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Visit our MySpace page - the heavy Networking goes on there cos it's easier than updating the site. Or MyTribe - same kinda thing.

vj resources - community

VJCentral.com - Hundreds of hardware and software reviews and a warm, helpful community supportive of all levels of VJ from newbies to expert level. Their vjforums.com is especially helpful.

ProjectorCentral.com - find out about any digital projector on the market, compare specs etc.

Software VJ - compare all the major VJ softwares available. Awesome resource - so simple, and yet so useful.

NoTV.com - VJ loops, DVDs of 'visual music', a feast of material from a number of the world's best VJs. Based in the Netherlands.

audiovisualizers.com - another great place to see other VJ's work, swap loops, research VJ hardware & software etc. The intro page truly sucks, but the site's packed full of useful info.

Addictive.com - aka Addictive TV. Produce the must-see Mixmasters series of VJ showreels. UK based

vj resources - software

See also software page from our workshops

SoftwareVJ - Great site to compare different VJ softwares.

VirtualDub.org - Video editing freeware that we prefer to expensive programs like Premiere. It's easy to use and runs really smoothly on our WinXP machine. For example we can scroll frame by frame with the Mouse, and set additional mouse buttons to '50 frames forward' etc. The range of filters developed by a network of freeware supergeeks is awesome.

Resolume.com - Excellent VJ software. After giving a bunch of different VJ programs a decent trial, we settled on this one as the best match for our needs. At about $300 it's very good value for money, and pretty stable. They also have a page full of links to the best VJ content available on the web.

Freeframe.org - Some are free, some perhaps should be called Payframes... Freeframe Plugins are natty little effects add-ons that work in a bunch of programs such as Resolume, After Effects, Premiere etc. Inde developers rock!

Sygyzy Freeframe Effects - Developer of some of our favourite Freeframe Plugins. Some are free, but the "Hold On, Wait a Minute" pack is definitely worth the $50 or so if you use still images in your VJ sets. Eg, for basic functions like fading between stills that, sadly, Resolume can't (yet) do by itself. Also home of the wacky Pop Art filter Warhol - cunningly hidden for free in the demo pack for their Chromatic Aberrations Pack.

inside-us-all.com - Our favourite Payframes :) These are just THE best Freeframe Plugins if, like us, you like to seriously crapify your footage. For 70 Euros you can get a pack of over 20 Plugins that, for example, turn your perfectly good, clear 3CCD video footage into the most grungy, badly-synched pixellated mess that you've seen since the 1980's when you were using a coathanger as an aerial on your cheap TV.

Tucows @ Arach.net.au - The Perth server (and our trusty recommended local ISP) where you can download lots of programs such as Winamp, the freeware music visualiser that you need to use the Milkdrop Plug-in.

ElectricSheep.org - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Our computers do.... Also, creator of the Electric Sheep, VJ Spot's excellent DVD is definitely worth the purchase price: spotworks.com

Milkdrop.co.uk - this is a Winamp Visualiser Plug-in that requires a pretty good graphics card and fast computer to run well, but looks a hundred times better than older-style music visualisations. And it's FREE! If you can't afford a VJ, get this for your club or party.

TreyHarrison.com - new 3D rendering program by an inde developer that's definitely worth a try. Only currently available as a beta-test on application, Salvation looks very promising. I think we'll be adding it to our (small) repetoire of programs we actually USE on an ongoing basis. You can even 3D-ify video files, and it's very easy on the RAM. Unfortunately, will currently only run on WinXP.

vj resources - content

Archive.org - the Prelinger archives is an invaluable resource. Thousands of old ads, short movies, showreels etc. Free to the public! There are also full Feature Films - public domain and available online for free, even including such well-known movies as Reefer Madness and Night of the Living Dead.

Edison Motion Pictures - similar to above, a huge range of historical footage.

The American Memory Collection - even more of the above! An awesome service provided by the US Govt in the name of preservation of vintage films.

SpaceTelescope.org - the European site for the Hubble Space Telescope. Great animations, free for public broadcast.

Audiovisualizers.com - Great resource, especially their content-exchange system. You give one demo reel of VJ loops, you get 15 back! Or you can just buy the content. They're also the definitive place to read VJ software reviews.

Altavista.com/video/ - Search the web for video files by subject. Of course, then ask the content owners for their permission to use it for VJing :)

other vj's

perth

melbourne

Thanks to the weekly Plug n Play, and the fact that they have a VJ club and ACMI, Melbourne really is producing Australia's best VJs.

jean poole - aka Sean Healy, founder of the Electrofringe Festival, now a key player in the documentation and contextualisation of the live video performance scene in Australia.

dpwolf - his blog's a great insight into the Melbourne VJ scene. Along with Jean Poole, really key in helping live video performance art to gain credence as a legitimate artform in Australia.

sydney

Severed Heads - legend of the Aussie AV scene Tom Ellard. I'm sure he's sick to death of his big 1980's hit "Dead Eyes Opened" but we remember it fondly and he's still AWESOME live.

nine09.net/spook/ - Sydney-based international jetsetter type VJ with a very pretty site - great hardware section.

morphvisual.com - very active in the international VJ scene, does huge gigs and is an all-round nice guy.

tesseract research laboratories - legendary in the Aussie AV scene. Like us, they're a couple who collaborate with others. They're also more interested in innovative arts-based projects than limiting themselves to being Club VJs. Whereas we do 'Video Painting', they do 'Screen Sculptures'. They've been performing live visuals since 1997!

brisbane

musiqforpleasure.com - featuring the friendly Jaymis who likes our glitch clips

united kingdom

lucidhouse.com - another Resolume VJ whose work we just love.

united states

forwardmotiontheater.org - organisers of New York's legendary Eyewash.

wetcircuit.com - Supastah VJ Holly Daggers

spotworks.com - Scott Draves - creator of Electric Sheep

spain

solu.org - Mia Makela, Finnish VJ and video artist, based in Barcelona, Spain.

local (Perth, Western Australia) links

music

  • loungerama.com - Looking for a DJ for your party in Perth? Jim does great bollywood and nu-jazz DJing in particular.
  • martianmethod.com - a fab new way to sell your music online without those pesky record companies calling the shots.
  • retroactive events - Very cool underage events in Perth, Western Australia
  • musicaustralia.org - lots of resources about Australian music, archival information etc
  • inthemix.com.au - dance music info for all around Australia
  • the dwarf - Aussie online gig listings.

AV hire, lighting, etc

Staging Connections - Lighting, events and stage management etc in Perth, throughout Australia and Asia. Generous sponsors of the 2006 Perth Massive. We did the West Coast Eagles event at AGWA with them.

Austage - We worked with them on the 2006 WABAPA Awards at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and couldn't have asked for a for friendly, collaborative and professional AV supplier.

AAA Productions, who we also worked with at WABAPA.

C&C Productions - Lighting, rigging and stage management for large-scale events in Perth

illusion lighting - Excellent for private parties in Perth, good rates and great to work with.

events management

Staging Connections do a great job of managing events both large and small, both in Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Neill Gladwin - we worked with freelance Event Director Neill on the fabulous WABAPA event and enthisiastically recommend him to anyone looking to organise an event in Australia.

other resources

ettrick audio visual - Grant Ettrick is a master with repairing audio equipment and vintage electronic doodads. Did a much better job of repairing our broken Fairlight CVI than the company who charged us three times as much. He really knows his stuff, and has an awesome collection of vintage audio equipment of his own.

stateproaudio.com.au - "Meeting your PA and other pro sound needs in Perth"

Toll Priority - the couriers we use and recommend. Got our monster projector from Sydney to Perth quickly, safely and at a very good price.

VJzoo are grateful to our generous supporters:
Plaza Digital - Best Service in Perth for Camera Video Computer
Government of Western Australia
ArtsWA - Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts TDK Australia
Microcinema  International - the Art of the Moving Image

.... and our families :)

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