So, this is my latest directing project. It’s entitled “WE LEAVE AT DAWN”.
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Essentially, it’s an unrequested music video - for (no surprise) Laibach. We shot it in 3 days, on a budget of around 500 quid. For a laugh.
Check it out.
This is a video from the Flash / Arduino workshop I led for tinker.it last month. This is me demoing my flash based RFID reader - the hardware drivers are all written in flash, and should be totally platform independent. I really like the idea of writing hardware drivers in Flash, and it’s something I plan on exploring further over the coming months. Obviously there are limitations as to what can realistically be achieved, but I think it’s a lot more satisfying to be able to, say, interface directly with a wiimote via a hardware connection and a serial port than using something like glovePIE. Also, it opens up all kinds of new creative areas which were previously the domain of the hardcore assembly level coder.
Anyway, here’s the video. Basically, flash is controlling the hardware, then reading back the 4 byte unique ID of the standard, publicly available Oyster card, and rendering it as a colour and rotation value. I think this has a lot of potential for further development and will be working on other ways to do cool stuff with this technology.
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by the hugely talented Oli Laurelle to stand in for him at a live visuals gig at Area10 Medialab, after his laptop died a few days before the event. He’s one of the guys I admire most at the moment so I was a little hesitant - those are some pretty big shoes to fill. In the end I managed to put together something I was quite happy with, and I think it went down pretty well, all things considered. So, here’s the video - my bit is about 6:33 in.
Additionally, as a result I’ve been offered a slot at Immersion on the 5th of June, so if you’re into your experimental music and bleeding edge live visualisation work, come check us out.