19-VI-1975.
Donated blood 2nd time. Probably in good mood after passing the exams so well. One guy didn't pass analysis this time just because he didn't pee before the written part of the exam... and he could solve the problems (you could pass this one without having done your classic 1000 integrals - like I passed - if you knew the properties of integrals) but just had to leave to pee... He pretty much quit studying after that, because he lost the year. The next two exam terms the philosophy of the task changed, it wasn't one long and interconnected story (which is a kind of tradition here, in task #3 you may assume that #1 and #2 are proven theorems, even if you failed to prove them, and you are actually expected to use them).
I heard that he took to drinking etc, but then in 2013 when we organized the gathering, it turned out that he married, had a son and the son tried to weasel out of studying with "if you think it's so easy, why didn't you finish your college"... and he returned to studies just to show his son, and graduated. Wow.
Meanwhile, the old Dom was torn down, after a bigger fire than last time (accidentally happened on monday, when there's nothing going on, no disco, no dance). Too bad, it was a nice dirty old building, reeking finely of yesterday's smoke from ten thousand cigarettes per evening. Of which none caused the fire.
Well, new one is being built, and it will be finished soon. Here, they're already hauling away the debris from the demolition. Actually they did build the new one rather fast, opened... when, next spring? This fall for saint twonyninth? Some speed. And the building is still in good standing.
Meanwhile, just like last summer, the dance is in the amphtheatre (antitheatre...) of the museum. The theatre is behind the wall on the left. Entrance straight from the main square. And Žika the bartender was transfered from the old Dom, has a stand by the entrance. The assortment same as before - beer, banatski rizling (riesling, a wine) by the liter, coffee, espresso, and I guess coke and oranžada (orange soda). We didn't play the small coins game (v. 13-I-1974.), enough of that.
And Sleš was the deejay. It must have been screwy to do outside like this, he'd had to bring in the gear - record player, records, microphone, amplifier, sound boxes - and put them up before the gig, then take them back. The place of storage is irrelevant, it all had to be plugged in then out, tune and most of all, carry, lift and lower.
This shot had some history later. This fall I acquired somewhere (guess borrowed from Dimče, he was experimenting with that), a sieve for serigraphy, well spanned on a frame, painted new emulsion on it, did this shot on a piece of document film (positive emulsion on a sheet of film, very contrast), then lit the sieve above the bathtub (holding a reflector a meter above it for a minute or two), then developed it by ordinary water, the emulsion washes off where it wasn't lit.
Took the sieve then to zzzzz in the lab where he worked, so then we two (and one more guy) stamped some fifty prints of that poster, „music workshop, record rider Sleš“. That poster was seen on the streets, one on my room wall, one on her student room wall.
I think I made just one more try with the silk printing, and something went wrong, turned out a serious enough falt to call it a failure. I returned all the gear, didn't try anymore. This one success was enough.
Mentions: 13-I-1974., Korni grupa only tonight, 05-III-2025., Dimitrije Josin (Dimče), Dom omladine, Mika Zelenić (Sleš), zzzzz, in serbian
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