PB Wolf's new video-DJ set?
tonyphrone
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Who's seen this? From him it could be 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3idZjxhzLQ&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aBQ5YJjYZY&mode=related&search=
I don't think these clips really show what he's probably doing. I didn't go to the show. I don't know, maybe it's just basically blends and juggles with the videos.
Technology is moving too quick to keep up with it.
It's funny to hear everyone sing along on the Pharcyde video. This last clip has some great crowd reaction too. Pretty funny that PBW played this at a big hip hop show, but props to him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fixAbM1EDb4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-w7aYK5asA
i saw his live set using the vj thingamajig a little while back. it's cool to watch this stuff for like 10 mins. if you had the time to overdub video clips with different beats and shit it would be dope for provinding visuals for blends and stuff, but the scratching novelty wears off really quick for me.
not dissing, just saying.
Technology's a motherfuck.
i just saw it the other night but madib canceled, so the show was not as good as it could have been.
None the less Percee p was enough to make my 8 bucks worth it (8 because of madlib no show)
I would say if you have the oppurtunity it is worth it:
chicago, detriot, toronto, montrael, boston, NYC, philadelphia, baltimore 28th-6th right now!
And i dont go to many show because they are usually lame.
i bet the technology available today makes it aloooot easier to do.
Nothing too mindbending about the tech but it was alright. PBW show is always a great night anyways.
I saw his set at the Apple store in SF. I've seen Shadow us the video scratching thing before. Wwwwway too gimmicky. The problem is with skratching you're typically just playing with a fraction of a second of sound. Well, a fraction of a second of video being skratched is just annoying. Basically seeing someone go backwards and forwards quickly. It would be cool if someone loaded up hundreds of music videos and played a whole set with them but then people would be too distracted and not dancing.
Most of the custom made stuff I've seen being played behind DJs just amounts to a motion collage. Like people masturbating with Adobe After Effects (or whatever they use). I don't think I've ever seen video used at a show which left me genuinely impressed.
I watch plenty of TV at home, why would I want to
watch TV when I'm at a club?
I wouldn't shed one tear in bucket over this...
Just saying it ain't my thing.
But we all know there's no accounting for taste.
That wasn't directed to you. It just so happened you were the last person to post and I responded.
The whole thing is not a big deal to me, but people try to find ways to entertain people and it seems like you gotta light yourself on fire just to impress people. It's never enough.
I guess it's easy to sit and watch a minute long youtube clip and critique someone.
..It would be cool if someone loaded up hundreds of music videos and played a whole set with them but then people would be too distracted and not dancing.
...Most of the custom made stuff I've seen being played behind DJs just amounts to a motion collage. Like people masturbating with Adobe After Effects (or whatever they use). I don't think I've ever seen video used at a show which left me genuinely impressed.
You kind of answered your 2nd point with your 1st. I think the reason so much of it falls into early 90's "visualization" film clip steeze, is because anything more notable DOES stop people from dancing. So its kind of a fine line you walk between making something cool, and making something that overshadows the act you are trying to compliment (ie the sound element)
Yeah, didn't they actually develop their own software for it back then?
Are you thinking about setting yourself on fire!
Now that would be a DJ set worth seeing!
all in all technology sucks. mothers of invention are all rolling in there graves.
did someone say fire???
Bah! Been done...
within a few years, every major club is gonna have a setup that allows you to incorporate video. dvjs are expensive but Microwave will eventually allow u to use video, some of their competitiors already do.
i'm looking forward to seeing dudes get more creative with this.
word. Dj Yoda is touring with a VJ set too. It's a bit better than PBW's set cos Yoda has his own videos for each of his tunes. I was plastered so u cant remember it too good but it was pretty dope. I think.
I agree though in general VJ sets aren't all that, it'll probably die out in a couple years
Okay, the Oh Face was pretty funny....
People will stop dancing or stop feeling/focusing on the music regardless of what's put on the screen unless it's some totally ambient Winamp/laser-show type display. A better way to phrase it would be that I've never seen anything that was worth distracting the crowd over.
At any rate the Blaxploitation, Bollywood, Evil Knievel shit has got to go.
Have you ever been to a Stones Throw show?
...or get some guys into self mutalation to jab meat hooks thru their backs and kneecaps and swing from the rafters a'la dibbs.
fun shit.
Yeah. I believe it came with a cd or some sh*t right? I have no further info on that, just a vague recollection..
Yeah the VJ things sucks for the most part. but give it a little time. people will learn to flip it. What you need is Microwave w/ video, each music file has highly edited footage tailored to the music , hundreds of files and skilled djs doing doubles, etc of the tune/highly developed video piece.
Right now it's mad crude cause the relationship between the music and image is arbitrary. a clip pasted on.
Basically I think we're in the Atari stage of VJing right now.
got bored reeeal quick tho..gimmicks.