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Music video from the NASA (North America South America) project: quot;A Volta,quot; featuring Sizzla

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Dir. Stephen Irwin / UK / 2008

A tragic, darkly animated and powerful journey through the life of one dog as he travels from abusive home to even worse.

music by Sorenious Bonk

Funded by Animate...

This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the pervasive computing age. For more information please visit: maya.com/practices/research Really interested in the implications of a trillion-node world? Read Dr. Peter Lucas's seminal white paper that not only predicted this sort of scaling and complexity but outlined some of the resilient patterns that we need to follow to get there from here. maya.com/portfolio/the-trillion-node-network

The SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES are a collection of works by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly.

The full work is of total approximate duration of 45 minutes, with sections of various lengths, textures, and dynamic qualities.

The project first started while Woody and I were working on different commissioned projects at the ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe Germany). He and Steina on the exhibition MINDFRAMES and Garth Knox and myself on the DVD and performance SPECTRAL STRANDS: FOR VIOLA AND VISUALS. Woody, Steina, Garth and I spent many nights screening works for moving images, playing music, and cooking, enveloped in the huge ghost town mood the ZKM's kitchen took on at night. During this time there were passionate discussions about video synthesizers (mainly my love for the Sandin Image Processor), and how Steina's VIOLIN POWER had a huge influence on Garth's and my new series of works.

The source materials were generated by Woody using a Rutt-Etra Scan Processor in the 1970's and sat on a shelf for years, having been recently digitized. Woody came into my studio one day and asked me if I would be interested in using them to work on a collaboration, and the project began from there...

The works use sources excavated directly from the output of the Scan Processor, as well as further manipulations using Tom Demeyer's ImX software, developed with input from Steina. Extensive editing and layering and additional augmentations were done using Phil Mortons IP. The Sound was generated (mostly) by custom software developed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan and myself called NETHER GENERATOR, which sets up a number of complex real time feedback networks filtered and processed by various means.

SCAN PROCESSOR STUDIES was first exhibited as an installation in the ZKM's MINDFRAMES exhibition.

The source materials from Woody's original experiments with the Scan Processor have also been used in conjunction with further processing on my part to cr

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An alternative video for Coldplay's Strawberry Swing, directed by Ross Neil and Matt Clark, with thanks to HSI London.

Commissioned by: Buro Knapzak / Client: Freeband / Year: 2009
My role: design and direction

Freeband Communication and IIPIC share a vision of the future: a world in which information and communication technology render one's surroundings into a thinking and caring environment.

The results of the Freeband Communication research program should be visualized in a compelling film. I approached the material using infographics to explain the vast quantities of data. To create a relationship with the continuing technology the film starts with a minimalist introduction in a narrow color spectrum and gradually transitioned to an abundant, multicolored world.

Recognition:
Silver W3 Award
Webby Award Official Honorree
FWA video of the day (31.10.08)
Featured in Stash 51, CG Times Vol. 08, Creatie

In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis' legendary LSD no-hitter. In t...

The song is Ode to Joy from the 9th Symphony in D Minor. Buy it on iTunes at http://j.mp/buyodetojoy. As far as I know, this is the only video like this in exhistance on YouTube. If not the only on...

Physical limits in technical 3- and 4 ball patterns juggling

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/23/R...

Legendary comic book artist Robert Crumb discusses his inspiration for illustrating the entire book of Genesis. The New Yorker's Francoise Mouly d...

To answer some frequent questions;

-This took about an hour to make.
-I used Final Cut, but AfterEffects and Premiere have all the necessary tools too.
-I got the idea after cutting a trailer for ...

His mom's gonna sue!

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Nov. 13th Show!!! at Brainwash Café in San Francisco!!!
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