PnP Perth - Thursday 19th July

Yep, there's a PnP tonight at Luxe from 8-11pm, free entry. Before 9pm, use side glass door entry.

I know it's hard to get motivated to leave home on a rainy night, but we promise the Red Room at Luxe will be warm and cosy with some relaxing nu-jazz tunes, great cocktails and maybe some new VJs to check out (or else the usual suspects doing our visual thing). All very casual, no fuss... Sit and watch with a nice Negroni, or have a stickybeak and push a few keys on a laptop.

We're aiming for tonight to be very hands-on, so we'd love to see some new people interested in learning the VJ basics, grabbing some free VJ loops to play with at home. Or even just finding out what VJing is in a friendly, low-key friendly forum.

BYO blank CDs and/or portable drive to harvest from our training-collection of loops - it's a lot quicker than downloading off
http://www.archive.org/details/vj_loops

It will also be a great chance to talk about Byte Me! Festival - your ideas, the progress we're making behind the scenes, your offering to help out :P

It's been a whole month since the last PnP, and yet it hasn't been terribly well organised - sorry! We've been so swamped with organising Byte Me, our Live Cinema performance at Rev Film Fest, our overseas tour in September etc. Apparently Melbourne PnP is only being held monthly at this stage too, so I don't feel so bad. Melb's Jean Poole is currently overseas doing a residency with the brilliant Turkish crew: http://www.artificialeyes.tv/ and we're hoping he'll be coming to Byte Me! Fest to share with Perth what he's learned there.

I have to admit that at the moment, it's hard to compete with Rev. There's some great stuff on there: http://revelationfilmfest.org

Tonight's a great program of Short Films, although it may be sold out. Also recommended is Strange Culture on Saturday, when one of our Byte Me! Guest Speakers, Dr Amanda Third from Murdoch, will be talking after the doco screening. There's some really useful events as part of the associated conference too - and we have a spare ticket up for grabs for the "Business Models for Digital Distribution" seminar on Sunday, so let us know if you'd like to join us for that. It may sound a bit dull, but finding out new ways for creatives to make a living in this new 'long tail' economy sounds exciting to me...

Anyway, we'd love to see you tonight to talk VJ'ing, show and tell the latest VJ news (pity there's no web access!) and talk about the Byte Me! Festival.