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In an earlier post I wrote about the ku video generator I am working on for the ku*kuroo** kukuroo short film contest on April 7th at RCC Hec 132. The installation, as envisioned, will be able to sense a ku poet approaching the installation via a hacked xBox Kinect. it will then prompt for a poem in ku form. The ku poet types the ku on the keyboard and the ku generator searches the web for images associated with each word, then displays them on the 6 old tv's I scavenged from Chip's shed.
As i was sketching out the workflow for the installation I thought I would give it a try manually. (Big Lebowski pun intended). I did it with Google Images, Yahoo! Images and Bing Images. the next three blogs are the results. Due to the volume of images associated with each word and in an effort not to impose any personal preference to the images selected I chose the images in the order their corresponding syllable appears in the ku. For example, my ku is: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, BABY. From left top of the screen to the right, All = image 1 YOU = image 2 NEED = image 3 IS = image 4 LOVE = image 5 BABY = images 6 and 7 (two syllables) Chip Phillips gave me FUP to read a few years ago. We had just finished the first draft of a feature film script we were collaborating on and he said it was a good read, so I did as suggested and read it. BOOM! I finished it after reading straight for a couple days and next thing I know I am laying face down on my kitchen floor crying like a baby. I still don't really know why:) What I do know is that the book had a powerful impact on my subconscious. As if awakened from a dream I felt vulnerable and small, void of pretense. An empty vessel to be filled with nothing. I called Chip up and said, "We've got to do a Festival honoring people like Jim Dodge." Stuff happened and didn't happen, time passed and then a few months ago Chip showed up at the ELF (Esper Lukat Films) production room (my garage) and put another book by Jim on the ping pong table. I looked at him with a 1000 yard stare and muttered, "uh, oh."
The book was A Book of Ku, Jim's latest and greatest. As with FUP, I consumed it in one sitting. this time I didn't end up face down on the kitchen floor but instead head up at my computer assembling the framework for the first ku*kuroo** event. |