had the chance to put together visuals for a show at blim. it was billed as a "night of ambience and mayhem".

there was an extra musician that snuck in a set, so the evening ended up being about four hours long. i had mostly worked on the visuals with subtractivelad's music in mind, but i think they worked for all the acts. it wasn't a huge crowd, but blim is a cozy space that doesn't take many people to make the atmosphere comfortable. drifty, dreamy electronics contrasted with aural nastiness provided the crowd a wide mix of soundscapes.

i put together a bunch of ambient video built around the idea of motion and abstraction. there were some long (20 min) loops of walking through the trails at colony farms with the manual focus set to 'blurry as hell', though these clips were a bit too bright to project as well as i'd hoped. the other stuff was mostly night driving, resulting in some great footage of fuzzy light forms dancing around slowly (mostly from footage driving on the highway between north van and coquitlam). also had one small section of the ocean filmed close up - next time i do visuals i think i'm going to play with this idea a lot more. the ocean projected well and provided a lot of visual stimulation with wide variance depending on how close i was filming to the water.

there is this cool 8 x 8 x 8 cube that you can either perform in or use for seating. i set up a laptop and projected about a thousand heavily photoshopped shots from our travel photos this summer. big thanks to whoever invented batch processing.

yuriko iga, who runs blim, deserves a heap of respect for providing an excellent venue for these kinds of things. it's people like her that help keep the arts vibrant in a lazy city like vancouver.

show at blim, vancouver, october 16th, 2004.