*had to shed some tears of joy!
(via tionam)
So excited to announce the Kickstarter Campaign for the short film Bumming Cigarettes in celebration of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. I will be scoring the film and I’m honored to be working with filmmaker/artist Tiona M. on her first narrative short featuring an amazing cast and screenplay.
Please help us to raise funds for Tiona to finish this very important film by doing one or all of the following over the next week/30days:
Tell your friends/family to “LIKE”
Bumming Cigarettes Kickstarter Campaign.
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Bumming Cigarettes is a short film about a brief and intimate meeting between a young Black lesbian woman who is in the process of taking an HIV test and a middle aged Black Gay HIV Positive man. Coming off of the devastation of a bad breakup with a girlfriend, Vee musters up the courage to go and take an HIV test to put her worst fears to rest. What she experiences during her trip to a local clinic is much more than she expects while sharing a cigarette with a stranger, Jimmy during the 10 minutes that she awaits her test results. This film explores tough issues that persons living with HIV/AIDS may encounter such as the loss of intimacy with loved ones while also encouraging awareness around HIV/AIDs testing and the way we treat persons living with the disease.
Doing live visuals with @dejha (2 projectors, 2 laptops, Modul8, custom Kinect patch) with experimental trio SMS - Slick Motzer Slick:
Julie Slick, bass Tim Motzer, guitar Eric Slick, drums
December 4th, 2011 at Tritone, Philadelphia
Put together some pics for KYUR8 Webzine Issue 09. view the mag
In the spirit of collaboration and futuristic energy, KYUR8 brings to you the dynamic duo and super music producers King Britt and Rucyl — also known as Saturn Never Sleeps.
Working on some new visual ideas for the SNS live show.
Chakakhantroller, 2008
Indie Music Panel: June 13th
In partnership with Black Lily, Leeway presents a panel discussion featuring women in independent music on Sunday, June 13.The panelists, Rucyl Mills (Philadelphia), Ryat (Philadelphia), and Sarah White (Brooklyn), will discuss the pros and cons of the independent music scene, examine the music scene in Philadelphia versus other markets, explore the paradigm shift in the creation and distribution of music, and discuss practical issues such as management, marketing, and recording. The panelists will also discuss emerging genres in music, alternative technologies, the resurrection of a lo-fi/D.I.Y. aesthetic, how they make activism fit in with their art, and specific challenges they face as women in often male-dominated spaces. This panel is targeted toward emerging musicians who are interested in getting their work out to the public and want to learn more from the experiences of more practiced musicians.
The Indie Music Panel takes place from 2:00pm to 5:00pm at Leeway Foundation (1315 Walnut Street, Suite 832). Registration is FREE. Presented in partnership with Black Lily with additional funding from The Philadelphia Foundation.
![Still from Watch What You Are Interactivos at Eyebeam installation [2008]. Photo by Jeff Howard
Watch What You Are is an immersive computer vision system that links the 2-D virtual world of movies and TV to the 3-D reality of the user. The game starts when the vision tracking system looks for pattern matches between the body position of a movie character and a real time video feed of the participant. When the participant enters into the camera’s field of focus, the beginning of the film (i.e. “Superninjas”, a 70’s kung fu movie) is triggered. The main movie sequence continues to play until a break point occurs where the participant is challenged to mimic the movie character’s position.
By Justin Downs and Rucyl Mills and collaborators Eric Mika, Dan Ribaudo, Subalekha Udayasankar & Jessica Banks](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuz7rwUTIg1qztpq5o1_500.jpg)
Still from Watch What You Are Interactivos at Eyebeam installation [2008]. Photo by Jeff Howard
Watch What You Are is an immersive computer vision system that links the 2-D virtual world of movies and TV to the 3-D reality of the user. The game starts when the vision tracking system looks for pattern matches between the body position of a movie character and a real time video feed of the participant. When the participant enters into the camera’s field of focus, the beginning of the film (i.e. “Superninjas”, a 70’s kung fu movie) is triggered. The main movie sequence continues to play until a break point occurs where the participant is challenged to mimic the movie character’s position.
By Justin Downs and Rucyl Mills and collaborators Eric Mika, Dan Ribaudo, Subalekha Udayasankar & Jessica Banks
Atypical NOISE MAKERS at Painted Bride Arts Center 10.25
Painted Bride asked me to co-curate an evening from their new series “Atypical” which features 20 min performances from 3 artists. We came up with “Noise Makers” for the October 25th performance, and features 3 of my favorite Philly artists right now: Dj Statik, Hezekiah and Ryat.
October 25, 2009 07:00 pm
Tickets: $10
The Chakakhantroller
I hacked an M-Audio trigger finger and turned it into a wearable midi controller that can run a max patch.
we’re live: saturnneversleeps.com
a monthly improvised electronic performance featuring ground-breaking artists, and also where I blog interactive curiosities and all that inspires Saturn Never Sleeps.
follow us on twitter: twitter.com/satnevsleeps
![Photo of a live image processing performance using generative visuals projected onto the brickscreen metaform I constructed with Ana Gutierrez and Maria Mendez. Though originally constructed for an installation, I found the screen to add particular texture to live performance by projecting visuals onto it that were effected in size, color, and rhythm by the parameters of my voice and music.
Brick Screen [2007] is a three dimensional projection screen of 120 mini-screens, 2′ x 8′, meant to add depth and form to any projected image. The software, developed in Max/Jitter, maps projected visuals to each one of the bricks. This project was developed for the Jose Gilbert Ramirez Community Park in Bushwick, Brooklyn and was installed for one night in November 2007.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/EktJPJneQjlhuua7TCDOB8mCo1_500.jpg)
Photo of a live image processing performance using generative visuals projected onto the brickscreen metaform I constructed with Ana Gutierrez and Maria Mendez. Though originally constructed for an installation, I found the screen to add particular texture to live performance by projecting visuals onto it that were effected in size, color, and rhythm by the parameters of my voice and music.
Brick Screen [2007] is a three dimensional projection screen of 120 mini-screens, 2′ x 8′, meant to add depth and form to any projected image. The software, developed in Max/Jitter, maps projected visuals to each one of the bricks. This project was developed for the Jose Gilbert Ramirez Community Park in Bushwick, Brooklyn and was installed for one night in November 2007.
