OPTICLASH: The VJ Battle in Seattle! Saturday, August 20th 2005

[Punch Drunk Productions]

On Saturday August 20th witness the first EVER VJ Battle in Seattle! 8 VJs duke it out on 2 huge screens. Opticlash pits VJ against VJ in a merciless fight to the digital death. DJs Flave, Kid Hops, and Nick Tornetta will play special battle sets for each round of Opticlash.

http://www.opticlash.com/images/poster_medium.jpg (http://www.opticlash.com/)


DJs:
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DJ Flave (Alphatribe / Seattle)
Kid Hops (KEXP 90.3FM kidhops.com / Seattle)
Nick Tornetta (nicktornetta.com / Seattle)
Quentin J (Kaos Theory / Seattle)
DJ Blank (Kaos Theory / Seattle)

JUDGES:
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Gary Tucker, Marketing Director
Seattle International Film Festival

Gregg Grinnell, Senior Broadcast Editor
KIRO Television

Steve White, Producer & Guitarist
KMFDM

DJ Kemal, Entertainment Director and Resident DJ
Club Medusa

Mary Slowinski, Program Chair, Digital Media Arts
Bellevue Community College


VJs:
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Xiayu (Subliminal Imaging / Seattle)
Murk & Kompresser (Manual Upload Unit / Portland)
Subliminal Kid (Subliminal Imaging / Seattle)
James Brundage (Synesthetic / Seattle)
Killingfrenzy (Killing Frenzy Visuals / Seattle)
Epiphanous (Mekanism Visuals / Seattle)
Porchlight | Star (Luxcollective / Seattle)
James Drage (Evergreen Eye / Seattle)


INFO & SCHEDULE:
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Saturday, August 20th, 2005
5:00PM - 6:00PM Free Public VJ Workshop
8:00PM - 11:00PM Opticlash VJ Battle
11:00PM - 2:00AM After-party @ the Lower Level
* schedule is tentative and subject to change

Hosted by MC BSHORTY

$10 at the door ($8 with a can of canned food)
$8 presale ($6 with a can of canned food)
save $2 on admission with a can of canned food - to be donated to Northwest Harvest http://www.nwharvest.org/

Buy your tickets online!

http://www.opticlash.com/images/bpt-big.gif (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1776)

* All Ages with FULL BAR for 21+ w/ ID
* FREE public VJ workshop / demonstration at 5PM day-of
* FREE after-party downstairs at the LOWER LEVEL @ the CHAC til 2AM

Call 206 338 5610 for more information


LOCATION:
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Capitol Hill Arts Center
1621 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122

(one half a block north of Pine on 12th Avenue)

http://www.opticlash.com/images/chac_map.gif (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1621+12th+Ave+seattle,+wa+98122&hl=en)

[Adam Sin]

sounds very very interesting

[thehunt]

I can't wait for this one!!!

whoa

vjs rock

so do all the DJs
and B-Shorty rocks as a host for events

[Punch Drunk Productions]

I just got confirmation that we'll be giving away a $1200 (msrp) Edirol V-4 video mixer as the grand prize of Opticlash:

GRAND PRIZE
MSRP $1200

http://www.edirol.com/products/info/images/v4_diagonal.jpg

Let the games begin!



Jacob
Event Director, Opticlash

[Punch Drunk Productions]

we have confirmation on more cool shit at opticlash:

for those of you who are 21+, please join us downstairs at 11:00PM for a HANDS-ON VJ SESSION with the folks from edirol: they're bringing out a bunch of kick-ass video toys (mixers, visual synthesizers, etc.) for everybody to play with while DJs Quentin J and DJ Blank tag-team on the decks til 2:00AM.

don't miss this rare opportunity to try out edirol's brand-spankin-new visual synthesizer, which cannot be found anywhere else in the city (and i don't think on the west coast):

http://www.edirol.com/products/info/images/cg8.jpg

[nicktornetta]

this is huge... big.. gonzo.. aiieee

seriously though, big ups to punch drunk for such an innovative and revolutionary idea!

[WhistleR]

Originally posted by Punch Drunk Productions
On Saturday August 20th witness the first EVER VJ Battle in Seattle! 8 VJs duke it out on 2 huge screens. Opticlash pits VJ against VJ in a merciless fight to the digital death. DJs Flave, Kid Hops, and Nick Tornetta will play special battle sets for each round of Opticlash.

http://www.opticlash.com/images/poster_medium.jpg (http://www.opticlash.com/)


DJs:
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DJ Flave (Alphatribe / Seattle)
Kid Hops (KEXP 90.3FM kidhops.com / Seattle)
Nick Tornetta (nicktornetta.com / Seattle)
Quentin J (Kaos Theory / Seattle)


JUDGES:
------------------------------------------------------------
Gary Tucker, Marketing Director
Seattle International Film Festival

Gregg Grinnell, Senior Broadcast Editor
KIRO Television

Steve White, Producer & Guitarist
KMFDM

DJ Kemal, Entertainment Director and Resident DJ
Club Medusa

Mary Slowinski, Program Chair, Digital Media Arts
Bellevue Community College


VJs:
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Xiayu (Subliminal Imaging / Seattle)
Murk & Kompresser (Manual Upload Unit / Portland)
Subliminal Kid (Subliminal Imaging / Seattle)
James Brundage (Synesthetic / Seattle)
Killingfrenzy (Killing Frenzy Visuals / Seattle)
Epiphanous (Mekanism Visuals / Seattle)
Porchlight | Star (Luxcollective / Seattle)
James Drage (Evergreen Eye / Seattle)


INFO & SCHEDULE:
------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, August 20th, 2005
5:00PM - 6:00PM Free Public VJ Workshop
8:00PM - 11:00PM Opticlash VJ Battle
11:00PM - 2:00AM After-party @ the Lower Level
* schedule is tentative and subject to change

Hosted by MC BSHORTY

$10 at the door ($8 with a can of canned food)
$8 presale ($6 with a can of canned food)
save $2 on admission with a can of canned food - to be donated to Northwest Harvest http://www.nwharvest.org/

Buy your tickets online!

http://www.opticlash.com/images/bpt-big.gif (http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1776)

* All Ages with FULL BAR for 21+ w/ ID
* FREE public VJ workshop / demonstration at 5PM day-of
* FREE after-party downstairs at the LOWER LEVEL @ the CHAC til 2AM

Call 206 338 5610 for more information


LOCATION:
------------------------------------------------------------
Capitol Hill Arts Center
1621 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122

(one half a block north of Pine on 12th Avenue)

http://www.opticlash.com/images/chac_map.gif (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1621+12th+Ave+seattle,+wa+98122&hl=en)


OOOoooooOOO!!! A VJ Battle, it's about time there's a vj event in Seattle! :D

[Tribal_A_Team]

Ill be there for sure!

[JORDAN]

jacob is the man!!!

drunken donkey punches for eveyone!!

[theperfectcyn]

GI - NOR - MOUS UPS TO:

MURK & KOMPRESSER of manual upload unit ...

booyah! turn 'em out, boys :D pdx rep!

[Quentin J]

Gonna be ill. Me and Blank will be rockin' the afterparty. w00p.

[nicktornetta]

woop is right.

woop.

[Punch Drunk Productions]

just got done rendering out the opticlash round animations and intro sequences: animation by tony paves from http://www.tonypaves.com/ (the motion graphics pimp behind club element's website) and audio by KMFDM....it's gonna be sick!

- jacob

[nicktornetta]

ive seen it... and was completely blown away..

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[GradualMeltdown]

wow,I was doing visuals only 5 years ago up and down the west coast and we had NOTHING like this. Hope you guys get a good turn out. I used to love Numb and Pixel8 back in the day.

peace
DRj

[nicktornetta]

i like bread

[Athen]

Respect to who ever is throwing this.

Good to see visuals getting much due respect as a true art form.

Yay!

[NEXT LEVEL]

bumpin... lookin good jacob!

[xiayu]

I will bump this all day long if i have too!

[thehunt]

gonna be wild

[*AnDe*]

I still think it's kind of lame you chose to do only visual and not audiovisual performances, I mean that's what VJing is. No homo.
The tech is out there ...