Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Book, edit

Here is a 3 minute edit of The Book which I worked on with Avy-K Productions last year. The Book, 3 Minute Edit from lucaskrech on Vimeo. Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please leave …

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Fractals in the Woods

Recent work. Digital media. This series takes as its inspiration the idea of a fractal which exhibits the same shapes and characteristics regardless of the level of magnification one inspect…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:10PM
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Live looping video experiment

Here is a 3 minute edit of some live looping video done in collaboration with Avy-K and dancers. Video Loop Experiment from lucaskrech on Vimeo. Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:09PM
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Exploring Gauguin

Recent work. Digital media. Exploring the color palettes of Paul Gauguin Bonjour 1 Bonjour 4 RiT1 RiT3a Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please leave any comments there.

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 01:10PM
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Quartz Composer/eMotion Test

Playing with Quartz Composer integration with eMotion video software. Enjoy! QC.eMotion.Test from lucaskrech on Vimeo. Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please leave any comments there.

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:09PM
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Labrynth Video Test

Here is a sketch for the video component of a work in progress with Avy-K Productions. Sound is by Alex Sigman and is designed to process the incoming video data and generate the audio, a ni…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:08PM
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Nature vs. Nurture

Two from the California Countryside. Two from California Urban. California Wildflowers California Wildflowers 2 MoonRise The Soccer Game Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please leav…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 07:08PM
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

New Life

On 8 May 2012 my life changed forever in the best possible way. Tesla She Sleeps We Sleep Lunch with Granny Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please leave any comments there.

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:09PM
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Power to the People

Oakland May Day 2012. Visual effects made in Quartz Composer. Audio built in Audacity 2. Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please leave any comments there.

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:08PM
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Vodka Dreams

I found a series of Soviet era anti-drinking ads and thought they would be fun to play with. Below are some of the results of these experiments. Originally published at Light Cue 23. P…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:08PM
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Happy May Day – General Strike

In honor of the May Day General Strike here is some new artwork of mine derived from or inspired by the Occupy Movement. Source material includes photographs, posters, and logos. The Cheshi…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 11:08AM
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Faces of Arrest

Faces of arrestees at the Occupy Oakland January 28th Move-in day action. From stills based on LiveStream footage shot by Spencer @OakFoSho Mills. Originally published at Light Cue 23…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:09PM
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Natural Media/Digital Design

Playing around with natural media textures. Trying find an organic/digital balance. Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please leave any comments there.

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:10PM
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Recent work from the week of April 2nd

Some new work from this past week. Working with natural media textures and representational imagery. The first based on a photograph I took in New York last summer. The second from a product…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:32PM
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Thug Life

Below is a series of digital stills I have been working on. Taken from Livestream footage by Spencer @OakFoSho Mills at an Occupy Oakland event. These police officers were violating their ow…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:09PM
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

No Badge Remix

Continuing playing with Studio Artist 4 I built an animation from some found footage shot by Spencer @OakFoSho Mills at an Occupy Oakland raid. Animation was done in Studio Artist 4, composi…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:10PM
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

What I did on Spring Break

What better thing to do while on vacation than play with software between trips to the beach and downing MaiTais. The software in question is Studio Artist and it is a lot of fun. I spent so…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 11:38PM
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Violence and the Art of Recouperation

The use of pepper spray has taken center stage in our cultural dialog. Be it police spraying peaceful protestors or shoppers “competing” (an amazing euphemism for unrestrained vi…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:09AM
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

8-bit Luminosity

About a year and a half ago I lit a dance piece that explored the relationship between humanity and technology. It had a large video component including live interactive video. In considerin…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 12:57PM
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

TimeLapse

I’ve been in the process of learning a couple of computer graphics programs and the programming language Procesing. I have long been interested in video and computer graphics and have …

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 04:58PM
Monday, March 14, 2011

The Last Five Years (or Happy Birthday Blog)

Five years ago yesterday I wrote my first post in this space. It was actually a continuation of an earlier blog that was in the process of evolving from personal to work blog. What began on …

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 11:07AM
Monday, March 7, 2011

WestWave Dance Festival – Pictures

Last November I lit a showing of the WestWave Dance Festival in San Francisco. The evening consisted of a selection of shorter works, averaging 15-20 minutes in length, by five different cho…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 10:10AM
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Carmen Opens Tonight

West Edge Opera’s production of Carmen opens this evening at the El Cerrito Performing Arts Theater. Get your tickets here. Originally published at Light Cue 23. Please leave any comm…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 01:11PM
Monday, February 28, 2011

It’s the art stupid

My work ranges a long vertical spectrum from the basements of art galleries to 1st National Broadway tours. It also has a wide aesthetic spectrum from the deeply esoteric dramatizations of p…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 10:07AM
Monday, February 21, 2011

Professional(ism)

This past summer I was visiting my sister and her family. My niece and nephew were in a community theater production of The Wizard of Oz. I got to see the final performance of their run. The…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 10:08AM
Monday, February 14, 2011

at the end of the tunnel

During the Passover Seder participants relate the liberation of Jews from Egypt to their own lives. The word for Egypt is Mitzrayyim. While used to refer to the Egypt of Jewish enslavement, …

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 10:08AM
Monday, February 7, 2011

Death and Taxes, OK just taxes

I filed my taxes this weekend. Well, rather I sent all my financial info off to my accountant and he compiled it and let me know how much I owe. A very pleasant number by the way. The whole …

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 03:33PM
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

The Real Value of a Good Electrician

Last week I wrote about trouble with a show in terms of being incorrectly informed about inventory and house plot units. A bit of a cliffhanger that was, so I wanted to give you the resoluti…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 02:59PM
Monday, January 24, 2011

Moving Problems

I just had a phone call from my ME for an upcoming show. Good News and Bad News. Good News: The theater has a larger inventory than we initially thought. So we can return most of the rental.…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 10:07AM
Monday, January 3, 2011

Beginnings

Here we are on the first Monday of a new year. 2011. Beginnings like this, similar in many ways to birthdays, are a common place to make resolutions for change. I have come to realize after …

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 10:07AM
Monday, December 27, 2010

The Year in Review 2010

It sure has been a productive year here at Light Cue 23. Over a hundred blog posts, most of them 1-2 page essays (if written in a non-digital format), so somewhere between 100-200 pages of t…

SOURCE: lucaskrech.livejournal.com at 10:07AM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards