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offf06: Day 2 (Friday) 13.05.2006 | |
| Heh! here is finally the post, it's quite late, 4:13am, I've just arrived home, but I still have some energies for writing this..
So, today was in fact my first day in the place. Went there just first time in the morning. I went by tube, and I realized that there are new kind of trains (more futuristic) in barcelona (just some), cool! Once there I went directly to the CDMON to complain about the crash of the server yesterday!! hehehe, just kidding, just went there to speak a bit with Marc Palau which gave me two t-shirts.. a CDMON one and a promsite one. After that, I checked the other stands (which were upstairs this year), bought the last Icons book "Web design: Flash sites" at the Loren Art stand and meanwhile had a super fast chat with Sergi of niubc.
So after that I went to the roots room to hear the conferences.To be honest I don't remember too much about some of them... The decoration this time was much cheaper than previous years (IKEA).. Anyway, let's say something about the guys doing the conferences... WIG-01 (web) I didn't see too much from them, I just arrived when they were almost finishing, however the motions they where showing were pretty cool. Also, they looked like two young english guys with a nice attitude.
Waskman (web) I had a personal problem with these guys. I tried to contact them in order to do some work together but after trying to contact them in some different ways they didn't get back to me. Having said that, I had to admit that some of the project they did were quite interesting, reminds me a bit of what my brother tried to do as a company, but heh.. these guys look more succesfull than my brother.
Then, it was lunch break, so I went to the restaurant we went the last year where I had very nice food for cheap prizes. I also did the mistake of all those british foreigners, asking for a 1liter sangria as it was very cheap. After drinking all of it, I had to go to rest a bit in some of the kinds-of-beds that they had in the same level of the stants. I was veery drunk :S!
Folkert Gorter (web) I was still drunk, but I was still able to listen what the people said to me ;) IIt was very interesting to see one of the guys which is behing the super succesful newstoday.com. However, the guy was quite stressed because the public and had some troubles meanwhile speaking.. However, the stuff he was showing was quite interesting, a little bit too conceptual and weird sometimes but interesting..
Chuck Anderson (web) I'd seen some illustrations from this guy before. And I'm sure you did too. Somehow he was able to create a nice style for images just adding some shines, particles and colours on the top of grey in the images. Pretty similar to the work I did for Stargazer but with better results. Pretty fun and relaxed guy being very honest and also doing a good speech, showing mainly his work.
Supperstudio (web) Ok, these ones are spanish ones, and as spaniards, they had to do something rude and with lack of respect. They had these chocolate tablets with they were going to give to the audience. At the beginning they were putting them on piles on the front, but then somehow they started to throw them very violently to the audience. It was pretty scare cos you didn't want one of those chocolate tablets hitting in your eye or something. However, the speech was interesting, they mainly do work for the supermarket EROSKI. Packaging, posters, motiongraphics.. everything with a nice end result. They also mentioned some interesting tips of the sector like people using body cream instead of a soup to make the picture for the packaging of a soup, just because the texture of the body cream looks better than the real soup. Weird.
Ze Frank (web) Oh! That one was one of my favourites. he don't know too much about design. He don't know too much about programming (well, he actually knows quite a bit..). Well, he knows a bit of all but it's not the best he can do. He is just a show-man, and he does great shows, it was a 1hour show were I didn't stop laughting. Some themes he was talking about were a little bit mixed, but in general was a great show. You should check his stuff.
Hi-Res (web) + Nanika (web) Hi-Res! Finally I saw them! I always wanted to see them in live. Very nice guys again showing the works they did recently. One of the interesting things of Hi-Res is that usually the final "product" is quite ugly, but it does have a lot of meaning and the ideas on it are that good that the design doesn't really matter. The most impressive thing was when Andreas Muller showed his piece For All Seasons rendered in realtime in a webcam image, where he was showing a paper with a pattern on it. The engine detected the pattern, then detected the perspective of it, and rendered the worlds there, just fitting in the "real world". Nice!!
Kyle Cooper (web) The last one was the idol of masses Kile Cooper. My first impression was that was just and old guy that was just blabling about endless stories losing the topic totally and after 20min of blabling stopping and thinking, what I was talking about?! nevermind, just put that video. Also I felt like he was still living about the credits he did for se7en. He showed some other credits he did, and the only ones that I quite liked where Wimbledon ones. Which I liked a lot the first time I saw them but didn't know that Kile did them. As some of the previous guys he was talking saying (or atleast the poor oldie guy was trying to) "don't let the software define the result". I think that is a very interesting statement.
Once that one was finished I went to say hi to Vent'daval & co. Then we went to have some dinner and ended up at Fonfone where some guy was playing very good techno sometimes.
Well, 5:00 now, time to sleep! :D | | posted by mr.doob at 02:44 | | 1 comment written so far |
| sangria, fonfone... i can't believe you haven't had a bikini yet :P
| posted by sole 13.05.2006 , 08:57 |
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SORRY! Is not that I don't care about what you have to say, of course I do, but they are speaking louder and I lost my patience :(
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