This sounds like all kinds of awesome. I second (third?) the call to document.
BTW, us Max users dont just hate puppies. We eat them! And vote for McCain! WE ARE EVIL! I really hope people trash talk during the contest, Oh man, that would just be awesomely hysterical. On Jul 16, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Dafydd Hughes wrote: > Hey folks > > Just in case there are Pd users hanging about in or around Toronto > that I'm not in regular contact with who don't have anything to do > next Thursday night. This is bound to be loads of fun. All the > participants are really cool and funny people. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Anything you can do (in Max), I can do better (in PD) > Date: Thursday, July 24, 8pm onwards > Cost: Free! Yes, FREE. > No need to register- come one, come all! > With Celebrity Guest Host Misha Glouberman > Competitors: Frank Tsonis vs. Dafydd Hughes and David McCallum > > Come take sides in this fight to the death between those open-source > PD Commies and the right-wing, proprietary, puppy-hating MAX/MSPers. > > There has been a long and bloody rivalry between those who would make > new media art with Pure Data, a free, open source graphical > programming language, and proponents of MAX/MSP, Pd's slick, > commercial half-brother. We intend to open these old wounds, pour > salt, beer and whatever else we can find into them, push both programs > and programmers to the brink of collapse and determine once and for > all which is better. > > Join host Misha Glouberman as he leads our contestants through a > series of increasingly difficult challenges with play-by-play > commentary by Nicholas Stedman and game show music with Graham > Collins. Watch as Frank Tsonis (team MAX) and David McCallum and > Dafydd Hughes (team Pd) try to come up with the fastest, sexiest and > most effective solutions, all the while fighting against each other, > the clock, and the inevitable nerds who think they can do it better. > > If you have experience with either of these programs (or if you don't) > and you think you can do better than our resident gurus, or even if > you just want to play along, feel free to bring a laptop, work on the > challenges, aid or abuse our contestants or just check your email. The > popcorn's on us; it's free to watch, participate, heckle, throw fruit, > and bet on who's gonna get an ass-beating. > > Information and downloads: > > Pure Data: http://puredata.info/ > MAX: http://www.cycling74.com/products/max5 > > Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre: http://interaccess.org/ > 9 Ossington Ave, Toronto ON Canada > Facebook event is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19191668235 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > cheers > dafydd > > -- > www.sideshowmedia.ca > skype: chickeninthegrass > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
