Since vade went ahead and spilled (some of) the beans, I might as well post a little teaser of the open source project I mentioned in my last post. Essentially we have wrapped a game emulator in a Quartz Composer plugin, with the goal of enabling virtual console bending, so to speak. Here’s a little video of some of our latest developments in deliberately glitching the graphics of a NES game.
castlevania-nst_rom_glitch (click to watch)
More to come…
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Sep
21
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demo reel from plasticpool on Vimeo.
The latest and greatest version of my demo reel, edited by the fantabulous Benton-C Bainbridge. Watch it in HD!
Music: “Compressoratorer” by Lucky Highstepper.
Paul Owens writes to say:
Hey everyone, I just wanted to spread the word that the feature length documentary [Reformat the Planet] that I directed is now streaming off of the mega hipster site Pitchfork Media…
http://pitchfork.tv/week/blip-festival-reformat-the-planet
the whole movie. for one week only!
If you haven’t yet seen it, or have been waiting for a copy that I never got around to sending, please check it out now. for those of you who aren’t familiar with the movie, a little history lesson: i’ve spent the last few years documenting (with pals Asif Siddiky and Paul Levering) the Chip Music scene, which is an underground music movement based around using old videogame hardware (gameboys, nintendo, atari, etc.) as musical instruments.
Eventually we realized we had captured enough footage to make it into one of those feature length documentary-type things. Taking a year to compile the footage, we eventually premiered the film at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin in March. It also recently played in Melbourne, Australia and will be seen in Seattle, New York, and Amsterdam in the coming months. But who cares about that? Just go watch it now.
This Saturday at The Tank, we’ll be doing a live This Spartan Life show, hosting Pulsewave, the monthly chiptunes event. Is machinima. Is funny. Has live music. Hope see you there.
Info:
This Spartan Life Hosts Pulsewave at The Tank July 26 with 3 live chiptune acts!
Please note new address for The Tank, below
Damian Lacedaemion will be joined by AeroMC, Fyb3roptik, Dan O’Conduit, Amber of the Solid Gold Elite Dancers and 8 Bit Collective forum members, live on screen via XBox Live!
In gamespace, no one can see you sweat.
Pulsewave is the monthly live chiptune music event in NYC. This Spartan Life is the award winning “talk show in gamespace.”
Your host, Damian Lacedaemion enters the unpredictable multiplayer universe to interview various guests and luminaries all within the 3D gamespace of Halo 3 on Xbox Live.
This time, Damian and the crew from This Spartan Life will be on screen live to host a special Pulsewave with musical guests from the upper reaches of chiptune Valhalla:
8GB
Unicorn Dream Attack
Neil Voss
Visuals by the incomparable No Carrier!
Special machinima videos!
Live interaction between avatars and audience!
The bizarre and frightening world of the ub3r 1337 on graphic display!
All with a heavy dose of CHIPTUNES and EXPLOSIONS!
Don’t miss it!
Saturday, July 26, 2008 at The Tank
@ DCTV
87 Lafayette St @ White St
New York, NY, 10013
Cost : $10
Doors open at 9PM
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Jun
14
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We’re relatively new to cat ownership. One thing we learned after we moved to Williamsburg last fall was that nearby birds and other prey can make our cat Lila Brown make a strange cracking/clicking sound, as if she’s imagining crunching their tasty bones. Recently I caught this behavior on video. You’re welcome, Internets.
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Sep
16
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Last night’s show at The Tank was fun. It was a bit of a struggle with my patch at times (lots of those texture binding errors) but I beat it into submission such that things started to flow, especially with Touchboy, who played last — and who I hadn’t heard before — great stuff. Asif and (?) from 2Player Productions (makers of the Blip Festival documentary) were there shooting some footage and posted a great duet by Glomag and Receptors on YouTube.
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Dec
8
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Tomorrow the Austin Museum of Digital Art will show some of my visuals in their Digital Showcase, paired with the live music of Proem, an electronic musician whose tracks you can hear on Bleep.com (search for Proem). I really like his sound — it ought to be a good fit. 
AMODA will also premiere a new installation piece called HOW TO FIX YOUR TV, of which you can see a recorded excerpt below. Also, you can learn how to fix a TV yourself with the instructions I’ve posted on Instructables.com.
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