Most annoying responses a VJ can get

[PortmanJ]

Ahhaha, 100% hit!
2) What's this song called?

[stickygreen]

Just last week, I hear a woman's voice over my shoulder. "your mids are out, and the something, something about bass... Blah blah blah.. I work at some fancy sound recording studio...!"

I slowly turned around and said, I'm making the video.

Went back to work. I didn't even hear her leave.

[Migwans]

Originally Posted by garybizzo

Used to have a sign posted at the LX booth reading "I'm not the DJ, but you're welcome to request your favourite colour"

I need one of those! I work with a live band, and everyone somehow assumes I am working the music, although there is a guy on a sound board not far away.

The other most common thing is get is asked to leave the show run so I can dance/have a drink, or otherwise join the party. They don't seem to be able to understand that the images they are seeing are live and played with the music, by me.

I like rear projecting because I become "the person behind the curtain" that the band lead tells them to pay no mind to (Wizard of Oz, get it?) and I can concentrate on doing what I love to do.

[Migwans]

Actually, now that I think of it, the most memoralbe moment (not in a good way) was coming out from behind my computer to ask an amazingly tall and amazingly drunk guy (who had been blocking my projector with his head while rooting on the drummer) looke at me, lean down, and plant a big wet drunk kiss on me before wandering away.
I stayed behind my computer the rest of the night.

[skulpture]

Not quite a VJ gig but I was supervising a big interactive piece in Helsinki and people kept walking up to the CCTV cameras and pressing the lens. When I asked what they where doing they said they where pressing the buttons.

Not being funny but they where quite well hidden, not lit and clearly not buttons! It happened lots of times!

[noiseismyart]

My first paid gig was a disaster. I was told I would have a screen to project onto by the promoter and the people running the show. The video guys brought a screen but got kind of pissy and jealous about me doing visual projections along with their light show and decided to make up a lame excuse about not having brought the right equipment for their stands and trussing even though they had set it up initially but ended up taking it down. I managed to work with mapping my projection onto this boombox shaped sign they had wrapped over the DJ booth that looked good and everything ended up going pretty well after that. When night finally hit and the visuals got going and it was looking pretty sick. The features of the boombox sign stood out and it looked like a nice psychedelic painting over it. About an hour into the set a portly drunk chick decides to prance herself in front of my projector and make a snorlax shadow-puppet over the boombox. People laugh, I chortle, and think the chick might realize by her backside being illuminated that she might move out of the blinding bright light. Instead she continues to absorb my work for another 5-10 minutes when I kindly call out to her, "Excuse me miss, could you move? You're standing infront of the projector here and blocking the visuals."
She turns around and says to me, "What did you say? I can't hear you this light is too loud."
"You're standing in front of the projector could you please move."
She stumbles away from the path of light into darkness revealing her Ganon-esque figure from all the light blinding her uglyness and says, "Hey you should move your shit people are trying to dance here and enjoy the show."
I explain to her that I am part of the entertainment, that I was hired to add a live visual element to the show, and that as long as she doesnt stand in front of the projector blocking it that there should be no issue.
Slurring out the last interaction I will ever hopefully have with her, "Yeah well I am going to get you fired you ass. You shouldnt be blinding people like that." She stumbled away and I never saw her again for the rest of the night

[skulpture]

Originally Posted by noiseismyart

My first paid gig was a disaster. I was told I would have a screen to project onto by the promoter and the people running the show. The video guys brought a screen but got kind of pissy and jealous about me doing visual projections along with their light show and decided to make up a lame excuse about not having brought the right equipment for their stands and trussing even though they had set it up initially but ended up taking it down. I managed to work with mapping my projection onto this boombox shaped sign they had wrapped over the DJ booth that looked good and everything ended up going pretty well after that. When night finally hit and the visuals got going and it was looking pretty sick. The features of the boombox sign stood out and it looked like a nice psychedelic painting over it. About an hour into the set a portly drunk chick decides to prance herself in front of my projector and make a snorlax shadow-puppet over the boombox. People laugh, I chortle, and think the chick might realize by her backside being illuminated that she might move out of the blinding bright light. Instead she continues to absorb my work for another 5-10 minutes when I kindly call out to her, "Excuse me miss, could you move? You're standing infront of the projector here and blocking the visuals."
She turns around and says to me, "What did you say? I can't hear you this light is too loud."
"You're standing in front of the projector could you please move."
She stumbles away from the path of light into darkness revealing her Ganon-esque figure from all the light blinding her uglyness and says, "Hey you should move your shit people are trying to dance here and enjoy the show."
I explain to her that I am part of the entertainment, that I was hired to add a live visual element to the show, and that as long as she doesnt stand in front of the projector blocking it that there should be no issue.
Slurring out the last interaction I will ever hopefully have with her, "Yeah well I am going to get you fired you ass. You shouldnt be blinding people like that." She stumbled away and I never saw her again for the rest of the night

What a bitch!