Slopfest #88 · 31.10.2014 · Vienna
Rise Like a Phoenix. Austria won Eurovision. The committee has been attempting the key change in the office ever since.
Quantity over quality since 1927. Now in a flat, responsive, retina-ready format.
The committee staged its own song contest with 34 entries, each of them a key change with no song attached. The jury was the whole audience and gave every act 12 points, producing a 34-way tie and a very long encore. Udo Jürgens, Austria's 1966 winner, closed the night at a piano in his white bathrobe.
Every pixel hand-placed by an intern, then nudged 1px to the left by the art director.
Our slop lives in the cloud. Nobody knows where the cloud is. Probably Floridsdorf.
And jQuery. Mostly jQuery. Love is a jQuery plugin now, 212 KB minified.
Resize your browser. Keep going. Wow. That is the whole feature.
Looks great on every device.*
*Tested on an iPhone 5s, a Nexus 4 and the Kühlschrank display at the venue.
“Less is more. More slop is even more.”
— A designer on a portfolio site, probably
Invented this year. We were there. Well, we read about it.
A Generative Adversarial Network is two neural networks having an argument. The Generator makes slop. The Discriminator says “na geh, bitte”. They repeat this a few million times until the slop is convincing. It is basically our programme committee, but it runs on a GPU.
Experts say GAN images could one day be indistinguishable from photos. We say: why would you want that? This year we are showing the first GAN-generated face in Viennese festival history (right). Yes, that is a face. No, we don't know whose.
Read the paper (it's long)Fun fact: 34 entries, 34 key changes, 34 winners
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Passionate. Driven. Mostly in their twenties. Hover to flip.
Believes in flat everything, including the beer.
Chief Slop Officer
Has not stopped scrolling since 2012.
Head of Parallax
Knows jQuery AND Bootstrap 3. Wears a beanie indoors.
Rockstar Developer
Removed all the buttons. Engagement up 300%.
UX Ninja
Hacked growth once. It grew back.
Growth Hacker
Owns a selfie stick. Has taken 4,000 photos of one Melange.
Social Media Guru
Good boy. Has more followers than the festival.
Chief Happiness Officer
A neural network. Says "na geh" to every image. Brand new.
Discriminator
Special guest this year: Udo Jürgens (Austria's 1966 winner, closed the night at the piano in a bathrobe) (not on the team, but way more famous).
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27Oct
A brand new top-level domain, and we grabbed slopfest.xyz on day one. slopfest.at is still ours too. More domains, more slop. Update your bookmarks (and your MySpace).
Read more →12Sep
Some researchers just invented Generative Adversarial Networks. We made a face with one. It is 10 pixels wide and has a third eye. We have never been more excited.
Read more →04Aug
We removed every gradient, bevel and drop shadow. Then we added long shadows, because we missed them. Welcome to Slopfest #88.
Read more →19Jun
By popular demand there will be a dedicated Garderobe for selfie sticks. Max. 3 per guest. Extendable ones count double.
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