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Not enough with that gig, some days later, nork wanted me to do some visuals for his djset at euskal'04. I already had plane tickets for it so I had no problem to do the gig again with him (we already did an improvised gig at bcnparty'11). So I was again waiting to depart to Spain at some London airport. This time I wasn't able to sleep in waiting the depart time, and neither in the party. Three days without sleep, I was feeling really tired to do a gig. But some friends encouraged me seconds before the time. This time was a gig with 3000 computer addicts (gamers, lecheers, linux, sceners, and those kind of people). Some hours before the time Mac sent me as well some changes that I was asking for the vjtool, I didn't expected that and I got so happy as well. The gig was nice, the projector had no delay this time, I just tested the beat then toilets and seconds after we started the gig.. Nork helped me a lot this time saying me the changes of the music (Thanks dude!). But then, after 40min gig the people at the party started to whistle, and then putting the chairs in the air. In that moment I didn't know if that was good of bad. I just continued with the visuals. But then, those people was starting to move closer the stage with the chairs in the air.. Was totally weird, after some minutes saying bullshit the gig had to stop. I didn't know why they were complaining, days after the party I heard it was because the music was too loud. Anyway, the experience was great and once again I want to thank Nork and Euskal orgos for it. Kewl!

So, because these gigs and other great things, that was the best july of my life without doubt.

There you have some pages with pictures and videos of that gig.pictures 1, pictures 2, pictures 3.

Update! Huge video with all the gig.

July was a really weird month, weird enough to be te best july of my life. At the beginning of the month my friend Alex Martin wanted me to do a vjset in a town near to Barcelona in a festival called MMT. This was the first vjset for non-demoscene people and that was enough to move to Spain just for a weekend.

On friday I went to "La Paloma" as it was a nice club years ago, but It really dissapointed me, now they play breakbeats and not very cool music for the kind of club as it is. So then I started to think about the Saturday gig and had to went to home to slept, and work some more effects. The place was really nice, outdoor, some free drinks for the artists and when I was on the top I felt something like eminem says on his movie. There was not a lot of people but was enough to think, c'mon! show'em what you can do!.. Hehe, was a nice 10seconds feeling :) Then I tested the tool and I was really disappointed, the projecter had a really long delay, when I had to do the visuals was really had to sinc the beats, so I finally decided to swap the effect mode to get the ambient sound as looked better than trying to do it manually and with the delay. At 3am started to rain (one of the worst summer rains at Barcelona) so the festival was canceled :( Anyway, I had enough time to do some vj and as well I was projecting some demos to visualize the audio lives. Another problem there was the fact that there was no djset, just lives, that means that the musician plays some musics and when the music finish, the music finish, and you have to stop and change to another effect, and that's not very nice for a vj :) Anyway, I honestly want to thank Alex Martin and Protozoo for that chance.

After one week fighting with some Spanish guys and walking and walking through London I'm finally established. I got a room in Queen's park, sharing the house this time with an eccentric fifty years old woman with a mini zoo included, broken phones on the walls and a library in the toilet. Typical, isn't it? ;) By the way, I want to send some thanks to Sonia and Sarai for all her help those days.. :*

Meanwhile I was looking for rooms I went sometimes to HMV to hear some techno vinyls, and fortuitously I found one with two musics I was searching so hard some months ago. Both music were in the same vynil. Christian Smith & John Selway are the artists of both ones (Giant and Titan), look for them if you like techno!

By the way, I wrote an article for the second issue of that pdfmagazine about Spanish demoscene about some mistakes that the demoscene guys usually do. Talking about becanne issue2, I want to say that technically this issue is great, the font is really easy to read and the design is in some sections really nice. I don't like the design of the whole magazine, but I'll probably will like in some issues. Keep up the good work dudes!

So, after all those moves I'm ready to produce some things that I have in mind, molomucho v3, xplsv.tv and next r08 prod saga are in the oven. Give me some weeks!

Three months ago I had to leave London because I didn't found any permanent job in my first try there and had no enough money to survive doing freelance jobs. Once again I'm moving to London, this time with a permanent job. So I will be off for a while meanwhile I find a place to sleep and those things..

Let's enjoy the London fresh summer, great events every hour, dr.pepper and vanilla coke!

After some days asking to humphrey how the project was going and offering all my help.. the Spanish demoscene pdfmag becanne is finally released! The fanzine was layed out with photoshop, knowing that you will see how the designer had to do a lot of tricks with the photoshop limitations. I'm sure that this was the worst part of the project. Maybe for the next issue will be better to learn freehand, quark or something.. Talking about the fanzine.. The idea is really cool and new (who said that Spanish demoscene was dead?) and the content is short but enough.. You can't wait for the next issue after finish of read the actual one. As extra gift, you can read some shit that Jamque say about me (as usual).. I don't gonna say a word about that, everyone have his own point of view and each one is perfectly correct.

Anyway.. check out the demoscene gossip fanzine!

Finally, here is the first post in english (don't expect good English yet). This time I want to say somethings about the Spanish computer meetings (also known as "parties") corporative image. I don't know exactly when and what party did it first, but, don't you think the corporative image of the last parties can be used for kindergartens too?

Euskal, Xuntas and Arroutada uses a childish mascot. Usually the parties organizes a public t-shirt graphic competition some weeks or months before the party. Then, after 5 or 10 submissions, the organizers vote for the best one, and always the winner is the childish one ;)

Then, how can they say they are organizing a technological meeting having a silly childish mascot? Why is it allways like that? Who knows?

Well, it's something to think about some seconds ;). Talking about parties, the next weekend will best (imho) Spanish party, bcnparty. If you are in Barcelona, you have to go!

Después de poco mas de un mes de partir de Barcelona y pasando por alguna que otra aventura en esta tierra lluviosa (Londres), vuelvo de nuevo a la vida on-line ;) Durante este mes, no podía hacer otra cosa que conectarme desde cybers, desde donde iba siguiendo el avance del mundo del diseño y también el mundo scener.

Las webs, obviamente, eran fáciles de ir siguiéndolas, pero desde el cyber no podía ir mirando las nuevas demos que iban saliendo. Asi que el mismo día que conseguí ponerme Internet en casa de nuevo me puse al día.

No comento nada de las webs porque no terminaría nunca, hay muchas cada día nuevas y buenas, quizás comentar la nueva versión de 2advanced, una web que a ido siempre por delante de las demás, pero que esta vez no ha dejado satisfecho a nadie, personalmente no creo que aporte nada nuevo, necesitas un buen ordenador para navegar y hay mucho tiempo de espera, decepción.

Respecto a las demos nuevas, stravaganza hizo este año la invitación para la ya veterana Euskal Party. Todos los comentarios que vi sobre la susodicha invitación eran muy buenos así que tenia muchas ganas de verla, pero una vez vista, pienso que le quedaba algunas horas mas de trabajo y la música, bueno, no me parece que encaje muy bien con la parte visual. Aunque hay que decir que la idea es muy buena y el 3D mas de lo mismo. Me quedo a la espera de la demo que están haciendo para la misma Euskal :)

En el ámbito internacional, han salido unas cuantas a comentar. Quizás una de las que mas se a hablado a sigo la demo Glitch / Kewlers, basado en el videoclip Gantz Graf de Autechre, tiene su gracia también, pero echo a faltar algo mas que ruido. Precisamente, otras dos a remarcar han sido d796 / kosmoplovci y korsopolski - 6EE-18 / jumalauta, la verdad es que me empieza a gustar este estilo. Y por ultimo televisión / addict, no es una gran demo, pero tiene su sorpresa, sentid la musica ;)

Fuzzion ha sacado las versiones finales de 2 de mis primeras prods, dacube2 y primperan. La verdad es que me hizo bastante ilusión ya que una de las mejoras es la compatibilidad con todas las versiones de Windows, y es que hacia bastante tiempo que no tenia la posibilidad de ver estos primeros pasos de diseño y ralladura :) Muchas gracias ccm y sml!

Siguiendo con la moda de portar demos clásicas de MS-DOS a Win32, le ha llegado, por fin, el turno a la bakkslide 7. Pero aparte de esto, trasteando en la web del coder, encontré mas links referentes a esta intro. Outshined, es el nombre de un video en tributo a la intro en cuestión. Curioso..

FutureMark, MadOnion, o MatureFurk (demoscene), después de una larga cuenta atras, sacaron ayer, por fin, el 3DMARK2003. Dejando el ordenador bajando toda la noche bajando los 170mb, la sorpresa a sido un flamante y bonito pete con mi (hasta ahora (ya que en la segunda escena de la demo se muere exageradamente)) flamante GeForce 3. Eso si, tiene muy buena pinta, las dos primeras escenas (hasta donde llega) estan muy bien.