spent 2 hours today teaching my online class about making art with electronics. its the 4th out of 6 lessons. was surprised to see around 6 people tuned in for it (out of around 12 tickets sold) which is quite a lot for this stage since many people follow along asynchronously. everyone gets a kit in the mail with breadboards and the parts and a custom interface module that takes vga signals to and from the breadboards...
today we modulated some of the oscillator modules from last week using LDRs and LEDs and then built the LOGIC_GATE module that combines signals from HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL OSCILLATORS...
everything went pretty smoothly. last week i spent some time trying to update our element chatroom so images would display correctly. which i thought i had solved but discovered today that videos do not display correctly (not sure if they did before making these changes or not) feeling a bit frustrated with matrix/element for not being able to do even the most basic features of a chatroom...
then rest of the afternoon i spent curating a 12hour movie marathon for the filmclub TRASHPALACE - we have a screening tonight that i will start preparing the lounge for after this (we rearrange the furniture every week so all the couches face a wall which is projected onto).. tonights film SPIRITS OF THE SKY, GREMLINS OF THE CLOUDS (1987) is a low budget australian outback/arthouse... i havnt seen it so keen to check out...
this TRASHPALACE season is coming to an end - i think will do 2 more weekly screenings (conveniently timing with when my other tuesday commitment of online class also finishes) but have also hosted an annual 12 hour movie marathon special event for the last 4 years i think... and felt inspired today to plan this when i had the idea for the theme. last years theme was BUGS and year before was WITCHES.. before that was TIMESLIPS and before that was MADNESS... for a while been wanting to do a PLANT themed one but just didnt have the inspiration right now to put this together... however a recent rewatching of eXistenZ (1999) while sick last week gave me the idea of doing VIDEO GAMES this year... so now i have the full program worked out for this (opening w eXistenZ!) and 5/7 of the films planned i havnt seen.. so thats very exciting... not sure when it will be yet... maybe beginning of oct ? or could be end to allign with halloween ... ???
