Over the summer, I made a friend! Her name is Isabelle Burger-Weiser and she is a musician at Steinhardt. For her thesis, she is mixing a score of flooding waters, glacial collapse, and drowning. She tapped me and a recent film grad Chris to help her with a video component which will be screened in an immersive space. Using an aquarium, our triage took careful videos of water gradually rising in what looked to be an apartment bedroom. Over the course of my week sick with bacterial sinuses, I have taken additional time lapses of ice melting in the aquarium. I put some dirt in the ice to add texture and then I let it …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOry_aJ7EE&ab_channel=TFBNGHT

My bedroom has south-facing windows. I’ve been taking many time-lapses of the light in this room, here is a collection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApEdy3HL_6g&ab_channel=TFBNGHT

TRIGGER WARNING: Trucker hat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJd-xX-T5m8&ab_channel=TFBNGHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zXqTShuGtY&ab_channel=TFBNGHT

Heliostat updates:

– I am pursuing something like this design for my window frame, basically two blinds facing each other on the east and west side of the frame (with the window in the middle). These will interact with a reflective chandelier I’m making.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOuJpzQQ9ic&ab_channel=greenchecknl

– Yesterday I had a great result from putting water in a reflective bowl and watching it play on the ceiling. I am going to keep playing with water.

– Begbie’s heliostat was a military instrument and although I can’t afford the $845 antiquarian book that goes into further detail, I learned a little something from the book preview: