The Daily News
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Animation
The daily project “Tagesschau” was a spontaneous idea of mine to make film images (frames) infinitely scalable using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). When the script was finished, the Tagesschau news program was on. It must have been 8:15 p.m. Central European Time.
Using the open source program ffmpeg, I combined the frames converted to SVG format and edited the clip with cinerlerra, the professional Linux editing program. I put the scenes together for the animation and sent everything to my brother Eric. It took less than two hours for him to send me back the soundtrack, which matched the images perfectly.
The animated film “Die Tagesschau” points out that politicians never provide us with solutions to problems. If you let them do their thing, everything will eventually blow up in your face. If you want change, start with yourself, and if you are successful (in every respect), you will automatically influence your environment. Politicians recognize and pick up on such trends in order to get elected and enjoy a carefree life from then on. This takes work, which is why they prefer the population to remain rigid, unable to come up with their own ideas and thus create trends. But this leads to politicians doing or not doing whatever suits them, which makes everything worse, more precarious, and ultimately blows everything up, which doesn’t bother top politicians much because they are not affected by it at all.
Conclusion: The population must tell them what to do, never the other way around.
Conducting and Lightpainting
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KlangDrang Festival
Excerpt from the final concert with Peter Wolf as conductor and his music project students from grade 11 at Holweide Comprehensive School, light paintings by franki, 2011
Techno Park
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Performance
This is one of the first lightpainting performances in 1995 with singer and performer Angelica Schubert, trumpeter Bogumil, Ralf Hemmers on double bass and johann franki alias frank olsowski conception and projections/lightpainting.
The most exciting thing during this time was our spontaneity, because by now we always had an audience of around 100 people. Stage fright can sometimes arise when no idea has been found yet. It was fantastic to be able to rely on the fact that four creative minds can always come up with a common idea and an arc of suspense if they are prepared to get involved.
The term light painting has stood for live projections with overhead projectors since the 1980s. Towards the end of the millennium, this term was also used by photography for long exposures, which experienced a strong boost through digital cameras and became accessible to many more amateurs and artists with the steady drop in prices. The emergence of social media, where these results could be easily published by anyone, increased the occupation of the term light painting for long exposure photography to such an extent that the original meaning was lost and could no longer be found even on Wikipedia.
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