23/06/2010 Contd.

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.