Redbot is Recharging

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on January 20, 2010

Happy Belated New Year from Red­bot Loves You!

Photo Above: Most recent sight­ing of Redbot…

That’s Red­bot (between Michael Moore and The King) on our Christ­mas card for 2009, which we based on The Bea­t­les Sgt. Pep­pers Album Cover.

You can see the whole card on my main site at onehumanbeing.com: http://onehumanbeing.com/central/2009/12/23/merry-christmas/

Recharg­ing…

I’ve dis­cov­ered that Red­bot needs down­time to recharge from time to time, espe­cially after a Red­bot hunt and all the activ­i­ties of Octo­ber and Early November.

While Red­bot has been recharg­ing I’ve been work­ing on other projects, includ­ing some audio and video work.

Here’s a piece I posted just a cou­ple of days ago on YouTube and onehumanbeing.com.

This is a sound col­lage visu­alscape I cre­ated last week called Area 5150 — The UFO Take Over Mix

What is a sound col­lage visualscape?

A “sound col­lage” is like a paper col­lage, but using audio sam­ples, syn­the­siz­ers, drum tracks and other audio mate­r­ial to cre­ate a new work — not a “song” nec­es­sar­ily — but some­thing like an audi­tory adven­ture, out of var­i­ous found materials.

A “visu­alscape” is a video mix of shapes, col­ors, found video images, ani­ma­tions, pho­tos and graph­ics which is cre­ated by apply­ing the same col­lage ideas to pro­vide a visual com­pan­ion for the audio experience.

These are my own definitions.

Mean­while…

I’ve received some nice pho­tos of Red­bot from some peo­ple, but haven’t posted them yet… sorry about that, but I need to re-do my photo sub­mis­sion process (that’s a whole other story I won’t go into here…)

It’s on my “to-do” list, and as soon as I’ve fin­ished to-doing it I’ll let you know. These post-holiday times are good for clean-up projects like that…

Until later, best of health!

The Beginnings of Redbot: A Short Redbot Animation…

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on September 3, 2009

I was work­ing on my first Red­bot Ani­ma­tion, but I couldn’t get my micro­phone to work to record the voice over nar­ra­tion… so instead I added a sound­track using a piece of a sound col­lage I cre­ated sev­eral years ago called “Trav­el­ing Through Malls” — You can make up a story in your head for the ani­ma­tion or fol­low the script (below) I was going to use…

Script for Short Film: The Begin­nings of Redbot

Scene One: On The Wash­ing­ton Mall…

Nar­ra­tor: While Sur­veil­lance Robots harass tourists near The Wash­ing­ton Mon­u­ment, no one noticed the Red­bot silently mov­ing across the Mall…

Scene Two: Red­bot in front of Nan­tucket Beach House…

Nar­ra­tor: Red­bot was NOT cre­ated in the Nan­tucket Beach House you see behind him…

Scene Three: Red­bot sketches and Neural Connections…

Nar­ra­tor: Red­bot was born, like many ideas, as note­book scrib­bles… (pause for 10 sec­onds) He is an exper­i­ment in Neural-Nano-Redbotics built for the ser­vice of all human beings…