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Here is a video I made for the awesome Rip CD (ripcd.bandcamp.com/)

The Secret Adventure of Franz Mesmer

TAXUS BREVIFOLA. New 3D video in this series.

This Is What I Thought the Internet Would Be Like.

The Nanobot Technician from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

WIZARD JUICE!!!!
Make full screen and turn up the sound for best effect.

The bearded wizard is Nick Ruest who was in town for the weekend and the dancing wizard is Gabe Merkin who was helping me out around the studio earlier in the year. He painted the pants himself and made the outfit.

This video took me forever to edit. It’s only two minutes long but I’ve been working on it since the 2nd of June like 8 hours every day. I chopped it up in Premiere, did most of the effects in After Effects. The 3d stuff is with Maya and some Processing. The music I made mostly with AudioMulch.

The things on the sides of the painting are these little gizmos I made. They are very hard to document. Basically it’s a box on stilts with a 1000 RPM motor inside spinning around a bent rod which I painted with neon colors and there’s a strobe light shining on the spinning rod making it look kind of like a hologram or something.

Here are some pics of the gizmo and that’s what the inside looks like. The hole has epoxy poured in it.

Data Mining, 48″x48″ acrylic and electrical components in and behind panel, 2011

This is a kinetic painting. The video is on digital photo frames and I made it with Processing…they are 3d cubes and they look like the little ‘bit’ animation from the first Tron. I’ll upload it later to Vimeo. There is also a little 555 synth I built…so some of those buttons are functional. Here is a cell phone video of me playing it:

Data Mining

192.168.1.177 96″x48″, Acrylic, resin, screen print, digital photo frames and electrical components on and in panel, 2011

Been working on this for awhile. It’s the most difficult to document thing I’ve ever done. It’s acrylic on panel, but then I cut holes in the panel, poured resin in the holes and then Velcroed some digital photo frames behind the resin. The videos are more or less similar to the ones posted previously plus a landscape with slow moving clouds.

There is also an Arduino Mega with an Ethernet shield behind the panel with a little LCD screen and a potentiometer. When you turn the knob the shapes on the LCD change around. You can see what the back looks like in the picture above. If you connect to the network (via cell phone, for example), you can access the Arduino file sever that I built. But you can only access the files if you align the shapes correctly on the LCD panel. (Here is the code) (Nerd note about code: the code was so long and had so many libraries I had to use a Mega. Most of the tricky code is from the adafruit forums and a Lady Ada tutorial on the Ethernet shield…thanks to everyone in the forums who helped me with this.)

Depending on what the shapes are, the QR code will take you to different files on the file server. (QR codes are those block bar code looking things that you scan with a cell phone camera)

The painting is so confusing that I made an instructional pamphlet and also have some old smart phones that people can use who don’t yet have one. This is somewhat of a reaction to a lot of art shows where in order to understand what’s there you have to read quite a bit about the piece. I thought I’d make that reading actually part of the piece itself.

The painting is lit by one 75 watt bulb hanging above it. This is so the videos are easier to see and it gives sort of this creepy atmosphere…like you’re in a basement…alone with all these obsolete and strange computers humming around you.

Making image sequences for animated Maya textures.

Pscyho Chairs from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

Breathing Egg from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

Another sketch for a video that will go in a painting.

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.

My Imaginary Uncle from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

Been trying to learn Maya. It’s pretty fun.

3d space from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

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.

Secret Weapon

I ordered six digital photo frames. I have some ideas of a few things to do with them. I was just testing out their capabilities here, seeing if they could all sync and how they looked together. These are six 10 second videos involving manly imagery from old nintendo games…like guns and cars and sports and babes and stuff…

There is No Internet In the Woods from Jeremy Couillard on Vimeo.

I bought some little digital photo frames and I’m making videos for them. This is meant to loop back and forth.

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.