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Saturday, 1 July 2017

Random photo effects

Been playing about with different fillers and lighting effects...
Interesting results 😊

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Fire Seed

A few years ago I was toying with the idea to write a piece of music that had that "Epic" and "Classic" eletronic dance feel to it, a track that had that catchy little thingy to it...!
I farted about as ones does pressing many buttons of vairous coloured shapes on my screen.
And after about three week I produced this tune "Fire Seed"
It does have a nice progressive feel to it and holds it own, even after a few years on the back burner.

The video is pretty straight forward and I wanted to re-vamp the the old one and use a more direct
appoarch with just a plain POV of a match strike slowed right down.
I will put my hands up and say that these two pieces of footage were sauced from the internet and are free to use.
I am feeling a touch lazy... I know full well I could of filmed this myself... but "Meh" it was there...
And it saved me thrity minutes of farting about with lights and camera's and shit...!
But saying that I did up the contast and fiddled about somewhat bring the richness of the footage up a level or two, the orginal was a little dark to begin with I felt.
The overlayers are some still shots from a few years back, which I boosted with a few effects.
Just to really bring out the red and orange tones.

All in all a nice tidy little tune and video :)
Good day to you...

Music by: NLiN lOki "Fire Seed" 2011
From his imaginary album
MUSIC FOOD FOR ALIENSYouTube Video Link

Friday, 12 September 2014

Art Installation Hourglass Hard Boiled Ambient

From time to time there are a few people that have the balls to contact me and ask if I might make them one of my more abstract or avant-garde art looking videos.
A couple of months ago one such person did contact me and sent me a piece of their music in the style of ambience.
Ambient tracks can be somewhat of a nightmare when producing a music video, due to the fact that an ambient track can last anywhere from ten mintues to hours in length!
You think I'm joking...Trust me ambient is very easy when composing to simply get lost into.
Your music and your mind become the living dream of soft atmospheric melodies.
Here's a little copy and paste of the email I received from the creator of the music "Hourglass"

"Ok this is 9.30 long...really sorry, however you have great filling skills
i'm sure...
This is called Hourglass btw feat poet Matt Lovegrove, Matt is very dark."

Huh...! 9:30...! Dam girl... Dark...Good...
I've produced videos before now of this length, but the editing and time factors are huge.
When dealing with such mountains I always look for the quickest way to climb and use what I'm given to construct my video.
Hourglass + Eggs + Boiling water = Video.
Althougth I did admittedly have to chop a minute off the end of the track and gentle fade, due to the time frame of the eggs boiling.
There was no loss to the music itself, because of the repetitive nature of the style of music.

Natraully I can't resist adding my little strange black and white character that pops up now and then in such videos as this one.
He is this rather bizzare blend of a Japanese horror character with a twist of Marcel Marceau.
He has appeared before in a few other videos such as Holding Cell and the Kraken videos.
I used some interesting looking effects this time round and played about with green screen by simply spraying a small canvas green and overlayering footage onto that green canvas and finally turned it to black and white.
Totally cost to make this video was £36 or roughly $58 and six eggs...!

On a final note it was said not that long ago in a comment that some of my work had the feel of an "Art Installation" Which I thought was rather lovely and so I have selected a few video's that I have made over the years and made a new playlist on YouTube called "Art Installation"
I hope at some point you get to go through them and have a watch...
Please vist the Soundcloud link on the YouTube video itself and support the artist and his music.
And please share on any media site... Every little helps new artists ideas and concepts get noticed.

YouTube Video link

Thursday, 28 August 2014

The art of Toking

A set of three video based around smoke & smoking.
Naturally this isn't going to get much in the way of taffic on YouTube.
It's a little bit too arty-farty and I sometimes feel myself being somewhat
disappointed over this.
Although it was nice to read a comment about the music I wrote for the piece.
Most tend to forget I actually write the music as well produce these odd videos.
I guess at the end of the day it really doesn't matter that much, its just another
video that goes into a folder and filed away.
And I just move forwards onto the next idea & project...
It is strange how Kathleen Dawson or Kitty D has come out tops, out of everything
I made here on YouTube over the four years.
She is funny though...
YouTube Video Link

Saturday, 2 August 2014

The art of good conversation with Stella

Today I will mainly be talking with my good friend Stella!
The art of good conversation...is very much alive...

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Fx horror make-up "Zom-aRt"

Click Here For YouTube Video

Had an interesting afternoon playing about with these Fx face pieces.
Some good results...

Monday, 26 May 2014

Zombie art...

Friday, 28 March 2014

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Final daRk aRts videos of the "Kraken" project.
All three videos were based upon my illness "multiple sclerosis"
What i've tried to depict within these videos & music, is my own
personal journey with the disease which is slow eating me from
the inside out.
First video shows my old life, the years of dedication
to combatant sports. And the unknowning of the lurking "Kraken"
Summon the Kraken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3KdoBYtRT8

The second video is the disease itself.
The outbreak of "MS" the Kraken.
The twisted and distorted view of the almost Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
illness that can rip a persons world apart.
Fear panic and confusion followed with a small side order of madness.
Release the Kraken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuEXMte4Oy0

The thrid and final video shows the taming of the beast, perhaps
even a gentle sadness.
Your note a 0:17 of this video I left in my "facial tic"
Tic definition, a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular
contraction, twitching of a facial muscle.
Something I wouldn't normal leave in one of my videos, as may know
I rarely show my illness on camrea.
I would normally cut & edit any shaking or tics out of my footage, but
these videos were made for a set purposes.
And if you are wondering why I used the words
"Back" "Sack" and "Kraken"
It wasn't for a cheap laugh...
If I want you to truly feel the pain of the multiple sclerosis then take
a wax strip to your genitals and rip it off...
Art is and always has been "Open to interpretation"

So in conclusion in the six years of living with multiple sclerosis.
I didn't just roll over and die.
I pushed the limits of my mind and became:
Poet - Writer - Music composer - Sound engineer - Film marker
Producer - Comedian - Drag artist - Fx makeup artist - Vlogger
Avant-garde video artist....

lOki
MS didn't turn my world upside down.... I did...!

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

The path of the Kraken

So lately I felt I hadn't really spent anytime of my love for the dark arts.
Stuff that just looks plain wrong on so many different levels.
I thought a small run of three videos would do nicely, and named to follow the theme.
From the summoning, followed swiftly by the rather odd little Demon character.
And the last of the videos which is more or less a slide show, which hopefully shows these black & white pencil sketched effects off well...