Finally, after 3 days of solid rain, spring has decided to show its face and I certainly couldn’t resist to taking this great opportunity to grab my camcorder instead of my SLR at last, something I wanted to do – and probably should do more often.
This is only an account of that afternoon. As I have passed Tate Modern’s front gate I spotted a rather good guitarist playing Paul Desmond’s Take Five, obviously the choice of melody to edit the footage to could not have been different!
Shot with a Sony HDR-SR5 in rather poor, 1024×576p SD quality, only made time edits, all the other stuff is as it came out from the camcorder.
I was inspired to have some experiments after reading about Chaos theory (about dynamical systems that depend highly upon the initial conditions and the consequent unpredictability of the results – often referred to as Butterfly Effect).
I wanted to try to recreate a self-organising (pattern creating) behaviour by setting up a visual feedback loop. The idea was to have this system result in fractal like visual loop that establishes self-generated patterns (as the input feeds on the output, e.g. like the Mandelbrot set does). I used my macbook’s web camera and failed the task but will have another go with better equipment once I lay my hand on a hdmi-dvi converter.
For the time being this is merely an artistic impression.
