{"id":348,"date":"2010-03-21T18:12:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toshihoo.com\/dev\/?p=348"},"modified":"2013-03-27T23:54:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T23:54:39","slug":"bella-gaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.toshihoo.com\/dev\/bella-gaia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bella Gaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Bella Gaia &#8211; 2010<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bella Gaia is a 40 min live performance and immersive media experience created by filmmaker and composer, Kenji Williams. I had met Kenji through mutual friends and we instantly connected on our work with immersive and performance media. I visited him in Tokyo in 2007 and got got a chance to see his show, \u201cWorld Spirit\u201d. I was testing a new Sony HD camera at the time and I filmed the Tokyo performance in HD (it was still unusual to be able to shoot any HD footage in 2007)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Kenji moved to NYC and began development on his next show, Bella Gaia, a live musical performance with 40 min of immersive media for dome theaters. Kenji contacted me to assist help him produce some data visualization shots for Bella Gaia.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Kenji provided me with rough global maps of timebased climate data from our partner NASA. I cleaned up some of the data and transformed the timebased data into animated sequences. Finally I wrapped the flat, equirectangular maps around 3D spheres to create \u201cearth\u201d simulations and animated them to rotate slightly.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I was also provided with flat animated visualizations from from famed artist\/coder, Aaron Kolbin of his amazing airline flight path visualizations that he had given us permission to use in Bella Gaia. I took Aarons\u2019s flat animations and wrapped them onto 3D spheres.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b id=\"internal-source-marker_0.628292272798717\">In addition to the media design work I did on the data visualization shots for Bella Gaia I also spent 6 months working with Kenji as a consulting producer to help him develop his business plan and development strategies.<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DiI7vMbSpn8\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bella Gaia &#8211; 2010 Bella Gaia is a 40 min live performance and immersive media experience created by filmmaker and composer, Kenji Williams. 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