Reasons you might find yourself wanting to read this very long but very awesome Raquel Meyers interview: – Because you love 8bit graphics and people who push them to their limits – Because Raquel makes rad stuff ( eg her … Continue reading
by j-p, September 16, 2011 0 comments
Riding a bicycle downhill to the studio today – with blues skies all around – really felt like spring arriving. Winter seems to take longer to leave Melbourne than anywhere else in Australia, which is maybe why there’s so many … Continue reading
by j-p, September 2, 2011 0 comments
Above, Pattern Machine, the fruits of a recent fourway collaboration in a weeklong residency on Cockatoo Island ( a former prison and shipbuilding yard in Sydney Harbour), during the 2011 Underbelly Arts Festival. By the end of the week, after much tech … Continue reading
by j-p, August 5, 2011 0 comments
Above, after much hair-pulling : VDMX merrily sending out 2400 x 600 pixels across 2 screens and 1 projector, via the set-up below. ie – 2010 Macbook Pro –> mini display to DVI convertor –> DVI cable –> Matrox Triplehead2go … Continue reading
by j-p, July 9, 2011 4 Comments
Have been doing some experiments recently with Troy Innocent, involving laser cut characters, everyday scenes and projection mapped video. We’re trying to figure out what works well for us, with an eye to fleshing out something some kind of developed work … Continue reading
by j-p, July 5, 2011 0 comments
Wassup, winter-villain? Now that I’ve finished marking all of the respective assignments from classes at RMIT and Swinburne, am looking forward to biting properly into a few long neglected creative projects / overloaded bookshelves / learning curves etc. And that … Continue reading
by j-p, June 27, 2011 0 comments
[[[ Turns out I've been doing 3DWorld's Technoscape column for around 10 years (and 5-6 patient editors). Below, my very last column for them, after they recently announced they were shutting down. Weirdly, this comes just as 3DWorld seemed to … Continue reading
by j-p, May 19, 2011 0 comments
Measured in net years, Wacom’s Intuos 4 graphics tablet is already a sleek, sleepy dinosaur, having been released in 2009. On the other hand, given today’s infatuation with touchscreen tablets and their gestural capabilities, it’s worth reinvestigating what benefits a … Continue reading
by j-p, May 19, 2011 0 comments
Let it be said now – June 5th, 2011 would be as good a day as any, for an audiovisualist to be in three places at once. In Sydney Chris Cunningham brings his triple screen live audiovisual performance to Sydney … Continue reading
by j-p, May 13, 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
Another Julian doing interesting things with computers? Meet Mr.Oliver and his real-time billboard replacements. Augmented Billboards 2: The Artvertiser @ Transmediale 2010 from Julian Oliver on Vimeo. They Live! Indeed, as might be expected from a project that seeks to … Continue reading
by j-p, December 20, 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