Another enchanting day with the Baron & Baron team. Took alot of toys into the desert, nearly got blown away with wind at times, and ended up using a single projector for these shots. So many amazing images and moments came out of this day beyond what I was involved in.
Fabien Baron Director
Christophe Deri Creative Director
Philippe LeSourd DP
Will Urie Gaffer
Remote visual project with the Alicia Keys team. AK, Kaash, and Diamonds all separately recorded green screen footage that was sent to me.
full 4k Visual is on Alicia Keys YouTube here.
remix features Kaash Paige and Diamond Platnumz
Touchdesigner used for the primary construction.
Directed / Produced > James “Yayo” Bailey
Shot by Ramon Rivas
More lighting and laser work with Fabien Baron and the Baron and Baron team. I honestly treasure every time I share a space with Fabien because of the energy and love he puts into everything. He gave me ton of freedom on this one and we share a love of this bright things in dark spaces approach in both of our work. Its fun to run towards his vision.
Embassy Row reached out and asked me to design a workflow and technically produce the 9 episodes of “Inside the Boys” this season. Epic XR project with a team I assembled that felt like an all star list of my favorite partners. Aggressive on the animation and world building side again. Fuse supporting me on LED. Lighting, rigging, servers, full turnkey show from my west coast team with brand new Show Ninja servers for 4k XR systems. Built many extremely useful functionalities custom to this show that will help other shows moving forward. Touchdesigner for the shell and behavior functions with Notch drawing the XR world sandbox style. We used Stype for tracking. Touchdesigner programming by myself and Notch work by Aggressive and Tigrelab team. Great support from the Touch team as always and made new friends with the engineers and creators at Notch. Super fun project I wont forget.
Really fun home project with Nikki Nair and DJ ACEY for a Worst Behavior Records release.
Entire video is built from a single phone video of Acey throwing down some authentic Chicago footwork/juke feet.
Built in Touchdesigner in one night with Anna Morgan sitting shotgun.
Label:
Worst Behavior Recs:
https://worstbehaviorrecs.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/worstbehavi...
https://soundcloud.com/WORSTBEHAVIORRECS
Nikki Nair:
https://nikkinair.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/nikki__nair/
https://soundcloud.com/nikki-nair
Dancer:
DJ ACEY
https://djacey.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/aceyth3p/
Working with Batwin and Robin and the team at Fuse Technologies. The Earth’s Call climate conference opening concert with so many amazing artists, in a stunning setting. A joy of a gig. The fabric sails are a permanent part of this venue. 18 outputs of Barco UDX double stacks. Lots of mapping and large canvas playback. 2.5 hour concert with timecode and hand triggered portions. Show programming in Touchdesigner.
Working alongside Fuse Technologies again to support ABC News for the democratic primary debate. TSU in Houston. Huge show of high end LED walls and projection. Playback and cueing for the entire arena run within Touchdesigner. More than 14 million live viewers.
Another quarantine remote project.
Daniel Stewart, a very dear old friend from IU music school is now the conductor at Santa Cruz Symphony and San Francisco Youth.
He reached out for “something better than glorified zoom” to show this Mason Bates composition that the members had recorded themselves at home for.
They gave me 88 videos, we worked on getting them as synced as possible, and then I pulled them all in Touchdesigner and started playing with instancing and testing the limits of my playback throughput.
Really nice to work in the classical world again after so many years away from it.
Laser and Projection fun with DP and fellow racer, Macgregor for Acura 2022 MDX reveal video.
Macgregor case study page HERE
Work with the Aggressive.tv team again.
My roll was a mix of moving lights, rear LED wall and flanking projection scrims.
Also got to bring in my NYC dance community and choreographer friend Soraya Lundy for a fun couple days.
Laser design for fashion film shoot. One of my favorite shoots ever. This type of work leads to fun study time on beam irradiance.
SS 18 Bottega Veneta Reflections campaign.
7 short films shot across a couple days.
Director: Fabien Baron
Art Director: Christophe Derigon
Cinematographer: Philippe LeSourd.
Make up : Mark Carrasquillo
Gaffer: Will Urie
Key Grip: Johnny London Jr.
Dream team.
Other sites for the campaign:
http://baron-baron.com/fashion/bottega-veneta/
https://www.bottegaveneta.com/us/unisex/art-of-collaboration-spring-summer-18_grd32535
Fun car treatments with good friends at Aggresive.tv again.
We built a 3 mil LED structure 30' high, 120' linear, 3 sided box with an additional ceiling on motorized trolleys and rigged for tilting.
Custom touchdesigner engine for driving 10 outputs of 1920 x 1080 cued from camera automation.
Live color grading LED as well as painting the position of the LED ceiling on the car per shot proved to be very effective.
Aggresive's page for the shoot is here:
Laser lit dance project with Mela Sierra.
Creating goddess mythologies with light.
Lighting and laser design, edit, post, music by me.
Thomas Wallis DP
Shot custom content, designed and handled projection canvasing and control system for this stunning Villa Eugenie designed Tiffany and Co. Blue Book dinner and party.
Rally on the River event for American Express and the 2015 US Open
Momentum reached out to me about a few water shows at the same time including this one. It went through many versions of grandeur before time and logistics placed us on a pier with a water curtain.
The event centered around a realtime interactivity component with animation engines, sound FX, lighting and lasers responding to players and tennis ball position.
Here are three videos, one of the actual deliverable edit, one a compilation of assets from Volvox, and the third a full event recording.
Links of colleagues who took part:
Another request from John McGuire for custom Kinect software.
Point cloud work with skeleton.
Handful of generative engines and lighting desk control methods developed by myself and Elburz Sorkhabi.
Developed custom software for tour video production.
Kinect Avatar puppet environment with lighting control.
Custom live camera FX
Put to the task by John McGuire and with the help of Elburz Sorkhabi.
Bionic League reached out during a very busy fashion week for Kanye. I was tasked with using an LED ceiling as a light box similar to office fluorescents with as much flexibility and color shift as possible. Used Touchdesigner to create the grid and drove each cell as a fixture from the lighting desk for motion.
Working with the broadcast team to find this stark, cold, almost macabre vibe with emptiness behind at certain moments was an interesting coloring task. Models needed to look great in the space while also creating a very stylized look on camera.
Ended up creating an interface in the lemur to run the cells and work the color mixing on an ipad from out on the floor with models in the space during rehearsal creative process.
Music video for Lion Babe track “The Wave”
A modern process of a classic style. Used a lot of Touchdesigner in this one for compositing.
The track has been selected by the American Heart Association as the official song for their “Kids Heart Challenge,” a nationwide physical education initiative aimed to get kids in participating schools dancing as a means of heart-healthy exercise and raise funds for the organization’s life-saving mission.
Experiential event working with 1st Ave Machine.
Built a number of custom graphics and lighting control engines for both installation experiences and the performance stage.
Audio responsive projection and LED control.
Lighting, Projection, Rigging design.
The Last Encore campaign for Adidas NMD.
Shows took place at the original Tunnel nightclub in NYC as well as the iconic Poodle Parlor in LA.
Projection work with friends at Aggressive.tv.
Walls, floor and scrim projection used for scenic and backdrop. Promo for new series on Oxygen network.
Aggresive case study here.
More tactile, in camera projection work with friends at Aggressive.tv. Technocrane in projection box setup.
Bringing in the 2019 new year with Anna Morgan.
Anna kicked off the Bassnectar360 show in North Carolina.
Built a fun visuals engine to work with the sweet 360 LED setup for this show. Fun rig to play with. Also fun to work with Peter Sistrom driving another Touchdesigner system for the Bassnectar show.
Another chance to work with Fabien Baron and Bottega.
Very simple lasers can be so striking in these environments.
Director: Fabien Baron
Working with Lair and Momentum Worldwide for the launch of the new Ferrari.
Projection, lighting and rigging design.
Lair shot and created content we used for a 5 city tour of reveal events around the US.
BMF agency asked me to create an entry experience to calm down people entering the Sheraton demo space from the hectic and hot streets of Times Square.
I built a generative particle engine with real time wind and leaves sourced from Sheraton branding.
Integrated the environment into one canvas spanning 6 projectors and 4 Monitors.
Monitors cycled through data points as wind engine runs down the hallway walls and floor.
Turnkey LiveX production.
Touchdesigner used for engine and mapping
Working for Viacom on the Nickelodeon Up fronts at Lincoln Center.
10 projector mapping of what was affectionately called “the birthday cake”.
Included video LED rendering across a couple hundred blades.
Also built content and VJ engine for Pitbull performance portion of show.
Big bright show with a fun team.
Water fan projection design working with:
Momentum Worldwide
Collective at Lair
Mirage Waterworks
Got a chance to provide projection backdrops with color grading for a couple scenes of the Miley Cyrus video “Younger Now”. A simple task that caused me to be present for a fun set and shoot.
Directed by Diane Martel
Being from Appalachia, Miley holds a special place for me and it was a blast to work with her team for a day. Great vibes all around, warmed my heart to hear familiar accents from her family; Watching her and Diane work is a riot. Got to see the Jeremy Scott looks photo shoot the same day. How the two work together to pull off fun photos was really playful and special.
Post Show in the tent outside of the Forum following the MTV VMAs.
Tasked by Viacom to build content and mapping engine for LED sculpture style scenery.
VJ’d the full tent from Production Bot briefcase running Touchdesigner.
Got another opportunity to design a performance lighting look on Late Show with Letterman. This time for Tove Lo.
This was a tricky one. Less than a week to prepare. Have never met Tove. Letterman as a workflow only includes a short afternoon rehearsal. Approximately 3 run throughs of your song. Load in and tech in 4 hours in the morning. Hang projectors and trace out the set as quickly as possible.
Lighting balance with a mixture of dim tungsten and moving light color temp. Front light of projector black. Bright blue reflective floor.
Wow.
The CBS team is so pro and a joy to work with. We were able to include a small cast of NYC dancers to support the club atmosphere Tove wanted to create. I reached out to my network and pulled some aces on short notice.
Amanda Spilinga
Ghost of New York
Gregorio Hernandez
Jeff Selby
Soraya Lundy
The primary design goal was to create a different look than had been on Letterman in the past while creating a current club atmosphere in line with the aesthetic of the official video.
I had a chance to direct lighting on Late Show with Letterman for singer/songwriter Ryn Weaver.
It was a really special day for me personally because of the history I have on that 53rd St block. 14 years earlier I was a performer across the street at the Broadway with Blast!. I used to go to rehearsals at Letterman of amazing artists and I still have a Juliette Lewis signed, Natural Born Killers soundtrack from meeting her over there. A few years later I found myself working back at the Broadway as a climbing lighting and projection tech for a number of shows. Ive worked sound next door at studio 54, as well as lighting and projection for shows at the Roseland. Letterman was the last theater on that block to check off and the late night team is all changing over to Colbert in May so time was running out. The team was really friendly and open to what I wanted to try. Big thanks to Tim Stephenson and Richard Tyndall for really nailing the look and putting homework time into the programming for us.
Ryn is excited, full of creativity, beautiful and definitely dropping into some big waves right now with a great team of producers and management around her. Spent a few hours with her management and Benny Blanco hanging out backstage talking about her album that is almost finished and its got a lot of people excited.
Another commercial project with friends at aggressive.tv/
Projection tight face, backdrop and a couple side fill projectors.
Mix of Touchdesigner and photoshop network feed.
High refresh projection design for commercial high fps setting.
Front and rear projection.
Designed a projection mapping system for launch of Bentley's GT3 R version continental. Aggressive.tv on the animation. Touchdesigner for the mapping and playback.
Agency:
Momentum Worldwide
Collective at Lair
Visceral video art with the powerful force that is Natalli Reznik.
Not an intended release piece.
Track is "Beaches" by Lana Del Rey
Simply what came out of getting in a room together and seeing what happened. No brand or motivation besides being creative.
Touchdesigner used for projection as well as post production.
Projection system and content work for music video.
George Maple video for “Hero” track
Set was white wall horseshoe with front projection.
Touchdesigner for content manipulation and mapping.
Working with drawings by Marcos Chin of Brienne for the Game of Thrones season 6 launch art party #artthethrone.
Took still drawings by Marcos and created video intended for projection on translucent or dark surface, brick in the case of the party.
Use case video for the Production Bot portable computer.
Designed a few different lighting and software installations for a Vice/Bacardi/LolaWolf house party in Miami.
Some analog old school feedback, overhead projectors as well as a pile of controllers and broken VCRs that were driving a vine video recording, touchdesigner/VDMX custom FX system behind one of the walls.
Tossed some lighting programming and projection on the performance that was filmed that night.
Lolawolf rocks.
Fun gig.
Walls Speedway New Jersey.
Round 4 of Formula Drift 2016
Friends with FD hooked me up with a media vest when I came to watch the event this year.
Best seat in the house yielded some fun focus point practice.
1000 HP engines and clouds of tire smoke going in circles around me all day.
While working for Livestream in 2012, I found myself doing a mixture of cutting cameras or shooting photos for a number of shows for Made Fashion Week at Milk Studios in New York. Here are just a handful of favorite photos I managed to get. I honestly enjoy the backstage personalities and interactions more than shooting runway.
While working for Livestream in 2012, I found myself doing a mixture of cutting cameras or shooting photos for a number of shows for Made Fashion Week at Milk Studios in New York. Here are just a handful of favorite photos I managed to get. I honestly enjoy the backstage personalities and interactions more than shooting runway.
Video art piece created for Paul Mathieu furniture collection launch at Fendi Casa NYC.
Experiments with spherical lenses and symetrical texture wraps.
