“Images contaminate us like viruses.” - Paul Virilio
video paintings: conceptual dv: re-purposed pixels for ambient enjoyment. music, in most cases, by Bradford Reed and Lumendog, a Brooklyn-based collective. best seen flat screen.
BOOTY
Screen grab 2-26-09 of randomly-selected YouTube video
entitled "Big booty girl shaking ass white ass big butt
clap sexy booty dance" color corrected in QuicktimePro
picture slowed down 50% for screen grab repeated 3 times
slowed again 50% and blown up in FCP and compressed to
H264. Music track "030409_C_1pass_slow_build_ref" by Lumendog.
SUITCASE 8
Screen grab of a section of a YouTube clip
of a man carrying a nuclear bomb in a suitcase
from the 1970's British television show "Connections"
starring James Burke, compressed and slowed to 12% of original speed.
MONKS
Details of young people dancing to the Monks
performing 'Complication' live on German television
in 1965 (YouTube posting.) Slowed to 7%, 5%, and 2%
of original speed. Original music track "030909_Dpart2" by Lumendog.
MARFA LIGHTS
Screen grab from YouTube of home video of the Marfa Lights,
slowed 50% and color corrected in FCP and QuicktimePro, compressed to H264.
PLANE APPROACHING LAGUARDIA AIRPORT
Plane approaching La Guardia airport shot from a window
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on 2-25-09 using Canon Elph
still camera, mpeg4 file converted to Quicktime, image
slowed to 25% and modified in playback using QuicktimePro
screen grab compressed to H263 1% quality and slowed again in FCP by 42%.
JEM
Screen grab detail of YouTube posting of the introduction
to the children's animated show Jem and the Holograms, 1985.
Slowed to 10% and processed. Original music track "030909_A" by Lumendog.