March 21, 2007
Paul Notzold street performance projecting in Rome
Paul Notzold's latest projecting, from his Rome trip.
Rome-ing Charges : 4 nights 4 interactive projections around Rome. As part of the Urban Portraits project Paul Notzold and Fabio Compagna put up SMS enabled speech bubbles all over Rome, ending the tour with a projection on the Colosseum.
Many more photos at www.txtualhealing.com.
Fabio arranged electricity from a restaurant across the street from the Colloseum and we threw a bubble up. Besides the bus pulling up and 'beamer blocking' about every 15 minutes the bubble was legible from about 50 yards away and through street lights. I was using a 3500 Lumens projector.
At the end of the night I took all the messages received and ran them through TXT-A-Sketch to create a line art interpretation of all the messages received...
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