New Media by Ryan Adlaf
I had the great pleasure of mixing 6 songs on the new City of Progress record, Human Machine. To be fair, Max had already put the mix together in DP4, all that was needed was some EQ, a little automation, and some Vintage Warmth.
Once you go Vintage you never go back.
Years ago, while I was working nights in Chicago, I started making short films with a fellow night worker. He was a sleep tech, I delivered steaks and cigarettes to the yuppies in the Gold Coast. We found ourselves up and around on a nightly basis until 6am with nothing to do until the idea appeared before us - short films.
We found inspiration and direction by using cartoons/graphic novels as storyboards, and forced ourselves to shoot and edit each piece in one night. Fueled by the crushing boredom of the 2am-6am hours, bottles of wine, and a deep longing for female companionship, I bring you the two ‘best’ of these experiments.
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Black Dollar Productions teamed up with Quiet Pirate Press to create this meditation on what a Web 2.0 video might look like if it was created by an robot Noel Coward. The piece debuted at BETALEVEL’s Late Night Snack in Chinatown.
Two of the robot voices were default Mac text-to-speech voices. The other two, the bawdy Brits, were GhostReader voices. I split the main script into four character scripts and exported each characters lines to audio. After timing the stop motion in Premier, I chopped up each characters audio in Digital Performer and edited it all together with sound effects and Kraftwerk.
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Black Dollar Productions was hired by Quiet Pirate Press as a web media consultant to help build their new website and produce a video piece for an upcoming event.
Their website needs were simple enough: a blog style CMS allowing all Quite Pirate contributors to post articles, and web 2.0 link share, and a mailing list. A fresh MT4 install with a custom layout and plugin enhancements, coupled with a ma.gnolia account and a DreamHost mass mailer list, and the job was done
I had a friend take 805 pictures of my face. I started to get desperate as I tried to find the 2 or 3 good pictures out of the 805 and wound up making a short film.
Headshots are normally pretty depressing to look at, especially the ones where you are half blinking. But a video like this breathes new life into the half-sneeze, the shit-eating grin, and the sex criminial pictures that are normally deleted as soon as they’re opened.
Enjoy!
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Hypnotic and creepy, eh?