Posts Tagged ‘Vimeo’

Sorry for the radio silence. Been busy launching new projects for Pop! Goes the Icon, working on articles for my usual round of editors and, oh yeah, I went on holiday. I didn’t bring you back vacation photos, but I did bring you back this video of my bumbling presentation at last month’s Design Drip meeting. Despite bringing note cards, I went totally off script, but hey, life is off script, right?

PJ Perez – Design Drip Las Vegas from Design Drip on Vimeo.

Pj Perez presenting at Design Drip Las Vegas on January 14th, 2012

I love reading and watching process pieces, when an artist opens a window to the creation of works we’d otherwise not see until they were finished and ready for public consumption. Whether it’s a comic book illustrator’s blog, an in-the-studio music video or even a behind-the-scenes feature on a film, I find the nuts and bolts of the artistic machine to be fascinating. And I think as a culture we do as well — that’s why you kids love the Blu-Ray things with 14 hours of bonus features, right? Right.

So I was quite pleased to have the opportunity to follow an artist at work a few weeks ago for my latest Examiner.com piece. When photographer Kenneth Lamug pitched me a story on his upcoming street photography show at the College of Southern Nevada, I instantly thought this would make a great entry in my series of videos about the Las Vegas art scene. Unlike painting or sculpture, where the artist isn’t as camera-friendly in the midst of his or her work, Lamug’s photography approach — roaming the streets of Sin City letting his camera lens spontaneously capture life as it’s happening — is perfect for moving pictures.

I think the video turned out to be one of the best I’ve cut so far, and I’m still pretty sure I’m one of the few — if not only – folks at Examiner.com generating original video. Hope you enjoy:

Las Vegas Street Photography from Pj Perez on Vimeo.

Just a reminder: I’m writing regularly about Las Vegas fine arts over at Examiner.com. That includes visual art as well as theater, poetry and anything else that comes along under the vast topic of “fine arts.” Recent stories you may have missed:

• Smith Center gets $170 million boost from Las Vegas City Council
• Celebrated poet Mani Rao hits the Coffee Bean for ‘Word Up!’
• The Yellow Brick Road leads to Winchester Cultural Center this March

One thing I am trying to do — something it appears is relatively unprecendented at Examiner.com — is incorporate original video reports. I did regular video blogs at VEGASinsight, but that was more me doing a talking head thing than actual broadcast journalism. So expect to see more nifty pieces such as this one I threw together about Jennifer Maupin’s photo exhibit at Henri & Odette:

So if you live in Las Vegas and want to keep somewhat informed on the fine arts scene here, feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed for my Examiner articles. And if you’re using Vimeo, please add me as a contact, as I’ll be posting my new video material there. If you’re already subscribing to my YouTube videos, don’t worry: I’ll be adding stuff there as well, just slightly delayed.