Guide to Understanding these Samples

Note: Included on this server are both jpg images and video clips. The video clips are  
compressed using the Divx 5.1.1 codec downloadable from www.divx.com. 

Capital J DJ Title
Exemplifies what can be done live, by mixing and layering
custom work such as DJ titles and logos.

Custom glow character on a video feedback background texture
Custom footage that I conceived, shot, then composited over top of my own video feedback
texture. (Note: This glow character will be incorporated as part of a multimedia theatre
production.)

Mirrored video feedback texture loop
My own video feedback artwork, mirrored using the video mixing board. This clip
and others like it are used to texturize and aesthetisize the media content I am mixing.

Multi-layer remix loop
Composed of two layers of premixed "media sample" clips, rhythmically key remixed during a
live mix session. Layer one utilizes a real-time mirroring effect on an old black and white
Felix the Cat cartoon, mixed with a subtle rotating pink texture. Layer two is composed of a
clip from "Date with Duke", 1947. The famous jazz musician Duke Ellington appears alongside
a "Claymation" animated character. Layered in the background is moving colourized
circuit schematics borrowed from "stock" video clips.

Multi-source thematic content remix with beat synchronization
A demonstration of the critical and deconstructive uses of this medium by incorporating
various clips based upon the theme of "Work/Workers". The immediate foreground layer has
scrolling text borrowed from "Metropolis", 1929. The next layer has been premixed using
a black and white Bosko cartoon "Hold Anything", 1930. It depicts a worker with animal
assistants being productive and constructive, followed by a colour cartoon "To Spring", 1936,
depicting the subterranean workers who toil in order to allow spring to flourish. Finally,
some of my custom Feedback texture video is included. Th background layer is a black and white
clip of gears and cogs in motion, borrowed once again from "Metropolis". All media clips,
except "Hold Anything", fall within the realm of "public domain" and therefore can be used
and remixed royalty free.

Multi-layered thematic content remix
The theme is "the moon". It uses samples from "Dancing on the Moon", 1935, depicting cartoon
couples dancing across an animated lunar landscape, and "Voyage to the Moon", 1902, by
Georges Melies (the grandfather of cinematic special effects), depicting a group of lunar
visitors stepping aside to view the moonscape and rising planet. These clips are accompanied
by a backdrop of my own custom video feedback work used to aesthetisize and set off the
feeling of lunar spacey-ness. All media clips sampled fall within the realm of "public domain".

The Live Visuals Stills Folder
One Still of a Dj Title, and two stills of Visuals taken from a live show.

The video feedback stills folder
Seven stills of raw video feedback images, captured from video. The first three images were
created using an analogue video camera, an L.C.D. projector and mirrors. The next two were
created using a digital video camera, an L.C.D. projector and mirrors. The final two images
were created using a digital video camera, an L.C.D. projector and a human model as an
interactive projection surface.

The Work Pictures Folder
Six stills of me VJ’ing at various parties and a glimpse of my technical setup.