Chilli Jam Recipe

Spring’s first super cheap produce hit the grocers last week, so over the weekend I went on a small cooking rampage, making roasted italian tomatos and chilli & onion jam.

Yes, we’ve almost gone through a jar of it in 2 days.

It’s based off this recipe, but the quantities have been changed drastically for my tastes:

8 red onions, sliced thinly
8 chillis, seeds removed if you don’t want it super spicy
8 garlic cloves

No pureeing either, and loads of extra olive oil added during the cooking process. This spicy goodness was strained off and used to start various other recipes over the weekend.

Track of the Day: Architecture in Helsinki – Debbie

Currently loving the hell out of this slightly unhinged track from Architecture in Helsinki’s last album:

Architecture in Helsinki – Debbie from helsinkids on Vimeo.

Lots of fun.

iPhone in AU on Virgin Mobile

I’ve been on Virgin Mobile AU for over a year now. I got in when they were doing their hugely cool 1GB for $10/month data plan, which they subsequently knocked down to 300MB when they realised that people were actually going to use up that data.

Virgin’s mobile internet service around AU is pretty damn good. I used it for my year of touring, and could get coverage in some surprisingly remote towns. I had to do a little bit of geeking to get the phone working as a bluetooth modem with my Macs, but once setup it’s all extremely smooth. The only problem I’ve found is that sometimes the computer connection will crash, and then be unable to connect until I restart the machine. Despite the dire predictions about $15000/GB for over usage, I never even got close to my 1GB cap, and Virgin now have a usage monitoring page on their site, so that’s not much of a worry anymore.

Now, the iPhone is out in AU, early adopters have bought ridiculously expensive ones, even though 99% of them don’t really understand what the thing does. I’ve been thinking of picking one up eventually and probably having to jailbreak it to get working on Virgin. Turns out that’s not the case.

$70/month for 24 months. 1GB data. Usual Virgin awesomeness with free Virgin to Virgin calls etc. and you can upgrade to 5GB/month for an extra $30. Fantastic stuff. I haven’t been on a mobile contract for quite a while now… This almost looks like something which could take me back into the fold.

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

 

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