Color Gaiden from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

My studio is temporarily  in boxes so I’ve just been messing around with video stuff. Been stealing images from Nintendo ROMs. Here’s a small part of the video I’m working on. The image is from a hacked ROM of Ninja Gaiden.

Athena Dissected from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

For my 11^th birthday I got the NES game Athena from my Uncle in the mail. I’d never heard of the game before, none of my friends had it, Nintendo Power never talked about it, so it was pretty mysterious plus the graphics were a little more beautiful and colorful than average. To get very far in the game was practically impossible, making it all the more mystifying. Now about 20 years later I can open it as a very small file on my computer and observe the entire game in one big tile, solving the enigma. It’s just a bunch of pixels…a bizarre 80s Japanese take on Greek mythology. Here it is, laid out with an 8-bit version of Bach’s Invention 9 playing.

Now I have facial recognition and color recognition in one program. The little face in the lower left corner is a notepad with a face drawn on it. The face image blinks and can re-size to adjust to any face on screen. The programming is still pretty sloppy and parts don’t work too well…but I’m pretty happy with how much I’ve been learning.  I want to make it feel more like you’re playing an instrument and the images jump around a little too much still.

Here is the Processing code.

I feel a lot of future potential with this color sensor program I made. I put on a yellow kitchen glove and depending on which quadrant of the video the glove is in it makes a unique sound.  Written in Processing. Here is the code. The logic took me a few days to figure out how to get the sound to only play once in each section…I learned a lot doing this.

The Internet vs. Saraswati from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

I used almost all new programs to make this video. No Flash this time, just After Effects which is way more powerful. The music was the most interesting. I used Monkey Machine to make MIDI beats and then I used this crazy little program called GXSCC to convert the MIDI files to sound like 8-bit music. Then I put everything in AudioMulch and recorded it.

Lavender Brick Space Factory, Acrylic on canvas over panel, 44″x40″, 2010

I made a very simple little program about synesthesia. I will probably develop it more and make it a little more “scientific.” When you mouse over colors of a Matisse painting different notes play that kind of “sound like” the color. I can’t post it here because sounds just start playing right away.


Click here to check it out and see the code and stuff.

Been trying to figure out how to get a Processing sketch in a post for awhile. I’ve been messing around with image manipulation and Processing. I’ll post more stuff I figured out soon. For the image on the left, left click to get it going and right click to stop. The image on the right sorts all the pixels by hue.

Magical 1.5meg Floppy Discs by Lavender Corporation, Acrylic on floppy discs, 2010

I’ve had these laying around for awhile. If you hang one of these above your computer it will magically help to prevent data loss, virii, and will stop you from writing drunken emails and facebook posts. The commercial is here.

A Love Poem About Technology from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

Been working on this video for a long time…watch it full screen and with sound.

I’m learning a lot more about programming so I’m able to do some new stuff. I can make Processing interact a lot better with an Arduino. Here I have three FSRs on the long wires and placed in books. The FSRs are hooked up to my Arduino and each FSR makes the lady dance with a different move. The sound is actually coming from the Arduino also with a wave shield from adafruit. I know I could make the sound in Processing but I’m just learning how to use the wave shield. It’s neat.

Here is the Arduino code.

Here is the Processing code.

What if Miro Grew Up When I Did?

This is a very small sample of a video I’m working on. Taking about an hour or two per second on this one.

moscovite trilobite

Digital Phlebotomist from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

This is how I’m helping to deal with being in hospitals a lot lately.

Some people have been asking me how I make these videos. Believe me I have no idea what I’m doing. I use Illustrator to do the drawing (from this tutorial), Photoshop to do some image editing, Flash to do the animation, Fruity Loops and the Magical 8-bit instrument to make the music and then I put it all together with Premiere. I bet I could make this a lot easier if I did some programming…especially to change the flashing colors and stuff. I’ll figure it out. Please let me know if you have any advice how to make these better.

Lavender Forest Headquarters, Acrylic and enamel on canvas over panel, 48″x48″, 2010

Dripped acrylic enamel on the monitor. Part of the Lavender series of paintings, videos and gadgets I’m working on.

Computer Mother by Lavender from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

Laptop by Lavender 12″x12″ Acrylic and enamel on wood, 2010

Lavender Job Application, 8.5″x11″, Digital Print

Awesome New Floppy Disc by Lavender from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

This is a rough draft of some video ideas I have. The music is awful. I don’t have any MIDI controller or anything.

I want to do 8-bit stuff. Today I learned some stuff…