Previously: Learning Quartz Composer Part 1 And Then: More babysteps with Quartz. I set about trying to make a split-screen effect quartz effect which would replicate any video 9 times within the same screen. (This was to fulfil a request for someone … Continue reading
by j-p, May 5, 2011 6 Comments
Seems there’s a bit of momentum picking up in live-pixel land. Lots of festivals, ideas and software developments. MODUL8 + Mapping Festival, Geneva (19-29 May, 2011) As well as a thematic focus on video projections mapped onto non-screen surfaces and … Continue reading
by j-p, April 14, 2011 0 comments
Creation of moving imagery is aided greatly by some good old fashioned screen sampling. UPDATE : The Syphon app (mentioned below) routes video losslessly between video software using the graphics card, and now the Syphon recorder can record the output … Continue reading
by j-p, March 10, 2011 4 Comments
Supercharging that whole laptop as portable TV station idea – Boinx TV. Vat Ist? Video mixing software (mac only) set up for easy, intuitive real-time control over live cameras, recorded clips, slides, infographics, text and capable of streaming live as … Continue reading
by j-p, March 10, 2011 1 Comment
Fruit and vegetable dance choreography ( or claymation zombie wars ) just got easier with version 2.5 of iStop motion. Vat Ist? Stop motion ( or stop action ) animation creates the illusion of movement by photographing objects in new … Continue reading
by j-p, March 3, 2011 0 comments
Scattermusic East Coast Tour Highlights from jeanpoole on Vimeo. Part of the reason I’ve been quiet on the blog this year, was because of a very busy November and December with video. So it’s good to finally reflect some of … Continue reading
by j-p, January 25, 2011 0 comments
Sampology’s Super Visual Smackdown! taster on Vimeo. A+V on NYE: Dec 31 will find Brisbane’s Sampology scooting away from the sub-tropics, to scratch up a video storm down south at the Fall’s Festival in Apollo Bay. Sam was kind enough … Continue reading
by j-p, November 24, 2010 0 comments
No Jetpacks announcements this week (especially from Qantas), but there’ve been a few exciting one-foot-in-the-future live video developments lately. Syphon Teaser from vade on Vimeo. Syphon Syphon is “an open source Mac OS X technology that allows applications to share … Continue reading
by j-p, November 23, 2010 0 comments
A few tips for shrinking and smoothing your touring video kit (inspired by the next fortnight of touring the East Coast for the next fortnight with the Scattermusic Sound System). Velcro + Laptops Attaching spare portable Hard-drives to your laptop lid with … Continue reading
by j-p, November 17, 2010 5 Comments
Good times! Film-maker Robin Mahoney and bass meister Si Begg have a new full length DVD out! The Executive Summary We Made Our Own Disaster, A study of fascism in late 20th Century democracies : By Robin Mahoney and Si … Continue reading
by j-p, October 26, 2010 2 Comments
What’s a DVD again? a) “Another Useless Ironic Colourful Object In The Long List of Items Produced By The Falling Western Empire” b) Plastic taking up room on shelves you wouldn’t need if you didn’t collect plastic c) A great … Continue reading
by j-p, October 15, 2010 1 Comment
Aye, Form + Code is the new book for Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams + LUST, which carves it’s academic credibility by having not only one, but two, subtitles: a) In Design, Art, And Architecture b) A Guide to Computational Aesthetics. … Continue reading
by j-p, October 11, 2010 0 comments
Wandering back down that print on demand sidestreet, Francis Bear is a fantastic new graphic novel recently published by Melbourne comic veteran, Gregory Mackay, using the print on demand facilities at the Melbourne Uni bookstore. Though it was originally commissioned … Continue reading
by j-p, September 23, 2010 1 Comment
Via the people who want to organise the world’s information for us (google.com/insights/search), a few insights about the world of VJing and motion graphics, comparing results between 2004 and 2010. “Insights for Search aims to provide insights into broad search … Continue reading
by j-p, September 22, 2010 10 Comments
A quick guide to using photographs for making time lapse movies (or rubbery timed stop motion animations). Nutshelly Sequence 24, 25 or 30 ( for film / PAL / ntsc ) photographs after one another, and you’ve got yourself a … Continue reading
by j-p, September 7, 2010 0 comments