Big Muskie First Person
This is a video exploration of the monument to Big Muskie from my point of view.
Big Muskie was the Second Largest piece of land moving equipment ever made.
Here are some of the Dimensions I found on the following site: http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/extreme/muskie.html
Weight:
12 million kilograms (12,000 tonnes)
27 million lbs. (13,500 tons)
Bucket Capacity:
165 cubic m (220 cubic yards)
295 tonnes (325 tons)
Height: 68 m (222 ft)
Length of the boom: 95 m (310 feet)
Total length with boom: 149 m (488 ft)
Width: 46 m (152 ft)
Empty bucket weight: 209 tonnes (230 tons)
Power cable diameter: 12.7 cm (5 in)
Electrically powered: 13,800 volts
Big Muskie moved, as do most large mobile drag lines, on two huge hydraulically driven walking feet.
Big Muskie First Person POV from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
MPSU in Shawnee
This afternoon was a cold one in Shawnee and it was as empty as a ghost town. In stark contrast, beneath every fallen leaf and embedded in every patch of dirt, artifacts of this community's previous glory were abundant.
The following high resolution surface scans are taken with the MPSU (mobile platen scanning unit). These images, upon inspection, reveal a glimpse of the decline from a once thriving community center to the meager town that Shawnee is today.
In these scans, time is compressed; past becomes present, present becomes future, the artificial and natural co-mingle and the artifacts become "ghosts of repetition"*.
* - "ghosts of repetition" is a phrase coined by W. G. Sebald. I came across this phrase in the article An Archival Impulse by Hal Foster (October 110, Fall 2004 pp 3 - 22).
Shawnee Main Street Expedition
The following images are an early iteration of exhibition of my time travelling body of work.
The video seen on the screen and / or in the head mounted display unit is the following:
Shawnee Main Street Expedition from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
The following video is objective documentation of the Shawnee Main Street Expedition:
Shawnee Main street Expedition Documentation from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
have a seat by yourself
have a seat by yourself: 2009
close the door
behind you
have a seat
by yourself
take your time
have a seat by your self is an installation consisting of four small video cameras, four projectors a chair and two modeling lights.
Each of the four cameras is positioned off the four corners of the chair and are focused on a single point above the chair. The projectors each receive the live video feed from one camera which are projected on one another creating a single image with four views.
Third Person Pack Walk Video 1
3PP Walk One from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
This is the first walk of any length taken with the VGV Pack, from my studio to the river and back.
The computer capturing the webcam footage above was having trouble processing the data and the jumps in frame rate were frustrating, hopefully I will be able to minimize this problem in future walks.
I bacame accustomed to the alternative point of view much more quickly than I had anticipated. I did find my self taking in a lot of information about my surroundings through my feet.
This work is one of an on going series of works exploring the shifting, substution and augmentation of the senses.
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