Day 1 @ OFFF

Fail Gracefully is the tagline for this years OFFF conference.  it hasnt been fully explained, but i think the first thing you’d think about when you hear that in a design sense is try out things that you wouldn’t normally do and don’t worry about failing.  all philosophical and all :)

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Kyle Cooper, who is going to close the whole thing on saturday night will explain more on the motion piece that Prologue made for the event so i’m extremely excited and looking forward to that!  Should be a party atmosphere too!

The huge hall that emerges from the entrance is filled with exhibition pieces, ill upload the videos later on when i figure out how!

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…stalls for artists to sell there products like t’s, screenprints and books, and also a cool little energy spot where all those macs and iphones can get charged up, whilst you can also watch the conference speakers too!

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by the way, saw a submarine and a warship whilst we were having lunch today at the beach!  is something going on with the Portuguese army???

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In the Loopita room, there are VJ’s doing there thing, which echoes nicely into the main entrance hall.  Theres just an amazing shudder that bounces off the wall that just simply draws you in to see what kind of visuals they have to support the awesome noise.  I saw two artists working there magic in the Loopita room, some cool vids will be uploaded soon;

My bro tells me also that Alva Noto will tear down the walls on saturday evening.  CANNOT WAIT!

The one talk i was mostly looking forward to today was from Dave Ferner of United Visual Artists and of course they didnt dissapoint.  He showed most of there best works like the installations from Japan, and more recently the V&A in LDN.  The thing that made it more interesting for me was that he explained in some detail about the process that each one of the guys goes through during a project, such as how they build there own programs to produce the work.  This Basement Jaxx video is amazing (again once i figure it out)

(edited 11/5/09) And here we are, Videos! :)


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