@matkeane.com.bsky.social
Freelance media-server specialist - Modulo Kinetic, Disguise, Dataton Watchout - for live events and shows. Based in Paris, France, working on projects in France, the E.U. & world-wide.
View of the Propylaea gateway to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
View of the Propylaea gateway to the Acropolis in Athens, taken in spring 2025. Light leaks courtesy of a Yashica 72-E from the late sixties, film grain courtesy of a roll of long-expired Fujifilm 400, both found at my parents' house.
#photography #athens #yashica #fujifilm
Rue Friant dans le 14ème ? En face d'un certain supermarché ? Le problème est quotidien mais personne - ni la mairie, ni la police - semble être motivé pour le résoudre.
08.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What do they mean "repurposed" ? You mean midi controllers can be used for something other than futzing around with live parameters in software ?!
26.09.2025 13:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A mason jar filled with fresh damsons, rock sugar and vodka.
A pile of fresh damsons picked from the garden.
This year's batch of umeshu has just been bottled, with just under a kilo of damsons from the garden now soaking in vodka while the rock sugar slowly dissolves. Must be time to taste last year's batch !
14.09.2025 12:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A nail parlour with the sign over the door reading 'Mei Beauty Nails' which several letters mis-aligned and/or upside-down.
When keming is the least of your problems... The sign over this nail store in Paris ought to trigger any typographers out there!
#typography #kerning #whyarethelettersupsidedown
Video control booth with Watchout production computer and LTC timecode reader with the stage in the background.
View from the video control booth of the ballet Play on stage at the New National Theatre Tokyo.
View from the video control booth of the ballet Play on stage at the New National Theatre Tokyo.
Back in Paris after 10 days at the New National Theatre Tokyo, where I had the pleasure of working on the video projections for the Japanese tour of the ballet 'Play' by Alexander Ekman with the Opéra National de Paris. Video playback with Watchout media-servers and Panasonic PT-RQ50K & PT-RZ21K.
15.08.2025 12:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Solved 'Bracket City' word puzzle on the Atlantic magazine website.
Solved 'Bracket City' word puzzle on the Atlantic magazine website.
Finally cracked the 'Bracket City' word quiz in the @theatlantic.com twice in one week ! And then failed miserably the next few days... Ah well.
22.06.2025 16:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Display Builder app interface showing 14 video projectors in portrait mode.
Disguise project interface with 14 video projectors mapped to a surface.
Just added the latest release of my Display Builder #softedge #projectionmapping calculator and display layout tool for #Watchout and other #MediaServers. More info and downloads on my web site:
matkeane.com/app/display-...
The Pulse 4K can manage 144Hz on a 2560px input - outputs are still limited to 2160p60Hz. Even higher-end switchers like the Barco E3 or Panasonic Kairos all seem to have the same 60Hz limit. And you might not like the price tag on that kind of equipment anyway !
16.02.2025 13:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At first I thought this could be a job for a hardware video switcher like an AnalogWay Pulse - www.analogway.com/products/pul... which would allow multiple PIPs with different inputs. But, since these machines are generally designed for broadcast video applications, they all seem to top out at 60Hz.
16.02.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Friendly annual reminder to anybody out there paying too much for your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription - if you're getting close to the end of your annual subscription, now is the time to go into your account, follow instructions to cancel your subscription then get the 40% offer right at the end.
01.11.2024 18:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wide shot of a mason jar filled with fruit - reine claudes and quetches - soaking in vodka and sugar, slowly becoming Umeshu (Japanese plum wine).
Close up of fruit and rock sugar in a glass jar.
For the last few years, I have been making umeshu with greengage from my parent’s garden in Shropshire. This year though, there is no fruit at all on the tree, despite lots of blossom back in the spring, so our 2024 vintage is a mix of reine-claude and quetsches from our local market in Paris
25.07.2024 13:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the north-west a new, separated cycle path would have been fantastic, but no filter-on-red for cyclists meant stopping every couple of minutes to let a tram pass parallel to the cycle path.
06.05.2024 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In general it was better than I expected. A few confusing moments in the south-east when the cycle path swapped to a different side of the road with no warning. On the western side, I had to look at my phone a few times to work out where the next section of cycle path actually was.
06.05.2024 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A cycling route from the https://cycle.travel website showing a loop around Paris - a 33km trip around the Boulevards des Maréchaux in a clockwise direction.
I quite often ride some parts of the Boulevards des Maréchaux to get to work, but until yesterday I'd never ridden the whole 33.8km loop of the V10 cycle route around Paris.
@commutedeparis.bsky.social
#cycling
#drizzly-sunday-afternoon
Record cover by George F Pollock
Record cover by Chris Yates
Record cover by Paul S Power
Record cover by Peter Schütte
Looking through my parent's vinyl collection and getting the feeling that back in the 70s & 80s record-cover designers just did whatever the hell they wanted...
16.03.2024 23:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oddly satisfying watch Youtube auto-generated subtitles make a complete mess of this 1966 BBC Wales documentary about the tradition of the Mari Lwyd.
youtu.be/G_xFo6Hifzk?...
Macbeth Underground Paris 2023 - View of the stage with red LED strip glowing in the background and 3 singers under a white spot light at the front of the stage.
A first for me - a disguise media-server project with no video outputs! The amazing set for 'Macbeth Underworld', designed by Bruno de Lavenère, featured LED strips embedded into the floor and two towers, all moving on 4 revolves. matkeane.com/news/disguis...
28.11.2023 18:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Video control booth backstage at Opéra de Paris during a 2023 performance of Don Pasquale.
A colleague sent me this shot of me operating the Watchout media-servers in the video control booth (affectionately known as the food truck) backstage at Opéra de Paris Garnier during a recent performance of Don Pasquale.
18.10.2023 09:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
