SteamSHIFT

Upcycle Art, Soda Bottle Chandelier, Electric Candle Light

Images from a recent fire on the Beach.

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Little video of some of the visual stuff from Friday night. You can see images of 2 flyers that the owner of the club wanted in there, also there are some images that he wanted included. I love the fact that in quartz composer, you can alter compositions on the fly; adding in new elements, taking out old, etc. It’s not just about being able to modify pre-existing settings. Really awesome; in fact it kind of makes me want to stay within the actual quartz composer application, rather than creating some sort of stand alone application.

Image from my recent VJ gig at the Soul Cellar 78 in Southampton, UK. Doing visuals for the club and the live band 8 Fold.

Image from my recent VJ gig at the Soul Cellar 78 in Southampton, UK. Doing visuals for the club and the live band 8 Fold. This is my current control setup. What it really needs most is a local monitor actually showing the visuals!

ME!!!!

Well more accurately, tonight at the Soul Cellar I’m doing my first independent VJ gig, providing visuals for a band called 8 Fold. Izziittt!

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Now, don’t get wrong, I love my mac; I love the way it makes it so easy to develop really interesting visual effects and I have a lot to thank it for in terms of keeping me employed. But this entry is about the world of analogue.

My work such as it is, is pretty firmly entrenched in the digital world; I use computers to overlay layer upon layer of graphics and texture in order to create the look and feel that I want to achieve. And often the best results come from an experiment that has gone in a different direction to the one that I had expected. But does that process allow for the space between the digital points? In tech terms, a curve is digitally processed as a series of steps, but remains a curve in the analogue sphere.

I have no urge to ‘go analogue’; much of what I do would become hugely more difficult (and I haven’t the time to overcome obstacles like that). But perhaps there is a paradigm that is easy to get lost in the wealth of opportunity that the digital world represents.

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Try as I might, I find it so hard to maintain consistent motivation to do my day to day work. I just want to play with quartz composer, build visuals, work on ideas for show (ooh … more later). And so on.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Indeed well said Ozzie (Wilde that is, of course!).