“The Thing About Portlanders.”
As part of NORTH’s second “We’re Live Downtown” campaign for Portland’s Downtown Marketing Initiative in 2008, Steve Benoit of Studio Number Nine helped to concept, design and execute an interactive art installation using Flash-based motion detection software and three local artists’ interpretation of what snow in Portland looked like to them.
Passers-by were able to stand in front of a series of three background images which had “SNOW” flakes falling in front of them. Using the motion detection software, people could move the falling snow as it fell to the ground by waving their arms or legs…or whatever else they could think of.
The film is shot from the perspective of the snowflakes!
