BD4D London
- Started
- Last post
- 83 Responses
- SlashPeckham
Who's down?
- paraselene0
i don't know what that means.
is it your birthday?
- paraselene0
never mind. i'm an idiot. i need to stop minimizing my bloody nt windows to hide them from my boss...
- determinedmoth0
paraselene momentarily goes blond...
How was it? ;)
- paraselene0
friday of our agm week. this means that we have all been completely shitfaced in the office for five full days now and this time i think i might have killed some of the more useful brain cells.
and in two hours i have to go set up to do the visuals in the chill room of a 5000-person rave and you can't just leave your machined suspended from bloody cradles thirty feet in the air and go home to bed, so i usually end up staying until the boys stop running me over and lend me one of the three sodding ladders they keep at the venue and i can get my projector and my leads and go home to bed at about 11am.
so, yeah, i've been less tired before, but i'm too tired to remember when.
sorry for being schtoopid.
- SlashPeckham0
you need an E
- paraselene0
tell me about it, mate!
anyway, the lineup looks good! and it's only a fiver, so result. i'd really like to go.
- vespa0
sounds like fun para! how are you doing that then? ive always wondered what software people use to vj with...
yea a fiver is pretty good.
But semi-permanent looks teh haute! mk12 and lobo!
*drools on keyboard
- kungfukid0
i agree with vespa, but the barbican is awfully depressing – although there are more bars in the vicinity decisions....
- vespa0
waddaya mean! i love the barbican! it's like being in planet of the apes (the original).
but i love the ica too. speaking of which, is it onedotzero time again yet?
- kungfukid0
oh i think it be 1.0 time again. anyone know who's doing the club night?
- paraselene0
the barbican is wicked, i don't know what you're talking about. and i'm looking at the damn thing right now! it's nice and close.
i used to use a program called arkaos, which is really easy to navigate and works really well. you can use the keyboard to run it, but i find it's nicer to plug in a midi keyboard.
these days (since my major raver arsenals are all still living in the states) i've been pre-loading dvds with stuff and just letting them go. it means a lot more prep and it's less fun, but i'm slowly learning final cut well enough to have more freedom with my work and it also frees me up to enjoy the party rather than being tethered to the vj booth all night long.
it's much less of a performance, which i miss, but the kind of stuff i'm doing these days isn't really dependent upon the music (although i miss that interaction with the dj quite a lot). i've been getting back into rave decor as well, which is, in part, where the real fun is to be had!
i'd like to do it all, basically. but the raves i've been working here are soooooooo big. it's a few hundred people putting this stuff together. not so much the crew of thirty or so that would work on the parties i used to do on the west coast. different vibe completely.
sorry again, people! i just went off the path totally.
- vespa0
i had no idea you were into all that para! i even posted on here a few times asking people for tips and shit cos i was meant to do some shizzle at glasto this year and had no clue (but it fell through anyway so pas de bo'er)
i've been poking about with mapping different sound frequencies to keyframes in aftereffects, amazing what you can do, wish there was some way of doing that live without having to render it out. i'm sure there's software specifically for that purpose but i bet you can't get the control you can in ae...
- determinedmoth0
wtf...
- vespa0
who do you do this with para? and when are you playing next (apart from tonight)
we should definately hook up for onedotzero 'k?
anyway gotta jet cos something is broken on this weird broadcast machine i've been operating, it's a Clarity which is meant to be an "extremely advanced broadcast graphic system" but it's a bit of a pig to operate. grr and gnn. have a good long weekend!!
- determinedmoth0
I was all up for this until their stupid website got in the way.
FREE SIGNUP
ERROR! PLEASE SIGN IN TO REGISTER
Sign in with what? Registration?!
Sign in, register, then sign-UP, then that doesn't guarantee me a seat?
Come on...
- determinedmoth0
Terrible.
I'll go and heckle. That's the single most confusing experience on the web I ever had.
More confusing than that girl who was actually a guy...
- milo0
I just rang up the ICA & ordered a couple of tickets to collect on the door...
- soda0
i'm going to go... so can we buy tickets before or not?
- Kiko0
Im up for that!!!
see you all there. But I dont know how Im meant to recognise you all.
- determinedmoth0
i'm going to go... so can we buy tickets before or not?
soda
(May 13 05, 04:30)Haven't a clue. I gave up.
Guess the ICA is the way forward.