Edward Bond: A Critical study

Fantastic news today, as I find myself a published photographer in a newly released book by Peter Billingham on playwright Edward Bond. You can grab a copy of it here should you fancy.

 In 2012 I was involved in photography for Peter Billingham’s production of Edward Bond’s ‘The Children’. A couple of these were snapped up by the publisher for this book and I lent a hand elsewhere with some photo correction. If you’d like to see a few of these then pop over to here.

I'll put up a snap of the book when I get a physical copy in my hands.

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Bullet Time Rig

...shh. We're still hush hush about the secret project.

However I can reveal that I built a bullet time rig for it. I don't think I'm going to use it for this particular project after all but I'm sure it will come in useful in the future.


If anyone is interested in how I made this I might put up a how to guide.

Secret Project

Well, I've got a new project on the way, TBA just after the turn of 2014. I'm not going to say too much just give two mini teasers for you to enjoy.

Teaser 1:



Teaser 2:

Blissfields 2013

Congratulations to the whole blissfield’s team who pulled of yet another fantastic year of fun and frivolities.

This year's lineup had some stonkers in it but none moreso than public service broadcasting. This fantastic outfit perform live soundtracking (which I already love) to CC licensed visuals provided by footage from the internet archive (which is very clever). You should give them a listen and watch here.

This was particularly interesting to me as I’d accidentally ended up installing and running live visuals at the Elysium Lounge at Blissfields. Though the team has run the fire area and chillout system in the past this was the first year we had attempted projections. As such there was a massive amount of material that we needed for the VJs but not a lot of time to produce it. So the idea of creative commons licensed material became very important.

Much like public service announcement I started with historical footage found on the internet archive. This is a wonderful resource for visuals featuring old broadcast films that have fallen out of copyright and some slightly bigger names such as night of the living dead that simply messed up their licence ages ago. Check out the archive here.

This was all very well and good, but it does take an age to cut into something meaningful and useable. Also vintage B&W film stock has certain connotations in itself setting aside the content of films like duck and cover. We really wanted something a bit more geometric and colourful. Thank god for Beeple.

Beeple or Mike Winkleman is a video artist whose previous work includes videos for the like of flying lotus produced for Warp. Very generously he’s put a lot of his visuals available for free online along with the cinema 4d files used to create them. I thoroughly recommend that you check them out as they are amazing.

Inspired by Beeple I’m doing the same in return. I produced 2 original ten minute ambient loops for the overnight chillout show state. These are now available and CC licenced for people to do what they like with.

Mandelbrot variation:


Visualisation - Mandelbrot from Corin Evans-Pritchard on Vimeo.

Shattered glass:

Visualisation - Shattered Glass from Corin Evans-Pritchard on Vimeo.

Share and share alike people,

Enjoy.

The Collector (Trailer)

I've just completed my first ever full 3D animation called the collector.

"The collector is a dark and lonely figure who hates light and music. So great is his hatred that he has stolen the stars from the night sky so that the world is without the light of music of the heavens.

As yet another helpless star is captured and imprisoned in the collector’s larder we join the stars as they are suspended in jars from the ceiling. Even through the dull glass each glows with a soft incandenscene and hums a sad lonely note.

The newest addition to this gallery or lights discovers through longing motion that he can strike his glass prison against his neighbour to free him. In doing so this becomes the story of the stars and their escape."

I did this project in Maya which was a mighty step learning curve. As such the project is a trailer more than a completed piece. If there is enough interest in the long run I hope to get around to telling the full story one day.