Old skool Videos: Broadband required.

[Cosmica]

Check this out!

http://www.angeladam.com/video/OldRavesAndPartiesVideoIndex.html#

[Cosmica]

Here also!

http://www.fantazia.org.uk/video/video.htm

[blip]

ive got VHS copies of,

SUNRISE THE STORY '88-'89 and SUNRISE & BACK TO THE FUTURE '89


might sell em...

[Cosmica]

What would you like for them blip?

How long do they go for?

[blip]

good question...the tapes say 180mins but somethin tells me they dont go for 3hrs each...probably an hour each but my vcr is on the blink so will have to wait till i get a replacement in the next couple of days...

will get bak2ya asap. i wanna sample some of the bbc doco footage first 8]

[garry]

For an ongoing bunch of free Melb old skool clips, http://cybafaeries.zippyvideos.com/

For over 3 hours of old skool wmv files on a cd-rom, parties, behind the scenes, interviews, video art & general underground life style doc, see www.cybafaeries.com / media

all 1990-95

[Anja]

Thanks Garry, will check 'em out.
Any parties come to mind there?

[garry]

Quite a few from time to time :)

My favorite ones were the Every Pic ones in 1992, mainly because we broadcast them live on free-to-air tv. A very strange thing to do. It'd be nice to see some streamed these days, especially as the technology is so readily availible, and they could be seen around the globe instead of just across melb.

We had video artists coming out of our ears then, all on Amiga computers (all hail) chained up together, and pumped thru the supreme Fairlight video synth like in the pic below showing Till from Don't Shoot The Messenger.

http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/cybafaer/web/cyb905/images/Ks541.jpg

This link (below) is to a free online clip of unedited camera tape of one of the broadcasts showing all our gear for tech heads.

http://www.zippyvideos.com/7495677312976176/lost_the_signal_1/

The clip is called Lost The Signal. We'd lost transmission at the time (again) so I gabbed the camera and started shooting to get the stressed techs on tape.

None of us knew anything about broadcast technology - we had a transmitter bolted onto the communications tower of 101 Collins street in Melb. The sound from the broadcast was a bit rough so we played back the audio into the warehouse straight from the desk - loudly.

We finally figured out what was wrong - someone had repatched some cables without permission ( a big no-no even if you have a note from God) and the transmitter wasn't receiving any audio. So after 15 minutes it shut down.

The solution was to leave the cosy warehouse on the Maribrynong river in Footscray, drive 2 kms to the city on a cold winters night, climb the tower in the rain and physically press the 'reset button' on the transmitter! Not the easiest thing to do when off your face and in party mode :lol:. But we got back on air - and put a big sign up to Never Repatch Anything without permission.

The clip's got a bit of stelarc setting up to do a broadcast, with his sound guy composer Rainer Linz showing off what he can do with a bundle of wires. He built the (analog) synth himself from kits in the 1970's

- pics below

http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/cybafaer/web/cyb905/images/Ks077.jpg

http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/cybafaer/web/cyb905/images/Ks274.jpg

[Cosmica]

Gday Garry,

Great to see you, I have to hook up with you sometime to get one of those CDs,

James

[Spectrum]

Neat stuff there, Garry. Ah, life's just not the same without my Amiga 500. Welcome to ITM.

[garry]

Thankyou kindly. and speaking of Amiga 500's, still got mine :)

It doesn't work anymore, the video output stage has had it, but it looks nice on show in my studio.

Any software in the pic you recognise?



http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/cybafaeries/tec/amiga-500.jpg

[Draic]

Garry ,

Not all of the video links are up and I have tried 2 of your emails which bounced back.

Is there any chance of getting the footage sent out on cd rom.

Will be more than happy to transfer funds to pay for postage + a bit more for the privelage of getting this footage.

[Spectrum]

Any software in the pic you recognise?

hehehe!!! :lol:

But no Cinemaware (http://www.cinemaware.com/)?

But wait...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/thumb/d/d2/Crash_amiga.png/280px-Crash_amiga.png

[garry]

Garry ,

Not all of the video links are up and I have tried 2 of your emails which bounced back.

Is there any chance of getting the footage sent out on cd rom.

Will be more than happy to transfer funds to pay for postage + a bit more for the privelage of getting this footage.

Sorry about that. I've been wondering why my inbox has been quiet the past 2-3 days.

I've just been transfering my domains to a different host, and the forwarding has taken a bit of time to change over, but it's all working now.

Yeah no probs with the cd-rom. All the footage is on the Wolfdragon Moonshine cd-rom for $10 and $5 for p+h to sydney (which is where I think you are)

so if you'd like to send an email (again) I'll send a paypal request for payment for $15 and get it in the mail for you straight away.

[garry]

hehehe!!! :lol:

But no Cinemaware (http://www.cinemaware.com/)?

But wait...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/thumb/d/d2/Crash_amiga.png/280px-Crash_amiga.png

:lol: It's been a hell of a long time since I've seen that image!! Good to catch up with an old Amiga user again after all these years!

Here's a few pics from Every Picture Tells A Story 3 mid 1992 showing some of the images we did on Amiga's 500 and 2000's. We had a complete room set up for live VJing. We'd also broadcast these live to air on free-to-air TV Ch31. We'd cut to what ever the DJ's were playing, which was the audio for the broadcasts.

Generally we'd start Friday night about 8pm and go 24 hours a day until midnight Sunday.

We had old matteresses and cushions laid out in front of the computers for us to sprawl on while partaking in motivational substances, it also let people see the computers. They were as much a draw card as the projected images

It still amazes me we could achieve anything given the head space we were in :lol:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/cybafaeries/tec/every-pic-3-gfx-room-c-ol.jpg

This is me in performance mode with the weird hat I called - the nose

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/cybafaeries/tec/every-pic-3-gfx-room-a-ol.jpg

This teddy bear (below) actually dances doing the Melbourne shuffle!! Done by good friends Don't Shoot The Messenger. The OBEY is mine done on my Amiga 500 - it rotates. All the backgrounds are generated thru the majestic Fairlight Vision synth ( A Sydney invention!).

All the images were generated in real time on the Amiga's - as many as we could get our hands on. We cut between various little anims we'd done and key them over each other etc.

We used a program called SCALA a lot too. It had quite decent slide show capabilities and text supers. I had another 3D program called Sculpt as well, which did some really nice CAD type shapes. A friend of mine borrowed it in 93 and has been promising to give it back ever since!!!


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/cybafaeries/tec/toe298.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/cybafaeries/tec/masks381.jpg

[garry]

Just got this clip up. It had 2 views before I got a chance to even check it uploaded properly!! I spelt Melbourne wrong in the title. Must of been distracted while typing :lol:

I used to get my hair cut at Synergy (Melb) and they asked me to shoot their hair show for them, at the Metro (melb).

I had another shoot that night and just turned up and stood infront of the catwalk. The next thing all these young ladies ( Vic College of the Arts dance students) came running out in their undies!!

I'm still trying to confirm the date, but think it was late 1995, or perhaps 1996.

Anyone remember or know? Not the sort of show you forget in a hurry, just what year. :lol:

http://www.zippyvideos.com/3399140433446786/synergy_hair_show_1995/*cybafaeries

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/cybafaeries/tec/synergyhairshowa.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e27/cybafaeries/tec/synergyhairshowb.jpg

I'm straight, and this guy kept getting in the way. But the girls at the metro and quite a few of the boys enjoyed watching. :) He's a good dancer tho.

[serp]

Man I would love to get my hands on that teddy bear animation.

Don't suppose you have any of that old stuff backed up in amiga format? I am very experienced at prying things off anything Amiga related :)

A friend of mine has a supped up Amiga 1200 with extra ram we soldered in ourselves :) It rocks out.

[serp]

Also if anyone is interested I have an old old video of Shawn Stakker (of humaniod fame) VJ Video of him mixing (I think) and some crazy epilepsy inducing visuals (NOT something to watch with the lights out with your full attention, I start feeling sick after about 30 minutes.

I'm not selling it but I could get off my arse and convert it to video (once I get a working VCR again).

I also have some old 3Lux videos (aka X-Mix videos).

I have no party videos unfortuently, although a mate has a home made early Earthcore video with some now prominent melbourne business men getting up to some interesting stuff :)

[garry]

Man I would love to get my hands on that teddy bear animation.

Don't suppose you have any of that old stuff backed up in amiga format? I am very experienced at prying things off anything Amiga related :)

A friend of mine has a supped up Amiga 1200 with extra ram we soldered in ourselves :) It rocks out.

The teddy bear anim was a Don't Shoot the Messenger one, I've only got a few screen shots of it. I've lost contact with the guys a few years back.

Most of the anim stuff was kept on floppy discs and loaded in to the hdd for the night, as most hdd's were pretty small. Very few of them have survived in a readable condition, especially after multiple reads, dust, humidity etc.

When Amiga went out of business (getting a very nasty time from Apple pressuring retailers to avoid them etc) a lot of the guys were depressed and just lost interest, and the floppies etc ended up as landfill somewhere.

The 1200's were/are a great little computer, most hardcore computer techs still swear by them. Something about the way the code is written which was the most efficient and effective around. Macs twice the power couldn't get anywhere near them