Fun With Scenes from the movie Start Wreck: The Lotion Mixture. And stuff.

Fun With Scenes presents... By way of "Mad Max: Fury Road"... Out for a drive, our hero just wants to stay out of trouble. This post-apocalyptic desert, however, has other plans for his weekend afternoon.

Fun With Scenes, using the 1990 movie Tremors and the music of Fleetwood Mac, mostly from their Britishly titled 1977 album Rumours. (Three-fifths of the band then were British--the two McVies and Fleetwood--while Buckingham and Nicks are Americans. So, maybe there was a tumultuous vote on the matter and no one from the British camp could be persuaded to go with the more succinct American spelling, "Rumors", leading to even more bitter feelings amongst the band than they already had at the time. Not to start any rumours/rumors, of course.)

This video combines footage from the AppleTV+ series Foundation (season 1, episode 8, titled "The Missing Piece" from 2022) with "In the Spiral", a 2020 song by the band Phantogram.

BONUS POEM!

The Emperor Spirals
by Timothy Donavan Russell

He walks the spiral
Brave emperor
He's a flippin' lobster

Sun is on fire
In the spiral
The music is viral

Chest puffed and nose chapped
Through canyon walls
Burned to both of his--hey!

Though he's dripping song
And giants drop
The Pace will never stop

Isaac Russell and I've made music together as Musical Realists. Really. This is no less than the official video for our official song, "Enjoy Your Wait, Mr. Skronk", from our very official album The Ultimate (2021).

If you've ever wondered what hypercubes, aka tesseracts, are all about, then this is a good music video for you. If you have no idea what I'm talking about and you don't care for geometry, maybe you should watch this anyway, just to be weird and learn something new. The music incorporates quintuplets, i.e. notes divided into 5 beats. It's actually all in 4/4 at 150 bpm. Video: Tesseracts 101. Music: "The New Quintuplet Swing" (2021).

It's a rolling tesseract making its way through the clouds and across the stars, folks. The music is "Funky Night", from 2021.

It's a spinning, semi-transparent color wheel just making its way through space. That's what's up.

The music, "A Mix of the Best of Music for Art of the Other Wheel", was taken from songs originally commissioned for use as background entertainment at an art show titled "Art of the Other Wheel", which took place September 25th & 26th 2015 at The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space in Springfield, Illinois. Those songs were remixed for this video.

Bridget (the spouse) and I offer this low-key ukulele/voice rendition of "People Are Strange" by The Doors.

All things. Music: "Pursuant". Sources are public domain. Bee nice.

Composed of ten pieces of music and a series of 70 still frame photos of light through glass, this video was part of an art installation on display at The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space DREAMSCAPE show, May 31st and June 1st, 2019.

This is a playlist of videos I made in 2018 using a ton of crazy public domain stuff I found. These were commissioned for and projected at the 2018 Dark Arts show, which was currated by Staunzie Grady and took place at Arlignton's Restaurant in Springfield, Illinois.

I made the music used in this video by Dave Heinzel for The Studio Show in 2016.

In which I read my essay "So Long, So Long Ago" at NPR Illinois Stink Bug Night in 2019. The essay also appears in text form on my Writings page.

Windsor for the Derby's song "WNYU Radio" set to scenes of I-55 in Illinois. I made this in 2013.

Electro-Faustus EF102 Photo Theremin running through wah-wah pedal. Visualization by Rovastar+Geiss (Snapshot Of Space [LSB mix]). From 2010. This song made it onto the 2014 Just Sign on the Dotted Line various artists compilation CD put out by Electro-Faustus.

In silent form, this video was used in a projector installation during a show of women’s fabric art. The show, titled Draw Near, featured the works of two artists (Wendy Allen and Carol Bridges) as well as a sacred space by artist Chery Miller. The show took place April 22nd and 23rd, 2016 at The Pharmacy Gallery & Art Space in Springfield, Illinois. The audio in this video was also commissioned for the show. It was played in the background during the event along with other long passages of ambient music. Thus, this video is a sort of "best of" Draw Near.

This began as gift for my brother in 2009; I gave it to him then as a short screen saver for his PC. The animation you see here was produced in 2014, partly using Starry Night Pro 6. Song title: "Lives of the Bloated Gas Giant Suns" (2007). The scene is actually what it would sort of be like to stand on Triton and watch Neptune in the sky--sped up over the course of two months Earth-time, of course.