Jeff Lovett A collection of research in process.

2May/09

Entangled Citizens Ohio Site Visits

From Dr. Geoffrey Buckley:
Is there a better way to learn about a place than experiencing it firsthand? Southeastern Ohio – or Appalachian Ohio as it is sometimes called – has a rich and colorful past. Today’s trip takes us into the heart of southeastern Ohio’s historic mining district. Among other things, we’ll see remnants of past mining operations, including drift mines and “company” towns. We’ll learn how two sites – the Majestic Mine and Essex Mine complexes – have been restored. We’ll tour a theatre in the process of restoration and hike to Robinson Cave, where miners first hatched the plan to form the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). Time permitting, we’ll also view some abandoned surface mine operations. I hope you enjoy this all-too-brief tour of our area’s physical and cultural landscapes! As we head west on Route 33, we will pass the new headquarters of the Wayne National Forest. Notice the building’s design – modeled after a coal tipple. It reminds us of the critical role resource extraction (especially coal mining) has played in the region’s economy. We’ll also pass very close to the Eclipse company town, out the window to our left. Our first stop will be the Majestic Mine complex. Abandoned more than seventy years ago, this mine contributes significant amounts of acid mine drainage to Monday Creek just one half mile from its confluence with the Hocking River. Although the company town associated with this mine, Floodwood, is long since gone, the Majestic Mine complex remains a wonderful example of an early twentieth century drift mine operation. Here, Pam Stachler of the USDA Forest Service will tell us a bit about the history of this site and on-going efforts to restore it. Turning east on Route 78, we’ll pass through the region’s “Little Cities of Black Diamonds.” Buchtel, Shawnee, Glouster, New Straitsville, and Murray City (to name but a few) were important coal-mining towns during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All were once linked to the railroad, a key outlet not only for coal but also the bricks that were manufactured in southeastern Ohio. In Murray City we’ll pick up Route 216 and head toward New Straitsville. Our next stop is the Essex Mine complex. The Essex Mine is another good example of a drift mine, which describes the way miners entered the coal seam. Notice the milky white water emanating from the mine. As Pam will explain, here it is aluminum, and not iron, that is influencing the color. The mine water at this site is being treated by a limestone “doser,” which you can inspect when we return to the bus. From here it is on to New Straitsville where we will meet Cheryl Blosser. Cheryl will give us a tour of Robinson Cave and tell us all about the area’s labor history. We’ll then board the bus and take a short trip up the road to the intersection of 155 and 93, where we will stop to inspect the false-fronted buildings and second-story porches that have made the town of Shawnee a national landmark. In addition to telling us about this company town’s past – and its unique architecture – we are very fortunate to have John Winnenburg on hand to give us a tour of the old Tecumseh Theatre. At this point, we will head back to New Straitsville where we will pick up Route 595. Although we do not have time to visit Glouster, Millfield, Corning, and Rendville, note that they’re not too far away. Located just a few miles south of Glouster, Millfield was the site of Ohio’s worst mine disaster. An explosion here on November 5, 1930 killed 82 men employed by the Sunday Creek Coal Company. Remains of the power plant and various out buildings can still be seen. (Note: The worst explosion on record in the U.S. killed at least 362 miners back in 1907 in Monongah, West Virginia.) Proceeding west on 595, our next stop today is Haydenville. Just after crossing over Route 33 but before entering town, notice the lock and ditch for the Hocking and Columbus Canal. The canal and, later, the railroad, were absolutely critical to the region’s economic development. All of the little mining towns we’ve driven through this morning were once linked to the railroad, a key outlet not only for coal but also the bricks that were manufactured in southeastern Ohio. Haydenville was a company town until 1964, making it the last of the company towns in Ohio. Many of the buildings in this town are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to the linear design, Haydenville conformed to the stereotypic company town image in other ways as well. This is especially true with respect to segregation according to ethnicity and economic class. Turning east on Route 33 we will, if time permits, turn right on Route 691. Out the right side of the bus, we’ll see more evidence of past mining, including another abandoned drift mine. Much of this coal was mined in the 1950s and 1960s. As we wind around on Route 691, I’ll point out areas where strip mining occurred about forty years ago. We’ll make a brief stop near the old landfill – a spot where we can scramble up a small embankment and gaze down at a “high wall” that has now filled with water. We’ll pick up Poston Station Road, pass the site of an old power plant, and then pop out on Route 682 in the Plains. Then it’s back to Athens and OU!
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16Apr/09

ART 114 Digital Visualizing Stop Motion Test


This is a simple stop motion video that my class collectively assembled.

It was used to show the time, attention to detail as well as the speed at which to move things required in a stop motion animation.

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8Apr/09

Animation Inspiration Art114 Sp09

Stop Motion Animation:

Flip Book Animation

http://mattshlian.com/video%20frame1.html?user=mattshlian(EmptyReference!)

Jan Svanmkajer: Tma Svetlo Tma (Lightness Darkness Lightness)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuBwXfg3Mr4

Coraline

http://www.coraline.com/

Rex the Dog

http://www.creativereview.a.uk/crblog/great-new-videos-8/

Cadbury Egg Suicide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjc_jgMsZc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLBVMfYKaNc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TldVbUWPUQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqrgr4G-xTc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quu4DiE4uz4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZCp6aAp58&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8s1OCghguU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmeI0ET69s&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS5e7tDJ18k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKJ6TrAdzIg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgCa6nS-Os4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYGdyb_aENM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwoDNwKBv7U&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5SRcxAI9ek&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrNAugEvPV0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm4A7iio0G4&feature=related

Cadbury Twisted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06PXIPFrgeg&feature=related

Ten Thousand Pictures of you:

http://www.vimeo.com/2554266

Drawn Animation

Cellphone Caprice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQM3lRPcZs0

Oneironaut

http://www.vimeo.com/3971434

Graphic Animation

Bars and Tones:

http://vimeo.com/2537115?pg=embed&sec=

Song by: http://www.penguincafe.com/origins.htm

Symbol Man:

http://www.symbolman.com/

Money by NASA

http://www.creativereview.a.uk/crblog/great-new-videos-8/

Little Red Riding Hood

http://vimeo.com/3514904?pg=embed&sec=&hd=1

History of the Internet:

http://vimeo.com/2696386?pg=embed&sec=

Digitally Augmented Video

Ratatat Predator Video

http://www.theimagist.com/taxonomy/term/2487

Kanye West Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYR2Z1MDyiI

Leave by VV Brown

http://www.creativereview.a.uk/crblog/great-new-videos-8/

3D Mapping Video Projection

http://laughingsquid.com/3d-mapping-video-projections-by-easyweb/

Puma Lift Commercial: this is is very those

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8DA830xng

Cadbury Egg Commerical:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY

Machinima

Red Vs. Blue

-First Episode: http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/?sid=rvb&season=1

-Relocated: http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=569

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13Mar/09

APOV Dance Test

The APOV harness mounts four cameras on the wearer. One on each arm and leg pointed at the same hand or foot. The video here is what the wearer sees. (This video is broken up into several short segments separated by five seconds of black.) This is a study for a dance piece in which one or more dancers will wear the APOV Harness and interact with space to compose visually through the harness. This visual composition will be wirelessly transmitted to a projector which will project on the opposite side of the performance space. The audience will stand in the center of the projection and the performance able to see both but not at the same time.

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16Feb/09

APOV Video

This is the documentation of the first "public" testing of the APOV (adjustable point of view) harness. The wearer is John Sanders and the crowd is the New Media Graduate class at Ohio University with professor David Colagiovanni The left portion of the video is all that John was able to see during the experience. The image on the right is a video I recorded during John's experience. The two were synced up and composited in Final Cut Pro.

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10Feb/09

APOV Camera Test

Today I received my AIPTEK A-HD camcorder which will record from a video input. This is the first video I've been able to record with my board cameras. 

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8Feb/09

APOV Harness

The Adjustable Point Of View (APOV) Harness is the base structure for four small (1.25" x 1.25" x .5") board cameras to be positioned on and around the body in various configurations. The images from these cameras are viewed through a Head Mounted Display (HMD) unit. The APOV Harness and HMD combination are the foundation for an exploration into the mind's ability to adapt to experience from a different and multiple points of view.

The Slide show below reperesents the prototyping, patterning and fabrication of the primary harness that holds the Quad Processer and Battery. At a future date, the HMD conversion box and the portable recording device will be mounted to the primary harness as well.

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9Nov/08

Third Person Pack Walk Video 1

 
3PP Walk One from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

 

This is the first walk of any length taken with the VGV Pack, from my studio to the river and back.

The computer capturing the webcam footage above was having trouble processing the data and the jumps in frame rate were frustrating, hopefully I will be able to minimize this problem in future walks.

I bacame accustomed to the alternative point of view much more quickly than I had anticipated. I did find my self taking in a lot of information about my surroundings through my feet. 

This work is one of an on going series of works exploring the shifting, substution and augmentation of the senses.

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5Nov/08

Searching: Second Life

The Searching installaion in Second Life exists on both the Ohio University and Bowling Green Campuses where hundreds of interested students educators and Second Life Residents are able to explore the installation.

Second Life is a free 3D virtual world where users can socialize, connect and create using voice and text chat.

Displays of the Athens installation documentation are displayed outside the installation.

Streaming Video and Audio help to simulate the environment of the Athens installation.

Statement

Nearly 10,000 satellites now orbit Earth, constantly passing over our heads. The majority of these are invisible to the naked eye. Some, however, are large and close enough to be seen as flashes of reflected sunlight.

These few brilliant specks of light can be seen during daylight hours if one only knows when and where to look.

The possibility of catching a first-hand glimpse of a satellite in action is the impetus for the compulsive actions that created these photographs and installation.

The over 2000 original images in the exhibition are displayed in 3 distinct areas, a processing station, a projected high-speed slide-show and an analysis station.

The soundscape in the installation is comprised of recordings from the electronic data transmissions of satellites.

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