14th January 2010+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You may have seen the radiohead House of Cards music video. I thought it the most visually interesting promo I had seen in a long time. I first encountered 3D scanning technology while visiting Imperial College in 2003 when I was filming microscopic studies, Some of the PHD students were working on MRI 3D scanners for imaging 3D models of Hearts. It was fascinating watching the heart beat live in 3D on a screen, with all the errors and artifacts that made it more abstractly interesting as it wasn't a perfectly shaped heart, more a group of veins and shards of tessellated planes, beating and alive.
So when Shaun pointed me to the recent tests on Structured-light 3D scanning conducted by Kyle McDonald on vimeo, where you can build a 3D image of the face using a projector and a camera, it looked like an interesting avenue to investigate for our upcoming visual performance at Kinetica Art Fair. We tried the initial steps and here is the result. Now we are working towards creating an absorbing performance using this technology for the upcoming show.
5th January 2010++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
R.I.P. Michael Dwyer. I met Michael very briefly as a naive graduate in 2001 when he awarded me Best Experimental Film at Samhlaíocht Film Festival, his award was a real confidence boost. Thanks Michael.
18 December 2009++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I will be collaborating with this Prick to make some visuals for Kinetica Art Fair in February using Musion Technology. Exciting stuff.
16th Decembrrr 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
So here are my Ruscha shorts, I enjoyed making them but they didn't win any prizes : (
11th Decembrrr 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Latest vid of Electricity In Our Homes in Dalston East London. I liked the lighting in the venue and also the crowd, it all felt like a Wim Wenders moment so I decided to film, and then started playing around with what I believe is known as a "dirty point of view" in the business or so Nickie Sault once told me.
8th December 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
New video for Le Tetsuo from their single launch night.
I put a second of almost everything I have worked on and could find on my computer over the past decade. It's not complete as I have worked on a lot of stuff for other people and companies that I wouldn't show and also have a dark cupboard full of unfinished developing films, However as an exercise in recap it's still unsatisfactorily brief.
1st December 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Kate Atkin came and spent a few days in the studio to finish work on her exhibition running currently at 52 Hoxton Square, London. Check it out if you can.
Today I spent some time at the Hayward Gallery filming/photographing for a competition about Ed Ruscha the idea is to respond to his paintings with a 30 second clip. Its a free for all so I decided to give it a go. I was lucky enough to follow a very knowledgeable visiting tour guide who even managed to get the director to talk a bit about Ruscha's work. I liked the soundbyte that Ruscha was all set to be a commercial billboard painter but instead found the insight to channel his energy into being an artist and I suppose a result was the retrospective at the Hayward many years later. Another interesting byte was pondering the question "What is noise?". Passing by the Southbank I noticed the poster for Peter and the Wolf and remembered Suzie Templeton's one to one with me while I was at the RCA, when she candidly doubted I would properly realise the first year project I was battling with. She was right. I'll post the 30 second clip I intend making. If I make it.
Meanwhile Elsewhere myself and Gavin Morris are working on a computer game cum installation which could be funny or miss the point entirely...its inspiration is police state brutality and the Milgram experiments we are playing around with an amazing and fun piece of software called UNITY if you are 3D inclined you should try it out.
2nd November 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I shot this last summer I thought to put it in the live music section. You had to be there, if you were maybe you can spot your mega haircut.
this is kind of cool, it took me 5 mins to make and when I uploaded it I realized the sequence appears completely different depending on your broadband speed so its never the same really... kind of interesting maybe
19th October 2009++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My New New Promo for We Fell To Earth has been given the thumbs up so here it is.
6th October 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Work on "Deaf" promo not going to be finished tomorrow, its going well but it needs to be thrown back in and given a few more punches and kicks, its far too coherent...
otherwise...
I shot this a couple of weeks back and thought wow where did that bear come from?
25th September 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Planning a promo for "We Fell to Earth" based around East London for their otherworldly track "Deaf". Hopefully I'll have it up by 7th October.
3rd September 2009++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Arbitrary Quantum Coin Magic - 2003 - A short video intended as a gallery loop. The coins spinning are in fact the same coin. Splitting the fields of the video yields two completely different views laid against each other as if a reflection, on the right is heads on the left tails, so the coin can signify two different states at once, that of heads or tails. This is further confused by the coin itself being a forgery.
Still from short video installation "38" showing at 80 Kingsland Road. The video is a journey on the old 38 Routemaster just before it was decommissioned in 2006, 31 minutes looped projection. Essentially two nondescript bus journeys except with the sound, atmosphere and architecture of a recently extinct experience.
12th August 2009++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I'm working on a short piece for an exhibiton coming up at the end of the month at 80 Kingsland Road, along with people such as Christoph Steger and Christine Mitrentse among others.
Here is a cut from Electricity in our Homes at Rough Trade. Its shakey but Matthew and I also wanted to see the gig so the camera work comes second place. I also couldn't stop shaking a leg which translated into the camera work.
26th July 2009++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Front Cover of album by Emilie Bailey, back cover by me...
Shot Electricity In Our Homes gig last night, at their Rough Trade Album Launch. I'll link to the Live edit when its done. I'm also going to going to set up a 'Live' panel cause I've shot quite a few bands lately...
9th July 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Another edit of my work to date containing only the work I've directed and produced over the past year.
7th July 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I ressurected this mash-up and hope to make another one soon as this is lacking some juicy bits that I've been working on
1st July 2009++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Warmonger part of an idea to create portraits with animation and found footage online, this is from an early sketchbook I will post the scan sometime.
8th June 2009++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
New performance promo for Project:Komakino "Nebula" up on youtube.
24 May 2009++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Shooting for the cover of Electricity in our Homes with Emilie Bailey
23 May 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Nearly finished the edit for Komakino, I just need sign off and to lay the HQ audio. Its turning out okay though, I was worried the means would produce the ends but it rises above its meagre budget of nothing. Thanks to the efforts of those involved I suppose. I think that the video gives the listener space to enjoy the sound and emphasizes the motifs throughout the song without overindulging in effects. In fact there are barely no filters whatsoever on this, just some stabilization at times and a little sparkle or hue shift. I swear, this is old skool video making.
7 May 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Shooting Project Komakino Nebula Video for a Japanese release.
with a big band and a small crew in a small gallery with a tiny camera.
11 April 2009+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Site Up!!! trying out indexhibit to see if its the format for me. It seems really great and simple to start with.