Category: Blog

December 12, 2020

This 4 camera livestream shoot was performed in a parking lot in San Diego, as part of a live 48 hour festival in Brooklyn: SMHOAKSTOCK X

The production, livestream, live editing/switching, audio-reactive VFX, lighting, equipment and camera work were provided by Justin Morrison with support from Victor De La Fuente.

Music by Amy Cimini and Nick Lesley (Necking), with movement by Justin Morrison and Anya Cloud, for SMHOAKSTOCK X! Streamed simultaneously on http://smhoak.city or twitch.tv/smhoak and at facebook.com

Technology utilized / manifest:

  • 2 Sony A7Sii Full Frame cameras with excellent low light sensitivity
  • Video Lighting by Aputure
  • 1 BlackMagic 6k Cinema Camera
  • 2 MacBook Pro laptops
  • 1 ATEM Mini HDMI switch for live switching
  • 1 Projector with Rear Projection Screen compliments of Spacetime
  • OBS Studio for broadcast stream management
  • castr.io for sending the stream to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch simultaneously
  • VDMX for live sound reactive effects, video art and processing
  • Skype and NDI for incorporating remote stream (Anya Cloud, dancing)
  • Analogue video synth routed to VDMX video mix for an old school flair
  • Local projectors, amplifiers, instruments, mixers, and camera support
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May 14, 2011

Wow, it was October 2009 when I last posted to this blog. I’m shocked to find a year a half as passed. I wonder if anyone visit websites anymore in the age of Facebook?

This blog has served less as a journal and more of a sporadic record of events and happenings. It’s been sorely neglected and will require some effort over the coming days to update old posts and fix formatting errors since moving to this new layout. This neglect is no surprise given the amount of time I spend online working on other web projects.

Considering most visitors to this site are family or friends, this update will likely not be new information but should serve as a shout out to friends and recent collaborators.

I’ve recently relocated to San Francisco, now splitting time each month between here and San Diego, were I enjoy time with friends and family, practice yoga and continue to work with several long standing clients in my IT Contracting and Web Development business.

I spend a lot of time lately going out to art, dance and performance events, recently enamored with the vibrant queer performance scene here in SF. I make my dance home at Yannis Adoniou’s KUNST-STOFF arts, where I’m volunteering to manage their web presence and collaborate on developing the organization. KUNST-STOFF is an exciting, multi-cultural community space that we hope to grow into a center for rigorous and risk taking performance, art and dance.

Still very much interested in music, developing my guitar chops and recently took up voice lessons. Hope to find some musical collaborators soon, to continue learning and make some sound together.

Still riding, enjoying the California roads, and camaraderie with the local Airheads and Homoto motorcycle clubs.

Teaching Yoga.

Recently collaborating with Erika Tsimbrovsky in her project, The Book, with 4 performances during the month of July at SOMAarts.

More soon…

-Justin

March 16, 2009

This Thursday, March 19th, I’ll be participating in a group show featuring live art and installation. For this event I’ll be installing a video piece tentatively titled "vanity" (more on that later).

Images from a work in progress:

Details below:

February 8, 2009

Thanks to Janice at Ferdinand’s Familia, Alabama has found a new home. Taking her place is the energetic Pit/Terrier mix Hero. He was taken in after the caretakers at the SPCA noticed, after having been in their care off and on since September, that Hero was becoming increasingly distressed with confinement to the point that he had become unmanageable and was perceived as a threat to the staff.

February 5, 2009

Since yesterday I’ve been fostering a sight-limited sweet heart pit bull named Alabama. With the help of Janice Jordan of Ferdinand’s Familia, an animal rescue agency here in San Diego, this loving pooch has already been found a home and will be going there this afternoon. How quickly these creatures can steal your heart.

November 21, 2008

My sister Natalie came down for a Halloween visit.

We three did what we could to inspire health and fitness and above all, style.

Jazzercise!

October 24, 2008