Jaymis is a visualist, director, writer, and technolagistador based in Brisbane, Australia. Co-founder of CreateDigitalMotion.com, he spends his days filling video with more awesome.
Ben Stewart – Violet the Killjoy
This is one of those videos which should be watched first, then explained:
Ben Stewart – Violet the Killjoy from Jaymis on Vimeo.
This was probably the most fun video I’ve ever been involved in. Well and truly nestled in the “fast, cheap, effective” philosophy, we went from concept to completed shoot in under 24 hours.
Ben Stewart approached me with a small budget and a catchy song. On Saturday night, while waiting for Rachgirl to get off the phone with her mum, I did a little experiment with party poppers and the 200FPS slow motion mode on my camera.
I called Rowley Cowper up on Sunday morning with “bring your tools over, you need to make me a device to set off 200 party poppers at once”. Ben and I bought Cannon Hill out of poppers, Billy Hyde’s out of ukuleles, and we made it to The Edge in time for nightfall.
As it took almost two hours to load the launcher, and we were shooting in The Edge auditorium after closing, we only had one chance to get the shot, so we did about a dozen rehearsals before the “live fire” exercise.
I’ll have some behind the scenes details, photos and video soon.
http://j.mp/brrvpq After my abortive URL shortening experiment last week, turns out @Bitly allows custom domains with Bit.ly Pro!
[31-08-2010@10:05]@imaginary_lines Looks like a plugin or template issue. Any recent upgrades or new plugins?
[31-08-2010@09:52]New @ArcadeFire music video is HTML5 amazingness where you grew up… Works in @Google Chrome: http://j.mp/9Suyvi
[31-08-2010@09:36]Our new house is still in Friendly Australia Post Parcel Contractor Guy’s delivery zone. Awesome!
[31-08-2010@07:55]@thedwan YEAH! Oh I wish I was there to see it. Must have been GLORIOUS! Did you cheer?
[30-08-2010@16:47]
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Home Power Meters in Australia
Just doing some research on home power meters, because I’m almost a homeowner and all.
It turns out that the “ClimateSmart” meters which are installed for free by the Brisbane city council are actually rebadged “Efergy Elite” units.
There’s been a couple of mentions around the place of people hacking these devices to get proper networked data out of them, but nothing conclusive so far.
I’m thinking a better option might be the Current Cost Envi, which is compatible with Google Powermeter.
There’s some CurrentCost apps on Pachube, too.
Tool Ensembles – Koto and Fibonacci
Just caught this beautiful video of Tool’s Lateralus arranged for 8 koto players:
Which led me to the Fibonacci sequence within Lateralus:
Such a stupendous piece of music, made with Science!