[Site observation] Photo of the site

[Project 04] development

 Learn from the other diagrams about wind, I made this wind diagram of the site. It tracks wind direction(Lines), Speed(Radius) and  temperature(hue) measurements from the local weather station.

[Project 05] development

 The first image shows the seasonal change of the field, from winter to now. I took the pictures in the moving cars to create the feeling of motion and focus on the ground line to connect all the pictures from different time and places.

The second image focuses on the industrial complex, it shows the views when you walking  to the complex in long distance to short distance, which shows the view of the buildings from small to large. I edit the pictures in Photoshop to change the original size of the existing  elements, like the grass, poles and chimney stack to make it pop out. This broken gaps in non-linear movement, differentiates the perspectives and emphasize the details of the site.

The idea of  the last image shows the relationship between the abandoned steel structure and weed. From left to right shows the view from outside of the structure to inside, i learned the skill from Stan Brakhage’s work, to create episodic timing, broken gaps in non-linear movement, focusing on details of texture, surrounding plants and then pulling back to create emptyness in this work.

[Invention] 2D Maps and diagrams of wind

http://hint.fm/wind/

A pair of recent info visualizations look as though they were painted by Vincent van Gogh. Wind map shows the realtime flow of wind over the United States.

US wind pattern

http://www.senchalabs.org/philogl/PhiloGL/examples/winds/

http://rpm.nrel.gov/refhighre/expansion/expansion.html

[Invention] 05 Stan Brakhage

There are several useful skills I learned from Stan Brakhage’s work, like “how he creates episodic timing, broken gaps in non-linear movement, focusing on details and then pulling back to create emptyness" in his work.

1. Mothlight

For example, his "Mothlight" (1963) is a literal recreation of the moth movement and vision made by sealing moth's wings, flowers, blades of grass, etc. between strips of clear film.  

As Brakhage himself put it: “Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

Also the way he paints over photographed imagery is pretty interesting too

2. The Dante Quartet 

The Dante Quartet (1987), in the "Purgation" segment, colors and images collide with and grind against each other, and in "Existence Is Song," contrasting colors, moonscapes, and volcanoes burst forth like an acre of flowers blooming.

3. Stellar

Brakhage, with deft sensitivity and imagination, re-produces the difference between Being and beings in the films Stellar (1993),  for these films, while one might refer to them as light and color studies, are more aptly conceived in terms of the glaring absence of light, these films are dominated by the intrusion of Chaos and night on the subject’s conscious efforts to establish a terrestrial grounding amidst the groundless chasm of Being. Brakhage remarks about Stellar that it is “a visual envisioning of outer space,” and the void plays a dominant role in this film, for while brilliant, fleeting flashes of luminescent celestial forms emerge, are born, in a variety of brilliant hues, they just as quickly “burn out” as they are extinguished and consumed by the abyss from out of which they arose. 

[Project 04] Parameters of wind

[Project 05] in progress

For project 05, I'm thinking about show the overall seasonal change of the site from north to south:

The first image is the agricultural field (01)by showing the view  in winter and transit to summer.I took these pictures in the car, so you can see some blur of the grass because of the speed, so when I edit these pictures in Photoshop, I want to create the effect that you will see the view change from winter to summer of this place by sitting in a train.

For the second image,  I used the pictures of the same place(the sugar mill) in different site visits, and combine them to create the view of  different distance you are away from the sugar mill when you walking on the path on the site.

For the third image,  I want to show the another huge steel structure which on the south part of the site. The structure is surrounded by weed and other abandoned plants makes the place itself a huge comparison. And the season change makes the comparison even stronger.