re_entry
Posted on April 2nd, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, output.
I’m fresh back from a prairie tour with the mighty Swarm. We played rural communities in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The prairies are amazing and beautiful. Frequently we passed fields of farm equipment in various states of disrepair, scattered at random over the grass.
I returned with many photos. Many of the photos are of rust. You can see some of the photos on flickr.
Sadly, time constraints prevented us from stopping at every heap of clang and batter to bang away. All was not lost though - our hotel in Oyen, Alberta was right beside the local farm-equipment museum where several hours of fruitful improvisation were had.
We also played the E.A. Rawlinson centre in Prince Albert Saskatchewan. The theatre there is great and the technical staff are supremely helpful. After setting up the show we were left with some extra time, so they set up smoke machines!
So helpful was the tech crew that we were able to pull off reactive video backdrops for the whole second half of the theatrical show. We were able to video the whole thing as well, so there should be some images up shortly. stay tuned…
Future Force Military Scenario
Posted on December 5th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, web, tech.
The Ministry of National Defense has spent a lot of time thinking about how to turn the Army into an operation capable of dealing with the future. Apparently they had no time to spare for art. The above cover for Future Force - has Buck Rogers helmets and a hovering tank. The blaster gun turret on the tank even has those little round raygun indicators. [pdf link]
Crisis In Zefra was written by Canadian science fiction writer Karl Schroeder, who I’ve mentioned before. It’s a pretty cool document - each chapter is followed by questions for study and discussion. Things like “What are the ethical considerations in deploying robots against humans?”
If the Canadian military tech and tactics improves at the same rate as the cover art we should be ruling the world any month now.
Never Be The Same Again
Posted on November 28th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, tech.
If the glory of a small, edible blue box fails to move you, consider this tale.
Apocamon
Posted on November 26th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, web.
I was going to try and write some kind of compehensive review of the excellent Apocamon comics, which retell the book of revelations using brutal manga style. There were going to be many adjectives like ’stupendous’ and phrases like ‘retrousse postmodern juxtapositions of disparate cultural signifiers’.
But it’s more important that you read the comics than anything I have to say about them.
Episodes come infrequently, but new bits of episode 4 “charge of the Lion Horses” are seeping out now.
Go. Read ye them.
3d video display tank
Posted on November 13th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, images, tech.
Display technology is doing crazier and crazier things all the time. I remember not too long ago when immersive display was a big deal.
Now a team of Danish engineers and designers have built 3d imaging tank where the image of your choice can float suspended in a tank up to 30m.
Cheoptics360:
The Cheoptics360 can display both computer and film content when used either indoors or out and scale from 1.5-meters on up to 30-meters. The video images generated by the four projectors are re-assembled within the prism-like pyramid through a process of mirroring and reflection making them appear to float in mid-air.
There is a video:
The Deconstruction Process
Posted on November 4th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images.
The Deconstruction Process by the illustrious Mr. Jago is brilliant.
More Parade of Lost Souls Photos
Posted on November 3rd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, output.
I found good photos of my recent show at the Parade of Lost Souls on Flickr, taken by a fellow called Craig Elliot. Click the thumbnails to be taken to the larger size. (they are available in sizes from tiny to freaking ginormous)
more in this photo set.
Parts of people reproduced in plastic fashion
Posted on November 2nd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, borg, science.
Truly, the world of medical trainng aids is strange and wonderful. The rectal examination trainer above comes with five interchangable prostates.
Dare to compare with the uterine pathology variety pack.
Lady Nightshade & Mr. Pale
Posted on October 29th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images.
I found this picture of people I met at the Parade. Not knowing their proper names, I had to make something up.
Parade of Lost Souls
Posted on October 29th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, images, output.
Last night, at the Parade of Lost Souls, Eightprime Arts had its public debut.
The show could not have pssibly gone better - thanks to Mercedes and all the crew for making it happen.
I got to sling light at a huge highschool wall for hours - the images were visible for blocks and I met some excellent people.
There are a couple of short videos linked from the images below. (video is quicktime format).
Screen grab
Posted on October 26th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, output.
Topatoco comic book epiphany
Posted on September 21st, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, images, web.
The Case of the Missile Crisis is free to look at online as I write this.
You should probably stop whatever your doing and read it.
