Report about Chaos Сonstructions`000 - from Ivan Polyacov.

                           
                                         

  Report o Chaos Constructions`000   

                                         
                        (C) Ivan Polyacov
                                         
   Friday, August 18, 2000 I, Paul Pa-
vlov, DJ Psych and DJ Freax came to Pi-
ter for the sake of a grand event.  Considering
success of the previous SS and the number of applications
participants, it was possible to safely
believe that there will be a lot of interesting things at SS`000
pechoro.  The mood is a little spoiled -
my fellow travelers drank almost all night
driving and were not allowed to sleep...                
                                         
   Finally we got to the kuhote- building
atpa Sunrise, there is suspiciously little around
to the people.  Let's go inside, grandma on duty
asks: “Are you the organizers?”  We answer:
“Yes, the organizers” (the grandmother didn’t specify)
la, what exactly are we the organizers of ;-) Oka-
It seemed like we were the first today. Pra-
and half an hour later a group of ministers appeared
some spektrumists: Equator,Rome, Midnight
and a group of Ukrainians.  After another half hour from
a crowd of suspicious people got out of the minibus
personalities, among whom (at the nearest
consideration) turned out to be CPU, Antares and
other spektrumists. Where did MMA come from?
and began to actively load everyone. EA even
suggested that he always carry a non-
large podium...                       
                                         
   People were arriving, Minisoft came up with
company (ACL), Freeman and Mast (Freeart)
who by the way brought a colored gameboy. 
                                         
   Time passed, but there was no smell of organizers,
except for the guy in charge of the bookmaker and
some dudes unloading cbetotex-
Nick (looks like an ordinary traffic light). I want to
wanted to submit the Millennium Invitation video
on Wild compo and another 512b intro, but nado-
We couldn’t wait and we went looking for ourselves
shelter.                              
                                         
   On Saturday morning we headed to par-
typeplace (5 rubles for metro + 6 for minibus)
It turned out that the organizers yesterday
arrived, and now they were hanging out inside
cinema, where us mere mortals
they didn't let me in. TOto my surprise from the building
Paul Pavlov and DJ Psych came out, who both
it turned out that they were drinking all night nearby...  
                                         
   Well, where is Random? And here he is - arriving -
He's in a white limousine, like a star :-) People
rushed and surrounded the car from all sides
Ron, jostled, interviewed. Opening,
As usual, it was delayed. The people are wave-
except for rare MMA outings and
Random`a, no contacts with the inner world
it was.                                    
                                         
   Finally the time has come "X".  Ticket
cost 60 rubles, though tickets as such
there was no - visitors were put on hand
part "SS 000". No votesheet
no one said that there were several of me
surprised.  Visitors passed in quite
spacious hall, seats 400 if not
500, and yet by the beginning of the party there was freedom
There are few places left.  In the air vi-
the village is a cunning plexus of wires, connecting
common consoles in the center of the hall with lighting equipment
around the edges. There (in the center) were located
several computers and a projector.   As a Random opening, something about
shouted, because for some reason the microphone did not work.
So on the first day all the speakers would-
or forced to yell at the whole room.  Random
introduced sponsors, including
Astrosoft, represented by Arty.
Arty said that this is a cool company,
toiling with cool software for cool OS Win-
dOw$ and they have cool jobs for
cool guys.                           
                                         
   Finally all the performances ended and
in the absence of any work on the BC,
Is it possible to play demos on C64? Nothing special-
ho... Then they announced that it would start now
AY music compo (original), so enough
take some pieces of paper and write
there assessments - votesheets will be distributed in the evening -
rum, then you can rewrite it. Oh well... I
took out the voting sheet, the remaining
from Millennium demoparty  (fortunately they were
printed much more than necessary) -
still more convenient than writing on blank paper
mage. By the way, to make it more convenient to write in
darkness, used ultraviolet
lamps.   The compo began and people became friendly
walk out of the hall, but in vain - some compo-
the positions were quite decent, memorable
Mouzon EA (very similar to his Toge-
ther with Me) and Light Future-II by DJ
Serg (very similar, of course, to Light
Future-I). There were a lot of graphics, and quite
decent.  Among unoriginal music
I remember only the first work (Zemfira
- I was looking for it). All this was demonstrated not in
BestView a seems to have something of its own:
Only the job number was visible.           
                                         
  Among4K intro were quite interesting
new things.  And the last work was filmed "by
moral and ethical considerations" when
everyone has already seen that it would be there
lo. Dem there were as many as 10, though not all
managed to start. Here's a preselect for you...
                                         
   Time was running out, Random
announced that it appears the results
will only be tomorrow - there are no vot's. He said
hall that the party fully justified the name
chaos and since the first day was chaos, then
the second will certainly be constructive.
Voting took place:chaos or design
tubhoctb? For constructiveness there was a little
th more votes and Random exclaimed:"Yes
You all suck!"  In short, the design
activity was not enough. With such topics -
Pami, I was at a loss as to how they
are going to have time to spend the rest of tomorrow
given components and calculate the results for both
day?  It was with this mood that we set off.
curled up to spend the night in a rented nearby kbap-
tupy, in which, by the way, there was a lonely
Spectrum ;-)                            
                                         
  The beginning of the second day was not much different
from the first: the organizers locked themselves inside,
there are people hanging out outside, only at DJ Psycha's
a mark from the fall appeared on my forehead.  By the way
It should be noted that open drunkenness
Only crazy people did it (except me ;)
yes RealMasters - the rest of the people behaved
quite decent. By this time watch
there were already a few on the steps in front of the entrance
it's scary...                            
                                         
   The opening was delayed again, at first
for half an hour, then for another half hour.At the end
finally at 13 o'clock people began to be allowed in
inside and distribute votes. By the way in them
there were 15 cells per component and it was offered
indicate the work number and the estimate separated by a fraction
nku is a strange system, especially considering
lack of time.  Names of competitions too
I had to enter it manually.             
                                         
   First they showed a very interesting peh-
wooden video, then went over the difficult
directly to the component: Alternative multicha-
nnel music, Hand-Drawn graphics, Rendered
graphics... organizers were collected here
continue the musical compos, but suddenly
it turned out that a lot of time had already passed, and
Perhaps it’s better to go to the intro. And in re-
you have suggested tearing up the votesheets
lamas and pass the part in which they were assessed
NK of Specov's works. Random announced that
the remaining music is moved to the end
day a wild compo and animation probably not
will take place due to lack of time.        
                                         
   As for the intro, work in 256b
were strong, and in512b - weak. It's a pity
which is not the other way around ;-) Proxium has arrived again
wow great 64K intro you watched
to unanimous applause.  But also the next one
behind it the intra was of a comparable level.  De-
there were as many as 6, and good ones: I found it difficult
I can’t identify a clear leader or a clear
outsider. Although not all demos succeeded in
start.                            
                                         
   Then Random announced that whoever didn't have time
he was late - no more compo today
child.  Submit your grades, we will calculate them -
and will soon announce the results and check
dem rewarding. Already at the exit he clarified,
that it is possible that it will already be on the street...  
                                         
   However, when people were allowed into
hall, it turned out that they were only ready
solid results on the 3rd Specov's new
minations :-( No more results,
Moreover, no awards are planned.
Random is very pleased that this time
the balance was not -$600, but less. Not
the works shown were promised to be posted in i-
no and arrange a virtual vote, a
disseminate the results to all possible
channels. Thanks everyone, everyone is free!     
                                         
   Oh yes, the results... What can I say?
Number of participants, composition and level
works say that people are very cepb-
We prepared hard for SS`000 and tried
perform in full force, anticipating the
other competition. But they were thrown... Devi-
Som party, I would suggest making the phrase:
"What other components? Give a show!" And as a result,
Daddy didn’t get either one or the other.      
                                         
   They say natural patterns
usually come down to either exponentials or
to cuhycam (which is basically the same thing).
Everyone wanted to get an exponent, but they got
sine... It would be unfair to say
expect that the organizers did not try hard.
They just tried something different
direction: interests were sacrificed
participants for the sake of the interests of the audience. to me
it seems that this was not an accident, but
on the contrary - a consequence of purposeful
activities. If this is really the case,
then next time there will be good work
much less, and the percentage of people who arrived
for the sake of drinking and entertainment - much
more. This is sad...                  
                                         
  Still, it was nice to meet the old
many acquaintances, make new ones, look at
stare at really cool things... So
that not everything is so bad :-)