A study in audio-reactive form and light. The song is an excerpt from “Aurora” by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto. More on them may be found at http://www.raster-noton.net/anrs/
I got to thinking, people do all this stuff with particle effects being all bright and shiny, what would happen if you made particles … of DARKNESS? (also a friend showed me a nice trick with aux systems being used to create sparks on surface contact, so I wanted to play with that)
I uploaded and linked an earlier version of this, and then immediately saw a bunch of improvements that needed to be made, so I did. I improved the camera motion a lot, made significant changes to the lighting/ color correction, and made some minor changes to the particle system. Oh, and replaced the dummy floor texture I accidentally left in last time with a real one. It’s nice, though, that on this case my turnaround time between “this is awesome!” and “oh I can do this much better” is in this case measured in minutes. The original is still on vimeo if you want see the evolution.
I don’t know what it is, but it’s trapped in that tiny room with you, and It Wants Out.
This is a still from the video I shot at the Occupy Port of Oakland March, 12.12.2011. Color manipulation done in After Effects. Really I just made this so I could use it as a wallpaper, but you’re welcome to it if you’d like it. Click through for 1920×1080 version.
This is the video for Unwoman’s cover of Hurt, off of her album Uncovered. It was shot and edited (minimally) by me. This was originally meant to be the key shot in a more complex video, but when we watched this we both knew instantly that it carried itself so well that doing much more to it would risk overworking it. A gorgeous sunset, a beautiful woman, and a fantastic song; what more does one need?
This is a video I made for the Renegade Lights #1 compilation. Renegade Lights is a music/video art collective, and I am one of the VJs who gets to play with this incredibly talented collection of musicians. The downloadable version of RL#1 includes videos by myself and CSTNG_SHDWS, and this is mine.
The music is by me. The video is based around “Techniques of Hand Sending”, a WWII era U.S. Army instructional film on morse code, which is now in the public domain. All other material was either created by me for the film or modified recordings of my live sets. Fun fact: This was edited on my older macbook, which was incapable of rendering more than 1 minute of effected footage at a time, so the entire thing was rendered in chunks and pieced together into a final. Which is the main reason there’s not more going on.
If you would like to hear more of my so-called music, I can be found on bandcamp under my musical project Autopoesis
Jettyjacks from mediapathic on Vimeo.
Along the floodplain of the Rio Grande, there are these structures, known as “Jetty jacks”. They’re essentially a series of I-beams strung together with rust, cable, and antipathy. They’re there to prevent flood debris from encroaching on nearby territories. In the eyes of a photographer like my dear associate sinnarko they become architecture and pure form; after they reach my hands they become this.
Please see here for the original images.
Demo Reel – Jan 09 from mediapathic on Vimeo.
This is my Demo Reel as of Jan 09. It’s mostly either material I made for live performance, or actual recordings of those sets. Most of it is generative, with the obvious exception of the logo work. Software used includes Quartz Composer, VVVV, Processing, and After Effects. The music is the track “ants” by eDIT (whom I highly recommend checking out- all of his stuff is this great). Enjoy!
All noise is intentional. If your computer crashes, I did that on purpose, too.
