Everyone is Happy Productions

Linda Farkas rocks!

Kyle — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:25:24 +0000

Linda Farkas of Magma Fire Theater, Hungry, performs a wicked contact staff / dance routine:

Loving how well the movement is integrated. Linda, I very much hope I get to meet and jam with you while I’m in Europe!

All Staffs. Fire uber tech extravaganza!

Kyle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:42:38 +0000

All Staffs is staffed with:
Valerie Ann Sealey (USA)
Sebastian Berger (Austria)
Steve Joshua Dyffort (Germany)
Antti Suniala (Finland)

Editing credits go to David J Nolan, Vienna based motiongrapher who by all accounts is also quite good at Super Mario World.

Projection Mapping on trees and branches

Kyle — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:02:18 +0000

I’ve been having loads of fun learning to map video to curvy surfaces. Some results, largely in our living room…

Projection Mapping on trees and branches from Kyle McLean on Vimeo.

Sebastian Berger Solo

Kyle — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:19:34 +0000

Sebastian Bergers staff manipulation performance at EJC 2008, Karlsruhe / Germany. I’ve been meaning to post this for ages. Great non fire routine, it’s both light and at the same time very tech.

Youtube Link

http://www.staffmanipulation.com
http://www.fenfire.at

Video by David J Nolan
http://www.davidnolan.at

music by: string quartet “piggy” & “bonus”

Crazy Irish Japanese fuison poi style strikes again!

Kyle — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:44:29 +0000

Yuta and Ronin have released a wonderfully lighthearted poi video. The oddly titltled:

Squares of Darkness: Poitato Sushi Poitvch1

Youtube Link

Music by Makoto from Jujumo
http://jujumo.net/

Shot in Sanfran at the Vulcan
http://jp.youtube.com/user/VulcanVideo

Apparently this was originally intended for the COL DVD, but somehow or other it ended up online instead for our viewing pleasure. Thanks guys! Some really jawdroping 2 person twirling here along with the general ninja skills that you would expect from these two, all in a very light and playful package. Nice.

Flame Oz has a new promo

Kyle — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:23:17 +0000

FlameOZ. Oh yeah.
Cream of the crop. Top of the tree. And you will not see better then this:
Youtube Link

Editing credits to the mutli talented David Nolan.

Update: you can also check out the hi res version on their website.

A spot of musical progaming

Kyle — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:51:55 +0000

He he. Probably one of the most geeky posts I’ve made. I’ve been really getting into programing with a cool tool called VVVV. This little work in progress is actully made in realtime with a keyboard. So you can play music and watch shapes. Watch shapes and play music. Much funner then it sounds.

Visual midi experiment from Kyle McLean on Vimeo.

This video was a live run recorded on a DVD recorder.

Excerpts of Circles

Kyle — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:36:58 +0000

I had the pleasure to meet Nicolas Longuechaud in Paris last year, and was blown away by his skill and creativity with hoop isolations. The video Extraits de Cercles (which I believe translates as Excerpts of Circles, please correct me if you know otherwise) is a nice collection of musings and research. It’s fairly long, but filled with all sorts of visual tastiness. If you are not in the mood for watching the whole thing, I’d still recommend letting it preload so you can have glance through. Brilliant stuff

Youtube Link

RoMaRo

Kyle — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:02:44 +0000

(Ro)b + (Ma)elle + (Ro)nan + Camera = RoMaRo = really really good poi video.

Youtube Link

Ronan, you are a madman. Loving the contact poi!

Old Time Circus in New Time Files

Kyle — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:58:04 +0000

When I’m performing as a visualist one of the genres that I sometimes like to use is vintage circus. There always seems to be a lot of people that come and ask where one can find the old stuff, and even people that are not particularly circus orientated seem to find it fascinating. So here are some links to some fine digital incarnations of the circus of yesteryear…

First stop would be to swing by Juggling TV where they have a very good Historical section. A few of the other places where I used to get clips from are now kind of obsolete as you can find them all here and more. Too much stuff to poke a stick at, but a top pick would be to check out Francis Brunn if you haven’t seen him before.

Archive.org is a pretty amazing source of culture from times gone by. Some good old dance clips to be found here, and a search with ‘circus’ and ‘newsreel’ brought up this slightly disturbing gem filed under the categories of Motherhood and Surrealism.

The US Library of Congress has some very old archived moving pictures. There are quite a few historical collections and subcollections there to check out. The American Variety Stage is a bullseye for circus fans.
The LoC site explains:

The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920.

Deeper link to the List of films from the collection. Most of these are over 100 years old. Enjoy!

New Mr Om Video

Kyle — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:03:20 +0000

My favorite contact juggler, the legendary Mr Om, has a new promo video! Both the juggling and the production values are top notch.

Youtube link

Mr Om performs with AYA Company. You can find another nice video and some beautiful photos on the site.

Theo Jansen

Kyle — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:47:24 +0000

Kinetic wind powered sculpture crafted with the assistance of evolutionary algorithms, trial and error, and low-cost, low-tech materials…

Youtube link

Here is an article in Wired if you would like to know more about Theo and his creations.