hello nico and co-cuisiner. years ahead of their time, but not quite in the normal dj sense: is this my generation, old man preview edition? the sight made me laugh anyway, somehow felt like those old men you see sitting around on benches in mediterranean climates, amusing themselves with stories of old and watching the world go by.
diary | 06 aug 2008 | tagged: vj
the pervasive media studio is a good thing, as if a GOOD KING from 1066 and all that had set up a mini-utopia for all stuff interesting to me. the office space is wonderful, taking up all the upstairs of this building right in the heart of bristol docks, and is the kind of place where you can say you’re making asteroids to play in a planetarium, and seconds later you’re being shown the finer points of geometry wars. its full of interesting people doing interesting things. aaaah.
and the reason for being here, is it has a planetarium next door and antivj headquarters in it.
patching away… been waiting a long time as a visualist to finally have an immersive output, and here i was at 9am having had no sleep due to the slot coming forward from the evening and a non-cooperating field-of-view, camera placement, and clip plane.
diary | 08 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · dome · pervasive media studio
spiralling text… not quite as easy to solve as i thought if you look closely.
diary | 08 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · dome · pervasive media studio
atari-esque asteroids. planentarium. geddit.
diary | 08 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · dome · pervasive media studio
not just three hot air balloons: there were a gzillion of them, all taking off from the fields in the distance as part of the annual festival. it was really nice to experience a good quality of life for a working age - after work drinks in a calm yet interesting location - and at the same time nice to be taken back to my childhood here - i learnt to sail in that basin there, and such balloons are synonymous with bristol in my mind.
diary | 08 aug 2008 | tagged: vj
working as part of yeast culture for bbc blast on a two week project for young people that encompassed film, vjing, soundscape, spoken word and dance culminating in a performance at this years summer pavillion at the serpentine gallery. frank gehry, no less.
diary | 18 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching · yeast
not just playing with a live camera feed and kaos pad, but shaping the dance through the control of graphic elements: a simple cross can become a character, a circle shape the movement
diary | 20 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching
instant supercool visuals for young people #1: ride the dlr, apply mirror effect. ref cityscan to see it taken the highest level, and arrive as the piece that started it all.
diary | 21 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching
after arriving well after dark to a dome in full swing, emerged the next morning to find a wedding taking place in there. the vows were brilliant: “if she has, like, all her limbs broken and is needing the toilet, will you wipe her…”
diary | 23 aug 2008 | tagged: vj · shambala
if there were a central force to the destroyers, it would be louis
diary | 23 aug 2008 | tagged: vj · shambala
yep, thats a crowd
diary | 23 aug 2008 | tagged: vj · shambala
the destroyers on top form, even expanding their allready impressive line-up with the dhol blasters. got them some lovely shots. such a good gig.
diary | 23 aug 2008 | tagged: vj · shambala
i came to fully test all sorts of interactive patches, but the old classic had to be tried blatted up around the dome.
diary | 24 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · rbn_esc · shambala · dome · live cinema
i’d happily forgotten about things like this in an age of solid state. managed to rescue what was needed, but the last minute stress quite apart from the glitches wasn’t welcome at all.
diary | 28 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching
and on performance day, the sun comes out. aaaah.
diary | 30 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching · yeast
the pavillion is a day, park, outside thing. strange to see it misty at night as we walked away, project over.
diary | 30 aug 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · bbc blast @ serpentine · teaching
heathrow terminal 5 isn’t the celebration of modern british design it could have been, but oh my is the structure impressive. these joints really elegantly buttress the arching span of the terminal[1], and they’re HUGE: thats a simply massive wedge of metal the pylons are bolted to. that, and the last time i saw them, they were bright pink prototypes in the foster associates exhibition at the pompidou…
not that you can see it so much, much like stanstead the overall effect is often lost behind the cubicle-land at eye height ↩︎
diary | 03 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · beijing paralympics
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