Lincoln,. Gage, Jason and I immediately headed to the Las Venus area, but after a few minutes of checking it out realized we should probably get water, so we walked out to the drink tent and got water, each took a Power Rocket shot (5 hour energy knock off) and headed back into area directly in front of the stage. Soon the more and more people started cramming in. This pic shows every artist that I saw, minus Tinie Tempah and Fatboy Slim (I heard them, but I didn't try to muscle my way into the crowd to go see them).
One of the Stafford Brothers looked really similar to Jeffrey Donovan (the lead actor in Burn Notice)! After about a 5 minute introduction from them, Jessie J started her set. Within 20 minutes I was covered in sweat (my own and other peoples) and packed in ridiculously tight because there were SO many people pushing to get to the front, just a sea of people. The result of this? Jessie J refusing to sing at one point and because there was a "cat fight" going on towards the right of the crowd, as well as having only this:
left of my sunnies. Some fat chick was right next to me and I was holding them in my right hand, someone pushed form the right side, then the left side and back and she tumbled over onto to some other people, and my right hand, and they snapped. Le sigh... the show must go on right, and it wasn't like I could just waltz out of there easily. Then came Chase and Status, and finally Skrillex, (the only artist that I actually knew prior to this). The video footage I shot speaks for itself:
Once Skrillex finished, Jason, Lincoln, Gage and I left the area to go get water, since we had just been in a whirlwind of dust, sweat, sun and drunk people. Jason and I went to go buy water, while Lincoln and Gage went to one of the free water stations. It wouldn't be till hours later that Jason and I would see Lincoln and Gage again. So Jason and I spent the better part of the day exploring the festival, getting food, watching fights (we saw three), randomly running into friends of Jasons' and other people from our group, etc. At one point I remembered that my mate Matt was here as well, and we texted each other for a while to try and meet up, but it never happened. After a while Jason and I were both really tired of standing, so we found a shady spot next to one of the white tents near the Knife Party venue and just shot the breeze, and a bit later our friend Ethan found and joined us. We considered trying to merge into the Knife Party crowd, but there were SO many people heading that way that we just said fuck it. We could sure as hell hear it though, it was a pretty killer set! Jas and I also went over to one of the merch tents, because I wanted to get a hat, but they were all sold out, so I got this tank instead:
After waiting around for about half an hour, Jason and I started walking towards the Swedish House Mafia set, and finally re-found Gage and Lincoln! Once we were there Kane, Brydie, and Kate surprised us with their presence! We slowly but surely made our way deeper and deeper into the crowd. At one point Jason and Lincoln held me up so I could get a better view, but it didn't last too long. A bit later though, after Lincoln held Kate up on his shoulders a few times, he agreed to let me up on his shoulders, where I was able to shoot this:
Wicked good set! We all slowly marched along with everyone else there back out into the city, back into reality. Okay technically it was just back into the park, where we met up with everyone else, Nikki, Alex, Hannah, Izzi, and this one other dude whose name I never figured out. We were sweaty, dirty, and physically exhausted but I don't think any of us cared. We all had experienced Futures, left in one piece, and had gotten to see some of our favorite dub step/ house artist, LIVE, up close (I'm using this term loosely) and personal! Definitely an experience everyone should be able to have at some point in their lives. Half of our group ended up going to the after party at HQ, and the rest of us, one way or another made it back to university.
Day 25 Tuesday, March 13th: I didn't end up going to my engineering lecture this morning because I was still in recovery mode from Futures. No worries though, they're recorded, video and audio. I did however go to my visual arts lecture, which isn't recorded. I learned me some 1st and second point perspective, and got a look at what next week's assignment is going to be, people sitting down. Fun... I then had about four hours to "try" and be productive. I ended up spending the first hour chatting it up with two of the guys from my visual arts class, Cody and Heath. I then went down to the Blue Duck Café/ Balfours Bakery and got myself a custard tart, since I remember Leo telling how good they were and walked back to my room because I needed to make myself something to eat and grab my engineering notebook since I had computer lab for it at 3:00. Had computer lab with Zac and some of the other guys from my engineering tutorial and that pretty much ended my day.
Day 26 Wednesday, March 14th: Yesterday felt intense. Maybe it had to do with the fact that it heated back up quite a bit. Upper 80's Fahrenheit, (I know, I know, I'm in Australia and should be using Celsius instead). My guess as to what caused this increase in temperature, an oil fire in the city, which created smoke that blew east, but there was another wind that was blowing it west, back towards us. Just a guess. Anyway, went to Sociology, where I learned that we wouldn't be getting our essay topics/ questions till next week. Score! Then I had my lecture for environmental studies, then had about an hour break, then had my engineering tutorial. I gotta level with you guys, the guy managing it takes his job a bit too seriously. I think he might be a graduate student. You make a mistake and he just goes off on you! Afterwards I ended up walking down with one of the guys in my group, Peter and we sat on the steps and talked about all kinds of stuff. Mostly he would ask me about certain things in America, differences, similarities, etc. Once he boarded his bus I walked back home, and just in time too. Because a few hours after I got back it started thunderstorming! It was really cool to watch/ hear. It then just started pouring rain, and it would do this on and off for the next couple hours as well, which was nice since it brought the temperature down quite a bit.
Day 27 Thursday, March 15th: All I've done today is work my ass off updating this, and made a big ass breakfast. I still need to do my homework and laundry. So, as much as I hate to cut it short, I am. Peace out Girl scout!
Day 28 Friday, March 16th: A bit of a blah, men, whatever sort of day. Not much happened. Went to Environmental Studies, tutorial where I caught up with Matt and "tried" to work on this wind farm chart. Emphasis on the try. Then went to the lecture for it. The workshop for my visual arts course was probably the highlight of my day. I volunteered to model, and ended up sitting in a chair with my let leg crossed for a good 50 minutes because our assignment over the weekend was to draw/ sketch three people sitting down, a bit like contrapposto I was "in the zone", frozen like a statue, which the teacher Fabian, and the other students greatly appreciated, even though a few of my mates were trying to get me to laugh, smile, move, etc, by either yelling funny shit or whatever. One of them joked about throwing a pencil or easel at me to see if i would move! Haha, crazy bloke that one. Once I finally got up though, and tried to step off the platform, my left leg COMPLETELY gave in and tumbled to the floor. I either invented a new dance move, or did an epic "stanky leg." I had to hobble back over to my easel and sit down on the floor with both my legs stretched straight out. I had that tingly feeling from my toes, all the way to up my thigh. We're talking massive blood loss/ flow here. A couple minutes afterwards I was okay. Anything for a laugh yea? Most people's sketches of me turned out really well, so it was worth slightly embarrassing myself! That same mate of mine who joked about throwing a pencil or easel at me, after Fabian looked at it said that I looked like Sigmund Freud! Then we did the "Barn" exercise to help us further grasp 2 point and 3 point perspective. After class I started heading back down to the Village, and one of the guys I had been talking to during class caught me halfway down, Nathan, interesting fellow to say the least, has huge wooden gauges, wicked good artist judging from his sketches, and super nice/ laid back.
Day 30 Sunday, March 18th: Lazy Sunday. Skyped with my mum though and brought her up to speed with what I had been up to these last couple weeks, and vice versa. Did homework, chilled out.
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