I am pleased to announce the release of Supakitch’s website. Check out the gorgeous work of this Brooklyn-based artist and don’t forget to stop by @ MetroPlastique for some wearable goodies he designed with Koralie.

All Right. Not sure if I am proud of this one, but anyway here it is : the YouTube Mixer.

This is a little project I worked on a boring Sunday afternoon. This web application (as I dare to call it) lets you mix two different streams from YouTube, with a crossfader controlling the sound volume of each video. Each one can be set by a simple input form, and a search frame can be displayed to that videos can be browsed.
It’s then easy to just copy and paste the embed link and prepare your song to be mixed. The “related” feature of YouTube makes perfect sense there, and comes to rescue if you are in lack of good tracks to put on.

The story behind is that I’ve been involved in several parties where nobody came up with some music to listen to. Opening a browser and start listening music from YouTube videos was our best option.
Each time some serious fun was going on doing this, with just one purpose in mind as you all may know : make the girl(s) dance and get crazy.

>>YouTube Mixer<<

Two weeks ago we@2Roqs inaugurated our new studio in Bordeaux (read my previous post). Invitations were sent to guests by e-mail that linked to the stop-motion video above. It was shot during some rainy days of April, and the idea was to create something non-digital that would show our new place and at the same time some of our past and present references, while displaying infos about the party itself. You may have recognized the green screen and the pixelized bee of that good ol’ Atari-St. The music was specially created by Arnaud, the man behind Bordeaux-based Splank Studio.

The party itself went super well, most of the people we had invited showed up to say hi (and drink a bit too ;-). For this occasion, we had re-worked one of the first interactive application (called RoqsTree) Mike and I started to develop back in 2004. The concept is quite simple, people can register to the application by taking a photo, and then their avatar is shown as a kind of fruit on a tree grown in a 3D model of the place hosting the event. Some interactions can occur too between the participants. More details soon !

Photos courtesy of Michaël.

I spent the previous weekend in the shiny city of Barcelona, attending Urban Funke festival where I was invited thanks to my involvement in street-art website ekosystem.org. I had good times meeting some really nice people over there, my best regards are flying to Lolo, Above and Jesus. Unfortunately, I had to come back quickly in France for urgent work on Monday, I would have really liked to stay a few more days to go to OFFF festival. Too bad.

I’ve recently developped a tag system for www.ekosystem.org, a friend’s website which deals with street-art/graffiti scene. Browsing of the database was largely improved, it’s now possible to navigate thanks to a page system. The site has been living online for about 6 years now and is daily updated with fresh and colorful photos sent from various places around the world.
Here is a small selection of mixed artists appearing on the above screenshot (top-left to bottom-right) : La mano / Barcelona (Spain), Captain Rouget / Agen (France), Pez / Barcelona, Jace, Eko and Phil Poule, Miss Van / Toulouse (France) and Supakitch.