I'd be happy to introduce you to my 'pusher'. A supermarket called Sainsbury's that keeps me in coffee and alcohol rather effectively :-p I think I probably just have too much time on my hands at the moment... Hope you get to do some of your stuff, thanks for the kind words.
On 1/16/09, Andrea Gambirasio <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael, chapeau!!! > > I'm amazed the quantity and quality of work you can produce: vimeo + > your site + blog + coding + playing + screencasting + bobbing your head > at 2AM... i'm really impressed. If I had more confidence I'd dare say > "Please introduce me to your pusher, it looks like he's providing very > good stuff!!" ;-) (bear with me) > > my name is Andrea, I live and work in Bergamo (Northern Italy) for a > company focused on mobile sw. solutions for banks. Pretty boring eh? > Right, that's why I steer a group of Contact Improvisation (lemolecole) > which brings some fun in my life. Yes, we are talking contemporary > dance, and although I'm in my 40s, i'll keep dancing till my legs keep > me up. > > a few links to grasp the concept > www.lemolecole.it (About to be refactored) > lemolecole.blogspot.com (In italian sorry) > http://vimeo.com/videos/search:le%20molecole (i'm the leftmost one in red) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWWmg65DSPQ > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEUh48TdA0 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_improvisation > > got it? > > Ok, having a compute science degree, I think it's high time I start > combining work (e.g. bits) & fun (e.g. dance music and code art), this > is why i'm starting to explore processing, vvvv, animata and friends. > I'd really love to see all this stuff applied to contact improvisation, > create and tour performances which relate/translate body movement & body > expression to digital expression. Pretty fuzzy eh? I know, I told you > i'm exploring. By now I managed to have a (human) dancer friend > playing live with a (digital) light blob in processing interacting with > it on the scene. Surely I'll need some arduino like thing to make it better. > > Then why this post? well, just to congratulate with you and to spread > the word: is anyone aware of digital art related to contemporary dance > and especially performances? Is anyone interested? Get in touch and > share ideas! > > best > > andrea > > > > Michael Forrest ha scritto: >> I've ported Animata's rendering engine over to Java so that Animata >> scenes can be combined with other stuff in Processing. >> >> Screencast here: http://vimeo.com/2839938 >> >> If you want to try it, go to >> http://processing.grimaceworks.com/animata where the library is >> available to download. >> >> Michael Forrest >> grimaceworks.com <http://grimaceworks.com> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> animata-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.kitchenbudapest.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/animata-users >> > > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Michael Forrest grimaceworks.com _______________________________________________ animata-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kitchenbudapest.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/animata-users
