Video Salon During Mac World Jan. 11th 07

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hey everyone, just wanted to follow up with schedule of presentations for Video Salon. Jan. 11th.
first off, the doors are at 7:30.
Presentations will be begin at 8:00 promptly. The demos should be over by 10:00PM
Presenters

-Surya, www.la-va.org from La-va will present 5-10 minutes of VJ kung fu
-Peter Kirn www.createdigitalmotion.com will present wii controllers, jitter, max, flash demo. 30-40 minutes
-Dax presenting a new text2screen app. (Text messaging to video screens in live environments from a new start up call Msgme (5-10 minutes).
-Pierre and Alessandro will present Quartz Composer for live performance. 30-40 minutes
-Michael O'Rourke www.dimension7.com will talk about Second Life and the Dimension7 gallery in Seond Life. 5-10 minutes
-Xarene www.vjbook.com will present her new book 'vE-jA" the long anticipated book on audio-visual culture around the world 5-10minutes
-Grant Davis (VJ Culture) www.vjculture.com showcases Apple's Motion2 and MIDI. 30 minutes.
After the demos, the event becomes the traditional video salon style vj jam and then later it turns more into a party with DJ Laird bringing in the beats and locals.
Posted 1/11/07 Update.
schedule of presenters

VIDEO SALON, SF
Jan. 11th 2007
7:30PM-12: 30AM Demos start at 8:00
Open VJ Jam starts at 10:00
150 Folsom St. (@ Spear)
San Francisco CA 94105


THIS MONTH......................

The annual Video Salon during MacWorld. Apple-centric presentations and demos.

***Quartz Composer demos by Engineering Manager Pierre-Olivier Latour and graphic artist Alessandro Sabatelli from Slinc.

***Presentations by Peter Kirn on Jitter, v001, flash and Nintendo Wii controller.

***Grant Davis (VJ Culture) presents Motion2 and MIDI demo

***We will also have copies of the long anticipated VJ Book ‘vE-“jA “Art and Technology of Live Audio/Video”. Written by Xarene Eskandar. $39.99
http://www.vjbook.com/


Cheap drinks :-)
Bring your laptops and unplug, free wireless.
Plus, bring your media for jamming.
We have a new format for this Video Salon. We will have formal presentations for the first two hours, and then open the floor to the traditional Video Salon style VJ Jam.


Quartz Composer started its life as PixelShox Studio, which was developed in 2002 and 2003 by Pierre-Olivier Latour. Development on the original application reached public beta 0.92b
In the transition from PixelShox to Quartz Composer.
For VJ’s Quartz Composer is a powerful tool capable of being used as a stand-alone VJ application or, intergraded into 3rd party VJ technology.
Pierre has been programming for years and in addition to Quartz Composer and Pixel Shox his has written numerous Freeware and Shareware apps. Currently Pierre is focusing on Quartz Composer for Apple’s newest OS, Leopard.
Links
http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/quartz/quartzcomposer.html
http://www.quartzcompositions.com/phpBB2/


Peter Kirn,
New York-based musician/visualist and www.createdigitalmotion.com and www.createdigitalmusic.com editor will show how a Mac with Jitter and v001 can mix custom 3D and 2D visuals, hooked up to a Nintendo Wii controller and Nintendo DS. If none of that made sense, just come watch a guy wave his arms around and make some eye candy.
Peter has his finger on the pulse of technology development for A/V artists.
Links
http://www.createdigitalmotion.com/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/


Grant Davis (VJ Culture) Co-founder of Video Salon and Video Riot will demo the MIDI capabilities of Apple’s Motion 2.
With enough RAM and GPU power Motion 2 can be used as a real-time VJ application or, a quick way to create key frames using MIDI.
Links
http://www.vjculture.com/
www.dimension7.com
http://www.lightrhythmvisuals.com/



WHO IS VIDEOSALON:

Video Salon is an open community of visual artists representing SF's
thriving VJ scene. Video Salon is YOU.

The event is hosted at Dimension7, a San Francisco VJ institution.


What is Video Salon?

Video Salon is an open community of video artists who come together monthly to share ideas, show their work and collaborate with other artists in an informal and social setting.

We have video mixing stations setup for anyone and everyone to show their work. Mix live to the DJ’s or do your own thing.

OUR MISSION:

To embrace a broad spectrum of time based visual artists including CG artists, experimental filmmakers, live visual performance artists and installation builders.

To promote technical experimentation and aesthetic development within our community.

To create an open dialog encouraging mutually beneficial critique, cross-pollination and collaboration.

VJ Culture makes Time Mag. Person of the Year!!

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Along with lots of other people.
Why? I guess it's all that self publishing, posting, blogging, bragging I do along with a few others. Hey, as long as I beat out all the leaders of the world.
Honestly, I think they justed didn't want to give it to either Mr. Bush, Kim Il Sung¹ or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

VJ Culture AV Sale

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I've got some cool stuff that is collecting dusk and I need to sell it.
You can see more photos of the film projectors and slide projector equipment at my flickr page.
www.flickr.com/photos/35001827@N00/sets/72157594414374270/
Here is one of my film projectors I'm selling. No reels just what you see here. There are 3 film projectors total. I would love to put them in the right home.

All sales are for US shipping only.

Bellingham WA Electronic Arts Fest.

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Edirol invited me to perform at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival www.bellinghamelectronicartsfestival.com/ as part of their sponsorship for the event. As one of the Edirol guys said, "You have a whole warehouse full of toys to play with" and that I did. With all that gear at my disposal I decided to use a 3 screen synchronized setup. To accomplish this I used Edirol's 3 PR-80's media servers that stream dual channels of DV quality video. 3 V4 video mixers, a CG-8, 2 DVD players and 2 laptops. Each laptop was receiving a camera in feed for the VJ apps via firewire coming in from the PR-80's. So basically I can effects channel on the laptop and dry video straight from the PR-80's.
One touchscreen controlled all 3 PR-80's so the movies would always start and play at the same speed. They were all connected via a KVM switch so I could control each one independently.
The biggest challenge was creating the movies at 2160x480. Even using a Mac Pro 2.66GHz machine it took a week of rendering. Once the massive movies were complete I had to then break them up into 720x480 videos for the right, center and left screens.
The combination of rendering and loading into the PR's took days. I was still rendering all night in my hotel room. Friday nights show wasn't completely loaded until 10 minutes before the show.
I have to give Ted from Edirol big props for all his help in both the tech assistants and the setup/strike.

Bellingham had just been dumped on by the season's first major snow storm. So major it was setting records and closing schools and business from 2-4 days.
It was questionable how well the festival would be attended, but by Friday night people were ready to go out and get down.
The festival organizers were great hosts and the festival itself was well organized. From the artists to the participants everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
For me the highlight of the show was Kinesthetech Sense, combo dance multi media max patch, camera sensory video delay thingy. check em out at Kinesthetech Sense

Big Thank you- VJ Culture Ranks In The Top 5 VJ's World Wide

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DJ Mag UK Ranks the top 20 VJ's and top 100 DJ's worldwide. (But who really cares about them).
Thanks to your votes, I am up one place from last year's number 6 to number 5.
I personally have not seen a copy here in the US but someone on VJ Forums scanned copies and I'm posting my page here. (Don't let this get back to DJ Mag, they'll sue me!
Three years in a row now. Do ya like the Bling?

The quote they used is kinda cheesy. I wish they would have printed the bio I sent them.
Since they won't publish it I will.

Grant Davis (VJ Culture) gave up his collegiate ideals of working with deaf children 8 years ago when he first experienced a live, immersive, VJ, environment in the Black Rock City desert.
"As a Communications Disorder Specialist, I thought this was a great way to visually interpret music for the deaf", says Grant. Since then, under the name VJ Culture, Grant has provided sight and sound for audience around the world. This year returning from Torino, Italy where he performed 19 shows with the Magnetic Poets during the 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
UK’s DJ Mag has voted VJ Culture among the top 10 VJs in the world for the past two consecutive years.
"I sometimes think of those little, deaf children and what I could have provided for them. However, that small feel-good sensation is no match for the fame, the glitz and the bling. Maybe when my career washes up I'll return to the kids"

Bassnectar video

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Lorin, - Bassnectar asked me to cut a few videos for his Album Mesmorizing the Ultra.
I created the video in spring of 2005 and it has taken this long to get it up.



or you can go here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x3D2IRAWFA

Be The Riottt (Riottt Festival SF)

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First off, checkout www.riottt.com
It's a great new site with a strong vision of underground culture and vision.
With Flavorgroup (www.flavorgroup.com) they organized one of the leading music festivals on the planet for indie/hiphop/punk culture.
The line up was sick and we were commissioned to bring visuals to the main stage at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and the side hip hop room.
The main stage had 15 9x12 screens and 2 15x20ft screens on either side of the stage.
we had 5 different feeds going out to the projectors. One of the feeds coming in was a photo booth located on the dance floor. Guest could have a series of pictures taken (like a photo booth) and then they would get prints of their photos and a wireless transmission of the photo would be sent to the VJ booth and mixed live with the visuals.
Casey Bishop and Pete (from "thisispete) provided the visuals in the hip hop room.
This was a marathon of video mixing. Basically a 11 hour show.
In the Main room Chris from Brotherhood of Light and I held down the main mix for the majority of the day and night.
It took 2 Edirol V4's and 1 Edirol HD440 to pull off the matrix of images.

Minneapolis Red Bull Art of the Can

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The final destination for the Red Bull Art of the Can. This time the exhibit is at the Weisman Museum built by Frank Gehry. This was the easiest of all the installs. Purely a simple two projectors on pipe and base stands and live VJing. The content was combination of 360 rotations of the artwork that had been photographed in months before. We took the individual psd files of each 16th rotation and created full motion video. Then the rest of the content was loaded into the Edirol CG-8 and performed live.

Dallas Red Bull Art of the Can

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Dallas plays host to another Red Bull Art of the Can with a completely fresh take on the visual installations.
For dallas we incorporated two VJ Culture installations and provided live video mixing for the gala party and opener.
In the center of the room were 5 circular screens that were spanned out across two projectors.
I created masks in after effects and used the Matrox videohead 2 go card. (more of a review on that in a few days). The video res size was 1440x480 and the matrox card allowed the quicktime to be played out on an expanded 2048x1536 or something like that. One of the challenges of this installation is that it had to be simple to operate once I was gone. As simple as turn on and launch the file. I used webex remote control desktop software to monitor the computer from my home. That way if there were any problems I could address it from home.
The second installation was a video water fall.
The projector was tilted on its side using a magic arm. Then using a mask I created a downward motion of all the submitted Red Bull art pieces. This was installed in the galleries window and was viewable from both sides.
Guillaume Clave from NYC helped install the system and he VJ'ed at the opening and Gala parties.

From Vegas to Atlanta

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This is going to be a crazy month. Already since I moved from SF to LA I have only been home a week out of a month and a half and by mid Nov. I will have been home 2 weeks out 2 and a half months. I like to travel but I also hear the weather in Santa Monica is beautiful right now and the beaches are spacious and warm...
Anyway, Red Bull has launched for the second year in a row a gallery exhibit called, Red Bull Art of the Can".
Atlanta is the first stop of this 3 city tour which includes Dallas and Minneapolis.
Visit www.redbullartofthecan.com to see photos and the videos we shot of the artists who made amazing pieces with Red Bull Cans.
The day I arrived we were scheduled to start installing that morning. However, a double booking for another event that night meant we had spend another all nighter installing our custom screens and projectors and have it up and running in less than 20 hours.
Toshi Hoo arrived in Atlanta ahead of me and got a lot of the content prep done so the screen install would go a lot smoother. We used after effects to create a mask for each screen. Then we burned the final movies to DVD.

We used a light diffuser material with a combination of fasteners and rocks to assembly the screens. Zach, from the Temple of Gravity and B Complex manufactured the screens.
We also wanted a clean look for the gallery and instead of hanging projectors from traditional clamps and mounts we had the artists from B Complex in Atlanta bend some steel for us and give us a nice ornate end to a pipe and clamp system.
The event was very successful, a great turnout and everything worked.
The exhibit was up from Oct. 14th -31st so the all elements of the insallation had to with stand time and careless visitors.

Still in Vegas---Mercury World

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Even though I didn't get back to the hotel until 10:30AM I had a dress rehearsal for Mercury World w/ the Kenwood Group 3 and half hours later.
It was a very, very difficult rehearsal. I wasn't hitting cues and the band wasn't on top of it. I would have to say it was one of my darkest moments as a VJ.
The rehearsal went until 1:00AM and then I had to go back to Empire Ball Room where I had just mixed last night, or was it this morning, or today.... something like that.
Now Toshi and I had a low-rider convention after-party. Toshi took the brunt of the work since I was so crashed out. We had to work that gig until 4:00AM. What made it even harder is that no one came to their party. It was dead.
So now it's 40 with only 3 hours sleep and now I'm going to crash for 3 hours and do a opening performance at Mercury World with the San Francisco band, "The Mission".
You can see the video of it here.


Jon Schwark Vjon produced the opening and created the majority of the content. I just pushed a few buttons.
Seamless projections spread across 4 screens.
A Spyder system in the back of stage controlled the majority of the show.
The show was a 3 day event, The two final days were with DJ Scientific
Can you believe it, I created a visual mashup for intro to guest keynote speaker Madeleine Albright and CEO of HP Mark Hurd. Quite a twist from the crowd I was working with last night at the low rider after-party

Exprescion Vegas

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Well, I flew from Bozeman to Salt Lake City where I was stuck for 7 hours waiting to catch a connecting flight to Vegas. Since I hadn't sleep from the Hatchfest gig I was very tired but I couldn't sleep because the airline kept moving the flight from terminal to terminal.
When I arrived in Vegas I had to go straight to the venue and start setting up. Toshi Hoo from Hoo Media met me there to help with the show.
We worked until showtime to setup two screens in the main room and 3 screens on the patio outside. Connected to our VJ booth was a photobooth where guest could get there picture taken and the images would be transferred wirelessly to a laptop in our vj booth. Then we would mix the photos in with the set. It worked out very well and as you probably know it was very vegas style.


The party was for Scion, produced by The Flavor Group (SF). It started at 9:00 but at 3:00 a new crowd came in from the late night industry scene. It was a good vibe, the crowd was not my style but it was a good party and the these late night industry people know how to hold there own.... That is until 10:00AM. I don't have any pictures at 10:00AM. It's probably a good thing. I wouldn't want to incriminate anyone. Props to Prem and Louis for their organizational skills (www.flavorgroup.com) and The Do Lab for their creative energy and amazing light art.
AKAirways for the inflatables.

I've know gone 40 hours without sleep and no Methamphetamine. (I don't do that). Not to say these girls would either :-)

Hatchfest 2006 Bozeman MT

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This makes it three!!!
Three years in a row that Hatchfest and Red Bull have invited me back to their amazing audio/visual film festival. I love coming up there, especially this time of year. The leaves are falling and the weather is crisp.
This year Red Bull created lounge environment for panel discussions by day and party by night.
The crew from CTA Architects and Engineers created the environment with 4way stretch fabric. Chris Nowak illuminated the space and I brought in the projections with the help of Red Bull, Aaron Hjelt.

I have to say, Hatchfest did it right. From the full-on Fashion show on Main St. to the all night parties at the lounge.
Yarrow and crew from Hatch worked hard and played hard to. On the final night I had to go to the airport at 5:00AM, that meant I as taking down my projectors while the party was still going on. I had just worked all day and into the night and then the party was still rockin when I left at 5:00AM. I was headed to Las Vegas for a 4 shows in 4 days. That meant I wasn't going to get any sleep for over 40 hours.

Macy's Passport 2006 SF / LA

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Holy smokes! What a rockin good time this was.
I was contracted by Macy's and lowedown FX to VJ the kids dance performance section of Macy's 2006 Passport fashion show.
We had 3 shows in San Francisco and 2 in Santa Monica Ca.
This wasn't your typical put the VJ behind the scenes performance. They rolled by VJ booth out on stage for the segment and then rolled it off.
Macy's really took care of me. My own dressing room, clothing for the show, 3 meals a day for rehearsal and on the final gala night in Santa Monica they had me walk the red carpet. That was straight up surreal. Cameras flashing, everyone yelling, "VJ Culture, VJ Culture, look over here!!" It's kinda funny, I had a handler who guided me to each of the press. I didn't get to speak to ET or Inside Hollywood like Diddy or Sharon Stone, but instead I got to speak to all B rated stations like the Asia Channel, some hispanic station and KCRW radio. Whoever, my photo was on www.celebrityphoto.com/ with the like of Liz Taylor and Sharon Stone, but I think they figured out I'm nobody and pulled the picture after a week.

This was a two week gig when you consider dress rehearsals and performances. It was fun getting to know the crew and models. Speaking of which, those models were smokin!!
I mean hot as in healthy and hot. Since they have an underwear segment to the fashion show they want to make sure these models are emaciated, scurvy lookin girls.
Even the guys were totally buff. I left like I was amongst a race of super humans.
If you look real close you can see I have two video mixing stations on this table.

I had to mix video on the vertical screen as well as the outside horizontal screens at teh same time. I used the MD-1 from Roland to trigger Arkaos running on two different machines and then I slaved one V4 to the other. I used the Edirol PR-80 with both it's firewire ports outputting to both computers running Arkaos. Basically, the same movie would play out through arkaos but with different effects on each screen.

Never mind the butt... This is the only photo I have of the kids that performed on stage will I was mixing video. The crowd on teen night was so loud when these kids came out my whole body was throbbing and I couldn't hear the music.


Here is a link to a utube video of the show.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xB07W0Q5bSY

Love Fest SF 2006

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It's another one of those crazy weekends where you work from Friday morning until Monday morning. Yeah, 36 hours without sleep is normal when it comes to working a Skills party at the Bill Graham Civic Center. Arrive in the morning, work until show-time, mix until the end at 5:00AM and then strike.
This is the second year in a row I've done this show and each time I never get a chance to step outside and see the whole Love Fest (Parade).
Working with me Kev-lar from Lightrhythm Visuals and Chris from Brotherhood of Light.
It's a little hard to tell what's going on here but we had 7 15x20ft screens for the main stage and 3 9x12ft screens in the D&B room.


The intensity of the lasers, lighting and video gave a audience a full on light show.
The message boards after the party were full of compliments and praise.
Lumatech providing the lighting and Skippy from UV99

motion.dive.tokyo demos @ SF Apple Store

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Roland and Apple teamed up Sept. 15th to bring me out to the Apple Store in San Francisco. I performed a short A/V track using only motion.dive to a packed house.
I showcased how one could use Motion and Final Cut to create the mix and motion.dive to perform the mix.



At the end of the evening we raffled off a motion.dive.tokyo package and final cut express.

Fashion Week New York 2006

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view a movie from suspect group here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hT7nEkljmI

Red bull created thier own series of fashion shows during fashion week at the Nokia Theatre in Time Square.
I was asked to create a live video mix before and after the each fashion show.
we shot footage of the show and had it in the mix as the guest were leaving.
Anyone who has ever been to fashion week can tell you. No one sticks around to socialize after the shows. People literally run out the door to catch the next show in Bryant Park.

Xarene designed and built these LED butterflies to illuminate the VJ booth.

I installed my dualview preview monitor system for the vj booth.
It's a light defuser material with a projector hitting it from the back side. I use a quad splitter to preview the images via the projector.
It's a little blown out with the flash

motion.dive.tokyo demos Apple Store SOHO NYC

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Friday Oct. 27th I will be performing and doing demos for motion.dive.tokyo at the SOHO Apple store.
Join me at 8:00PM in the theatre. I will be creating in motion, FCP performing in motion.dive and using the Roland SP-606 sampler to trigger audio and vidoe.

It's been a crazy 2 months

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I have so much to share but no time to update the site. The past two months have been absolutely crazy. Fashion Shows in NYC,San Francisco, Los Angeles and events in Atlanta, Dallas, Vegas and Bozeman. All coming soon with great picutres but probably not until after Nov. 14th. when it all mellows out. (I hope)
Here are a few links to video and photos from others.
Red Bull Designer's Pavilion NYC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hT7nEkljmI
Macy's Passport Show
http://www.ovahere.com/photos/gallerydetail.aspx?ListGroup=0&SearchType=2&ID=1975
LoveFest After Party SF CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52g5ZOUr4FM
Hatchfest Bozeman MT
http://www.hatchfest.com/innovatorslounge.html
Scion's Exprescion event in Vegas
http://www.scion.com/exprescion/
Mercury World Vegas

Red Bull Art of the Can Dallas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/idirtysnowflake/page2/
Red Bull Art of the Can Atlanta
www.redbullartofthecan.com

It's time to vote for the top 20 VJ's again (DJ Mag)

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That's right, leave this page right now and go vote for VJ Culture. It only takes 1 minute, but the rewards for your's truly will last a lifetime.
Go to
http://www.djmag.com/djtech043
and vote right now.
It requires that you put in 5 VJ's if you don't know 5 VJ's then here is a good starter.
All the artists below are on the Lightrhythm Visuals label.
lightrhythm visuals artists include:
VJon - http://vjon.org/
Ben Sheppee - http://www.sheppee.net
Suryummy http://www.suryummy.tv
Spot - http://spotworks.com/
VJ Culture - http://vjculture.com/
Nate Pagel - http://natepagel.home.mindspring.com/WED/
VJ Kevlar - http://www.lightrhythmvisuals.com
Brian Clark - http://www.myspace.com/controlmachine1
V Squared Labs - http://www.vsquaredlabs.com
MMM - http://www.htmmm.com
Shinji Marukoshi - http://www.audiovisual.jp
VJ Anyone - http://www.anyone.org.uk
VJ Oxygen - http://www.videology.nl
C-TRL labs - http://www.c-trl.com
Positron - http://www.positrongraphic.com
Addictive TV http://www.addictive.com
VJ Reel - http://www.insector-labo.org/
Flapper3 - http://www.flapper3.com
D:Fuse - http://www.dfuse.com
Brien Rullman - http://www.ovtvisuals.com/
Benton C - http://www.benton-c.com
Pixelshifter - http://pixelshifter.nl
Rob Loren - http://www.robloren.tk/
Alex Sondregger - http://www.so-ba.cc
Xnographix - http://www.xnografikz.com
Tom Wall - http://www.lightrhythmvisuals.com
Jon Riche - http://www.rabbitandnimrod.com

Please support us with your vote - and send this email to your favourite people. thanks for the effort. lightrhythm visuals


...Then come back and read the rest. I have been so busy the past 3 months, I haven't had time to update the blog. I promise I will.

motion.dive Demos and performance at the Apple Store SF Sept. 15

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Visit
http://www.apple.com/retail/confirmations/week/20060910.html
Friday Sept. 15th 7:00PM
I will be showing end users how they can edit in Final Cut, create in motion and perform in motion.dive.tokyo.
Please come early as seating is limited.
Apple and Roland will be giving away a copy of Final Cut Express and a motion.dive.tokyo console.
Great free gifts for VJ's so please, please show up. We wouldn't want some joe-shmoe who came in to the store check his email walking away with a motion.dive.tokyo Console.
For those on the East coast I will be performing at the Apple store in SOHO New York on Oct. 27th.
Also, you can find out where to vote for your favorite VJ for this year's DJ Mag top 20 VJ contest. (Hint Hint)

VJ Battle Results From Maker Faire

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Things have been very busy in here at VJ Culture Central. Lots to report on and lots of great happenings from the past and in the future.
But first please take a look at the post write up Paul Spinrad posted about the VJ Battle back in April 2006
It was a very close battle and I was impressed with the quality of work.
You can find it here.

http://www.makezine.com/pub/ev/319
http://www.archive.org/details/Maker_Faire_VJ_Clips
When I did a search for vj battle maker faire this link came up.
http://www.blog.dreamaddictive.com/category/vj/

NYC Remix Hotel June 23rd-25th

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I will be working with Apple and Roland at Remix Hotel NYC. checkout www.remixhotel.com
Daily demos (Around 5:00PM) on Motion Dive, FCP and tips and tricks for using Quartz Composer with Motion Dive.
Checkout all the gear by the music industry leaders.

New content for an Immersive environment

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For the Red Bull Ascension party I re-used some content from another installation I did about 5 years ago. In the top picture you see a women painted gold. She is rotating on a motorized table. I then built a cube that rotates and the same speed as the table she is sitting on. Then I use two projectors to project at perpendicular angles onto the screen. The material on the cube is translucent enough to give images on all four sides.
When the viewer walks underneath the cube the illusion of the cube rotating and the women rotating is a very interesting effect.

For Ascension I re-composed the video in After Effects and created 4 versions. Some of them are vertical. Each movie played on a DVD player at the same time on different screens around the room.

Beck Summer Tour Santa Cruz

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Okay, I know my camera sucks. It's LCD screen is broken and it is the only preview on the camera. Not to mention low night shots are blurry.
Santa Cruz was the final stop on this leg of the tour. It was a full day setup. We had the time to really dial it in.
It was also our best show yet, at least for the video crew. We nailed, it was a very good feeling. Lighting was right, keith on camera got every shot and all the cues were nailed.
After the show the crew got on the bus and drove down to LA. I caught a ride back up to San Francisco with Sean Cooper.