Daytime's synth voices and painterly visuals spin a dreamy tale. The Sun cannot pierce through a cloud-wrapped planet and thus wages war with sunbeams. The Clouds fight back with vapors; in the end, life wins.
Daytime's sinuous imagery was hand-crafted with the Rutt/Etra Video Synthesizer, an analog video instrument built in the early 70s. Like a TV from another dimension, the Rutt/Etra gives artists total control of the screen with knobs, oscillators and sound-responsive circuitry. It is a modular analog computer, programmed with patch chords.
The artists dedicate Daytime to the memory of Steve Rutt, co-inventor of the Rutt/Etra. Steve's pioneering work as an engineer and entrepreneur helped create the media culture we now live in.
Music by Steve Nalepa.
Video co-created by Benton-C Bainbridge, V Owen Bush and Steve Nalepa.
Video produced at dvlabs in New York.
A multimedia spectacle just concluded at Xi'an, China's 2011 International Horticultural Exposition. Video director Benton-C Bainbridge and choreographer Brooke Broussard's collaboration "Infinite Light" contributed dance video to this extravaganza under the artistic direction of Huang Hui. The production combined live dance performances by Chinese and American dancers with lasers, underwater LED displays, and Bainbridge's painterly effects projected onto multiple giant screens made of water and fog. It was performed for the 178 day duration of the Xi'an World Expo from April 28, 2011 to October 22, 2011.
The unique, cross-cultural collaboration of Hui, Broussard, and Bainbridge yielded a technologically groundbreaking and visionary show for the 2011 Expo.
Glowing Pictures designed and played supersized visuals at Surpass 2011 for thousands of nightly attendees in Xi'an, China's Da Ming Palace Park. The Palace grounds turned into an outdoor club as international DJs took the stage with Glowing Pictures' VJ Julian Han Bush.
Glowing Pictures is thrilled to announce that One Step Beyond is back at the American Museum of Natural History for a 5th Season! #1SB 5 launched in October, 2011 with a Best Coast DJ set and continued with a Dirty Projectors DJ set in January, 2012.
Glowing Pictures have been the resident visual designers for One Step Beyond for all five seasons, and continue our run of largely sold-out shows. One Step Beyond has been called the "Best Museum Party" by New York Magazine, and the Village Voice says "One Step Beyond literally has you on another planet with the spectacular light show".
On October 1 & 2, 2011, South Miami-Dade's newest Arts Center celebrated its Grand Opening with a multimedia spectacle integrating music, dance, art and projections. Benton-C Bainbridge designed layers of video to turn the stage into a giant diorama, portraying the people and places of the county from its devastation by Hurricane Andrew through today's rebirth. Mark Moormann's vérité videography was interwoven with art by Edouard Duval Carrié to paint a magically-real picture. Director Heidi Marshall brought exceptional local talent together to tell the tale of the SMDCAC and its diverse community in the cities, suburbs and farms of the Southern-most reaches of mainland America.
Glowing Pictures produces a multi-channel audiovisual entertainment
program in collaboration with Imagination The Americas for a top
secret Gala Event in Los Angeles celebrating a century of Hollywood
storytelling. We will post details in early November, stay tuned!
