Journal entry: 10-17-01

Mid-term journal
I shot video of myself doing a flip. Then took stills off the movie using FCP2. The quality was pretty lousy. I had to bring the stills into PS and use the paths tool to select the part I needed. I filled the selections with black. The different stills I combined into 1 8.5x11 document which I printed and took to Kinkos. For the cost of a bout $1 Kinkos copied the silhouettes onto acetate.
I cut the silhouettes out of the paper and made a mock up on a piece of cardboard. I can get the board spinning but I have trouble controlling the speed with the potentiometer. It get really hot, maybe it needs a resistor, but what size.
I still need to buy a strobe. I spent over and hour walking down 14th St. looking for a lighting store to no avail. I will just have to buy one from the place across the street from Tisch.
There is still a question of whether the acetate will glue well to the plastic…maybe, I will have to use black cut out figures and glue those down.