I created a load of VJ loops from still images taken at my local train station.
I have decided to share them for free. You can download them here for free by tweeting once:
Download Info: 1.4 gig as .zip file
I created a load of VJ loops from still images taken at my local train station.
I have decided to share them for free. You can download them here for free by tweeting once:
Download Info: 1.4 gig as .zip file
Two free VJ Loops made from still images.
Download is via Vimeo.
Enjoy.
Mud, sun, rain, more rain, great music and a kick-ass projection system. That was Glastonbury 2014, in The Common field, at the Temple arena. Wow – what an experience…. I don’t know where to even begin with this one!
Let’s start from the beginning. I got a really nice email via this very blog from a guy called Ryan asking if I was interested in a gig. He wanted something a little different and asked if we could talk more if I was interested. I won’t lie – I thought it may have been a small VJ gig or some kind of install using isadora – I get a lot of questions, emails and comments each week. I reply to them all but admit – I though this one was no different.
After the initial hello emails Ryan casually said it was a venue at Glastonbury. I had to read the message about nine times over to believe it. I had never been to Glastonbury, but like many reading this, knew it was an amazing opportunity. I knew this could not be done solo – this was a job for me and Dan and his place of work; guildhall school of music and drama. I work quite a lot with Dan, we get each others workflow and being a lecturer for many years he knows I am professional and reliable around students – not only this I love getting student involved in real world gigs. In my opinion it’s the best place to learn and experience things first hand. If I had the opportunity to work at Glastonbury it would have been amazing!
So you get the idea, we then had various emails, phone calls and Skype sessions, we bounced ideas around and got the ball rolling. We looked at lots of hardware and software options but decided that Isadora was the tool for us. The video mapping features that we had custom made for Lux, Helsinki had been developed to a very high standard and whilst still under a beta we were confident we could use it.
A year passed and the gig was just around the corner, we all contributed to the video content using After Effects, Cinema 4D and a really talented student called Neville built the main Isadora patch. We all helped map the structure in a variety of roles once on site. My main job was to keep an eye on isadora, make subtle tweaks, maintain performance and spot any crucial errors, make any last minute programming changes and be on stand by incase of any crashes or errors (there were none by the way!).
The pictures show the Temple and surrounding fields aesthetic, we wanted the Mayan/Aztec like structure to come alive with a nice blend of historical symbols, images and custom graphics. There was a hint of hi-tech alien like sci-fi VJ loops also. The lighting, pyro and music all worked really well. The mapping looked great despite a few set-backs; the main one was losing half a day due to extreme rain, wind and an electrical storm; so bad that the electrical company shut down all non-essential power. This was not cool – but al part of the experience.
It’s hard to describe the full set up so I am going to keep it simple.
We had a great experience, a few crashes when programming things and trying stuff out before shows (during the day) but no crashes during live sets. Because we had two Macs mixing between each other , both doing inside and outside, if one machine was to crash we had the other as a back-up, however we treated them both as live machines.
We got to VJ for some great artists, I can’t name them all here but it was a privilege to hear them, meet them and talk to them over the course of the three days. Likewise the whole team at the common were amazing. We were very well looked after and I can’t thank them enough. I can safely say we delivered what we said we would. We made it happen. The pictures and video are great – but it’s never as good as seeing it live. The arena felt alive. It felt like it had an energy oozing out the walls.
A few highlights for me:
So. It was quite an experience. There is some video being made which I will add soon. But for now… a few pictures (click to open gallery):
An interesting new codec from Tom Butterworth and the VDMX crew.
“Presenting Hap, a family of open-source GPU accelerated video codecs for Mac OS X.“
Shifting the burden from your CPU to your GPU… this codec sounds great. Ideal for VJ’s for sure. Nice to see more ‘live performance’ codecs coming out these days.
Check out the link for all the splendid details:
A new VJ loop pack called Ghetto Stereo – a mix of bright moving stereo compositions all HD and all 20 seconds long.
Available from www.vjloops.tv very soon!
There is currently 30% off VJLoops.tv at the moment, an ideal time to snap up my first VJ Loop pack ‘House of God’
Check my artist page here: http://www.vjloops.tv/vj-loops-sd/vj-loops-sd-pal-ntsc/skulpture
For those of you who have not seen the demo for these loops, here it is again.
I made a few simple VJ Loops for Isadoras 10th Birthday last week and decided to share them with you.
Enjoy!
[DOWNLOAD THESE LOOPS FROM VJLOOPS.TV BY CLICKING HERE]
Music also by me; full track avaible from bandcamp —> Click over there! *Points at banner* Yes I put that there and its all my music.
Enjoy,
Skulpture