Experiments With Lightbulb Moments

Lots has been afoot recently, and this coming week should bring some new and exciting changes - not least of which the launch of my own micro-media studio and, over the coming months, a small but hopefully awesome line-up of regular web video shows.

Since arriving in Sapporo, a city I have quickly fallen in love with, I have had some lucky breaks, made some tough decisions and started to focus on what I need to do to carve out a niche for myself, and be happy in my work. As such, my focus is now firmly on web-based video production. I had dabbled with some other opportunities, but quickly realized that they were motivated more by economic interest than passion. My good friend and former Jedi Master Robin Good recently wrote an interesting and thought-provoking post on this very subject.

My roots are in film, which I studied and later taught at university. This was, and is my first passion. But film to me is evolving beyond the cinema, and the most truly exciting work going on today isn’t - for me - in the studios and film theaters, but online. Web video is exploding, and there is something of a wild frontier out there being explored by a small but increasing number of pioneers. Social media are breaking down the old barriers to production and distribution, and the web is finally proving capable of delivering motion content without too much resistance.

I was lucky to have had the chance to try out and build my skills in screencasting under the nurturing wing of Robin Good this last year, and I am now consolidating on that work, and expanding into new pastures. These are exciting times indeed to be involved in the emergent video web, and this is where I have decided to throw in my chips, for better or worse.

So what can you expect from here on?

Blogging in the classic sense is on the backburner. I am contributing occasionally to the odd blog and trying to focus on things that really interest me. I recently published, for instance, a post on motion typography over at the splendid Wisdump design blog from Splashpress media.

I am also about to start contributing to another Splashpress site, one that I have long had a lot of respect for: Tubetorial. Expect to see some new screencast series appearing there as of this month, on the kind of subjects that will make bloggers very happy. I’m currently in talks with a couple of good friends with regards to further collaboration, so you can certainly expect to see a lot more of me about - in the videosphere especially.

But primarily I am going to be working to tight deadlines, producing regular video content in a couple of niches that really fascinate me. I’m hard at work as I write this, and you’ll be seeing some results very soon.  Until then, thanks for sticking with me - I hope you’ll join me as I crossover into moving image territory in the next couple of weeks.

Bear in mind also that you can make use of my video production services, whether to create demos for your site, educational or training content for your institution or organization, or professional editing and motion graphics for your own video content. By all means drop my a line for one-off, temporary or part time ventures you would like to collaborate on, and I will do my best to accommodate you.