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!

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EN: Project on Ice

or under Ice and it might get crushed completely.

why? i am sick of running behind the latest greatest most expensive hardware to still have jittery compressed lowres video showing up on screen that I spend zillions of hours preparing in a 8x quality.

why else? I am sick of crashing uncomplete programms that are so overly complicated that someone who is very profficient (read using computer daily since he is 8 (now almost 30) and video and moving image applications since 16 years) has trouble understanding it all and that one has to relearn the "instrument" with every .0x release and that incorparate geeky technology that make it even more complicated and only 1% of the user MIGHT use. Programm that are supporting more and more collage technologies but don´t have a single though on how to make a montage in a vj context.

ConclusionMeans for the foreseable future Kalkin: Revelation is on ice on backup harddrive in my storage room and will not be shown or presented. If and when technological things are stable in this field I might come back to it if normal jobs have not taken my full attention until then.

Sorry to say that but this whole things pisses me off to no end. I am waiting since 6 years for something that can make live visuals in a good enough quality without fuss and jitter and crash. Something reliable stable that is professional and portable. Here we are in the next millenium and there is still no way to sufficently manage trigger and mix 3 video streams in normal SD resolution with at least 4:2:2. I know that most vjs just don´t care or carry around huge amounts of gear to achive this or whatever. I want it portable I want it stable and I want it cheap enough to justify an investment into a sector that pays you shit for tons of work. I don´t spend my live working so I can give all the money to kapitalistic fuckshit companies that pile up billions of dollars - a certain fruit company comes to mind.
I perfectly happy with my current laptop for anything but vjing/livecinema. A new setup (nearly 5000 euros for 2 lappies) would just barely get me to jitterfree 2x3 channel mixing with the guarantee that with the next OS update or the next visual eyecandy plugins that can do even more to destroy your picture this generation is again too slow to make a good jitterfree performance.

So you can also take out this blog from your RSS feeds as there will be no more updates to it until maybe I decide so in another six years or such...

PS: the theory is also NOT going to be published..... No time to correct errors and no motivation to work on it in general.

EN/DE: Blog back to normal

EN: After heavy spam attacks two weeks ago all prototypen.com blogs suffered from a "no comment" blackout. Now we have a new version of movable type installed and the live cinema research blog is hopefully back to normal. If you encounter a problem drop me a line here.

DE: Nach extremen Spam Attacken vor zwei Wochen wurden alle prototypen.com blogs in einen "Kein Kommentar"iösen Zustand versetzt. Jetzt gibt es eine neue Version von Movable Types, hoffentlich wesentlich weniger Spamprobleme und alles ist wieder beim alten. Sollten doch noch Probleme hier und da auftauchen dann bitte ich darum hier eine Nachricht zu hinterlassen.

EN: Welcome to the Live Cinema Research Blog

This is part of the documentation for the diploma project of Falk Gärtner - so basically me. The project is in coorperation with Vidvox - who will take care of the software-technical problems. In addition this is supposed to become the information blog for news and knowledge in the area of "Live Cinema" - there will be a different entry explaining what I mean by this soon. This blog will continue its life after I am done with the actual six month project. At the moment the blog will be bilingual - Informations that come from a german source and my general comments will be mostly in german - english resources will come with english commentary.
I hope that there will be readers interested with the topic that will also discuss ideas - every comment or constructive critique is welcome. You can use the comment function here on the blog or plug into the wiki and help fill it with content. You can find a project overview in the Wiki:About.
With other questions or suggestions - or if you want to become a co-author of this blog - if you have lots of things to contribute and want to share them with the world - you can drop me a mail.

DE: Willkommen beim Live Cinema Research Blog

Dies ist Teil der Dokumentation zu dem Diplom von Falk Gärtner - also irgendwie von mir. Das Diplom entsteht in Kooperation mit Vidvox - die den grossen Teil der softwaretechnischen Probleme lösen. Ausserdem soll es die Anlaufstelle für alle Neuigkeiten und Erkenntnis im Bereich "Live Cinema" werden. Was genau ich mir darunter vorstelle - dazu gibt es sehr bald einen Eintrag. Dieses Blog wird auch nach Abschluss des Diploms weitergeführt. Im Moment werde ich es zweisprachig halten - Information die aus dem deutschen kommen oder meine eigenen Theorien werde ich in deutsch bloggen - englische Ressourcen werde ich in englisch kommentieren. Ich hoffe es finden sich einige Leser die an dem Thema interessiert sind und auch diskutieren - jegliche Kommentare oder konstruktive Kritik ist sehr gern gesehen - dafür könnt Ihr die Kommentarfunktion hier nutzen oder euch direkt ins Wiki einklinken und dieses helfen mit Inhalt zu füllen. Ein Projektabriss für die nächsten sechs Monate findet Ihr im Wiki:About.
Bei sonstigen Fragen oder Anregungen - oder wenn ihr gar Co-Author für das Blog werden wollt schreibt mir ne mail.