Flowering Trees Coming To You Live

Posted July 17th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: video

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This is flowering tree footage I shot early in the spring of 2010 in Seattle. I edited it to go along with Foscil’s track Coming To You Live.

Minime Controller

Posted May 28th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: audio, toys

Visuals Controller (LED numbers turned on)

This is a crazy controller that I have put together for the purpose of controlling visuals software, and probably sequencers and synthesizer software as well. It’s a hack together of a bunch of different controllers as a way to test out what works.

Here is a track I put together using just Apple’s Logic and my Minime.

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Soundlab Mini Synth build time lapse

Posted April 30th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: video

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Burning Man 2005: Michael Yates’ (aka Phyxx) Sculpture Garden

Posted April 13th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: art, video

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In the midst of the open spaces of the desert was a pile of materials put out for the purpose of art. People would wander by, tinkering with all of the interesting pieces. Some would think up a combination that was greater than the sum of the parts and create a piece of art. After the event was over, Phyxx gave me a tour of the results.

Honk Fest 2010

Posted April 12th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: video

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Testing out a new camera, the Canon T2i, as well as trying out the Velvia picture style. I’ll likely have to tone down the settings, some of the color looks fairly comic bookish.

The camera has automatic gain control, so if you shoot a quiet scene, you’re going to get hiss from the overly amplified background noise. The audio from the internal mic sounds quite decent for these bands though.

I’d recommend watching this footage on Vimeo in HD. Depending on your connection, you might click play, and then hit pause right after in order to let the full file download before playing. Makes for less jitters.

Lakewold Gardens

Posted March 20th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: photography

Statue close up

Green leaves, yellow bud

Small white flowers

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Seattle Japanese Garden

Posted March 17th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: photography

Seattle Japanese Garden: Moss on rock

Fuzzy moss on rock

Seattle Japanese Garden: Flower petals on moss

Pink flower petals on moss

Japanese Garden: Mossy stone lantern

Mossy stone lantern

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Seattle Volunteer Park Conservatory

Posted March 16th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: photography

Volunteer Park Conservatory 6
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1956 Chevy Oil Bath Air Cleaner

Posted February 17th, 2010 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: vehicles

My Bel Air still has an old oil bath air cleaner. I’d never seen such a thing, and my previous 1956 Chevy had a standard flat air cleaner.

The concept is that you get the air moving very quickly towards a standing pool of oil. When the air turns to go around the corners in the filter, the particles of dust in the air shoot into the oil and get stuck. This one is fairly simple, just one bath, and one path for the air to flow through.

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Decibel Festival 2009

Posted September 30th, 2009 by Ian Page-Echols
Categories: gigs
Mary Anne Hobbs playing at Neumos for Decibel Festival 2009

I did visuals for a couple acts this past weekend for Seattle’s 2009 Decibel Festival. There were some great artists playing, though I was a bit of a non-goer. I was working on my visuals software right up until the Nosaj Thing show. Ended up going back to a software setup from about three years ago and took about five hours changing some things around to make my software a bit more friendly. As usual, I was editing the software during the shows as well. Thankfully, I didn’t cause any weird errors or crashes while doing this. That is definitely the danger.

Nosaj Thing played some nice music and had a very appreciative and packed audience.

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