I came across a company called "Mr. Beam" this morning and was amazed at what they do. This company specializes in 3D video mapping, then projecting their work onto buildings and structures using multiple projector screens. This blows my mind. Here's my 2 favorite videos showing what they do.
Video 1---(Quoted Directly from their website):
Gent
Licht Festival Gent
For the first time in Belgium the city of Gent organized a Light Festival and Mr. Beam was a part of it. For this special event we chose the backyard of the conservatory of Gent, what gave us a beautiful 180 degree canvas to work with.
Projection: Mr. Beam
Audio: Starling Music
Tech: XL Video
Video 2---(Quoted directly from their website.)
Living Room
Concept by Mr. Beam
We created an unique 3D mapping video experience by turning a white living room into a spacious 360 degree projection area.
This technique allowed us to take control of all colors, patterns and textures of the furniture, wallpapers and carpet. All done with 2 projectors.
"It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life For me
And I'm feeling good."
Lyrics from the song "Feeling Good" sung by Michael Buble, Lyrics by -Nina Simone
1 week into 2011 and I'm still thinking about new years resolutions: Run every day, Read scriptures, Work out, Consistent guitar practice, Take more pictures, Record more music, Write original songs, Blog more...that's just a few. Bottom line of my resolutions: Be Better, Do More, Work Smarter, Play harder, Enjoy Every Moment.
This morning I woke up and looked outside and everything
was covered in frost. It was a beautiful sight, so I grabbed my camera and headed outside. Here's a few of the pics I took. I love winter time!
Even though we're still in the month of November, I've already been busy getting ready for the upcoming Christmas season. The month of December is always CRAZY full of performances including the annual 3 night Eclipse Christmas Concerts. Planning, rehearsals and conference calls started back in September. Going on my 4th year singing with Eclipse, the Christmas Concerts are one of the biggest highlights of the year. It sounds cheesy, but Christmas is a magical time of year that I don't get sick of.
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack frost nipping at your nose..."
How can you not feel all warm and fuzzy when singing these lyrics? I love it. Thank goodness for headphones, otherwise I'm sure someone would punch me in the face for all the Christmas music I've been listening to. This years concerts will be different in that we'll have no opening act. Here's who we've had the last three years:
2007-Russ Dixon--------------From the band "Colors" 2008-Jenny Jordan Frogley---LDS Vocalist 2009-Hilary Weeks-----------LDS Vocalist
Since we don't have an opening act we'll be filling the time with more Eclipse music. It's been nice to have amazing artists open the concert, but it will be nice this year to sing a few more songs and have a little more time to get to know and enjoy the audience.
This year to help promote the concert we'll be releasing a few videos to try and hit the social marketing scene better than we have in the past. Here's the 1st video we've put out. It's our "Christmas Rap". We're excited about this video because we're at 1,000 views after only 2 days. We hope the web traffic continues! If you like the video, please share it with your friends. Even if you have to wait till AFTER Thanksgiving...I understand. :)
I came across this lovely little guy when I was cleaning off the patio of a vacant apartment this afternoon. I moved a piece of wood laying up against the building and this guy was just hanging out behind it. After I recovered from nearly having a heart attack, I regained the use of my mind and watched it in awe of how big it was...and how much it looked like the fake spiders rings that people give away this time of year (during Holloween).
If the pictures weren't enough to creep you out, here's a wonderful video I shot of my little friend just for you.
Yeah, so I need to post a normal blog one of these days...but for now here's a couple videos from the group I sing in (Eclipse).
We've got one of our biggest shows coming up at the end of this month on Friday June 26, at the Sandy outdoor amphitheater. We're hoping to make this concert a summer tradition every year in Sandy City so spread the word to everyone you know!
Thanks for stopping by!
James
This video is an EFY show we did at BYU-I in Rexburg this year (4/18/09) What a crowd!
(LtoR: Jake,Shayne,James,Scott Frogley,Jenny Jordan Frogley,Dan,Kevin,Paul,Dan Beck)
Dan
Dan and Jake during sound check
Paul
Jake
Flyer for the Concert
Part of the Set
If you did come out to the concert...Thank-You for coming! All 3 concerts went awesome and we had more people than we anticipated every night. This was the first time Eclipse has ever done a 3 day public Christmas Concert and it went great!
I especially enjoyed this years concerts because I felt WAY more comfortable than I did last year. Last December (07'), was my first time performing Christmas songs with Eclipse and it felt like I had just finished learning the normal "summer" songs when they told me to start learning all the Christmas music. I learned it in time for the Christmas concerts...but it wasn't completely solid. Anyways, this years shows went awesome and now I'm looking forward to our summer shows.
Here are a few commercials my friend Vaughn Armstrong created for a business called Campus Book Rentals. We did 15 and 30 second spots on each commercial...but they've only posted the 15 second ones on Youtube...so that's all I get for now.
These have been periodically played on Utah's local television stations. It's a start! :)
