Andrew Wayne is Balls of Despairs
“Wandering Thoughts”
Produced for Wonder Valley Experimental Festival 14.
Audio portions were taken from Twitch streams done on 2/10 & 2/17.
For the video I drove out to Bodega Bay to shoot some video. The napping boy is Nobita from the Japanese comic Doraemon. Doraemon was an initial love for me when I started learning Japanese. The toy I got from a Doraemon themed Japanese candy snack. If you haven’t gotten candy from a Japanese store I do recommend it.
I had a few toys in my pocket and the initial idea was to film them on piers, picnic benches, showing a full day of the toys. But it also gets very windy out by the ocean (a factor I forget) so I only took a few shots by the water with Nobita.
The glitched videos of my cats were produced through Hydra and open source modular video synthesizer.
The patterned portions of the video I wanted to simulate weaved patterns in video so I created a few clips with green bars and then replaced those bars with other videos with chromakey. The end results of the patterns are very striking to me so I might use this method again (although how many times should I re-use a concept before it’s overdone? I tend to do things ‘once’ in that sense). Besides it’s a long process of having to render a number of videos to get the full effect one would want.