(just noticed that my last blog entry ended up as a comment, not as a proper blog entry, so here it is posted again)

 Not giantkilling, but giantkeying.

My trips into SL are still digesting in my mind. I'm most fascinated by the surprisingly well-attended and meticulously participated new moon ritual. I'm becoming rather fond of telling it as a story. Sitting cross-legged on my lillypad, my big camp fox standing out like a sore thumb amongst all the olde-england hobbit druid types. All of us, wherever we actually are around the globe, copying and pasting text in time, instead of chanting. I wonder how to translate the peculiar hilarity of that very undramatic exchange? Maybe I need a huge close up of a finger, clicking the mouse button in dramatic fashion, while accompanying the most banal of ritual changes?Anyway, I'm sitting here surrounded by lights, cameras, led's and screens. I recently decided to move out of the loft i've been living in for the last 3 years, and it's got me in a hurry to do some architectural projections, which has long been a desire of mine. So, I'm working on a couple of sketches - the first is of arms that reach out of windows to tap on other windows and to socialize, flirt and fight with other arms, and the second is of a pair of giants trapped in our building.The idea with the giants is to use 3 video projectors to simultaneously rear project synched videos onto the inside of the windows of our loft. The idea is that for people on the sidewalk below, it will look like two huge men have been trapped inside, and are tapping on the windows in boredom and frustration.It's really just for the pure fun of it. Anyway, so I've been testing tonight with an 8' long piece of plexi with an anti-glare coating to try and reduce reflection from the lights. Ariel Efron will be shooting myself and Andrew Schneider through the plexi, so that we can press our hands and faces up against the surface, to look like we are pressing against the windows.I'm trying to use LED rings and retroreflective screens (courtesy of Kevin Centanni - thanks Kevin!) to key out the background. The LED ring needs to be mounted right on the front of the camera lens. The rings I have don't fit the 82mm lens I'm using, so I tried clamping the ring to the top of the camera. However, just that change in placement creates shadows that make the key pretty poor. So gaffer tape it is...Anyway, it's looking like the tricky balance of lighting, reflections and keying may be workable, so I'll go ahead with this sketch.more soon....