CLIENT: HER Social App | DATE: May, 2017 Booked to help create a unique look for the HER Social App Anniversary Party, we overlaid custom liquid visuals with live silhouettes from the dance floor. Utilizing Kinect for Windows, Resolume and Touchdesigner, we brought the large central elevator shaft to life as the main visual focus of the night.
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CLIENT: Nutmeg Brewhouse | DATE: May, 2017 vīcīnia: neighborhood, nearness, vicinity. For this installation I wanted to create a piece that changed as you observe it and based on how you observe it. Thinking about how people look at and talk about a piece of art in a gallery this one actually reacts to you based on your movement (through a live video feed) and what conversations come to mind (audio reactivity). This piece was first exhibited at the Nutmeg Brewhouse in Arden Hills and then a week later at their Burnsville location. I wanted to show how the space and people can create vastly different outcomes from the same program. CLIENT: Symone Smash It | DATE: May, 2017 After doing a few shows with Symone Smash It at Can Can Wonderland, she invited me to VJ her EP release party at The Pourhouse in Downtown Minneapolis. The best parts about that venue is that they have one of Minnesota's largest projection screens (over 25 feet) and 50 other connected TVs throughout the venue giving everyone a front row seat for watching the visuals. For this show I used Symone's circle/diamond logo as a mask and ran spacey, colorful visuals underneath. Plus, I added her name front and center so that everyone would know who's rockin' the stage. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: May, 2017 Blended Light lives at the intersection of projection and long exposure photography. Here I used the projection mapping program, HeavyM, to create unique geometries that contain changing colors and video content. One I selected the movement of each piece, I used my Canon T3i to play with the exposure length while manipulating it to blur and mix the shapes. The outcome is a spacey, mixed palette of pixels. CLIENT: DREW BESON ART | DATE: April, 2017 A long time coming, Drew Beson and I pulled the trigger and threw an incredibly unique party to break in his new studio/gallery. With outer space, light, and immersion the connecting theme, I set out to create projections that put you inside of Drew's work. On one wall (and part of the ceiling), I ran huge, beautiful kaleidoscopes of his pieces. When you entered the space you felt like you had simply stepped into the work of art. On the opposite wall, I created an interactive projection where you could create planets out of his art through spherical mapping. In a small nook, I ran a slow pan and zoom of his art to be used in lumia creation. Attendees could grab reflective materials and adjust the lumia output themselves. Finally, the main attraction, an angled projection that became a chromadepth dance floor. Each attendee was given glasses to help them watch the floor come alive.
CLIENT: Symone Smash It | DATE: April, 2017 For my first live show at Can Can Wonderland, I teamed up with Symone Smash It to create some colorful, lumia-inspired visuals to fit her spacey theme (and the space we had to use). Here I used the same materials from my Made Here installation, A U R A Borealis to do a close range projection and blend colors and speed to match her musical stylings. For some of the time, I was creating the lumia live using color filters and a wii remote. This remote was connected to VDMX and the position of the colors were determined by the pitch and roll of the controller, with the colors themselves controlled by the d-pad. Enjoy! Reach out with any other questions about this setup. PHOTOS BY SARAH ELLEN PHOTOGRAPHY. First performance CLIENT: HOMEBOI, Kill Palace, Weather Check | DATE: March, 2017 I have been planning to use my digital microscope for a show ever since I got it last fall. Luckily I found the perfect opportunity during a show at Day Block Brewing with Kill Palace, Weather Check, and Homeboi. For each band I used the microscope in a different way. During the Kill Palace set I manipulated some disks that I had marbled with colorful paint, for Weather Check I used found slides as the basis for the visuals, and for Homeboi I used liquids like the greats before me to get a range of color and emotion on screen. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: March, 2017 This past March I embarked on an epic road trip across Arizona. With the rental RV all gassed up and the wind in my hair I set off on a 1000 mile trip around the great state. Through forests, mountains, valleys, deserts, cactus, and, at one point, getting stuck on the further road from humanity where no one can hear you scream... It was an incredible time. What really caught my eye and need for exploration, however, where the incredible amount of abandoned places I found along the way. Old rest stops, a dog racing track, some type of Native American trading post... Here are some pictures taken from these places abandoned by time. To find more abandoned places, please visit Ghost Towns AZ. CLIENT: Trent Kim | DATE: February, 2017 After posting a few light art projects in the Facebook group, The Psychedelic Light Show Preservation Society, my work was picked up by Trent Kim who was hosting an international symposium on the topic and invited me to attend and present. Given this incredible opportunity, I got right to it. My presentation focused on how I had used light reflection and refraction with the help of technology to create modern light sculptures. CLIENT: B-Lectric | DATE: February, 2017 With an email sent into the void, I managed to get the go ahead to partner with The Dance Shanty and do some projections onto their new structure for a visual element to accompany their awesome beats. B-Lectric is the first iteration and part of a growing winter festival across the Twin Cities. Hosted by Barbette, projection, fire and fun converged upon uptown Minneapolis for a cold night of good times. For this particular event I teamed up with Alex Munro (also from SNOWTA) to do a tag team performance. Their new structure provided a unique challenge in that they were using semi-transparent sheets for the walls. Our projection ended up working nicely to be seen both outside and in and also gave a colored glow to the structure. Check out the video and footage below and let me know if projection would add to your next event! CLIENT: N/A | DATE: February, 2017 Some more new discoveries with VDMX came across my screen recently that I'd like to share. With the program's new ability to take a video feed in directly from an iPhone, the possibilities of doing some generative feedback loops were not only possible, but necessary. You can have a lot of fun just pointing the iPhone camera directly at your output screen and playing around that way, but with the added effects and abilities of VDMX the ability to create crazy outcomes are endless. Below are some clips that I created using this process and adding just a mirror edge effect and a bit of zoom to crop out the phone's camera on screen display. By mirroring, the fractal worlds create in on themselves and the color is completely natural. I plan on breaking this technique out in a few weeks at events coming up. See and use all of the gifs here (tag a brother if you remix them) CLIENT: Nutmeg Brewhouse | DATE: Jan, 2017 Ars Moriendi is a generative visual program that continually lives and dies over the course of an evening. It was first displayed publicly at Nutmeg Brewhouse in Burnsville projected more than 200 inches wide. Music by the almighty sleepdealer. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: January, 2017 After shooting some footage on a fall Minnesota motorcycle ride, we experimented with two techniques. The first being time dilation. When we slowed the video way down, the bumps from the ride turned into these waves through the picture, allowing the image to go in and out of focus. Secondly, we used a two layer video technique where we masked out the color from the full color image allowing the video to be played back in real time but in both black and white, and color. Ryan Bouchie provided the custom track. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: January, 2017 The kaleidowarped series gives new life to old photos. In playing with gradients, filter options and reflections, these shots become bizarre new worlds. Pictures taken from all over the place, New York, Colorado, Minnesota State Fair, and more. CLIENT: sleepdealer | DATE: January, 2017 Diving back into some older content, we took a glitched out look at the 70s dystopian movie, Logan's Run and set it to a jammin' beat by sleepdealer. Check out the finished video and some additional still from this experimental set below. Buy the ticket. Take the ride. CLIENT: SNOWTA FEST | DATE: December, 2016 For the first ever Snowta NYE Festival hosted at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Second Sight Visuals was contracted to supply a team of VJs for the Upper Midwest's Largest EDM New Years event. We got to experiment with some new material and give a unique experience for each performer. It was really quite incredible to be in front of thousands of concert goers and helping add value to an already awesome experience. Second Sight Visuals personally provided visuals for Beak Nasty, Bobby Raps and Hippie Sabotage. Check out more details on the event here: Snowta NYE page CLIENT: N/A | DATE: December, 2016 Merry Xmas to me! Santa brought your boy a brand new fog machine. He probably had no idea what i wanted to do with it. The first experiment was to project on to it (of course). I wanted to use custom projected visuals to create colorful clouds that stand still in time. Mission accomplished? The best results came from projecting visuals with high saturation and color to allow the camera to really pick up the full range. Also, VDMX Rutt Etra effect with scan lines helped to create a laser-like effect with multiple layers within the smoke. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: November, 2016 In a bit of a minimal phase I made some posters of my favorite films. Such excellent films as the Oscar-winning "Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" and "Rookie of the Year" - with excellent acting from Thomas Ian Nicholas and Daniel Stern. Just having some fun, take a look! CLIENT: N/A | DATE: November, 2016 Being a beyond avid fan of The Twilight Zone, I decided to create minimalist individual episode posters. For each poster I tried to find something that is significant or unique about the episode, something that may not be as obvious as you might think. P.S. Rod Serling is the best writer of all time. Here are the results.
CLIENT: Andrew Skalak | DATE: October, 2016
My brother was working on his experimental film project "Industrial Declension" and wanted some projection work done. I was in.
We wanted to juxtapose nature and city, beauty and glitch with projections both out and around Chicago's back alleyways and inside of a studio to show tension and chaos with our actress. The results are pretty cool. Industrial Declension from Andrew Skalak on Vimeo. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: October, 2016 A twist on my #100daysofnumbers. This time I re-imagined how our English alphabet may look in alien languages just by selecting a font, cutting the letter on both axis and rearranging it to be a completely different symbol while still carrying the same meaning. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: October, 2016 #100daysproject that I took on where I re-imagined how our English number system may look in alien languages just by selecting a font, cutting the number on both axis and rearranging it to be a completely different symbol while still carrying the same meaning and value. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: October, 2016 Well, it's finally here. A few months in the works, but I'm excited to release my new company/brand.... Second Sight Visuals! This will serve as a name for which I will start doing installations and light shows under.
With my first big solo VJ/Lighting gig at The Secret Circus Festival this weekend in support of my boys The Ancient Moon I figured it'd be a good time to start letting people know that Second Sight is here to stay. Now, you may be thinking, "why 'Second Sight'?" Well, let me give you a bit of background and insight as to how the name and design came about. "Second sight is a form of extrasensory perception, the supposed power to perceive things that are not present to the senses, whereby a person perceives information, in the form of a vision, about future events before they happen (precognition), or about things or events at remote locations (remote viewing)." - Our good friends at Wikipedia I first heard about Second Sight through a great podcast called Myths and Legends. In this particular episode about a Viking named Odd, a witch uses her Second Sight to see how people will die. Yeah, pretty awesome. Also, I've decided that eventually I just need to go by "Odd." So that story, combined with the description above, works really well in letting people know that they are going to experience something visually unusual. This way, Second Sight can cover a lot of ground and be an umbrella for me to host many types of events and experiments under. For the design part, I wanted to incorporate the eye. Not so much as a "third eye" (I think that's a bit overdone, although if people interpret that, that's ok as well) but more as an all seeing eye, a reference to the sight that I will bestow upon you. The triangle surrounding the eye (no, it's not illuminati... or is that what the illuminati would say...?) utilizes the gestalt principle of reification where your eyes create something that isn't there - i.e. the "triangle" is actually just cut out circles. This is to be a reference to psychological principles and perception that I aim to explore. Plus, having an illusion in my logo alludes to what I've got in store. Finally, I've got a working tagline of "Believe in Impossible Things." I've played around with how this may live directly with the logo but mostly as a rally cry to create modern magic. With all that in mind, see the logo work for yourself below! CLIENT: Secret Circus | DATE: September, 2016 Had a great opportunity to play a smaller festival in North Branch Minnesota called Secret Circus with the guys in The Ancient Moon. This was my first time doing a solo visual performance (I'd teamed up with Mondo Liquado Light Show previously) and it ended going even better than expected. I met a lot of great people and networked some other opportunities while getting to stay on later and do visuals for Headband Jam. CLIENT: N/A | DATE: July, 2016 Following up to some of my most successful IG posts, I wanted to dive deeper into the Optical Centrifuge series. As the name implies, the Optical Centrifuge is a spinning vortex of colors that seem to be pushed to their limits as they spill out in all directions. I like how they become their own galaxies with colors and rotations unique to each photo. I will let you in on a little secret, these are just a combination of my phone, a slick surface, and a long exposure. Each picture is titled with the Google-searched image that I feel like looking up (super scientific I know...) The phone's brightness is turned all the way up as I find a dark place to experiment. Give it a good spin, take a few shots and see what you get! Feel free to tag me @insidebriansbrain or #OpticalCentrifuge if you make some. The top few are new pics taken with my Canon T3i with variable exposure times and the bottom batch are some that I put out on Instagram a while back that were taken with my old GoPro HERO 2. |
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