Gomez – Whatever’s On Your Mind

The new Gomez video is simple and lovely:

If you’re releasing an album, you should have at least some kind of video for each track. Surely you have a video camera and know of an interesting location?
Hell, upload all of your tracks to Vimeo with a still picture of your album cover, then replace with “proper” videos when you’ve made them.

Cowper – Morning Prayer music video

I’m really proud of this one.

Both video and audio for this clip were recorded in a single session at the flood-destroyed Graetzmedia studios in West End, Queensland, Australia.

You can download the song for free from:

http://cowper.bandcamp.com/track/morning-prayer-video-version

Technical Details:

Shot with Red One MX, on a CamBLOCK Pan/Tilt/Dolly motion control rig, which was customized by Jaymis to pull focus as well.

Blog post from Rowley:
http://cowperband.com/2011/06/morning-prayer-official-video-launched/

Music by Cowper

Video by Jaymis
Color and gear by Daniel Graetz

Music produced by Matthew Redlich.

Paranoid Android, played on Ukulele, while sitting on the toilet

Just in case anyone missed Ben Stewart’s gig at Ric’s on the weekend. He uploaded a video of himself playing Paranoid Android, on Ukulele, on The Toilet.

The Awesomeness is strong with this one. Lovely fast intimate production. The shower scene is particularly excellent.

Ben Stewart – Violet the Killjoy Music Video

This is one of those videos which should be watched first, then explained:

Ben Stewart – Violet the Killjoy (Outside In) from Jaymis on Vimeo.

This was one of the most fun videos 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 as 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. Read the rest of this entry »

Surface Paradise – Look at Miss Ohio and The Gulf Stream – Live at Letterbox Lullabies

Letterbox Lullabies is a series of intimate house gigs put on by stalwarts of The Troubadour, Brisbane’s most beloved music venue. This was my second Letterbox Lullabies shoot: Surface Paradise, featuring Matt Redlich, Rowley Cowper and Timothy Carroll.

For these shows I aim to be as unobtrusive as possible, so these videos were shot on a single handheld Digital SLR, with audio recorded by Anto Pink and mixed by Matt Redlich.

The performance of Look At Miss Ohio was one of my favourite live music moments from 2010.

For The Gulf Stream, I wanted to experiment with stabilization (and a little motion tracking of guitar) on the DSLR footage. I was able to get the hand-held footage pretty smooth, but the rolling shutter of my Pentax K7 makes it a bit hard for video geeks to watch.

The entire set is available for download from http://surfaceparadise.bandcamp.com/

New Video Release: Edward Guglielmino – Fail With Me

I’ve just released Fail With Me, the latest of many works I’ll be producing for Edward Guglielmino‘s album Late At Night.

This joins several other videos I’ve produced recently for Ed:
Lion In Your Bed (Live)
Fail With Me (Live)
No Body Is Perfect (Live)
Caught In A Landslide (Live, Bridge Sessions)
Late At Night (Live, Bridge Sessions)

I’ve also posted on Create Digital Motion about the philosophy and techniques behind the production of this video.

Now I’m off to have lunch with Ed and plan for our next escapade.

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.

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