23/06/2010 Contd.

05/06/2010

Saturday today. Went to get a couple of throws for the couch, also hung up my curtain. Taped up the electric cables to wood so as to tidy it up a bit. Had a trial run of the video; a couple of minor problems, because the projector has to be slanted down, the shape of the projected image is not quite square, not much, but enough to be noticed, I am not really sure if this can be overcome, I will have to see Richard about this on Monday. Also, I am going to have to find a better way of securing the projector; it is precariously balanced on some timber.

04/06/2010

Got the diary printed; it looks very good. Down loaded the video footage from yesterday. Matt showed me an easy way to get rid of unwanted noises from video footage. I got an old mac off him for the assessments. Damien managed to free up the memory on my memory stick. Went to a pharmacy to get my photos developed but there was a problem and I was asked to call back in half an hour, so went across to Whelans and they got them done straight away (86 euro).

03/06/2010

I got a few more photographs of my small mirror box for research purposes. Today I have been preparing this practice diary for publication; it would be more professional to have it presented in book form. I have enjoyed keeping this practice diary; even today whilst sorting it out for publication, it was good to look back at the process's and approaches that I have employed over the past couple of years. I am certain it will be a good source of reference for years to come.

02/06/2010

Went around the college today getting some video footage of my mirror box. This is the first time that I had the box 'undressed' in the public realm. A couple of points have come to my attention that I will have to remedy. Firstly the "heavy duty" wheels which Connie attached are absolutely useless; they must have been taken off a cartoon car, they kept coming off every couple of rotations. Secondly, I can not shine the acrylic mirror the same way as glass..... it scratches. I will have to enquire from Mr. Google if there is a safe way to polish acrylic mirror. Another problem is that the piece is much too heavy to manouver in the public realm; at least with this proto-type, I can iron out these problems before I take it to the streets.

01/06/2010

I went down to hickeys to get some blackout material; I had to get two widths of the material to fit the space.Richard Slade made a shelf for the projector, got that painted up and continued to block out areas of light that were showing.

31/05/2010

Instead of a lattice frame I put up 2x1 timbers across the partition; it made more sense, and of course, it was easier! Started putting the roof in the space. It sounds like it would be a simple operation, however, it turned out to be the proverbial nightmare! I was unable to staple one end of the polythene because I could not get in behind the wall, so it sagged quite badly. So I cut the end section away, and put it in separately. It is not perfect, but, as some colleagues have commented, people are going to be looking at the video and not the ceiling.