Jamendo is a French website that's been around almost as long as YouTube has.Much of the music is cheap to license, or there's some of the older archived stuff that is still licensed to Creative Commons.
1 of my favorite recording artists there is a French DJ Recording Artist Nytrogen. He still has an entire album "Trance Planet" up from the GW Bush Ear for FREE and it's licensed to Creative Commons.
I've used a number of his tracks in some of my videos over the years. I actually used 3 different tracks in some of my video art this year.
As an artist, I also like to publish some of my works to Creative Commons for FREE, usually for educational purposes, but this year I had published more stuff to Creative Commons than ever, and with almost no restrictions. I will continue to be publishing some of my work to Creative Commons.
Here's an example of how editing can completely change a concept, and how things get changed.
I'm ALREADY a picky person at times, for my art and artistic creations, so when my instructor hated everything I liked, and my best stuff, and I constantly was trying to please him, I shot so much stuff, and was left with a whole lot of stock footage (B-Roll). Anything I loved, and everyone else loved, he hated, and anything that was ghastly and awful, he liked it.
Who can understand geniuses sometimes?
We'd just had a new sexist president sworn in, so Pussy Hats and hand gestures on Instagram, and winter sports were all the rage, including internet memes of people writing stuff on their hands.
And, women were treated as creatures and not human...
So, I came up with THIS:
The 2nd version
All of my female classmates loved it! So, naturally, he HATED it. So contrary! He just seemed to really enjoy making me work-work-work-work! So stressful!
So, head home AGAIN in the middle of multiple blizzards, not good for my back, and start all over again... Well, I made the mistake of SHOWING him my work.... better to NOT show him.
He said my concepts were too big, or the idea was too big...
So, I went with THIS as the final version:
Well.....
I still had a lot of this footage, and there was quite a lot of it that I was QUITE liking a lot! I don't have a model, and my daughter refused to model for me. :( So, I had to use myself in these, and my old lens worked GREAT! I actually shot using several different cameras, multiple lenses, lens filters, and on various weekends or durring severe storms which forced us to be stuck indoors.
And, it BEGGED for another EDIT. I edited this WITH MUSIC since the original assignment was SILENT.
I was SO PICKY about this, and I re-edited it from scratch several times, and even went through a few different song choices. This music is by a French musician Nytrogen from way back in the GW Bush Era of Jamendo. This song is called "Fly". I've often used his music going way back to the early days of YouTube.
I have my own techniques I still use that work very well. And, I rendered this out several times to make sure it was exactly what I wanted.
It's VERY ME. I LOVE Rave culture, and psychedelic themes, but also the Boho vibes, and all that stuff...
Actually, I'd still like to create something more down tempo with all the lights and candles I shot as well...
I actually have different makeup from different evenings of shooting, and in the close-ups of my face in the DJ lights, I was wearing no makeup at all. Different lenses give my face a different look or character. I'm really glad I went with my old CANON lens for the best shots. But, I did use a number of SIGMA lenses. ALL CAMERAS I used were CANON. I lost count of how many I used.
I MOSTLY shot on CANON 70D a personal favorite of mine, but I also used a CANON 6D, and come CANON Camcorders (plural) . I also like SONY but they don't have SONY for video at UMASS.
BTW, this is NOT actually shot a lounge or night club. I just TRICKED U! It's just my living room, darkly lit. I didn't have good lighting, so I used it to my advantage. THAT was why I went with the clubbing, raver, boho chic lounge vibe...
So, a mixture of the stuff I like is Boho Chic with all kinds of fusion, and I ALSO love RAVE CULTURE. Yes. It's VERY ME.
I did a whole blog post about my Independence Day weekend this year n the internet went gaga over that stuff! My Instagram shot from under 300 followers to way over 500.... of course several dropped off because they realized I'm in my 30s and have a kid and a life... Whatevz...
Look, I know what I like. And, I do what I like. I'm an artist.
So, I put together this whole rave photo shoot the same night I shot the other stuff early this month.
The lights I have I got from Spencer's way back a while ago and I've used them in several photography experiments.
