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20051013 Salsa Scener (VI): Amenaza

Si es que se ha hecho enfadar a ps, y ahora esta muy, muy mosqueado. Una amenaza oscura y prolongada se cierne sobre todos los asistentes a la bcnparty. Y si no os lo creeis, no hay mas que leer el post en su blog: Don't you want more PAiN at bcnparty?

La verdad es que os compadezco. La furia de ps puede ser legendaria, y no podeis decir que no nos ha dado ocasiones para evitar su ira, pidiendonos educadamente (al principio, luego un poco mas agresivamente) que fueramos a la inercia demoparty.

Luego vino la peticion de articulos para PAiN, y no se sabe si alguien envio algo (creo que aparte de lo que yo envie, no). Asi que ps debe estar echando chispas.

Parece tambien que la organizacion de bcn este considerando no proyectar ciertos trabajos (lo cual suena a autodefensa en prevision de sceners furibundos). Pero claro, entraremos en lo de siempre. Si se omite proyectar algun trabajo, no porque vaya en contra de los principios morales y eticos y buenas costumbres y/o leyes y normas espanyolas, sino por alguna otra razon, se dira que hay censura y que no se respeta la libertad de expresion.

Obviamente la organizacion puede aducir que hacen lo que les sale de los c…erebros, pero el anyo pasado ya nos dejo a todos un regusto muy amargo cuando se omitio proyectar lo que habian estado haciendo los participantes en la gymkhana (o la adrenaline compo, o no se como le llaman ahora en bcn).

Habiamos estado viendo sufrir a la gente, yendo de un lugar a otro haciendo las pruebas y luego se les quito hasta el gustito de ver sus producciones en pantalla. Asi que, visto el resultado del anyo pasado, y por mucho que algo te desagrade… creo que habria que ser consecuentes y no censurar trabajos. Pero a ver, a ver que pasa… ya me contareis :-P

Hum, y hablando de censura, siempre me pregunto por que en la seccion second stage no hay ninguna foto de xplsv. Particularmente, no tengo ningun interes personal, mio, propio y exclusivo (aparte de que, obviamente, me gusta que se reconozcan los meritos de trace), ya que no he actuado nunca en el 2nd stage ni podria fortalecer mi ego (de cara a un futuro ego-blog, copyright ayame) gracias a que aparezca una foto mia en esa pagina.
Pero me extranya bastante, dado que el concepto de 2nd stage se aclaro con la actuacion de nork y trace en la bcn11.

Hasta entonces era un concepto algo difuso, que nadie sabia muy bien como explicar: "una sala para que vaya la gente y actue y se expresen libremente…" - ni de conya, la gente iba alli a beber y dormir la mona, y no habia ni cristo que actuara alli por no despertar a todos los que estaban instalados en los cojincitos, perdonen que les diga - y fue con esta actuacion con la que definitivamente se vio el camino a seguir. Y aun mas; si el anyo pasado hubo tres actuaciones grandes (nork/network + acidbeat/threepixels, shine/xplsv + trace / xplsv y naif/hello ingrid + cubensis), por que extranyo motivo es justamente xplsv quien no aparece?

Que si, que claramente podrian exigir karawapo y hasta silenci que se pusiera una foto de su actuacion (silenci nos deleito con unas cuantas canciones en plan karaoke, improvisadamente), pero ya sabeis lo que quiero decir, y bueno, no deja de ser curioso.

Finalmente, este anyo las actuaciones del second stage se realizaran en un local externo, lo cual esta muy bien especialmente por el tema de ruidos. Todos conocemos historias acerca de la vieja quejica que protesta por los ruidos en bcnparty ;)
Asi que a desearles toda la suerte del mundo y que vaya todo genial. Y no dejeis de invitar a vuestros amigos!

20051005 To be inspiring is so nice…

There was a time in which trace was known as trace the ripper

On those days r08028 was told to be a copy of a deepness in the sky, mdma a copy of 604, and pilgrimage invitation was the deffinitive rip: more than three rips in just one demo.

But seems like time passes, and suddenly one day you discover nice similarities between one of your demos and a newly released one. That is, I saw the Black Birdie invitation screenshot and thought how nice! this is so similar to my Blue Tuesday! What a coincidence! But as I didn't feel motivated enough to turn on the PC and run the demo, I let it go. Then the (in)famous Shanethewolf told in pouet:

Wait a minute…I've seen this demo before. Oh no, it's just that it's a complete copy of Blue Tuesday but nowhere near as good.

Sure, they credit the ripped music, but why aren't there any credits for the original demo they copied/remixed?

And the demo author replied:

actually, i didnt have blue tuesday in mind while i was doing this. it was rather the asm04 invitro by moppi and fresh! that gave me insperation to do some mix of them both since i had a ribboneffect.

I didn't come to think of blue tuesday till now that you mention it, but sure, they are alike.

Ok, so I was certain then, it was pure coincidence. Then you go one day, and find the releases for that party (Black Birdie). Ok let's see what are they like… Ohmm not again!… more coincidences on green destruction by Digital Devotion … Several rotating objects, the layout, are very similar to the style of some xplsv vj gigs, and maybe even to vslpx. How funny! But we thought, that must have been a simple coincidence, so we didn't start any kind of troll-powered discussion in the demo comments.

The day after, Gargaj says what all of us were thinking but no one dared to say:

i lack a greet for TPB and/or XPLSV :)

and the author makes the long awaited confession:

oh yeah, i knew i missed something. BIG greetings to XPLSV for their stuff that inspired me in the first place!

So seems like this is a happy end… finally all the truth is discovered. Maybe it would have been better to simply send a greet or a ownage or something at first instead of letting the others think maliciously about your behaviour. In any case I feel very pleased of seeing that one of my demos has been imitated.

In fact, I had the same sensation past year when the bcnparty100 invitation was released. That one looked terribly similar to broken minds, the demo that we released at bcnparty11, but sucked terribly.

I didn't say anything on the pouet comments to not to give an image of being overcritical and intransigent with bcnparty, but that one unpleased me absolutely. Music was horrible, code was extremely slow and it didn't work as an invitation at all. Not to mention the terrible non-sense it was, even if they tried to justify it with the party slogan ("Scene makes dementia")

I know our demo was also very complicated to follow (our initial script wasn't developed enough, so the idea of the demo is not very clear I think). But it didn't got frozen in the middle when some metaballs appeared with no reason!

Gosh! to ask for more than a radeon9000 and a pentium 4 for seeing a metaballs scene is destroying the demoscene spirit!!

20040418 superscene day!

Today has been a very scener day (I am listening to dope/komplex just now to get some inspiration xD). I have been making some experiments about geometry generation (what makes unuseful the use of external mesh files). I still have very basic code, I hope it gets better hehe. This lacks lots of features, but who cares? :-P
Here you can see an example of a pyramid iterated two times (to get the mesh subdivision).
pyramid mesh subdivision with two passes

Furthermore, I have managed to upload the mp3 containing a magic moment for us: the public shouting and applauding at bcnparty11, where we release scene of the girls. This mp3 has been extracted from the one that kindly recorded Scythoior/sueño while the democompo entries were showed. Feel the same that bcn attendants! :-D