More on the scanner thing

More on the scanner thing. Here is a scanner playing music...

Fake Blood Recipe

Chocolate Blood

I was promised the recipe years ago, but only came across it quite recently. It was worth the wait. The mixture may seem odd, but it tastes pretty good, looks surprisingly like real blood, splatters like real blood, dries like real blood, and had several people asking me if I was really okay after that staged fight....

• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 3 or 4 tablespoon corn syrup
• 1/2 to 1 teaspoon red food coloring
• 2 drops yellow or green food coloring (optional)

Mix the cocoa powder thoroughly into the water before adding the other ingredients - it may help to use warm water. After adding the rest, blend the concoction well, and then wait for it to settle a bit. Either skim the bubbles & chocolate scum off the top with the edge of a kleenex, or pour the mixture into another container. The longer it sits, the more the cocoa tends to settle to the bottom, which oddly mimicks the effect of real blood seperating.

If you splatter this mixture onto cloth, it makes neat two-part marks which dry into pretty convincing bloodstains. If you let it run from a victim's mouth and then let it dry, the blood darkens and cakes to the skin in much the same way real blood does. I can also say from personal experience that any washcloth used to wipe down the 'bloody' face afterwards looks remarkably realistic, too.

Found this at The Raven's Fake Blood Recipes

Been a little absent

Been a little absent due to lack of internet access at home. All is good now and have stumbled across this thing called "Stumble". Which brought me to this guys Live Journal with a whole bunch of cool street art.

More very soon.

Just a few woobly scanner images...

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ita.ed.jp/edu/hunades/14nendo/foto/scanner/scanner%2520(2).jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ita.ed.jp/edu/hunades/14nendo/foto/scanner/scanner-club.htm&h=748&w=524&sz=115&hl=en&start=357&tbnid=0OQ0EYYwlkf3gM:&tbnh=141&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3DScanner%2BPhotos%26start%3D340%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGIC_en-GBAU208AU209%26sa%3DN

Scanner Darkley

Am interested in the scanner effect at the bottom of the image. Presently thinking of trying to build a scanner camera to photgraph an actor in a Guantanamo style scene.

Using the scanner effect, such as this, in combination to the scanner image to create an idea about Guantanamo prisoners having their identities scanned and broken down. Similar to sci fi movies such as 'Final Fantasy' and the scanning for demons or ghosts.

http://www.empiremovies.com/images/posters/a-scanner-darkly.jpg

Scanners can kill

Both of these images bring about a trapped emmotion or of someone or something confined in a box. Or like in 'Superman' when the bad guys are locked away in the square thingy...















http://i1.treklens.com/photos/1549/scanner_kathy.jpg

http://i1.treklens.com/photos/1549/scanner_kill.jpg

Dolls on a Scanner

http://static.flickr.com/23/25922293_27d02c1f86.jpg

The torment of a terror suspect

www.theage.com.au/.../01/14/1105582713578.html

Fingers through the grill

wetorture.com/?cat=2

Ankle Cuffs

www.washingtonpost.com/.../AR2005070802285.html

Timeless Phase by Houk

http://digitalart.org/art/54557/photo-manipulations/timeless-phase/

Blue City by Luke Schroder

Torment in this guys face. His insomniac eyes....

http://digitalart.org/art/54591/portraits/blue-city/

Robert Wilson

Found an article in the December 2006 Vanity Fair Magazine (Though had trouble getting the page to work online). Robert Wilson had worked with several Hollywood and Gliterati stars in creating short video portraits of them. The portraits range from 20 secs to 20 minutes and have the subjects in several different poses. The link below shows Brad Pitt standing in the rain with a gun. Robert Wilson also worked with musicians to create a sound track and with Vroom to work on the horizontal television screens to play the looping portraits.

http://www.voom.tv/robert_wilson/

http://www.robertwilson.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(director)

Lawyers dismayed at chained, unkempt Hicks

The Age Newspaper
Penelope Debelle, Adelaide
January 31, 2007

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/lawyers-dismayed-at-chained-unkempt-hicks/2007/01/30/1169919337152.html

Behind the gates of Guantanamo. Into the world of David Hicks.

Malthouse Theatre, 2006

Using a scanner as a camera.

As the issue of copyright has come up very breifly so far in class I am interested in making sure that all of the images I collect for my projects are as close to 100% created myself. One of our first tasks to use a scanned image has made me think about using the scanner similar to the way you would use a camera.

My first idea was to scan in images of my own face in such a way as my face has been pushed in to the glass of the scanner to create flat patches of skin in the picture. Then to scan in cuts meat such as mince, sirloin, blade, etc to use these as a textures to replace these flat patches.

I came up with the idea as we were driving down the coast one weekend. We passed so much road kill that I started thinking of ways to use it visually and came up with idea of making myself into a piece of road kill.

Quick google searches have brought about a few interesting sites such as Harold Olerjarz, above, (http://www.olejarz.com/art/digital/index.html) and Robert Creamer, left, (http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/creamer/skull.htm & http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/creamer/bio.htm & http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/creamer/videos/Creamer.mov) and Kit Chubb (http://www.kitchubb.ca/columns/050713.html)

As I search more and more I find that the idea of using a scanner has been through many forms...

Gordon Coale, right, (http://www.electricedge.com/greymatter/archives/archive-10012006-10072006.htm)

Gordon Caoles blog led me to 'The Online Photgrapher' and Michael Golembewski's Magic Lantern.


"All these words describe Michael Golembewski's scanner photgraphy project. Golembewski, who calls himself an "artist and interaction designer," makes his own digital cameras (he's made ten or so) by combining old film cameras with the guts of cheap flatbed scanners. That's interesting enough, but what's far more fascinating is what happens when he uses the cameras. Moving objects and the motion of the scanner sensor create "distortions are similar to the effect created by moving a sheet on a photocopier mid-copy, except that they extend into three dimensions and only effect objects in motion." People morph into strange globs or acquire extra heads; cars and trucks are abbreviated to narrow posts in the middle of the street. The effects are odd, disturbing, and not infrequently beautiful." (Post from The Online Photgrapher, January 19, 2006)

Podcast with Michael Golembewski (http://smallworldpodcast.com/?p=307) and a make your own scanner camera site (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/diy_build_a_sca.php & http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html).

So now I have way to many ideas with what could be done with a simple scanner...