ABOUT

HEADY DESCRIPTION:

OFFADATASS is exactly what it sounds like–an expression of movement, a voyage up, out, forward, and beyond. This amalgamation of digital parts is simultaneously a vehicle for personal experimentation and a call to arms, but it is always, first and foremost, a verb, an action, a dynamic progression of sound and imagery.

REAL-WORLD DESCRIPTION:

You see, there’s this American kid named Ryn who likes to blog and fuck around with low-end video technology. OFFADATASS is just the latest in a long string of awkward and irregular video blogs, none of which earn any money or acclaim. As it happens, this version takes place in Melbourne, Australia, where Ryn is a graduate student at the Victorian College of the Art. OFFADATASS, it should also be noted, has very little to do with Ryn’s formal, academic studies, but he likes to think they compliment each other somehow.

THE INTEGRAL APPROACH:

OFFADATASS is the video journal of one man’s experience in the world, as it is, as he understands it, right now. It is produced in Australia by Ryn Shane-Armstrong, and it features the insights and commentary of his lovely wife, Xu Yan, among other remarkable human beings.