I swear I saw photos of the Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) at #emfcamp but now I can't find them. Some from the DJ booth and some from the ground of the other people who played.
It took someone mentioning how delightfully weird @emf has become for me to see it.
If you took the giant potato home you were gifted a real potato. The fictional village of Bodgeham-on-Wye had a mass campaign to find their cryptid. Someone DJ'd using a pig.
@emf Back when we decided our small camping trip would actually be a cool hacker festival, I could never have predicted that my favourite thing in 2024 would be a secret escape room in a shipping container about the murder of Microsoft Clippy.
I could not be happier with this result. I can't wait to see what happens next. #emfcamp
The thing I would most like to understand about #emfcamp is how the organisers and attendees have built such a good culture. I've volunteered for events half the size where the culture boils down to "nobody cares about anyone but themselves", and EMF is a breath of fresh air.
I'd love to understand it so it could hopefully be distilled into a guidebook and duplicated elsewhere.
Just more events where people feel safe to be themselves.
Edit: I don't mean just vol' culture, attendee culture too
@coldclimate@jtruk there's a link in the pinned post on my profile. custom thing instead of a cloud service because I don't like their weird rules and retention policies.
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.
Massive thanks to @emf for having us along to play, to everyone who shared their truth with us inc @coldclimate, and to @jonathanhogg for the amazing live algorithmic visuals! An incredible #emfcamp all round ✨
A fun moment at #emfcamp was getting to use one of the stage tents to fly micro drones around. We had the live views streaming to the screens so everyone could see what it's like.
I was missing a central place to keep track of all the #hexpansion that were made for #emfcamp, so I made one: https://hughrawlinson.github.io/hexpansion-registry/ - if you made an hexpansion, it would be really cool if you could add it there as per the instructions. Even better, if you're selling them (or otherwise making them available going forward), add your link! :)
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