Phidelity Blog

Fnord? Fjord!

kris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:52:00 +0000

With all the inspiration coming from our upcoming Glacier Backcountry hiking trip - my heads been in the clouds - well if the clouds are around 6500′ elevation in a valley carved out by glaciers. Below are a series of photos detailing the progress of this painting from sketch to finished piece. If you want [...]

Glacier Hiking Trip

kris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:17:54 +0000

Alisha and I just finished planning our 72 mile late summer back country expedition into Glacier National Park - I made a google map of this to get an idea of distance per day and elevation changes. Heres the stats 10 Days 73 miles 3 Passes 1 River Fording 4 suspension bridges I will update this page once we return with photos! [...]

Nikon Macro Phototography Resource Page

kris — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:28:41 +0000

After accidentally stumbling on Opo Tersers breakdown of his setup for his absolutely jaw dropping extreme close up macro photos of spiders eyes I decided to expand my set up as well because I didn’t know the specific pieces I would need for a Nikon Camera so after a night of research I figured I [...]

Random Rab Live at Synchromystic

kris — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:17:44 +0000

podcast: Phidelity live at Synchromystic

kris — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:50:53 +0000

As seen by phone: The geek photostream.

kris — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:18:01 +0000

Having a phone that takes decent pictures adds a whole new level of geekiness to my life: allowing me to take pictures of things that I see but would normally forget 2 seconds after seeing - including really cool geeky things. Below are all the images I’ve collected in the past two months - sort [...]

Springtime Macro Photo Journal

kris — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:16:46 +0000

Hello Everyone its been a while since Ive posted any photos and with spring in full effect right now in Portland I thought I would grab the trusty macro lens and see what I could find. biotech I love these - I don’t know what they are called but they cover full trees. Fibonacci anyone? Horsetail growing [...]

Debut album by Phidelity - Twilight Audio

kris — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:30:53 +0000

Click to purchase at bandcamp At long lost, Twilight Audio is complete. This is a collection of remixes, collaborations and original songs by yours truly. Cover Artwork by Xavi Mastering by Shawn Hatfield (Twerk) of Audible Oddities Vocals on tracks 1 & 3 courtesy of Anahata 1) Phidelity - Twilight in your eyes - Featuring Anahata 2) Phidelity - [...]

Sol Invictus Deco Thread - mobile blogging

kris — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:00:47 +0000

Because I never have before: I decided to do a whole bunch of deco for Sol Invictus - the fundraiser for our yearly free outdoor summertime park parties in portland. Im working on a number of ideas including: 2x 6 foot tall window paintings, 32 suspended tealights in madrone trees, and stretch fabric installation. Im [...]

podcast: Jacaranda - Elucidation

kris — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:38:05 +0000

podcast: Michael Manahan - Winternal

kris — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:23:16 +0000

podcast: Mr Projectile live in Portland

kris — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:08:26 +0000

Macro Photos of Soap Bubbles take 1

kris — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:49:09 +0000

I decided I wanted to do a test run to see if I could find any good textures in macro photographs of soap bubbles and I had moderate sucess - there were indeed some cool photos but I had to move and focus quick and due to the lighting which was a lightbulb with tin foil [...]

Christmas Travelogue

kris — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:08:45 +0000

Alisha and I had initially talked of not going anywhere or doing anything for Christmas. Somehow that slowly morphed into going to see Alishas family for Christmas. Dont ask me how I just work here. But dont get me wrong it was a LOT of fun and just what we both needed after a semester of [...]

Processing, OSC & Iphone

kris — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:39:58 +0000

This page is a collection of resources for Using OSC on your iphone and/or Processing. If you dont understand what any of this is about you can safely move on to the next article. This is mostly mac-specific, sorry pc peeps. Iphone OSC Apps mrmr - open source , community based project focused on allowing for easy installation [...]

Next Level Escher

kris — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:47:08 +0000

Being the nerdy geeky sort I had a special fondness while growing up for the paradoxical nature, mathematical precision and infinite recursions present in MC Eschers lithographs, but recently I’ve grown to have an even more profound respect and admiration for his work from a fractal/loop perspective. It started off with reading the article The Mathematical [...]

The evolution of the etchaSine

kris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:45:07 +0000

It all started with an idea to create a midi controlled spirograph. I was thinking how much I loved Spirographs as a kid and how with a number of wheels and rotation points you could create some really cool patterns. I wanted to make the equivalent of an Spirograph that smoked some PCP laced crack… just the [...]

Choose your own adventure

kris — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:11:09 +0000

I’ve long dreamed of the day where all my content self-organises depending on the myriad of uses I had planned for it. Now that I have added tagging to my gallery it actually shows some of my perspectives on how I view and explore this amazing world we live in. Additionally the photos gather new strength [...]

3D Animation Study

kris — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:19:17 +0000

HD 3D Fractal Animation Study from Kris Northern on Vimeo. This is a test render for a much longer piece Im working on which is currently rendering. I decided that I liked the end of this video the most and sought to replicate that sort of tweakery - So far the new animation is at frame [...]

Phidelity live at Chrometoast

kris — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:47:14 +0000