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Diarysuffice to say i haven’t seen this happen at any other motor show.
suffice to say i haven’t seen this happen at any other motor show.
diary | 05 dec 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj · ford vj · imagination
speaking of inés, here she is, my vj partner for this italian show. check www.pintaycolorea.com, much goodness there.
and straight back out to bologna via an agonising day realising that the first generation iphone wasn’t in my destiny, damn that contract being a two year one not 18 month contract as i thought. so i’m now sporting an ipod touch as stopgap untill the 3g iphone arrives. its a very cool toy, and an mindblowing one when there’s wifi in the air. and quite handy when straight off the plane sunday night clubbing with new local vj partner inés, explaining the ford vj project with a video.
diary | 02 dec 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj
…or rather, a lost weekend in la. or rather rather, the lost few days from the show closing to flying back. technically a monday, tuesday and a bit of wednesday, it certainly felt like a weekend after the two weeks straight of 10pm finish motorshow days. and perhaps fittingly, my camera decided to break the minute the crazy few days started their roll and magic itself back to life towards the end. so here we pick up the scent, could we be in a musician’s bedroom?
diary | 28 nov 2007 | tagged: vj · adventures
aaah, la. eating the best steak while people watching at geisha house, and nights spent a few doors down at king king, a club thats unpretentious with an interesting crowd. and had friend steve (pictured) playing on wednesday, along with grant and myself pitching down for impromptu visuals, although it was largely a vdmx beta-crash session from me. funny how the same build has mixed 24/7 at the auto show (well, last restart was four days ago, and it doesn’t get turned off) but sometimes didn’t last three minutes on the laptop at the club. such is the life of a beta tester…
diary | 24 nov 2007 | tagged: vj
tsk, the editor has made it jasmin only. c’est la vie.
diary | 18 nov 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj · ford vj · imagination
…walking the few blocks back from the convention centre to hotel would actually have been quicker. by a fair chunk.
diary | 16 nov 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj
obligatory quick 1am shot, wrapping up the build. looking “freakin’ awesome”, with beautiful new content, new ways to mix it, and rejigged text display. smooth, controllable, motion graphic’d smartness.
hello jasmin and her superproduced content commissioned for the american shows. the (and i use the word loosely) car driving in is something to behold: a “green” monster truck, complete with rocket-launcher-esque hydrogen tanks racked up on the back.
diary | 14 nov 2007 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · vdmx · ford vj
the wall here is made of recycled cardboard tubes. looks good, makes the environmental message… and makes me laugh knowing the technology they’ve squeezed in for the section with the screen.
a shot from the after-after party that i couldn’t resist. the highbrow comment would be to say we conclusively proved the theory of entropy, but it wasn’t about thinking, it was about hay bales turning into a strawfight that lasted for hours. chaos reigned, it was a joke that just didn’t tire.
diary | 03 nov 2007 | tagged: vj · photo
if you can work out what this photo is, you are already a jedi of joanie’s mapping technique, which is an oblique way to introduce the other presentation at the vjschool adult session. go to joanie’s antivj site and watch the videos, they nice.
i really enjoyed my presentation, the words came freely and the keynote document made at (the coincidentally named) mapping festival proved itself quite sane in its path through the ideas and practice. lots of good feedback and thused people, so all was good.
diary | 03 nov 2007 | tagged: vj
onto bristol for more teaching via three hours in my own bed. the progressive clubnight cuisine had organised an edition of their vjschool as part of the compass film festival, and i was invited to talk about live cinema and do a performance of rbn_esc___av at the festival afterparty. however before the vjschool session, was an interview on local radio promoting the festival and discussing just what the hell vjing is and the future of film could be.
diary | 03 nov 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj
visited the ‘our friends in the north’ exhibition on the way out of newcastle, a retrospective of graphic design from the north east from the generation that straddled the analogue and digital divide. as such, it would be pretty hard for it not to be stuffed with good work, but the flipside was there wasn’t and obvious theme or progression. and a poster or two apart, the thing that lingers in my memory is the architectural space - an old railway building still with original timber - combined with the yellow ropes holding up many of the works. the photo kinda gets there.
diary | 02 nov 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · name · novak
guess what we were up to. if only leopard and reactivision would play nicely together: the qc osc receiver doesn’t seem to be receiving what it should, and its beyond me to port the tiger hacked-up plug-in to an official api leopard one. that is something that will hopefully change after christmas, when i finally embrace cocoa and the live cinema interface.
diary | 01 nov 2007 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · teaching · name · novak
straight from a marina in italy to a biscuit factory in newcastle, home of the most proper name. they had organised three days “mentoring” aka professional development funded by the region, and i was the mentor. first up was quartz composer 101. so glad we waited for leopard to debut, what a change: its actually sane now!
diary | 31 oct 2007 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · teaching · name · novak
leading up to the first avit event back in 2002, i thought to myself: “if i’m going to be centre stage of this thing i’ve spent the past month organising, business cards would be the thing to have”, but, well, that soon got overtook with the idea of making a *spark t-shirt, far cooler i thought. and in the photos - and so history - from festivals and gigs since, that decision has done me well.
but times change. so herald the new, courtesy of the excellent moo.com service.
diary | 01 oct 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj
UPDATE: The video side has been cancelled.
the thomas dolby tour starts on the 3rd october at the ica with a special gig called ‘sputnik and beyond’, featuring me taking over the visualist reins from johnny dekam now the tour is on this side of the atlantic.
the ica gig will be used to pilot a new piece in the live-cinema direction - the sputnik of the title - and if it is well received we hope to develop a full live cinema piece to tour in the future.
http://www.ica.org.uk/Thomas Dolby: Sputnik & Beyond+14800.twl
the tour continues in the ‘sole inhabitant’ mode for the next week, let me know if there’s a chance you can make it:
10.04.07 BRIGHTON–CONCORDE
10.05.07 BRISTOL–ACADEMY
10.06.07 HOLMFIRTH, YORKSHIRE–PICTUREDROME
10.07.07 MANCHESTER–ACADEMY
10.08.07 BIRMINGHAM–ACADEMY
10.09.07 CAMBRIDGE–BARFLY@THE GRADUATE
10.10.07 ISLINGTON–ACADEMY
diary | 26 sep 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj
flew back into london city airport, and straight onto the DLR and 277 bus for me and jasmin. felt instantly grounded looking out of the DLR’s newish extension to the airport, the east end’s crazy mix panning by under a dazzling cloud filled blue sky. although that, of course, is washed out in this photo to get some foreground exposure.
diary | 24 sep 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · photo
that was the view from the 28th floor of the mariott, halle 3.1 and its ford group stands centre stage.
diary | 24 sep 2007 | tagged: errata of life · *spark · vj · ford vj
