"Making Of" Lisboa Video-graffiti bombing

Almost two years after this undercover action in one hot summer night in Lisboa, and because I needed urgent disc space, I decided to quickly edit the "making of" that I undertook together with Michael Parenti and Todd Thille from Artificialeyes.tv. More info about this here and here.

Artificialeyes.tv 3L (thrill) finally out!

After two years of continuous development and testing, the istambul based VJ collective (and friends!) finally present to the world the state-of-the-art realtime generative 3D Vj software 3L.
Developed by VJs to VJs and visual artists, 3L is a new landmark in realtime video manipulation, allowing full control to performances via sound analysis, video analysis, time based sequencing and lfo's or midicontrol.

More info here

Another Blu (amazing) project

Using stopmotion animation and tons of patience and skill, the visual artist Blu presents us with an astonishing 8m video of his wall-painting illustration.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

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.