Had a bit of a late start after getting to bed at 05:00. Awoke to Michael knocking on my door at 11:00. Completely missed what he said, but jumped up and was ready in ten minutes. Headed over to the pier to get a ferry ticket for Michael and Yeşim to go to Çeşme on Saturday. There was some discussion about whether there would be tickets still available. Fortunately there were tickets. The three hour ferry ride ended up costing 85 YTL.
Headed up to Taksim to visit the Bambi Café ( it enjoys local cult status similar to Pink's in Hollywood ) to get some footage for the Stereo Total show in the evening. Their latest album was entitled 'Do the Bambi' and Michael was convinced the crowd would go wild to see shots of Bambi Café projected in accompaniment to the song of the same title. We had a couple of tosts and I shot about half an hour of footage. Lots of shots of doner being carved and steamy hamburger buns along with our food and us eating it.
The neighborhood cats out in force. Our lively group at the Bambi Café.
Around the Bambi Café: The espresso machine with a custom copper face, pre-ketchuped buns keeping warm in the steamer, the döner carver, and branded ayran (a salty yogurt drink.)
Stopped at Techno SA on the way back and found all of the media I needed. Got a copy of the Bambi DVD as well as miniDV tape and DVD+RW discs to feed the DVD recorder.
Fulya had invited us to a home cooked dinner at her new house in Arnavutköy, but Michael decided we would opt out in favor of getting ready for the show. He captured some of the Bambi DVD, while I digitized and edited the Bambi Café footage. He then disappeared while I dug though some other DVDs on my hard drive and pulled out some clips I thought might go with some of Stereo Total's songs. Michael finally emerged a little after 20:00, having had a nice three hour nap.
We gathered our stuff up and headed over to Indigo. Were a little behind schedule, but we got set up quickly before Michael got distracted with 3L. Pascal's latest build had lost the usability that I had injected into the last version that we were using, so it was a bit more of chore to get anything out of it. I was starving, so I headed over to Café Culina and got our order placed. Fulya, the proprietress, was happy to see us again and when we were finished with our meal, she offered us complimentary tea and homemade cookies. We finished up with minutes to spare before Indigo's doors officially opened at 22:00.
Opening on this particular evening was Tufan Demir. He was not credited with any affiliation, but showed up in a buttoned down shirt with a giant yellow tie. He put on a very nice set with some particularly good tunes including a rendition of Benny Benassi's Satisfaction, which Michael had footage readily on hand for. The rest of the set was spent poking around through the new build of 3L to see what we could come up with. After a bit, we managed to get some interesting stuff up on the screen.
Tufan Demir, who did a very nice set while sporting a giant yellow tie.
Stereo Total came on around 01:15. They had requested that there be no video behind them and they had their usual banner displaying their name tucked away behind the projector screen. We switched off the stage projector and continued to project to the side of the house. Michael had brought his old PowerBook to run Videodelic with the Stereo Total logo. He had this swirling about while the stage was rearranged and the group got set up.
Stereo Total opened with an excerpt from Orange Mechanique while Brezel introduced Françoise Cactus.
They whipped through a fast set of tunes both new and old, including, Cinemania, Supergirl, Nationale 7, Vive Le Week-End, Push It, Do The Bambi, Musique Automatique, Hungry, Wir Tanzen Im 4 Eck, L'Amour á 3, Holiday Inn, and Ich Bin Nackt. It was remarkably similar to their show at the Hollywood Knitting Factory back in June. Much of the gags and inter-song monologue were exactly the same.
Michael and I worked though a bunch of footage from the Night Watchman for most of the set. I was particularly pleased to have found some footage from a short film entitled Okénka, of a woman eating a bunch of candy. This went perfectly with Hungry. The Bambi Café footage did not bring the crazed response that we were hoping, but was fun to show anyway.
Stereo Total in the flesh at Indigo.
Batu came on after Stereo Total's third encore was over. He played a nice set that we worked some video game visuals over along with some motion graphics run through our latest round of GridPro filters and finally a long set of duotone nature footage. Lots of sharks and birds of prey along with microscopic things. Everything ended around 05:00. Got back in time to have a tost at the usual place. Got one of the miniDV tapes set up to digitize before crashing around 07:00.
Batu with Cihan looking on. The five computer setup for the evening.
Headed up to Taksim to visit the Bambi Café ( it enjoys local cult status similar to Pink's in Hollywood ) to get some footage for the Stereo Total show in the evening. Their latest album was entitled 'Do the Bambi' and Michael was convinced the crowd would go wild to see shots of Bambi Café projected in accompaniment to the song of the same title. We had a couple of tosts and I shot about half an hour of footage. Lots of shots of doner being carved and steamy hamburger buns along with our food and us eating it.
The neighborhood cats out in force. Our lively group at the Bambi Café.
Around the Bambi Café: The espresso machine with a custom copper face, pre-ketchuped buns keeping warm in the steamer, the döner carver, and branded ayran (a salty yogurt drink.)
Stopped at Techno SA on the way back and found all of the media I needed. Got a copy of the Bambi DVD as well as miniDV tape and DVD+RW discs to feed the DVD recorder.
Fulya had invited us to a home cooked dinner at her new house in Arnavutköy, but Michael decided we would opt out in favor of getting ready for the show. He captured some of the Bambi DVD, while I digitized and edited the Bambi Café footage. He then disappeared while I dug though some other DVDs on my hard drive and pulled out some clips I thought might go with some of Stereo Total's songs. Michael finally emerged a little after 20:00, having had a nice three hour nap.
We gathered our stuff up and headed over to Indigo. Were a little behind schedule, but we got set up quickly before Michael got distracted with 3L. Pascal's latest build had lost the usability that I had injected into the last version that we were using, so it was a bit more of chore to get anything out of it. I was starving, so I headed over to Café Culina and got our order placed. Fulya, the proprietress, was happy to see us again and when we were finished with our meal, she offered us complimentary tea and homemade cookies. We finished up with minutes to spare before Indigo's doors officially opened at 22:00.
Opening on this particular evening was Tufan Demir. He was not credited with any affiliation, but showed up in a buttoned down shirt with a giant yellow tie. He put on a very nice set with some particularly good tunes including a rendition of Benny Benassi's Satisfaction, which Michael had footage readily on hand for. The rest of the set was spent poking around through the new build of 3L to see what we could come up with. After a bit, we managed to get some interesting stuff up on the screen.
Tufan Demir, who did a very nice set while sporting a giant yellow tie.
Stereo Total came on around 01:15. They had requested that there be no video behind them and they had their usual banner displaying their name tucked away behind the projector screen. We switched off the stage projector and continued to project to the side of the house. Michael had brought his old PowerBook to run Videodelic with the Stereo Total logo. He had this swirling about while the stage was rearranged and the group got set up.
Stereo Total opened with an excerpt from Orange Mechanique while Brezel introduced Françoise Cactus.
They whipped through a fast set of tunes both new and old, including, Cinemania, Supergirl, Nationale 7, Vive Le Week-End, Push It, Do The Bambi, Musique Automatique, Hungry, Wir Tanzen Im 4 Eck, L'Amour á 3, Holiday Inn, and Ich Bin Nackt. It was remarkably similar to their show at the Hollywood Knitting Factory back in June. Much of the gags and inter-song monologue were exactly the same.
Michael and I worked though a bunch of footage from the Night Watchman for most of the set. I was particularly pleased to have found some footage from a short film entitled Okénka, of a woman eating a bunch of candy. This went perfectly with Hungry. The Bambi Café footage did not bring the crazed response that we were hoping, but was fun to show anyway.
Stereo Total in the flesh at Indigo.
Batu came on after Stereo Total's third encore was over. He played a nice set that we worked some video game visuals over along with some motion graphics run through our latest round of GridPro filters and finally a long set of duotone nature footage. Lots of sharks and birds of prey along with microscopic things. Everything ended around 05:00. Got back in time to have a tost at the usual place. Got one of the miniDV tapes set up to digitize before crashing around 07:00.
Batu with Cihan looking on. The five computer setup for the evening.
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