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Soldered a mini file server for a project today. First time I ever soldered something and it worked on first try.

Sacred ATMs from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

Messing around more with Maya…this video is a rough draft for ones that will go inside a big painting…This is a mixture of textures from old paintings and old videos.

Working on a big project…

Cowabunga College 48″x24″ acrylic on panel

My Imaginary Uncle from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

lavender has a twitter feed of absurd haikus @lavendercorp

Google AdWord haikus by Lavender Corporation

I made a painting with a video in it by cutting  a hole in a panel and placing a digital photo frame that plays mp4s in the hole. Then I made a painting and a video and then epoxied the digital photo frame into the painting. It didn’t turn out that cool in the end I think but it was worth trying out.

The Abandoned Computer24″x24″ acrylic, epoxy and digital photo frame on panel

The video that plays in the painting from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

Lavender Scientist Working on the Invention of Magical Microchips 48″x40″ acyclic on canvas over panel

New Lavender web page! http://www.l-a-v-e-n-d-e-r.com

No CSS or or anything fancy. All old school frames, cheesy javascript, depricated tags and tons and tons of animated GIFs!

Secret Weapon

Boss’s Desk 48″x48″ acrylic on canvas over panel

This is my first painting at grad school in my new studio. I guess it’s done…

Something in the Way from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

I am so fascinated by how this once amazing, expensive and beautiful media can now be so easily copied, shared and manipulated.

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