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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.
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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…
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.
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Recent work. Digital media. Exploring the color palettes of Paul Gauguin
Bonjour 1
Bonjour 4
RiT1
RiT3a
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Playing with Quartz Composer integration with eMotion video software. Enjoy!
QC.eMotion.Test from lucaskrech on Vimeo.
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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…
Two from the California Countryside. Two from California Urban.
California Wildflowers
California Wildflowers 2
MoonRise
The Soccer Game
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On 8 May 2012 my life changed forever in the best possible way.
Tesla
She Sleeps
We Sleep
Lunch with Granny
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Oakland May Day 2012.
Visual effects made in Quartz Composer. Audio built in Audacity 2.
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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.
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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…
Faces of arrestees at the Occupy Oakland January 28th Move-in day action. From stills based on LiveStream footage shot by Spencer @OakFoSho Mills.
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Playing around with natural media textures. Trying find an organic/digital balance.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
West Edge Opera’s production of Carmen opens this evening at the El Cerrito Performing Arts Theater. Get your tickets here.
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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…
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…
