exploringmultimedia

I’ve been involved in the online space for the past 8 years. I completed my undergraduate degree in the Interactive Media stream in the programme for Film and Media Production at UCT in 2005, where amongst other things, we explored and practiced imagine editing, web design, Flash animation, 3D modelling, Film production and editing and designing interactions for games. It was during this time that I applied my learnings in a practical sense for SAcamera and SAnotebook, two of South Africa’s successful e-commerce stores.

I completed my postgraduate diploma in Enterprise Management in 2006, a practical and pragmatic course on the fundamentals of business management. Our team developed, designed, built, marketed and sold Magnetic Key Racks, yes, Magnetic, and managed to make a hefty profit from our endeavors. It was during this year that Rowan Polovin, my business partner and CEO of MEDIAS, began to discuss the concept of online video with me. We met on numerous occasions and delved into the research required to start-up our own venture. (On a side note, Rowan and I began talking about MyVideo before the mighty Google bought YouTube, so we’re not after any quick bucks here ;)

Which brings me to my current position as Chief Operating Officer of MEDIAS. It has been an interesting journey since our inception and launch of MyVideo in late 2006 and I have enjoyed learning and growing with the MyVideo and MEDIAS brands.

I’ve also been fortunate enough to work and converse with some of South Africa’s top internet and creative minds and I hope to extol their virtues in future posts.

So what is this blog about? I’ve titled it ‘Exploring Multimedia’ however I don’t think the content covered in it will be strictly multimedia. I plan to discuss a host of topics relating to the convergence of multimedia and technology in general. Multimedia is a nice word to use because it’s open to so many interpretations.

I’ve shamelessly got links to various projects I’m involved with on some level, the main one of which is MEDIAS and I’m hoping this blog will help me connect, interact, learn and forge new friends and relationships along the way.

And now the shameful 3rd person bio:

Tristan is the co-founder of MyVideo, South Africa’s first video sharing platform and is the Chief Operating Officer of MEDIAS, A Cape Town based video technology company.

He is passionate about all things online and is an aspiring Photographer, Videographer, Web Developer and Outdoor Adventurer.

Tristan resides in Cape Town, South Africa. Arrange to buy him a coffee here or find him online here.