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
Wet Footprints: it’s flooding everywhere, but we’re running out of water? Information visualisation can help us get a grip on the slipperiness of water scarcity. “Freshwater is a scarce resource; its annual availability is limited and demand is growing. The … Continue reading
by j-p, March 30, 2011 0 comments
“When you see tuna, think panda. The bluefin tuna is now on the brink of extinction, thanks to industrial overfishing and corporate greeed. breeding populations could disappear from our oceans as early as 2012. Please do your bit to end … Continue reading
by j-p, March 24, 2011 0 comments
Ingredients: Bangkok, a city of 10 million with equator-side climate and biodiversity. A dystopian biotech novel set in this city after oil has run out. Add Dental Tourism into the mix and stir lightly. (Above, sunset Buka Ball near Bangkok’s … Continue reading
by j-p, March 15, 2011 2 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
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
Hugh Farrant and Giordano Nanni uploaded Episode 4 of Rap News to youtube in July 2010, a funny overview of wikileaks and the issues it raised. Their witty editing earned an invitation to meet Julian Assange, resulting in his cameo … Continue reading
by j-p, December 15, 2010 1 Comment
Keywords: Neal Stephenson, Julian Assange, MC Hugo Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon ( see also: Snow Crash, The Diamond age and The Baroque Cycle ) is more than a decade old, but its themes of information security and encryption ( wrapped up … Continue reading
by j-p, December 2, 2010 2 Comments