More playing with Isadora

I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago, but then I found how annoyingly hindering it was to use two computers and a memory stick to handle certain formats of video files. Saying that, though, it was just a matter of converting MOV videos to MPEG-4, but that hadn't occurred to my idiot self until very recently.

Anyway, as I've been saying to dear readers, this software is becoming more and more fun the further I delve into it. In fact, I find myself being fascinated by all the other software such as Reason, Ableton Live and Reaktor and more; to the point that I might as well have lived in the Bonington basements that accommodates this sound studio.

Lately, I've missed out on what's been going on at uni and my own project due to work commitments, but I've finished my training now, so I'm freed up again (and it feels great to be at uni and in a somewhat more viable routine). Here are a couple of video examples I took of the interactive results I've been taking. The movements and activity within these videos are of me moving my head around and waving my hands in front of the in-built camera of the Mac:

The effects employed in this example involved varied tiles, stretches and ever-shifting colour balances (the function applied in this instance being a wave generator). The more drastic changes are due to my motions in view of the camera.

This was the result of further experimentation with "time layers" (layering video capture over itself in whatever length I want) more constantly shifting colours and distortions that I've driven right up to abstract imagery. At this point, my impression was that if I had too much going on in the video in-watcher, I would be uncertain if the spectator knows that he/she is having an influence on it. I may need to be careful about this in terms of grabbing their attention. Suffice to say, I still like the effect here.