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The Vigilante Tourist Squad members are no ordinary tourists!  We protect society while we are taking pictures of points of interest.  We will warn anyone who will listen about the terrible deal you will get on buying a ponch on the water front as opposed to the knick-nack shop on Broadway.  The Squad also does video and music using Ableton & Final Cut.  Enjoy it!

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“We had Jamal and Melinda on the video working at Nemo in SE Portland. Meanwhile, Pluto, Main Sequence, Dj Tant, and Mano-destra worshipped at the temple of the MPC, also known as Bridgetown Breaks headquarters, just up the street. After agreeing on a very rough skeleton, the video people went off to create their magic, while the audio guys took turns trying to melt each other’s faces with bass hits created from horse hooves and morse code.”

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It’s a highly charged environment when Skyler Stever and Noah Stanik join creative forces and work together. Inspiration was first drawn by watching the video clips and listening to the audio clips. Much time was spent ruminating the possibilities and questioning purpose, intent, process and craft - it always came back to one simple question: “what is the story?” It really was quite a tour de force of creativity….or we might have just watched the footage, talked about it on the way to get a slice of pizza and then made the video.

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The four of us in mise en abyme each took the samples and rexx’ed them for use in Reason. We then each made our own sections and movements. About 6 hours before deadline we gathered together and worked them into a coherent whole. Gideon created the video separately, mostly cutting up the stills and using them as masks on 3D skeletons built and animated on the spot. It may not look like it, but everything on screen is from the video samples. Gideon logged frequent calls to the mise that usually went like this: “Ok, I got this weird jet-propulsion amoeba dude who travels to worship his god which is a belly-dancer with a tv head. What do you got?” “Well we got a kind of voyage happening too, think crustacean interzone noir.” “Oh crap. Ok, I’ll start working on some underwater stuff.” Once we gave him the final music, Gideon made clips to match the sections. We put it all together about 15 minutes before the deadline.

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