Not on holiday in India any more
Just in case you hadn’t realised, I’m back in AU, well and truly not on holiday. Working extremely hard on various projects. CDM, O2K, and I’m also running a series of stop-motion animation workshops at the Queensland Library over the school holidays.
I have updated my site template though, and migrated it to our Australian servers. Happy times.
On Holiday in India
I’m currently on holiday in India with the Rachgirl. Not much internet, but I’ve uploaded a couple of days worth of photos to Flickr, and am updating Twitter semi-regularly via SMS.
Another tour half-over
Does touring beat the shit out of my blogging habits? You know, I think it just might. I’ve been doing loads of other cool stuff though, so I don’t feel particularly guilty. Twitter is still catching quite a bit of love for the day to day “stuff I’m doing” updates, and while my CDMo posting has slowed to a crawl, it’s still alive.
I’m hoping to have the time to turn jaymis.com into a bit of a me-ness hub, so while I’m not posting frequently it will still have my latest posts from around the web, twitter, calendar dates, gigs etc. In the meantime, here they are:
CreateDigitalMotion Posts.
Bobby Flynn Tour Schedule.
Twitter (microblog)
Facebook, if you’re in to that kind of thing.
Photos on Flickr (haven’t updated these for ages, very slack).
Videos on Vimeo.
Long Time No Stuff
Wow, it’s been an exceedingly long time since I posted. Not, like, on the internets. I do lots of internets posting, but on ye olde and faithfule Jaymis.com, it has been a while.
Which is inexcusable really, because for the informing-friends-and-family-of-my-whereabouts-and-actions function of a blog, touring around the country in a rock band is the best time to use it.
I have been using Twitter a bit, which is fun and fast, but not all that meaty. I’ve also been blogging our progress a bit on bobbyflynn.com. Bobby’s accused me of turning his site into a Visualist themepark, to which I respond: He can write too, whenever he likes!
This tour needs more geeks.
Speaking of which, the tour is almost over! Second show at The Basement tonight, then a couple more and we’re finishing up on Sunday night. Hurrah! It’s been an amazing time, some really awesome things have happened, and I’ve been really pushed outside my comfort zone, but now it’s time to get some Rachgirl time and start producing some more cool art.
At home, in my home. Hooooome.
I’m coming, home.
Gigs slash Tour with Bobby Flynn coming up
I know. I’m slack with the website posting. It’s not just this site though, it’s all websites. I’ve been working ridiculously hard trying to get work for clients to a good place before I disappear on a tour with Bobby Flynn. Then last week I went to the Comedy Festival with Rach. Now I’m back, and am preparing for the tour and continuing to help clients with Stuff™.
The first gigs of the tour are this weekend, in Brisbane at Chandler Theatre, and at the Gold Coast Arts Centre. Details are currently on the website (which I will be updating and administering when the guys get their content to me), and you can get tickets for the Bris show at QTIX.
Quicksilver Post to Wordpress with Title Script
I’ve had a little time to play with my Macbook now, and what I’ve spent most of my time in is Quicksilver. I know, everyone loves Quicksilver and everyone knows how cool it is, even PC users. What you don’t understand until you’ve actually used it is: Quicksilver is seriously, really, incredibly cool.
So I’ve found a script which will post to Wordpress (or any other XML-RPC MetaWeblogAPI compatible platform), but I didn’t like how it used the current Time and Date as the post title. Wordpress already knows the time and date! I don’t need to tell anyone that again.
So I’ve edited the script so you can enter the post information as “Title: Post content goes here”. Quicksilver will look for the first colon in the text and use that to decide where the title stops and the content begins. The parsing function was borrowed from the Adium Quicksilver script.
I’ve added a project page for the script, from whence it can be downloaded.
Film Rights and Artist Royalties Associations in Australia
I’ve been doing some research and the short version is: currently there is no association which collects royalties for video producers who perform their material live. APRA collect royalties for musicians, so if I perform my own music (even if it’s ambient, minimal stuff with found sound or whathaveyou) with my VJ sets I’d get paid performance royalties from APRA, but nothing similar exists for visual performance yet.
Other useful people may be:
- Artworkers - based in Brisbane.
- ASDA - Australian Screen Directors Association - should become a member with these guys, apparently they’re making some progress on performers rights and royalties for directors.
- NAVA - National Association for the Visual Arts - apparently give advice etc.
- SPAA - Screen Producers Association of Australia
- ArtsLaw - advice and template legal agreements
Gabe Talks to the Daddies
Gabe from Penny Arcade is probably one of the worst “writers” on the web with any sizeable audience. This makes sense, of course, as he’s a drawer, not a writer.
That said, Gabe has come out with the best piece of writing I’ve seen on the web this week, about the inevitable anti-game media backlash to teenagers who murdered a homeless guy.
Things the parents of these kids failed to teach them(in order of their severity):
1. Don’t drink until you’re 21. Now this is a tough one. The 15 year old boys have admitted they were sharing beers with the homeless man. This is a difficult rule to enforce with many kids and that’s why I’ve listed first.
2. Don’t do drugs. In addition to their beers these lads told investigators they had just finished rolling some phat doobie blunts, or whatever it is they do these days. This is an important one but also very difficult to enforce. I’d say it’s a notch above drinking but we’re still dealing with pretty common teenager issues.
3. Don’t murder people. Ah here’s a big one. I wonder, did the parents simply avoid the “don’t murder people†talk the way other parents might avoid the “sex†talk? Maybe one day as the father was running off to work the mother called behind him,†Don’t forget, you promised to talk to Chris about not murdering people today!†The husband already half way out the door would holler back “Yeah yeah, I’ll do it when I get home tonight.â€
4. Don’t take shit out of your butt and rub it on the hobo you just killed. To me this seems like the easiest lesson of all. My son is only two and already he’s coming to understand that “poops†belong in the potty. How did this kid get to the age of fifteen years old without learning this? Here’s how easy this one is:
Hey son, come here real quick.
Yeah Dad?
Don’t take shit out of your butt.
Sure thing Dad. Done!
How hard was that? What kind of crazy fuck takes poop from his butt and rubs it on someone? I’ll tell you right now I’ve never seen that in Grand Theft Auto. These kids were twelve kinds of nuts and that’s a fact. Their parents either made them nuts or weren’t paying attention while they went nuts on their own. I don’t know which scenario is worse.
Thanks Gabe
Guitar Hero Coming to Wii
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah!!! Guitar Hero on Wii. So very happy right now.
New Lens, it’s a Fishy Spy One
My birthday present from the Rachgirl finally arrived from Russia. It’s a Zenitar 16mm fisheye. Loads of fun.
Review on CDMotion, more pics on Flickr.