The car packed with all of he essential gear. I thought I'd left just enough room for 2 riders, but I'd forgotten about their luggage(giant bags and computers), so I had to transfer all of this to bw's van, fortunately for us. (You'll see why at the end)
At a rest stop on US 322 somewhere west of State College, PA. Wild nerds were sighted and documented. (Lapine and bw)
Cruising down I-80(allllllways under construction), video of "Lifeforce" plays on my netbook
Couldn't get enough of the view from Rltvty's apartment, he hosted me the first night.
The view from my accomodations.
The next morning, a large ship moves though the canal which I hadn't even noticed.
Squelch203, who was the speaker coordinator for Notacon, also stayed with us and was bringing a TI-99 to pass on to a good home.
Notacon volunteers converge on Froggy and Tyger's place to move the litteral truckload of stuff it takes to hold a con.
Squelch moves a heavy tote, rltvty takes a breather, much work a head of him. (he is responsible for the audio systems for the conference)
The truck fills up, thank goodness it was a beautiful day.
At the hotel, overcoat digs his new ride.
Many hands make the load-in at the Wyndham go smoothly.
The Blockparty Lounge during Guybrush's workshop on Processing, note the improvised projection screen :).
Another shot at the same time, I'm proud of the cube and rope lights.
Here's the cube and my 'Blorgan' project in it's full glory. The blorgan is an arduino-based, keyboard-controlled switched mains outlet array with custom display panels. The lighting is 100% LED.
The North American demoscene crosses the street ;). Barzoule, Blacklight, Phoenix, Andr00, Guybrush and tfinn.
Pizza and beer with Andr00, Blacklight, and Barzoule.
Barzoule, Guybrush, and tfinn finish the beer.
Recycled Rainbow held a box party in the ball room. You can have a lot of fun with loud music and empty boxes if you have an open mind.
Build them up...
...and knock 'em down.
We don't need no education.
Jason Scott held a screening of an unreleased cut of his forthcoming documentary on text adventures, "Get Lamp."
Guybrush experiences the wonder a couple of LEDs flashing at brainwave frequencies can bring.
Tfinn takes a magical voyange into the oddities of the visual cortex.
Metoikos, Guybrush, Phoenix, Barzoule, Blacklight and Calvinthedestroyer enjoy something on the screen.
Metoikos and Guybrush work on their wild while Radman looks on.
Lapine works on a quicky portrait of overcoat for the highres compo.
The video operator's position, Videonics MX-1 in the house!
Divy of Evoflash gives his awesome presentation on flash, here demonstrating his textmode display capailities, later he would show a C compiler running entirely within flash.
Jason Scott in the compo show crunch, note the oldschool laptop which ran Impulse Tracker for the music compo.
Radman and Guybrush
Radman shoots tfinn's camera.
More compo preparations.
Madbrain, Barzoule, Blacklight, and Andr00 prepare to party, yours truely in the background playing with the robocam.
The main organizers of Notacon, Froggy and Tyger, are ready for the blockparty to begin.
Phoenix, Guybrush, Metoikos are eqipped to party.
Barzoule, Andr00, Phoenix
A good size audience for the compos.
During the wild compo, I'm running the robocam and switcher, squelch runs the streamer and second camera, and rltvty is on audio.
Overcoat, Jimmy the horn, and Barzoule dance around my cube during a break.
Rltvty at his station.
During the demoscene 'curtain call' I snapped this Mt. Rushmore-esque shot of Radman, coda, Jason, and Metoikos.
The end of the compos.
Back in the lounge after the Blockparty compos.
During the prizegiving ceremony, Yesso, The Humanoid, Nobuyuki, Lapine, coda, Overcoat, bw, Mad.
Jason Scott and Radman prepare to give the prizes.
Tfinn, Metoikos, and Guybrush accept their prize for their Wild entry.
Critical Artware accept their prize in the wild compo.
Lapine takes his prize in music.
Krue accepts his award for his old school Colecovision demo.
Coda takes his prize for his winning demo.
When we returned to bw's house, I found my car had a flat tire. Bw's dad was well eqipped for the situation with an air wrench and floor jack.
