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6:23, Monday morning, I just woke up at 5:05 this morning, tho yesterday I went to sleep at.. uhmm.. 16:00? Hehe.. I really had to be tired :) However, it's time to do the Day 3 report.. tho It was 2 days ago, so let's pretend that today is yesterday..  :P

As on thursday I went to sleep at 5:00 or so, I wasn't going able to watch the 2 speeches before the lunch time (Granatta and Dr. Woohoo / Jürg Lehni)... I had a lunch with my parents and my brother instead (one of those things that happens once a year now.. So at 15:40 I was ready to go back to the festival...

Syrup (web)
I arrived when this one was going on.. Didn't see too much of them, but was again one of those conferences where the guys just browse their site a little bit a show projects and explain a bit of what they do for each one. I took some pictures meanwhile that one and I realized how many people was sleeping (probably the siesta thing)..

Rob Chiu (web)
After checking what was going on in the other rooms I sit down in the main room and Rob Chiu prepared for his speech. Nando Costa was suposed to do the speech following the timetable but looks like he wasn't able to come and also Rob Chiu (the ronin) didn't do the speech on Thursday because someone stolen his laptop in Barcelona (great! uh?!).
Again this one was about showing the work he did and explaining some facts about it. However, as it was motiongraphics it was somehow more easy to see. I really liked how each piece was musicalized, the audio was great in each one, well, anything he does have always a great audio ambient.

Erik Natzke (web)
Meanwhile Rob Chiu and Erik was swaping the stage I met Wences from DMSTK (a cool digitalart focused spanish forum I'm in) to see if they had any spare XL t-shirt for me :) So they had and I went to get some money to pay for it :P As soon as I came to my place (just in front of the stage I saw that was super full and was quite hard to sit down again there.
Erik Natzke was showing his work and his progress, at that moment I didn't know who he was but after being there a bit I remembered all their works. This guy is the inventor of the "book effect" done in flash. Respect! :D He showed great stuff done with Actionscript and ended up showing his latest stuff which reminds me a bit to Doobscii but done with ribbons, I was very impressed and very motivated after this speech.

Ben Fry & Casey Reas (web)
Ok, here started the down part of the day. It was cool to see the processing-script inventors, but was also very boring. Some bits and techniques of how Casey uses his script to creaty his illustrations were cool, but when Casey stop talking and changed to Ben Fry which was speaking about using processing and that style to visualize data information.. Well, I had to leave!!

Marius Watz (web)
During this one I was outside sharing some beers one of the guys behind CDMON (which hosts xplsv.tv), and also he introduced me to Yeoh Guan Hong. A guy that I didn't know anything about, and also he didn't know anything about me. However, we had a cool and long chat :) Then for some reason I thought I was missing the exposition room this year so I explored a little bit more the building and I found it (the orgos are always changing the rooms). Luckilly after finding the exposition room I saw there Joshua Davis just playing around with his "software", and leting the people play around with it too. I checked all the computers in the exhibition but 50% of them was already silly-fucked up (you know those people that try to reboot the machine or just go to other websites in exhibition computers, well I was one of those so, I should not complain :P). After that I went down to the main room again to see how the conference was going on and well, I wasn't interested at all. Instead of that I went to have some short chat with Rob Chiu and also with hahakid / Hi-Res which was more interesting than the speech going on :P

Tmema - Zach Lieberman & Golan Levin (web)
At this point I just wanted to leave the festival, the stuff that was going on was maybe to technical and not too creative (lack of concepts). However I stayed for the begining of this show, which was impressive on the beginning but boring after the 5th slide, so I left :)

After that I went to just walk throught Barcelona a bit, eixample, ramblas, sants.. the usual places but just to check the new things.. I think I spent 4hours doing a zig-zag walk until I arrived home. So that was the end of OFFF for me. See you all next year, let's see if I can meet more people!