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Title: LPM 003 - viva la felicita
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Date: 2007-09-26 12:31
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Category: blog
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Author: Kiritan Flux
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Slug: lpm-003-viva-la-felicita
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Tags: vjism, gonzo, festival, english
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Day 3 was chaotic again - as expected. We woke up too late, injected
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some dual core espressi, and fought our way through the friday high noon
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traffic mayhem all the way to the St. Peter's Dome. Finding a place to
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park was almost impossible and took us almost half an hour. Finally we
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were there, on the big plaza, shooting some clips, getting nods and
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smiles from chinese tourists and confused looks from others who saw us
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in our costumes.
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We returned to the basement as soon as possible to tune into the final
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phase of cutting, editing and preparing for our set. This took a long
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time and our camera seemed to be fucked up at last - it decided
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spontaneously whether to spit out or just eat the dv tape - we had lost
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control. Eventually all material got digitized and we started to get a
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bit releived when Bram returned from a short walk around the block to
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buy coffee and mumbled something about our car not being where we parked
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it. fRED and Bram went back to the place and indeed - the Audi was
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gone!!!
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Panically we talked with Michael, our kind host, who phoned the police
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and fRED, Bram and him went to the police station to find out that the
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beloved automobile had been taken to the deposit because of parking in a
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prohibited area (which is funny because there were so many other cars in
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that street which didn't get pulled off) - so two hours later and 120
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EUR lighter the car was back in our property, but we lost hours of
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preparation time and hundreds of nerves...
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We drove to the Linux Club rightaway, dressed up and ready to rock, but
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we still had a few hours to wait until we would spit out our flickering
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mayhem, so we spent the next hours socializing and watching the
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showcases and workshops.
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There were quite a few interesting talks: about the node based open
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source media programming environment Pure Data, which seemed to have
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developped a lot within the last years and comes closer and closer to
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the power of Max/Jitter. The French crew talked about vjfrance.com and
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the Italian base presented 'vjing tube' - a fancy web 2.0 portal for VJs
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to share and discuss their videos. There were many audiovisual showcases
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which we liked, but whose artist names we totally forgot - and some
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other arty farty noise performances that bored us a bit.
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artificialeyes.tv rocked the house with their VMS projectors and their
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decadent pile of macbook pros.
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Late at night, paki, who was responsible for the schedule of the
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festival, was already trapped in fear and loathing because he had to
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cram dozens of artists into the final hours of the night. We had been
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waiting for so long to show our prepared live set and didn't want to
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leave Roma without having shown a single frame. He told us that our set
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would be "after 3" and we decided to take a walk down via Ostiense to
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get our obligatory caffeine dose. There, we sat in a small bar, together
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with Soni Riot and some other known faces, enjoyed our caffé, listened
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to Village People and got into a better mood.
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Some time around 4am we finally went on stage, really nervous and with a
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handful of vodkas in our brains, and shot our set out onto the beamers,
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blinded by flashes, confused by the chaotic "technical support" - our
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set had turned out to become an audiovisual set together with Bram - and
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after almost an hour shwich felt like 10 minutes, the mayhem was over
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and we packed our stuff and emptied the vodka bottle quickly. Outside we
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smoked and tried to remember how the gig went - it had been a big chaos
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with lots of difficulties and we were both happy and really pissed off
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at the same time - confusion!
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Later that night we enjoyed the live set of Soni Riot and chatted with
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artificialeyes, the "pirate", Dr. Nojoke and some other drunk veejays
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until the sun had risen. Bram and fRED wanted to drive to Berlin
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rightaway but after Flux had laughed and looked at them in agony - the
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plan was cancelled and we drove back to our accomodation location to
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fall into a short, noisy and dreamless sleep.
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On the next day, we packed everything up and started our long trip back
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home at noon. Amazingly, 15 minutes later we were already on the highway
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- and on the first gas station, we poured fresh orange juice and caffé
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into our heads and headed up north. We took Olli with us, the audio-part
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of Soni Riot and after eleven hours of schmoove cruising through Italy
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and Austria, we finally arrived at Bergen, Bavaria, where Olli invited
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us to a nice italian restaurant where we had huge pizzas (we had zero
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pizzas in itally - funny eh?). fRED, who had been sleeping almost the
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whole day, drove the final lap up to Berlin and around 6am we arrived in
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Berlin to fall into our beds...
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