Members Cloacal-X Posted April 11, 2007 Members Share Posted April 11, 2007 Has anybody ever witessed these two late 80s polychromatic, strobing blasts of A/V psychedelia courtesy of Stakker(embryonic FSOL)? They really sort of blow me away...a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cloacal-X Posted April 11, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 11, 2007 Oh...I should elaborate a little bit for those who haven't seen (which is probably just about everybody)- these are basically two little 1/2 hour gems which are an early experimental byproduct of the british acid house scene. Eurotechno and The Evil Acid Baron Show were released in 1987 and 1988, respectively. What makes it so great is that Eurotechno is all original Stakker material (almost closer to EBM a la Front 242 than what most would consider "acid house"), and TEABS is a mix of some really classic acid tracks, including remixes of some chicago tracks and also some of the better british stuff. Both of them are literally just flashing color and primitive computer-generated shapes and manipulated images and video of stuff like a smiling, dancing woman's head, trees, schematics, words like "sick" and "strap", etc. and it's all very intricate and fast moving. Definitely *not* for anybody who even might think they could possibly be epileptic. In fact, I reckon most people (including myself) will feel a physiological response just from watching the video. It's really the closest thing to a drug I've ever sensed but not ingested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members syncretism Posted April 11, 2007 Members Share Posted April 11, 2007 I could never sit through 'em = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cloacal-X Posted April 12, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 I actually find it a challenge as well. But it's not that I don't like it..it's just difficult! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members syncretism Posted April 12, 2007 Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 I have a similar relationship with a DVD by Lovid. They build modular video synths that make no distinction between audio and video signals, and they're pretty rough to watch for more than a few minutes at a time. Cool, definitely. Re-watchable.... eh. Not so much. Edit, I saw them perform live with this last year: http://www.ignivomous.org/projects/lovid/synths/syncarmonica.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Don Solaris Posted April 12, 2007 Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 an early experimental byproduct of the british acid house scene. Eurotechno and The Evil Acid Baron Show were released in 1987 and 1988, respectively. They will later inspire most of what will become "early techno" videos, with same kind of graphics, almost same colors schemes, better 3D graphics (mostly generated on Amigas) and added fractal animations and color cycling (Dr. Devious used a lot of them). At that time, these videos were like ... woooow WTF is this? I can't think of anything today that could generate the same effect of fascination as these videos were in late 80's / early 90's (maybe flying a spacecrat to nearest star system ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cloacal-X Posted April 12, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 I've never seen them until 2006 and they blew me away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Don Solaris Posted April 12, 2007 Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 I still use Fractint ... Speaking of..... http://www.fractalartcontests.com/1999/results.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cloacal-X Posted April 12, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 Oh, cool! I've done a little fractal art (so far mostly just Sterling, no post-processing), I should check out fractint - these are my best efforts to date - not nearly as good as those contest winners but not too bad, I reckon. The top one is by far my favorite - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Don Solaris Posted April 12, 2007 Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 Good work if you started recently. Sterling is good as is truecolor and more eyecandy. But then, in Fractint you can do extreme precise stuff, plus dozen of other things, like generating plasma or anaglyphs. It also has a lot of math models (if you are interested in chaos, swings, population, etc. it is all there in equations and graphics). In fact if you are reading James Gleick's Chaos - there is no better thing than having a parallel fun in Fractint - before that book i was just making Julias and Mandelbrots, but there is a lot of other interesting stuff. Also check out the Apophysis - it is freeware and a killer. And the best thing - the UltraFractal but ... 60 bucks. For zoom animations (done 8 so far), i've been using Fractint. I think Sterling can animate with a script, but i remember having some problems with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Don Solaris Posted April 12, 2007 Members Share Posted April 12, 2007 Here is a preview of an old work from early 2001. All custom color and made in Fractint. Original image sizes were 2478 x 1770 for printing, i had to resize them (of course) to 640x400 format so it is impossible to describe how these pics look in full screen. Here is a crop (to avoid any resampling) from 2478 x 1770 to 1280 x 1024 for fulscreen view (Save as... and then view). It might give the idea of details that can not be seen in images below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cloacal-X Posted April 13, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Ohh, good stuff! I alway try to make my fractals not look so fractal-y, but instead, you embrace it. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Don Solaris Posted April 13, 2007 Members Share Posted April 13, 2007 Check out what Brian Dougans (Stakker) is doing right now: Heh, bending those toy synths looks like great fun. Also FSOL has been active lately: (my favorite band, btw) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members acidhouse88 Posted May 27, 2007 Members Share Posted May 27, 2007 Hey guys i was doing a search for Evil Acid Baron Show and see u were talking about it.......If u use Bit Torrents ive uploaded it to a site for download. http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1178127/11743823/ Enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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