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Audego Motion Graphics Medley
Audego Motion Graphics Medley from jeanpoole on Vimeo Above – a motion graphic medley made from clips I created recently for each song of Audego‘s latest album, Beneath the Static and the Low. It’s pretty gorgeous music, listen for yourself – bandcamp / soundcloud / itunes. The Audego brief: ‘retro-abstract … Continue reading
by j p, November 19, 2013 0 comments
Right Here, Right Now: Interactive Installations @ RMIT
Over the past three semesters I’ve had the pleasure of co-steering a studio elective with Caroline Vains, for Interior Design students within the school of Architecture and Design at RMIT. Loosely – we’ve been exploring the intersection of video projection, built objects … Continue reading
by j p, November 18, 2013 0 comments
DARK MOFO 2013, Festival of Light in Hobart
Let There be Light.. Winter in Tasmania isn’t an obvious time and place for a festival, but MONA isn’t your average museum / gallery. And so began in 2013, MONA’s DARK MOFO (Jun 13-23), an annual festival that riffs on the idea of winter … Continue reading
by j p, November 7, 2013 0 comments
A Tribute to Runwrake, 1965-2012, RIP
I cried last night, upon reading that John Wrake, aka Run Wrake, has passed away. I’d first learned of his cancer diagnosis a few months ago, after wandering once again to his youtube page, and noticing a short and simple message … Continue reading
by j p, October 27, 2012 1 Comment
Ghostly Forest Projections Near Hanging Rock
For the TZU ‘Beautiful’ music video, I recently found myself out near Hanging Rock, with plastic-wrapped laptop, projector, camera, lights, and a mini-crew – filming ghost projections in the night winter rain. Despite the weather drastically mismatching the supposed forecast, slowing everything to a … Continue reading
by j p, September 17, 2012 0 comments
Amon Tobin Taxed : ISAM AV in Melbourne
Apologies if you’ve arrived in search of Tobin Tax discussions (a tax on market speculation proposed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin as a way of managing exchange-rate volatility..). Here we have only a murky swamp of audiovisual performance questions, all of them generated … Continue reading
by j p, June 26, 2012 5 Comments
Weirdcore, Aphex Twin + Die Antwoord in Melbourne
Aphex Twin played in Melbourne recently, which also meant a chance to catch the pixel mutations of his regular tour VJ, Weirdcore. After a summer of stage screens saturated with glossy, void-of-personality motion graphics templates, it was refreshing to catch live tour visuals … Continue reading
by j p, April 10, 2012 0 comments
Music Video Workflow For Sweet Congo Tardis Limes
Congo Tardis #1 are an absurdly talented trio of Melbourne turntablists, who recently asked me to put together a micro-budget music video for their new EP. Part of their pitch was that they already had some green screen footage of … Continue reading
by j p, February 6, 2012 0 comments
Under the Pixel Hood with Raquel Meyers
Reasons you might find yourself wanting to read this very long but very awesome Raquel Meyers interview: – Because you love 8bit graphics and people who push them to their limits – Because Raquel makes rad stuff ( eg her … Continue reading
by j p, September 16, 2011 0 comments
Melbourne’s Winter of Pixels
Riding a bicycle downhill to the studio today – with blues skies all around – really felt like spring arriving. Winter seems to take longer to leave Melbourne than anywhere else in Australia, which is maybe why there’s so many … Continue reading
by j p, September 2, 2011 0 comments
Live Video for Gotye, Behind the Scenes at the Sydney Opera House
Things you may already know about the Sydney Opera House: – It is slowly sinking. – The Danish architect behind it, Jorn Utzon, was forced from the project, and never returned to Australia. – Anti-war activists climbed it to paint ‘No … Continue reading
by j p, August 25, 2011 1 Comment
Art, Technology and the Chihuahua
So a while ago I interviewed Fernando Llanos, a Mexican artist with a huge catalogue of artworks under his belt. Notably, this included the Videohuahua project – which involved a micro projector strapped to the back of his pet chihuahua. Turned out he … Continue reading
by j p, August 15, 2011 1 Comment
Pad Thai Sci Fi
Ingredients: Bangkok, a city of 10 million with equator-side climate and biodiversity. A dystopian biotech novel set in this city after oil has run out. Add Dental Tourism into the mix and stir lightly. (Above, sunset Buka Ball near Bangkok’s … Continue reading
by j p, March 15, 2011 2 Comments
On The Road with Scattermusic Soundsystem
Scattermusic East Coast Tour Highlights from jeanpoole on Vimeo. Part of the reason I’ve been quiet on the blog this year, was because of a very busy November and December with video. So it’s good to finally reflect some of … Continue reading
by j p, January 25, 2011 0 comments
Graffiti Gardening
Or how a lack of space doesn’t seem to deter some people from getting their green thumbs on. Ha-Ha Plants Regan Tamanui’s website proudly proclaims in a banner, that he is ‘Australia’s most prolific and notorious stencil artist’. It’s a … Continue reading
by j p, October 14, 2010 2 Comments
DSLR Helicopters!
So you’ve got a nice tripod, dolly, rail slider and even a crane for your DSLR video camera. Maybe it’s time to put that camera on a remote controlled helicopter, like Eric from helivideo.com. How did you first get into … Continue reading
by j p, September 28, 2010 2 Comments
The State of VJing Today, Some Hard Stats
Via the people who want to organise the world’s information for us (google.com/insights/search), a few insights about the world of VJing and motion graphics, comparing results between 2004 and 2010. “Insights for Search aims to provide insights into broad search … Continue reading
by j p, September 22, 2010 11 Comments
Craftwife Interview
Japanese audiovisual performance that takes in Super-Collider, NES emulators, circuit-bent Pikachus and custom iphone controlled sound synthesis programs and video sampling systems? Ah, that’d be Craftwife. They play “70-80’s style techno pop music in the special costume that may remind … Continue reading
by j p, July 29, 2010 3 Comments
Visual Rhythms by Two Eriks + Johan
Erik Gandini, Erik Pauser & Johan Soderberg that’d be. Fine (interconnected ) feature film fiends. Let’s start with: Videocracy ( 2009 ) Directed Erik Gandini / edited Johan Soderberg Imagine a country where the owner of the biggest Television network, … Continue reading
by j p, March 18, 2010 0 comments
Reflections on Live Cinema
Long-time live cinema enthusiast, (Toby) *spark from the UK, released a video about it this week, a decent attempt at exploring some of live cinema’s essence. What is live cinema? Who makes it? Why? How? The video features interviews with … Continue reading
by j p, February 10, 2010 7 Comments