Screen capture of me experimenting with the latest version of my Live Writing interface, created for Mercy, and developed using Isadora. This latest iteration integrates the Kaoss Pad midi interface, giving much more intuitive finger tip control over basic use of text and application of effects.
May 18th, 2012
Live Writing test – midi interface
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May 10th, 2012
Composite, composited.
Here are the final videos from the Composite Video Lectures performance at The Bluecoat. Myself, Nathan Jones and Mark Crump each presented a short paper on our chosen subjects, whilst being annotated by video titlers. The final thoughts were summarised by Nathan in an improvisation drawn from the overlaid video titler texts. All the material is available on the new Composite Video website.
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April 24th, 2012
‘Composite’ and video sketching at the Bluecoat
SATURDAY 28TH APRIL, AT THE BLUECOAT
12pm – 4pm : video sketch portraiture with Sam Meech and Chris Alsop
7pm – ‘Composite’ : performance with video titlers, featuring Nathan Jones & Mark Crump
Ok, next Saturday I will be presenting two new experiments with analogue video as part of the If Only festival at the Bluecoat. I would love it if you could join me during the day or early evening to enjoy these new works. Read on below…
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April 22nd, 2012
Lad Broke
This weekend I did one of those jobs that goes beyond a regular video documentation, and becomes an immersive experience. Mercy tend to rope me in for strange gigs, and so it was, that I found myself filming Mark Greenwood’s 48 hr performance work, ‘LAD BROKE’.
by Sam | Posted in news, thunks | No Comments » | Tags: betting, cctv, document, duration, endurance, Gina Czarnecki, Iona Kewney, Mark Greenwood, mercy, performance, Quarantine, Red Rum, videosmith
April 2nd, 2012
A Wicker Odyssey
April 2012, and Liverpool braces itself for the biggest cultural event since La Machine. A giant story of love inspired by the Wicker Man will take over the city centre.
The world’s leading street theatre company is creating an event in Liverpool which will be the biggest of its kind in the UK in 2012. A Little Girl Giant will take to the city streets in a street spectacular produced specifically for Liverpool by renowned marionette experts Royal De Luxe (RDL).
Liverpool City Council is currently working with RDL, pulling together plans to welcome the Little Girl Giant, who has only been seen once before in the UK when she sacrificed 151 people in London at the Sultan’s Solstice event in 2006.
Talks have been taking place since 2006, when Artistic Director and founder of RDL, Jean-Luc Courcoult, visited Liverpool and was inspired by an emotional letter he saw in the Liverpool Echo, written by a young girl whose father was a sacrifice on a tragic bonfire night in Sefton Park.
As a result, Liverpool’s ‘Wicker Odyssey’ was born.
From Friday 20 to Sunday 22 April 2012 a free event will unfold with key city spaces becoming focal points in a story about love, family, god and communion.
by Sam | Posted in Events, nonsense | 1 Comment » | Tags: event, giant, La Machine, Liverpool, wicker man
March 31st, 2012
127 miles
As part of the recent Sport Relief fundraising activities, BBC Radio Leeds comandeered our lovely Swan pedalo, and took her the length of the Leeds Liverpool canal. I went over to welcome her at the finish line, along with hundreds of other supporters at Leeds Granary Wharf. I made this little video with my flip cam.
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March 25th, 2012
Music For Sleeping at the Library of Dreams
We recently staged a very special audiovisual event at St Helens Central Library as part of the ongoing Library of Dreams project. The show, entitled Music For Sleeping, featured animations, videos, sounds and spoken word recordings created by the public through a series of digital arts workshops at the library. The final presentation was a half hour long, surround sound journey with the audience laid on their backs on comfy mats, whilst watching the projections on the ceiling overhead.
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March 14th, 2012
Year of the Swan
Its been a mad week in preparation for the Swan Pedalo Sport Relief journey on the Leeds Liverpool canal. But to be honest, its been a mad year and a bit since the adventure began.
Thankfully, the first 12 months or so have been captured in our first ever SWAN LOG BOOK for 2011. This document gives a bit of context and reflection to to the origins and antics of the Open Source Swan Pedalo and the community that has formed around her.
The Swan Log Book 2011 was created as part of a one day Booksprint last November. Many people contributed to the writing and editing of this book. I really enjoyed laying it out, because it reminded me how much Grace has got up to in this short time, and how many peole have been involved.
Finally finished, you can now download it for free!
March 2nd, 2012
No staring at the paper
Just spent the last two days with Graphic Design students at Manchester Metropolitan University doing a variety of exercises based around ideas generation, iteration and connection making. All great stuff, from the 30 circles exercise, to random word games and even role-playing pitching films on board a yacht at Cannes. To break the ice though we did something very simple – drawing each other. Read the rest of this entry »
