Art/Design VJ Culture: The Future of Art Looks Bright

November 19, 2009 - 11:27 am

VJ Culture

You may have met guys like VJ Culture before. He’s part savant and part scavenger– one of those artists who spots a goldmine in an alleyway, in a trash bin outside Home Depot, or the film canisters and broken Panavision cameras behind a film warehouse– and can mash it all up into something shining and prolific. From halogen to fluorescent, from your standard household 60-watters to celluloid-spitting projectors, images and waves of light are bent and ricocheted off pvc tubing and 16 mm lenses to converge in a blaze of glory.

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Music VJ Culture Mixes the Movies in My Mind

June 3, 2009 - 11:33 am

VJ Culture Video Jockey

As the sun shined through the massive square windows of a downtown Detroit hotel on Memorial Day, Grant Davis, aka VJ Culture,  is picking his way through a “delicious” vegetarian meatloaf. In the true nature of his role as one of the most sought after video jockeys in the game, he is quick to use nutritional visuals to describe (somewhat abstractly) how his job works. “The broccoli connects the wires to the meatloaf, which is the screen,” laughs Davis, “and here is me” — pointing to the mashed potatoes with his fork — “feeling a little mashed after last night.”

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