Shattered Beliefs - Choreography-A

Ever since childhood I loved philosophy, religion and speculation about the nature of the universe and our place in it. I have also loved speculative fiction and the visual arts. Comic books have a special place in my heart. A large percentage of them are dreadful, horrible things full of ghastly super-creatures fighting each other for very little reason but the artform itself is excellent, combining visual language with the written word and making your brain read both simultaneously while bringing images from myth and legend into juxtaposition with modernity.
Another artform I love is dance. Here in Britain, back in the 1990s, there used to be dance TV programmes on Channel Four. New, exciting choreographies were presented set to music by interesting composers such as Phillip Glass. Sadly Channel Four doesn't do so much of that kind of programming any more. They've also reduced their output of short films and animations, though I suppose online sharing does the job now.
My religious and philosophical beliefs have been through many changes over the years, including several years of being brainwashed in a cult before getting back on track with my life. Not all of my beliefs got shattered but plenty did.
This video was made with the "HIM" figure created by Sixus. The choreography was made in Avimator and Qavimator and a text editor. The scenes were shot in Daz Studio against a green screen and then chromakeyed to the background in Debugmode Wax. The backgrounds were made in Bryce, Iclone, and Google Sketchup. Particle Illusion was used for energy effects. The music was composed in VSThost and Audacity and the main VST plugins used were "Super Riff Guitar", "DSK Brass" and "DVS Saxophone".

Speech Wreckognition

Windows has a speech recognition programme. It types what I say to it... as long as it succeeds in recognising my words. If it can't recognise the words it makes a guess. As an experiment I tried talking complete gibberish and scat singing at it. At the same time I recorded my voice. In this video you can hear my voice and see on the screen what Windows tried to make of it.

Chalice Well Gardens, Glastonbury UK

Just on the other side of the wall from the garden of quiet meditation and reflection is a road used by big 18-wheeler trucking.

Cubo-Futuro-Surreal

Sketching freehand in 3d using a stylus and tablet in Google Sketchup and then animating the 3d result while changing the style continually. The music was composed in the freeware programme "Easy Music Composer" by Shuta Miyawaki which allows you to specify parameters for computer-generated music and then outputs the result as a midi file which can be played by plugins in VSThost. In this case the music is performed by the excellent "StringZ 2" plugin along with the Takim plugin on percussion.

Re-Installing the OS ... Again!

All of the computer-related clipart in the open clipart library, set to music. The music was created in VSThost.

Horror Catwalk

Power, Truth and Beauty ... and their opposites.

As a new experiment I've put all the links to my favourite podcasts and blogs on a page of their own. The idea being to make a meta-blog-pod-thingy. it's address (URL) is:

http://meta-list.blogspot.com/