Guerrilla Projection

Posted on November 19, 2009 by proctor

Reason #1024 to go to events like DIRT: outside guerrilla projection parties!

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All photos taken by Camron Ware of VisualWorshiper.com. Check out some more photos from the night.

Kids, don’t try this at home! :) ok, just kidding…but there are some interesting articles coming out about “visual attacks” & guerrilla projection mapping. We had total permission by the fine folks at DIRT though, but if Camron & I disappear one day, look in the nearest jail… (based off the location of our last tweets, of course!) Thanks to Brad Weston @ Renewed Vision for helping & for making kick-butt VJ software!

(FYI, total gear included 1 MacBook Pro running PVP, External Hard Drive for content, one TripleHead2Go, three projectors – Hitachi 3000 lumens each, and a few strands of VGA.)

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  1. The brown brick on our building never looked more awesome.

    Ratcliffe on November 19, 2009

  2. Nice – were the walls really brown? Our (victorian) church building is on one of the busiest crossroads in our town and would love to do something like this one day (er night!). But the brickwork is brown/red and wonder if it would work so well…

    Andrew Hearn on November 20, 2009

  3. Andrew-

    yes, the church building was brown brick… and it still works!

    it would probably work great for you!

    admin on November 20, 2009

  4. Stupid question, but how far back were the projectors. I am new to this stuff and I want to do it on a building at my church. But it faces the street and we do not have a lot of space to place projectors

    Randy on November 20, 2009

  5. Randy-
    That’s FAR from a stupid question!
    I don’t know what the exact measurements were, but the projectors were about 60 feet away.
    What you are seeing is the the result of any exact science or complicated mathematics… it’s a lot simply than anyone would think.
    Projecting a Test Pattern (see my blog post about that) is KEY in making sure the lines are matched up…there’s a little gerry-rigging involved (projectors on “all-purpose hymnals, etc) and you just have to play with the zoom/focus and menu settings (pixel, lens shift, etc) to make it look right. Even if it’s not lined up EXACTLY it still looks good…b/c remember, we’re projecting on brick and a rough building surface, not clean white screens… the imperfections quickly disappear.

    I hope this helps.

    admin on November 20, 2009

  6. I gave it a try… not nearly as good what you guys did, but it’s a start:
    http://www.churchvideo.co.uk/projection/projecting-on-to-buildings_1292.html

    Andrew Hearn on November 21, 2009

  7. Where do you find the great imagery for this stuff?

    jchurch on February 1, 2010

  8. That is the golden question.
    there’s not an easy answer for that…as it’s taken years to curate and find all these images.
    you can check out playlist.worshipVJ.com for a small curated playlist of media i use on the road, as well as the Resources page on this blog (under media content).

    proctor on February 1, 2010