Final Project Ideas - "And the Countdown Begins"

For my project I want the audience to feel slightly overwhelmed so I want to use the multi screen effect similar to Doug Aitken's "Altered Earth" piece. For the theme with my piece I want to show the passing of time. I want to use my personal photos from the past couple of years but I also may include a recent time lapse video of a rose withering.

I want to use images to show the passing of time. If you have ever transferred images from your phone to iPhone you see a quick glimpse of each photo as it loads. I was transferring about a years worth of images and it's just amazing how you could see and understand the passing of time.

Christoph Rehage does this with his project when he was traveling he took images along the way and you could just feel the passing of time. My video will be like a countdown timer but instead of number counting down you see images.

My computer is always slow and lagging so when I transfer photos to iPhoto the images all pass at the same duration but then it would just pause because the program would freeze. This inspired. I want to pause the video on important images. I also want to have a portion when everything gets dark and flashes and is just extra overwhelming. ICE-ROD uses this quick overwhelming feeling in his "Epilepsy Collage."

A similar project that uses images to show someone's personal life with the passing of time is Angelo Merendino's work "My Wife's Fight with Breast Cancer" images are below. It's a mans story that is shown through blogs and photography, but you can get the understanding just by looking at the photography. It show time passing and it is also very personal. Some of the images I have include something similar with images of my grandmother and her battle with cancer this past spring. I'm thinking about the title being "And the Countdown Begins."