Boipeba - Digital Collage

Now i'm finally back to digital collaging!!! Just finished it, working for 3 nights on this:

boipeba

I used only my photos (mostly from boipeba - bahia, brazil). I'm really tired of this copyright nonsense, locking for images i can use freely, gonna take more photos now again. To see the original photos, pass the mouse over the image boipeba @ flickr.com. I also posted a screenshot of the photoshop layers so you can take a look on how easy it is to make this things:

I made it specially to use as wallpaper, but for my monitor needed to cut the sides a but, you can get it here (1280x1024 px).

Like always, you can get the original size (nice print quality) for free.

5 new baseball collages

Here are 5 new baseball collages that i'm sending to the USA. They will be part of a virtual exhibition at www.baseballart.org (still offline yet). Enjoy:

"Baseball 10 (basebull)"


"Baseball 09 (baseoil)"


"Baseball 08"


"Baseball 07 (What Can I Do For You)"


"Baseball 06 (baserage)"

Check if it fits before cutting

Here is a little video tutorial i made on how to check if an image will fit in your collage.



YouTube Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-bF1A3WSk

YouTube: Your Video with my Song

Nice! YouTube Labs 'made arrangements with artists and record labels so that you can add their songs to your YouTube videos'. I wasn't aware of it, but one song i released in ccmixter as Sohaclara is there: noTV. Two strong possibilities: 1- it got an Editorial Pick in ccmixter and 2- the name noTV.
So if you have a video on YouTube, go to AudioSwap page, click 'Try AudioSwap' then you'll choose a video and by clicking 'Replace Audio', you'll be redirected to a page like this:

Go to Genre: Electronica > Artist: Sohaclara > Track: noTV.

If you do change your audio with this song, sent me the link in the comments here.

a nonlinear rio sampa trip

A Nonlinear Rio Sampa Trip

view it in: youtube, google video.
download: highQuality .avi or iPod .mp4 version.

Filmed on March/09/2006 with my old (and dead) Canon PowerShot A300 digital camera, during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo. I remember that i had a terrible hangover that day, almost stayed in bed. The song is Drala, from Glen Velez (i'm sure he don't mind that i used it : ).

And i edited it on Feb/13&14/2007 (yesterday and before, at night) with (the crappy) iMovie. Crappy because i realised during this edition that singleTrack editing is too limited. Example, the part that wents black (in 2min) is because i couldnt anchor the clips to the audio. So during the 'audio syncing' on the latter clips, it moved a little the backwards clip to the right, so i got a nice black gap there... terrible! Anyway, i'm trying to install Final Cut Pro here, hope it runs...

I used only the basic effects and transitions, and one that i specially love is the mirror effect. I've seen it many times, but one video that uses it the best (and yes, mine is a kind of homage to this) is the music video of Four Tet - She Moves She (see here or here). Mirror effect works very well for minimal music (i tried using other four tet, steve reich, but i preferred glen velez). Here is a screenshot of iMovie and its mirror effect:

This my first finished attempt to edit video and specially trying to sync it with the music. So i hope that with practice i can get my ideas into reality (and, of course, random beauties are also welcomed).

PS: Another related video i've made is Brasilia 360º (unedited but very nice).

Nature Shorts

Sometimes i think i should apply to a job at National Geographic...






Butterfly

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Tree Storm Fingers

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Palm Tree ByeBye

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Starfish (Estrela do Mar)
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Praying Mantis

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Walden Insect

Terry Riley

It's been almost one month since i'm almost everyday listening to the minimalist Terry Riley.
I advice you specialy: Atlantis Nath (download here) and No Man's Land. Minimalist piano (and sometimes he sings too) with touches of indian music. Amazing stuff!