Jaén Videos

This is a two hour edit of a three hour live show with Jan Polet and Albert Lee Fizz, that was boadcast on OldSchoolFM on December 2nd. The show is about OldSchoolFM. The mission, the music, the people behind it and the plans. See www.oldschoolfm.net for details. This version of the show has been stripped from the mainstream music so it could be released as a podcast. Have a listen! If you like what you hear, please spread the word and help to make OldSchoolFM a succes.  Let me know what you think! | OldSchoolFM Podcast 03

At some point during the day an announcement was made that for the next 45 minutes nobody could go in or out of the facility.Can you spell 'panic'?

How to set up a shot De Felitta-style.

Think it all through.

Working.

Magnolia tree time lapse of blossoms and a bonus poem.

Another lo-fi field recording of a bird whose song I do not know.Anybody know the name of this bird who sings for us this morning? Public Domain.

Show.Life = Work. The old iPod has returned in working order with a 30GB hard drive, new screen and battery. Less than $200. I love this tool. It helps me hear. Great to have it back in the arsenal. An audio portrait of two birds. A meditation on courtship and authority.

A short audio poem that explores the nightmare intersection of the ticking biological clock and losing one's teeth at a party.

An astonishingly good poem by poet Bruce Weber.I did the sound design and 'engineering', bouncing tracks from a boom box somehow...Another of my favorite works.

Marriage angst.Recorded in West Palm Beach, FL circa 1989.

Take 2, with images. Portraits.A pictoral timeline.

Sam Perry, artist.Spring Raulerson, artist.Jan McLaughlin, metaphrast.Bruce Weber, poet.We made the audio together for my meditation on the past.This is one of my all-time favorites of our collaborative works in Florida. You can see a wee bit of Arturo Rodriguez camera right and a bit of Demi, camera left.

The usual suspects.Elaine Jones, Ed McPhillips, Bruce Weber, Bob Hart, Thom Ostrowski, Mikki LeMoine, Brian McCormick.All of these good folks have recurring roles.Full credits roll @ the end. Its own poem. Big file warning :: 85MB

A year-old Skype conversation among Backlotops, Phil Campbell, Christine Cavalier, Adam Jochum ' all we have to do is implement it.Think of it as multi-player role play [MMORPG] game but with Seesmic, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Utterli, Flickr, email and whatever other social media / media-making tools we need.Casting is everything.Cast your own damn self.What would you say to 'X' friend, colleague or family member about the alien spaceship that's hovering over your house after it's been there a year and done nothing but hover? Would it even enter your conversation?

I always need reminders.How about you?

VlogEurope 2007 insight.

Portrait of Joel No. 2From the 8525 phone.Phone --> Bluetooth --> MacBook --> rename from mp4 to 3gp --> Quicktime Pro (add metadata and sound fx --> save as self-contained .mov --> Blip --> VlogSuch a workflow!

Tajee's card.Xacti two-camera shoot. My shoe = a boat.Joel is a media cowboy.

The Faux Press is Jan McLaughlin, a latter-day, multi-media itinerant portrait painter.