A short report on the Chaos Constructions 2006 festival
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Blue ribbon or on the other side of the festival.
I'll start from afar. On May 22, 2006, SPB.EXCHANGE appeared in the echo
announcements by Peter Sobolev (FROG) about the purchase of a small color
PAL monitor with composite video input. The monitor was needed for
holding the festival.
I immediately responded to his ad and offered to give my
PHILIPS CM8833-II for rent for an entrance ticket to this very
festival Peter agreed and we agreed that on Friday
On the eve of the festival I will drag this monitor to partyplace.
So, on August 25 at 16 hours 4 minutes to the building where he should
pass the festival, a young man entered, with the same cap
on his head and a heavy plastic bag in his hands. He's right there
was stopped by security and announced by security and interrogated for
the presence of a certain ring on the hand. Of course I didn't have a ring,
but nevertheless
under escort I was escorted to a large room, where in full
preparations were underway for the festival. The guard's finger pointed at FROG.
and I went to Peter. I introduced myself and asked where I should send my
I carry a heavy burden. Peter pointed to one of the four corners where they stood
tables with a motley crew - numerous computers and
monitors. I threw my bag in there and pulled out the monitor.
I was immediately asked to either help or leave. I agreed
help.They put a blue ribbon on my right hand. Such
It was the same last year and the year before it seems too.
That's how I joined the organizing team.
The first important task was to seal the windows with black poly-
ethylene film, rolling it in two layers. Helped me (or I
helped him) a certain Dragon, who during the festival
Valya carefully placed Windows XP MCE at the Microsoft stand in
BSOD over the network, and then took a photo of this same BSOD and posted
photo for the competition. It was great :)
Although the windows were not long, they were wide and were located very
high. I had to crawl up the stairs. Window sealing technique
was as simple as three kopecks, but the work itself was very
dusty. Apparently the hall hasn’t been cleaned for a long time (maybe even
never) and before attaching the film with tape, he waved a rag
on top. In general, I was all dirty. There were difficulties with the approach
to some windows due to obstacles in the form of things laid out on the floor
things and computers, as well as tables with ancient computers.
In an hour and a half, 4 windows were sealed and we ran out of film.
While they were sending a messenger for the film, I hit the road home and a little
had a snack.
Came back around eight o'clock in the evening. During my
absence, the hall had become overgrown with a web of twisted pair wires. Messenger
I haven’t returned yet and they offered me to crimp this very twisted cable for now
a couple. Okay, I had experience (at work two years ago I squeezed twoend ;). They gave me a crimping tool and I started. That man
who squeezed me, did it, to put it mildly, carelessly - from
long bare wires stuck out of the connectors, sometimes up to four
centimeters long. This is of course no good and that's why I
I cut everything down and redid it.
Periodically, my assistant changed or someone borrowed
instrument, so I had time to chat and look at what
happening around.
At about 11 p.m., FROG walked through the hall and distributed it to everyone who wanted it.
to munch on - ice cream and baked goods (maybe even butter).
I refused, citing what I had recently eaten.
I crimped the wires until 23:05 and went home.
Day one.
I woke up early and hit the road. Closer to the venue
Familiar faces began to appear. At 9:15 I reached the door. Before
at the entrance from the street there was a riot police squad mixed with security,
in the amount of 5-7 people. For some reason I was immediately embarrassed to go into
room and decided to wander around a bit.
At 9:30 the riot police came inside and I followed them, throwing
pre-sleeve the jacket so that the tape on the arm is visible.
I entered the hall without any problems. The hall was being cleaned -
swept the floor. I was solemnly presented with a mop and I
Determined an area for cleaning. Well, the floor is dirty.
In reality, it was necessary to do at least three wet cleanings, and
more than one dry sweep.
At 10:05 I went outside to get some fresh air afterdust.
There were five people standing in front of the entrance. Walked up and down the street
and returned 20 minutes later. There are already 30 people at the entrance. Some faces
I know them from previous years, but I don’t know anyone personally.
We are standing in front of the entrance. The people are slowly catching up.
A guy appeared and shouted that he was distributing disks with Linux to
freebie.
A little later, a real shot appeared - a mixture of a metalhead (all in
rivets) and a punk with a machine gun around his neck. Hangs on the barrel of a machine gun
a checkbox like world peace.
10:48 Organizers came out of the building and began handing out questionnaires.
I filled out the form and entered the building at 10:52. In the hall on the screen
We played Futurama. He took a chair in the second row, near the screen.
At 11:03, visitors began to enter the hall. They were holding a notebook in their hands.
you're up for voting. Then I remembered that I was left without him and
I went to exchange my form for a notepad.
I returned to the hall and immediately went to the exhibition of ancient computers.
I was playing some kind of flying shooter game on the MSX. Delivered a good one
a record that stood for quite a long time.
Nearby stood an Amiga 1200 with an FDD emulator on the memory card. Left
next to it was another Amiga, and to the right of the MSX was a Commodore 64
Peter Sobolev, who unfortunately was not included due to
that the owner forgot to take with him a cord to connect to the monitor and
wire for connecting the drive to the computer. It's a pity - very ho─
I wanted to play.
Gradually the hall began to fill. Numerous laptops crawled─
butchniks, whoin general, I didn’t care about the festival - they came─
Is it possible to pose on the internet for free?
Familiar Spectrum-oriented faces began to appear. Personally
met AXOR and his wife, LVD, SPECTER and other products─
cabbage soup.
Unfortunately, there were some glitches, such as turning off the electricity─
due to overload, loss of sound on the second day, many─
numerous black screens instead of competition work and the most wildebeest─
Another thing is that works are shown in a different order than the titles are displayed
works Moreover, this becomes clear after the people have gone hungry─
shoved and partially handed in the voting sheets. Orgs show ra─
bots again, already in the correct order, but vote already
nowhere. Anyone who did not have time to turn in the paper corrects the grades and passes─
yeah. I wonder how the organizers counted the votes in this case?
There were also funny moments, for example during some realtime
there cracking or defacing failed in BSOD WINDOWS XP MCE on ste─
nde Microsoft, directly on the network. Moreover, the author of this action took the photo─
I graphed the BSOD and submitted the photo to a photo competition. Hall up─
gave a standing ovation.
The second joke happened with the MICROSOFT flag. It turns out some
the wit pulled the flag straight from the Microsoft stand. Orgi repeatedly
appealed to visitors to return the flag. I somehow serve─
I was half-hearted and didn’t expect a continuation. And that flag is on the street under─
burned and photographed. The photo was entered into a photography competition─
fiy. Hall againgave a standing ovation. Later this work was disqualified─
infected.
During the competitions, various seminars were held in the second hall.
I visited three of them. These were:
- Thomas Margolf - Gameboy as a musical instrument;
- Crate - the evolution of game engines for consoles;
- Initiative group about demoscene.
I really enjoyed the Gameboy seminar. The author also spoke in
showed in real time the principles of creating music for GB.
At the Crait seminar, using the example of one game, they showed
Basic techniques are told on how to make a picture on the PlayStation-2
“tastier” without turning the game into a slide show. Pretty
entertaining tricks are used for this.
Pyotr Sobolev himself spoke about the demoscene. Told in part─
news about the Commodore 64, how the demos appeared, in what directions
they developed and told some principles of creating effects─
Comrade I was extremely surprised when I found out that most of the complex
new graphic effects are actually displayed on the screen in the current
Stable mode! This is great.
Unfortunately, I was not able to watch/attend some of the competitions
on the first day of the festival, which took place late in the evening and but─
whose. And most of the Spectrum ones got into these competitions :( in
particularly music, intro and demo. And the people by ten o'clock in the evening
pretty much disappeared from the audience. Perhaps everyone went to a seminar on business
wireless network security? I guess not enough people voted
to the peopleand the results are not entirely objective...
It was simply catastrophically stuffy in the hall, even despite the opening─
a dug, rising door to the street from the organizational side.
The hall was crowded. There were no chairs for everyone and the spectators stood
sat and lay right on the floor. I should notice it on a dirty floor.
The organizers clearly did not count on such an influx of visitors.
On the second day, families with children came directly.
There was television. I think there are even three different channels.
On the morning of the second day the room was full of laptops buried in their heads
with their noses on the tables. Even the guards slept right in the hall, stretched out on
chairs. In the seminar room, everyone slept on the floor.
I had a camera with me and I took about 15 frames of photographs─
ditch I don’t know how it will work out, because... I've never taken a photo before
with this camera 100 units of film, and even in the dark, but with
flash.
I bought a NedoPC IDE controller - a foundation for the future. As I expected with
He is not friends with GMX. Or rather, GMX is not friends with him - there is a conflict for now─
there. Who would fix the alter's firmware????????????????????????????
I bought two issues of the newspaper Paragraph.
Again I regretted that I didn’t get a voice recorder during the festival so that
it was possible to keep a chronology of events.
In general, I really enjoyed the festival and received a powerful charge
positive energy :)))
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