Mal was schönes

Es geschehen ja auch hin und wieder mal echt gute Dinge. Dank VJ Jules aus Berlin hatte ich das Vergnügen auf der CSD-Lesbenparty im ehemaligen Club Maria am Ostbahnhof zu spielen. Als Mann der ich nunmal bin war es zwar am Anfang ein komisches Gefühl dennoch wurde ich mehr als positiv Überrascht. Veranstalterin, Crew und alle Beteiligten Künstler waren sehr Herzlich. Vielen Dank dafür.

Das zweite schöne ist die Bekanntschaft mit VJKS einer jungen Künstlerin aus Australien. Über Umwege wurde ich gefragt ob ich ihr ein wenig meiner Spielzeit im RAW Tempel abgeben würde. Auch wenn ich eher schlechte Erfahrungen mit sowas hab bin ich froh das ich 3 Stunden abgegeben hab. Neben dem sehr netten Kontakt ist es auch immer wieder ein gutes Gefühl jemandem einen Gefallen zu tun denn nichts ist wichtiger als Übung egal wie lange man schon dabei ist... Ich freue mich schon auf ein wiedersehen dann im Suicide Circus ebenfalls in Berlin.

Liebe Veranstalter...

Mal ehrlich! Welcher DJ ist eine überzogene Gage heute überhaupt noch wert? Nicht das es Ausnahmekünstler gibt. Aber die meisten DJs spielen heute nur noch Mittelmaß und kommen nicht mit schweren Plattenkisten sondern teilweise nur noch mit 2 USB-sticks. Ok man muss mit der Zeit und der Technik gehen aber deswegen gleich 500 Tacken für lumpige 2 Stunden manchmal schlechte mp3 Mucke abspielen? Wenn man dann als VJ angefragt wird von eben solchen DJs denen ein Clip zu machen und man möchte dafür sagen wir 250 kleine Euros haben, schön mit Rechnung dann schütteln die den Kopf und melden sich nicht mal mehr... von den Veranstaltern will ich gar nicht reden...die wollen nen Mercedes bei den visuals und wollen gerade mal ein gebrauchtes Mofa bezahlen.

So kann es nicht weitergehen. Liebe Veranstalter, Booker und liebe DJs und Produzenten... Qualität kann man bezahlen und sie muss nicht sehr Teuer sein. Bitte bedenkt das der VJ in der Regel die ganze Nacht in eurem Club ist oder 1-2 Tage und mehr an einem Video schneidet. Eine Handwerkerstunde kostet auch 60 € - EINE STUNDE!!! und das was wir machen ist nichts anderes als Handwerk und ihr jammert meistens nur rum.

Noch interessanter wird es wenn wir für das bisschen am besten noch 3 Beamer und 100m Kabel und Leinwände mitbringen sollen... dann müssen wir vor der Veranstaltung aufbauen und danach wieder Abbauen.... Liebe Freunde DAS geht so nicht!!!

Noch etwas. Wir wollen nicht in irgendeine kleie Ecke gesteckt werden wo wir nicht gesehen werden oder nichts von der Party sehen. Am besten ist ein Platz neben dem DJ. Dann sehen wir was er macht und können entsprechend mit den Visuals reagieren. Wenn ihr dann noch sparsam mit dem nebel umgeht und euer Lichtmensch keine Pfeife ist die den ganzen abend nur programmiertes Licht laufen lässt dann kann es ein unvergessliches Fest werden!

Veranstalter gegen VJ - Immer das selbe...

Kyle von VJ Loops bringt es mit diesem kleinen Video auf den Punkt. Das kuriose ist das ich das in etwa so vor genau einer Woche erlebt habe... dabei frage ich mich ernsthaft wie wer hier in den Gefilden in denen ich Fische größer ist als einige der Ed Bangerleute oder DJ's von Boyze Noise. Ich habe das zweifelhafte Glück mit fast allen ganz großen schon gespielt zu haben aber scheinbar sind die Berliner Local größen noch größer also die Weltweit erfolgreichen.



Danke Kyle für diese sehr lustige Zusammenfassung.. :D

Retina Error @ Tresor Berlin

Hey Folks,
long time since the last poast again.At the moment there is just to much to do around me. But here I have two clips for you showing a bit from my performance at the well known Tresor in Berlin. It was at the Visualberlin Festival and I played besides DJ Fassa Ben. Look for youself:

What is the difference?

http://www.respectyourvj.net/

Hey folks. it's time to wirte somethin again. I had some busy weeks... lot's of gig and other stuff to do. No I don't wanna complain about it just about the promoters again... Ok, small locations just don't have the budget to rent or buy some pro videobeamer or a screen. but the big ones... and than telling us "no mony" I played at a festival last weekend and I know that screen for tripplehead and beamer where writen on the techrider. At the maintent it was ok. 4 pro-screens and really bright beamer and a show done by the guys from visual drugstore. I like there style but at the second tent the screen was just some white fabric eating the light from the beamer. no real vj budget a small corner beside the stage... (at the maintent was much more) what does VD do better? Nothing! Just the name?!?
I did a tripleheadshow wich looked much better than expected with this crappy screen.. It's ok with me cause the VJ who had to rig this and is a friend and I know how much work he had. I guess it's just because it was a tent maintained by a local booking and event agency. Another bad thing is... a promoter just called to say I should bring beamers and screen with me to a open air... And it was clearly said: I just come and plug in! Am I such a diva that I just ask for a better treatment by some promoters... It's always the same... djs come with there usb sticks 2 hrs and getting the big cash and most of us vjs still come early riggin our stuff and de-riggin it after the show... hmm I'm a traveling vj and this is just not possible! I really just can say READ THIS!

Golden Toys - Party and Jive

Here is the official videoclip for Golden Toys track "Party and Jive" It's also the first track released ever on the leipzig based label Dusted Decks Records

Matrox MXO2-Mini review for VJs

144m² LED Facade

That's a think I really wanna have here in my city... ;)

Langarita–Navarro Arquitectos‘ Led wall at the Medialab-Prado in central Madrid is an interactive façade that aims to be a space for exchange and communication with both visitors and locals, a commission by the Madrid Town Council to develop social interaction and to offer a new digital landmark for their city which is often so closely guarded from development. 144m2 of wall space is covered with some 35,000 Led nodes that are configured to allow both still and moving imagery, allowing the wall, with it’s simple traditional madrileño definition to come alive with psychedelic imagery. (via http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com)

A Happy New Year

Hey Mates,

first of all I wanna wish you a happy new year with lots of fun and a lot of nice partys and shows and all around. May god bless you.

So whats going on? I'm going to go back to normal and publish more regulary than the last couple of days aaaand i just realized that I'm nearly 18 years in electronic dance music and in my 10th year of doing live visuals. In fact I also become 30 this year so there will be some celebration in the middle of the year. But until that I'll do some nice shows and will work even more harder at my skills. I hope to find allways good infos for you.

Since I'm planing to go to b-seite festival in mannheim I'm going to work out a little workshop about creating widescreen content for panorama projections and I'm designing a custom midicontroller for the use with resolume avenue at the moment. Ok, thats pretty enough for this year. Just hope that I may play at a place that has such a LED driven dancefloor...

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a very merry christmas. God bless you all.

Something stupid...

So guys and gals...
 this weekend will be Visualisation Festival and I'm invited. Hope it will be fun in any way. Meeting other vjs maybe learning new stuff and doing a fuckin awsome show on saturday. just hope that I dont have to play toooooo early... Now while I'm checking my case and stuff a nice clip I found on tube...

Videopong just another videoportal?

Just found VIDEOPONG.NET while surfing the net on my morningcoffee. What's that? Just another videocommunity such as youtube& co? I guess NO! It's to share and remix clips and for all of us a must to check it. Videopong is specifically designed for VJs and video artists, and offers besides the usual upload options the following advanced options:

•  The download of the unchanged original clip is possible, if the owner allows.
•  The clips are published under Creative Commons licenses, which allow remixing (creativecommons.org).Users can choose between different licensing options.
•  Remixes can be linked to the source clip: Thus, the remix chain keeps visible and understandable
•  Videopong is completely ad-free and works as non-profit organization
•  The direct download of a specially converted Clipformat for VJ tools is possible
•  Users take an active part in the development process.
•  A portable take-away Server (see Glossary) for VJ festivals and events without Internet access that offers the functionality of Videopong locally 

Make sure you check it out. can be fun anyway. Thanks for reading.

Whats going on with the promoters?

It seems that some promoters just going back in there developement. All I see at events this days are bad adjusted projetions out of the box. They even never heard something about keystone and imagequality.
It's just pain in my eyes to see that. So if you don't wanna spend the fee for a decent vj than just turn the beamers off. It's better if there is nothing projected than showing crap! And yes, I know 90% of the guests just don's pay attention to the screens... at least not active. but some will and they talk about it. It's just a bit of an extra eyecandy... but I like it a lot!

And now just a nice and creative new week to all my readers.

Calender by german printservice druckerei.de

The german printservice druckerei.de is just publishing a big wallcalender called web2010. I like the idea pretty much and the best: they give it away if you blog or twitt about this little wanna have thing... So my dear druckerei: here I blogged and I tweeted please send me such a calender cause I need it soooo much.

interview w/ AntiVJ, Grant Davis and VJ Spetto (Brazil)

This was shoot at the Red Bull House of Art just before the AntiVJ workshop. AntiVJ is quit known for some mappings and installations. just tube him or look at his vimeo account.

I just found at the A/V Cultur Blog

Devons trip to Kazantip

Here is a nice Video done by Devon Miles. He was at Kazantip vjing... would love to vj there as well..

Metropia - A film made in After Effects

Hey friends what's up today?
I hope you all had a nice weekend. I had that's for sure. Anyway just found a nice trailer of the Film Metropia and just asking myself how was it done. After a pretty short session at my favorite search engine I found out about it. It's made completly in my weapon of choice After Effects. It's a bit of 2D, 3D and some photorealisitk film. I like the look Isak Gjertsen and his team created with a 3 million Euro budget. It's worth having a look on it. trust me.

N.A.S.A: Tom Waits and Kool Keith “Spacious Thoughts”

When it comes to animated musicvideos this on is pretty much what I call well done. Not only the motion design itself no the music is also great. So watch it...

Sorry for not Updating

Hey Dudes,

sorry for not updating Seen:By for the last 2 days. I just had a so damn bad internetconnection that it was not fun surfing the net. Next Update will be during the day.

For those interested in Told:By inerviews this weekend it's time for Devon Miles a grand VJ living in Leipzig and traveling around. So stay tuned and come back regulary for new inspiration. Cheers to all.

Here is my first clip done with trapcode plugins in AE