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 Here is a three minute video I produced from footage I shot at Harmony Festival.I premiered the movie inside of an installation I created as part of my Form + Color + Content class at UCSB. Try to watch the film with a good subwoofer... Harmony, 120 mb note: there is no sound at the beginning of the film. posted
by Jess @ 8:27 AM. . .
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 Another Film Festival!Tonight, May 23, I have a 16mm film in UCSB's annual REEL LOUD Film Festival. I made a film called "Simplicity" with the help of Eyal Aharoni, and Danny Jolles. If you are in the area, come check it out! Here's the website for more info: http://www.reellouducsb.com posted
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 My latest unicycling film, The Payback, is a selected film for the 1st Annual Isla Vista Digital Video festival! Come out this Saturday to enjoy the festival. Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:00pm - 11:00pm I.V. Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte Isla Vista, CA Facebook Event! See you there! posted
by Jess @ 12:00 PM. . .
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 This last weekend Nathan and Beau Hoover came to Santa Barbara for some coker, muni, and juggling. Hans joined us for this sweet coker-muni ride that starts at my house and follows the trails along the bluffs.Check out the photos (and videos!) Nathan captured. posted
by Jess @ 11:27 PM. . .
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 In 2005 I made a unicycle film called "Northstar Nincumpoops," starring Zack Baldwin and myself. Unfortunately, the highest quality version I put out was a choppy windows media video. So here's a couple of quicktime versions, it looks MUCH better. Also, I added some sweet animated credits at the end. Enjoy!High: 286 mb Low: 102 mb posted
by Jess @ 6:37 PM. . .
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 Here are two new unicycling videos I finally finished editing:  <— 2. The Payback (103 mb) Santa Barbara, 2006. Eyal, Dennis, Eric and myself rip up one the best Muni trails in town, Saddle Rock. Sweet soundtrack!! Oh, if you have a fast connection, watch the high resolution version (211 mb) posted
by Jess @ 2:10 PM. . .
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 Wow! It's been a long time since I updated anything... I moved back to California after my semester abroad, and here is a little video I made right before I left France. Enjoy, and bon appetit!"La Boule au chocolat blanc!"  Here's a video a made yesterday morning. I had to use a piece of "inspiration," which is the blue card in the beginning. The rest of the project was up to me, and I could use any medium I wanted... so I chose to make a little video. Thanks to my roommate Eric who helped with the movie even though he was sick with Pneumonia!"Russian тигр!" posted
by Jess @ 3:50 PM. . .
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 I just added a bunch of photos that have been collecting dust on my mac and I added a sweet "T-shirts I Have Made" section to the stuff page.I added some behind the scenes shots from "Invisible Harleys" to my gallery. (See the blog post below if you have not yet seen the film.) Figge, Alex, Gilli and I on set, as well as propmaking! Check out the album. Browse the Miscellaneous Pics for some surprises, like the underwater photo here. Yoni Berk took some photos of me in March by our house in Isla Vista. Some beautiful sunset photos. Finally, check out some photos from my current semester abroad: Lyon, France! That's all for now! posted
by Jess @ 1:18 AM. . .
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 I finally photographed my mounds of newspapers I have lying around. Since Winter 2006, I've been an illustrator for my college newspaper, The Daily Nexus. I love this job... I get to read someone's article, figure out what I want to draw for it, and then doodle away. Here's a collection of 37 images that include my illustrations. Most of these are illustrations drawn for an article, or a letter to the editors, and they're pretty obvious they go together. There are also some that are small comic boxes called THINK. On those drawings, I'm just given a blank rectangle and the freedom to do whatever I want. On the boxes that are called DRINK, I'm given the information, I just make an image for it. I put this under my "Stuff" page. Enjoy! http://unicyclejester.com/gallery/art/nexus posted
by Jess @ 8:58 AM. . .
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| Just posted this old video from 2005 in unicycling videos... posted
by Jess @ 12:42 PM. . .
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 Wow, this is exciting. So, I when I went to Japan in 2004 for Unicon 12 (Unicycling World Championships) I made a feature documentary of the whole ordeal. The movie turned out pretty cool, although very lengthy. I published it to dvd and even made a sweet label. Unfortunately, I've had major problems trying to get it online for the past few years. Finally, it's up, in all the glory of a tiny quicktime screen! I think the intro/credits are my favorite part of this movie. It's actually very informal if you want to see what events happen at these huge unicycling conventions.You can find Konichiwheel (59 min) on my video page. Also, I added a couple animations to my ANIMATION VAULT. They were some projects from some general art classes I took the beginning of this year, 2007. Enjoy! Finally, I put Invisible Harleys on my video page. posted
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 Originally uploaded by unicyclejester Seven Photos posted
by Jess @ 10:06 PM. . .
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 So on April 28 I was playing soccer on the beach at about noon with my roommate and a dog named Bo Jangles that was really interested in our ball. I fell over backwards at one point, and my left hand drove straight into the ground. I heard a loud "pop". I tried to make a fist, but my middle finger was bending completely crooked! It was like out of a movie. For about 30 minutes, I thought I just had dislocated a finger, but then it started hurting... bad. It turns out I broke my 3rd metacarpal, and it was rotated at the break, with an additional hairline fracture. To ensure my finger would bend straight again, I had to have surgery which included a titanium plate and 8 screws. You can see the post-surgery photos of my hand to the left. What a weird accident.posted
by Jess @ 12:05 AM. . .
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 Cuatro, a tv station in Spain, did a short 3 minute segment on Muni and Street unicycling. They filmmed a bunch of us in Southern California, and I participated in the Muni section. The piece was broadcasted in Spain June 2nd. It's all dubbed in Spanish, so it's really fun to watch!You can check it out here: Monociclo posted
by Jess @ 11:42 PM. . .
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 UPDATE: We won! Check it out (scroll down)!The last 7 weeks of my life have been devoted largely to this five minute movie. Michael Figge and I created a Mario Kart parody film, using no greenscreens, shooting 13 nights, and spending over a 100 hours slaving over After Effects. The project was part of a Harley-Davidson viral video competition, an experimental class held for the first time here at UCSB. Our Film Studies Dept. is hosting a page that includes all 10 projects that were made in the class. The top three voted films move on to Harley-Davidson where they will select a winner. They win $5,000. Please check out our film, as well as some of the other projects. The voting closes Friday, June 8, at 4 pm. Here's the link: http://www.invisibleharleys.com. posted
by Jess @ 2:01 AM. . .
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 Whooo! I made another unicycle film, starring my 36" Coker. Not a lot of tricks, but still a fun watch.. it has a small thread of a narrative. Anyway, check it out, the music is bitchin' and the cinematography rocks (filmed by my friend Figge).Watch here! P.S. This film was featured in HopeDance's Bike Film Festival. The Santa Barbara Independent mentions it here. posted
by Jess @ 12:20 PM. . .
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 Boinx, the company behind my favorite stop-motion animation software, istopmotion, wrote an article on me for their February Newsletter. You can check out the full newsletter here. Here's a direct link to my article.posted
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 This is a crazy stop-motion that was made last Saturday, all in one day. My housemate Elie and I came up with the idea, and I set to work animating his, uh, body. My friend Emil Margolis once again composed the music, which originates from a variety of sounds from around our house: skateboards, bottles, insense, drums, etc. The final video is getting mixed reactions... some say they love it, some say it's "uh, bizarre."You can find it on my video page, but here's a quick link to the small quicktime version (20 mb). The Haircut. posted
by Jess @ 1:42 AM. . .
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 Yesterday my film Trials Course Love 99 showed as part of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This massive festival uses 9 theaters, and my film was shown at Center Stage. After they played my movie as well as two others, we had a Q&A with the audience. Most questions were about unicycling itself, not about my movie, but it was a great discussion nonetheless. posted
by Jess @ 8:28 PM. . .
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 I'm in the process of changing my whole site! As you may notice, things look much different. I plan to get everything finished and uploaded soon. I'm really excited about the "Stuff" page, it's going to be a spot where I can put all the projects, additional hobbies, and whatever I feel like posting. Stay tuned.... posted
by Jess @ 7:58 AM. . .
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| I made a short last weekend (Nov 10-12) with two friends for a 24-hour student film festival put on by Apple.
(http://edcommunity.apple.com/contest/contest.php) On Friday at 2pm, they put out 11 required elements, 3 of which had to be included in the film. The films could not exceed 3 minutes, and the films had to be done within 24-hours of the prompt. After reading the prompt, we brainstormed and threw a bunch of stuff in my friend Jon's station-wagon (including costumes, unicycles, food, and a monkey). We worked until 4 am, then got up the next morning to finish and upload the film to apple.com before 2pm. My friend Jon and my housemate Yoni performed the music a mere 1.5 hours before the deadline. Here's the film we made: 1 (on apple) http://edcommunity.apple.com/contest/item.php?itemID=178 2 (on my site) http://www.unicyclejester.com/vids/cowboy2.mov Now until December 3rd people can go and rate each film that was submitted. (There were teams of college students from all over the country). The top 25 rated films get to be reviewed by a jury after Dec. 3rd. If you like it, please vote and tell all your friends to vote!!! -Jess p.s. Here's a list of all the given elements the teams could use: Required character named: Alex Kona Required Dialog line: "No, you don't understand what it's like growing up here." Required costume: Leather jacket and dark sunglasses Required prop: Ice Required side kick: Pet monkey Required setting: Abandoned building Required shot: Clock with 4:11 on face Required makeup: Fake eyelashes and blue eye shadow Required genre: Sci-fi/fantasy Required Camera effect: Crane or boom shot Required editing device: Musical montage posted
by Jess @ 12:47 PM. . .
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| I was on MTV last month, in a promo for a new show on MTV, called "Sportsblender." I sold them the rights to hack up my films "Trials Course Love 99" and "UCSB Unicycling" and they created a couple 22 second teasers. I never actually saw myself on TV, but someone put one of the promos on YouTube.
So why did they contact me about this? They saw my video. You can read more about all this here. posted
by Jess @ 10:05 PM. . .
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| Well, before coming back to school, my technology side upgraded itself. I got a Macbook, and am very, very happy with it. Anyway, I still have my PC, so basically I see myself getting the best of both worlds. I've done a few little editing projects already on this Macbaby, and Yeeoow, I'm impressed. I can't wait to someday setup up the ultimate mac desktop editing machine.
Anyway, for now I'm pretty excited... here's a little stop motion video showing my, uh, reaction. http://www.unicyclejester.com/stopmotion/thenewmac.mov posted
by Jess @ 11:25 AM. . .
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 I've been back just over a week now, and finally am back on California time. After 10 days at Unicon in Switzerland, I traveled with Jeff Groves, Kevin McMullin, and Yoggi to Montpellier, France and stayed with Xavier Collos. The next day we visited a skatepark and eventually began our journey to Barcelona, Spain. After spending 3 nights in Barcelona with locals Alberto, Edgar, Linus, and one other guy whose name I don't recall, we headed back to France. The next 2 nights we stayed at Yoggi's house in Toulouse, France. At this point, Jeff left for England, and Kevin and I continued by night train to Frankfurt, Germany. We stayed with the Dietze Family, and after 1 night Kevin went back to Switzerland and back to Canada. After 2 nights Steffi and I left to visit Hamburg and Copenhagen. After 1 night in Hamburg cruising the city and visiting Neils, Steffi and I took a train to Copenhagen, Denmark to visit some DNT members for one night. After that, I spent 1 night on a night train going from Copenhagen back to Amsterdam. Almost missed the Amsterdam-bound train due to my delayed night train and baggage problems, but made it by a minute. I was able to ride with Leo Vandewoestijne, and Sybren Stüvel late in the day, and I spent the night at Sybren and Marit's house. The next morning I flew home! What a trip! Thank you everyone for an incredible adventure. If you want to look my favorite photos from the trip, check out my photos below. You can also view all my photos by city. http://www.unicyclejester.com/gallery/trips/unicon_13 p.s. I'll be putting together a video of the trip soon!  posted
by Jess @ 9:19 AM. . .
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| Well, it's July 18, and that means it is time to leave California and spend 1 month in Europe! The reason I am going, of course, is for Unicon 13. I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, by myself, from San Francisco International, and will first make my way to Amsterdam. I'll spend three days there with Jamey Mossengren and some other Minnesotans, then we'll all take the train to Switzerland! Then I'll be in Langenthal for 10 days attending my second Unicon. I'm signed up to compete in trials, muni downhill/uphill/and XC, as well as Uni Hockey. I've drained my bank account of about every dollar I have for this trip, but shoot, this adventure is going to be incredible. Did I mention after Unicon I'm traveling for 12 days? I'll probably be going to Barcelona with friends, and then to Germany and Denmark by myself to visit some awesome unicyclists.
Bye for now, I just might write some mobile posts while in the 'rope. Peace! posted
by Jess @ 5:46 PM. . .
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