100 faces

after a few years respite i want to start up the doing of my passport photo collecting again. inspired by someone on facebook posting a photo taken recently in the somerfield in king’s heath where they have a photo-me booth a real photo one not digital!

want 100 separate people in a proper booth on their own. and when i have 100 there are plans!

if you have any… email them to me or get my postal address by email…

STEVE REICH Piano Phase accompanied with Choreography Pt.1/2

using Rich Batsford’s experimental piano and the technology involved in chunky move’s ‘glow’ i want to recreate the feeling of this piece at the forthcoming projectxpresents on 14th June:

from uk.youtube.com posted with vodpod

Behind Closed Doors blog and The Secret Garden

Behind Closed Doors - reinterpreting private spaces and the overlooked

I have been working on a very exciting project called The Secret Garden, in a derelict corner of the custard factory. having cleared the space and installed 5 shipping containers we are now installing the artworks and creating the ambience. it’s very exciting and we are imagining what the space will be like in a long term capacity… there’s space to build a geodome there.

i will be displaying the photos and thngs i have been doing there and using shipping containers at night as a huge lightbox.

panoramic video, done to a turn…

shortsville: Cuisine, dir. François Vogel

the thing is, once you have the world from edge to edge captured, you can start doing a whole lot more with it…

7 Inch Cinema Roundup of Local Film Nights

7 Inch Cinema » Lots of filmnights going on

Thanks to 7 Inch for mentioning STRAX in this, and dibs to all the other film nights out and about. I will be endeavouring to do the rounds this month if I get time… Deffo 7 Inch on Sunday and Animation Forum WM - Shorts On the Wall in the Rainbow on Monday.

BBC NEWS | Technology | London skyline time-slip photos

A circular photo gallery on London’s Southbank is capturing images every five seconds for three days. Gabby Shawcross and Jason Bruges designed the memory project, which is touring the UK.

I really hope this turns up in brum. It’s inspired. Time-Slip in 360 degrees…

from news.bbc.co.uk posted with vodpod

MySpace - STRAX - got it started

MySpace.com - STRAX -

been quiet on here of late cos i’ve been busy elsewhere on the web. sorting out the new strax night that starts a week friday… with av acts chromatouch (natch) dj reach and syzygy, we got it going on. soundtrack sets from marc reck & discocyst and chillout in the front bar from jon harris & tony grainger of loafers and resistor respectively.

it’s really quite exciting, as there’s not been a dedicated audio visual showcase since the demise of zoetrope that syzygy organised a few years ago. i will mention modulate tho cos they are keeping stuff going on that front in a more artful guise than a clubnight… and they’ve hinted that they are interested in doing something at STRAX for june

i will be trying to organise this in a way that will bring together all facets of the genre, from the arty to the comedic to the cinematic and hip-hopic. and definitely concentrating on the quality of the music…

facebook group for STRAX

First look - AV night comes to concrete - Stracks

the first of a regular AV night comes to concrete bar MySpace.com - CONCRETE on Friday 18th April. will post more as it comes…

yay! i done vjing!

ahem. tagtool gives me a thrill in that it is so simple. build a box with a big red button a gfx tablet and 6 sliders. attach a gamepad, and you have a realtime animation vj thing that anyone can use… i’ve wanted to get illustrators involved in project x for a while. so for each musical act we can have a performer, vj and an illustrator combining to set the mood. along with some OHPs a camera on a stick and maybe a sandbox we have the beginnings of input for the anti-vj…

from www.dailymotion.com posted with vodpod
www.tagtool.org is the place to go for instructions on how to build the things. you need to attach it to a pc and a projector of course. but it’s great, ephemeral digital analog art that a child can do.

The rise of funk

The Allmusic Blog » Daptone Doppelgangers

funk never really went away, but over the past decade or so there have been some cracking artists revitalising the genre in it’s own right. having djed over that period i’ve always been a proponent of this. this is a nice summation of some of my favourites as well as most succesful. i do love allmusic too.