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New Years Eve 2019 At Harmancos - Soulshine from Brent Bowers on Vimeo.

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The Hooters - I'm Alive (AVO Session) from Hooters Music on Vimeo.

The Hooters - I'm Alive (AVO Session)

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The Hooters - I'm Alive from NJ Exposure on Vimeo.

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The Hooters - I'm Alive (In Flight) from Hooters Music on Vimeo.

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The Hooters - I'm Alive (Time Stands Still Music Video) from Hooters Music on Vimeo.

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The Blind Eye Looks Within - Workprint from Brent Bowers on Vimeo.

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JellyJam-1_1997-Song-01-Into The Darkness from Brent Bowers on Vimeo.

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Absolute Zero live at Crossroads Coffee in Waxhaw, NC Circa 2005 from Brent Bowers on Vimeo.

Waxhaw is a cool place. It's a shame their local coffee place no longer hosts live music. We played there a few times back in the day and it was always fun. As an aside the last time I visted their coffee was like syrup so it seems like the cool music is not all that has changed.

This footage was lost and eventually rediscovered on an old dvd. The audio and video have been enchanced for this online archive version.

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Animatronic Head work in progress (The World's End) from Waldo Mason on Vimeo.

This is a short collection of footage and photos taken during the build of Greg Townley's animatronic head for Edgar Wright's "THE WORLD"S END. Greg played a teenage "Blank" (Alien humanoid robots), whose head was knocked off against a urinal by Simon Pegg's character Gary King, as a precursor to the big fight in the Cross Hands pub. The head was only required to perform a limited set of movements so the functionality is mainly in the eyes, jaw & brows.

The build process starts with a lifecast of the performer's head which is cast out in wax clay, the eyes opened and generally cleaned up. A fibreglass mould is taken of this and a fibreglass core produced from it, which will be the basis for the mechanical understructure on which the skin will sit. Softened silicone, pigmented to the base colour of the performer's skin is poured into the mould and when it has set forms the skin for the head.

The fibreglass core is then mechanised using 12 servos, 10 for the eyes and brows and 2 for the jaw and is mechanically completely self contained, with a magnetic power switch which can be operated through the silicone skin. A second "working" skin is used to test the movement, after which the "hero" skin is stuck down onto the mechanical underskull and the head goes through a period of testing and programming with the performance system.

Once programming is completed the skin is prepped for painting, seams trimmed and any bubbles in the silicone filled. The rubber is painted with a mix of oil paints and liquid silicone, using reference photos and colour swatches taken during the lifecast and acrylic teeth produced from casts of the performers own teeth to replace the test set already in the head.

Finally, the back, sides and front hairline is hand punched and a knotted wig used for the longer top section, then the eyelashes and eyebrows added to complete the cosmetic process.

BUILD CREDITS: Lifecast: Tom Packwood, Brian Best & Nicola Grimshaw Cleanup sculptor: Justin Pitkethly Mould: Tom Packwood Animatronic design/ build: Gustav Hoegen Electronics/ performance software: Matt Denton Silicone skin, seams & paint: Nicola Grimshaw Hair: Maria Cork & Waldo Mason

Prosthetic Supervisor: Waldo Mason waldomason.com

Animatronic Supervisor: Matt Denton micromagicsystems.com

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Maggie Jane - Break By Sun from Brent Bowers on Vimeo.

Maggie Jane - Break By Sun

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Todd TV from Brent Bowers on Vimeo.

Recovered video C footage from circa 1980!

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I call this one “Head In A Bowl”  

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WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?

...cheap bourbon and female cyborgs