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Figure 1: Lone Rider, 2024. I made this to get some of the anxiety out of my system while taking motorcycle lessons.
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Events and Trips
+Here I keep some memoirs of (mostly music) events I’ve helped organized, participated in, or attended; I’m putting trips I’ve gone on here as well.
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Premier Impact
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Premier Impact
+A doujin music event in Paris which I helped organize!
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Millennium Strike WROC.WAV + Wrocław trip
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Millennium Strike WROC.WAV + Wrocław trip
+I sorta-kinda was support crew here. Also includes general notes on my trip to the beautiful city of Wrocław, Poland.
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Premier Impact Retrospective
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Introduction
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+This is a retrospective on Premier Impact, a music event we held on the 10th of May 2025.
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Figure 1: Event poster. I participated under the alias “Sakka”.
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Motivation, Branding & Concept
+The event theme was doujin music and generally J-core/breakcore/anison, though in practice we gave DJs complete free reign as to what to play and the event was better characterized as “we invite our friends to play good music”; it’s perhaps best understood in relationship to other similar events2. These events are already common elsewhere, but not aren’t yet established in France, despite there clearly existing a sizeable audience for them — our aim was thus to start putting this on the map here in Paris.
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+Since this was our first event3 we went into this without existing contacts and without a confirmed audience. Largely because of this4 we mostly committed to finding a venue that would let us host the event for free.
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+We originally got a reply from Les Amarres on April 4th, so we were in communication with both them and Spot 13 in parallel, but we only got confirmation they’d be available on April 15th. They let us hold the event in their venue for free, so accepting immediately was a no-brainer. They even gave our staff free drinks and meals11!
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+Only now that we had a venue we ready to formally invite guest DJs and start putting publicity out. Promo went out on April 24th, less than 2.5 weeks until the event.
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Figure 2: The venue, Les Amarres.
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Figure 3: … like this.
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Figure 4: All set up. The big subwoofer in the corner took four men to carry up the stairs; on the way back down after the event we used the elevator we had then learned exists.
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Figure 5: Ravers. This picture is in the midst of the TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES of next section.
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+Those that were present around the end of the event might have seen Apt and I frantically faffing about with two DJ controllers, three laptops and a bass guitar. We ran into two kinds of technical issues during our set.
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+Looking critically, behind the scenes—and to some extend unfortunately also on the stage—this was an organisational mess. Some of this definitely could’ve been prevented – Apt and I take full responsibility for the original error of failing to secure a venue in time. Other hecticness in the planning wasn’t really preventable—there’s a reason this post opens with a description of our schedule—but will be avoided in the future. It was a learning experience for sure.
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Figure 6: And to all children, congratulations.
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+Alex, apt-get, mercury.lamp, pachy and myself were in Wrocław1, Poland between April 30th and May <END DATE> for Millennium Strike Live WROC.WAV where apt and merc were performing (B2B, under alias Re;iwa Diabolik). Shout out to pachy for finding time and money to join us last minute; I am very very glad he was able to be there, it wouldn’t have been the same without him.
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Figure 1: Quake III was a good game.
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Figure 2: Finding suitable bags.
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Figure 3: Poland from above.
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+Basically all the time in Wrocław before the event was spent on… actually preparing the set, which hadn’t really been started yet, so we were mostly inside the hotel — this had much to do with apt and I being busy preparing for Premier Impact and everyone just generally being busy. Alex, pachy and I were technically free, but I was also trying to make stuff happen for Premier Impact still, and we all kinda hung around for moral support.
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Figure 4: Cowboy Bebop at his computer Setcrafting.
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Figure 5: Event poster.
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Figure 6: Backstage at Transformator
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+With us primarily being there for the event and it being a really busy period, I don’t think any of us had really read up on the city very much. Safe to say we were all very pleasantly surprised! Wrocław is an absolutely lovely city; real student town energy with lots of young people, very warm hospitality and a very homely, casual atmosphere in restaurants as well.
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Figure 8: Delicious.
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Figure 9: That’s a lot of guitars. We didn’t really have the time to hang around unfortunately, and as you can see it was very busy anyhow.
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+Overall Wrocławians made a strong impression on me as warm, hospitable, humorous and headstrong people. Wrocław had a very active anti-communist resistance that they are very proud of, and they’ve kept that history very alive, both visibly in the city scape but also in their endearing fashion sense.
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Figure 10: The Wrocław Dwarves that abound in the cityscape are emblematic of the resistence. Their appearance traces directly from Dutch kabouters, so they were a strangely familiar sight.
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+Welcome to my website! I’m akk0. I blog about Emacs, programming, meditation, otaku stuff, and other things that interest me. You can view the full list of pages on the sitemap.
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Figure 1: Duct, taped.
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+First day back from holiday visiting my family. Today I repaired the bedroom shelf, installed a longer duct on the portable AC so it can be used in the bedroom more easily as well as installed the AC-window-thing. The longer duct works alright, you can tell the little AC is a little underpowered for a duct that long and it’s leaking some heat.
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Figure 2: Picture of the Day!
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Figure 4: Here you can also see the shelf I talked about yesterday — the little triangles at the bottom are not load-bearing and don’t attach to the wall (there’s metal angle brackets screwed into the concrete wall for that) but do serve to stabilize it.
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Figure 5: Lone Rider, 2024.
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Figure 8: Glad to add some more color to my laptop stickers. Sticker credit: Progress (logo), Suzu (logo), apt-get (untz), Sauce (possum).
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Figure 9: Stats as of today.
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+It’s not much of a surprise, but I got word that I got rejected for all the MSc programmes I applied to. It’s a shame — there’s only a handful of English-taught compsci Master’s programmes around here, and unlike in my home country they have very limited availability and are highly selective (in my home country getting into an MSc is essentially a rubber stamp if you have a BSc, so academic record is pretty mediocre).
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Figure 1: Named in honor of the lady who in Tokyo told us in quiet confidence that Ultraman is her son. Don’t worry, I cleaned him up again after this!
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+I’ve sent an appeal email regarding my rejection from the Master’s programmes I applied to at IP Paris. I’ve reproduced the email on this blog because I think the information contained within is interesting and because I think it’s a good letter.
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