phong | imagery

photos � 2008 Photo Pheast

Bows from another journey around the earth, this time in search for business relations, production partners and spiritual masters to create alliances with the Illuminated project. Explore the 2008 photo gallery for slices from my journeys around Japan, Thailand, India, and North America. Enjoy!

video � Illuminated : Teaser

Illuminated is a new animated series being created by some of the people behind GNN (Guerrilla News Network), Phong.com, Pod Collective, Broken Saints, and ConceptArt.org.

The series charts the coming of age of Aya, a young precocious girl in a not-too-distant future, where technology has short-circuited people's ability to achieve REM state... Together with her guru, Shenguan, Aya sets out on a transformational journey to visit the most spiritually charged places on Earth - re-connecting with the wisdom-keepers of the planet and re-learning the ancient spiritual traditions to evolve her consciousness and restore humanity's ability to dream.

photos � Phong Cam

If it happens to be an curious mystery what phong is and has been doing - now a live webcam of phongular journey and workflow presence for your viewing pleasure.

Whenever my laptop is online - a live webcam feeds straight to your mizzie.

archive � Techgnosis

A spontaneous collaboration with Sijay / Onbeyond and Erik Davis lead to this new level of chunk interfacing.

"Initiate cosmic consciousness download."
-Department of Mental Technologies.

flash � Hexagram Matrix

A simple flash toy controlling the position, scale and rotation of an array of hexagram grids-

the hyperdimentional crystalline hexagram matrix allows one's perceptions to shift between parallel planes of vision. Deepening the mystery imbued in many simple patterns and mimicking the networks of cellular anatomae.

archive � Spectraleyes

Spectraleyes is a collaboration with the intrepid artist Luke Brown, of the Pod Collective.

Lucid visions are activated into flash interfaces used to navigate his vast body of artwork which spans from elegant tattoos to photoshop masterpieces.

Check out:
� Spectraleyes.com

photos � Burning Man '05

Fourty thousand inspired souls made it out to the pre-historic playa this year to form a week long experimental society known as Black Rock City, temporarily one of the largest towns in Nevada.

Artists from all disciplines manifested rare social phenomenon in this space, surrendering to the flow of dance and laughter in the art of life.

» pod : fora » optical » Burning Man 2005
» Official Burning Man Website

photos � Dominican.rep

Warm greetings from a land of spanish africans chowing down italian food.

Arriving with no plans or expectations, I landed for a short stay in rice and beans heaven, drinking from coconuts and flying off a windsurfing board.

» This is what was seen in the meantime.

fora � geo.tech

Flowing through the threads of the pod:fora ,
xavi:metrical pod:gression is an evolving series of pieces exploring the patterns of geometrical progression inspired by the art of xavi.

archive � home: portal

home: portal is an ad-free customizable home page, designed to be set as your browser's start page.

In a compact design, the portal offers Google web & image search, M-W's dictionary & thesaurus, and a grip of RSS news feeds you can choose from, as well as the phong link post and a database for storing your own links.

There are a number of skins which condition the environment to adapt various paradigms, and each skin has a series of images which alternate randomly each time the page is refreshed.

The home: portal is an enhanced version of the original phong portal, which spawned in late 1999. Through numerous server changes the old database was lost, so previous users must create a new account.

archive � pod collective

Pod is a way of doing things, a vibe, the place where you create, your art tribe and how you all interact. It is helping, sharing, and interacting as artists, living creatively.

flash � Ringler

Soothing flowey patterns of the Ringler's visual symphony, composed to the pattern of Beethoven's 5th.

Basically, it is one spinning object that eternally duplicates itself with a clip which is shape-tweening through a series of vector forms, as the script causes it to fade back.

Pick up the .flas from the ringler subdir, in astro/source.

video � Mosh

Another dramatic political music viddy directed by Ian Inaba for Eminem called Mosh.

Most of the viddy was animated in Flash by Haik Hoisington, Craig Patches and Kevin Elam who did the sick rotoscoping (vector tracing of video), with aftereffects work by Steve Ogden and Mark Nicola, which I took into 3dsMAX, mapped onto 2d planes in the 3d scene, and animated as such.

The bits with Eminem moshing were shot on a greenscreen, dropped out in aftereffects, and compositied into the scene with 3dsMAX with the same planar mapping technique as the cartoons.

photos � Burning Man

With a full moon suspended above the salty desert flats known as The Playa, a mysterious force brought more than thirty-five-thousand charged souls on a pilgrimage into Burning Man, to celebrate the dawn of galactic culture on earth.

» More reflections from a peak on the wave.

flash � URL Kaleidoscope

A Flash MX actionscript which renders a kaleidoscope with any non-progressive jpeg URL input through the interface.

Check out the .swf, or download the .fla

video � Time & Time Again

This music video for the band Chronic Future's single Time & Time Again, was directed by Ian Inaba at GNN, and largely animated by Haik Hoisington.

The entire video, minus the last shot, was excecuted with Flash. Most of the imagery in Iraq was extracted from public domain photos taken by American soldiers, rebuilt and color balanced in Photoshop, then animated and composited in Flash.

graphic � Polar Graphs

A series of graphs rendered in polar coordinates with the freeware graphing app MathGV.
Hosted @ podcollective.com

random � MIDI Patternition

patÂ·ter-ni-tion
1: pattern cognition, wishing
to stimulate
2: stimulate a jace laced
mace glaced
smile on your dazed face

graphic � /graphics

Desktops, mathematical compositions & illustrations for your optical stimulation.

video � /videos

Music videos produced in association with http://gnn.tv