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“Notes to Self”

My latest foray into Processing has been to create a projection visual for an upcoming theater performance at Cornish College of the Arts here in lovely, snow-bound Seattle. Because the play consists for the most part of excerpts from journals and writing, I couldn’t help play with the concept of falling letters. In fact, it was so fun that I expanded on the idea to make it interactive!

Click below for a little inspired fun and keep clicking for more…
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Come see the performance on the 26th, 27th or 28th. All shows start at 8pm.

Cornish College of The Arts – MCC 204
1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA

Adapted from “Mortified” and Developed by Spike Huntington and Sophie Paterson.
More information can be found at http://www.facebook.com/events/325021390853395/

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Kinect fun with Dumb Eyes

As usual, I’ve been working a lot with Dumb Eyes and last week I had a great opportunity to use my Kinect know-how and other programming skills to bring some extra awesome to an already amazing event.

‘Penetration’ is an event that is thrown once a month on Capital Hill in Seattle as a after-party of sorts for the Capital Hill art-walk every second Thursday.  It consists of good company, drinks, a live DJ, video installations and dance. You can read more about Penetration over at Dumb Eyes.

The WoodsFor December’s second Thursday, Penetration was held at The Woods and I was given the chance to share the honor of live VJ with my friend and collaborator Nick Bartoletti with me on my laptop spewing out audio-reactive and Kinect-based video feed, and Nick on his massive array of analog video mixers, cameras and patches.

During the event I hazily took some footage of my workings in an effort to save them for posterity. So here is my first published Kinect video!

I can’t wait to take this Kinect stuff even farther. I’m barely scratching the surface with this stuff here. What I have so far is largely in owance to the MS XNA framework and the MS Kinect library.

Madd props to Christian, Nick, Michael, and Corey for letting me be involved!!!

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‘Transmissions’ @ Design Commission back for December!

I’ve been busy playing with some new toys including Supercollider, Unity, Adobe Premiere and ProcessingJS, all of which makes me feel more busy than I heretofore have realized! But it’s important that I give some blog-space to my ‘Transmissions’ show which is going up again in its entirety this Thursday, December 1st at the Design Commission Gallery. The show includes collaborations with Christian Petersen and Amber Cortes.

Come on out! Here’s the flickr from the first show. It’s going to be a lot of fun! Bring the whole family!