Dos Studios

Unlike some of my other multiple exsposures that I have done with the Holga this one was accidental. This is both my studio work space, and the main room over at Good Dannys. I took the picture at my place on a tripod, in the dark, over a long period, and forgot to roll the film. A few days later we went into Good Dannys Studio to mix and I snapped the picture at his place. The below is the result of 'mixing' of two studios.

PS: I love the lens flare 'halo' I think that it's fuzziness is a result of the plastic lens.

Not Staged

The year is rapidly drawing to a close, and it seems like the number of good musical events are starting to ramp up. Slowly, but with greater frequency, I'm starting to have a weekly itinerary good of shows I would like to see, a list I should probably just add to my calender instead of keeping in my head. In Austin, this ramping up of awesome shows always seems to continue till it explodes into SXSW. People have pretty varied opinions on SXSW, and I totally understand both sides of the SXSW pro/con coin, but whether it is official or not, I can already feel a distant giddiness in anticipation of the hive of musical and cultural activity that comes with that part of the year. To me, a lot of the fun, and the experience is not just who is on what stage at what time, but the frenzy, the excitement in the air, and the general adventures that come a long with it. You find your self in some odd and awesome scenes. So in that light, I thought I would share some of my favorite pictures from SXSW 2011 that aren't looking towards the stage. Some times the environment around you tells you when to capture the moment.

These are all unedited and taken with my lil Harinezumi camera whose noise I love so much...

Patterns Unseen.

I always love seeing patterns that we can't normally see. I adore the way that two similar perforated patterns passing each other reveal a hidden interference pattern, but there are even more amazing patterns that we are not normally aware of that are floating by us, drifting through space and time, pulsing, expanding, reshaping each other as they flitter in and out of existence. Seemingly random patterns of light, movement, reactions, etc, if drawn or plotted often start to reveal surprising shapes and forms that otherwise will have gone unseen. When I contemplate these patterns, I begin to day dream of those interlaced patterns of the universe that predict the unpredictable, and point to the unknown. The video below reveals amazing patterns in harmonics of sound through pairs of frequency modulation based oscillators. Very definable shapes in patterns hidden in sound, a sound that if you were to only hear, you would have no idea contained such structure! Watch as it unfolds, into seemingly 3D shapes, and complex diminishing patterns.

When I grow up.

I think ever since I saw "The Minds Eye" video I wanted to be a 3D animation artist, and I would love love love to be a professional sound designer. I suppose I am closer to a sound designer than an animator, someday maybe I will find time to get into animation. This video combines both those loves. Someone out there is living my dream as a work week. Hopefully someday I too will get serious about it.
(Watch High Res with good sound if you can)

Continental Fast Break

Manifest Jukebox was conceived as a monthly music night where the theme is simple: we would play awesome music of our choosing from our respective music collections, with no truly defined genre. More on this later... Manifest Jukebox has taken its first form as a mix series on the internet through the mix magic skills of my partner in musical crime Scot Markland. I really, really love these mixes, and I have heard a LOT of mixes in my years. I highly recommend checking out the first one HERE if you haven't already (free download)! Volume 2 is now out! This volume leans heavy on rhythms from around the planet. Why did I say planet and not world? Probably because when you say 'world music' people conjure up images of the dusty new age section in music shops, and this is sad as there is some amazing music from the other non-North American and European continents. Much like the brand 'electronic music' glosses over so many aural gems and musical rarities, 'world music' as a descriptor does much the same. Scot as usual digs deep and dishes out some diamonds, unearths some forgotten funky relics and serves up some slices of music you forgot you knew about. For the new volume Scot asked me do some of my new art style, which I think I shall call Serial Glyphography, over a map. I found a reasonably old map (you have to guess the country) and went to work. I am actually really pleased with the results! There were actually two separate pieces that I did, and I cropped a good 10 or so details and let Scot choose the one he liked best, and this became the cover. I liked some of the other options so much I decided to share them with you! (Maybe share the entire originals if someone asks or I feel like it). Each one has something cool cropped into it. I'm glad Scot decided because I would have a hard time choosing. Which do you like?

Manifest Jukebox Vol 2: Streets of Fire by Bluffs

Pie Pants.

Excuse the Simpsons reference there but, this video is amazing! I love everything about it. The sound, the method, the science! I have often day dreamed what it would be like if we could see sound, or watch waves of energy bounce and collide around us, so this is pretty awesome:

Puprexture

A High Res. detail of an attempt at a landscape. I think this is from a section of the "sky". This is where color layering and using different inks pays off, I love the yellow peaking through where the water color would not bind.