Stephen Hawking in zero gravity

Did you read or hear about Stephen Hawking zero gravity experience, it is pretty amazing. I think we should think about how we can explore his experience in relationship to his connection with flight as it relates to time and space.
It would be great to have parts of the text spoken by a machine similar to the one he uses to speak. I was not thinking of performing in this show myself but if there is an opportunity for a cameo I would like to play Stephen Hawking in
zero gravity.
-jeff

question

jeff and/or sean
is there a way to build a "flying device" (wings/arm leg flappers)
that maybe builds up air pressure that gets "released" musically/tonally?
-j

Uberorgan

http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om32290.html

this is a link to the "uberorgan" it's a piece i saw
at MassMoCa several years ago
i've been thinking of this since we started this
process
-j

propeller bra

found this in old scrapbook-
it says "stop motion animation lady being lifted by propeller bra"

Marey again-I love this stuff

More about Jules Etienne Marey from the linked website:

"Marey also developed several ingenious techniques to further track and isolate movement. These techniques would reoccur several decades later in the work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, as they searched for "better" ways for the body to work, and more than 100 years later as digital technology sought to capture and trace movement, albeit for completely different reasons than Marey's.
One such technique was to cloth his subject completely in black, except for thin white bands which indicated the position of movement of the arms and legs. Photographed against the black interior of one of the "hangers" at the Station Physiologique, the subject's form was reduced to its essential components. These images of soldiers running were part of Marey's research into determining a scientific means of training soldiers."
-Courtney

Skuli's audio via Sean

Here's one of those songs my Stacy Hoover's
boyfriend Skuli Sverrisson (this one's called "Seria").
The rumor/myth is that he makes all the sounds with a bass (or maybe that was only true of his previous albums).
-Sean

Note from Courtney: click on the link above - the file is about 5 MB, so if you use dial up, be prepared for a wait.

april 24th workshop

jeff's drawings

lisa's drawings (click to see larger picture)

from Lisa

from J

has everyone seen "Science of Sleep" (Gondry)
esp "making of..." really cool interesting stuff
how they made the flying (in the pool w/projection)
the super lo-tech approach
(also reminds me of a flying scene we had in "EC"
where there was a projection of one dancer's torso and
two other dancers' legs - the two met at one point on
the projection surface and a cardborad cut-out
cityscene was pulled underneath so it looked like the
flyer was flying over

Fly Me Right

posted by Lisa

'machine for imitating insect flight' Marey

Watercolour by E Valton, 1869

yall look at this site

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/marey.html

I've been enamoured of the Marey photos where he put people in black suits with white stripes and recorded the movement of the body. I'd like to try some Marey - influenced video experiments.

this other site looks good too, more of Marey's work:

http://www.expo-marey.com
but only the french part of the site works.

Étienne-Jules Marey's 'machine for imitating insect flight'
Early in 1869 Marey constructed a very delicate machine to demonstrate the flight of an insect and the figure-8 shape it produced during its movement. His artificial insect, with a body formed by a drum containing compressed air, could move up, down, and even diagonally.

"A mechanism actuated by an air pump produces alternate raising and lowering of a pair of wings constructed to the same design as those of the insects, formed, that is to say, with a rigid framework to the front and a flexible surface behind, made of rubber supported by thin steel shafts ... the small model which I present to the Académie [des Sciences, on 15 March 1869] develops a tractive force which may be measured by the dynamometer and which represents the raising of a weight of eight to ten grams. ... If the tip of one of the wings of this artificial insect is gilded, we see that all the movements and changes of shape in the flight of the real insect are reproduced in the mechanical apparatus."