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.

Spleen Minus 10 Hours, Rockstar Second Thoughts

In the month since the coming of the spleening, it seems to have gone slightly viral. In the good, web way! Featured on Make:Blog, and insanely popular blog of political writer Andrew Sullivan. The main video has currently been viewed over 12,000 times. Yikes.

It’s also been picked up by a nice Spanish guy, an awesome French visualist type, and a bunch of other places around the world… I was thinking about taking my skeleton/spleen on tour, but then my surgeon emailed me back yesterday to tell me that she would allow me to get some of the laparoscope footage of my surgery. So I think I’m going to go through with it.

10 hours to go.

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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