2012. Zowie. Time flies. And as the year ticks over, it turns out to be 3 months since I last posted. Mostly I’ve been busy (doing video on the Making Mirrors tour with Gotye / making a set of motion … Continue reading
by j-p, January 9, 2012 0 comments
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
Things you may already know about the Sydney Opera House: – It is slowly sinking. – The Danish architect behind it, Jorn Utzon, was forced from the project, and never returned to Australia. – Anti-war activists climbed it to paint ‘No … Continue reading
by j-p, August 25, 2011 1 Comment
So a while ago I interviewed Fernando Llanos, a Mexican artist with a huge catalogue of artworks under his belt. Notably, this included the Videohuahua project – which involved a micro projector strapped to the back of his pet chihuahua. Turned out he … Continue reading
by j-p, August 15, 2011 1 Comment
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
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
June 5th, 2011. Due to a weird Sydney Opera House ticket mix up – I ended up at YO GABBA GABBA live this weekend – instead of the planned pilgrimage to Chris Cunningham’s triple screen live cinema assault. Priceless. Etc etc … Continue reading
by j-p, June 6, 2011 0 comments
Aka ‘The Continued Adventures of Someone From Video Compositing Land Trying To Get By Inside The Quartz Kingdom’… Earlier Quartz Wrestling delivered a splitscreen effect which took any clip playing in VDMX, and replicated it 9 times to provide something … Continue reading
by j-p, May 25, 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
Want to directly support a very legendary local musician, who recently had his solar powered studio broken into? The unfortunate recipient of the break in was Monkey Marc (Lab Rats, Combat Wombat, esteemed solo artist, and relentless workshop and gig … Continue reading
by j-p, April 21, 2011 0 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
Above: Batgirl on a Bangkok rooftop, mixed with Tasmanian coastal footage and some quartz gradients and transitions in VDMX. This is a still from a series of recent video experiments that have involved recording video clips of live mixing with … Continue reading
by j-p, April 12, 2011 0 comments
Aquatic menage a trois: coral reefs, technology and underwater art. Reef Beefs While coral reefs have existed for over 200 million years, humans playing with technology have been causing them some grief in the last wee while. Coral is made … Continue reading
by j-p, April 7, 2011 0 comments