Hi! Sorry, took me a bit to figure access to this group. As the videotics page
at
http://videotics.com
indicates it is a monthly half-hour show currently airing on ch.52 [public
access]
on Oahu, Hawaii, and available for order from the website.

While I've been responsible for creating the imagery in general on most shows,

it occurs to me that there must be many others creating motion abstract
imagery
which I personally wish I could see and which I am interested in helping to
reach an audience and distributing.

The way I've presented material by others in the past has been by devoting
complete individual shows to "guest artists" [these aren't currently on the
website as they were produced when the show wasn't being commercially
distributed but may appear later]. However depending on submissions I may mix
them in as part of my regular show, so that any length piece can be
accomodated.
I will accept for submission raw footage, such as a cdrom of a lot of short
disconnected animations, which I will edit together and add sound to if
necessary; or finished pieces, as yours seem to be; or a mixture of both. I
will
respect and air finished pieces as such but wish to also actively solicit raw
footage. Ideally pieces should be submitted already on NTSC [US format]
videotape; I prefer SVHS but can also accept VHS, 8, Hi8, Digital8, and Umatic

3/4; please enquire about other formats. I can also if necessary output
standard
digital formats [mpg, avi, mov] to videotape and will accept Windows-readable
cdrom or 100meg [old type] zip disks.

Please send all the material you have to
Mike Landau
72 Lakeview Circle, Apt. 2
Wahiawa, HI 96786

As to the type of imagery, I would like to put out there as much abstract
stuff
by different people as possible; I think there's a lot around that deserves
and
lacks distribution. I am interested in image manipulation to an extent but am
not interested in presenting character-based or narrative pieces [I could make

an exception for something surreal enough however].

I should note that the Videotics audience is
to date very limited and that while I've been producing it on a
non-commercial
basis for 6 years it's only in the last few months I've created the website,
remastered the tapes and offered them for sale, and begun trying to promote
it.
Sales have not exactly taken off and continue to hover near zero, though this
could change should the site ever receive much notice. I would like to
recompense artists and I'm currently offering
the shows @$10 +shipping [see website] and for now offer contributors 50% of
gross [may
change if quantity orders make duplication house necessary or professional
labels practical but I guarantee at least 30% regardless of production costs]
of
that according to percentage of running time with 20% visuals 10% sound and
20%
editing, of actual sales. Thus for example if you contributed 100% of a show's

visuals in finished edited form you'd get $3.33, or if also the music $5. I'm
currently running off the sale copies myself without printed labels.

All this money talk is sadly hypothetical since as I mentioned virtually
no-one
is yet purchasing tapes. While I cannot guarantee a penny of sales, I can at
least offer exposure of work to Hawaii ch. 52 viewers. [Public access TV pays
me
nothing, and all production costs are borne by me].

PS Please send any ideas you
have for ways to promote Videotics or suggestions - reign in the brutality tho
- on the site.

All the best to you

Mike Landau

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