Bird’s Eye Bull’s Eye (Rule or Ruin #4)

January 4th, 2006

Bird's Eye Bull's Eye
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Available on: youtube.com | archive.org
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The painter in this short may think she’s only painting circles on the ground. But from our privileged vantage point, we can see well enough where it’s all going to lead….

format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Painter, Final Cut, Audition
Los Angeles, 2003.

All About the Magnet

January 2nd, 2006

All About the Magnet
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Available on: youtube.com

“Is the nail attracted to the magnet?” “Yes!”

This oddly martial drill on the properties of the magnet comes to us from an old, damaged album of ’50s educational songs. I just couldn’t help imagining what the recording session must have looked like, and out came this little cartoon.

format: DV video
software: Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut, Audition
Pittsburgh, 2002.

The Volga Will Be Our Mississippi

January 1st, 2006

The Volga Will Be Our Mississippi
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This is a demo for a new video installation I’m working on. It’s like an old puzzle in a kid’s magazine–can you find all the eagles?

format: realtime animation
software: Isadora, Live
The Hague, 2007.

Coagulate

January 1st, 2006

Coagulate
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This was created during the same Kitchen workshop that spawned The Little Bird of Disaster; the soundtrack was made with a 1960s analog computer and a brand-new upright piano.

format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Final Cut
The Hague, 2006.

Whirlitzer

January 1st, 2006

Whirlitzer
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Here’s a collaboration with composer Meg Schedel, recorded at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique, a collection of early-20th-century mechanical musical instruments.

format: DV video
software: AfterEffects
San Francisco, 2006.

STEIM Experiments

January 1st, 2006
    Isadora Color Organ

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    Isadora Live Camera Control

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    Jitter Color Organ (music by Celeste Hutchins)

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    PD Kaleidoscope

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These are realtime recordings, with me triggering events by tapping keys in time to the beat. They’re tests for some upcoming projects using OSC (Open Sound Control), a nifty protocol for getting many different kinds of realtime sound and video programs to talk to each other.

format: DV video
software: Isadora, Max/MSP/Jitter, PD
Amsterdam/The Hague, 2007.

350 Feet

January 1st, 2006

350 Feet
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This little cartoon took ten years to finish. I drew it all out in pen and ink the winter of 1995, and didn’t get around to shooting it for exactly a decade. Here you go!

format: DV video
software: Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1995.

Glasfilm

January 1st, 2006

Glasfilm
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Yeah, everybody who’s been to film school has got a scratch film, but I’m partial to this one.

format: 16mm film
software: n/a
Amsterdam, 1998.

The Dead Man and the Lawyer (Maya test)

January 1st, 2006

Lawyer Test
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Here’s a Maya test for the short that became The Lawyer and the Dead Man.

format: DV video
software: Maya
San Francisco, 2006.

The Judge

January 1st, 2006

The Judge
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This video was my first try at rotoscoping, created as a projection for a dance performance. The character here is a corrupt judge receiving his karmic punishment–which I imagine here as getting flushed down into some kind of supernatural plumbing.

format: DV video
software: Commotion, AfterEffects, Final Cut
Pittsburgh, 2001.