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.
Glowing Pictures and Steve Nalepa proudly present a new work "Leave No Story Untold" a 2 hour multi-channel audiovisual experience developed with Imagination, the Americas, Dentsu America, Canon, and Paramount Pictures. This "story of stories" is a celebration of 100 years of filmmaking on the Paramount Pictures Lot, where this new work was performed on November 4th, 2011 at an exclusive gala event debuting the new Canon "Cinema EOS" camera. The event was attended by 300 Hollywood luminaries including directors Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, and Jon Favreau.
"Leave No Story Untold" quotes classic Paramount films such as "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Vertigo", "Chinatown", "Airplane!", "King Kong", "Star Trek" and "Saturday Night Fever" to build a feature-length meta-narrative. The screens and soundtrack present a mash up of Hollywood story-structure, examining the pivotal moments of classic plots as ultra slow-motion video paintings that collide with each other to form an ambient narrative epic.
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 January 14, 2012 Benton-C Bainbridge mentored two talented YoungArts alumni to design the stage projections for a 'mashup' of West Side Story incorporating dance, music, spoken word and dazzling visuals mapped onto the set's "city streets". The performance took place at The Olympia Theater at the Gusman
Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. West Side Story Mashup was directed by Heidi Marshall and featured YoungArts alumni including Marcus Canty and Ernest Felton Baker. James Duarte, 2010 YoungArts Winner in Cinematic Arts, and Kelley Katzenmeyer, 2010 YoungArts Gold Award in Cinema and a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, created imagery ranging from remixes of West Side Story scenes to documentary footage of recent Occupy Wall Street events.
The performance was followed by an awards ceremony honoring
special guests Robert Redford, Doug Aitken and Robert L. Lynch.
Click here to watch the full program (performance begins at 32 minutes).
Click here for photos from the show and after party.
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.
South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center Grand Opening Multimedia 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.
