Dermot and I did some visuals for a Taste of Honey at the Hive Bar this weekend.

Some of the stuff I’ve been cutting:

Hive Bar – A Taste of Honey from barry saunders on Vimeo.

Lots of Max Headroom, Akira and old B-grade sci-fi. I’ve been watching lots of cyberpunk movies and reading Grant Morrison comics for a writing project I’ve been working on, and it’s starting to come out in my video work.

I’ve been using AV Mixer but I’m looking at moving to Modul8 – the resolution in AV Mixer just isn’t high enough.

Eightfilters are playing the final Jurassic Lounge tomorrow night at the Australian Museum. We’ll be setting up installations in a couple of different space, and hopefully sourcing a number of projectors for a big installation.

Our compatriots at Punk Monk will be doing some liquid light displays as well, come check out their psychedelic stylings.

ALGAE RHYTHM 0.02: psychochemical from punk monk propaganda on Vimeo.

We got a nice write up from circle.square.triangle for our work at Jurassic Lounge.

You’ve been living under a rock if you’ve never heard of a disk-jockey before, sorry Gen Y, a DJ. But during silent disco last Tuesday when stunning random floated across the floor and asked me “Did I like the VJ?”, I wasn’t sure where to take it. We were after all standing next to a Tyrannosaurus Rex, drinking Canadian Clubs and it was only a breath before that a drag queen walked by. Despite the obvious innuendo and the need to take every obscurity of the english language straight to the gutter, beautiful stranger told me all about Video-Jockeying and Eightfilters, the VJ duo down the hall. And what a beautiful discovery indeed!

Video-Jockeying (VJ-ing) is a dynamic artspace. It is the augmentation of images and video files and linking these visuals to respond with and be manipulated by sound.

This week we’re doing another set. Next week we’re going to bring a couple of extra toys and set up some reactive stuff, which should be a lot of fun!

I’ve been doing some video mixing and installation art with Dermot McGuire as Eightfilters. We’ll be doing a weekly performance at Jurassic Lounge from the first of February, playing a mix of Victoriana, B-grade sci-fi dinosaurs and Godzilla outtakes. We’ll also be doing some installation work over the 12 weeks.

Come down and have a drink, check out the exhibits and hear some live music!

My first update from Copenhagen, in which I talk about the arctic melt, show off the Copenhagen Ice Bear by Mark Coreth, and try to remember to not look shifty on camera.

This looks interesting… and I like the ads.