SPXL.TV

SPXL.TV is subpixel’s media channel, launched on Wednesday 12 August 2009.

subpixel is a video artist / VJ / visualist from Sydney.

subpixel is also a programmer, part-time loungeroom philosopher, and generally all-’round nice guy.

See subpixel’s main site – subpixels.com – for his blog, photo gallery, programming distractions and the like.

You can also find subpixel on social networking sites, including:

• subpixel on Facebook
• subpixel on MySpace

As is the trend for many people at the moment, the Facebook option is preferred over MySpace. Sorry MySpace!

For a long time I’ve been interested in graphics and visuals. Since 2006 I’ve been supplying visuals for gigs, parties, and home entertainment, drawing on material I’d produced both consciously and subconsciously before even thinking I would be a VJ, and new material from an ongoing development process with custom effects, video, graphics, animation and so on.

A lot of of VJ material I had seen in the past involved short loops, typically fast-paced, highly processed and/or computer generated video clips and animations. Something like a truck bearing down on you in a tunnel with multicoloured strobe lights and laser beams for headlights. Okay, maybe that’s a bit harsh, and these kind of visuals have their place, but they don’t really suit a lot of the music I like to listen to. A lot of the visuals I make are more ‘organic’, have some sort of progression or journey, contain tidbits of real life, places, people… more of a dreamscape than a train smash.

More recently I have written custom software to generate realtime visuals; experiments with a bit more of a tech edge that I hope to combine with my prior, more filmic, work.

-spxl