Camera Obscura Alternate Assignment
Our process in creating the camera obscura began with covering the floor to ceiling in trash bags. We ended up having to do two layers to make it more opaque, as well as having to cover one of the ceiling lights that couldn't be turned off. Despite the lack of air conditioning in our work area, we managed to create a space with as few light leaks as we could manage. Once everything was covered, we cut a hole in the bags at the center of the window a few inches across and were a bit shocked when it actually worked and we saw the cityscape sprawled across the wall in front of us. All of the colors on the wall, the darkness of the room, and seeing boats float across the river upside down in real time made it feel almost dream-like. It really felt like we had stepped into a moving picture, and essentially we had. We played around with being in front of the image to create differing visuals when takin...