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I love the internet.

If you've not kept up, Motel was a site-specific endurance project produced by Seattle School which eventually became part of a triptych of Motel projects (see http://www.motelmotelmotel.com for more information on the project as a whole). 

Paul and I were asked to contribute at least 8 hours during the week of endurance projects, so we decided to film a 30 second film inside the motel room and then recreate the entire thing using live stop-motion animation taking one frame every minute for the next 16 hours.

So that's what we did. We improvised a little scene, edited it there in the motel room, then set up my computer and the camera so that we could see an overlay of the source film, plus what was coming through the camera. At ten seconds to the minute mark, we would hit the shutter timer on the digital camera, and then do our best to line ourselves up on the image coming through the PowerBook screen. When the picture snapped, we would advance the source film one frame, then relax for about 45 seconds until it was time to prepare for the next shot.

Sixteen hours. From 10am until 2am we were isolated in this shady motel room on Aurora, sitting whenever we could, watching TV, and getting up and taking a picture every minute.

The encoding on the following movies isn't the best, so a lot of the minutiae on the PhotoString film is lost, which is sad. And each film has its own entry because I can't figure out how to post multiple movies on one entry in groupee (Paul?).

Throughout all of this, we were being webcast. To view all 16 hours of this, visit http://www.motelmotelmotel.com...laurance.html

Otherwise, enjoy.

This, I think, is the most interesting of all the products that came out of this project. We weren't too careful about table or bed continuity, and I wasn't too careful about getting out of the way of the camera when I wasn't in the shot. Doors open and close, lights turn on and off, beer stains appear then disappear, and pants go up and down (seriously).

Fun to watch multiple times...if you're us.