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VJ Showreel 2008 - Vector Meldrew from vectormeldrew on Vimeo.

I have been spending the waning days of 2008 and the quiet din of early 2009 browsing around vimeo and flickr looking to see what people are doing with modul8. I was delightfully surprised to find a lot of material. Most of the videos are fairly short with edited highlights so the general concepts can be illuminated upon quite quickly. The above video is a highly polished VJ demo. Everything is here including the helicopter rockets and the dancing girl(s). This is a definite club experience. While nothing can really replace the experience of the club and specifically vector meldrews performance in the club we can definitely feel the excitement.

On what I consider to be the exact opposite of a spectrum is something that I found on flickr. Flickr began offering the ability to upload video. This caused a bit of an uproar from the flickr user base stating that they feared flickr would go the way of YouTube and become a forum for (almost) 'anything goes' uploads. This has not happened primarily because flickr already has a broad base and also (like vimeo) attracts primarily creatives. An article I read at around the same time and am at a loss for finding at the moment proposed that a new area that stands between photography and video will emerge that will create an appreciation for short movies that are appreciated as 'moving photos' or something like that.



The reason I think this clip is so distinctive is that it is squarely focused on creating a moving composition without any other pretensions. There are no opening or closing titles. No type at all for that matter. And you will also notice that there is no sound. It does not necessitate a curiosity to wonder about what this would look like in a live performance context. From a modul8 perspective this is quite interesting to me because it is implicative of a spontaneity, the urge to visualize something quickly and post it and perhaps not much more. Using the logical record results like this can be achieved quickly.

On a similar note you may find on this thread from the forums that there are other clever uses for the logical record beyond recording your sets.