So the Skywave Systems video loop is complete. A friend of mine who I have known for many years is embarking on a new musical project (having previously run the awesome, but sadly now defunct music label Virus B-23). He currently pushing fantastic freely available high quality net audio through his current label: Myuzyk. In addition to that he’s returning to producing music and producing it as Skywave Systems. It has a great lo-fi electronica feel to it and I’m really looking forward to hearing more of his original productions.
So, back to the video loop. Skywave asked me to come up with a looping video based around a certain colour theme, featuring UFOs or unexplained sky based phenomena, to have his text logo on the end, to be around 10 seconds long. I collected some open source and creative commons footage from Archive.org and using the Creative Commons search function and set about my task. The actual video loop itself was composed with Apple Motion, having used Adobe Photoshop for some of the still based layers. Oh yea he wanted something about triangles in there. So the Penrose triangle is included.
Countless tweaks and a few revisions later and we both arrived at a video we liked.
And the looping animated GIF as Skywave is using the loop on his Myspace:
I’ve been doing the graphic design, branding, web design and even video production (see the Acedia project) for the fashion label Sample Remix. Earlier today I updated the front page design of the Sample Remix site to tie in with promoting the Acedia project, essentially adding a link to the promo/press page for the performance and updating the imagery used. It is getting rarer for sites to have splash pages but I think that this site works with one.
The original splash image, which was the only link to the subsequence site:
And the updated image and page design, adding in a text based link to the subsequence site:
Also, the Acedia web promo/press page is all but complete (I’ll be adding production credits below the row of button links at the bottom). I feel it keeps the simple, clean and clear design of the Sample Remix graphic design and branding so far and let’s the trailer and information shine through.
This weekend saw the Acedia photoshoot take place (scroll down for some backstage photos from the shoot). As I previously mentioned on here I’m doing some more video work for the fashion label Sample Remix. The project is called Acedia and everyone involved is very excited and really positive about the whole thing. It’s the largest show Sample Remix has done to date and it’s a pleasure to be a creative part of it. In case you’ve missed it this is the teaser trailer for the performance:
Sample Remix has been commissioned to produce a bespoke collection to be premiered at the Festival of Sins this October 10th in Camden, North London.
She has gone beyond the expected scope of the performance resulting in a multi media audiovisual spectacle. With a custom made prequel film to be screened alongside the performance in association with makemassair and deadman dj.
This is her interpretation of Sloth and the journey of one girl experiencing the depth and depravity of the Sin.
Acedia premiering at Festival of Sins .October 10th
The photoshoot itself was pretty painless, with no problems. Both myself and Sample Remix headed down to Cheltenham Spa on Friday afternoon and as we were arriving at the hotel we met 3 of the 7 models. After some checking in, unpacking and a brew we headed out for a walk around the town before heading to a Pub where we spent the rest of the evening. Annoyingly I woke at about half 5 (quite hungover it should be said) but by the time we got to the photography studio and met up with the remaining 4 models, the makeup artist (MUA) and photographer it was clear noone else had had much sleep, with pretty much all of us being awake since 6.
The MUA began her work and ran through until gone 5. Her work was quite impressive (even more so as she had had less than 2 hours sleep) and really made the garments shine. There weren’t any problems with the shoot and the shots we saw looked really good (we should hopefully have some by the end of the week). The custom metalwork jewellery headwear some of the models wore looked fantastic.
Although there was a bit of panic on the Friday when myself and Sample Remix were on the train heading down. She got a phonecall around half 12 from the MUA who having just returned from a month in America couldn’t find the make up sheets for the shoot. This basically being the design and makeup for each of the 7 models. Sample Remix took it well (both she and the MUA had spent time going through the designs prior to the shoot, enough that the MUA had a rough idea). At this point she borrowed my Macbook Pro and began to search for a WiFi network that although a long shot on the train, was worth a go. Sadly no joy. Although thankfully the hotel had free WiFi and Sample Remix was able to quickly and rather painlessly sort out the missing makeup sheets for the MUA who then could draw them up for the following day.
All in all a great, thou tiring experience. I hope you enjoy the pictures. (I also shot some video, which you might see prior to the performance, you might not)
Lukasz Lysakowski has produced this video: Color Process. It’s part of an audiovisual performance between himself and Eduard Artemyev (who provided the audio). I’ve highlighted it on the makemassair blog because it is both visually textured and aesthetically very pleasing. In my humble opinion anyways.
Why not leave a comment with your opinion.
I believe (from the information provided on Vimeo) that the video is a combination of the coding languages Processing, and MAX/MSP with Jitter, but with what doing which bit I don’t know (although I am very keen to uncover).
My realtime video work focuses on creating a nonlinear narrative which folds and unfolds in reaction to the interplay between sound and image. Digitization and processing allows for intuitive and spontaneous creation of image-sound scapes. Each video work is unique, situated in time and space, and reflects the ephermal nature of our experiences.
