Category: Projection

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Projection Show at Beaver Creek

Once again working with The Bezark Company and Z Frame we created a new projection based activation for the Beaver Creek Resort Company. The goal was to add an element of fun and surprise to the main village square at Beaver Creek.

A composite image consisting of a series of frosty ski shapes that roughly form a mountain profile. Super imposed on the skis are images of people skiing and enjoying the Colorado winter.

We created a roughly 90 second “feature” that plays at the top of the hour and 4 separate looks that play throughout the hour that feature the seasons of the Colorado mountains.

A composite image made up of 5 aspen trees as if we are looking up at them. In the gaps between their trunks are images of people enjoying Beaver Creek in the summer months.

When finished we had an hours worth of content that can seamlessly loop every night to help brighten and enliven Beaver Creek Village. Special thanks to the Bezarks and the artists at Z Frame for bringing the project to life!

Blooloop press release: https://blooloop.com/brands-ip/news/bezark-company-beaver-creek-resort/

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Yuri’s Night 2022

A graphic logo of Yuri Gagrin in a space helmet. The logo is for Yuri's Night, the world space party.

Every year a group of space enthusiasts gather to celebrate human kind’s achievments and dreams of existing as a space faring species. In honor of the first human to orbit it’s called Yuri’s Night.

“Yuri’s Night is the World Space Party. Every year on or around April 12th we celebrate all that humanity brings with us as we explore the cosmos: music, art, science, culture, and each other!”

For 2022 we were invited to projection map the SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) that sat in the hangar with the Endeavour orbiter. Working with Z Fame artists we created a variety of looks to play throughout the event. Some were looping environmental looks while others were audio reactive to sync with the music played by the various DJs at the party.

For the signature look for 2022 I created outlines of the various machines that had been carried to orbit by Endeavour with a squiggly outline pattern on the SSME itself. A particle cloud that danced with the music in the room filled out the background. All of the programming was done with Touch Designer which allowed us to play with the graphics live during the event. Take a look at the quick video we put together here:

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Jacked: Panthera Atrox

Another collaboration with Cynthia Minet. Jacked: Panthera Atrox is the latest of her incredible animal creations built from reclaimed plastic and this time animated with a similar mechanism to a pump jack used to push oil out of the ground. The lioness’ head tilts up and down with the rhythmic movement of the pump arm.

A photo of a sculpture made of reclaimed plastics and LED lights. It's a representation of an extinct lion, Panthera Atrox. The photo shows it on display in the window of the Craft Contemporary museum in Los Angeles.
Panthera Atrox on display at the Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles

I worked with Cynthia to install the LED lighting throughout the sculpture and programmed the colors using an Arduino and the FastLED library. This allowed us to tune each individual LED to the color based on the light’s location within the sculpture.

Jacked was on exhibit at the Craft Contemporary and stood in the window opposite the La Brea tar pits.

3D printed skulls lit from below with projected, animated text beside them

In addition to the Panthera Atrox Cynthia had printed three skulls of animals that have been lost to extinction. We installed mini projectors above the skulls and I animated the text displayed by each skull to slowly disintegrate in After Effects. The text is from Charles Harper Webb’s poem, “The Animals are Leaving”.

For more information on the installation visit Cynthia’s Jacked: Panthera Atrox page.