Rear view of one of the new instruments
Here is the reverse view of Instrument Eight. The instruments are built out of aluminium this time, which makes them much more robust. You might notice quite a few differences on the front side from the previous instruments.
Instrument Eight
I have not posted any new work for a while. With Perry Kulper I have been working on some new things for our Pamphlet Architecture No. 34 and don’t want to post the work before that is published, but here is a view of one of the Instrument Eight legs after a drawing session.
Instrument Seven
A paint throwing view of Instrument Seven. The drawing pieces are hidden behind the paint catapult in this view
Instrument Five
Instrument Five
Instrument Five
Instrument Five
Some more of the lesser throws of paint form the Instrument Five drawings and another image of the instrument as a reminder
Instrument Five
Instrument Five
I don’t think I have posted this photograph before (either). It is of Instrument Five in one of the last drawing sessions. The paint catapults are quite accurate (more so than anticipated when designing and making them) but in this case the paint mostly falls short of the drawing pieces it is aimed at. The figure fo the flying paint is still quite intriguing, and a reminder of the uncertainty inherent in the process. The colour of the flying paint is simply due to including (unmixed) portions of white and orange latex paint in the catapult cup. Although I fabricated almost every part of the instruments, I used kitchen measuring spoons for the catapult with a hemispherical cups. The catapults were designed for disposable plastic spoons so that I could change them quickly between throws for colour changes, but their cup shape did not produce very concentrated throws.
Instrument Five
I don’t think I have posted this photograph before – it is the final high speed flash photograph from Instrument Five, a wider view than most of the flying paint pictures. The instrument with the paint catapult that makes the throw is off to the left. The flying paint in this image is quite feint, but can be seen as a diagonal line entering the drawing pieces from the top left.
Instrument Six (Nat Chard)
Stereo Submarine
The stereoscopic view of the submarine interior above is very similar to the one that revealed the possibility of making paradoxical shadows that float in mid air – the earlier version was a portrait frame but these are landscape and have a sharper floating shadow. Go cross-eyed so that similar elements int he photographs register with each other and then relax until the full three dimensional image resolves itself. Then look just below the periscope handle for the floating shadow.
The top image is of Instrument Six that makes such floating shadows, both photographically and in real time (as shown here, working with candles for a light source).
Drawings
Drawings from Instrument Two drying after exposure. Also the photograms from the dioramascopes.
Instrument two shown below.
Instrument Six (Nat Chard)
A first test shot (working with flash) to check the exposure when photographing Instrument Six. An accidental image.
Nat Chard 