more time. It works. I m shocked. I m fascinated by the way it reacts with light. different than film, different than DV. Interesting. So here s a little test I did with it, intentionally out of focus, and blown out, with the video signal piped into my miniDV camera to record it. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
