SHACKLETON live in Salon des Amateurs tonight

How could one miss this great liveact, and any Version party is not to be missed either.
Hope to see you there:

I will come after the Sonic Youth gig in 3001.

VERSION presents:

friday 24th april 2009

SHACKLETON (skull disco, hotflush, scape)
ORSON (version)

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=78850versionflyer

Online QR Code Generator

A have found a great online generator for QR bar codes:
Chec it out here: http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
You now a QR Code is  this square barcodes you point your mobile phone cam to and you are taken instantly to a URL ( and much more) .

More Info on Woipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

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Here is a QR Bar Code I generated for this blog URL.

qrcode

Just point your mobile phone camera at this code and this blog will open in your phone web browser.

Of course you need a QR Code Reader Application for you mobile phone.

I found one for my Nokia 5800 here: http://www.upc.fi/en/upcode/download/

Even if my phone was not on the list of supported phones I was able to install it ( despite the warnings thatn my phone model is not compactible)

and it was running fine in a few minutes. I tested with several codes I found on the web and it works fine.

Shrooms - a trippy horror movie

http://www.shroomsthemovie.com

http://tech.wapline.net/2007/11/20/shrooms-get-ready-to-get-wasted/

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/04/23/the-tripper-writer-director-david-arquette-interviewed/

Pocket Vj anyone? - pocket video projector

po<ckteproj

a new tiny video projector from Japan..could be useful for VJ exercises in the train LOL

check it out on the product site !

or more seriously for demoing your VJ skills to promoters on a tent .

For individual use this Head mouted display seems better ..

HDM

thats foto looks funny .. so the wife can wathc TV now even mor eisolated from tha man..which girl did not wait for this item?

Dubstep Party on December 14 in Düsseldorf

As Dubstep is one of my favourite music style lately I am very happy to find out that local Dubstep Here Orson, is doing another event this December in Salon des Amateurs , one of Düsseldorfs finest clubs and my favourite location ..this time featuring Benni ILL from UK, after SKREAM and DIGITAL MYSTIKZ mashed up the place.

I highly recommend this event , and everyone who was at the last Dubstep Partys in Salon des Amateurs

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Read more about it here:

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=30448

VJ event in Düsseldorf : Lighbreaks

lightbreaks

http://www.lightbreaks.de/

This Saturday there is a interesting VJ / live visuals event / party in our city , Düsseldorf feturing 6 local VJ crews , as well as 3 DJs. Nice too see a event where the VJs are more important than the DJs .

We ( Me and Hannes) will be there for sure to check out the work other VJ Crews from Düsseldorf .

Same night our own Retina FUnk crew member Astrid a.k.a. VJ inmotion will do a solo VJ set at this psy trace party ,which is happening in Düssedorf too ( just around the corner)

magic mushrooms banned soon in Netherlands

You may have heard already that now the dutch want to really ban the sale legal magic mushrooms in smartshops:

Read more about it here:

and here:

And yes , some smart people reacted and protested last weekend

against this stupid laws , read more here and watch a video :

Dutch protest against mushroom ban

And for all of you you say this has nothing to do with VJ and visuals,

here is a link to creating 3D mushroom models with 3D Max

Cool interactive visual installation mode with ADOBE flash and wii controllers

installation
The talented flash developers at BLITZ in L.A. created a great interactive video wall installation for ADOBE events.
The project , which allows uers to “paint” 3D particles and strokes on a transparent projection wall using 2 nintendo Wii controllers,
is a flash application in HD resolution. It uses flash actionscript and the groundbreaking Papervision3D engine.
The results are posted to flickr:
Read more about this project here: http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=389
Check out a video:


and some images of the artworks produced at flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blitzagency/

article on the future of Adobe Flash platform

Here is a interesentuing read about the Flash platform way to ubiquity  and invisibility, and about Microsofts Silverlight and Suns JavaFX.
As they say,  “The step after ubiquity is invisibility”.

Anyway a interesing article for people whos job is web developer and flash :
Read it here:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070629_002360.html 

new tiny japanese Head-Mounted Display

japanese Head-Mounted Display

A new tiny japanese Head-Mounted Display  might come out in 2008 fro the consumer market.

if this really hits the market next year it could be a big success.
This Head-Mounted Display from Japan might be the ultimate preview monitor for VJs,as well as great for lots of other uses, like watching movies with your mobile video player or ipod.
Read and see more about the new HMD in this article here (in German)

http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/90021

I will look out for some article in english