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My next video project Portable Stories is well underway and if all goes according to plan we’ll start shooting next month. I’ve been lucky enough to sign up some really talented people to help out on the production end, and soon will start casting and shooting. The script has been developing nicely so I hope to find some actors to do it justice.

An excerpt from Portable Stories:

You can take your story anywhere these days.
You can colour it RED, BLACK or BROWN.
Practically any colour you want.
You can make your life an episode in some one else’s…
Talk, be talked about and discuss
These are talkative times.*

*Please note that I have blatently stolen the words “talkative times” from Dylan Robinson. I swear I’ll give them back some day.

On a slightly unrelated note,

Once upon a time, but not that long ago, I had a radio show on a local college fm station. It was a funk/soul show. And I know what you’re thinking, I don’t seem the type that would listen to that sort of music. But that’s where you’re wrong. Even though I took over the show from another guy, I love the sweet, sweet sounds of funk. In particular, artists like James Brown, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and… (forgotten until recently), Lee Fields. Lee is a complicated man. He hasn’t enjoyed the commercial success of the number one soul brother, James B., but by god Lee has soul. My favourite album of his is called Problems and you’ll be doing yourself a favour if you take a few moments and give it a listen. In particular, Rapping with Lee is a killer tune.

Despite two power failures in the same set, Eploding, Plastic & Inevitable was a giant nerd-killing success. We had a huge crowd at the show and pictures + video will be posted as soon as they’ve been proccessed. Thanks to everyone who made it to Open Space for the event.

For those of you who wonder what’s next, it’s happening this Friday. Channel10 will be performing visuals at the Alter Ego party in the Visual Arts building at UVic. I, of course, will be appearing in my brand new robotoverlord costume. It is mostly tape and cardboard but I assure you it is very, very awesome.

If you’re not up for a trek all the way to UVic then you should definitely see the Hank and Lily show at the Metro that same night. Our friend Scott Amos will be showing his magical movies along with the unmistakable, unrestrainable force of Hank and Lily.

If you like cyberpunk, then you must read this…

It may have been Isaac Asimov (though I first heard it via Howard Waldrop) who said there were three orders of science fiction, using the automobile as an example. Man invents the automobile and uses it to chase down the villain: adventure fiction. Man invents the automobile, and a few years later there are traffic jams: social problem fiction. In the third type, man invents the automobile, and another man invents moving pictures: fifty years later, people go to drive-in movies. It is this third order of fiction, social fabric fiction, that was at the heart of cyberpunk.
read the full article from slashdot…

After a week of tech glitches, if finally looks as though we’re ready for the show this Saturday, Exploding, Plastic & Inevitable. Justin has done a great job cutting up new content for the visuals, and I even had some time myself to create a few new animations (see below for a preview.) Among the tech issues we have covered this week; 1) the default settings that my mac book pro + bootcamp shipped with do not allow for dual screen mode in XP and changing those settings, while extremely easy, is not exactly clear when one looks at the video app supplied by ATI (see here http://www.embraced-dc.com/articles/1/ for the fix); 2) the midi keyboard loner that I arranged for broke so I finally bought my own - the axiom 25 - and it is very, very slick; and finally 3) while I really like freeframe plugins I don’t have a hope in hell of ever understanding them well enough to write my own. So much for my 4 years at university.

This is our Channel10 theme image for Saturday night:

In about two weeks, Saturday October 21st to be exact, some friends and I are getting together to put on an electronic media show at Open Space. Scheinwerfer (Zurich, Switzerland), NUTHRE (Saskatoon, Victoria), i send data live (Victoria), Channel 10 (Victoria), Steve Gibson (Victoria) and Randy Adams (Nanimo) will all be there with their Sunday best. It’s going to be freakin’ awesome so you better show up. Yeah, you.

For more details visit the EPI site at telebody.ws

Tonight we (as in the royal Channel10, “we”) had a kind of one-off/dress rehearsal for October 21st with isenddatalive at the ISMIR conference. We did about a half hour of improvisation followed by two numbers from early this year, Lansky and The Female Body. Our back-up system tanked, but luckily Big Boy (this amped up PC that could turn diamonds into dust) didn’t crash at all. It was strange being back at the Empress’ Crystal Ballroom. The last time I was there was on my birthday for a wine tasting and I… well, it was a helluva night.