December 18th, 2002
[ business / artist works / Mark Bajuk / Boris Effects / PHOTOS]

Business

1) New (free) space @ the Apple Store in Soho
    A little cozier, but it come with some great perks.
2) Free Admission:
    Don't need your contribution to cover the space, so meetings are free.
3) New time slot -   6:30 - 8:30
4) New Perks. (That will be detailed at the meeting)
5) More time to share your work in detail.
    (Please e-mail us @ feedback@nycmg.org if you want to present)
    What good is a user group if You don't share.
6) Always a Fast Machine to Demo from.
7) Door prizes provided by sponsors.
8) Unfortunately, the Apple Store in Soho does not have a Beta deck.
    VHS, DVD, CD, Fire wire drives are all possible
    We are trying to organize a Beta for future meetings.

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Artist's Works:
The following artists showed their works at the November Meeting.

William Drescher, Graphics Producer of Animation and Design for NBC News Designworks showed a quick demo of how he's been pulling off exponetial scale satellite pushes from orbit for NBC News.
There's even one for the Apple Store.

Other's showed as well, but give us a day or so to get the info right before we post them.

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Mark Bajuk, lead technical director from the Rose Center for Earth and Space gave a talk about the creation of SonicVision. In case you haven't seen the show yet, here's the info:

SonicVisionHow Do You See Your Music?

Beginning October 3, 2003

Every Friday and Saturday, at 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, and 10:30 p.m.

The American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with Moby, is launching SonicVision, a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative
music show.  Presented in association with MTV2, SonicVision takes
audiences in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through fantastical dreamspace.  With a mix by Moby featuring tracks from Radiohead, U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, Prodigy, The Flaming Lips, Fischerspooner, Spiritualized, Audioslave, Stereolab, Boards of Canada, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, Zwan, White Zombie, and Moby, the music ignites this one-of-a-kind computer-generated musical and visual experience, which uses next-generation digital technology to illuminate the Planetariums dome with a dazzling morphing of colorful visions. 

Beginning on Friday, October 3,
2003, SonicVision will be presented every Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, and 10:30 p.m., in the Hayden Planetarium at the Museums Rose Center for Earth and Space
For more information, visit www.amnh.org.

SonicVision is made possible by generous sponsorship and technology support from Sun Microsystems.

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J.C. Boujviere, Marketing Manager from Boris FX was on hand to demonstrate new additions to the Boris FX product line including Boris Red 3GL and Boris Graffiti 3.0. Boris Continuum Complete will also be shown.

Red 3GL may be used either as a stand alone engine or as an integrated
plug-in to industry leading non-linear editors.  Just like Red 3GL, Boris
Graffiti uses a custom user-interface to control text and effects, where
Boris Continuum Complete is a set of plug-ins designed to work as native to
the host application and using that applications interface for settings
control.

Since its inception, Boris FX products have grown to serve over 100,000
editors and artists worldwide. A great part of its success lies in the
ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong
partnerships with industry leading manufacturers including: Adobe, ADS,
Apple, Avid, Canopus, Dazzle, DPS, Discreet, In:sync, Incite, Matrox, Media
100, Ulead, and Video Design Graphics.

Specials are run all the time on the
http://www.borisfx.com web site, take a
visit for details.

DOOR PRIZES 

Boris FX will be gave away a Boris Continuum

Also, Media 100 has generously donated a copy of Final Effects Complete.

Apple Store SoHo added to the pit with a ton of T Shirts and Bags.
Way cool.

[ business / artist works / Mark Bajuk / Boris Effects ]