Alongside books about the Suicide Girls, and a DIY guide to everyday chemistry, renegade publishers FeralHouse Press recently released ‘The VJ Book: Inspirations and Practical Advice for Live Visuals Performance’, by Paul Spinrad. Featuring a stack of interviews with long-time … Continue reading
by j p, December 13, 2005 0 comments
Ray at Vidvox pointed out this pretty great “guerrilla movie maker tool”, a homemade way to make your video more film-like by reducing it’s depth of field. Another project for summer maybe, to be filled alongside the DIY steadicam – … Continue reading
by j p, December 4, 2005 1 Comment
Hooked up with an old friend recently, a slap bass maniac back in the day who is now busy satellite-mapping the planet. He’s been reading the Lev Manovich classic: The Language Of New Media, and various Marshall McLuhan books and … Continue reading
by j p, December 1, 2005 10 Comments
Sometimes humans need a helping hand. Why else would Bart Simpson be now filling inboxes worldwide, naked and straddling a fellow yellow cartoon character, exclaiming “I have bought those pills and now I am a real sex king”? Software too, … Continue reading
by j p, November 24, 2005 1 Comment
( meta.am snapshots :: video artist always worth a gratuitous plug. ) This morning metal clawed mountain goats leapt from tooth to tooth inside my mouth. Industrial synthesisers and buzz saws provided a complementary soundtrack. There was no laughing gas. … Continue reading
by j p, November 17, 2005 0 comments