You are fantastic! I've been making video feedback for 12 years, and I thought I was becoming an expert, but you have seriously gone where no man has gone before. So fortuitious that those HD field moniters have external control modules! That's what I've been craving. A control module. I don't understand how the mirroring and beam-splitting work, but it's phenomenal how you're getting cuttlefish and ferns - microstructures fractalling off into the micro. And so amazaing that Douglas Hofstadter saw your work! That's a dream of mine. My friends in college were reading his stuff when they got me into video feedback. Such a wonderful world!
this is the coolest feedback rig i've seen. I used to set a camera on an old sweater and rotate it around to get stuff like this. not in HD though, and you'd get so much of that blue blur. This is so crisp!
Absolutely brilliant! I have been tinkering with a solution to adequately capture video feedback, and I had conceptualized a machine something like this. Fantastic work, it looks amazing.
Holy crap, that's amazing! I have done a lot of fractal art over the last 30 years or so, and I have a pretty good grasp of how a lot of the components of this work, but some of that is just astonishing, and I am still puzzling over it. Well done! Really tremendous! ❤️😍👍
When you hook up a camera to a monitor and point the camera at the monitor, it sees its own image inside of the image of the TV and repeats until its so small you cant perceive it. It's like a frame within a frame within a frame ad infinitum. I think most people likely experienced this in their lives by hooking a family or personal video camera up to the TV to watch home movies but also having the option of putting the video feed on the TV. It's objectively trippy and easily recognize-able as such. I *think* this is just like that only to the extreme, and hes messing with video settings while it happens to change color, luminosity, contrast, etc.
Avant-garde porno music with insane visuals. I love it. Well done! Where does the initial image come from, though? Like, microphone feedback needs something to start it (even if just static from the system). Do you have to choose something to display initially?
Thanks - yes, it is very similar to audio feedback - if the room is quiet you won't get any unless the gain is way up and noise is introduced. Similarly, to start video feedback you turn the brightness knob for the monitor way up for a moment, then back down - then you ride that brightness knob to keep the image from either going away to blackness or filling the screen with white. It's the gray area, the middlespace, where anything interesting happens, with feedback, and with most things in life. See my description here: lightherder.blogspot.com/2010/08/original-lightherder-header.html Having monitors with the analog knobs is so important to creating controlled video feedback, and why finding these HD monitors with those knobs allowed the creation of this contraption: walkswithdave.tumblr.com/post/618946651221082112 - D
What is the name of component being used to increase color/brightness/contrast/etc on the camera. Also what type of camera are you using? Trying to get into video feedback and looking at different set ups and yours is so remarkable!
Thanks - if you want to see how I built this setup, there's an article in Make Magazine here: makezine.com/projects/freaky-fractals-hd-video-feedback-machine/ If you want to see the evolution of this into something much more complex, go here: www.thelightherder.com. The camera is not as important as the monitors, which need the hue/brightness/contrast/saturation knobs. The monitors I'm using are pretty cheap on ebay (the model is mentioned in the article).
That's pretty cool and refined... have you seen any of Grady's work...? @ tryptonmedia.com we used to play this game when he was doing live work with the portal...(feedback with projector you can step into) he would be working his fractals, and I had this really bright white jacket, and it seeded these huge purple blobs into his flow, that ate away at his fractals like a bacteria, and had to compete to maintain his overlay... it made for fun battle... nice work.
Thanks! I checked out your site - really cool stuff you're doing, mixing the musicians in. Check out this one where I kind of did that: ua-cam.com/video/U00VMVkA99A/v-deo.html
I knew someone would eventually mention the fingernails. I had been working with glue and wood stain just before shooting this. I have thought about re-shooting the closeups.
You are fantastic! I've been making video feedback for 12 years, and I thought I was becoming an expert, but you have seriously gone where no man has gone before. So fortuitious that those HD field moniters have external control modules! That's what I've been craving. A control module. I don't understand how the mirroring and beam-splitting work, but it's phenomenal how you're getting cuttlefish and ferns - microstructures fractalling off into the micro. And so amazaing that Douglas Hofstadter saw your work! That's a dream of mine. My friends in college were reading his stuff when they got me into video feedback. Such a wonderful world!
That's insane! If you could somehow get part of it to move or shake to the beat, I think my head would probably explode.
That's a good idea.
Wow just beautiful work of art and genius video feedback loop rigging!
Thanks. Make sure to check out the latest video: ua-cam.com/video/KgK9sW8Em28/v-deo.html
hands down best video feedback ever done!
Thanks!
this is crazy hypnotyzing!
Thank you for sharing. This is a very exciting development.
Fractalicious
Beautiful breathtaking visuals
Simply amazing
Badass, brings to mind a lot of the in-camera and analog effects from the scanimate era but with much improved clarity. I’m into it.
this is the coolest feedback rig i've seen. I used to set a camera on an old sweater and rotate it around to get stuff like this. not in HD though, and you'd get so much of that blue blur.
This is so crisp!
Absolutely brilliant! I have been tinkering with a solution to adequately capture video feedback, and I had conceptualized a machine something like this. Fantastic work, it looks amazing.
So cool
Masterful.
Holy crap, that's amazing! I have done a lot of fractal art over the last 30 years or so, and I have a pretty good grasp of how a lot of the components of this work, but some of that is just astonishing, and I am still puzzling over it.
Well done! Really tremendous! ❤️😍👍
Thanks! There's plenty of explanation and process-type videos here: walkswithdave.tumblr.com/tagged/videofeedbackkineticsculpture
This is so awesome. Cheers to you for being so clever.
LOVE THIS!
very good quality, nice!
super cool project with some very nice results. well done sir.
This was way better than the video camera, projector feedback loop we made, but o so similar! Very nice
This is really inspiring to what I am working on in my studio space, really fantastic work and beautiful visuals!!
I'm not really sure how that works, but the result is great! Nice job!
When you hook up a camera to a monitor and point the camera at the monitor, it sees its own image inside of the image of the TV and repeats until its so small you cant perceive it. It's like a frame within a frame within a frame ad infinitum. I think most people likely experienced this in their lives by hooking a family or personal video camera up to the TV to watch home movies but also having the option of putting the video feed on the TV. It's objectively trippy and easily recognize-able as such. I *think* this is just like that only to the extreme, and hes messing with video settings while it happens to change color, luminosity, contrast, etc.
Amazing rig. This puts my paltry efforts to shame.
This is it!!!!!
Insane
Avant-garde porno music with insane visuals. I love it. Well done!
Where does the initial image come from, though? Like, microphone feedback needs something to start it (even if just static from the system). Do you have to choose something to display initially?
Thanks - yes, it is very similar to audio feedback - if the room is quiet you won't get any unless the gain is way up and noise is introduced. Similarly, to start video feedback you turn the brightness knob for the monitor way up for a moment, then back down - then you ride that brightness knob to keep the image from either going away to blackness or filling the screen with white. It's the gray area, the middlespace, where anything interesting happens, with feedback, and with most things in life.
See my description here: lightherder.blogspot.com/2010/08/original-lightherder-header.html
Having monitors with the analog knobs is so important to creating controlled video feedback, and why finding these HD monitors with those knobs allowed the creation of this contraption: walkswithdave.tumblr.com/post/618946651221082112
- D
What is the name of component being used to increase color/brightness/contrast/etc on the camera. Also what type of camera are you using? Trying to get into video feedback and looking at different set ups and yours is so remarkable!
Thanks - if you want to see how I built this setup, there's an article in Make Magazine here: makezine.com/projects/freaky-fractals-hd-video-feedback-machine/ If you want to see the evolution of this into something much more complex, go here: www.thelightherder.com. The camera is not as important as the monitors, which need the hue/brightness/contrast/saturation knobs. The monitors I'm using are pretty cheap on ebay (the model is mentioned in the article).
love it! great idea
You’re hired
Outstanding ! shared. The multi coloured parts must look good with 3-D glasses [the red and blue ones]
woho wicked track too!
😍Nice!
That's pretty cool and refined...
have you seen any of Grady's work...?
@ tryptonmedia.com
we used to play this game when he was doing live work with the portal...(feedback with projector you can step into)
he would be working his fractals, and I had this really bright white jacket, and it seeded these huge purple blobs into his flow, that ate away at his fractals like a bacteria, and had to compete to maintain his overlay... it made for fun battle...
nice work.
Thanks! I checked out your site - really cool stuff you're doing, mixing the musicians in. Check out this one where I kind of did that: ua-cam.com/video/U00VMVkA99A/v-deo.html
great work Music credit?
Thanks! It's in the description.
What kind of production monitors/control dials do you use?
Hi - you can check out everything involved in the build process here: walkswithdave.tumblr.com/tagged/videofeedbackkineticsculpture/chrono
Awesome thank you!
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People just aren't this cool anymore.
That is damn cool! Clean your fingernails...
I knew someone would eventually mention the fingernails. I had been working with glue and wood stain just before shooting this. I have thought about re-shooting the closeups.
@@thelightherder sorry man, couldn't help myself. Seriously awesome stuff though!
@@AnthonyFrancis76 Not a problem. Thanks!