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Media Arts Honours 1

I have been accepted into a place in the honours year of the Media Arts program at the School of Art, RMIT Melbourne City Campus. I enrolled last Thursday, and am now officially a student again! I’m really looking forward to getting back to study and research. I haven’t fully […]


Video podcast directory

This article talks about a new service offered by iVideoBlast that indexes and categorises video podcasts that are compatible with the video iPod. It allows for easy downloading directly into iTunes. They also sell movies, TV shows, cartoons that are compatible with the video iPod. It also looks like they […]


New Zealand 2

We recently arrived back from New Zealand after spending one month traveling around the South Island. It is a phenomenal natural landscape. Vast snow-capped mountain ranges, golden beaches, rainforests, glaciers; the experience was sublime. The trip was both relaxing and incredibly creatively inspiring. I took almost 800 photos and over […]


GridPro Video Software 1

Following on from my recent video compositing and editing experiments, I have become interesed in VJ-ing. From Wikipedia: The word VJ is used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kinds of music. It originates from a parallel with DJs, although most VJs nowadays have more […]


Interactive audio mixing

I caught up with Seth last Thursday night at Kent St bar on Smith St, Collingwood. He’s been doing some interesting experiments with interactive audio mixing with video on his blog. See here and here. The video clips loop continuously with separate audio tracks. The audio can be altered by […]


Carnivals and Music… 1

It’s been a busy past few weeks and I haven’t had much time to think about blogging. Here’s a short summary. We all went to Earthcore 25-27th of November. It was a really good weekend; fantastic music and a great retreat from city life. The standout music acts were Shpongle, […]


Google Video and Flash Video

I re-stumbled upon Google Video again today. I remember when it was first announced and looking at it when no content had been submitted. There’s quite a bit of stuff on there now; it is forming a very interesting way to access and view video content on the Internet. Our […]


Editing Experiments 1

Well I’ve had a busy couple of weeks with lots of progress happening with the Earthcore videoart project. There’s only about 4 or so days till I have to have the DVD mastered and I will then head up to Earthcore on Friday 25th. I’ve been experimenting with some interesting […]


Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die

That’s what life’s about isn’t it? This article asks some very interesting questions about our modern technological society: Stock-market capitalism is today’s coin of the realm, consumerism its handmaiden, and technology is the great enabler. You think technology benefits you because it gives you an easier row to hoe? Bollocks. […]