A quick test render from a weird graphics algorithm I’ve been coding in Flash Actionscript 3.

Since Flash’s video export is rather unreliable, I used Stroep’s ImageSaver class to save each rendered frame to individual PNG images, and then compiled the frames into a video using AviDemux2.

ImageSaver: http://blog.stroep.nl/2008/08/as3-imagesaver-class-v10/

AviDemux: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

A selection of images from my recent vacation in Toronto. Photographed with a Canon G9 and fine-tuned in Paint Shop Pro X2.

Various random images from the past.

A collection of time-lapse scenes that I shot while on vacation in Toronto recently, photographed using my Canon G9, with help from CHDK and an intervalometer script. I used VirtualDub to process the 3,000+ photos into actual video. The music is an untitled track that I started back in 2007, but never got around to finishing.

Here is a rad new video by my annoyingly prolific buddy Steve Mason – one half of the notorious (and delicious!) duo known as Original Recipe. The graphics are generated in realtime using Touch and driven by FFT analysis of the audio input. The audio in question is “Workin’ The Middle”, a tantalising preview from their upcoming album Nigiri, Please, due to be released this autumn… or, this fall, if you’re one of those people.

Workin’ The Middle from Steve Mason on Vimeo.

Today, I decided to experiment with some time-lapse photography using my Canon G9 camera. Even though I just quickly pointed the camera out of my (dirty) bedroom window, I really like how it turned out. I’m definitely going to have to explore this technique some more and find other interesting things to capture! This video spans approximately 40 minutes in real time.

Time-lapse Sunset from Kieran Foster on Vimeo.

I’ve been tweaking a few things on the site, moving some pages around, etc., so I apologise if you encountered any broken links!

Glitch has been moved into a new VST Plug-ins section. In there you will also find some smaller plug-ins that were created a while ago but never officially released, namely: Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop. These were created mainly as proofs of concept, but a few people picked up on them and found them to be useful, so I just thought I’d make them publically available again.

Finally, due to the requests made by various people, I have added a PayPal donate button to the site. If you have enjoyed using Glitch or any of my other plug-ins, and you would like to help support their future development, a donation would be hugely appreciated!

This morning, I was surprised by a FedEx delivery guy knocking at my front door. Not expecting any packages myself, I assumed it would be something for one of my housemates, but, lo and behold, the package – a large, heavy box – was in fact addressed to me. “What could this mysterious package be?”, I wondered…

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Plastic Robot, a newly-created electronic music blog/zine, interviewed me recently to talk about Glitch, my music, my workflow, and to get my thoughts on a few other topics. If you want to see me ramble for a little while, you can read the interview at their website: plasticrobotdotnet.blogspot.com.

In other news, I must apologise for the lack of updates to my own website. Although I have been working on a lot of different things over the past few months, there hasn’t been much that warrants a full post yet, in my opinion. Either way, I will try to be a little more active in the future by posting more bits and pieces to the site.