Meet Jamsus | Digital Creative Artist

We had the good fortune of connecting with Jamsus and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Jamsus, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
Ever since I was in my teens getting interested in skating, art, and music, I enjoyed picturing a life of creating things that were unique. I customized everything I had as a kid like painting shoes with zebra stripes, Blending a fender guitar with Gibson electronics, and building go carts out of my dad’s junk to fly down the hills of Anaheim with my friends.

I fell into music heavily going into middle school hearing all the music my older brother was showing me on dial-up internet. I joined Drumline for a couple years, and created a few bands in highschool.
I found “bedroom producers” creating amazing hiphop instrumental beats on youtube without needing a studio or a group of people and got super inspired. I enjoyed being able to write the music for all the instruments with software and be able to work with vocal artists remotely.

My best friend Tony Brown and I created a hiphop group called New Ethics and a production company called Amusement Productions early after highschool after making skate videos, comedy skits, satire music about class mates, and music videos, we realized we can create these for others to make a career.
We started doing videos for free while we kept working on skate videos and our own music videos for the first New Ethics album. We met a few other music artists and brands through our creative endeavors that we offered free videos to, so we could gain experience in the art form.

Both tony and I worked at a sandwich shop for a while as we built up our film and music skills and finally got work at the app company Weedmaps in 2015 to accelerate our skills and network.
We learned a lot about video production there working on cannabis campaigns and docs pre legalization.
After a few years the company had to let there media team go, so we went into making more videos for brands and artists independently. We now create for some amazing people and continue to build Amusement Productions to fuel more personal creative missions. Our current project is complete; We are premiering our first documentary at Long Beach Art Theatre on an American businessman climbing Mt. Everest next month!

The thought process behind creating my own business is to have the income to comfortably survive through creative work, as well as funding audio visual works that inspire others to be confident in doing things independently in the modern world of global connection and information online.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
I go by Jamsus. It’s a nickname I got in highschool that was popularized my late friend Darrin Joe who introduced me to amazing hiphop music, skating, and weed.

Jamsus is my first business in a sense. I create music, art, imagery, and film through that moniker.

With anything creative nowadays I see it from a point of view shaped by psychosomatics.
I want to create digital works that speak to many senses at once, that can inspire people feel unautomatable.
My music and film style is rooted in a blend or surrealism and abstract art to create works that feel real and dreamy at the same time; almost like the initial stage of waking up where life feels peaceful, ethereal, and abundantly clear.
If I can extend that feeling in myself and others with the art I’m creating then we’re on the right path.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I would plan a day of views and food in LA

We would start at a MadLab coffee shop to get a orange creamsicle latte or Maru for a Cream Top.
From there we would go visit the Amusement Productions Studio in DTLA where I create at and grab some camera equipment for the day.
We would probably nab some tacos at Sonora Town in the fashion district and walk around for a bit checking out the old architecture of DT and find ourselves in random convos with interesting people walking around.
I would def take you to see the Graffiti Monument that is Oceanwide Plaza across from the Crypto Arena.
I believe everyone needs to experience that amazing work in-person while it still stands.
It’s and all-accessible art gallery in the heart of the city, that will vanish by the city clean up crew in the coming months.
After some image creating, walking, and snacking, we would take a drive up to Angeles forest in my Jeep with the doors off to see the sunset from the mountains and listen to Phonk music as we carve up the hillsides.
For dinner we would slide down to The Great White in Larchmont for chill bohemian-california aesthetics and incredible bolognese.
After some quick ice-cream at Salt & Straw we would dip out of Larch to my GF and I’s apartment to share a joint or a drink looking out the balcony at the city scape in Hollywood, and chat about future plans and creative ideas.
I’d recommend you stay at the Dream Hotel down the street so I could hop on the continental breaky with you the next morning and check out the rooftop.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
Shout out Weedmaps & Jersey Mikes for teaching me skills in communication, speed, and pioneering innovation. Shout out DJ Eddie Ruxpspin for mixing and mastering all the albums over the years and teaching me how to take music seriously.
Shout out my parents for building a soundproof section of the garage and encouraging creative ideas.
Shout out all the people that gave me a chance to work with them and create priceless digital memories.

Website: www.amusementproductions.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamsus/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesollard/

Other: https://linktr.ee/jamsus

Image Credits
@wastehazard (photos of me) @jamsus (photos of film work/ppl/places in reference)