Pani and Casamagica - wow!

I had already heard about Pani giant projectors, but I really never had the chance to glimpse the work of Friedrich Forster and Sabine Weisseinger.
These two artists have been developing Architectural projection throughout the world with the support of this technology. And what an amazing work!

They began early 95 with the Reichstag project in Berlin (together with the Christo installation, I believe), and with the continuous support from Pani, they undertook major visual dreams - the Koeln cathedral, the pyramids in Egypt and more recently the future headquarter of European Central bank in Frankfurt, among many others.

Really unique artwork, carefully studied and design for each place.
More info here and here

Edirol presents the new V-8

V-4 has been the VJs best friend. I speak for myself, as it was my first hardware investment about 5 years ago. And it paid itself many many times with all the gigs I did. It never failed on me, it droped several times and never got cranked.

Now Roland comes up with V-8! A few new effects, more input channels (why VGA, man?), but still no audio input for total synch (I'm recalling the transformed V-4 mixing table from Addictive TV).

After a long wait, nothing really new came up. BNC inputs are ok, and so are the A/B faders (buttons are out), but what about HD mixing? I need to try it out to see if the image really got a new quality kick. Does anybody know the price?

Bristol hosts videgraffiti

Joanie Lemerciaer (aka Crustea) was the invited artist to the annual Moving Images Project on the city's council house building during the last week before Christmas. It is a project that has began in 2006 and intends to continue.
Using Arkaos (I dont't like the sw, I confess), he mapped the building and enlightened it's different parts creating an impressive visual show.

Music Drop - a beautiful concept

The new MOMA "Elastic Mind" online exhibition is a must-see to all media artists. Not only is the usability interface very good, but the content is awsome. It presents more than 300 relevant projects in different areas such as Interface, Nano, Nature, Science, etc. The showcase explores the best of conceptual bridges between design and scientific research.

Among many others, one catched my eye: the Music Drop, by Noa Lerner to Design Reaktor Berlin. The concept, in my opinion, is brilliant: "one drop of music that contains one song that one person can use only one time".
Music and technology in it's best! Music as highlight of an ephemeral moment. One song that speaks for eternity...

VIP launch party in Belfast

Videomorphose was invited by a portuguese events company to do the live visuals for the exclusive launch party of the new MDC Corporation 200M investment in Belfast city centre - Victoria Square.

The VIP party took place under the giant dome with top british musicians, a lounge dj and two big projection surfaces (a white wall and a giant curtain.

This is a very important recognition of our work, as this was the biggest MDC investment in Ireland (with an impressive 800,000 sq ft construction area), and the lauch party to media, investors, VIPs and business partners was an obvious highlight.

Videomorphose does Beamvertising

Videomorphose was called by the guerrilla marketing agency Torke to coordinate the beamvertising action that took place last January, 9th. In one of the biggest rebranding actions seen in Portugal, the new image and logo of the mobile operator Optimus was beamed along the streets of Lisbon and Oporto using several vehicles.

Pika Pika - japanese LEDs Light Draw Pens

Light drawing is a very interesting new way of ephemeral art form and amusement. With very few resources everyone can do light drawing. The Pika Pika collective has some very good videos online in their website. People can also learn how to build light draw pens here.

Another interesting project is HEYA, a collaborative project hosted by Toyota where 500 young, creative people can work with the brand as well as with other members on innovative projects. “HEYA” means “room” in Japanese.Online they exchange conversations and ideas. These conversations and ideas then extend offline via personal or collaborative projects funded by Toyota, but developed and managed by HEYA members themselves. One simple question governs HEYA: “What can we do together?” This project is currently available only in the US.

Cabaret Electronique

Tuatara welcomed last saturday the first Cabaret Electronique party. It began with the upper warm-up Can Can floor, where DJs Who&Undercover welcomed the people with very good minimal/progressive house, followed by italian Dax, all mixed with H-Collective VJs images.

In the meantime the Lido main floor, where I performed, started beating hard with Stereo Addiction, followed by a groovy set by the Cocoon produced Patrick Zigon.

Finally, more than 400 people danced until early morning to Zoo Brazil's progressive sound. The mood was great, the image and marketing were very well made, everybody liked it and the sound was powerful. People, don't give up please :-)

As far as my visuals were concerned, I used two 4.500L beamers diagonally placed, with two v-form thulle strips hanging on the ceiling, a 2.000 beamer behind the DJ and two plasma screens on the side of the DJ booth.

ZON launch party

Yesterday night the former PT Multimedia presented it's new image after the spin off last year. In a day-long event they presented the new image, the new market strategy and the new organisation to the media and collaborators from all over the country.

After dinner, more than 700 people joined the party. DJ Rodrigo guided the night, balancing between soul house, funky brazilian and a little, just a little, commercial stuff.

BBC's 6th anniversary

Last friday BBC celebrated it's 6th anniversary with the usual top production.
The place was packed with (very) beautiful faces and more than 4.500 people dwelled around the two dance floors until early in the morning.