13 May 2011

Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy time-lapse video. Live at Soundcontrol, Manchester 12/05/2011

Messing around with with video settings on my new-ish Canon G12 camera at a gig last night, and discovered the "miniature" setting. Basically a tilt-shift setting, which blurs the top and bottom a bit.

What I didn't realise is that it also plays back at x10 speed and with no sound.

I'm a bit gutted there's no sound as this was one of the best songs of the night, but then at 10x it would be rubbish - which I didn't realise at the time either. I would also have liked the tilt-shift blurriness to have been a bit stronger, as at the minute its more of a time-lapse video rather than minature or tilt-shift. - more play needed I think.

I still think it looks kinda cool being condensed down into 24 seconds - The light show was really good considering the relatively small size of the gig and lead singer Ed Macfarlane dances around like a mad man.

Anyway I thought I'd post it up, so hear it is.  Let me know what you think.

24 Mar 2010

The first NEONFEEDBACK live streamed mix on @ustream :: [nf].[tv] - 23/03/2010

via ustream.tv

This was the first attempt at doing a live @ustream DJ mix, so apologies if it is a bit rough around the edges... next time will be better. :-)

Basically I want to try and make the DJ mix/radio show a bit more interesting by streaming video as well live and direct. I have to admit it is not the most exciting video to watch non-stop (just leave it open in a tab or something and have a little flick back every now and then - listening is the important bit!), but I'd love to know your thoughts. :-)

It was much more interesting live, there were a few people chatting away in the chat room. (Although this does probably provide too many close-ups of my face! I must remember to get some new batteries for my wireless keyboard.) There will also be real-time twitter and facebook updates and integration which I will be introducing for the next one.

I'm looking at doing one every few weeks, probably Tuesday evenings 9-10pm-ish, and will hopefully be getting some guests involved as well.

This mix features artists including:
Seth Troxler, Trentemoller, Bushwacka!, Booka Shade, Nacho Lovers, Simian Mobile Disco, Ellen Alien & Aperat, Nectarios and Supernovac.

I'll also make future mixes available as an audio download or podcast or something.

Cheers.

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25 Sep 2009

Orbital at the Manchester Academy 19/09/2009 - videos

 

I’ve had my new iPhone a while now and realised I haven’t used the much talk about (prior to release) video function, so I did a little test at the Orbital gig at Manchester Academy last Saturday (19/09/2009).  (I never generally think to take videos on my iPhone, but I forgotten to clear the memory card before going out and ran out of space on my card.)

 I took two videos on my iPhone and two on my camera ( Canon Ixus 700, http://www.cameras.co.uk/details/canon-ixus-700.cfm) the results are as below:

Orbital - Impact (The Earth is Burning) - Canon Ixus 700

Orbital - Belfast - Canon Ixus 700

Orbital – Satan – iPhone 3GS (held vertically)

Orbital – Doctor? – iPhone 3GS (held horizontally) - This has a bit of a slow start.

I was largely impressed with the iPhones video capabilities, and I like how it automatically knows which way round the phone is being held.  Although the sound sensitivity levels are pretty high on the phone which causes the sound to drop out completely which is no good!

Ps. What an amazing gig!

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