8mm Video Grabs

I got my film processed! One roll didn’t take but I think it was my error because the first roll came out. I think I didn’t tread it properly, next time I am going to open up the camera after I film a little to look and see, maybe I’ll get a white spot somewhere but maybe that’s ok. I really like the look of the film.

Tawny Goes to the Park

A Bit of unfortunate news, I have lost my cell (with videos in it) while walking the dog.
But all is not lost; my mishap has helped me rethink the way I work. I have since been shooting my digital more purposely, choosing more carefully which frames to leave in and out (I liked that choppy cell phone look) I am now shooting with a very cheep low resolution toy camera It automatically shoots more frames per sec. (I think its about 15-30fps) if I want less I’ll take them out.
Above are some video grabs of my most recent

I’m still shooting some LA scenes with the 8mm camera. Also I have located a Victrola and 78’s to record.

Some References

Biography : Olga Mink
From http://www.videoart.net/

Olga Mink(1974, NL) works as a video-artist in the Netherlands. Her work has been exposed at various festivals and media-events, in Holland, UK, Belgium, Spain, East-europe & White Russia and recently also in Tokyo/Japan. Mink develops visual concepts in motion-graphics and new media. In her work she explores various techniques to create her typical contemporary aesthetics. Often her work relates to graphic-design and architectural environments. In her work she zooms into a subject in order to analyse and truly 'see' the essentials and/or beauty. Next to live performance and video-graphics, she also works on conceptual-based projects and video-installations. For example she has created the interactive video-installation 'Video-matic', for a Dutch Cultural Center in 2004. This installation explores the public environment, by use of a touchscreen inside the building and a video-projection at night. Networked interaction is being developed with the use of an online application and a website. As a video-performer she often works with Michel Banabila, a Dutch music-composer. Together they perfom live and create a cinematic experience of sound and image. As a visual performer Olga Mink works also under the name of VJ Oxygen and 'Visual.girlbot.facility'. She released work on VJ-label NOTV DVD's Visual Music2, and on the LightrhythmVisuals-label. (SF/USA)

video grabs from Olga Mink’s “Ballet Mechanique Visual installation” 2002

Touch Of Evil

Touch of Evil (1958) is a great American film noir crime thriller, dark mystery, and cult classic - another technical masterpiece from writer-director-actor Orson Welles. It was Orson Welles' fifth Hollywood film - and it was his last American film. Touch of Evil was the last great film noir during the so-called 'classic' era of noirs, from the early 1940s to the late 1950s.

Although unappreciated in its time in the US, a box-office failure, and criticized as artsy, campy, sleazy pulp-fiction trash, the low-budget film - in retrospect - has been ranked as the classic B-movie of the silver screen. (It was met with rave reviews in Europe, and won Best Picture at the Brussels Film Festival).

This great noir was shot on location in Venice, California rather than in the film's setting of Mexico (possibly the border town of Tijuana but called Los Robles in the film). The film's script, written in about two weeks, was loosely based upon Whit Masterson's (a pseudonym for Wade Miller - aka Robert Wade and William Miller) 1956 pulp novel, Badge of Evil.

It was regarded as a rebellious, unorthodox, bizarre, and outrageously exaggerated film, affronting respectable 1950's sensibilities, with controversial themes including racism, betrayal of friends, sexual ambiguity, frameups, drugs, and police corruption of power. Its central character is an obsessed, driven, and bloated police captain ("a lousy cop") a basically tragic figure who has a "touch of evil" in his enforcement of the law.

A good site for a touch of evil: http://skyjude.users.btopenworld.com/touchofevil.htm
Here are some video grabs :