Rearranging my several backup harddrives I stumbled upon some folders that contained a portfolio DVD of mine which I made in 2007 mostly with the intention to help me getting enrolled at Central Saint Martins. The DVD fulfilled it’s purpose and got forgotten afterwards until now. Even though it’s hard to imagine in 2010, only three years later, the odd interactive limitations of DVDs and their menus, I still like this little piece and find the elaborate menu, whose composite size was larger than six PAL screens, still stricking. The patterns it’s based on are called Razzle Dazzle, a First World War camouflage painting of the Allies invented by british artist Norman Wilkinson. London Thames’ HMS Belfast got a Dazzle camouflage painting recently and Turner Prize nominee Nathan Coley did some inspiring installations with similar patterns.
Anyways, I didn’t want these menus to get rusty without ever being seen by anyone else but the Saint Martins examiners. That’s why I opened up the project files and rerendered an HD version and screen captured navigating through three menu screens without starting any of the clips. The videos presented on that portfolio are Panzer, Break the Hood, Freedom Fighter and It covers the hillside.