Sometimes making art or science can be like driving over a cliff. Today started out beautifully, I decided to press on with another $149.00 challenge. I’m making good use of the brass fittings found last Sunday at the MIT Flea and having a jolly time tapping screws and other such mechanical fun. By the way, I have a lousy memory and keep notes on my wall, this one has to do with tapping screws:

Tight Like That

Tapping screws is a zen-like activity for me, I breath and take my time, the result so far is looking interesting.

Very Nice

At 4:00 I decided to warp things up by putting together an editing board combining two film winders and the very solid Moviscop from a few posts back. My plans were to spend the evening happily viewing some of the hand painted footage I’ve been generating.

So solid and german this is!

by 4:45 I was feeling happy having screwed all the parts to a solid piece of oak, everything ran well, just one problem; the image was offset in the viewer showing 1/2 of a frame instead of an entire frame. After experimenting with film placement and adjusting a few knobs I had not solved the problem so I grabbed my screwdriver and Three hours later I was sitting on the floor amid a mess of springs and screws. It’s all in a box, sigh… at the very least I now know how these things work.

moviscop mess