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Ever since joining the VJlondon gatherings in London I’ve wanted to have a similar thing happening in my home town, Sydney.

Plug’n'Play Sydney (which I’d been to before going to London) is/was similar, but the last Plug’n'Play “VJ Cafe” was just over a year ago now.

Just recently I discovered another group in Sydney called Immersants on Meetup.com, run by DJ sqgl, who has also founded Share Sydney.

Sydney branch of SHARE.global which provides support & infrastructure for new media communities worldwide. A place to experiment.

I went to meet them at an event called Thing In The Park (Facebook, Meetup), held under the light rail arches in the park down by the water in Glebe, and again at a Multimedia Jam (Facebook, Meetup, Ning) held at the Red Rattler Theatre in Marrickville.

sqgl is apparently going to be heading overseas soon, with perhaps one more multimedia jam type event before he goes, but since there is at least this small kernel of something going on, I see it as the time to try to build on it.

Getting venues can be a major problem; on that front, I have a friend who works at a venue in Surry Hills who is interested in starting up an open screens type thing – a place for visualists to get together to jam / practice / teach / learn /share (details as yet only so far as a phone conversation) to encourage a presently barely-existent art form in Sydney.

The number of people that I know in Sydney who are into visuals / VJing /etc is quite small, so I’m doing a call out here to see who else is around. Perhaps there are other networks to join with.

People / identities in Sydney

• DrEskaton
• Eyebyte
• Morph
• (VJ) Nathan
• (DJ) sqgl
• subpixel
• Videokidz

Sydney Networks / Groups

• Immersants (Meetup.com, Facebook page)
• Plug’nPlay Sydney (MySpace)
• Share Sydney (sharesydney.org -> sharesydney.ning.com, Facebook page)

Speaking to sqgl, he is open to morphing (sorry Grant!) the Share Sydney group into another name/group, such as Plug’n'Play Sydney; the idea isn’t to take over or take away from any existing group(s), but to seek them out and collaborate.

Please give a shoutout here and/or drop me an email to get in contact. Links to other groups in/around Sydney are most welcomed.

-spxl

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Some months ago I snarfed a new domain for myself, and today (well, in the past day at least) I’ve built a new website showcasing demos, music videos and footage from past gigs. It is taking some time to go through the back catalogue, and there is more footage to be hunted down on various media (external HDD, backup DVDs,… I hope!) and uploaded, but there is plenty there now to check out if you’re so inclined. :o)

• SPXL.TV – subpixel’s media channel

Please let me know if you’ve been to check it out. Suggestions are welcome. Possible future plans include providing content (such as VJ loops), and perhaps some other interactive stuff (Flash, Processing, etc).

Whilst I’m plugging, I should mention that you can also find me on social networking sites, including:

• subpixel’s fan page on Facebook
• subpixel on MySpace

You’re most likely to catch me on Facebook these days. Sorry MySpace! :o)

If you want to find me in person, you can catch me this Saturday (15/Aug/09) at The Sly Fox Hotel in Enmore, supplying visuals for this month’s installment of TECHnique, featuring Typhonic (Databass Records) launching his new EP, “Gotta Work”.

• TECHnique feat Typhonic – The Sly Fox Hotel, Enmore – Sat 15/Aug/09

I’ve been cooking up some new effects, and hope to have some new content ready for Saturday, and am looking forward to it.

-spxl

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In reference to the Wikipedia articles, Mental Breakdown / Nervous breakdown (typos, indignity and all):

“surveys of laypersons suggest that the term refers to a specific acute time-limited reactive disorder, involving symptoms of anxiety and depression, usually precipitated by external stressors” is complate bs. No layperson ever said that. Applying an apparently scientific description to “non-scientific” data is misleading at best. I would put it in a similar categorisation to the concept of a computer program having “a bug” in that the person saying so might realise that something is not right but having little or no concept of what is causing the problem (or more likely having little care to be bothered with what the particular problem may be).

This article should, in my opinion, be strictly reduced to a brief (non-scientific-sounding) description of the general idea of what the la(z)yperson’s understanding (or care-factor) is with a list of related articles, synonyms, etc. The current definition appears to be a straw poll of what the people around the water-cooler think it means, and having an “encyclopeadic” definition based on that is just lame. If the definition is based on such a straw poll, then the psych-science should show that.

-spxl

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ISO 2014 is a standard superseded by ISO 8601. ISO 2014 was the standard that originally introduced the big-endian all-numeric date notation [YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]. It was issued as an international standard in 1976, technically identical to ISO Recommendation R 2014 from 1971.

On a completely unrelated subject, here’s a peace symbol I unexpectedly stumbled upon whilst searching my own thoughts for peace in my family…

How long has Google had 360-degree panoramic photos of Sydney streets online? It is quite freaky being able to take a road-trip up the street I grew up in and look at my house from other side of the world. So much more visceral than some eye-in-the-sky view (satellite or aerial photography).

This blog entry was born listening to You Don’t Know Ninja Cuts / Disc 2. Special mention for track 5: NMS – Brave New World.

-spxl

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