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Born and raised in New York City, Anastasia Blink-Warhol (a.k.a. "Nasty Byte") developed interests in avant garde music and film at a young age. It all started one day when she came upon an overseas broadcast of Stockhausen's "Gesang der Junglinge". By age 10, she was making her own experimental audio recordings. A few years later, while attending New York City's Music and Art High School, she became drawn to the world of experimental video, witnessing Nam June Paik's now famous "TV Bra for Living Sculpture". --"When I discovered that Nam June Paik had an education in music that was similar to mine, my own journey from electronic music composition to music video directing was suddenly corroborated. I have interviewed many people to find that they study one discipline and become known for another." -- NB Around the same time she began to study what has become the main influences of her directing style: the films of Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Werner Herzog, Salvador Dali, Jean-Luc Godard and Man Ray. --"It was from studying the Masters that I could see how to use dynamic, ecstatic visual imagery that builds drama and taps into deeper emotions. Extreme intimate close-ups of faces and hands have the power to draw us into an intensely personal experience." -- NB After graduating Music & Art High School, she went on to the New England Conservatory of Music, where she earned both the Bachelors' and Masters' Degrees in Music Composition. Nasty Byte studied music composition with William Thomas McKinley, electronic music with Robert Ceely, music theory with Donald Martino (Pulitzer Prize in Music 1974) and Robert Cogan. --"I utilize the knowledge I learned at the Conservatory when working on music videos. I always first examine the structure and mood of the song, with the goal of enhancing what is already there, rather than changing or adding to it. I find myself applying Tom McKinley's teachings on attention to detail, Don Martino's lessons on Fibonacci Numbers, the Golden Section and the Golden String, Robert Cogan's Color Theory, and Robert Ceely's quest for experimentation and humor in every project I undertake." -- NB Since 2003, Nasty Byte has produced and directed multi-camera video shoots for over 100 concertsand edited over 100 videos. Her first music documentary, "subKulture - the awakening" had its World Premiere September 10, 2005 at the E.VIL City Film Festival in New York City. Her live concert tv series, “subKulture” won the 2006 Vollie Award for Best Performance Program. NastyByte YouTube subKulture Channel NastyByte Blog on Live Journal NastyByte on Facebook NastyByte official website

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Editing 101 Back to Basics: To Desaturate or Not to Desaturate

What can I say about this? Oversaturated footage tends to be muddy, and yet there's loads of videos released that are in desperate need of desaturation. Of course desaturation takes additional time,...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:59:00 GMT

Editing: Shifting the Assemblage Point

First you must know what is your purpose in editing, what are you trying to do. My purpose is extremely clear to me. It is to force a shift of the Assemblage Point. Shifting the Assemblage Point is...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:50:00 GMT

Directing: Communicating an Aesthetic

Knowing how to direct your cameras for a live concert shoot comes from experience in editing many videos. Once you know what you want in the final edited video you begin to know what to communicate t...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:50:00 GMT

Thinking in Retrograde

One of my most frequently asked questions is how do I decide what direction to take the editing? With each video this is a process that starts with seeing the finished video in my mind and then pieci...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:20:00 GMT

The Journey Begins

When I was a student of music composition at New England Conservatory, I asked my teacher, Tom McKinley, what his goal was for his students. He said it was to teach us how to develop an artistic styl...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:51:00 GMT