Opera at the Planetarium

Did anyone else catch the NPR story today on the performance of Hayden's wacky opera Il Mondo Della Luna being performed at a planetarium? It sounded really cool, the basic plot is that these star-crossed lovers convince the dad that they're on the moon in some alternate universe where they can get married. The performance integrates old stock footage from the planetarium's archives that plays about the singer's heads.

This video doesn't seem to do this justice, but it's all I could find:

Rose City Rollers!

I hope everyone had a great holiday season! My winter break was fun, but far too short. I spent a solid week working on this Roller Derby commercial for the Rose City Rollers opening Bout on the 16th. It's done in Cinema 4d, Photoshop, and Aftereffects. The footage was provided by my video professor Erik Fauske.



I had to hold back from writing "Let's get ready to Rumble!!" at the end, haha.

Pee Wee's Playhouse, the Movie

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Pee Wee's Playhouse: The Movie!
Do you think if Tim Burton direct it Johnny Depp will play Jambi??? Inquiring minds!

Sugar PSA

New video project up on YouTube.  This one is a collaboration with two of my class mates, Holly and Kristina.  Basically, I shot a bunch of crazy footage and turned them loose to post-produce the heck out of it.  The assignment was to make a 30 sec ish PSA.  I think we killed it:



I was cleaning sugar out of my ears for days :(.

The Velvets

The Velvet Underground is reuniting... for my Birthday!!  At the New York Public Library no less:

 http://www.nypl.org

The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed, Maureen ‘Moe’ Tucker, Doug Yule & David Fricke

Today, the Velvet Underground are the stars they always deserved to be – the Beatles of New York – with a rich and still mysterious story that continues to unfold: in the new visual collection, The Velvet Underground: New York Art, and tonight, in this unprecedented reunion of Reed, Tucker and Yule, on Tuesday, December 8th, LIVE from the NYPL!

  Too bad I won't be in NYC waiting in the freezing weather for a sold out show.  Hopefully this will result in some kind of free podcast I can listen to whilst pixel pushing.  Of course it's kind of lame since John Cale ISN'T going to be there, but I think he's probably cleared the day to come over to my basement to do a single note 48hour jam session featuring the cosmic tone on my casiotone.  Or a least that's how I party.

What should NOT be.

 This video makes me never want to touch vfx software again.  in fact, it makes me want to destroy all vfx software in a systematic holocaust to make sure this never happens again.



On the other hand... that cat tail on the exotic dancer certainly was a creative leap, no?

marvin gets minskied

Marvin Minsky lets you read his books online:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/

for free.

okay, not "society of the mind", but the most of the rest, including his new book.
I know what you are all getting for x-mas.