“Hollywood In The Dark” Gary L Coleman Remix

June 24th, 2009 by admin

Hollywood In The Dark
Gary L. Coleman remixed and rescored my footage from my “Hollywood In The Dark” video, inserting some rather dark and psychedelic visuals into it as well. The final video is on YouTube. Click on the image above to go to YouTube to view it in a new window.

Bergamot Station Art Openings March 14, 2009

June 24th, 2009 by admin

William Turner Gallery
Greg Miller

HollyWood, mixed media and oil on canvas, 6′x16′
The Calm, mixed media on canvas, 45″x70″
I believe that may be Greg in the leather jacket at the right.
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James Gray Gallery Stairway
(Perhaps if you squint a little you might get a rather weird stereo effect)
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James Gray Gallery Interior
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John Asaro Exhibition
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John Asaro Rotating Painting (not a collage, obviously)
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Joshua Tree Keys View Sunset

June 24th, 2009 by admin

The following collages were shot the final day of the High Desert Test Sites events. It was so cold and windy that the batteries in my camera kept freezing and I had to keep changing them, which isn’t what you expect from that part of the desert.

Joshua Tree Keys View Sunset 1
November 9, 2008
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Joshua Tree Keys View Sunset 2
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Sunburst and 29 Palms Highway, Joshua Tree (in process – incomplete)
I expect to composite these videos with still images to show more coverage of the intersection, but I didn’t really get the coverage I wanted in either medium..
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High Desert Test Sites Photo Album Links

November 12th, 2008 by admin

Here are links to a lot of my “documentation” of the High Desert Test Sites events this past weekend in the Joshua Tree area. Most photos and titles link to Facebook photo albums; there are also links to YouTube videos for some.


Kriblin Jihn Kabin – High Desert Test Sites

Video pan of  the interior (with lots of wind noise)

Godwin & Pioneer: Thom Merrick – High Desert Test Sites

Video from Godwin & Pioneer

Rosa Muerta After Party – High Desert Test Sites

Marnie Webber Spirit Girls High Desert Test Sites

Andrea Zittel’s Land – High Desert Test Sites

Yosua Okon “White Russians” High Desert Test Sites

Patrick Johnson “Yesterday and Tomorrow” High Desert Test Sites

Amy & Wendy Yao Art Swapmeet – High Desert Test Sites

Short video excerpt from the musicians’ performance

Joel Kyack The Greater The Goal. The Deeper The Hole High Desert Test Sites

Very short video interview with Joel

Julia Scher “Surveillant Architectures” – High Desert Test Sites

Jack’s Place at High Desert Test Sites

Ann Magnuson Time Travelling Hooker – High Desert Test Sites

Wonder Valley Inst. of Contemporary Art Inaugural Opening

Others with similar ideas

November 12th, 2008 by admin

Well, it’s nice to think you’ve made a discovery and have run off into new territory by yourself, but I’ve discovered there are quite a few others tredding this same area. Hockney actually tried this technique with the BBC, but they weren’t too excited by it, and he abandoned it. 

It’s sort of like when I was hiking up in the remote mountains and thought I was someplace where no one had been before, and then I found some plastic trash in the bushes.

I suppose that’s no reason to abandon the experiments; perhaps it could be more interesting to pursue them within a community of like-minded artists?

A couple of these artists are doing really nice work. I especially like Matt Ziniel and Lester Alfonso’s stuff.

Matt Ziniel:

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Absolute Vs Relative Time

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Pieces Form Whole

Lester Alfonso aka OriginalPlastic:

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[hockn eye d]


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Myself and Murno Gladst

Will Parker

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the3robbers:

hockneyesque video test

hockneyesque video test

Edward Grubb aka vjgumbo:

Cubist Video Montage

Cubist Video Montage (without Hockney and Picasso)

Seanán Oliver Manfred Kerr aka seanankerr:

Me by Hockney

“Me” by Hockney

High Desert Test Sites Hike: Godwin and Pioneer

November 10th, 2008 by admin

Turnaround at Godwin and Pioneer

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Mt Pinos Photo Panorama

October 12th, 2008 by admin

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Spring Equinox at the Malibu Wright Ranch

August 21st, 2008 by admin

OK, this has taken forever to get to because these are the most complex assortment of clips I’ve shot. Furthermore, after I shot them, I was told people didn’t want them posted because it was a personal and private ceremony. Well, with some regrets, I can’t help myself. I also haven’t figured out the best presentation for the “sensitive” material, so it’s just a composite grid of the ceremony, and you can’t really hear any thing except the chant we all did. It’s enormous too; an unwieldy 58MB. Keep in mind that at actual size, the widest ones here are nearly 3-1/2 feet wide. That’s as big as Flash can handle; 2880 pixels square.

Fortunately, some of the others are quite breathtaking and not nearly as huge.


Indian Spring Equinox Ceremony

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Malibu Canyon Sunset

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On Top of the World Over Malibu Canyon

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Malibu Coast at Dusk
Malibu Coast Dusk

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Malibu Coast View

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Malibu Shores

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Taking photos of the Malibu Coast

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Santa Monica Night Coast

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Wright Ranch HouseI find this one to be rather interesting; it has more cubist character than most of the other works. It’s a house they’re building that’s been under construction forever.Wright Ranch House

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Mt. Pinos 3 Row Torqued Panorama

August 19th, 2008 by admin

Well, this proves that without much activity happening when you shoot video, you might as well be shooting stills. As I assembled the video clips, I began to realize that the lens and tripod were distorting the images so they didn’t fit together. I could actually skew the video itself, which would probably take forever to process, but it was just as interesting to layer and overlap them.

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Mt. Pinos is an amazing place. The highest mountain in the range at the southern edge of California’s Central Valley, just outside of Frazier Park, you can’t help be be deeply moved by the views, the peacefulness of the place (in good weather, at least) — or the high altitude!

Japanese Garden’s Running Brook

August 17th, 2008 by admin

Some new video collages here. These were shot at the beautiful Japanese Garden next to the (ugh!) DWP water reclamation plant in Balboa Park in Van Nuys.

The first is more of an experimental mandala-esque view of the brook.

Running Brook 1
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Running Brook 1

The second is just a longer view of the brook in a simpler form.

Running Brook 2
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Running Brook 2

I guess I need to either;
1) get a cable release for the camera, if I can control the video button with it
or
2) spend the time to trim the small shakes that happen when I start and stop the camera
They seem to quake and vibrate, like the earth in California, or perhaps to breathe…

The park is near two airports too, so you hear the planes drown out the running water in the first one.