Stills from video

Stills are the very few images taken out of the thousands of images that together make a video film. Such stills are just now made accessible in a new presentation on the construction of the BathroomToilet unit.
Some years ago Erik Holthuis has made a video on the actual design of this toilet system for rural use. While I was working on it, thinking, trying out, changing plans and approaches, Erik recorded it on video tape. The one hundred hours of video footage made in this way, Eric and his wife Anneth editted it into a one hour movie on design, called "The Concept". The Concept is a valuable document of how a design grows from idea into reality along thousand of small decisions on construction details and sometimes on the concept as a whole.

Erik and I plan to take some shots out of this movie and put it on this website as a first experiment in using streaming video to clarify our ideas. Many questions have to be answered. Time for download with slow data transfer? The small window of 250 by 250 pixels large enough to see and understand? Very short shots better than pictures with a description? Possible of a kind of slide show of text and images mixed with video?

It is really helpful to be able to rely on the use of high-tech electronic consumer products for Demotech's work. Stills taken from Erik's video recordings are now shown in a set up for a construction manual for the BatroomToilet unit. It took me very long to prepare all the images for it. But they came out in a good enough quality.
When I get some more routine, this way of making presentations holds a promise.