James Kochalka Spreads His Game Boy Camera Wings
The sharp-eyed among you may already be aware that cartoonist and musician James Kochalka is a bit of a major video game fan. Well, for the video for his new single, 'Spread Your Evil Wings And Fly', he's gone and proved it (YouTube link).
Why, you say? Well, the accompanying blurb explains: "James Kochalka Superstar video shot on a gameboy camera by James Kochalka and edited by Pistol Stamen". Not sure how the transferring to PC was done - there are some very odd interference patterns on the video, actually, but that just makes it look even more lo-fi. (The author of this very post is a bit of a Game Boy Camera fan, and has an old gallery of GBCam pics up on the Web somewhere or other.)
We also noticed an older Re:Retro interview with Kochalka about games, in which he notes: "I’ve been playing games for a long, long time. I think the first video game I ever encountered was something on the big mainframe computer at the Dartmouth hospital. A couple kids from my boy scout troop got to go check it out. They also let us freeze stuff with liquid nitrogen." Wow - games _and_ liquid nitrogen? [Vid via Fort90, ta!]
Comments
If I may respond via blogging:
Game Boy Camera DJ Battle
Posted by: ryan in exile | September 10, 2006 3:43 PM
Camera + printer is win. Unfortunatly they don't make the paper anymore, and I got the last roll from NCS.
Posted by: d | September 10, 2006 8:29 PM
If you can't find the the Gameboy Camera printer paper, you can buy rolls of calculator printer paper, and then cut it down to size.
We didn't use the printer at all in making the video. I had the Gameboy Camera plugged into the Gameboy Player attachment for the GameCube, and fed that through a VCR on it's way to the TV. Then Pistol edited my VHS tape footage in Final Cut Pro.
Posted by: James Kochalka | September 25, 2006 8:52 AM