I will be spending July 16-18 at the Next Hope conference in NYC.

At the top of the todo list? 3 days of wall-to-wall talks by some of the worlds most recognized hackers, and digerati. Oh yeah, and 2 nights of blow-out concerts!

While I’m not spraying video on the walls of the Video Temple, I’ll most likely be found demoing kits and giving impromptu workshops in the Hacker Village’s rendition of Philly’s Hacktory.

Way too much info at the Hope website, so I’ll leave you to them…

http://thenexthope.org/

VBLANK Video on top of the PECO Building for Philadelphia’s 4th of July celebration! Part of the “Art in the Air” premiere coordinated by PECO and Philadelphia’s Breadboard. Don Miller of NO CARRIER fame and Rachele Riley were also highlighted throughout the night. Philly’s ABC6 also covered the premiere for those not able to brave the heat.

yep…

I’ll be doing visuals at another 8Static in West Philadelphia on July 10th.

Along for the  ride are Neil Voss, Philly fav– Void Vision, and a sweet split/joint with Peter Swimm of TCTD fame & Da Pantz!

D!D!G and WPRB present @ Elena’s Showcase Lounge:

Altitude Sickness
Making The Noise
Animal Style
Selfish Whales

9:30 pm – 1 am  on Thursday jun 10th,
$5-10 donation
Elena’s Soul - 4912 Baltimore Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19143

Expect some good old fashioned mind-bending.

I’ll be doing visuals all night for

OK Ikumi, Forest World, ComputeHer & 8 Bit weapon <– beat that!

And Enso is finally starting to promo some of his sweet flier work! Start collecting now & sell them on eBay in 15 years to send your kids to university!

–ok, 16 shows, not years… but we’ll celebrate anyway.

I’ll be doing live video at the April 10th 8Static with music by

Mark Denardo, Oxygenstar, and Philly’s own Animal Style for our 16th show, with an extra 8 bits that we don’t normally use…( hmmm 16bit music and video??? sounds like DOS —   Doom hacks! )

Stephen Whittam a.k.a. Inspired Chaos will also be there to give us a rundown on our kin who work in the demoscene — that age old tradition of strutting your stuff by coding the rest of the world into a corner.

If you haven’t checked out the new Bass cabinets and projector at 8Static… this will be the time to see it.

This kickstarter campaign (already at 70% of our funding level) will help us replace a burned-out bass Amp (thanks to Animal Style for loaning it), and more recently the loss of our VJ projector (once working for and always loaned to us by No-Carrier).

We are currently less than $600 away from replacing both! I’ve donated a Pocket VBLANK board to the cause, which will go to a project backer who donates in the $500 range. Thanks to all that help!

Breadboard kits and the Pocket VBLANK will now be available at

www.straytechnologies.com

This site will be the new home for all things kit, works-in-progress, gallery and workshop. As always, look here for the latest upcoming performances and lo-fi video luv.

These boards will be released in full force in the next couple of weeks, at my latest ‘WIP’ website and at the merchandise table at Blip Festival 2009 on December 17, 18 & 19. The first run is only for 32 prebuilt boards.

Here’s what the “Pocket VBLANK” is…

• prebuilt 2.5″ x 3″ circuit board (size of an altoid tin) ready to plug in and go. comes with a power supply.
• Plug in your live or pre-recorded music via an 1/8″ stereo mini from your sound board, mp3 player, Gameboy, or where-ever.
• Plug your NTSC TV or Projector in via the RCA jack.
• pixel images and colors modulate and change based on the audio as if I was standing next to you, drinking your beer  & jamming out on video to your tunes.

It’ll run $110 for the regular version including a power supply, pre-built and ready-to-run. email if you want one before then ; )

You’ll be in NYC. Yes. You will. And you won’t be shopping.

A partial line-up has already been released.

blipfestival.org

Of particular excitement is a rare chance to see Little Scale, one of the best art-o-music-circuit-o-hackers in the world. Check out his walkman Mello-tron he whipped up while you were sleeping last-night.

I’m especially excited to see i, cactus. If you don’t know his name from the 8-bit world, he is one of the most interesting IDM artists since Board of Canada. Honest.   See you there.