It's Like Spiders http://fox-gieg.com/spiders The nearly complete videography of Nick Fox-Gieg Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Rule or Ruin (series) http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2012/rule-or-ruin-series/ http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/2012/rule-or-ruin-series/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:17:15 +0000 Nick http://fox-gieg.com/spiders/?p=293
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A cycle of six short films, created between the beginning of the Afghan War and the beginning of the Iraq War.

format: DV video
software: Flash, After Effects, Commotion, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
Los Angeles, 2004.

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A reading of the poem “Franklin” by Karen Solie, with realtime graphics created in Isadora and Processing.

format: HD video
software: Isadora, Processing, After Effects
Toronto, 2012.

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Based on the extraordinary career of René Carmille, history’s first known computer hacker. The government of Nazi-occupied France launched a ghastly and unprecedented experiment in information science: much of the Vichy bureaucracy, including the operation of the death camps, was automated with punch-card computers. However, the Nazis didn’t understand the technology’s potential vulnerabilities…

format: HD video
software: Flash, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
Toronto, 2010.

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“They gave me a gun, a pick, and a hand grenade, and said ‘Win at any cost,’ and I said ‘Right.’ There’s nothing I love more than winning…” From a story by Susan Murray.

format: HD video
software: Flash, After Effects, Final Cut, Photoshop, Audition
New York, 2011.

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This is one of a series of realtime animations we created for Jen Tsuei’s play Fantasias for the Immoderate. Two actors in microphones used the volume of their voices to control the video “puppets” in a program called Isadora.

format: DV video
software: Isadora
Los Angeles, 2004.

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What’s a goat doing on the phone? He’s illustrating one of the seven deadly sins, of course.

format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Los Angeles, 2003.

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A reading of the poem “Cave Bear” by Karen Solie, with realtime graphics created in Isadora and Processing.

format: HD video
software: Isadora, Processing, After Effects
Toronto, 2011.

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Once upon a time there were three little sisters and they lived at the bottom of a well… An excerpt from Alice in Wonderland, adapted from a 2004 realtime installation created with Meg Schedel.

format: DV video
software: After Effects, Painter, Max/MSP/Jitter
Toronto, 2011.

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Something a little different–a live-action comedy sketch created with Nicole Stamp, starring Hayley Hudson, Ben Hudson, and Danielle Ayow.

format: DV video
software: Final Cut
Toronto, 2008.

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A realtime recording made with GPS data and popcorn.js, based on the classic “actuality film” shot by Harry Miles in San Francisco, April 1906. Here’s the code used to create this.

format: website
software: popcorn.js, After Effects
Toronto, 2011.

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