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1. You recently moved
from the U.K to Vancouver to attend Vancouver Film School. How has
the great-white-north been so far?
I moved at the end of December to start a 12 month course at the
Vancouver film school. Moving from the UK was hard, I really like
London and I have been there a lot the last few years, I miss Europe
too. I miss the people and culture most.
Vancouver is great, though. Good, mild weather, beautiful surroundings
and some beautiful girls to boot ;). I am still settling here and
finding my feet, it doesn't have the kind of urban subcultures London
has growing in it, and as yet, I am not impressed by the music scene
or pub scene here, but I have met some great people along the way.
This city seems to be a transitional city to me, you're here for
a short while, and then move on. I think its only a hundred years
old or so, and it shows, the lack of roots feelings and general
uncertainty of what it want's to become. Vancouver is in its teenage-years.
As I say, Vancouver is like an American Eagle F****** a Panda and
smoking a joint, hah, you can work it out from that.
I want to go back to the UK & Europe when I am finished here
in December to finish all the half-read chapters of my life there.
2. Please describe the concept and design process behind:
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NIKE LAB
The Nike lab project was a good challenge. It was strange,
it appeared totally out of the blue. One evening, around 3am,
I was up working, and I got an e-mail from RGA, who produce
the Nike lab site, asking me if I was interested in doing
a project with them for the new site. It all went from there.
It was all about making an environment that was alive, and
interactive. The main part of the job was really directing
it all, explaining how it should work and be made, actually,
only a fraction of the ideas were put across, it's great,
but the Flash technology needs to be more powerful and flexible
yet. The illustrations I made for it were guides; there were
a lot of bits and pieces of photographs and other materials.
To be honest, I am not sure if morally I agree with the work,
but it was an opportunity I was curious about. I don't regret,
actually, I am pleased; the whole thing was great fun and
a good challenge. Made in collaboration with RGA, Karen Ingram,
Kevin Hulsey and Meikyo-Shisui.
www.nikelab.com
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EINSTEIN ETHICS VJ VIDEO,
mixed live to music by DP
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This was a live mixed and
video jammed to a track by a friend of mine, VJ (Video Jockey).
Using a number of different clips and mixing and cutting the whole
thing live to the length of the track, so 8 minutes, instantaneous.
Sometimes technology is great, mostly it's crap, but this time it
came through for me!
The birth of this project was a swift one too. In the middle of
playing the track I decided to make the video. About 2 minutes later,
I was in front of the machine, keyboard out, using Resolume, and
mixing gleefully with a beer in one hand! I was loading in the clips
as I was mixing, so there are some mistakes, and errors that you
would normally remove, but we decided to leave it totally raw, as
homage to its 'organicness'.
The music was done by DP, a young UK musician with so much potential,
the lad is coming up! The track itself is great, really housey,
deep and what a climax to the build-up! Sit back, relax, drink one
for me and enjoy!
http://www.karborn.com/2005/index.html#einsteinethics
- Einstein ethics video on my portfolio site.
http://dp-.dmusic.com/
- DP |
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| BANT MAGAZINE
I don't remember exactly how my relationship with the great
people at Bant began, but it's certainly a great magazine
to be involved with. It is a Turkish art, culture and music
magazine that comes out month under the name Bant, or Bant-Dergi,
(www.bantdergi.com)
I have done 3 separate things for them in total now. One
was an interview and feature on myself and my work, sort
of like an introduction to the Turkish people about what
I am up to, if you like. Second and thirdly were 'The Road'
and 'Frustration'. 'The Road' was created for an article
about travel and adventures, a kind of unearthly ascending
trail that shows the viewer something very different to
his reality. 'Frustration' is a visual interpretation of
the track Amon Tobin - Four Ton Mantis. A heavy, destructive
child chases an earth-bodied butterfly, wanting to devour,
destroy it. Roar! Flutter! Stomp! The track available on
my site for your enjoyment.
Watch out, I'm planning more with these guys yet! Thanks
to the gurus at Bant magazine, Turkey.
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3. Do you prefer to work
in collaboration or as a solo artist?
Collaboration. I love being around people, most of the time. Solo
is cool for venting some more personal feelings, I like group and
collaboration work because you can bounce off each others energy,
it's amazing.
4. In your opinion, which firms or studios are producing innovative
work right now?
I'm really excited about what's happening right now. I don't think
it lies in the design scene, I think the artists are in power
this era. I love the things we can do live now, instantly, like
with the VJ mixing from the Einstein Ethics video, or at the Big
Chill. Projecting the visuals out and just letting it flow is
great, having a crowd in front of you is a real push in the right
direction, you have the honour of enhancing their experience,
and you get to work with some great musicians. So I have to say
I am focusing my eye more on the live stuff right now, not so
much on what other studios or firms are producing. I am trying
to not influence myself into trends too much or be overly influenced
by people, just browsing sites all the time. But I don't mean
I don't like looking at other peoples work, I love it, when I
stumble across it a less direct way than just going to their site
and rooting through their portfolio.
Icongraphia.com where I spent my Summer in 2003, when I was 17,
working in London and have held a very close relationship to since
deserve a notice here, great work, great experiences there, it
was un-real, thanks Mark and Paul! You might see me back there
in 12 months, one I leave Vancouver, lets see. I love Oculart.com
also, beautiful work. There are many others, but I don't want
to throw links at you, find out and decide about it yourself :
)
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5. What is ParanoidPlant.com?
It's for fun. It's to vent myself and to put up collaborations with
people, it's meant to be like a street wall, I wan't everyone to
jam on it with me. Putting up little animations, stories, ideas,
whatever, and keep it without navigation, just madness, punk cut
style!
I am developing it more at the moment; I can't wait to see it grow!
Check out www.paranoidplant.com for an idea.
6. Where do you see yourself in 5 years from now?
No idea, I don't know what will be happening a year from now.
Either way, big changes in December when I leave school and I
guess from there I will go back home to the UK and move to London,
so goes the dream at present. I want to go work on things with
my friends again, and continue creating, although I think I want
to move into new areas, something more real, something physical
and violently present
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7. What are you currently
working on? Can you tell us about any up-coming projects?
Wow, I have a hell of a lot of things on my mind, I am always busy
mentally. I want to spend more time with paranoidplant.com and tenminds.com
and get those projects and ideas up to scratch. I really want to
move on with the Interactive Exhibition Proposal, it has so much
potential, needs Sponsors and people to work along with now, need
to open it up to companies more, we are still working to tweak the
concept, but learn more at:
http://www.karborn.com/exhbitionbrochure/ExhibitionBrochureFinalWeb.pdf
I really want to push more into live performances, the VJ side of
things, and into building more relationships with musicians and
the music scene, there is some big potentials there that haven't
been explored. I want to work with building environments, and giving
people a full experience, something they can physically and virtually
react with, take them to new worlds and that.
This week, after talking to those people at www.designtaxi.com again,
they asked me to make some A0 pieces of work for their coming soon
gallery space in New York or Singapore. Lets see how that goes,
I am dead excited! I also received an e-mail from musician/producer/dj
Amon Tobin, who is on the Ninjatune label, and he is interested
in me doing some art-work and promotional things with him later
in the year. Looks like the focus will be underwater, and creating
some really amazing new worlds to explore. Watch out!
There is more, but I want to keep certain things a surprise!
8. What was the last great movie you have seen? What was the
last great book you have read?
I just saw Sin City in the cinema, which was interesting, ultra-violent,
very well filmed though, and amazing texture and comic book-like
quality to the whole film, better way to interpret comic books than
those spider-man movies! But I am not much of a comic fan. I prefer
independent cinemas and short films more, they have all the wit,
quality and variety of Hollywood films, without all the bulked out
crap that goes into cinema, to make you feel like you got your 10ers
worth for the seat. It's free to watch, and all the more better
for it. Right now I am re-reading 1984, by George Orwell. Great
book, always as I age, whenever I read it again with my new perspective
on life, it has different messages and meanings that stand out.
Anyone who doesn't know the book or hasn't read it should give it
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