8th May 2009
Community Street Projection back in Perth for 2009! After along rest I finally organised my first collaborative community event in Perth for 2009. As usually the facebook flashmob Street Projections Perth was mobilised onto the streets to decorate the architecture with light. Painting with my Tablet PC we gave Perth’s General Post office in Forrest Place some new paint schemes. We even had a surprise visit from Kat and Jasper who appeared above us projecting their VJ clips on the same building.
more photos…
All in all a good night, a good mixture of regulars such as Aaron Mark (see image below by Yukikio Tan) whose friends drew him a nice bikini… hahaha nice work. See Yukiko’s Blog here
There was also plenty of new artists coming out of the wood work including the group of local Police officers who took a break from duties by defacing the side of a landmark city building. Hopefully getting more photos of that soon.
4th May 2009
Last week I was in Adelaide Projector bombing… Over a year since my last trip to Adelaide where I met James and Evan from Graffiti Research Lab New York, and helped form the australian branch of GRL australia. Adelaide is still standing as a great city to projector bomb lots of white stone buildings just waiting for some art. And Whilst your there the Rundle lantern is pritty cool too.
Last week I headed to Merredin for a community arts residency, supported by the shire council I spent 6 days collaborating with the people of Merredin to create some awesome temporary artworks over their buildings. Using my projector, laptops and portable power we digitally repainted the buildings with light. Although I was only there for a short time, we still managed to create some great transformations, literally turning the town into a open air digital art gallery. It was great to see locals reacting and thinking differently about there surroundings! By being on the street we where able to reach people that community art usually bypasses, there was plenty of questions and lots of people having a go. The Merredin Police even had a go at laser tag
Merredin is a regional centre approximately 260km east of perth, Its situated in the central wheatbelt, a large wheat farming area in Western Australia. The town has lots of great historic buildings from the goldrush days including the beautiful heritage listed Cummins Theatre built in 1897 and rebuilt in Merredin in 1928. Big thanks to Jane Bandurski for organising the residency and for her creative input into the project.
Below is an old video Dan recently dug up. Its a Video mapping experiment from around a year ago, Daniel mapped his car and I mapped over my motorbike (mazda mx5 & Kawasaki zx12r)
It was great getting Dan involved because he used his 3d modeling skills on his car to get some great effects. This video was shot on a mobile phone, which explains the poor quality… better stuff next time
The Southbound festival is a two day music festival that always seems to sell out. Organisers providing not only awesome amenities for campers that stay overnight but also bring in some amazing international acts.
As part of this festival I was in charge of providing visuals for the performers in the Big Top. With my small crew (Daniel Moller and Brett Cullen) we mixed, filtered and composed striking visuals from multiple camera feeds and motion graphics.
Musical acts unlike other music festivals were quite broad, everything from acoustic and Folk to Electronica and Hip Hop. They were…
29th December 2008
Another fun night of street projections, this time visible from William Street in Northbridge. As usual we drew live and unsolicited art with my projector. This was our 7th official Street Projection night and the last for 2008. Lots more install for 2009.
Sunday 30th November, 2008
It’s always great to VJ at music Festivals and Stereosonic at the Claremont Show Grounds in Perth was no exception. Well organised and with a abundant supply of music lovers to soak up the vibes.
above: Short snippets of live visuals recorded on the day. The quality is not great but you really had to be there on the day… besides theres always next time.
Thursday, 27th November 2008
Once again we hit the streets of Perth to repaint it with some light. A nice blank wall beside a empty lot in a semi industrial area proved a perfect spot. We started as usual with some drawing with the graphics tablet, VJzoo turned up and we where now projecting with three light cannons and totally resurfacing the building!
I experimented on the participants with some new audio visual mixing and the guys from Re-Face came past for a chat and to do some filming.
Its been a busy October of Projector Bombing! ARTRAGE asked me to bring the gear to some of their art events, the first two being the opening of the Silver Art Exhibition at PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) in Perth’s Cultural District and Reka One’s Exhibition “Against the Grain” at Wasteland in Kings Street, Perth. On King Street we had the coolest mobile rig yet, a nice bright n clean cardboard recycling dumpster, it kept the gear nice an dry when rain threatened as well as creating some nice deep bass from my speakers.
Despite depressing winter weather, Perth’s fourth night of collaborative projections went ahead without a glitch on the 1st August. The Mob congregating under a covered carpark surounded by high rise buildings. This Provided us with shelter and a big dull wall to transform.
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