A Labyrinthine Journey: Soon Coming in 3-D

…Video.

Last week, Anna and I finished painting the Chalice labyrinth for the Iowa Annual Conference (which begins meeting tomorrow). We set up in the garage and I had my video camera set for time-lapse (one second every minute). So the video is 2 and half hours of work condensed to less than 2 minutes.

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Even though the painting took only 2 and a half hours, it probably took at least 15 hours of work to prepare the canvas, and the paper template for the painting.

I confess that I love the process of the design coming together before my eyes. Every once in a while while removing the paper path coverings and then as the colors began to be applied I just stopped and went, WoW! This is Fun.

I know that not all people enjoy the process like that, but I relish the whole thing from design to implementation to enjoyment. I hope you enjoy the taste from the video.

It has taken a little bit to get things working, but I am beginning to venture into multimedia. This video is not mine, but it is more of a test of concept.

However, it is a great video of Victor Wooten of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones on bass doing marvelous things. As a bass player I have marveled at listening to his rendition of Amazing Grace on a CD. However, nothing compares to the awe of actually seeing how easily he can coax such wondrous sounds from those 4 fat strings.

So enjoy.

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Proof of Concept? Indeed. I am working on editing a time lapse video I made of Anna and I painting the new canvas labyrinth for the Annual Conference. I hope to have that up in a day or two (I have had to upgrade my editing software a couple times) And who knows I might find some more things to put up here and maybe even start into video blogging. Whoa, there is a scary thing.