Time lapse animation of a fog bank lifting off of downtown Seattle. Taken from Alki Beach.

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A bit of footage from Decibel Festival 2007 from the Mothership Label Showcase. Just a tiny bit of proof that I do visuals for shows. Information on the acts that I performed with below.

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Sensory Effect Showcase – Saturday, September 22nd at the Baltic Room

Electrosect – V8 Media
ndCV – Scott K. James
Logic Probe
novaTRON
Taal Mala
Lowfish

(I did most of the rest of the night, but I believe Scott did another act to give me a break. He had a specific set with ndCV.)

Mothership Label Showcase – Sunday, September 23rd at Neumos VIP

Monty Luke – V8 Media
ItaloBoyz – V8 Media
Claude VonSTroke – Pixelshift

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10/29/2006 or thereabouts

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Using a combination of hardware and software, I got extreme glitching. Through random coincidence and exact settings, the beta version of Isadora I was using completely glitched out and made this even better than I was trying for. The only way to save the footage for later was to shoot video of the screen. I’ve used this since then as a source clip for visuals.

(Mac, Evolution MIDI dial controller, PSOne LCD display, Radio Shack video booster, Troikatronix Isadora, Steim Junxion)

If you asked what I was working on during the past year, I could probably tell you that I was “working on The Machine”. While this could sound like a vague reference to “the man” or something of the sort, it was actually a huge collaborative project that I was working on with a bunch of people. This was created for the 2005 Burning Man Festival.

We had people from many professions including contracting, art, realty, party and event creation, shmoozing, welding, computer geekery, audio, engineers, graphic design, multimedia, dance, performance, and some architecture background. This huge structure was community created, community run and used during the event, and then community destroyed at the end of the event.

The short description given to the Burning Man event beforehand:

Made primarily of steel and wooden parts, The Machine (Mach12e) expresses an elusiveness of time and place. Burning Man participants will at first have the opportunity to view the sculpture, a triangulated meta-mechanical temple, in the open vista of the playa. They will explore its isolation, both spatial and emotional. Three elevated drive wheels and housings, a raised rotating central core comprised of a tower of gears and a transmission, and an upper platform that suspends eight articulated kinetic limbs define its multifaceted rust, blue, and gray form.

(wood, steel, nails, screws, cable, gears, rubber belts, hard rubber casters, soft rubber tensioner wheels, belt tensioner/belt rider system to cut down on the belt harmonics caused by the wind, 8 channel audio, olfactory)

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(DV Camera, Final Cut for making clips, Troikatronix Isadora for creating the visuals, recorded onto DV)

(DV Camera, Final Cut for making clips, Isadora for creating the visuals, recorded onto DV)

(DV Camera, Final Cut for making clips, Troikatronix Isadora for creating the visuals, recorded onto DV)