tagged: vj

…with the led panels on the side walls firing with my pixelmapped dfuse test sequence…

diary | 13 oct 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · video-out · multiplicidade · dfuse

thats two big projectors, a lot of seats and the beginnings of the live setup…

diary | 13 oct 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · video-out · multiplicidade · dfuse

definitely in brazil: carnival time. and lots of ladies with cocks, although this time of the kind you’d find at a massive gay pride truck sound system clash.

diary | 13 oct 2008 | tagged: vj · adventures · multiplicidade

what do you see if you head out the hotel after breakfast in copacabana then?
#1 - a marathon
#2 - a religous parade
#3 - a lady with a cock
and if #3 isn’t wtf enough, this is missing the hell’s angels procession, supertrikes and all, following a mini virgin mary in the back of a pickup.

diary | 12 oct 2008 | tagged: vj · adventures · multiplicidade

hello batman, director of multiplicidade, rio de janeiro’s festival of ‘unusual image and sound’. and quite something too, a marathon through spring, summer and autumn producing a new event every 15 days. and on tuesday, d-fuse will be presenting ‘latitude’ as the opening event of multiplicidade’s new strand presenting works in a theatre that takes their capacity from 100 to 1000. so between now and then, i’d better work on making assets to fit the led panels at the side of the theatre space, and working out an encore with musician si-cut-db, as for this trip, d-fuse is me.

diary | 11 oct 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · multiplicidade · dfuse

and to celebrate, the cinematic orchestra were reprising their ‘man with a movie camera’ live score at the wonderful roundhouse, and so i finally had the chance to catch up with it. and it was worth it. not so sure about their later stuff, but that is an absolute classic.

diary | 10 oct 2008 | tagged: vj

saw original aviteer dave green’s new installation at matter, the new club in the o2 - pretty impressive with twelve 6k moving mirror beamers. what was far more interesting than that though, was having talked a year ago about the needs to make our own vj software/setup, he’s actually done it, properly, glossy brochure and all. really super impressive: full touchscreen and dedicated control surface, with the interface even modelling in 3d the projector’s output in the club space.

diary | 02 oct 2008 | tagged: vj

…explaining the kinetxt idea to local creatives, hopefully we can gather a group of people to really take the storytelling and content-for-the-context beyond where we’ve had it before.

diary | 19 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · kinetxt · imageradio

checking venues for the kinetxt installation. this is eindhoven’s town archive, far from a musty building it rings with cool modernity - the only file boxes in sight form the design for the fascia.

diary | 19 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · kinetxt · imageradio

picked up in style from the airport by the lovely and talented olga mink, co-curator of imageradio which will be featuring kinetxt this year. sitting in this car, it feels like you’re in a ship.

diary | 18 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · kinetxt · imageradio

although it meant i had to forgo the celebratory beers-in-the-sun after the showcase, i managed to get the digimedia showcase onto the plasma screens at the reception - so we got to show some work as well as the film that yeast facilitated documenting the whole forum. that film really did the job: well done james.

diary | 11 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics · yeast

from our “moonbase alpha” out-of-town paralympic training facility, to the ambassador’s residence for a final showcase in front of prince edward, no less.
and on the way in, passing the crazy cctv building. not the best angle here, but: wow, and eeek!

diary | 11 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · beijing paralympics

here’s the presentation in pdf form that was built-up during the workshop, finished by me and shown to all at the final showcase. i’m quite proud of it, and watching your computer turn pin-yin into chinese characters for the first time is pretty cool.

diary | 11 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics · yeast | downloads: yeast-yap-dmshowcase-web.pdf

while excessive taking group photos seems is definitely endemic here, its nice to see all the group in one.

diary | 10 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics

the other play, caught in the moment.

diary | 10 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics

steve with the final day’s project: watch a 10-word play developed by another workgroup, and turn it into an animation. this is the moment when they realise that stop-motion is a long-haul game…

diary | 10 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics

no arms but want to play the piano? yes you can.

diary | 09 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics

and so it starts. 27 “young advocates” drawn from china, the uk and beyond, of mixed abilities, ranging from learning difficulties to physical impairment, representing those who’ve achived great things in their communities back home to those picked out of special schools… and in some cases all in those in the one person.
yeast culture ran the film making workshop and the digital media workshop, and i was a leader for the latter. in what could have just been a get media-savvy and learn powerpoint thread, we instead delved into the power of the image; communication beyond photos and text. and they learnt photoshop, and when to abandon photoshop in favour of print-outs, scissors and card.
here is kelly during our (ahem) ‘monkey see, monkey do’ afternoon of photoshop tutorials.

diary | 07 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · teaching · beijing paralympics · yeast

its soo good. and this is with the reflection in the lake cropped out.

diary | 06 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · beijing paralympics

spectacular, it was. the paralympics opening ceremony might not have had quite the lavish and epic reach of the olympics that i saw broadcast, but it did have soul - and watching a wheelchair bound athlete pull himself up a rope to the top of the stadium to light the olympic flame was something both awe-inspiring and humbling: when he paused to get his composure back 50 meters up and still a little of the war to go, i’d wager there were 90,999 other people also experiencing a deep moment of reflection.

diary | 06 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · photo · teaching · beijing paralympics