H.P. Johnson Presents … #25
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14 15 111 at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
John Atwood and I will premiere the first two installments of our next collaborative work, 14 15 111, at INTUIT: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art on May 2nd and 3rd, 2013 in Chicago. The shows will kick off INTUIT’s new The Other Room series.
14 15 111 is a suite of music combining live instruments (synth, voice, percussion, two tubas, electric bass, violin, cello and a choir), pre-recorded material, and field recordings, all set to color video projection of footage shot by John.
Seating is limited to 75 per performance. Pre-sale tickets for both shows are available now:
http://www.art.org/2013/03/the-other-room-presents-daniel-knox-john-atwood/
More info here: http://danielknox.com/14-15-111/
H.P. Johnson Presents … #18
This week’s H.P. Johnson Presents is the result of a bored day at work and a longstanding fascination with the now extinct Bic Round Stic Medium Black Ballpoint pen (yes I am aware they make a grayish clear one but this is an inferior product and please don’t ever hand me one or I will discard it immediately and think less of you).
The cap of this pen has always resembled a small spaceship to me. I used to play with them in school and imagine the slender part was the cockpit, the part the pen fits in was the engine and the pen itself was some kind of booster rocket or cargo hold.
There was never any lead character in these little sagas but the plots were always pretty good. They involved missions spent away from an Enterprise-like base often represented by an out of scale remote control which I would hold in the air like some sort of drifting space-dock (I will admit I still do this with the Nintendo WII remote).
So the other night I had the kid’s laptop at work and I’d planned on doing this week’s film alone since John has been busy working on our new project. I tried a lot of things. Animations and things like this, but when I turned on the laptop camera and held a spliced piece of 35mm film to it it looked exactly like the window to a cockpit, and the bent soundtrack’s reflection resembled a futuristic steering wheel.
Since we were showing digital format on both screens that night I had plenty of free time and this is the result.
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