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Website: videocake.tv

I am Jackie Brown (aka videocake) and I actually kinda liked that movie. I am a working photographer, award winning video DOP and video artist based in Toronto, ON.

I have been behind a camera for 15 years, and on occasion, in front of it. I graduated Sheridan College from the Applied photography program in 2000. At the time I enrolled in Sheridan, I was torn between moving and still images and therefore “tried out” for both the Media Arts program as well as the Applied Photography program. I was accepted into the latter and spent 2 years engulfed in learning how to be a commercial photographer. During that time, I dabbled in film production on my own time and as such, feel both forms of story-telling are merged into the work I do in each of those respective disciplines.

You could say my creative time is spent in 3 ways…Still Photography, DOP-ing videos and VJ-ing self-produced video content.

For the past few years, my still photography has been centered mostly centered around events – from live music, to parties, to conferences and conventions. I also do portrait, editorial and the occasional wedding. What I am most passionate about though, is urban exploration and documentation.

I have worked on a few film productions, as a still photographer and DOP, the most recent piece, “Fear Itself” (produced by Blindline Pictures) won me “Best Cinematography” award at SFWFF 2008. I use all of my knowledge of still photography and apply it to films, which apparently works pretty well.

The name Videocake was adopted in 2004, and came from having to make up an email address to use for VJ related correspondence. Incidentally, it stuck, and so was so assumed as my monkier for video performance. I have worked with a ton of local and international collectives, DJ’s bands and artists. I am/was also a core member of the multimedia collective project3media, where I learned the VJ craft and cut my teeth in the interactive entertainment world. A small sample of the shows I have done will soon be viewable in my Pages directory here on the site.

The end, for now.