Watch film with buddies and love it more

This is a study supporting my theory that a cinematic experience with a group of people is bringing more enjoyment then simply watching the film on its own, and if you are able to share your enjoyment while watching the film (something that can only be achieved to a small degree in traditional black - box - all -people - quite cinemas) the films becomes even more enjoyable.
Taking that theory a Live Cinema experience that is tailored to a room full of people talking to each other in the first place (bar, club, lounge) would produce exactly that result - if the people enjoyed and understood the experience in the first place (wallpaper doesn´t count).

By mimicking expressions, people catch each other's moods leading to a shared emotional experience. That feels good to people and they attribute that good feeling to the quality of the movie

Science Daily

Feels allready quite warm

Just to introduce myself and officially say hello to everybody. I'm quite happy that fAlk asked me to support him with "Kalkin", we talked alot about narratives in the last years and i still believe its the way visual have to go. to be involved now deeper than chatting from time to time and pretending to be sportive (look the picture section) its a great chance for me to develop my point of view on live cinema and a chance to help sombody realising his vision.
its still a lot of work to do but i'm sure the result will be in one way or the other enlighting for lots of people, people watching aswell people doing visual arts themself.

licht an!

fRED

Project on slow defrost

As we march toward 2008 enough time has passed for the people behind the project to ripe think and motivate themself. Marking December where its cold outside and the world is generally slower we are back at work. New to the team is fRED who will do the typographic support of the project through some custom coded plugins for VDMX and general live visual beat support.
The revival of the product will be a slow long process. There is sooooo much still to be done. Yet on a positive note it seems that the hardware end is finally coming around to meet my demands for delivering a unique high quality cinematic live experience - so we are still conducting extensive tests in that regard.
The postproduction of the underlying story is about 8% done with lots of obstacles still to tackle, some are purely technical but there are also theoretical things not quite clear.
As said it will be a long long process but we are sure to preview some beta teaser versions way before a 1.0 version appears. If anything ever goes according to plan we might have 1.0 version mid next year.

Stay tuned for some progress report and great "vj" goodies along the way.