I don’t fully remember Dave sending the application for Futuresonic this year, but about a month before the festival started, we get an email from the nice folks there telling us that they’d love it if we could present Dirt Party. So after a few days of deliberation and urgently trying to scare up some money for flights and a place to stay, we decide to hop the pond and see what these Mancunians are up to.
This time around, we decided to make a few key changes in our strategy, based on our experience at the Eyebeam benefit.
Simplify the output.
Simplify the system.
Have some backup plans if the tech fails.
Don’t have “roles” – that is, don’t separate the work of creating the “dirt”
So what we came up with was a system where we invited 3 groups of people to create LOLCat-style captioned photos of people at the party based on some very basic autobiographical information.
The first group was “the Insiders” – people who we had invited to use the futuresonic.dirtparty.org site and joined us in an AIM chat room. Dave and I would insert people into the system, and then tell the group to attack,
The second group was the people at Futuresonic. Once again, the trusty Eric Olson came through, creating some amazing kiosk software so that anyone at the party could walk up,
Source Code
As always, I haven’t really fully cleaned up and commented this code, but hopefully it will be of use to someone. If you do want to have your own Dirt Party, please let me know and we can work out how to make the software work for you.
Futuresonic ’08 Dirt Party
This time around, we decided to make a few key changes in our strategy, based on our experience at the Eyebeam benefit.
So what we came up with was a system where we invited 3 groups of people to create LOLCat-style captioned photos of people at the party based on some very basic autobiographical information.
The first group was “the Insiders” – people who we had invited to use the futuresonic.dirtparty.org site and joined us in an AIM chat room. Dave and I would insert people into the system, and then tell the group to attack,
The second group was the people at Futuresonic. Once again, the trusty Eric Olson came through, creating some amazing kiosk software so that anyone at the party could walk up,
Source Code
As always, I haven’t really fully cleaned up and commented this code, but hopefully it will be of use to someone. If you do want to have your own Dirt Party, please let me know and we can work out how to make the software work for you.