Filming with ‘San Cisco’ for Tunes For Change

San Cisco are an exuberant four-piece from Fremantle, Western Australia who kindly donated their song ‘Golden Revolver’ to The Seed album for Tunes For Change.

I had the opportunity to travel west and visit Jordi, Scarlett and the guys as they talk about writing the song and how Western Australia manages to keep producing an incredibly talented range of musicians and artists.

Below is our chat with them plus a bloopers reel… yeah, they like to giggle.

Check out their new music video for ‘Awkward’ which is a really great song. Get out and support these guys!

Short Film Poster Art – ‘Cockatoo’

Ninja Milk has just produced a new short film titled ‘Cockatoo’ which was written and directed by Ninja Milk’s Matthew Jenkin.

Here are the official posters that I photographed and designed for the film.

You can keep up to date with ‘Cockatoo’ as it does it festival rounds here on the Facebook page and on our website Ninja Milk

Photography: Some ‘Leroy Lee’ from the vault

Not sure if these saw the light of day but here are some stills I took of Sydney based musician ‘Leroy Lee’ in a guitar factory in Sydney.

 

Crowd-funding doesn’t work? Tell that to Julia Nunes!

Written by Bradley from Ninja Milk – Creative. Social. Content

KNOW & GROW YOUR AUDIENCE

I have been following YouTube singer/songwriter Julia Nunes for a couple of years now and she stands out as someone who knows how to build an audience organically by posting video content of her performing songs (originals & covers) in creative ways from her bedroom.

Her YouTube account titled jaaaaaaa has since Mar, 2006 accumulated over 200,000 channel subscribers and her video views total 46 million hits. These kind of numbers would even make music artists/bands with large PR power very jealous.

CROWD FUNDING: Let the people decide a projects’ merit.

During the years that Julia has been building and growing her online brand a website called Kickstarter was establishing itself as one of the top crowd-funding platforms for creative projects. Using Kickstarter anyone can start a funding campaign to ask for contributions from people around the world who are interesting in pitching in for a project to help make it happen. The creator selects a fundraising goal amount and if  that total is raised the money goes to the creator. If the amount isn’t raised money goes back to the user who pledged.

My Company: Ninja Milk – Creative. Social. Media

Apologies for the lack of posts recently but I have been busy establishing my business Ninja Milk – Creative. Social. Media.

Ninja Milk is a content creation and social media company. We create web content for brands and set-up, monitor and maintain social media sites like Facebook, Twitter & YouTube.

My business partner and I are really excited about Ninja Milk as we feel that our approach to social media and the distribution of branded content into the online communities is something that is quite unique to our company at the moment.

If you are keen to know more about Ninja Milk and the way we work just contact me and we can chat further.

Here is our website which was designed and created on a WordPress MU backend by Brown Box (Sydney) in 2010. We love our site!

World Cup 2010: Flashback Four Years & 94,000 Views

I can’t believe it is four years already since my friends and I sat down to watch Australia vs Japan at 2am in Sydney, Australia. For some reason I thought I would film us watching it. With 6-minutes to go in the game I was glad I did as the Socceroos came back from 0-1 down to beat Japan 3-1. The guys didn’t seem to relise I was filming until after the first few goals so this wasn’t a performance but merely the boys being caught up in the moment.

On the eve of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, I thought I would re-upload the video in full-quality, something that wasn’t possible on YouTube four years ago.

Looking foward to watching a lot of games this World Cup and I will post anything worthwhile here so keep checking back here.I am supporting Australia of course and anyone playing Italy and France.

Things I Like: Adidas Marathon 80 sneakers

I have been doing some experimenting with my running shoes as well. After going for support by purchasing a pair of Brooks running shoes I have also been wearing my Adidas Marathon 80s which I purchased back in 2004. Here is a new pair I just received via the US (eBay) because I love the old ones so much.

Here are the old ones which isn’t bad for 6 years of wear.

I have made a New Years resolution for 2010 to run at least 2km everyday for a year. One month down and going strong. My usual week would involve a weekend run of 8-16km, a few 4-5kms during the week and the rest a 2km speed run. I am also aiming for a Half-Marathon (21km) hopefully once a month.

My first half-marathon was my birthday 23rd January which took 3-hours exactly. Now to get faster and stronger.

Music Projects: Leroy Lee debut album

Over the past two or so years I have been lucky to witness the creation and carefully considered refining of an artwork by a good friend known as Leroy Lee. From early recordings and demos through to the unmastered version Leroy handed me a few months back, I have listened to each song being built up, layered, then sometimes stripped back until it is exactly how Leroy had envisioned.

I am happy to say that his debut album is pressed and official released on December 4th, 2009. I have a few advanced copies of the paper sleeve CD which I am honored to say includes a photo (inside the foldout sleeve) that I took during a photo shoot Leroy Lee a few months back.

Leroy Lee's debut album - Artwork by Greedy Hen

The CD artwork itself is designed by Greedy Hen who have designed all of Leroy Lee‘s releases to date and seems to compliment the feel of the music so well.

Leroy Lee's debut album - Photo by Bradley J. Conomy

The album is available in music retailers from the 4th but it already on iTunes for digital purchase. Buy it on iTunes

You can check out more of Leroy Lee @ MySpace which also features the music video for Mountain Song which I directed and camera operated.

Review Links:

http://zisuyan.blogbus.com/logs/52094917.html

Photography: Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)

I was lucky enough to be at Akil the MC’s (Jurassic 5) Sydney performance as I was taking photographs for Sydney hip-hop group, Free Form, who were supporting with Morganics. The last time I saw Jurassic 5, they were in Sydney with The Roots at the Hordern Pavilion.

Akil’s beats and lyrics were amazing. Hope the photos portray the energy that was in the room. Let me know what you think.

Akil the MC - Put your hands up

Akil the MC - Photo: Bradley J. Conomy

Akil the MC

Open mic

Filming Akil

Morganics

Journey (Free Form) performing 'We Get Down'

Akil & Morganics

Open mic

Please give me a credit if you would like to post these. Credit: www.bradleyjconomy.com

You can see some of my photographs of Free Form’s set here on Facebook

Karl Pilkington look-a-like @ Speakers’ Corner – Hyde Park, Sydney

I was intrigued with this soap box speaker when I was doing some filming in Hyde Park, Sydney. I might revisit and see if I can shoot a little documentary with this gentleman as I was interested in his thoughts and ideas on happiness. Maybe the reason I like him is that he looks a little like Karl Pilkington (The Ricky Gervais Show.) Thoughts?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pilkington