The 2007 way of promoting your VJing: giving away clips. So while we’re on the subject of legal, free clips to use in your next visual set (classic movies were the subject last week), this week:

68 Vintage Fairlight VJ Loops by VJzoo (2007) [Archive.org, from VJzoo.com

Get ready for some grungy, glitchy 80s electro-style analog visuals:

There are NOT for everybody's taste - they are messy, grungy and grainy loops harvested from "Vintage AV Plug n Play" sessions using equipment from the 1980's and 1990's such as Fairlight Computer Video Instruments (CVIs), the Panasonic WJ-AVE7 and feedback from an analogue Panasonic video camera on a Commodore monitor. The Fairlight CVI was developed in Australia in 1984 and was used by early live-AV artists such as Severed Heads.

That's right, Fairlight -- better known for their high-end sampler/workstation, the Fairlight CMI, credited by some as the first commercial sampler -- also made video equipment. And if there's one thing we love at CDM, it's talented Australians.

The footage raises an interesting question: whether tis nobler to use actual glitchy footage in your set, or build your own. Our friend Anton Marini (vade) has done some beautiful work making his own glitch patches in Max/MSP/Jitter. (More similar glitchy stuff elsewhere on his site, too.) This is entirely synthetic. Even if you're not into glitch, it's a fascinating learning experience to deconstruct the look of it and figure out how it's put together.

Updated: Yes, speaking of glitch, this is not actually synthetic -- see comments from vade. He has done some really beautiful -- and uniquely digital -- glitching in other projects, though. More on that soon.

Also in the free loops category: Holly Daggers' free loops on wetcircuit.com, including some beautiful footage she shot of steam coming out of smokestacks near her new Queens studio.

This gets me thinking, though: anyone else got access to a Fairlight CVI or other vintage equipment? We'd love to hear about. Heck, I'd love to come to your studio and visit it personally.

More on the Fairlight CVI:
Fairlight Computer Video Instrument [Retro Thing]
Fairlight CVI @ audiovisualizers.com

Welcome starving visualists! I know there’s plenty of you reading this. Well, perhaps not starving, but you’d definitely like more pocket money so you can buy some of the cool stuff you’re seeing on CDMo or CDMu. You’ve got plenty of original material right? Now all you need is a way for that material to make you some money, a way that doesn’t involve carting all of your precious gear to some grimy club and producing beautiful live imagery alongside music of questionable artistic merit. Make money while sitting at home in your socks watching My Name Is Earl. Sound like a plan?

Community-driven royalty free imagery hub iStockPhoto have just announced iStockVideo. Moving picture creators can sign up and submit content as of yesterday, and videos will be on sale from September 5th, 2006.

iStockVideo is looking for animation, stop-motion, digitized film and of course boring old video. Acceptable clip sizes are 640×480 to 1920×1080, 24-30 FPS, 5-30 seconds long. This may feel a little constrained length-wise, but keep in mind that they’re looking for stock, not stories. Single shots are more useful than pre-edited material, and using shorter length clips means you can sell more of them! $50 for a HD 1080 clip sounds like a plan to me.

You know what to do.

Sellout Disclosure: Links to iStockPhoto contain an affiliate code. If you join the program and upload videos, CDMotion gets a cut for each clip you upload.
Peter: Iceland VJ Adventure anyone?