Ordered the whole Demux video label catalogue the other day (only two discs right now), they focus on AV performance & I like the stuff they do.
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Sunday night at 9.30 Jes & I will do a live to air of a version of what we’ll be doing for the Sound Of Failure festival in a couple of weeks on Sunday Night at the Movies on FBI, tune in if you’re in Sydney or listen to the feed from the fbi main page. Sydney is gmt +10.
I suppose it takes a government like the one in China to fake part of the ceremony broadcast, having spent a year working out how to do the FX and then reveal all a few days later. Seeing as they control the feed going to international broadcasters it makes you wonder what else is CG. I’d love it if we found out the swimming was.
I suppose Zhang Yimou has become accustomed to using FX to do the physically unworkable in his recent films, interesting to see it in a live broadcast. Though considering how long shots like that take to render I imagine that sequence wasn’t live.
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The seemingly endless resources of the BBC has produced this animation of taxi, air, shipping and voice traffic mostly from GPS logs over a day in the UK.
Jes & I & then Shannon & I doing some AV performance at the CMAI launch a couple of weeks back, pics by Greg.
Another week & another trip to Melbourne it seems. I’m going down on thursday to the XmediaLab session themed around ipTV. I’m interested in this at the moment & looking into ramping up the online video stuff I’m involved in via the spanking new flash streaming server we recently got. Just tonight saw the iview thing that the ABC have launched.
part two is here.
I’ve been in Melbourne through the week to attend Aspera and give a presentation on narrative models in locative media. I always enjoy visiting Melbourne and this was no exception, conference while not exactly aligned with my schtick was nevertheless fun & informative. Got to see a few of my friends from RMIT and hear about goings on in media prod courses around our fair nation. The Post Industrial Media project which pulls together things that Adrian & Seth have been doing for a while in teaching Network stuff was good to see as its now moving across the film & vid areas in the degree there. Had good conversations with people from Griffith & Maquarie (thanks Kathryn Millard) and as well a nice chat over dinner (at the wonderful 100mile cafe) with Leo Berkeley about his microbudget feature and community tv stuff that aligns with some stuff I’d like to see happen here with Greg and Shannon’s help.
Next week is the launch of the research centre here, the CMAI. I’m playing in two roles at the launch. Doing live sound with Jes & live video with Shannon. Live performance is always a bit nervewracking, so um, we’ll see how it goes.
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