I’ve been hard at work!
Hurricane Irene August 17-28th 2011 from Ben Van Citters on Vimeo.
I have to give a good amount of credit to the work leading up to this Hurricane Video to my good friend and former roommate Alex. He has been interested in the weather for a long time and he asked me if there was some way to make animations of the stills from http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ available and so I tinkered around a little bit and quickly got a program together that periodically visits the site and caches the images. Next, I built a program that takes the stills and converts them into movies. Before too long we hit hurricane season and we’ve been enjoying our bird’s eye view of the clouds.
Now for some music:
Fungal Abyss Visuals from Ben Van Citters on Vimeo.
Fungal Abyss is a Seattle band that recently had a residency at The Comet Tavern. They played several Wednesdays in a row at The Comet and Christian and I were lucky enough to get asked to provide visuals for their performance on the 17th of August. This video shows only my contributions (and in fact just shows the reaction of my program to some of their pre-recorded music playing through speakers). The show was lots of fun. This work is also my first attempt to give some control over the visuals to the operator of the software.
Crypts Visuals from Ben Van Citters on Vimeo.
This video shows some work that I’m doing for the band Crypts, another local group. The visuals shown here are prototype work for a concert coming on October 20th at Showbox SODO. I’m really excited for this concert and I have a lot of big ideas I hope I can use.