Multisensorial inspirations for the VJ / Video Performer.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Rundle Lantern
[ English ] Consisting of 748 square panels illuminated by LED strips, running on solar power, this $2million installation covers 9 floors of a parking lot on the corner of Rundle Street and Pulteney Street in Adelaide, Australia, and will most likely become a recognizable landmark running from 8pm till midnight every day. Designed by Fusion
[ Castellano ] Con 784 paneles cuadrados iluminados por tiras de LED y energia solar, la instalacion de $2 millones de dolares, cubre 9 pisos de un estacionamiento en la esquina de las calles Rundle y Pulteney en Adelaide, Australia, convirtiendose en una atraccion turistica que funcionara todas las noches desde las 8pm hasta pasada la medianoche, todos los dias. Disenado por Fusion
After a lot of research and with the help from Accent Feed's readers I was able to put together a list of some of the 10 most impressive visuals seen in concerts in 2008.
This was not intended to be taken as a competition, or to see who is better than who, I believe you can't measure who is the best band, or who is the best VJ in the world, this is meant to inspire other video artists/ video art lovers, and to spread the word about the importance of video art/ visuals in concerts.
[ Number 01 ]
Music: Daft Punk (France) Video: Corrected on 3.19.09 Martin Phillips, Daft Arts, 8vFX.
[ English ] I recently started digging on my old cd books, and I found Everything, Everything, by Underworld which I now ripped and have on mp3. One of their best tracks on the album to me is Jumbo, their live version (recorded on the DVD version of the album) is absolutely fantastic, look at those visuals!
[ Castellano ] recientemente me puse a buscar en mi colleccion de CDs, y encontre Everything, Everything de Underworld, el cual ahora tengo en mp3. Uno de los mejores tracks en el disco para mi es Jumbo. La version en vivo (como se ve en la version DVD del album) es realmente fantastica, mira esos visuales!.
[ English ] Beautiful work by German artist, Robert Seidel "Created for the 100th anniversary of the Phyletic Museum founded by Ernst Haeckel, Seidel’s centennial homage repurposed the museum as canvas for his palate of naturalist-sourced eye candy on 2/2/2008 in Jena, Germany."
[ Castellano ] Maravilloso trabado del artista Aleman, Robert Seidel "Creado para el 100 aniversario del Phyletic Museum, fundado por Ernst Haeckel, el honramiento de Seidel hacia el museo fue utilizar la fachada del museo como canvas para su arte naturalista en 2 de febrero del 2008, en Jena, Alemania"
[ English ] A few weeks ago, the AIGA Y-13 Conference was held here in San Diego. I was commissioned to do all the motion work to brand the conference and later I got the chance to organize the entertainment for the after party. The conference targeted graphic designers and discussed their possibilities to develop sustainable solutions (and questions) on their work. The first part was the opening montage (for each day). The entire work was done in After Effects and Illustrator. That, took most of my time, considering that I'm still new to AE, but I think overall it came out clean.
For the after party I decided to team up with the Djs Beau (Re:Up Magazine) and Walker (Brokenbeat) for the music, and for the visuals I wanted to keep the branding used for the conference, So I did a bit of a remix of the original opening montage, and added a few elements, the faces you see, are from the conference speakers, the type work gives 15 easy to accomplish eco-friendly tips to apply on their work, a short stop motion animation showing the conference's badge, and through the entire Vj set I aimed to keep in tune with all the visual elements used on the conference, colors, type family, etc.
During the opening montage, a series of quotes, from different people were used, from John Lennon to Stephen Hawken, I suggested that those same quotes were mixed with the music as well. Not to mention all 3 of us where dressed with black turtle necks and black framed glasses (designer stereotype). fun night!
[ Castellano ] Algunas semanas atras, la conferencia AIGA Y-13 Conference fue llevada acabo aqui en San Diego, La conferencia iba dirigida a disenadores y discutia las posibilidades de generar preguntas y respuestas con animos de crear un trabajo mas en tono con el medio ambiente. A mi cargo estaban las animaciones para el branding del evento, incluyendo el after party. Los montajes de apertura (uno para cada dia) fueron realizados en After effects e Illustrator, que fue lo que mas tiempo me llevo, considerando que aun soy un poco novato con AE, pero dentro de todo creo que salio bastante limpio.
Para el After Party decidi agruparme con los Djs Beau (revista Re:Up) y Walker (Brokenbeat) para la musica y para las visuales queria mantener la tematica del evento, por lo que remixe el montaje de apertura, las caras que se ven son de los presentadores de la conferencia, Los loops de tipografia describen 15 pasos simples para incorporar en el trabajo del disneador a fines de crear opciones eco-amigables. Manteniendo los colores e incorporando la marca de la conferencia dentro de las visuales. Durante los montajes de apertura se pueden oir frases sobre la sustentabilidad que van desde John Lennon hasta Stephen Hawken, esas mismas frases fueron mezcladas con la musica durante la fiesta. Para rematar los tres nos vestimos con polera negra y anteojos de cuadro negros (estereotipo de disenador) Muy divertido.
[ English ] I just stumbled across Italian director, designer and media artist Claudio Sinatti I was particularly interested on his building specific projections, the first one is a bit more of my taste, and it's supposed to be sound-reactive although the video is sped up so its not really great for the ears. The second one is pure commercial and very creative, the footballs flying out of the window is great.
[ Castellano ] Acabo de descubrir el portfolio del artista mediatico, director y disenador Italiano, Claudio Sinatti y dos proyectos que me llamaron la atencion son visuales para edicifios especificos, el primero es mas de mi gusto y supuestamente reacciona al sonido pero el video esta acelerado y no es muy agradable al oido, el segundo, es estrictamente comercial y muy creativo, las pelotas volando por las ventanas se ve muy bueno.
[ English ] This might be pretty old, but I've never seen it before, looks great. Not only because he is using recognizable characters that the audience can relate to, but the fact that he sticks with the theme during the entire track, the crowd seems to love it. Recorded in 2005 @ Electraglide in Japan, clearly Chris Cunningham has talent not only as a director but as a Dj and Vj.
[ Castellano ] Esto parece ser bastante viejo, pero yo no lo habia visto nunca, muy bueno, no solo por que esta usando personajes reconocibles que facilitan la coneccion con la audiencia, pero el hecho de que el tema continua durante toda la pista, el publico parece mas que satisfecho. Grabado en el 2005 en Electraglide Japon, claramente Chris Cunningham tiene talento, no solo como director pero sino tambien como Dj y Vj.
Etienne De Crecy Live 2007 Transmusicales de Rennes
[ English ] Here is a bit of the amazing visual set for Etienne De Crecy at the Transmusicales de Rennes by (I think) Paris Based Exyzt VJ Crew, probably one the nicest video/stage integrations I've seen since the Daft Punk Pyramid. Thanks Desaxismundi !
[ Castellano ] Aca un fragmento del increible set visual para Etienne De Crecy en el Transmusicales de Rennes por (creo) los Parisinos Exyzt VJ Crew, probablemente una de las integraciones Visual/ Escenario mas sorprendente que he visto desde la piramide de Daft Punk. Gracias Desaxismundi !
[ Castellano ] Todays Art Festival, un proyecto de instalacion visual organizado por Maxalot, combino una superficie de 30 x 30 metros, otre de 18x20, 2 proyectores de 20k lumens, y la lista de artistas incluida mas arriba, si bien aun no encuentro video del evento, se puede ver un poco del trabajo visual de de WWFT aqui. y abajo pueden ver un pequeno documental sobre el evento del ano pasado.
[ English ] Some photos from Crosswired's opening night. I also got some video of Jarrett Smith's visuals, The audio is very crappy, sorry about that (I was standing right next to the speakers) Other than that, it was a great night. I started my set late, so by the time I was just getting into that creative zone, the event was over. I wish it was longer!! I'm going to try making it up there again, to see another vjs. Remember this is going on till May11th!!.
[ Castellano ] Algunas fotos de la noche de apertura de Crosswired. Tambien pude tomar video del set de Jarrett Smith, pero el sonido es bastante malo, pido disculpas pero estaba parado justo al lado de los parlantes. Fuera de eso fue muy buena noche, empece mi set tarde por lo que cuando empezaba a adentrarme en esa zona creativa, el evento termino, hubiera querido que fuera un poco mas largo. Voy a ver si puedo mandarme de nuevo para alla a ver a otros Vjs. Recuerden que esto sigue hasta el 11 de Mayo.
[ English ] A project by Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green and Richard The. " Moving Canvas is a collection of several proposals. They all have emerged from our reflection on the visual and symbolical importance of trains in an urban context and the possibility of exploiting their short-lived prominence as brief communicative moments."
[ Castellano ] Un proyecto de Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green y Richard The. " Canvas en Movimiento es una coleccion de varias propuestas. Todas han surgido de nuestra reflexion en la importancia visual y simbolica de los trenes en un contexto urbano y la possibilidad de explotar su corto plazo como una forma de comunicar momentos"
[ English ] I just found this short video from Future Sound Of London performing "LIVE" at the Essential Festival, Brighton in 1997. I have heard about this show many times, but never actually seen the video, Apparently Brian Dougans & Garry Cobain decided to question de existance of the electronic musician performing at the actual stage, so they decided to do the gig from their production studio and broadcast everything from there. With the help of incredible visuals I think they actually pulled it off.
[ Castellano ] Acabo de encontrar este fragmento de video de Future Sound Of London tocando en "vivo: en el Essential Festival, Brighton en 1997. Yo he escuchado mucho de este concierto, pero nunca habia visto video, aparentemente Brian Dougans y Garry Cobain decidieron questionar la necesidad de la existencia del musico electronico en el escenario, por lo que decidieron realizar su acto desde su estudio de produccion, y transmitir desde ahi, al evento. Con la ayuda de increibles visuales yo creo que lo lograron.
[ English ] Remember the guys from Uruk Video Machine ?. Well check out their new ride, fully pimped, their van has two 10.000 lumens and power generator 7Kva. Great for commuting, going to the store to get groceries and yes.. the occasional video projection assault. Antoine and Stan are very reserved about their plans but they will be posting video very soon.
[ Castellano ] Se acuerdan de Uruk Video Machine ?. Bueno vean su nuevo camion, algunos de los accesorios incluyen espejos retrovisores, dos proyectores de 10.000 lumens y un generador electrico 7Kva. Ideal para hacer las compras, ir de paseo y por que no, ataques visuales urbanos donde sea que se te ocurra. Antoine y Stan son muy reservados con sus planes, pero pronto pondran un video con mas detalles.
[ English ] I just got back from Coachella, it sure was a great event. There is no point in describing this event with words, so here are some of the highlights for you too see, regarding visuals. I will be adding more videos as I can.
[ Castellano ] Acabo de volver de Coachella, muy bueno el evento. No tiene sentido describirlo con palabras, asi que aqui dejo algunos clips de lo que fueron los mejores momentos, en cuanto a visuales. Pronto agregare mas videos.
[ English ] Very interesting project by interactive installation artist Daniel Sauter. "Light Attack is a media artwork, as well as social experiment, performed in public urban spaces. While driving through the city, an animated virtual character is projected onto the cityscape, exploring places "to go" and places "not to go", according to the popular Lonely Planet travel guide." Check the Video
[ Castellano ] Interesante proyecto del artista Daniel Sauter. Light Attack (ataque de luz / ataque luminoso) es tanto arte mediatico como experimento social, proyectado en espacios publicos urbanos. Mientras manejan por la ciudad la silueta animada de un personaje virtual es proyectada en diferentes espacios, explorando lugares "para visitar" y para "no visitar" segun una guia turistica popular llamada "Lonely Planet". Mirar Video
France based VJs, Antoine Legras and Stan Cixous are Uruk Videomachine, a collective focused on monumental video projections. Antoine was kind enough to let me publish this footage from a recent gig they had during Christmas 2005 in Dijon, France.
The Video show was 15 minute long, and was performed two times a day for a period of 10 days, for more than 10.000 people. Antoine said that the message of the show was "the power of imagination" and that putting this together, took a lot of work, for the projection they used 4 video projectors (10.000 lumens each) and 4 computers using a custom made software to synch them all up. The way they incorporated the architecture details with the animation is what makes this project so beautiful and inspiring. Great work! Make sure to check their site for more projects like this.
My friend VJ Akira from Kiken Corp, just sent me this clip, that shows some visuals they performed live at Southfest - Buenos Aires in 2005. Music by Sasha & Digweed. Make sure you check out their A/V Project 8GB for some true 8 Bit sounds!
If you are also a VJ, you might find this interesting...
The SMS Guerilla Projector is a home made, fully functioning device that enables the user to project text based SMS messages in public spaces, in streets, on to people, inside cinemas, shops, houses, etc
Small, portable, and battery operated, the SMS Guerilla Projector contains a mobile phone which enables the device to receive and project messages from other people.
The SMS Guerilla Projector is made by recombining available technologies. As an open object, the projector generates a wide range of applications, allowing the user to display messages and share his reflections.
