...and PAY THEY WILL.

So during one of my first visits to San Francisco I saw something really crazy. High up in a third story apartment, someone was projecting a prizefight through a covered window into the night. It was so cool--I could see it from the street. The setup was super homemade, and really startling.

Anyway, I decided to try it myself, only a lot bigger. The dorm I live in has an upstairs lounge with patio and glass sliding doors. The patio overlooks the bike racks where everyone parks. So I thought it would be neat to project sound and image out of the huge window so people would see it as they passed by. This was partially out of artistic impulse, and partially because I'd been wanting to see a classic Kung Fu movie for a long time :)

So, I covered the window with newspaper, checked out a projector, and set up my speakers on the balcony. Very simple setup, but again, super startling at night. I played a Godzilla trailer (Godzilla vs. Megalodon), and the watched Bruce Lee in Fists of Fury. My friends, it was better than a birthday.

Here's some footage!



And Bruce Lee, tragically abridged:



Isn't he impossibly fast and beautiful? Isn't he just impossible period?


Ah, my heart!
T. King

There's a face... on my face

More mayhem from art class! This was a project I worked on for Jarek Kapunscinski and Elaine Buckholtz's Intermedia Workshop 2010. It was really awesome--they let us do whatever we wanted! Plus we got to work in the super-secret lab-mansion up on the hill, like mad scientists. (If you're ever on Stanford Campus, visit the Knoll!)

Special thanks to Alex Pounds for spending an hour in that chair. Here's the documentation footage. That's Professor Jarek's voice telling people to take programs :)



I really wanted to do this ever since I'd seen the video for Burning Down the House by Talking Heads. I discovered Talking Heads in high school, and literally spent an entire night watching the video over and over. David Byrne! Is! A! Friggin'! Genius!!!




Good! Night!
T. King

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I was fortunate enough to have spent Christmas Vacation back in New Mexico with my folks, getting a much-needed break from dorm life. Earlier this fall I'd been thinking about home a lot, and was missing my family. Here's one of the videos that resulted. I made it with my brother in mind. I hope you enjoy it--I got stranded on the train (twice!) and missed an important meeting with a professor making it. It was worth it though.



I'm catching a plane for Cali in half an hour! Time to dive back in.


Best wishes for the new year!
T. King