Author Archive for Jaymis

Jaymis is a Visualist, VJ, Music Video Director, Blogger, and Web Ninja. He's co-founder of CreateDigitalMotion.com, the leading blog for VJs, and director of Oxygen Kiosk, a web agency based in Brisbane and Sydney. Find Jaymis: Tweets on Twitter, videos on Vimeo, photos on Flickr. Contact Jaymis.

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Live at The Edge: Cowper Videos from Show Pony

I’ve had a little free time for editing in the last week, so I spent some time with footage from Rowley Cowper’s Show Pony performance, and produced two lovely HD videos.

cowper – The Kite Song – live at The Edge – 30th April 2010 from Jaymis on Vimeo.

cowper – Capulet – Live at The Edge [...]

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Shooting Video For Gigs: Make With The Closeups!

With my Video101 workshop coming up on Sunday, I thought it might be worth posting a little back-story on my philosophy on video production.
As an editor, one of the most common requests I get is “Can you edit the footage I shot at my show?” So last year I wrote a post on CreateDigitalMotion.com with [...]

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VJ Basics: Introduction to video performance with resolume

4–6pm 13 May or 2-4pm 05 June  2010
Facilitator: Jaymis Loveday
Cost: Free
Bookings: email The Edge
A VJ, or Video Jockey, is an artist who performs with video. It’s like a mixture of video editing, digital art, and playing computer games on stage.
Jaymis has been a VJ for over 10 years, has played all around Australia & Europe, [...]

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Videography Tip: Get Up Close for More Exciting and Editable Footage

I originally published this post last year on CreateDigitalMusic.com, but as I have some video workshops coming up (23rd May, 18th June), I think it’s worth re-posting here:
I’m currently editing some video of a gig and interview, taken at an album launch party here in Brisbane. The promoter supplied me with a DVD containing about [...]

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Video 101 Workshop—NEW DATE

2–6pm Sunday 23 May and Friday 9 July 2010 NEW DATE!
Facilitator: Jaymis Loveday
Cost: FREE
Book: email The Edge
Video is super hot right now. Cheap video cameras, video editing software, and the internet have combined to level the playing field for production and distribution. All you need to get your video out to the world is a [...]

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Video: Projection Mapping at The Edge Launch

It’s been six weeks since The Edge launch. People are starting to discover the building and its lab of free-access, kitted out computers. We had an iteration of Plug N Play Brisbane , and a bunch of great events and workshops passed & future.
The one thing The Edge doesn’t have so far is people editing [...]

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Open Sauce: Wordpress

Wordpress is a popular blogging software and Content Management System, used to maintain millions of websites around the world—including The Edge.

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Single Shot Superheroes: OK Go on Winning at Internet Video. Jaymis on Creativity

Just in case you’re one of the few people on the planet who hasn’t yet encountered OK Go’s “Rube Goldberg Variation” video of This Too Shall Pass, let’s get that out of the way:

As far as I’m concerned, OK Go are winning at internet video. From the self-conscious genius of A Million Ways, iterating through [...]

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Catalyst Introduction: Who’s Jaymis? What’s a Visualist?

Hi. I’m Jaymis, one of the six inaugural Catalysts at The Edge. I’ll be working with live video performance and production, video editing, animation, music video production, VJing, and collaborating with creators who need some moving imagery in their art.
Now that the craziness of The Launch has passed, I thought it would be a good [...]

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Protect Your Hear-Holes: Earplugs at Gigs, and Etymotics ER-20 Review

I already have my work cut out writing visualist blog CreateDigitalMotion.com, and occasionally on CreateDigitalMusic as well, so I hope you won’t mind, dear Edgys, if I “re-purpose” some content from those sites from time to time.
This is a particularly timely piece of repurposing though, with the triumphant Edge Launch last Friday night, and loud, [...]