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Diarysome beers in a sunny park / swiss flags all around
some beers in a sunny park / swiss flags all around
diary | 01 may 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · mapping
four days in non-stop festival mode: time for a break. bus to the end of the line, cross the border, and up la montagne.
diary | 30 apr 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · mapping
sunny lunchtime with an afternoon to play with, at the cafe alu. davide here saying goodbye to boris.
diary | 30 apr 2007 | tagged: vj · mapping
exyzt rock. period. more on them to come.
diary | 27 apr 2007 | tagged: vj · mapping
davide in audiovisual / electronicagraphic synchronicity.
diary | 27 apr 2007 | tagged: vj · mapping
five screens, two narrative lab navigators, and the night starts early at the contemporary arts centre. story collector is a beautiful set, david last and mr projectile crisp over the pa, the mix working well, tag team keeping the story and aesthetic tracked.
diary | 27 apr 2007 | tagged: *spark · narrative lab · vj · vdmx · mapping · live cinema
back to geneva for the mapping festival. a narrative lab performance a night for the first four days, opening with the premiere of autometa by paul mumford aka visualnaut. suffice to say, been avidly waiting to see this emerge from its year+ of production, and it didn’t disappoint. totally captivated for its hour run, like watching a film… but not a film. awesome.
diary | 27 apr 2007 | tagged: narrative lab · vj · mapping · live cinema
mapping and modul8’s boris, letting it rip late into the afterparty
diary | 24 apr 2007 | tagged: vj · mapping
its tuesday, its the first day not working for over two weeks, and with the next month or so paid up from this to devote to developing the setup and contributing to the cultural side. there is a little description of amsterdam on the photo page, suffice to say it was a smooth experience, we had it down, we had a nice time. very rewarding to have that experience after the challenges of getting the project to the 1.0 of geneva.
diary | 10 apr 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj · ford vj · imagination
cool evening talking shop++ with jilt van moorst aka robotfunk: very interesting narrative features coming with flowmotion 3. but the shock news is that, in fact, jilt’s filter of choice is kaleidoscope. look, proof! mwhaaaaaaaaaa tee hee.
diary | 31 mar 2007 | tagged: vj
a steadycam operator on an all-terrain segway type thing… you can imagine the cool shots made possible, but it looked straight out of some robocop/terminator future. and, of course, i want i want i want.
diary | 27 mar 2007 | tagged: errata of life · *spark · vj · ford vj
the widescreen cropping does no favours for this shot, buts its a massive totem full of corporate logos outside the rai exhibition centre… with id&t as the top most hoarding, who are not some multinational corporation but the biggest clubnight promoters in town. not quite what you’d expect.
diary | 25 mar 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj
but thats an exact 1:1 pixel mapping on the LED wall, which we got to in minutes rather than days. shame its not the geneva monster-wall, but you can’t have it all. anyway, progress. and hello jilt, fellow vj along with olga for the amsterdam motor show.
i’ve just arrived back from, well, from a very big thing. quit-your-job type thing. i signed a non-disclosure-agreement in december, things were set by january, had quit apple not long thereafter, february was intense pre-production, and then it really happened: two and a bit weeks at the geneva motor show, putting out a four minute vj mix every 16 minutes, a peer to the hd brand videos on the immense led wall.
its a really amazing project as the vj is not there for sparkle, but more akin to tom cruise in minority report, taking in a flow of user generated content and magic’ing it onto the big screen. massive props to imagination for the concept and the multi-disciplinary clout to make it happen, and to ford for really going out on one with this project.
i would write more, but i’ve only 36 hours back in london before being off again: a short break after all this and then straight into the amsterdam motor show. onwards!
diary | 19 mar 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj · ford vj · imagination
huzzah. the narrative lab proposal for the mapping festival has been accepted, and i was even in geneva at the time so had dinner with boris and ilan. there’ll be three narrative led vj sets and two big talks by us, so i’ll be performing ‘rbn_esc’ as the vj film example to my presentation on ‘live cinema and vjing’.
diary | 14 mar 2007 | tagged: *spark · narrative lab · vj · rbn_esc · mapping
thanks to artificial eyes for bringing me to istanbul to perform rbn_esc. 4 layers of image floating behind me, layers of scrim hung all around. that and ae’s own thrill software hooked up to a moving-mirror video projector setup (think gobo) made it all a den for the senses. cool to be able to soundcheck for hours too, headphones just aren’t quite the same as a club PA…
diary | 24 feb 2007 | tagged: *spark · vj · rbn_esc · live cinema
is that when you finish working on the materials at 7am, and have a few hours to kill until the presentation later that morning, you can go out and take photos in the new found winter wonderland. this is my local, and more a visual joke than photo, but hey.
diary | 24 jan 2007 | tagged: errata of life · *spark · vj · ford vj
