24 Hours, 24 Artists

Published at January 1, 2009 in Other stuff, Art and News.

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On January 2nd and 3rd, 2009 (yes, starting tomorrow!), 24 artists from around the world will be taking turns performing, presenting, and pontificating in a 24-hour long live webcast. The goal is to celebrate the 24th anniversary of Jump-Start Performance Company’s “Performance Parties” in San Antonio, TX. Videoblogger extraordinaire Michael Verdi is a company member, so he’s taking the celebration online with this day-long webcast.

I’m excited to be a part of this event, where I’ll be creating a handmade 16mm film, live, with your guidance, and projecting it via the web at the end of the hour. You can chat with me - and all the artists - live during the broadcast, and I’ll need your help to make this thing, so you better be there. Tune in here on January 3rd from 1-2pm EST to join me in the experiment.

For a complete schedule of all the amazing international artists, filmmakers, videobloggers, actors, performance artists, culture jammers, and all around rascals, go here. The webcast kicks off at 10:30 EST January 2nd.

More info from Michael Verdi at the 24×24 home page, follow the event on Twitter, or hook up with us on Facebook.

And here’s to a fantastic 2009. Happy New Year!

Pillow fight

Published at November 23, 2008 in Voodle, Ephemera and Videoblog.

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A long overdue document of the giant communal pillow fight at Rosa Parks Circle, downtown Grand Rapids, September 2008. Watch it here in HD.

An event hosted by Rob Bliss Urban Experiments, who also engineered a huge zombie walk through downtown Grand Rapids, with more boisterous events to come, no doubt.

If only these events weren’t sanctioned by the City; much like the city-sponsored Park(ing) Day here, they’re great, but they don’t quite live up to the subversive potential to reclaim public space like Improv Everywhere.

But it’s a start.

Home Movie Day

Published at October 16, 2008 in Videoblog.

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A little radio interview on West Michigan’s NPR station, WGVU, about this Saturday’s international celebration of Home Movie Day. Thanks to Scott Vanderwerf for the plug. Here’s the deets on Grand Rapids’ official screening bash:

Home Movie Day - West Michigan
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Film drop-off and inspection: Beginning at 1pm
Screenings: 1:30 - 4:30
Koning Microcinema, inside Wealthy Theatre
Free and open to all! Film to video transfer available for films about Grand Rapids!

More information, goodies, and media at viget.org/hmd and homemovieday.com

Chicken flavor

Published at October 3, 2008 in Found footage, Collaboration, Experiments and Videoblog.

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As recent events suggest, the apocalypse truly is pending. Get supplied before it’s too late. Call today and place your order 206-666-2621. Only through Suppendapo, a service of Wreck and Salvage.

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Published at July 22, 2008 in Voodle, Found footage, Collaboration, Experiments and Videoblog.

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A little voodle made with Processing and data visualization, courtesy Radiohead’s “House of Cards” project. Made with Processing, AfterEffects, and Final Cut Pro using original data scans of Thom Yorke provided by Radiohead. This took many hours, and I believe I saw my computer begin to smoke a little.

The original music video, a behind-the-scenes documentary, and original data and instructions available at: http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/.

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