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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.

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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.

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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.

This is a weird little conglom made using various pieces of software. The main audio was created on the fly using the Korg DS-10 software for the Nintendo DS. This was transmogrified using the RjDj app for the iPhone and the Echelon patch. A small amount of leveling was done on the file in Sound Studio, a simple audio program on Mac OS X. The resulting audio file was dropped into Apple’s Motion program.

The video clips are all of my creation, I use some of these files when I am doing live visuals. I tend to use Motion sort of similarly to the way I do visuals. I blend multiple layers of video and fade clips in and out while trying to have the video go with the audio. I can’t work fully live in Motion (at least with the machine I have it running on), but since it can loop segments or the whole project, I get a pretty good idea of what the end result will feel like.

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This is footage taken from high in the air (over 50′ up) down at people passing below. The audio is taken from a strange interview with a guy in a rooster costume. It was then processed with RjDj‘s Echelon on the iPhone. This was at Burning Man 2005.

I am doing visuals again for Decibel Festival in Seattle! I’ll be holding down the fort in the Baltic Room and doing visuals for a few specific acts, including:

Welder at the Baltic Room
weldersounds.com, myspace.com/weldersounds
Friday 9/26 at 10:15

and

Fax at Neumos
faxmusik.com, myspace.com/faxmusik
Sunday 9/28 at 9:30

(clicking the image above will load up a java sketch created using Processing from Processing.org)

Here’s one of them:

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This is a sequence of photos taken with a Canon Digital Rebel (1st gen). The photos are almost 2x the size of the frame, so they have mostly been downsized to fit. A couple sections have full resolution shots, these look zoomed in compared to the others.

This was the night of 02/21/2008

(Updated to 1080p HD)

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I’m working on The Machine documentary pretty heavily lately and so am always looking for something to help me to not go crazy. I must have clicked on some monome link recently that made me remember that I had a monome kit waiting in my closet.

I soldered it together last night and am trying to figure out how exactly to create the grid of buttons. I have a bunch of lit buttons from an old trashed SSL audio mixing console and I’m trying to figure out if I should replace the lamps in them (not LEDs) or try to go with what I’ve got. They look good as is, they just might burn out after a short while. The buttons are quite small, so hence the name Minime.

I took photos as I was going to see what kind of stop motion animation that would make. So that’s what you’re looking at.