AVIT Announce - Thank You!

[spark]

Immense amount of positivity all round!

Thanks to all involved and all who turned up, and remember - this is only the beginning!

We've got document the day, and get it all to ya'... from new vj resources for VJC to edits of the most immersive vj environment i've certainly seen heh heh!

So wanna meet some VJs in a town near you...? AVIT IT!

We could only have done this with all the energy from all involved - who it can be said now are a _real community of selfless and sorted people - vjs rock!

Cheers,

Toby & Unj

[spark]

ps - tell us what you thought!

we all need to learn what was good and what we could have done better, it was a first on a thousand counts and, well, we've never done something like this before.

(but we did it! yay!)

toby

[PilotX]

Originally posted by spark
ps - tell us what you thought!

we all need to learn what was good and what we could have done better, it was a first on a thousand counts and, well, we've never done something like this before.



Personally, I thought it was fantastic, and the points I'm going to make are nitpicking, and I'm not sure how possible they would be to do for the next one.

1) It is a shame that the layout of the venue meant that the projections could not be square. I don't know that we could have placed the projectors more centrally to the venue to improve that?
Could the scaff by the stairs have been placed behind them without causing problems for the bottle bars?

2) More tables. Not sure about other rigs, and though it worked fine with each VJ de-rigging their own stuff to provide space tfor the next VJ, it would be good to have enough space for everyone to lay out their kit more than 10mins beforehand.

3) More projectors (video or slide) to completely fill the available screen space. The top circle was pretty full, but the bottom circle was not. Although I realise that as many as possible were used, so this is something for next time.

4) This I think would be damn near impossible, but in fantasyland it would have been cool to have rigged a screen covering the whole roof. You'd need some massive scaffs, and crazy people to do this (believe me I'm not volunteering to go up to the roof and attach a screen ;) but it would be amazing to have a fully covered venue.

As I said, these points are small, and pretty irrelevant, as the night was fantastic, and technically incredibly complicated, but when you reach near perfection, it is only very little things that are left to improve.

Massive thanks to everyone who organised AVIT. A superb night that showed what a community can do when we get together.

[niceguydave]

There was one man at the eye of the technical storm when it came to the night-time events and that man was Stevefromnewcastle AKA Transmission. Putting together a rock-solid plan for that much kit, and making it work on a titchy budget requires a big thankyou! Steve really was on it from before the Brighton bus arrived at 7 am until after we left at about 7 am, and the man was working hard every moment work needed doing.

Thankyou Steve!

[syzygy]

I'll second the point bout Steve - he really did hold the whole thing together techncially.

Dan.

(SyZyGy Visuals)

[labmeta]

One of the most enjoyable gigs in a long time, with good good people and no egos to be witnessed.

Big thanks to eveyone who made it possible, alot a work from very dedicated and selfless people. to unj for the initiation and planning, spark as coordinater and steve on equipment. and many many many more, you all know who you are.

Is always good to put people and work to all the faceless names.
As a vj a very enjoyable and historical moment

my only wish item was as pilot x mention the squareness of the projectors on the screen, altough this was a limit of the venue and budget, me thinks. With a little bit of funding this could go a long way as a concept.

If you counldn`t make the first one make sure your there for the next.

Aviteering the community way....

[wellREDman]

yeah definately big ups to steve, who had the hardest job of all of us,
and also we all owe a big thanks to jimmy our tour manager who put in a load of time and work into it and at his own expense,
this is especially notable because he isnt even a vJ!
also big ups to Todd for braving the financial storm
Toby for being the central clearing house, the excellent daytime programme and design work
Jamie 2bit for press interfacing
Elbows for sorting the workshops
Nice Guy Dave for film coordination
Paul Visualnaut for the website
and of course unji for starting the whole ball rolling and being our man on the ground
2bit TV, SyZyGy, Inside-us-all, Transmission, APT Visuals, AVinIT, unjulation, VJ Anyone, Headspace and Exhale for letting us use their Kit
and especially thank you to you the whole community for being a part of making this whole thing happen, particularly the non uk vj's who traveled to us at your own expense
and all those of you who couldn't be there but who donated funds anyway

Thank You All

one love
RED

[stevefromNewcastle]

All that can really be said is what a team effort, without everyones help this would not have happen.

One person I must thank, is Dan for getting dragged in on this, he did a great job of tech-ing the workshops

Cheers so much
Steve
:nod: :nod: :nod: :D :D :nod: :nod: :nod:

[unjulation]

i would like to thank every one who made it pos, especialy steve and the staeg crew, who without them this would not have been poss,
big up to everyone
unj

[Rovastar]

As this is the offical thread I also want to thank all those that made it possible.

I whole event was a superb experience and although I didn't do all that much to help (in comparsion to some!) all the effort was worth it for a great gathering.

The whole thing was a great event and I we all know the next will be even better.

:)

[rossco]

Great night, excellent show and a massive success.

I was there on saturday and IT ROCKED. many thanks to everyone, it was a real pleasure to meet and be involved with all the people who made possible the event.

i'm going to repeat the thanks to steve, unj, red, toby n todd. from what I saw you guys really made it happen- and in time for lights off! from behind the scenes what i saw was you guys really working, and with humour- no agro or ego's encountered anywhere.:)

big respect to everyone involved.


thank you all.

:D peace, love n' light:)

rossco of deliberate animations

[eXhale]

i especially want to thank unjulation who took an idea from vjforums and had the dedication to make it a reality :) i'm not sure i would have been able to resist the pressure personaly. and of course big ups to the other people who joined him over time... steve, toby, todd, red, jamie, jimmy, etc, etc... you know who you are ;) this event surely was a founding stone for the VJ community and, dare i say, an unique moment in history. :D

also big big thanks to the inside-us-all crew for letting me play my stuff a moment on their rig as well as to bart from resolume, who agreed to share his time although technical problems made it not possible. next time i'll try to avoid changing my mind at the last minute! ;)

[Primebase3]

Hey guys,


wow, absolutly ultra-slim diggy-di DOPE!!! A big shout out to alan and wellredman for hooking us up with the mx-50!! joy!
another one for toby (thanks for the key),unj and all in involved


sorry we left so sudden but we had to roadtrip back , we had a great time and I hope it put vj'ing on the UK map : I think the first steps we're set that day. AVIT ROCKS. thanks for the hospitality off all.

as for nitpicking, I wish I'd saw less nitpicking on tech issues in the discussions and more on issues as content which in the end it's all about and will be THE tool to get it on the map,as for the mainstream/underground issue , keep saying that to yourself but if you had the choice to vj fulltime and live of it or work dishes and work on the thing you love: that's no choice at all :) (trust me)

as for screens and such not many complaints, little more time in setting up the projectors. .and that's it actually :) for the rest it rocks !!!

thanks everybody!!

[robotfunk]

That was one wicked day and night. Very energetic and inspiring, the venue and the people involved rocked, was quite amazed what can be achieved by bundling goodwill and effort. Being involved in some no-budget events myself that were strung together with goodwill I'd say well done, especially for the first time. Of course not everthing went super smooth but this is to be expected. I'd like to thank everybody involved in the organisation and all people helping each other wherever they could (in my case especially todd for rushing to fix me a scanny when i happened to need one 1 min before my act started).

I'd be happy for another one ... maybe we could hook this up with live.rel.nl for a dutch version?

[TZ]

AVIT 2002, French report.

A crazy story but a human story, would you please excuse my english and just try to understand what i mean across my words, as all of us, i would like to express myself about this incredible adventure.

Just keep in mind, that we came from France so since the D-day, everything were done by web for us, and i really want to push this speck, because this is also in my own opinion a part of this story, in France, internet is really something new and most people refused to use it, and the fact that a so big gig have been done also with internet, is a proof that internet can be serious and confidence.

Then, even if as everybody i thank everyone who put hand to this story, i want to give some specials thanks to somes as :
- Jimmy and his incredible kindness, i just want to notice that he was carring about us like a father, taking care to give us some sandwitches for the travel, offering us a fabulous breakfast and most than everything driving us back to London to get our bus to France ; and then for all his work for AVIT.
Really hoping to meet you again.
- Transmission and his incredible obstinacy that offers us the possibility to take part to this event.
- Unjulation and his incredible smily casualness.
- The "hippie" guy in the bus, just for being there and giving me a sort reminiscence.
- The ones from APT visuel and their interviews, which were instructives and a good way to start to talk together.

Friday, 11 octobre, 10:30pm, Paris, a Eurolines bus begin to go to London.
That was a long, tired, funny and strange travel, spending one hour to customs, seen the cold cyber train car from Euro-tunnel, woken in London at 6:30am.
Joking about having to take an other bus to Leeds, ring up to Jimmy, Unjulation and then Spark, maybe woke all of them (sorry ;o) ; then taking the bus to Leeds, too tired.
Saturday, 12 octobre, 12:00pm, Leeds, bus station, Jimmy and Unjulation came to take us, running to Corn Exchange.
The Corn exchange and The Bus, first i've again to thanks everyone who made this possible and also thanks to choose the Corn Exchange for this first time, it was a fabulous place, so "typical" for us french ;o).
Not really know how was spending the day, maybe too much to do, to see, to say, to listen, maybe too tired : just remember it was a very good time, meeting so smiling people who really understand what i mean about my work, as i heard Levihed said it : "feeling like a Community".
Here is the time for my first regret, not having enough time to do all i wanted to, so here is the time also for my first blurb for next year : taking time to be there before the D-day and spend much more time with people.
Then, i also want to talk about The Bus which was a fabulous idea, a great place to having fun and sleeping, i've heard everybody said that he need a such a bus !
Then the working time, before we left France a friend wiches us a good travel saying "have fun, it'll be the first time, you'll work with people who knows your work" ; and it was exactly like that, and for that it should be stay one of our best remembrance.
I think that we never work in such so good conditions with people so nice, then also thanks for that.
The show : it was incredible, i've nothing to say more than everybody, just never stop to thanks all the one who let us be a part of this.
As i read it's important to notice that no one done the same show than a other, that we all give a part of us in our rig, and that made it unique and give a place to all of us in a such big place than night-spectacle world.

Just a thing to remember for the next time, do a census of electrical adapter plug ;o)

VR-5 for TZ team
(aka the french girl with pink hair)

[VJwannabe]

BIG BIG THANKS AND RESPECT!

Okay, well first off apologies for it taking so long to get on here and say this. I'm new to the Vj thing been thinking of doing it for years but only got off my ass after seeing all you guys at the corn ex. I'm glad you all seemed to have such a good time-we did!

Second, Mountains more of praise and thanks.

Third, who the hell am I? I'm connected to the technique crew who were hosting the Saturday night music thing. I was there running around with a vid-camera (I know it doesn't narrow it down).

Fourth, THANKS I know a lot of people did not enjoy the limmited set up time but, all of you really made it a very special event.

Finally, if anyone who was VJing/rigging wants a Video of the night just get in touch and I'll post a CDcopy. It was produced as a Promo for Technique so it's short and centred on the DJs more but as a momento/show of thanks it's something.

MUCH LOVE AND THANKS

[niceguydave]

Edited by
David Wigram and Toby Harris

Camera by
Bruce Selkirk, Ben Foot, Nicolas Bigler, Martial Ganiere, Falk Gaertner

For more info
WWW.AVIT.INFO
WWW.VJCENTRAL.COM

(c) copyright AVIT 2003

[niceguydave]

... and that is a little joke for the end of the long awaited avit edit.

watch this space...