Videos: Virtual Reality (VR) and Related

Written by Scott Collins, VR graphics by Frank Coleman. Excerpt from The Dark Art of BENTMEN, featuring performances from our most recent appearances, along with rare and previously unreleased footage, is an all-new, career-spanning retrospective. Watch The Dark Art of BENTMEN here: https://youtu.be/EG4dsaZrP3A

SECRET AGENT - Portofino Special Agent Duncan Kilburn - Sax Special Agent Jo Quail - Electronic Cello Special Agent Robert Holmes - Guitar All other instruments and video by Bureau Chief Frank Coleman Recorded at an undisclosed location. Mastered by John Ashton at Highwoods Audio, Woodstock, NY All footage shot handheld by Frank Coleman inside a VR environment, created with Tilt Brush and Oculus Medium. Transcript: What do you want from me, Colonel? The girl.... and right away! In my life of nightmares, Portofino really seems like a dream. Isn't it possible they may be sharper than we are? Now it's obvious they must have an informer... One of the three of us! I've got a job for you right away. In my life of nightmares, Portofino really seems like a dream. A dead traitor can be useful. She might be smarter than we think. That's just the kind of film I like - short and significant. For further updates, request Level 1 Security Clearance at http://SecretAgentBand.com (c)(p) 2020 Secret Agent / Mi5 Recordings (Universal Music Group) All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Killing Joke - Snakedance (Youth 'Rattlesnake Dub' Remix) from the album "Pylon" Visuals by Frank Coleman Created in Virtual Reality with Microdose VR A spontaneous music video I created in virtual reality with Microdose VR, inspired by meeting Youth at last week's double-header Killing Joke shows in NYC. I'm painting in mid-air, and the graphics bounce to the music in real time. The software has been in development for three years and only released for initial testing in the last few weeks. Ultimately, they'll license it to VJs for public performance, so consider this my audition reel. 😉

Music and Graphics by Frank Coleman. I took the largest print I could find of Jackson Pollock's "Summertime 9a," broke it out by color spectrum in Photoshop, exported the pieces as separate PNGs with transparent backgrounds, imported those into a virtual reality environment (Tilt Brush), built a “room” out of the pieces in 360 space, then did a fly-thru, in one unbroken five minute take, using Tilt Brush's handheld virtual camera, which saves it out as standard 720p video. So it's "shot on location" inside VR. The music came from an undeveloped song idea I wrote for Satellite Paradiso a few years ago. Everything you hear is me, multi-tracked, all from one keyboard. For more, visit http://frank-coleman.com

Killing Joke - Money is Not Our God (Babylon Dub by Youth) from the album "In Dub" Visuals by Frank Coleman Created in Virtual Reality with Microdose VR

Orphans of the Storm - Sacred Mushroom of the Shaman Written, Recorded and Produced by William Desmond and Taylor Barefoot Remix and Video by Frank Coleman Created in Virtual Reality with MicrodoseVR William Desmond • Acoustic and electric hammered dulcimer, bass dulcimer, psaltery, keyboards, percussion and chants. Taylor Barefoot • Acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards and treatments, electric sitar, bass and percussion. Frank Coleman • Additional drums, percussion, loops, keyboards and treatments. Special guest Tony Levin • Bass (c)(p) 2019 Sound Museum Records

THE BRAIN DUMP - Episode 04: VR/Drugs - 360°. The mindbending web series hosted by Frank Coleman on #Patreon. For best results, view with a VR headset. To see this episode in standard HD, visit: https://youtu.be/R_YQePGCxqg FEATURING (in order of appearance) Forbidden Transmission The Cage Potted Psalm Torbovision The Frog Ballet Spin Bay City Rollers Audience Stuart Whitman Lookalike Contest Gumby Moon Monster The Twonky Blortasia George Zucco, Come On Down High Firemen The Frog Again Everything is Terrible say Hello Use the Tapes My Mom's Not Home Right Now It's Showtime Drum Solo Colby's Place White Sale Someone Else's Lies Pleasant Dreams, Little Friend Apt Pupil Headsplitting What's With the Big Box? Great Time on Drugs Now I'm Seeing Ducks Super Chicken Doggie Positions Rod Serling for Radio Shack In The 21st Century, Everyone will Have Guitar-Shaped Spaceships J'accuse!, starring Mr. Potato Head Inflatable Undateable What's The Matter With You? Crack is Awesome Raggedy Ann Takes a Trip Let Your Inner Voices Decide I Heard Voices in the Mirror, Too Unlucky Marshmallow Salesman I'm Hungry A Whole Bowl Full Cops Are Listening Abe Vigoda Magic My Dream Begins to Take Shape Three Headed Repairman Get Out of the Car Now We Have a Surprise for You Peter Ustinov for Alien Life Forms The Right Port We'll Use VR Minor Adjustments Goodbye Reality A Tour of the Fourth Dimension - 360 Winter - Wherever You Are - 360 Eden - Drugs - 360 Your Disk Operating System Telly Savalas for The Sex Pistols Elmo Death Threats Let Me Be Your Master Everyone Loves Ding-a-ling Secos & Molhados Al Jarreau Speaking in Tongues Laura Dern WTF Marie Osmond DADA Jive Talkin' and Tennille The Young Ones Editorial Comment Electronic Highway Will Not Wait Forry Ackerman in Excelsis There is Only Now At a Bar, Confused Today in LSD Gumby Drum Solo Balloons and Gas Inflatable Love Bomb Junk Head What it Means to Obey Talk About Anything Turn Those Cameras Off Shaye St. John presents Washroom 2 Compiled, Transformed and/or Edited by Frank Coleman for 21st Century Art (21ca.com) and IntraVenous Television (ivtv.com) Special thanks to our patrons, without whom it might be possible, but it would not be worthwhile. Sue Anello John Chmaj Sarah Fimm Wade Gradia Rob Knebel Pat Ludwig Roger Morris Tom Nickel Lindsey Nicklas Harry Pawluk Tom Semioli Mr. Shemp Anna Svahn Steve Van Natta Rich Ward Support The Brain Dump on Patreon! You can help us make more episodes of The Brain Dump for as little as $1 per month. For more info, visit http://patreon.com/braindump

SECRET AGENT - Portofino Special Agent Duncan Kilburn - Sax Special Agent Jo Quail - Electronic Cello Special Agent Robert Holmes - Guitar All other instruments and sounds by Bureau Chief Frank Coleman Recorded at an undisclosed location. Mastered by John Ashton at Highwoods Audio, Woodstock, NY For Further Updates, Request Security Clearance at http://secretagentband.com (c)(p) 2018 Secret Agent / Mi5 Recordings (Universal) All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Interactive art environment from 1993 using Macromedia Director and QuickTime. Unplayable for many years, resurrected as a video. From 21st Century Art (http://21ca.com). Additional technical information: QTVR was still a year away. This played pretty smoothly at the time. It was one big quicktime movie with a companion lookup table that preloaded the next set of frames (depending on where you were and which direction you were headed) and blitted them to the screen. I'd turn direct-to-stage on, so it would write directly to the video buffer, then off again and swapped out the QT movie for the requisite JPEG destination keyframe for the next scene. This was released on a CD-ROM so it ran on whatever the recommended spec of the time was. Probably 4MB RAM. Lingo is still the best scripting language I ever used, in my opinion. It's simplicity and readability by "normal people" is what gave it it's power. Some languages are so powerful that nobody can use them. 😉 - FBC, NYC 2017