Article about demoscene culture?
category: general [glöplog]
Does anyone know a good article about the demoscene culture?
You mean an article about the drinking culture of finnish sceners?
And don't forget about the Polish!
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As Jolyon Ralph says, "It's a completely underground thing that's completely harmless. No one gets hurt. Apart from Atari owners, of course."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/democoders_pr.html
PC demoscene FAQ
http://tomaes.32x.de/text/faq.php
Rhizome Arts
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2010/may/17/the-demoscene-an-overview/
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
just in case Wired link fails in your domain
Demo or Die (mirror)
http://www.roysac.com/demo-or-die.asp
What is a demoparty?
http://atparty-demoscene.net/?page_id=70
**videos**
Part 5 of BBS: The Documentary: Artscene
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8435197985291572970&hl=en
talk by kb at GAMBIT
http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2011/11/video_what_can_the_demoscene_d.php
more ASCII-specific
http://www.roysac.com/videos.asp
Demoscene History lecture at ASM 05
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5716398326696022800&hl=en
Demographics: Behind the Scene
http://www.roysac.com/videos.asp#demoscenedoc
Finnish demoscene documentary series, Episode 1 (subtitles are there)
(can find others from here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Jz1bu2CcA
Doubtless I've missed a lot.
note the wikipedia article is useful for bibliography plundering, primarily interesting for that
That wired thing is Awesome!!!
Evidently polish are much harder boozers than finns indeed in general. I remember very well when finns were waking up and drinking some beer at some BP, poles were already busy with their hard stuff.
Future of Demo Art (and the related thread on Pouët).
and dont forget to send your relatives to Inercia Demoparty 2000and5...
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That wired thing is Awesome!!!
random quote from that wired article:
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the Atari ST, has disappeared from the scene - a disappearance hastened, if you believe the coders, by the sheer superiority of Amiga demos
awesome, indeed.
Some feeling stepped on? ;)
trust me, the Atari is more alive as a demo platform than the Apple I bet
(please, please someone prove me wrong . . . not to the detriment of Atari, but . . . damn you Steve Jobs, you shit in my dream)
(please, please someone prove me wrong . . . not to the detriment of Atari, but . . . damn you Steve Jobs, you shit in my dream)
the atari st disappeared to OUTLINE. please come to OUTLINE. we use Apple Is for the bonfire!
I would recommened some stuff, which is (unfortunately) available in German language only.
Dr. Daniel Botz wrote a whole book about the demoscene, called "Kunst, Code and Maschine: Die Ästhetik der Computer-Demoszene". It goes through all parts, history and present of the demoscene in a scientific point of view:
Website (includes table of content in English language, too): http://www.danielbotz.de/book_toc_eng.html
Interview with the author (German): http://www.bitfellas.org/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.2139
Anja Hartmann wrote a scientific thesis about "The role of fonts in demos". She had a closer look at five prods, which are Heaven Seven, Die Ewigkeit schmerzt, Rastro, Human Sources and Angelic. The thesis consists of 28 pages and is written in German language.
Download: ftp://ftp.4players.de/pub/pc/4sceners/Games/Typodemos.pdf
Interview with the author (German): http://www.bitfellas.org/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.1514
Dr. Daniel Botz wrote a whole book about the demoscene, called "Kunst, Code and Maschine: Die Ästhetik der Computer-Demoszene". It goes through all parts, history and present of the demoscene in a scientific point of view:
Website (includes table of content in English language, too): http://www.danielbotz.de/book_toc_eng.html
Interview with the author (German): http://www.bitfellas.org/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.2139
Anja Hartmann wrote a scientific thesis about "The role of fonts in demos". She had a closer look at five prods, which are Heaven Seven, Die Ewigkeit schmerzt, Rastro, Human Sources and Angelic. The thesis consists of 28 pages and is written in German language.
Download: ftp://ftp.4players.de/pub/pc/4sceners/Games/Typodemos.pdf
Interview with the author (German): http://www.bitfellas.org/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.1514
Why hasn't anyone mentioned http://www.kameli.net/demoresearch2/?page_id=4 yet?
Thanks for the certainly excellent readings. I'm really interested in reading this German book by Daniel Botz, but I need to learn the language first. :P