out of the car brand party night, and onto the highly recommended cocoon club. on the vj tip, had been told of 360° immersive visuals powered by meso’s vvvv. so hoping to get some inspiring shots, the bouncer points to the sign and even suggests the battery goes to the reception desk.
brilliant club tho’, shame about the 8.30am start. last day of the show tho’
diary | 22 sep 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj
stayed late to get a clean recording of a few sets. got ghetto with the tripod, to get it in just the right place kinda involved jasmin holding onto a tripod above a leaking bin… eeek.
…the finance buildings in the other direction, clad in glass, were shining orange.
first time i’ve seen a segway in the flesh, the german police having taken them on… and quite ironic in the context of a car show.
well, go the cliché: we certainly are in germany, having had not one but three beard grooming world champions pass through the stand. just check those creations on the left.
our shiny gold award, via the cameraphone of dan sloane, imagination’s tech master for the vj project. the ford vj area won the best exhibition feature area at friday’s event awards 2007 at the natural history museum. huzzah!
diary | 16 sep 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj · ford vj · imagination
jasmin and mo hamming it up for the press. check mo smirking tee hee.
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Frankfurt, 13.9.2007: Ford-Messestand IAA 2007 Frankfurt, Jasmin Judry und Mauritius Seeger arbeiten auf dem Ford-Messestand als DJ und VJ. — © Ford/Stark - Verwendung honorarfrei
diary | 14 sep 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj · ford vj · imagination
jasmin finding her way round the vj setup, in a hall never again to be so quiet. opening soon…
checking in at the hotel, and there is a table with a cocktail, ladel, and glasses just waiting to be filled. ha ha! a cocktail to toast this particular adventure… just that the thing itself really should have been out of a cauldron, with fire underneath, frog’s leg sticking out and dry ice billowing from it. weird.
diary | 08 sep 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj
…and this is what it was looking like when i hit the screengrab key-combo before putting the mac pro in its flight case to start its journey to frankfurt.
diary | 03 sep 2007 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · vdmx · ford vj
this picture is but a snapshot of the revolution. it really feels like that. a real let-down of the geneva motor show pre-production was the inability to translate the creative agency’s after-effects rendered text animations into the live, dynamic setup. there just was no way to implement anything vaguely sophisticated without seeing the framerate drop to near zero. structure record, something driven by video sampling and seemingly tangental to text rendering, is the key to solving that problem… and so here it is solved, as if on cue for the frankfurt motor show.
diary | 13 aug 2007 | tagged: quartz composer · vj
if the above picture means anything to you, go check the new kineme.net site. a shell script node - the universal hammer - and structure record - hello video sampler - are my two most wanted features. icing on the cake: open source.
diary | 06 aug 2007 | tagged: quartz composer · vj
as shown in the ‘pun me this’ entry, the *spark titler was used in nascent form at sheep music, and the promise to tidy-up and release as open-source software has been followed through. so, please find attached: sparktitler-v1.1.zip.
the titler’s interface allows you to take between two sets of title/subtitle, with the choice of four backgrounds: black / green / a quicktime movie or a folder of images. the output window will automatically go full-screen on the second monitor if it detects one is available at launch, otherwise it will remain a resizable conventional window.
it is released with the intention that it can be reused for other events without changing a single line of code: you can design the animation and incorporate quicktime movies in the design by editing the ‘GFX’ macro in the quartz composer patch, and its a matter of drag and drop replace the logo in the interface.
for those who wish to dig deeper and improve the whole package, the source is released under GPL. the xcode project provides an adequate shell for the patch, implemented with just two cocoa classes and an nib file complete with bindings between the qc patch and the interface window. the classes are required to tell the quartz composer patch where to find the resource directory of the application’s bundle (neccessary for any ‘image with movie’ nodes), and to subclass the output window so it is sent borderless to the second display if appropriate. features apart, there is certainly room for improvement, a ‘open file’ dialog instead of the raw text fields would be good, likewise solving the text field update issue.
if you do use it, let us know: operator@tobyz.net
diary | 30 jul 2007 | tagged: titler · release · *spark · vj · code · mac os · quartz composer | downloads: sparktitler-v1.1.zip
new übercool project courtesy of sheep music’s archive of visuals equipment: grass valley controller to be turned into a midi/usb interface. so thats the buttons and lamps of high-end 80’s broadcast tech (not to mention the death star itself) but attached to the current state of the art in the form of a laptop with vdmx rather than its crate of obsolete analogue electronics. best of all, the connector isn’t some serial device we’d need to decode, its just an array of all the switches contacts etc, perfect for plugging straight into diy controller electronics like arduino or midibox.
diary | 24 jul 2007 | tagged: vj · i/o · sheep music
“the committee” declare we can continue. and so we do. strange when a festival almost gets cancelled.
diary | 21 jul 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · sheep music
things that are kinda cool, but only once you’ve done them and never again -
#745 : approached the house with wifi in the garden, to find the road had turned into a half-foot deep river. nonetheless, cycle down it replete with laptop on back.
diary | 21 jul 2007 | tagged: vj · vdmx · sheep music
the latest visuals technology development to come off the *spark anvil is a mac-native titler application, made by wrapping a quartz composer patch with some fullscreen code and interface builder bindings. props to roger bolton of quartonian for the guts of the fullscreen xcode project, shared under gpl so expect to see the titler soon once it’s been tidied up.
truly came into its own during the ups and downs of the first day of the festival, where a huge rainfall threatened to wash away half the site. we could upload videos and images taken moments before, and pun the titles out till they got beyond baaaaaaaad. ‘shave yourself’ still my favourite.
diary | 20 jul 2007 | tagged: quartz composer · titler · vj · sheep music · code · mac os
in the welsh borders, riding mountain bikes and playing with live broadcast style visuals with the peeps from sheep music. turns out tho’ - or rather, a curious by-product of animating their logo - that their long held assumption that the sheep is strumming a guitar is quite wrong…
diary | 16 jul 2007 | tagged: vj · sheep music
while sónar itself wasn’t exactly a revelation music-wise, many good things have come out of the time spent as the international tribes come together. first up, finally met sean of skynoise.net, which has been a long time coming. also by design, spent a week with todd synesthete rather than the normal 24 hours around some gig, which meant we could actually sit down and work on (appropriately enough) the vj network development we only get to talk about otherwise. a beautiful co-incidence was dr.mo, who (ironically enough) had booked in with my old friend elliot before i even knew he or i was going. unexpected but excellent was scott aka amoeba aka thestateovcreation, somebody on the list as one to get back in touch with harking back to his well-ahead-of-the-curve a/v set at brighton 2003. and the real wildcard was vadmin aka eps, russian vj and an organiser of the abracadabra festival, of which i have a whole pack of spanking promo dvds to take back to the uk.
diary | 19 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · sónar
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