Last night on the forecourt of the Museum two projectors from theatres were rolled out on a trolley to do a test run for our upcoming Flickr community meetup Common Ground. Reproductions from historic images, originally glass plate negatives held in the Museums collection, were projected onto the archway at the front of the Museum. We were testing how the projectors would handle the large-scale projection and the images looked incredible at this size.
Common Ground is a Flickr community event that celebrates the Commons on Flickr . It is a ‘thank you’ to this community for making these photographic collections richer through comments, tags, location identification and citizen research. The slideshow will feature images from all of the institutions that participate in the Commons. So if you love photography then you are welcome to attend this meetup. Along with the projected slideshow we will be playing a great mix of music by 2ser’s Phantom Dancer. We have curator talks including Flickr members speaking and we have some special fine art prints to give away through a quiz. So come along on Saturday the 3rd October to the forecourt, don’t forget to bring a cushion to sit on and a picnic basket; we are looking forward to meeting you. The event starts at 6.30pm and runs until 9pm.
Photography by Paula Bray
Projections by Jonathon Fowler and Ben Rumble
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
Come & see beautiful historic pics of Sydney projected onto Powerhouse Museum on Saturday http://tr.im/A4pF #commonground #augmentedreality
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hey @absolut_todd yah…will put it up on slideshare plus my talk at the Powerhouse Museum’s “Common Ground” Sat night too http://tr.im/A4pF
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