Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

Flickering Pixels

Posted on May 17, 2010 by proctor

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Recently, I finished the book “Flickering Pixels” by Shane Hipps. This is not a feat to take lightly as I am not much of a book reader. It’s a weakness I struggle with constantly. I really wish I loved to read books…I really do. But it’s just not a natural means of entertainment or…

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Guerrilla Projection

Posted on November 19, 2009 by proctor

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Reason #1024 to go to events like DIRT: outside guerrilla projection parties!

All photos taken by Camron Ware of VisualWorshiper.com. Check out some more photos from the night.

Kids, don’t try this at home! :) ok, just kidding…but there are read more

The Video Lady

Posted on November 14, 2009 by proctor

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I once heard a story of a lady, who back in the 1950s & 60s, had a passion for video and film in the Church. She was one of the first in her small rural farm town to own a portable home video camera. She even went as far as buying her own film projector…

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System Preferences for the VJ

Posted on October 20, 2009 by proctor

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This one’s all technical and zero creative, but it will save you a lot of heartache.

Here are the steps I go through at each event to make my laptop “VJ-ready”:

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Test Patterns

Posted on October 18, 2009 by proctor

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One playlist i use at every event is called “Test Patterns”. It’s simply a collection of various grids, patterns & color bars that i use when setting up my VJ rig. It’s very helpful when setting up for any scenario…whether it be Environmental Projection, multi-screen video staging, or simply plugging in to a venue’s…

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Quartz VJ-ing LIVE

Posted on September 19, 2009 by proctor

thanks to Allan White, Jason Norris & Nicholas Rivero for teaching me the ways of the Jedi.

to experience more Quartz awesomeness, check out these blog posts:

Quartz Composition VJ-ing

Screencast: Routing iTunes’ Visualizer into ProPresenter (by Allan White)

VJ Shakinda’s blog (lots of great…

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Quartz VJ-ing

Posted on August 27, 2009 by proctor

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Now we’re talking!

This discovery was a joint effort. Allan White & Nick Rivero have been exploring various ways to incorporate LIVE Quartz compositing (like the iTunes visualizer) into a presentation program like ProPresenter. When I visited Allan in Portland a few weeks ago, he showed me…

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