getting VJ jobs in NYC

[holly]

High mantenance...?
Me...?


Actually, that is observant of you. I'd definitely say it's the texan-girl part of me that is the most difficult.... All the women in my family are this way.

[Portal]

holly,

I should start a new thread on why Texas and California girls are my favourite American women. lol!

[vjrei]

Originally posted by disassembler
Ask VJ Rei about getting jobs in New York.

No, not me, do not ask me nothing!

There are a lot of things to do in NY but I was used to another thing. Actually there is a new club where Center Fly was and I was applying to work there but I am very used to the tropic and caribbena and moved to Miami, then a friend of mine who was doing the sound design of the club told me that another Venezuelan guy who was part of something called "Funk Taxi" is the resident VJ and he is getting paid $40.000 a year. I told my friend not for $60.000 I would go back to NY, I rather South Beach better

Any way, my recomendation is to get close to the production companies and make a lot of noise. Most of the time content creation and DVDs is what you are going to create but I was not attracted to that, NY was way too dark and lack of anything organic and stuff and it freaked me out.

Any way, I'll be there back soon every once in a while to show some Venezuelan footage probably

[vjrei]

Well, the intention is not to change the topic of the thread but... I was in Manhattan and when I was looking from my window I could see the next building 3 metters from me. No direct sun light ever came inside and I was in a 5th floor. Organic is not a "frit store" is a mauntain or a beach or blue and green colors, not the over saturated Central Park with executives walking around... ?in a park? In South Beach I live in a third floor, I have alota! windows and I can see the horison over he palm trees, I do not need AC because I have alota! wind coming in and if I am hungry I can go downstaris in sandals and shorts (no t-shirts) tu buy the groceries and everybody is wearing the same thing. 3 block away I have the beach with topless girls

And all for $500 a month + utilities. Yes, Miami is a bit cold but NY was not for me, I am 29 and I got too used to my colors and stuff. That is what I call "organic".

[holly]

Wait, this is a funny story! It's true everyone here has 3 "day jobs" but these are not necessarily all shit jobs. In SF everyone had 1 shit job and then they went out drinking every night. Here, because networking and connections are SO important, you have 3 very different cool parttime jobs just to keep your connections open (some would say "spread your bet"), but it is not about having any shit jobs, no offices or flourescent lighting....

So the girl that made that docu that we promoted at eyewash THE ART OF VJing, she moved here from Amsterdam and she is very young and very friendly and we thought "Oh no. This girl is way too nice to be here. She is not agressive or self-centered enough to survive...." But when we met her she already had 2 jobs, and one week later at the premiere she already had a 3rd better job at a documentary company! We laughed: she will be fine!

I tend to agree with Rei. Just because there is a scrap of wheatgrass growing in a cup that they offer to shave and put in a frit smoothy, doesn't really count as "organic" (translation: nature).... It was 5 years before I ever left the city and went just 30 minutes upstate to the catskills which is some of the prettiest hiking land and dry-forests I've ever seen: little mountains and lakes everywhere.... It's no Machu Pichu or California coastline, but it is pretty.

Lil'Cat, I think you are like me: a futurist looking for that super Arcology plopped cleanly and self-contained right next door to pristine nature, but Rei's idea of "scenery" is athletic curves in a bikini. Can't beat SouthBeach for THAT!

[holly]

Where da pod pic, boiiiii? Ya know I jive on that shit!

I have a friend who bought a membership at her little neighborhood community park on the lower east side (use to be 3 empty lots in a burnout neib'). She was like: gym membership or park.... Since she rides a bike everywhere she picked the park, and it is sooo cool. As a member you have a key to the gate and responcabilities to do work on it (moving rocks, cleaning the garden house, etc). We were hanging out and it was so nice and really peaceful and flourishing, then some guys came in trying to take a piss and we chased them off. It is such a beautiful garden/park and these guys only see it as a toilet!

Meanwhile, florida is one of those states that was on my "SHALL NOT RECEIVE ONE DIME OF MY TOURISM DOLLAR" because cunnilingus is/was illegal..., but traveling thru to Carribean at the Miami airport I was gagging on pink neon squiggles and lime squares on yellow circles. I mean, I know it's just the airport, but barf.

[prismaco]

i lived in portland oregon for seven years, so im not so concerned about "organic".
(not many places can compare to a city that drips water 9 months out of the year, has flowers for ten and a half, and where over half the people are hippies or former hippies)
there was some famous philosos-phizer making the argument that since cities derive from mans creation, and man is natural (unless you take the alien gene splicing to make life stance) cities are what you could consider "natural"
came back from prague and budapest in the spring to my temporary home of Utah, and with all the mountains and nature, it felt dead (scoffing is more than allowed here).
i could still feel the jazz club in prague beneath my feet through earth.
i literally had the urban vibrations travel with me.
that is organic.
collective consciousness is organic (oh you were reading the paper at the exact time i was!)
in paris they have parks where you can only walk on gravel paths and all the lawns are demarcated with 10 inch tiny fences (in fact most parks are like this there).
natural and organic are too often confused as meaning the same thing.
the parks in paris are natural, but not very organic, whereas i find Central park fairly organic if not natural.
just a thought.
like the dialogue on the subject, and thanks for yr responses.
maybe when i check out things in NYC in Jan, ill check out Eyewash.
if i dont get dragged around by my friends too much

[prismaco]

i put this in the wrong place but this goes with the getting jobs in NYC thread.
computers can give you a strobe effect in your eyes
im so confused

[vjrei]

The problem is that the "new thread" botton and the "reply" are too close and I commit the same mistake oftem, when trying to reply I sometimes create a new thread without meaning it.

[vjrei]

I do not know but I am recording footage like crazy here in Caracas, I got Holly Idea of a "Baraka like" video and I am recording thinsg to send to NY later on. For example today I went to some palce down tone and in the parking lot (just like the ones in NYC) there were about 5 dogs, 10 chickens, a parrot and a TUCAN! of course I started to play with the tucan for about 10 minutes while the parrot was telling me Hola! I mean, that is nor mal for me but is a kind of strange to find that sort of fauna at the entrance of a parking lot in a city.

The problem is that I can not take my Sony VX-2100 camera every where, I can get killed for that, too much crime. Then we had a riot downtown but I couldn't go there.

I will see if I can upload something when I get back to Miami in january.