ricardocabellov5.5

Well, looks like my ears are starting to be totally unblocked now. That means that I just came back from a Ryan Air fly. Looks like they fly very high or so, after a journey with them I always finish with my ears totally blocked and hurting for some days.

This time I had to suffer that bit for if'05. As I was doing all the image for the party (logo/website/print/screentools/tshirt design) I really had to go there. Leaving home at 3am, we (sole and I) arrived to Valencia at 11:30 a.m or so.. So how do we know that we are in Valencia? Probably because that guy on there is blowing us because we are not using the zebra crossing (on a totally plane surface). Is a bit hard to explain but was very dumb. Usually when I go to Spain I always find things like that, dumb/cheap things everywhere. For example, on the way back after cross the metal detector I just put my arms on the air to be checked, and the security dude said.. "what? are you going to hug me?" Quality!

However, the partyplace was cool, is the third time I attend the party and each year is in a different place (tho always on the same University). This time we had a great terrace that we were going to use very well. For that party I was just doing some extra bits, but once I was there I felt how I was becoming another organizer more. Since bcn10 I didn't organize anything of a party, this time was different, the people on the organization team was very clever and helpful. Respecting the other guys in the team and looking for answers to any problem with the others. If you are with people like that yoou don't mind to do as more as you can.

So, after some demoshows and add some entries on the compos, mr.plek (that with Tekno and others did rent some turntables) told me to do a gig the first night (we were going to do gigs only the second night) and he wanted me to do the visuals for it. Neon v2 was ready for that, so I accepted and as soon as I knew that the music was going to be elektro/house one of the last movies I seen came in to my mind: Napoleon Dynamite. So I just get some videos from that one, some others from other movies to have a little bit of content for that improvised visuals and enjoy the gig. So the gig started and I was just playing with the visual resources I had... and wow, Napoleon Dynamite worked veeeery well, that was a very easy way to show to the people the character and everyone was asking me where the fuck I got that video from. Was a nice gig!

The next day I had some "family dinner" ;) or something like that, and after that I had to work as hard as I could doing more 3Dvisuals, but was a bit hard to do as there was some bugs on the tool, also people watching all the yonkis.com video folder and I just finished with some more visuals that were totally wrong. Actually I was more speaking and doing social stuff than working :D So, the suposed big night was there, we moved everuthing (projector, computers, turntables,..) to the terrace. Also we did some tests to record the djsets, everything was working fine.

So, we started everything, the demoshow went fine, nice prods (not enough for my taste tho), but there was some really cool ones. And after that, we turn the projector to the biiig wall and everything started to don't work. neon2 is now using pixel shaders 2.0 to do some extra effects and my laptop doesn't support that, so I had to use another computer for it. After had a lot of problems with two different desktops (graphic card bad installed (physically), problems with the mouse). I finally had to use my laptop and don't use those special effects, meanwhile the machine to record the djset crashed, totally burnt. So, yeah.. thanks Murphy, nice to meet you again! :) Anyway, I was able to do some more visuals with Cubensis and wel.. threepixels had problems with Murphy as well.. but the night were great, nice music, great fun, we were there until 7am and nobody was complaining about that (that's something very rare in a party).

Verdict: Come to ifparty'06! ;) And don't forget to check Napoleon Dynamite :D