Eye Candy VJs

Specialties

All-​request mobile music video museum. Catalog of over 5,000 from all eras and genres. Weekly engagements in Portland’s up & coming bars and restaurants. Premieres and returning favorites nightly. Actively seeking corporate, wedding and reunion event booking.

History

Established in 2006.

When MTV quit their jobs in favor of airing reality programming, Portland DJs and entertainers saw a unique opportunity to fill that void. Even better, patrons select the videos they wish to share with friends or see for the first time, without commercials and with great food ad drink in reach. Bringing multimedia, nostalgia and new music into a social setting is at the heart of the business founded by Nick Wells, The Phantom Hillbilly and Danny Norton, VJ Norto. Customers sing along, start improvised dance floors, and most importantly strike up conversations and stick around to be entertained.

Meet the Business Owner

Danny N.

Business Owner

A self-​described dabbler, Danny is happiest being busy with an eclectic portfolio of tasks. He sells art collectibles at Missing Link Toys, performs duets with his ventriloquist dummy as karaōke jockey at Chopsticks III, keeps up his chops at stand-​up comedy and cofounded Eye Candy VJs, an all-​request mobile music video museum. Danny uses his training in graphic design, business and marketing to update the music video catalog and develop ad campaigns, and his background as DJ to inform his acquisition of new material.

Danny plays the rare photoreactive synthesizer The Drum Buddy in his band toyboat toyboat toyboat. He studied broadcast journalism at Oklahoma State University, interned at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and hopes to complete a masters in publishing at Portland State University and his own book of essays on music video criticism.