I haven’t had a lot of time to edit this week. Below is a YouTube link to a version that doesn’t have any narrative changes. I did make a significant add in making a hand performance to show that the slide advances at my keyboard in sync with the “beep” sounds. I think it’s kind of funny, and gives a kind of motion to the video which is nice. I’m also thinking of it as a non-face performance for “zoom” context that subverts the expectation of seeing a person in a chair at their screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also put my paintings in for the Getting There<\/strong> and Going Back<\/strong> slides. Those particular paintings are okay, but they are recycled from performances I did when I was in Southern California. It feels like I should make at least one painting from the palette developed from going to Sibley. So I’m working on that this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m also thinking of getting a voiceover actor from fiverr to do the part about the road from Rebecca Solnit’s book. It doesn’t feel completely right to have the text-to-speech “robot” there. Although I think it works amazingly at the signage for the lava\/tuff, it’s not really communicating the magic of Solnit’s words. But that idea kind of begs the question of whether I should get more voiceover work done in the piece. Maybe the whole thing should be an actor? Or maybe only some parts read by me? I keep thinking of Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil and how he used the device of a narrator reading letters between two (or more?) correspondents. I don’t think I want to invent characters exactly, but maybe voiceover narration could do something different if it wasn’t performed by me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n