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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/

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 ..

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?

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

Read more about it here:

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

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)

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

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:

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 

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

Some konow I am a big friend of mindmapping, and use it daily for brainstorms,list,project planning and more with tools like Mindmanager, and Freemind. I looked for a while for online apps, with let me do mindmapping online.
Just found this promissing WEB2.0 online application, still in private beta : mindmeister.com

I received my beta account today and already love it. Still think that flash and flex might be better for this than DHTML and javascript but I must say the team at mindmeister did a good job using javascript.

Check out  www.mindmeister.com and aplly for a beta account.

After we have heard of remote control VJ applications like Resolume with PocketPCs,
here an interesting take on mobile VJ remote control.

This crew is developing a project where the Ninetendo DS is used as VJ remote for VVVV patches. VVVV is a modula VJ tool I still have to check out properly.

Read more here:

http://www.zive.at/ndsvisuals/

While we are at Ninetendo and VJing, plase check out this project too:

http://gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=1318

This guy called pikilipita is using a Ninetendo Gameboy Advance and custom software for VJing, and in this case the VJ content is generated by the gameboy advance too.

Mobile Vjing is definely coming on slowly. REtinafunk crew really looks forward to

the day where we can remote control out set from the dancefloor using some similar solution.Yeah ..no more hiding behind the VJ PCs.