notes while making my C3 site: Official pizza: Tomato, onion and feta cheese. Official soft drink: Coke Theme music: Death and Horror Inc. - pressures collide (scanning rolls a&c), Front 242 - Up Evil(scanning roll b and processing), Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch (thumbnails), projekt sampler - beneath the icy floe (making quick.html), David Bowie - Earthling (uploading to ativan and last tweaks), and whatever of my Cds were in my roommate's jukebox when I finally got home to work on my _own_ computer. Official temperature: hot humid lightless basement type of temp. Time: 10pm Friday started - 7:30am Monday finished, minus 13 hours of sleep and 7 hours of just taking a break on Sunday but being too tense to actually go hang out. Some images on roll A were not scanned in, because they were crap or because of requests by people photographed who later asked me not to. In one case, a negative was destroyed because one of the subjects believed the photo could be used against hir. Rolls are lettered A-D, and exposures on that roll are numbered, for easier requests or reprints, etc. Reprints are availible for a SASE and $?? Canadian (which is $?? US thanks to the metric system). One oft-requested photo was of the goths being barraged by sunlight after seeing "Spawn" in the Plywood(?) Theatres of Oakland. I did make two prints of everything and asked that people only take from the prints in the front pouch of the envelope... this photo is missing both prints. I don't smell a thief, rather someone who doesn't know how to follow directions. The missing picture would be called "c05.jpg" "c15.jpg" is also missing, but it was underexposed so I really wonder why both prints are missing... it had four faces in it, and it was taken between performances by Seraphim Gothique and Subversion. Third face from the right also sports cleavage. I'll reprint it and get a better description. Subversion didn't allow their images to be taken by photographs, nor to have their images on the projection teevee. I got away with it because I usually don't use a flash when I take nightclub shots (see c10.jpg for how cool non-flash shots can be), but I didn't hear about their conditions until after the shots were taken. I have the images scanned in case it's kosher to post them, and I have a lighter to destroy the prints if that's necessary too. A story about the shot that didn't happen, let's call it "c17-and-a-half.jpg": If you got into the c series, then you saw the great shots I took of Seraphim Gothique. You would also have remembered the outfit Julie Bloo was wearing. In the vendor's room, while I looked at slave colars, I saw Julie bending over to sign something on the table COP used. Her back was straight and nearly paralell to the floor -- I'm certain you can imagine the posture. If you can combine the image of her outfit with the image of her position, it would be illegal to show your imagination to minors. I kneeled behind her [pun, sorry] and feigned taking a photo. Friends pointed and laughed at me, and I stood up to laugh with them. I spotted two other people on my left who saw me and they already had their own cameras out and operational. I regret not taking the photo, if only to show it to Julie privately so we could chuckle over it. What would be even funnier would be a photo of all the photographers lined up around the prominent derierre of Julie Bloo. Rolls A & C: scanned at 75dpi, colour, 1.8 gamma, +25% brightness. Shots in roll A that are skipped are because they were really awful. Roll B: scanned at 85dpi, colour, 1.8 gamma, +0% brightness, and if b00-01.jpg is what I used to get it right. These scans don't do proper justice to the band shot nor the "Let's Go To Work" shot. BTW, after taking b01.jpg, nobody could agree who should be Mr. Black. About shots b04.jpg through b14.jpg: I could bitch about how the show was rushed, the models walked too fast to set up a shot, the monitors got in the way, etc etc, but the real reason why these look like crap is because I've got an full-auto camera and I'm still a smallfry photographer. I get what I pay for, and I didn't pay myself anything. So's you know, for a roll of nightclub shots I usually shell out ($10 film + $15 develop + $10 first prints + $5 second prints) $40 for a roll of 24 or 36, of which six shots (at most) are worth seeing 8"x10". I might use two or three rolls in a month -- Convergence III used four. I either need to be stopped, or to be apprenticed [hint hint]. 38 shots on roll b! and I'm glad I didn't miss b37.jpg [sniggers]. Just finished scanning in roll b, and Up Evil has just started playing track 1 again. The scanner's light has burned an image into my retnia. I'm taking a break at 1:48am. 3:00am - decided to pick up email. Saw Jen publish some mistaken information about Siobahn and Matt being co-organizers. Decided to double check my information before trying to "correct" her and I find out that my C4 email addresses, URLs and such are out of date. Start to wonder what else I'm missing and resist calling Matt and Siani at 4 in the morning. 4:00am - starting to process the images. Curse at how my usual tools aren't on my friend's computer, so I start surfing to get the tools I need, like WinZip and PaintShopPro (sorry, but Aldus Photostyler just doesn't cut it if all I want to do is crop, rotate and make thumbnails). 6:00am - Can't sleep. Gonna install Paintshop Pro so I can use it. Gonna process the scans into individual images, and make larger (better quality) cropped pictures of the better ones. The portrait of "tall goth and handsome" turned out well; in every shot I have of him, his eyes glow like a replicant from Blade Runner. I HAVE to get a huge one (300 dpi) of the "resevoir.goths: Let's go to work" shot. b00.jpg is a great shot, so great it doesn't need to be blown up. ("KABOOM!" says Julie, telepathically from Texas.) Actually, only a few of the grainier b/w shots benefit from being larger. Okay, NOW I'm gonna sleep. 7:30am, and I will _not_ watch cartoons. 2:00pm - Awake. Jessie (the dog) hasn't eaten much, and I worry if she's wound up because her roommates aren't around. I decide to not cheat on the thumbnails (by defining WIDTH and HEIGHT on the tags) and make real ones; the thumbnails will be 100x150 or 150x100. I wish I could remember the prog that would do batch transformations instead of batch conversions. Roll B shots are 100x140 or 140x100. It makes me wonder how much of the shot is cropped. I aught to take the best dozen of these and fine-tune them... there are more shots that are as good as "resevoir.goths". I have reason to believe that there were replicants (a-la Blade Runner) in attendance at Convergence III. Among my photos are two people whom I've taken more than one picture. In each picture of these people, their eyes shine much like the special effect in Blade Runner (anyone remember Dekert's eyes shining?). I've done some higher-quality scans for showing this detail. It wouldn't be so bad, except EVERY photo I have of them is with shining eyes. The colour shot is the usual "red eyes," but he's not looking into the flash! b32.jpg has Stephanie with the shiny eyes, but she _is_ looking into the flash and her eyes don't shine in every photo I have of her. I'm doing gamma corretion (+ and -) on for the b/w thumbnails... gamma is a funny thing. I can increase it to get the background and better detail, but faces and other bright objects get washed out. I'll put a caveat on the webpage. I also airbrushed the area above Spanky's head in b34.jpg, because it was really really bright, unbalancing the image. Oh dear, how long before I become one of those cyber-neo-impressionists? [confession: I touched up b08.jpg so that both her eyes glow instead of just her right one. *sigh* the camera always lies; the photographer, moreso. Still, she had beautiful eyes which I didn't capture well in the photos.] 5pm - Did up a logo quickly (Matura MT truetype font), then shrank and smudged one of the Lydia pictures for decoration. I can't really run the Fnord server on this machine since it always wants to use the phone before it lets you do tcp/ip. Time to put on new music and start into the annotations and HTML. I think I've got a copy of /bin/vi for MS-DOS kicking around somewhere on the Jaz Drive... yeah. Oh yeah, "Third Uncle" by Bauhaus. 6:20pm - wrote the first html page. I was playing with Jessie for a while, but now she's whining a bit... I guess she's upset because I've been ignoring her to work on this. Whoever has read this far deserves the Alice in Wonderland pictures I resisted putting up on the site. They're at http://ativan.netdesign.net/~moses/c3/alice/. Knock yourself out, and please don't go there if you're a minor because I don't need the lawsuit from your legal guardians. I'll stick an apropriate disclaimer on it to chase away the anklebiters. 6:50pm - Jessie doesn't want to play anymore, and I'm too restless to just stop for a while. More Coke, pop in a Nettwerk sampler CD and check email before I get back into writing the rest of the HTML. If I remain spartan, I should be done in time to get a pitcher of beer at the Catacombs tonight. 8pm - dinking around, trying out the index.html on ativan to get the colours right and try some of the links, uploading files, and surfing the web to get proper hyperlinks for some of the text (like "Blade Runner" and "Convergence 3"). Picked up my mail from Siobahn and I get a shock: Matt resigned! No wonder he's not returning my calls! I'll finish writing letters and then take the dog out for a walk to calm my nerves. (I'm geting behind schedule here. Arrgh... must be done before last call at CAtacombs!) 9pm - Uploading the photos, smarting from Carcajou's reply to a letter I wrote to the list (about meeting Wench). I really know how to put my foot in my mouth. More twiddling with pictures, wrote replicants.html and cheated on the thumbnails... read the html source and see how. Now with my feet wet I'm on to the real pages... and only four hours before last call at the bar! I'm missing something though. Music! Gonna pop in NIN - Downward spiral this time as I type out the Sparky's page. 12:30am Sunday - looking like I won't make it for last call. I'm a doofus for not remembering that I can use Netscape to view local HTML files so long as my links are always relative. Just finished the Haight street page, and I was perusing my #gothik and alt.binaries.gothic collections to see about more cute pix to put at the top of pages. 1:10am Sunday - Things are looking great. I decided to use movie quotes for the "on to the next page" links because it's more cool and I get to make some pop culture references -- that's very "in" don'tcha know, tres "Spin" magazine. I need three more pictures for the top of the page pix... so far I'm using Nightclubing Lydia, Jack Skellington and the Oriental Death pictures. I'm gonna get Reseviour Dogs for the b/w roll (to compare against "resevoir.goths"). Back to Front 242 - Up Evil for the music. Wish I had my own music here. FUCK is this Netscape browser annoying. Doesn't respond to mouse events while it's getting pictures, and pauses for 8 seconds before getting any file. Why is it so hard to find a bloody Resevoir Dogs picture? It took me an HOUR to find a picture, I got the right one by total dumb luck (first one I downloaded, sight unseen and I had to download it to another server first), and write one letter to TJ about Matt stepping down. ...oh, christ, this photo is worth it. Aaron Wooster knew that I was going to take a shot because we looked like Resevoir Dogs, and he put his hand up to his face just like Mr. Blonde. Aaron rocks my world. EdVamp is looking sideways like Mr. Pink, kinda sorta. I better get a confirmation of the woman standing next to Griffin in b20.jpg. If it turns out to be Miss Charming from Wench and I don't recognize her, I'll look like a real chump. Robert/nightbird would know. No link to a website on the C3 page, but I may have the names for the SGothique band members... damnit! Am I using the 16-bit version of Netscape? 80 bytes a second, my ass. Okay, "Tycho, Bysshe, 'Quinne and Julie Blue." I remember Aaron saying their names once, outside the Marriot hotel. Ugh. I'm so tired and (not burntout, but) toasted that I started kvetching on the "friday.html" page instead of in this text file where it belongs. Fuck it, I'm gonna leave it there. Said I'd sack out at 5:30am, but I'm checking my email to see if I got confirmation on that photograph. 6am Sunday - Robert couldn't confirm, and has asked Wench to reply, so I'll have to wait until Monday prolly. I just uploaded the latest files in case Robert decides to browse around or anyone else does for that matter (planning for security leaks and all that). Jesus was this a large undertaking. I'm gonna force myself to sleep now that it's 6am. 2:30pm Sunday - Awake. I'm gonna move to home with this. Raj is looking after Jessie now, and my net connection is faster from home. I'll need the faster connection for more cute pictures for the tops of pages, because I'm going to break up the photos into more pages... maybe 10 photos a page for ease of downloading. Right now I'll see if I can find the Obsidian CD I loaned Lou, and what I can "acquire" off of her hard disk while the Jaz disk is connected to her computer. 9:20pm Sunday - I've got Coke, I've got Triscuits, I've got music, I've got two-days growth on my head that feels like velvet. Let's get to work. I came home, checked email, got onto IRC in time for someone to say "I like depression better; more range of emotion" which sent me balistic, to calm down in time to listen to someone privately confide in me troubles she's been having with her immature (as in "I don't know what I want") boyfriend. Shower, phone calls, get food-like stuff, mutter about doing laundry. I'm browsing through my stupidly large sound sample collection off of alt.binaries.sounds.movies for more movie quotes to go at the end of the pages. I found one that sounds great (darth08.wav) but doesn't look so good. So I'll stick the sound sample on the website too... and then I'm reminded of cuff.wav and I have to put that one on as well because it's smirkworthy. Am I going to put links to sound samples sprinkled throughout the site? Well, we'll see. Gotta acquire notamask's page, and harvest links from it for the bands that I have photos for. I ask Metacrawler for "spawn movie pictures," and I get five lame links followed by an ad banner for the Spawn movie. Those guys are getting really good at hitting target markets. Found http://smash.mgz.com/spawn/spawn.htx, which is a hell of a lot better than www.spawn-themovie.com (the offical site). It even has a photo of Angela, who only made a cameo in the film. Remember: that Melinda Clarke was the one who could fill clothes so well in the role of Jessica Priest. Also gonna get a quote from Lost Boys to lead to the Saturday night photos. I've got a feeling something appropriate about partying is in there. Maybe a link to Midori's site (http://www.fetishdiva.com/midori/home.html) from one of the decoration pictures as a thumbnail of Michael Manning's portrait of her? All I could find is the Lost Boys 2 script I found when I was working for Time-Warner in Los Angeles. It'll have to do. Hey! I can use that old superdeformed family portrait of the Endless for Saturday! I hope I still have it. ...I do, but in black and white. It'll have to do. 12:42am Monday and it looks like I'll be finished, but in time to get a pitcher of beer at Power tonight? People had better think this site is supercool, because I've been putting a fuckload of effort into this. Still, if I push it on people then I'll look uncool. *sigh* Could someone get me a manual of how to blow one's own horn? And how can I get _paid_ for this? 2am Sunday - FINALLY! The last word typed, now just to do some last editing... just as last call was made at Power tonight. Damn. And where are these mosquitos coming from? I'm on the eleventh floor for chrissake. Must remember to stick the proper submliminal messages in the http headers for these pages (I'm not kidding, I put in subliminal messages for your web browsers), and to check links, and put align=center on the tags for the band photos, remove quotes inside the tags I lifted out of notamask's C3 page so it looks like I actually got the links myself, or at least it looks consistent and will consistently fuck up badly written commericial web browsers. Yeah, the last bit about my drunken state in Saturday is beating a dead horse, and self-indulgent. Or maybe not. I get too neurotic about proper behaviour sometimes... I should just let my foot have easy access to my mouth while I won't embarass anyone but myself. Any other bells and whistles to add? More sound samples, more quotes? More contextual links? Here's an idea: a C3 "Seven Deadly Sins" checklist. Did anyone get all seven? Letsee, I remember Aaron telling me in the BART how the seven cast memebers of Giligan's Island were the sins: Giligan, Skipper, Professor, Thurston, Mrs. Howell, MaryAnn, Ginger. Sloth, Anger, Pride, Avarice, Gluttony, Lust, Envy. For once I didn't get Sloth, but I nailed Pride (over TinGoth), Avarice (getting the JtHM book when I already have all the comics at home), Gluttony (boozing up Saturday night), no Lust (I shit you not -- I had a fancy for only one person which I acted upon, and I think I was very mature about it. I was just happily playing with all the other humans) and no Envy (because I felt like we were _all_ fabulous at C3). I super-rarely commit an act of anger, I was constantly busy (if I wasn't lying very very still for sleep or hangover). Better idea: Deadly Sin awards for achievement above and beyond the call of duty. I'm a shoe-in for Gluttony, any one of the organizers had reason to cut loose and get Anger after what they went through. I didn't meet any snobs who would deserve Pride, nor anyone so pathetic to might have committed an act of Envy. Fabulous idea though. I wonder what the trophies would look like? My head still feels like velvet. Should I put a "Don't do this" disclaimer after the drunkeness paragraphs at the bottom of saturday.html ? Nah, it would sound contrived, as if I'm trying to be socialally concious. I am, but it should be a given to not do what I did. Okay, done the "You suck" page for those who don't want to read my annotations. I think I'm ready to go to press, so I'll just upload all this (including new versions of the photos and thumbnails... can't stop fiddling with the gamma on some of them), after I save this text file, and hope that it flies. 4:30am Monday 11 Aug 1997. 7am Monday - Uploaded the .tar.gz file, expanded, and it's looking good. I'm going to send mail to a few people to get first dibbs at it, point out mistakes, and some first attempts at getting names to faces. I spent the uploading time on IRC, where a teenygoth named "MWGacy" came on. Wait wait, MWGacy as in the member of that reprehensible band? Yeah. Well, at least you admit they're reprehensible. Hahaha stop using big words ...and that last comment got me into fourth gear right from first. At this point the Undernet decided to collapse into a dozen pieces, and when I finally found the teenygoth he left before I could goad him into a situation where I'd rip him to shreds. I'm a little wired, you see. 9:10am - Near the 60-hour mark from when I started, and still under. Just sent the email out to invite previews, and noticed I still had the word "quack" in a few places. I use "quack" as a unique word to look for things that I left unfinished. I got the Skin Two link, the Roderick's Chamber link, and the Alice easter egg finished (including the script to insure that only _my_ visitors see it, and a few Alice Cooper pictures from The Last Temptation.) Dare I say my graphics repository is now bloated enough to be useful? The script was an idea I had from seeing people say "Don't link to my stuff; just link to my page." Why didn't they use a CGI script to prevent foreign links? Jesus, I need to sleep. I'm so wired.