Cam Shand

Cam Shand describes entering RØDE's VR short film category despite not owning VR camera gear, borrowing equipment from a friend, teaching himself ambisonic audio mixing, and producing a 360-degree studio tour featuring three versions of himself; the behind-the-scenes breakdown video unexpectedly won a major category against professional teams.

Cam recounts buying a tablet at university for roughly $2,000 less than intended due to an Officeworks pricing error, using it for three years, then reselling the broken-screen device on eBay for a $500 profit over his original purchase price.

Cam describes being invited to play his first set at Bendigo's Universal Nightclub within three months of learning to DJ, arriving with just a laptop and MIDI controller because he couldn't afford CDJs, and getting help from resident DJ Roscoe to patch into the club's system.

Cam describes, through his IT job, discovering software used by councils to map every tree's location and root system, and separately finding an ArcGIS-based dashboard created by a US university that tracks real-time coronavirus infection and death data globally.

Cam explains gradually shifting his wake-up time back from 8am to 5am in 15-minute weekly increments to increase video output, and recounts getting sick for a week after trying to go 'cold turkey' on the new schedule following a late night out.