Word Wall Progress from Ian Page-Echols on Vimeo.

Drilling & tapping the waterjet cut front panels, cutting and drilling the buttons (which will lie beneath the cut letters), and initial LED light testing on a piece of art I’m doing called the Word Wall.

Music:
The Fall of Humanity (With He Can Jog)
by Deceptikon
on the album Mythology Of The Metropolis

Thanks:
Breona Gutschmidt – Word play
Ben Flaster – LED & confabulation
Clay Roach – “Hinge” button scheme
Nils Christian – Shop space & box building
Ignition Northwest – Partial grant & deadline

Footage I shot of a large Peterbilt dump truck that lost it’s brakes on a steep West Seattle hill. I was amazed that the cab and the truck in general didn’t have more damage. Plus, I had always thought that the beds of these trucks wouldn’t have as much strength for weird torques like this. Evidently I was wrong.

Crazy roads, and more importantly, untrained winter drivers out there. If you have to drive, put chains on your car. If you don’t have chains, it’s not important enough to drive anywhere.

I got out to one of the downtown bus stops at about 4:30pm today. The first two buses to show up were packed, so I walked farther downtown so that I could get on. Got a seat on the bus and it then took almost two hours to get past Sears and the Krispy Kreme. Many people were fed up with waiting on the buses and I joined them in walking back to West Seattle. I feel for the people who were stuck in their cars. It was actually kind of fun getting to walk with a huge pack of people back from downtown. The people walking were in generally good spirits and were fairly entertained. I think it ended up taking me 3 hours to get home from one of the last stops downtown to one of the first stops in West Seattle.

Drivers at the West Seattle lower bridge on SW Spokane are routinely spinning their tires very fast thinking it’s going to help them get up the hill. In general, this just melts the snow and ice which makes it even slicker for the next person in line. With chains, you’re fine. Without, you would pretty much have to wait at the bottom until the hill is clear and then get some momentum going and keep constant speed the whole way up. Don’t slow down. Don’t stop.

A couple guys with a 4×4 pickup and chains on all four wheels were charging $20 to haul people up the hill. They’d haul one up, then back down and pull up the next one. Some people who were helping out stuck drivers were angry about this. I do know that they beat the professional towing companies to the lower bridge by a couple hours, and I don’t even think the pros stuck around.

I thought that there were enough interesting things going on that I put on my bike helmet and a helmet liner, put my camera in my backpack, attached my tripod to my backpack, and rode my bike back to the bridge for this shot and some footage.

Stay warm out there.

Video of my last gig doing visuals for Carl Craig at Decibel Festival 2010! I shot almost all of the footage for this show during this last summer and as recently as the day before the show.

You can see one of the flaws in the video on the Canon T2i. When there are bright flashes of light in these video clips, you get a horizontal banding. I actually think it has to do with the frequency of the lights vs the camera. It’s rare that I have seen this, as I mostly shoot outdoor, unlit footage.

Kevin Saunderson with AudioPixel LED lighting

Monty Luke with visuals by Zachariah Walker

Analog Red And Green Static Waves

Made with a combination of video mixers: Panasonic WJ-AVE3, Panasonic WJ-AVE5, Sansui VX-99, and Edirol V4.

iPhone Feedback

Made with a combination of video mixers (Panasonic WJ-AVE3 and Edirol V4) and an iPhone 3GS with another camera shooting the screen of the iPhone. The iPhone added delay and some picture quality changes.

Analog Red And Green Feedback Lines

Made with a combination of video mixers: Panasonic WJ-AVE3, Panasonic WJ-AVE5, Sansui VX-99, and Edirol V4.

Found more old footage. This looks like it was the same material I posted in a previous post back when I was using Google Video. Looks much better here. I appear to have some dates misconstrued as this file was labeled as being in August. Oh well.

I just tracked down a couple old clips of visuals that I did quite a while ago. This one used footage I shot of the great cargo loaders South of downtown Seattle. I think that area is the most striking piece of the city. Besides the water, of course.

Watch on Youtube

(Looks like this might have been some of the same footage from April 23 of 2005. Maybe August is when I uploaded it to Google Video.)

I just tracked down a couple old clips of visuals that I did quite a while ago. This one was using footage from a party in maybe 2003 at the defunct FUNC, or Fremont UNconventional Center which some of my friends ran. In one of those fairly common Seattle moments, my girlfriend 2005-current saw me use some of this footage in 2006 and it turned out that she was probably right next to or behind me while I was shooting this.

The space that housed the FUNC is now the Indoor Sun Shoppe, a plant store that has some great cacti and succulents. A little bit different take on the space though.

Watch on Youtube

(Looks like this might have been some of the same footage from April 23 of 2005. Maybe August is when I uploaded it to Google Video.)

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.

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A time lapse of putting together the electronics for my Soundlab Mini Synth.

Yet to come is putting together a case. I purchased some sheets of scrap bamboo and have a nice sheet of metal that I anticipate getting last or waterjet cut to the correct size.

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