the wow feeling

[bassy]

Hello,

I've been to the Rock Werchter festival (Belgium, 70.000 vis. every day, 4 days) one of the things I've noticed is that there were more visuals than the past years.
one of them gave me the wow feeling.
not especially the images but more the reaction of the crowd. (also the video was great but that's not the point right now)
There were two stages, main stage and a "tent" (Pyramide Marquee) with capacity of 7000 people.

While grandaddy was playing the crowd was far out of the tent so there were maybe more than 10.000 people looking.
The visual was about a bug, rolling a little ball of sand (or something). At a sudden moment, a little wooden thing stucked into the ball. For more than three minutes you saw the bug trying to remove the ball from the wood, until finally with his last power the ball rolled back. This was somewere in the middle of the chorus.
All 10.000 (or more) people sarted screaming yeaaah, clapping there hands,...
It gave me a feeling like woow yeah there are really people watching this.
But you had to be there to feel it, 10.000 people watching to something you try to do at home by yourself and they like that kind of thing, just woooooow.

By this I hope to the maker of the grandaddy visuals reads this.
Great work.

Bassy

[skyvat]

Great observation. Sounds amazing.

[oxygen]

this visuals you describe here sounds like a scene from 'microcosmos'.
still can imagine it can work really well, showed at the right time at the right place....

[samvisualkitchen]

bassy

grandaddy visuals are made by one of the members of the group, forgot who exactly, but you can read it in Humo or de morgen (belgian), I thought I saw it there?

also,
check out pukkelpop 2003,
Fisheye at ChateauXcrapule! (2nd Consecutive year isn't it chris?), and we're organising the rest of all the vid' stuff & vj's. Be sure to check the Boilerroom, we're trying something new this year?

sam

[Amukidi]

Yeah, I've seen that sequence on "Discovery" or a BBC Nature programme somewhere! A dung beetle if I remember correctly.

[bassy]

Not sure yet about Pukkelpop,
I know now that I passed ALL my exams, so no "2 zit" (re-doing exams) so I could go to Pukkelpop, but I normally am working that period, so I'll try do make a deal at work or something,...
I'll try to make it, but can't yet tell you allready if I'll be there.

[Fullscreen]

Those wow feelings are great.
On May 31st there was a 'free 360? spaze music party by LAB[au]' in Brussels, in the park next to the atomium. They set up a 17m diameter white sphere in the theatre de verdure (an ancient amphitheater).
Arriving in the park was freaky. My first impression: they took one of the 9 balls from the atomium and transformed it in a glowing sphere of energy. You could see all the way around, all the way trough the sphere. Sweet movements of 3D structures, 360? around. Musical guests: Funkst?rung & other.
Inside the sphere LAB[au] created a world apart. People were quiet when they first entered the sphere. It's great to see people appreciating the performances by the artists. I was pretty amazed myself :) Couldn't wait for the pictures...
This massive operation was sponsored by Axe.
Thank you Axe.
LAB[au], thanks for the inspiration and the pleasure to everybody's eyes.
more info:
http://www.lab-au.com/metalab.htm check the NEWS section