Tag : animation

[ December 10, 2016; 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] On Saturday, December 10, I’ll be performing at the 3-D theater of the Downtown Independent in Los Angeles. If you haven’t seen the way that I create and transform fluid realities, this will be a perfect introduction! All of my performances use 3-D graphics, and seeing it in stereoscopic 3-D enhances the experience.
I invite 3-D enthusiasts to […]
I’ve made some recordings of live scenes in 360 video format. Put on your VR headsets (or use your mouse to swivel the view! Check them out!

[ October 8, 2016; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. October 15, 2016; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. October 21, 2016; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] J-Walt is preparing to bring Spontaneous Fantasia to Australia! Thanks to the persistence of Warik Lawrance, we have three cities lined up!
Melbourne — Brisbane — Perth
Each show will take place in a 360 immersive dome theater! We’re looking froward to sharing this amazing new art form with Australian audiences!
Here’s the tentative schedule:
October 8: Melbourne Planetarium
October 15: Brisbane Planetarium
October […]

[ August 20, 2016; 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Each time I step up in front of the technology I’ve created and take electronic brush in hand, I embark on opening new worlds and new discoveries. I invite you to join me on my next adventure!
I’ll be back at the amazing Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado, Boulder for the finale party of the Fiske […]

[ July 8, 2016; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] I’m taking my show to Colorado at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, on July 8. I plan to surround us all with improvised creations that linger, hover, waver, dance, and vanish. Join me in this beautiful theater!
Two shows, at 7pm and 9pm.
(Update: Information about the event was here, but the the info is obsolete.)
Click […]

[ June 18, 2016; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] I’ll be performing at the amazing Fiske Planetarium on the University of Colorado, Boulder campus! In 2015, I performed some shows there that went amazingly well! This will be first appearance in Colorado for 2016. I’m looking forward to creating my gestural virtual worlds in this state-of-the-art 8k theater.
Click the link for tickets:
http://fiske.colorado.edu/beta/events?id=134
(Event has passed.)
See […]

[ May 29, 2016; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] J-Walt and Dean De Benedictis will be appearing on Alien Air Music on Sunday, May 29 at 8:00pm PDT. We’ll be sharing some of our recent collaborations, and talking about our process. We will be streaming this even live on YouTube, with J-Walt supplying some of his recent graphics and photography. Join us live by clicking on the below link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULh6Jo03FP8
Here’s are some animated gifs I made from video and photos I created. Nature is a great inspiration to me, as I think it is to all of us. We enjoy the outdoors in many ways. I enjoy it by appreciating nature’s detail.
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margin: auto;
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#gallery-1 .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%;
}
#gallery-1 img {
border: 2px solid […]

This week, I’ve been exploring symmetries and folding. I’ve implemented a technique for folding images back on themselves in an organic way. I was going to create a quick abstract video which uses this technique, but this piece unfolded and evolved instead. I developed the graphics and music over the past few days, going back and forth with […]

I spent an evening playing with some geometry, watching alternating rows of boxes interact with each other, as I tweaked their spacing and rotations.
It’s easy for me to work this out with my real-time system, and easy to come up with dozens of variations in a short amount of time. Here’s a gallery of some […]