Trailer for Japan: A Video Essay by Benjamin Norton Please visit http://www.benzbigbadweb.com/Japan

This is a sample of my VJ work during a show called "Perspectives: Sights and Sounds," a surf themed art show at Basic in San Diego. All of the visuals are still photographs from different sources including Google Images and Paul Bakan (www.paulbakan.com) that I mixed/composed together and rendered real time.

The Last Girl on Earth as performed by Wendy McNeill and produced by Benjamin Norton. Filming & editing was done in November 2001

This was my first video recording/editing project with my new Canon GL1. The video was recorded on memorial day 2001 at Pacific Beach in San Diego. The music is "Better Off Alone" by DJ Jurgen and Alice Deejay

Recorded at the San Diego Trolley Dance in 2001. Recorded and edited by Benjamin Norton. Music is Scott Hardkiss - Infinately Gentle Blows

Live show played by Injest in San Diego at Music Trader in P.B.

This is a demo project that I put together with Michelle Lewis. The filming was done at the Torrey Pines State Reserve near La Jolla, CA.

This was the beginning of the end for me! After shooting this video with Space Man Spiff, Clay and I started doing live video & music shows so I focused less on produced video. This video was the most complex up to that time. I planned out the entire sequence of shots, scouted locations, and had a story.... more

Lately - October 2005 Lately - October 2005 This video was fun and almost an afterthought when Clay and I were in Japan (the same trip that I filmed "Japan: a Video Essay") "Lately" was a top track on their new album and I thought it was a good potential for a video. At the end of the trip we had.... more