User:Quinten swagerman/steve/whathowwhy

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One Page Flip

What

One Page Flip is a flip book – a little book which, when held in the left hand and flipped through with the right, shows an animation. The cover is white and on it it says in bold, black, capital letters:

ONE
PAGE
FLIP

The book has 75 pages. On them: a thin black line-drawn animation of two hands flipping an empty flip book. One page is being flipped. In other words: within the span of flipping 75 pages, one page flips in the flip book within the flip book.

How

I took a photograph of my hands holding a flip book, then traced the photograph, creating a line-drawing. Next I animated the movement of one page flipping and added some slight movements to the hands holding the flip book. I exported the frames of the animation, printed them, cut them out and bound them together.

Why

While working on another flip book the idea popped up. From this point on I could not help myself.

Collective Waiting Portrait

How

The sticker was made by tracing sticker as found on most traffic lights in The Netherlands, giving the man waiting on it a camera and adding two men waiting on the opposite side of the street. Some investigations where done to see if the graphic was clear: I asked people what the waiting man was photographing. Some thought the street, and thus some changes where made, primarily raising the camera.

Why

Blip Listening

How

I recorded the sound of different places, then made selections within those recordings, the maximum duration of one clip being one minute and thirty seconds. Playing the selections on headphones, I picked out one sound element of the sound and scribbled down associating shapes. I picked out the shapes that made most sense and animated them in the computer, matching the sound.

The shape and a QR-code where printed on translucent sticker material. I cut out the stickers and placed them at the spots where the sound was recorded.

Why

I was interested in the experience of places through sound. In idle moments – lying on my back in a park, sitting on the balcony, etcetera - I sometimes found myself listening intensely, trying to hear as much as possible. The world unfolds in a different way when listening. Dziga Vertov says it beautifully:

I wanted to create tiny reminders of the sounds surrounding us, and of this mode of listening, that isn’t about functional orientation, notification, conversation. But as a way of experiencing an environment.