The Evening Before

The excitement was clearly palpable when I arrived at Padang Astaka. The place was slowly transforming into a carnival site, with props being put up and bands doing their sounchecks. All the tents appeared to be in place, with most of the wiring and electricals in place. The damp weather clearly has not dampen the spirit off the crews. Bumped into a few people I have known from before also involved at some capacity or the other. Many friendly faces, with some of them looking at puzzled, staring at my UM tag around my neck. 

We did some on site reccy and finalising what to put up first thing tomorrow morning. Even though it was about to drizzle, the weather was still kinda muggy, reminding to take plenty of fluids tomorrow. A quick look at the weather forecast - showers, with chance of thunderstorm, but with clear, sunny intervals. I think it would be pouring first thing in the morning, but things would clear up by lunchtime. Looking forward to the party then

Bunkface doing their soundcheck

The crew pass in my bag, most of the technical staff as far as twitter and facebook were concerned for the competitions tomorrow had been sorted out. The problem I had was the limited bandwidth I was getting on my iPhone through Celcom. My Galaxy S2 seemed to be nippier on DiGi. It looked like we would have to bring along the P1 terminals and my wiggy modem just to be on the safe side, even thoughTM promised blanket Unifi coverage. Not very optimistic if the speed would hold if everybody were to log onto the network at the same time.

Just sorting out things to take to the site firs thing tomorrow morning. I would just be bringing my Mac Air alone, not the MacBook Pro as there would be a bit of a walk from the carpark to the tent, and I don’t want to be worried about leaving the laptop. I can always carry the MacAir with me everywhere I go. So, looking forward for tomorrow!

Almost set!

The pamphlet for the Photo Hunt to be given at the entrance. Happy hunting and keep on KLicking!

5 Minute Photo Express

What do you get when you can cramp 17 photographers, give them five minutes each, to showcase 20 of their shots at 15 seconds per shot - doing the maths would give you 5 minutes? The 5 minute photo express of course. Inspired by a ‘Pecha Kucha’ event KLickr was previously involved in, we decided to bring the event to KLickr-ville at Urbanscapes this year.

The photographers would be divided into three groups, taking cues at 3pm, 5pm and 7pm, they will not only project their work, but in the 15 seconds also try to explain the mechanics behind them. I was reliably informed that at 15 seconds a horn will be sounded, and if they were to miss the horn on three occasion, they would be ejected. But I would prefer to keep that as rumours. So here is the line-up, at 3 pm:

Ila Farhana - Raja Indra Putra - Mohd Azlan MAM08 - Abdul Urus - Prakash Daniel - Majidah Hashim

From 5 pm:

Lei Lei - Rames - Sze Too - Dina Zaman - Khalil Makata

And finally from 7pm:

Luke Chua - Paul Ho - Wordsmanifest - Loh Chi Ming - Junior - Shaz

Please come and support them. Even if you do not want to watch their showcase for some reason, visit us any way! Have fun, and keep on KLicking!

It's Closing In

After planning for quite some time, it appear that everything is coming together nicely for the KLickr team. We would be having a tent - to be dubbed KLickr-ville - at Urbanscapes 2011 to be held at Padang Astaka PJ on Saturday. Praying for nice weather, from what we had seen so far, the tent is going to be huge - 40 by 40 feet. The other evening, we met up to finalise the plan as well as assigning the task for the day. We also talked about the budgeting and sponsorship. On the whole, I am pretty optimistic about this weekend.

All together, there would be four main facets to KLickr-ville. Each with their own unique role and attraction. There would be a total of three separate competitions on the day, although the one I would be running will have four winneres in the end. The would also be photoshow as you would expect, but with a twist. We will call this the 5 minutes Photo Express - more about that later. There will also be slideshows for events taken place in the recent past and also promoting our future activities. We would also be showing our past projects. There would be a charity portrait shoot which the participants would have to pay a nominal fee as entrance, and for which the taken portrait would be upload onto facebook for their friends to generate the number of likes. This will then double as a competition as the winner with the most number of likes on their uploaded portraits will then receive a prize.

There would also be sales of prints by KLick members. There would be vouchers given away for visitors to KLickr-ville as well other giveaways. There will also be a portrait-taking competitions where participants over a period of time would need to click away portraits of Urbascapes dwellers, and the participants with the most number of captures would win. In the evening, after sunset, there will be slideshows of all the photos taken during the day as KLickr-ville sail away through the night.

To recap - the four facets would be - competitions (three of them on the day), exhibitions of past events, the 5-minute Photo Express, and the charity Portrait shoots. I will go through each of these in the next few entries. Watch this space!

Pix of the site courtesy of Adi Arfan.