The arcade was great, filled mostly with modern games and game-like installations! Tesla coil music every night! <3 There was a lovingly-made on-site riddle game (about the murder of Clippy!), and at least two location-based games!
An honestly amazing program of talks, no wonder they rejected mine. :P Interestingly, there were multiple talks by popular British comedians/science educators, who were probably invited to speak. #emfcamp#emf2024
2 days is not enough to recover from #emf2024
My wrists and ankles hurt too much for swim training that I pulled out after the warm up. Listen to your body.4 nights camping and 4 days standing takes it's toll.
Well... the traders had an amazing time tonight in the night market.. we had SUCH a laugh and a fair few bevvies! So many silly things were done with the "shrillin chickens" :) Thanks @mattgrayyes#emfcamp#emf2024
One of the surprisingly nice thing about #emf2024 is that there's no special treatment of speakers other than being guaranteed a ticket - no special badge, no special areas, no special dinners. It's just one big community where speaking is just one of the ways to contribute, and all the others are just as important.
Thank you, appealingly priced and reasonably reviewed festival tent. I will never forget our first time together.
(@FieldFX showreel video to come soon) #emf#emf24#emf2024#emfcamp2024
On my flight home, and I have written a somewhat emotional blog post about my time at EMF and how it recharges me in a way almost nothing else does: "An Electromagnetic Force" https://aeracode.org/2024/06/05/emf-2024/
Ok we’ve all had a little while to bathe in our feelings, time for an important reminder: EMF is partly made possible by sponsorship, and it fucking sucked this year. Please, if you enjoyed EMF, and you’re sharing your experiences with others now and in the future, keep your eyes peeled and arms open for folks and entities that may want to become a sponsor in 2026. Email us at sponsor@emfcamp.org and we’ll be back in touch when time comes.
Highlight #10 (of 10): I cryptically posted about this before the festival but I couldn't be more pleased to have been involved in bringing the legendary James Braddell/Funki Porcini to the festival with the Laserium. This was hands-down the most exciting thing at EMF2024 for me. It was standing room only in workshop 4 on Saturday night, so especially cool to sit next to James and watch from behind the extraordinary 700 laser setup responsible for these effects
Highlight #8: Tim Hunkin(!) and his fabulous mechanical arcade machine, Revolution. I absolutely loved walking the site with Tim and introducing him to astonished people
Highlight #6 (and we're on to the pieces that I am proud to have had a personal hand in bringing to the festival): A huge thanks to Malcolm Clark for specially bringing this teletype and getting it playing Colossal Cave Adventure for us. It fitted so perfectly with what we were trying to do with the new arcade this year and it was great seeing people being sucked into it and then tearing off and taking their adventure home with them.
Highlight #5: APPYBIRD!!! @alphabetter once again excelled in producing an absolute delight of a mechanical arcade game, which I realise now that I completely failed to take a picture of. So I’m pointing to @rc2014's picture instead:
Highlight #3: @jamesdarling's absolutely mesmerising Murmuration (slowed down here for effect). Honestly, I was not trying to baby-sit you that first night, James, I just really enjoyed sitting next to it for an hour 😂
Left #EMF2024 on Monday but I'm still trying to recover from the AWESOME. It was an absolute honour to be part of the Design Team in the lead-up and then see it all come together so beautifully!
I always love EMF, as do my kids, who will likely talk about it for the next two years like the did the last one!
And thank you @moraghickman for making furoshiki to enable my workshop :D still so pleased we got to actually meet IN PERSON after so many months of planning and chats!
I gave my Super 8 digital talk at #emf2024 and encountered quite a group of like minded old camera enthusiasts.
The idea formed in the Q&A after the talk that a camera hacking village would be a cool idea at a future EMF. I'm unable to organise it because other commitments, but I am putting it out here.
At a guess, a workshop area and a darkroom (subject to water supply). Make it sew.