13
Jul

mm-cc 07.03.11

Well, it’s time for another Morning Music & Coffee Consumption post, or mm-cc.   Jared, the creator of the concept, had forgotten that I was hosting the first weekends of each month and ended up sending out the invite to his friends.  So, this time their were simultaneous mm-cc’s happening on either side of the […]

13
Jun

mm-cc 06.05.11

  I’ve been so busy at work this last week that I had very little time to devote to preparing this months mm-cc video.  After the last one, I vowed to have all my video elements collected ahead of time so that when it came time to cut I’d be able to move quick.  This […]

29
May

Datamoshing – My New Favorite Effect

A little while back I was perusing vimeo and I came across this really cool video by Jason Drew.  I noticed a particular effect in it that I have always wanted to recreate but never knew how.   Now that television transmissions have gone completely digital you have probably seen this effect before.  Your watching […]

29
May

Working, Working, Working

  Things have been pretty crazy lately.  I’ve been extremely busy at work over the past three weeks and it’s been a month and a half now since Jenny came down with Pneumonia.  It started as a bad cough which was sticking.  It got a bit better and then suddenly got much worse.  I had […]

10
May

Totems

I have been very busy lately at work.  In the meantime, watch this video.   It’s made by Don Whitaker.  I’ve mentioned him before.  His video’s have been very inspiring to me.     He has a numbered series of video exercises he calls brainblink.  This one is special.  It’s a stream near his house […]

29
Apr

CloudSlice

I have been having meetings lately regarding the music video I’m doing for Cue The Moon.  I initially was going to do a slit-scan based video that would appear to be a single shot panning around a room.  The camera would pass by various objects which would be under the effect of slit-scan.  I ultimately […]

21
Apr

Morning Music & Coffee Consumption

A couple weeks ago I received an email from my buddy Jared from Uprlip.com.  He is in the midst of doing his own creative thing-a-day blog.  He’s currently on Day 109.  He’s somebody I have talked about before.  He’s an inspiring musician.  Many of his posts are musical in nature and absolutely beautiful.  I thoroughly […]

16
Apr

Glittering Lights Of Hollywood

I wanted to test out this new and exciting slit-scan Processing script that designer Amnon Owed created.  I went searching for whatever video I already had on my computer.  Since the creativity project ended I have backed-up and deleted quite a few days and material is a little sparse on the hard drive at the […]

15
Apr

Everybody Slit-Scan!

If you followed my creative thing-a-day project over the past year than you already know I’m pretty interested and inspired by Slit-scan photography, or the slit-scan technique.  Without getting into too much detail, in terms of video, Slit-scan is the effect where a single line of resolution, the slit, is the only representation of a […]

31
Mar

The Wobbulator – Beginnings

  I saw this video a day or two ago and straightaway started researching for more information on it.  It’s a device called the Wobbulator and it was developed by an artist named Nam June Paik.  The Wobbulator you see in the video is the very same one that Nam June Paik built himself.   […]

7
Mar

Day 363 / Opening Night

March 4th, 2011   I stayed up all night in the gallery mostly setting up the installation pieces for the show.  There was the 3D Zeotrope which consisted of a table, a record player, a small television and a video camera.  There was the video display which was set up in a room off to […]

23
Feb

Day 353 / The Pinto-graph

February 22nd, 2011   What a nice end to my day today.  I was back at the office after a lovely three day weekend and when I got home I got to spend some time with Jenny and June.  I knew that I was going to finish my Pinto-graph project because all I needed was […]

14
Feb

Day 342 / Variation On The Muppet Show Theme

February 11th, 2011   Today was the last day on The Muppets.  I had to go to set because they needed me to shoot a short “to camera” intro thing with Kermit.  We got that done fairly quickly and continued to shoot  b-roll for the rest of the day.  Word spread that a special cameo […]

11
Feb

Day 340 / Auditory Visuals

February 9th, 2011   Today was a day back at the office.  It was nice to be back.  I spent most of my time organizing tapes.  I got home at my normal time for once.  I was home before June was off to bed.  It was nice because it seemed like Junie was older all […]

7
Feb

Day 331 / Abe Lincoln Shadow Puppet

January 31st, 2011   On the film, the crew works an offset work week.  So they work through Saturday and Sunday and finally get their weekend on Wednesday, Thursdays.  The reason they do this, I think, is for discounts on equipment rentals because most rental houses charge for only one day over the two day […]

1
Feb

Day 330 / Twist

  January 30th, 2011   Had quite a long day on set today.  I should’ve called my crew in later because we had to wait until the end of the shoot day to shoot some interviews.  I left set around 11pm at night.   My creative thing was already decided upon because I had filmed […]

31
Jan

Day 329 / Tabletop Turns

January 29th, 2011   Today was the first day of four consecutive days on set.  I have to apologize for posting late again but I’m getting home with just barely enough time to do something creative let alone post them.  Organizing the photos and writing these posts can sometimes take longer than the actual creative […]

31
Jan

Day 328 / Slitscanning Old Footage

January 28th, 2011   I took the day off this friday and recuperated a little.  June spent the day with grandma so Jenny and I both had some free time to relax a little.  I worked most of the morning posting the last three days to the blog since I’d had a bit of catching […]

22
Jan

Day 320 / Wow & Flutter

January 20th, 2011   Today I was back at the office for the first time in a while.  It was nice to go home at a normal time.   As I drove home, I thought about my song for the latest Monome Community Remix Project.  The  deadline is tomorrow and I need to finish it […]

15
Jan

Day 314 / Recapturing Computer Animation Pt. 2

January 14th, 2011   It was a pretty hectic day on the set today.  I did three major interviews.  We were shooting in a strip mall in Pacoima and it was windy, noisy and full sun, not the greatest factors for shooting interviews.  We had to move our setup into an old insurance office that […]

14
Jan

Day 313 / Recapturing Computer Animation Pt. 1

January 13th, 2011   Such a nice day.  We took June to Disneyland again (we have season passes).  She got to meet Woody and Jesse from Toy Story fame.  It was the first time we’ve ever waited in line to meet a character.  It was pretty hilarious to watch June interact with them, especially Jesse.  […]

6
Jan

Day 305 / Stop-Motion Light

January 5th, 2011   I had a pretty busy day at the office.  Work kept me a bit late but it wasn’t too bad.  I left for home around 8pm.  As I drove home, I decided to myself that I was going to do a macro-shoot of a bit of bark that I pulled off […]

6
Jan

Day 304 / Beta Testin’

January 4th, 2011   I took the day off of work today because I knew that I was going to work the weekend.  It was quite a day.  I decided to treat June to a day on the trains which turned out to be much longer than we expected because I got on the wrong […]

3
Jan

Day 301 / Lucky

January 1st 2011   This post was almost a fail.  Luckily a last minute adjustment saved the day.   Today marked the end of my friends own 365 day project.  My friend Dean has refrained from having a single drop of alcohol in the past year and tonight was the night he would have his […]

2
Jan

Day 300 / Musical Mobius Strip

December 31st, 2010,   Tonight is new years eve and sadly Junie is sick.  We had plans to go out on the town but we felt bad leaving this snuffly sick baby girl with grandma for the night.   As for resolutions, I’m still looking to make it out of the one that you’re reading […]