New Brand??? Meditative? Relaxing? Chill out? ASMR?

Something I was wanting to do VERY MUCH for years was have a side project, and possibly a brand that would mostly have a meditative or Chill-out style of down tempo or slower and meditative media and/or ASMR to help with relaxation.

I LOVE techno and fast up tempo music, but I also like things that are soothing. It depends on my mood, or if I need to relax. I have anxiety sometimes. Sometimes, i want something dreamy, sometimes I like nature, or far off locations. ASMR is also popular. I like mediation videos or so-called "zen" audio videos.

I wanted, originally, to have everything under my 1 brand Black UniGryphon, but it seems that people have completely different tastes than mine, and some things I love doesn't mean they will love ALL of the same things I do.

I've been tossing around SEVERAL ideas for these kinds of things since 2016, so I'd LOVE to indulge and realize ALL of these things. But, I might possibly need to create another channel for that.




Here's some of my Experimental Work mostly from or around the time of UMASS Boston (2016-2018):

This work is more slower, down tempo, chill, not fast or quick. It;s a different vibe than my usual peppy stuff. Academic Art stuff.

Motion Graphics Experiments:

Waterfalls Projects WIPs:

This was originally for a Video Projection Mapping project at UMASS Boston, but I was so fristrated with it, and the teacher ditched me before I shot the projection part, which he was irate over because it was awful.

Here was the botched Attempt at the Video Mapping due to my teacher frequently ditching us and going home on a whim:

I went through a LOT of trouble to create the Instillation Object piece and it was made to fit EXACTLY the video, but he just up & left, leaving me waiting n waiting n waiting many times.... I didn't know how to use the projector, had no supervision, no instructions, and so I gave up waiting for him since it was due the following day. He was so irate with it, that it was actually MEAN, but it was HIS FAULT and NOT MINE. So, he made me do something else, and start all over  BECAUSE HE LOST FACE, and that was a MEAN thing to do.

So, I shot something else, WHICH HE ALSO ditched me with, so I went with a  more comedic approach BECAUSE typical Generation X (me) deals with fucked up life with sarcasm and snark, as jokes and comedy. Typical Gen X making lemonade out of when life give u lemons. 

The waterfall animation is by my friend David. ^,^ But the fire and other stuff on the wall was the teacher telling me what to do. I was so frustrated and annoyed that after the teacher ditched me AGAIN I just feel back on my old methods of doing things from AIPH or my old YouTube days in the GW Bush Era. So, I grabbed a mic n from the equipment place, and shot different shots, then slapped together and edit, venting my annoyed state, and making humor from it like a typical traditional animator....that I am...

So, it actually went over very well.... I'm still miffed about it, but I do find it rather funny.

After that, I made various experiments at UMASS Boston and was trying to learn After effects because no one actually knows that much about the program. It's my favorite program tho.

I was trying to figure out, and learn how to use 3D stuff in After Effects, and "Wiggle", as well as getting the illusion of plants growing with the cheesey Stroke Reveal stuff. I had ZERO guidance whatsoever, just very old YouTube videos that were outdated. Other people refused to help me because I didn't vote for HRC. (I voted GREEN Party... BECAUSE I'm A GREEN) Anyways, no one there knows how to do ANY of these things.Neither do any of my friends.... of if they sort of know how, they shunned me for NOT voting for HCR. Screw her! I'm NOT with HER! (I READ HER EMAILS on Wikileaks.)

Yeah... mood swing.... but, I like making relaxing stuff just as much as I enjoy making happy fun, and peppy stuff. I don't like things that are boring, and things that are SOOTHING are NOT boring to me BECAUSE ITS DOING something to me. NOT BOREDOM. Boredom is negative, or negativity, and destructive.

So, since then , I have done various experiments in motion graphics and animation, as well as shot a lot of B-Roll.

Here is the ACTUAL thing I wanted to learn how to do while at UMASS Boston with a waterfall, BUT NO ONE KNEW HOW, and that included PAID EXPERTS.... (whom weren;t really experts at all)

Anyways, its JUST an experiment. I feel like most people don;t fully understand how to use Particles in After Effects. But, if you can, the more you play with it the better you can become. I got this to work from a tutorial on YouTube, which was still frustrating to figure out, but I did it. It's so-so tho, but no  one at UMASS (including people paid to be there and teach it) have no idea how to do this... in fact NO ONE at ANY colleges or art schools in ALL of Greater Boston can do it. I WOULD KNOW. I ASKED.... AND ASKED.... AND ASKED SOME MORE.... A LOT.


Well, kids.... don;t give up.

Inside My IKEA Lantern Exploring with a new AKASO EK7000 Action Camera Camcorder

 I wasn't sure what I wanted for Christmas, and mostly I got nothing on that day, aside from a vaporizer, and some candy. But, my little brother sent me some cash which I held onto, and eventually my Aunt also sent me some stuff, including cash... Honestly I REALLY wanted to buy TOON BOOM HARMONY's software but I was $100 short to get a permanent license.

Since I'm a DP/DoP (Director of Photography) on an independent film now, cameras are even more so my life than ever. I had NO IDEA that I would end up in this position, and I'm always still learning as a filmmaker.

So, I really wanted a GoPro "Action Camera", because my father also wants to take my daughter & I to Ft. Lauderdale FL in March. But, those are  easily $400 a pop. Luckily, I know how to hold out and shop for deals on Amazon in Jan-Feb, and 3-day weekend national holidays (USA). That's how I buy nearly EVERYTHING I've ever invested in for camera equipment since 2010.

Action cameras are tiny camcorders, that also shoot stills. You can take them underwater, wear them, commit espionage (tee-hee), etc... So, I found a really comparable that in some ways was a bit better than an actual GoPro on Amazon: The AKASO EK7000 which shoots in 4K, but also can shoot 1080 at high speed up to 120 FPS! It has various exposures and ranges as well.

Inside my LANTERN:


I recommend most people DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME.

The timing on this was CRUCIAL!!!

A flaming candle is VERY HOT, and the camera is made of PLASTIC which can melt.

I literally only had less than 2 min to shoot this, and if it weren't a deep freeze WINTER, I would NEVER had attempted this.

First I tested to see if I could set the camera inside,
I set up the wireless configuration to my iPhone,
Took a test shot,
Lit the candle,
shot the video of myself closing the lantern door,
stopped recording, quickly switched to photo mode,
shot the stills,
abruptly opend & blew out the candles,
Then removed the battery to allow camera to cool down....

There's a SLIGHT mark where the flame JUST started to become a full sized candle flame, and began to melt it....

Action cameras DO CLAIM to handle extreme weather... but NOT FIRE.

Candles take a little while for the flame to become full sized and are usually small at first.

Again, I it were summer I would have NEVER DONE THIS. 
NO WAY.  

Actually, I don't think I will EVER do this again... but, I did get the shots...

Wanderlust Bohemian Meditation Autumn Foliage Ambient Video

A small dream/goal of mine was to make some ambient Meditation video art, and cut it to my own audio design music. It was something I had dreamed up a few years ago while walking in the woods, dealing with severe depression.


Most of the footage was shot all over South Weymouth including my own neighborhood, South Feild (Union Point), other neighborhoods, and a Colonial Graveyard near the South Shore Hospital down the street from me. I shot most of the footage on a CANON XA10 camcorder, often with experimenting with my own lens filters, and even a fisheye lens attachment of my own. Much of this footage also ended up in my other films I produced in 2016 including "Boho Light Journal" and "Smattering Thoughts Also Flow".

I can tell, by working on the editing that my camera work as improved a lot since I shot this footage in October 2016. This was the video camera my instructor told me to start with, and I've moved on since then to more SLR types since upgrading to HD from the old analog.

My mind is apparently at high speed, so I remember shooting this, and actually thinking I was doing it slowly... I was waaaay off, plus I was spoiled at shooting for Instagram styled content which is lightning quick. But, since it's a Wanderlust theme, it fits.

The actual melody in the music is a variation on a melody I wrote when I was 6 years old. I usually just called it "The Blue Fairies Song" or "The Blue Fairies Melody" because I composed the song at the house of my elderly neighbors in the 1980s, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Blue (Mt. Laurel, NJ) on their antique piano, whom were in their golden 80s.

Part of the ambient-ness was partly inspired by an experimental ambient track by Kerli titled "Journey Through The Elven Kingdom"  but also inspired by Blümchen's 1995 Trance/Techno track "Herzen habben Flügel" (Hearts Have Wings or the English version "Where Hearts Have Wings" by Blossom") as well as several styles of music like "Breath" by Chang Jing, or anything Yoga, Ambient, and Meditation audio found all over the place like Amazon, and YouTube.

Here are is the Song FREE DOWNLOAD:

I still have other B-ROLL footage I shot left over from last year, but it was lanterns, candles, a tea setting, and other stuff I also shot this year... I was originally going to cut the footage with the same ambient song... but I realized it was TOO DAY-TIME-ish, and need to recut the audio with evening sound/audio mixed in instead... So, I spent quite a while compiling audio since last night for that. I'm not sure whether to go exactly the same or in a new direction, if not both, because I have all of my original vocals that I'd recorded. I even have an Arabesque version of vocals.

Kerli's experimental track actually is composed in segments of audio that flow one into the next, and I also have other tracks like that as well. Even tho' I've messed with audio editing & audio design since at least 1994, I don't feel like I'm a professional nor a true audio/music person, even tho' I like it, but more of a hack at times.

So, I would like to work on the new audio tracks, and cut some more mediation videos for my audio design/recording art stuff. Just a few of them, and have a small portfolio/album of them.

Bohemian Experiments: The Sarong 003

 These are just some more experiments I did with my Sarong. This is also shot on my tripod, but vertically.

I did so many experiments of these, that I have so many on my hard-drive. Most don;t turn out, and many got deleted. But, it was still interesting to play & experiment with.

Bohemian Experiments: The Sarong 002 [Rave]

These came out much different looking than the other set, because I used a Daisy Light, used by DJs. I love all things RAVE since the 1990s.

Late 1990s Eurodance Techno from BlackUniGryphon on 8tracks Radio.

Bohemian Experiments: The Sarong 001

Bohemian Experiments: The Sarong

I believe I did these in either 2010 or 2011. Nearly ALL of my makeup went mysteriously missing after a wedding photo shoot commission I got in Philadelphia, which was incredibly stressful, and I went over 2 weeks with very little sleep, because I not only had a store in the mall that was contractually obliged to be open EVERY SINGLE DAY, but THE MOMENT I got back my spouse stubbornly decided THAT WAS THE DAY we would get new "wood" floors, and from a cheap-ass local Chinese company, even tho' Empire was having a MAJOR deal at 70% or something off due to the economic crash, and were ACTUALLY REPUTABLE! Oh, and Mercury Retrograde had JUST STARTED.

I WAS F@#$ED!

What was ONLY supposed to take about a day a a half, stretched past 2 weeks, and they even had a Mexican SLAVE. You read that right, a SLAVE. SLAVE! As in SLAVERY! They guy was made to sit outside, IF, and ONLY IF, he brought his own food, meanwhile the prick bosses (a man and a woman) would actually cook their own food, or purchase some, and force him to work, eating and laughing IN FRONT OF HIM, and never offering the slave ANYTHING.



My husband, became very suspicious of these people after the 3rd day, and began actually cooking food for the SLAVE guy. He said the man worked so hard, didn't speak Chinese, and barely any words in English.

I was NOT a happy person, and at the time, whenever I was at my store, we ACTUALLY had quite a bit of customers, and punk kids. My husband didn't tell me about the SLAVE until it was over, because he was afraid that I would call the cops, and then WE would get in trouble, in his mind, and have to go to court...

The whole thing made me VERY ANGRY, and was like 1 stroke of bad luck, after another. I also had very bad pain in my lower back due to some wrong dance practices that I had totally screwed up, was still dealing with pain from a tubal surgery, and a very very bad foot surgery that dis-aligned my toes.


So, as the summer went on, and after the kid finally had her birthday party, the Girl Scout Party, and Bridging Ceremony, and slammed with Independence Day stuff, I finally began to pick up my camera in mid summer.... after having looking through several kinds of old SLR camera tricks, and photos, I decided I wanted to play around with experiments of my own... even tho' I'd already started to deplete the charge life of my only battery at the time... (I have several batteries now... lesson learned)

I experimented with these of different days, in different rooms, at different times of the day, and also directly TO my computer instead of the memory card, which ACTUALLY looks quite different.


The makeup I had was this REALLY TERRIBLE "smoky eye" thing in some kind of plum color, which looked like a dark brown and pink-ish kinda-sorta purple... it was supposed to be just a 3 step simple thing, bt you could barely ever see anything on the eye, and I did NOT want a black one, since I shy away from too much dark colors, often, unless I'm doing stage makeup (at least back then anyways). Of ALL the makeup that could've gone missing, WHY THIS ONE didn't is beyond me!
Oh, wait- it sucks! That's why! It cakes onto your face, and melts off, and looks awful!



I used to LOVE pretty much everything by Cover Girl, however, I've found in the past 5 years, they often are cheap, miss the mark, and don't preform well on the face, or fall apart... the lipsticks are still fine, which I still have and use, but I HAD to throw that stupid smoky eye thing away.
How did that thing even go into production? It was terrible!


Anyways, if I look like my face isn't very made-up, it's because at the time, I had almost no makeup at all. I had to save up my dollars, and coins, bit by bit, and used coupons to pay for stuff... I also wasn't that great at applying makeup, and still don't think I am, but I think I'm at least somewhat better now....

Also, these were long exposures in low level light, so there will often be some blurring.

After The Hair Came Down [New Ager Set] 002

The New Ager Set

I think that's it...

I might have more of these on  hard drive somewhere... but, this ought to do it...

I shoot so much stuff until the memory card gets full, or the battery or batteries have died, like how film directors shoot several takes, over & over...

I also have some photos of flowers which I shot form this set.