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New Painting Featured in STAVOC music video!

Stacy — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:10:18 +0000

My latest painting “Birdsong” is featured in a video with music by STAVOC and Dephorm, aka Steven Kitchen. As Barry Ostash of STAVOC says, there is ‘Unity Through Music.’ This video certainly demonstrates that, with us all working together despite Steven Kitchen being across the ocean in Liverpool, UK. I love how people can be brought together through the universal language of art and music!

You can check out the video on YouTube. Enjoy!

Title page of video featuring my painting, with the STAVOC logo.

For more information on STAVOC, please see the following sites:

stavoc.com
facebook.com/stavocmusic

Stacy Sakai teams up with STAVOC on a music video!

Stacy — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:44:35 +0000

Barry Ostash, singer, songwriter and guitarist for STAVOC, has created a music video featuring my Antennae painting! The music video is for the song “A Bond Has Been Broken,” by STAVOC in collaboration with Steven Kitchen of Hologram, who is located in Liverpool, UK.

Barry Ostash of STAVOC

You can view the music video here on YouTube. Watch for more in this series of music/art videos by STAVOC!

In their words…

“With a mutual love for MUSIC in all its beautiful forms, a band of unique individuals connected & joined forces to become: STAVOC.”

For more information on this band and their music, please see the following sites:

stavoc.com
facebook.com/stavocmusic

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Link to video presented at Spaced Out!

Stacy — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:39:44 +0000

For the opening of my art show at grace-gallery in September 2009, I wanted to show people a little bit about the telescopes that bring us images of space objects. With the help of Craig Breckenridge, I put together a selection of images, animations and quotes, and made a video presentation. Craig designs and builds telescopes, and was one of the designers of the Thirty Meter Telescope. When it is completed, it will be the largest telescope on the planet, situated on Mauna Kea. Craig is also very knowledgeable about astronomy, and was very supportive and helpful with my show.

The quotes in the video are ones that I find inspiring and thought-provoking. The images are of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the design of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Also included are images of Pleiades and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Star Trails image was taken by Craig Breckenridge. It is centered on Polaris, the North Star. The exposure on it is about four hours, and the spiral effect is due to the movement of the earth. In the original image, two satellite trails and one meteor are visible.

The animations of TMT give a high level view of how it works, and give good perspective on how large it is. There are also animations of Antennae, showing how the two galaxies collide, Monocerotis, and Orion. The animation of Orion shows what it would be like if we could fly through it. I have painted all three of these.

At my art show, we had the video looping as a backdrop, while a selection of songs played throughout the evening. Later, with permission, we added the song “Love Breath” from the Chakra Trancen-dance cd. I find the music on that cd so inspiring and uplifting. I would listen to it again and again while I painted galaxies and nebulae for my Stellar Drift and Spaced Out series.

You can view the video here on YouTube.

Enjoy.