This is really brilliant. It seems obvious in retrospect (thus: brilliant). Bret always points out Paula’s brain—well, the wooden brain she made—as an obvious-yet-not-obvious thing that happened in the Research Gallery: “Oh, we can point to the thing itself instead of a 2D picture of the thing” and call up the email thread about it.
In this case, you’re calling up recordings of past moments in a particular place. Instead of having to run back over to the Research Gallery to find the video.
In general, I like the idea of making a video recording on a camera and “leaving it” somewhere—in this case, next to or near the Serengeti—for others to find. But what exactly does one leave behind in that case? In the past: a VHS tape. In the present, a DVD or USB stick with a QuickTIme movie. In the Dynamic Medium: a video coaster?
In the same way that so many CDG folks seem to have realized in RoomOS that “the code is in that patch of wall,” perhaps video and audio can be thought of similarly. “I record some video and now I’m leaving it behind ‘in this video coaster/video binder page’.”
Imagined workflow:
• point a camera at a scene; press record
• press stop
• somehow tell the camera to “put the video” on the wall surface, maybe even by drawing a rectangle with a laser pointer that the camera can see!
• the camera (or some other device—a nearby printer?) prints a binder page or visual button or a coaster with a single thumbnail or column grid
• you leave that object in the space
• When someone else “triggers” that object, the video plays in the designated space
I am just realizing how excited I am by this… in some strange way, it enables a form of video graffiti. Even Minority Report failed to imagine the possibility of “temporal vandalism.” Now writing a sci-fi movie script…
From outside a movie theater in Philadelphia, not too far where they are boringly playing a video on a regular screen. What about all these other walls?!
Dave
On Mar 16, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Glen Chiacchieri wrote:
I noticed during a few of Bret's tours for lab guests that he mentioned Dan's kids painting on the system, and I thought, "why isn't that moment reified?" I know it's in the research gallery, but it seemed like it should be near Laser Painting itself. So I added it!
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(the video on the wall is around 2 minutes long)
Something feels a little awkward about keeping this picture on the wall (the meta experience mixing with the experience), but I wonder what it would be like if these pictures were stored in the drawers beneath the diorama and to show guests we could take out the picture we wanted and somehow project the video the picture represented somewhere on the walls so our guests could all see it easily.