Brad Templeton’s Panoramic Photography:
And……. yet more from the Burning Man Festival. While searching around to see how the Americans do it, I came across this mans work.
http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/burn.html
I think that these paroramas of the event are particularly wonderful. All shot from towers, erected for the purpose and using a Canon EOS D30 digital camera.
Completly wicked work!! Here, the chap goes into the technical details: http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/about.html
Brad Templeton’s Panoramic Photography:
And……. yet more from the Burning Man Festival. While searching around to see how the Americans do it, I came across this mans work.
http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/burn.html
I think that these paroramas of the event are particularly wonderful. All shot from towers, erected for the purpose and using a Canon EOS D30 digital camera.
Completly wicked work!! Here, the chap goes into the technical details: http://pic.templetons.com/brad/pano/about.html
GammaBlaBlog Cyberbuss
Cyberbuss camp will be located at or around 250 Degrees and Abyss.
We plan to set up radio Free Wrybread/Ccyberbuss at 88.3 and play lots of music and noise we plan to introduce the Barnacle – Black rock city’s smallest, simplest and laziest art car.
also there will be plenty of Olympic style games and competitions.
For virtual trippers we plan to be in comunicato via satellite phone with gametone who will post a daily C y b e r sAM One Sentence Summary (and maybe a photo or two) at da gammablog.
http://wrybread.com/gammablablog/index.shtml
You are all welcome to join/camp with uss on da buss
KEEP dA FIRE BURNING,
CYBERBUSS.
The Cyberbuss promises to strive daily to uplink the Cyberbuss One-Sentence Burning Man Summary of the Day, to the GammaBlaBlog. They are camped by a lake tonight, and arrive tomorrow. But what’s their plan? “No Plan!”
The Cyberbuss goes solar when out on the Playa. They’re able to keeps the music, lights and radio broadcasting going, and still leave enough power in the batteries to start up and go home. All without running the engine to charge their bank of ten batteries, like all the RVs do.
Their camp is made from junkyard finds. That’s how to do it right, in that harsh alkali lake bed. Anything new you bring to this festival will be old by the time the wind, dust and heat, or mud, rain and cold get to your gear. This way, you bring trash with a little life left to it, use it up completely, and then throw it back where it came from. A fairly benign form of consumerism, I think.
This years participants come from:England, Israel, Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia, Colorado, Harbin Hot Springs, San Francisco and Point Arena. I’ve invited them all to send in reports, but will feel lucky if a few KB’s makes it to me now and then. The bandwidth and power needed to keep the uplink is precious, and could just as likely be monopolized by some impromptu concert, radio marathon or art event. And really, once you are there, the last thing in the world you want to deal with is the outside world. But you never know.
It was on that crazy Buss for the 2000 Burn. I am hoping that the state of electronic communications is at a point, that a number of people at Bman will be able to email and upload to their websites. But this is just a guess. News out in past years came mostly from commercial sources. I need to search out some sites that might be providing breaking news and photos from the desert. Not that I expect anything earthshaking. This is just for fun.
Black Rock Desert Poem by tanya
Black Rock Desert was the destination,
Headed for a weekend of good times and recreation.
What I got was so much more –
But, wait, we’re just at the door –
These lessons take time
To infiltrate your mind.
So we’ll start from the beginning:
In my head thoughts were spinning
As I gazed at the mountains afar
>From the window of my sister’s red suburu car.
All that I knew of the event
Were second-hand stories from a book that had been lent.
This book, along with my ticket, to me my sister had sent,
A sort of you’re-graduated-so-now-you-can-really-learn-about-life present.
She told me they call it Burning Man,
Named for the tall neon figure in the sand.
“They will burn him Saturday night,” she said,
and off through the desert we sped.
After Gerlach and Empire we finally reached the place.
Turning onto the playa with my sister’s smiling face,
She popped in Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
And, laughing, together we sang like crazy demons.
Greeted by sparkling glittered insane ravers,
Drove to 8 o’clock and feet to meet our new neighbors.
My first visions didn’t go past my eyes,
Which were sun and travel weary from the drive.
It wasn’t really until that night
That I completely took in the sight
Of a beautiful, glowing, magical community
That laughed in the face of a made-up reality.
And after an evening of riding double
On a bicycle that tended to wobble,
Sitting in a mushroom tower,
Feeling its tremendous power,
Smoking some hash,
Visiting a shrine for Johnny Cash,
Making way for the motorized couch,
Waiting out the rain in an Elvis tent, I crouched
Thinking Toto, this is nothing like home,
And biking across the playa we roamed,
Amazed by the sculptures of chrome.
We cheered at the Thunderdome,
Got lost in a maze,
And I knew I was about to reach a new phase.
This experience was going to teach me about community,
About people, about life, about love, about beauty.
And that it did in many ways
Through energized nights and dusty days.
The people I met were what made it all work –
This experience and how it changed my whole outlook.
I first encountered the Cyberbuss folk
Who lifted the world with the energy every time they spoke.
They were friendly and offered a game of Rock-Swivel & Bob,
So we camped next to them and added to the mob.
Their names have escaped me but their faces remain,
Except Sam, Rob, and Gamitone I remember their names.
Others I met under the Central Camp dome
While sipping on frothy cappuccino foam.
Like the suspicious man who was writing to his boyfriend:
“I’m sorry to tell you, but this relationship must end.”
He was sitting at a table, smoking a cigarette, and then
He smiled and finally set down his money-sign pen.
There was Rupert, who shared his nitrous with us
As we sat on the seats in his comfy RV bus.
On his hat was a patch of black and white thread,
“Give me head till I’m dead,” it said.
His wife Sunny was her own rockstar
As she danced in the glowing ejaculating car.
And then there was Shad, who introduced me to these two –
I think he impacted me more than he knew
Through our long chats under the mid-morning sun
And the evenings spent together, full of good times and fun.
He had a smile that made my heart flutter,
My knees go weak and my words begin to stutter.
And before long in his arms I was held,
Into the deep pool of his eyes I fell,
And waking together to the lull of the wind,
We wondered what the coming day would bring.
Outside was my sister Jamie –
Beautiful, intelligent, the star of the family.
She was recovering from her own personal tragedy,
Pushed down by a man she had loved madly.
Almost done healing, she had learned so much –
This experience, together, brought us closer and in touch.
As we fought through traffic to get back to the city,
We discussed the experience and felt pity
That the beauty of people their heart and their soul
Can so easily be stifled by our culture’s control.
And we vowed we would not return to the norms of society,
We would instead live in the world of a true reality
Full of love and compassion and people who would not shriek
When we finally decide to release our inner freak.
Burning Man Festival Nevada, United States.
Burning Man [mainsite] http://www.burningman.com/
Official list of the Burning Man Project: http://www.burningman.com/blackrockcity_yearround/contacts/jrs_lists.html
Thier ‘Legal Advice Page’ http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/law_enforcement.html
Location Map: http://www.burningman.com/preparation/maps/reno.gif
Burning Man is a Labor Day gathering/party/festival that began in 1986 with the torching of an 8-foot stick man on San Francisco’s Baker Beach. Since 1990 it has been held in the remote Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada. For a week, the desert “playa” becomes a canvas for some of the most beautiful, fantastic, and just plain weird art this side of Oz. The festival’s centerpiece now stands 40 feet tall.
Hundreds of people devote much of their lives to the festival’s planning — for little or no monetary gain whatsoever — and thousands of people travel from all over the world to attend. Experience Burning Man once and you’ll understand why.
Visit Nevada’s Black Rock Desert at most any time of the year, and you won’t find much there – just a barren desert formed by an ancient lake bed. But come around a week before Labor Day, and you’re likely to witness a transformation as awe-inspiring as any desert bloom: the creation of Black Rock City, a counterculture metropolis otherwise known as Burning Man.
It’s difficult to explain the concept of Burning Man to the uninitiated. Some call it a neo-pagan festival. Others think of it as this generation’s Woodstock. In truth, it is neither. Burning Man can really only be defined by experiencing it.
Miles from the nearest town, the thousands of participants must bring everything they will need to survive in the desert. Monetary transactions are not allowed at the festival. The climate is extreme, and creature comforts are minimal limited to what people can construct in a few days from materials they have brought in themselves. The ticket to Burning Man warns that participants risk serious injury or death by attending the event.
But participants assume the risks for the chance to create something extraordinary an ideal society that exists according to its utopian vision, if only for one week. The society is defined by the rules that have been established over the years, and by the feeling of community that develops through shared creative efforts.
Many participants form camps grouped around community projects. Each camp has an interactive element, with open invitations to all who wish to participate. Art, costumes, dancing, and music dominate the playa. In recent years, technology has greatly added to the mix, and this year marks the debut of PlayaNet, a wireless high-speed network that will serve as a festival-wide intranet.
Burning Man is a marriage of art, anarchy and technology. It’s a place where hippies, trendy beautiful people, brooding artists, goths and nerds can find something in common.
What impressed was that some of the art is actually good. It’s mostly ephemeral – meant to be burned or certainly taken down at the end, but some people with real talent go to BM to show off.
Also impressive is the tremendous effort that goes into the camps and structures. While some just set up a minimalist camp, many camps have impressive structures that clearly were quite some work to set up. People aren’t there to camp, they are there to show off what they can make.
Here you see a variety of shots of different camps. This is just a tiny sampling, and not even the most intersting. There were literally hundreds and hundreds of unusual camps. Some built giant towers or other structures
Some people, trying to get a smaller experience within what is now a large town of 15,000, build villages within the Black Rock City. They arrange a large cicular area, get common generators and other facilities and collect a group of camps. The Irrational Geographic Society and its stage are shown here on the right. “Drano” city on the left.
More strange camps, including one (Holmes on the Range) with three naked women on a giant penis. Who can resist taking a photo of that? A lot of the experience of BM is going around, enjoying the camps, and going into them, and meeting the people, perhaps offering to help out. In fact, in line with the BM “No spectators” ethic, this is almost mandatory.
All the streets were arranged in a hemicircle around the Man. In the center of that was a big cicular area called the Center camp, which included the one cafe and a stage in the middle, and some of the most established camps around it.
Near the end of the weeklong culture jam, participants burn a giant wooden effigy in a cathartic celebration that gives the event its name. And then the ephemeral city disappears, leaving no trace in the desert.
Collected links here, some really cool photography, check it out. All makes me want to go .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. … ….. ……. one day!
Abobe ‘Special feature on Burning Man
Adobe Panorama Day1
Adobe Panorama Day2
Adobe Panorama Day3
Burning Man Message Board 2002: http://bbs.burningman.com/
The Photographic book, ‘Burning Man’ from Amazon.
World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, August 26 to September 4, 2002
The Summit marks the 10th anniversary of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The UN Secretary General’s five priority areas for Johannesburg are: Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture and Biodiversity.
The Earth Times: http://www.earthtimes.org/wef_johannesburgdirectory.htm
The Daily Sumnmit: http://www.dailysummit.net
Guardian Special Reports: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldsummit2002/0,12264,757397,00.html
The World Summit on Sustainable Development:
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/wssd/wssd1.htm
A strategy for sustainable development for the United Kingdom:
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/uk_strategy/index.htm
UK Strategy
A better quality of life provides a national focus from which local and regional action can also follow. We have set a target for all local authorities to prepare local sustainable development ‘Local Agenda 21’ strategies by the year 2000 and hope to have sustainable development frameworks for each English region by the end of 2000.
The Strategy for sustainable development has four main aims. These are:
social progress which recognises the needs of everyone;
effective protection of the environment;
prudent use of natural resources; and
maintenance of high and stable levels of economic growth and employment.
For the UK, priorities for the future are:
more investment in people and equipment for a competitive economy;
reducing the level of social exclusion;
promoting a transport system which provides choice, and also minimises environmental harm and reduces congestion;
improving the larger towns and cities to make them better places to live and work;
directing development and promoting agricultural practices to protect and enhance the countryside and wildlife;
improving energy efficiency and tackling waste;
working with others to achieve sustainable development internationally.
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_08_11_tash_lodge_archive.html#80274233
The Winslow Boy
“Let right be done” Sir Robert Morton
On BBC2 tonight. Just had to watch this again. Quite simply, next to Ken Loach’s film “Kes”, Terence Rattigan’s “The Winslow Bow” is one of my favourite all-time films. I’m one of Nigel Hawthornes greatest fans. But I had read the book at school, and have always been so impressed by the sentiments expressed. The law standing up for the little man. “Let Right be done!”
The Winslow Boy, Trial of the Century?
This is a richly textured film based on a fifty-year-old play, tells the true story of a high profile lawsuit in England, a cause celebre that captivated public attention in the waning years of the British Empire just after the turn of the century. Reflecting the gentility of the social conventions followed by its aristocratic characters, much of the film’s intrigue lies just below the surface. With rich Edwardian costumes and witty dialogue, The Winslow Boy resembles a Merchant Ivory film more than a courtroom drama.
Through the lens of a sensational case, the film reveals much about society and the issues of the day, and highlights how public perception both influenced and was influenced by the legal battle. As with many high profile trials, the passage of time has faded the importance of the fate of the litigants and their legal issues. In a hundred years, the O.J. Simpson case will likely be valued far more for what it revealed about the racial difference in perception of the fairness of the criminal justice system than as a courtroom drama. In fact, in The Winslow Boy, there are no scenes of the trial. It’s simply not that important. The characters’ efforts in getting the case to a court and its effects on their lives are the essence of the story.
The plot centers on the fourteen-year-old son of an upper class family (Winslow) who is expelled from the Royal Naval Academy for allegedly stealing five schillings from another cadet. The proceedings which resulted in his expulsion were conducted without the knowledge of the boy’s parents and afforded him no legal representation. The family begins an obsessive quest for judicial review, with the boy’s father and older sister ready to sacrifice the family’s assets and her marriage prospects if necessary. The sister, a suffragist, takes on his cause with the same zeal she devotes to her voting rights work. One of their first tasks is to secure representation by an experienced barrister, a King’s Counsel. He is a rather young looking, conservative member of the House of Lords. He eventually shares the family’s passion for its cause and becomes their champion.
A subplot is the barrister’s rejection of the suffragist ideology espoused by the daughter. Their debates on the subject provide a metaphorical tension between the old ways of the recently passed nineteenth century and change promised by the newly entered twentieth. The romantic tension between them provides no small contribution to the appeal of the story.
The film provides many glimpses of public fascination with the case. There are newspaper headlines in “War Declared” size type, and political cartoons, buttons, posters, and even umbrellas proclaiming allegiance with one side or the other. As snippets in the film show, some citizens worried about England’s place in the world following the decline of the Empire. Thus, some viewed the Winslow boy’s claim as an assault on British institutions and an indirect threat to peerage and the monarchy. Others viewed the claim as an overdue call for a re-examination of the fairness of British society and its traditions. The uneasy juxtaposition of nineteenth and twentieth century sensibilities is best illustrated by the cigarette-smoking suffragists who crowd the women’s spectator galleries overlooking the House of Lords, while peers debate the Winslow case in the sanctity of their males-only club.
Many critics of the day warned that the entire affair was drawing national attention away from more important affairs of state. Looming in the background, phrased with contemporary irony as “trouble in the Balkans,” was the growing inevitability of what would later be called “The Great War,” a conflict that would cut down a generation of British men. The foreboding gloom of the Great War also cast a sort of reverse shadow on the machinations surrounding the expulsion of the Winslow boy from the Naval Academy. His expulsion could have the effect of saving him from annihilation in combat. (In fact, George Archer-Shee, the real-life “Winslow boy,” died in World War I.) This future knowledge the audience has, but the characters do not, provides a tragic overtone to the family’s quest for justice at any cost.
In another sense, public absorption in the case of the Winslow boy was a form of mass distraction from concerns about the world’s troubles. It gave people a chance to forget that the old world they knew was crumbling around them, and that cataclysmic events of unimaginable terror were about to overtake them. Thus, the case foreshadowed Court TV and similar programming four score years later: a forum where people can attempt to either grasp or avoid the overwhelming scope of society’s ills by watching the fate of a single person played out before them. Robert L. Waring
Check ou the film details on the Sony Film Site at: http://www.sonyclassics.com/winslowboy/
This film really contrasts, with one i watched a couple of weeks ago. “Blow Up” check this out. You’ll see I have wide taste.
Vista 1.4
This is a test to see if using Vista 1.4, i can write to this blog.
I all us well, this is a pice of ‘integrated software’ that will allow me to monitor, icq, microsoft, messenger, yahoo, messenger, irc communications in one window. Further it allows the sending of sms messages, and , i’m about to find out, is able to write directly to my blogs!
Vista Features
Vista is a Universal WebServices Client that supports Channels for Information and Content via XML/HTTP/SOAP/XML-RPC.
Vista is the World’s first Cross Conferencing client across AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber and IRC messaging services.
Vista lets you play or develop games/add-ons like Chess with your buddies.
Vista lets you develop your own custom web service clients that can be deployed on the Vista platform using your current skill sets.
Vista treats you as the owner of your data and supports standard security mechanisms like PKI, SSL, Blowfish, etc..
Vista allows you to customize it by adding and removing channels/features.
Vista allows you to send SMS messages, get latest Stock Quotes and publish to Web Blogs.
No Banner Ads and No Spyware modules in Vista.
i3 help and feature [blog] page: http://dev.i3connect.com/
Blitz festival Review
Earlier stuff on the Blitz festival at: http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_07_07_tash_lodge_archive.html#78897980
Blitzing through the Corporate Shite….
Blitz festival hit the streets of Manchester with an explosion of artful propaganda, actions and info, to offer an alternative vision to the Corporatised Commonwealth Games frenzy.
Blitz was organised by the Northern Arts Tactical Offensive, in collaboration with UHC arts collective, BEyondTV, i-contact, Fanclub, a Spacehijacker and many other individuals. NATO aims to bring together people working on social, cultural & political issues & to promote art that is spontaneous, conscious & public. The Blitz highlighted all that is street-level, independent and potentially illegal from the dissenting inhabitants of Manchester and dissolved the corporate spectacle.
AgiTATE Art Exhibition
Brazenly located in the middle of a budding mall “Great Northern”, this exhibition in the belly of the beast took over unused warehouse space and transformed it into the most beautifully presented and ideologically challenging collection of art work Manchester has seen. A curating team led by UHC, kept it all sailing the thin line between propaganda and art, enough to attract the most action-orientated activists and impress the least thoughtful critic on their way to the Virgin gym. Starting from the premise that the third world war will be fought in our heads, through images, on the airwaves (etc), the exhibition housed work from local graffiti artists to a “live sound installation” (read- “pirate radio station”). It will be on the web soon- link on Nato website. Over 2000 people visited in a week many taking away radical and anarchist books. Simultaneously, The Body Politic, a radical feminist art exhbit, curated by Angel, ran the whole week in the Green Room.
Music and Film
Live outdoor music took over Great Northern Square, in Manchester’s monied heartland. The ramshackle stage, was so incongruous with the shimmering reflective aluminium surrounding that the whole event amounted to an action on consumer hell. The punk bands swearing loudly, the installation skate ramp under the “no skating” sign and the graffiti wall made it feel like a subcultural spectacle at times, but the real problem was the rain, as ever. Not to be thwarted, Blitz went on to 4 interactive & film events, hosted by BEyONdTV and i-contact.
March for Capitalism?
In keeping with the Blitz idea of undermining (with irony) ‘glossy’ manchester and confusing the tourists, the traditional protest was turned on its head with a march for capitalism. It began (after Skate Attack (see over) pleasantly with cucumber sandwiches and G and T’s in the park. An impeccably dressed, if slightly creased, rabble rallied round a 3-headed corporate monster. Despite us being for once on the same side, the police forced a ‘route’ upon us.
Saturday shoppers and tourists reacted interestingly to the placards ” Bomb Other Countries”, “The environment can kiss my ass” and others. Some people boo-ed because they saw through our heavy irony, others because they didn’t, some joined in because they were drunk, and others were genuinely bemused- with many mutterings of “Bombs not Bread?” to be heard. The three-headed monster was escorted out of town by the police, despite the fact that he encouraged shoppers to buy more and praised the Officers’ commitment to the public good. Meanwhile the rest of the crowd went off with FanClub to monopolise the queue at WHSmiths with monopoly boards.
Spoof Tourist Guide
As if the tourists were not confused enough already, an alternative guide to the city appeared for the Games, an exact replica of the Council tourist guide, it gave the other side to the city council spin and directed people to the Blitz events. It laid out some of the less media-worthy details around the Games- ie. the costly last minute makeovers, cuts in leisure services in under-resourced communities to finance the new sports facilities and a critique of capitalism as a whole, using Manchester as an example of how it has all gone a little wrong and just ain’t cutting it for da people. The council cottoned on in the end and began throwing their weight around as usual, threatening to sue places that displayed it for libel. However, “volunteers” in the Games purple shell suits with yellow vomity shoulder splats made sure that distribution was not adversely effected. Curiously adapted logos also began appearing all over the city’s billboards, city sweepers, vans and buses, as well as paint bombs and graffiti.
Double Strawberry Gotchya!
Finally the Biotech promotion event of the NorthWest Business club was seriously disrupted. First some noisy animal rights activists protesting about animal testing were dragged out. Then the Vice President of Biogen (Denmark) the world’s oldest biotechnology company was struck in the face by a double strawberry gateaux by Agent Sara Lee. Finally AstraZeneca’s keynote speaker was interrupted several times by before finally admitting that indeed his company did profit from people’s misery. Meanwhile some GM carrots and others outside the event made sure all the delegates at the Biotech Breakfast were fully aware that some Manchester residents were less than happy at the prospect of their city being a base for the dodgy biotech industry.
More info from http://www.nato.uk.net
Weblogs.com
I’ve just discovered a site, that allows you to monitor recently updated weblogsWeblogs.com. Then, via an rss feed, be updated via Feedreader.
Related to this, Blogtracker, is based on weblogs.com database.
These resources, taken together with Yaccs Comments, Permalinks, dating of material, and updating from anycomputer or suitable mobile device, represent quite an advance for the ‘small group’ to keep advised. Still test driving all this, but possibilities are now occuring to me daily!
May Day 2002
| Guardian Blog :: May 1: Anti-capitalist and anti-globalisation campaigners protest around the world. |
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Here are the best online reads: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,707604,00.html
also, a considerable sized resource, on writting from the day at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/mayday/0,7368,475106,00.html
Previous info on the Guardian Blog competition, earlier on my blog at
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_08_04_tash_lodge_archive.html#79802465
WAP phone
I can now add to this blog, using my WAP phone. This is one of the first messages that I added here, using it. Think it quite amazing, that it is possible!
Also, using the services at http://wap88.com/ It is also possible to access my ICQ accounts. To send and receive messages from those online. To be able from a mobile Wap phone; to call, SMS, ICQ, write to blog, view wapsite. All this represents, quite a convergence.
i-Mode
Another quite amazining convergence, with these modern communications. Have just worked out the my WAP sit at http://wappy.to/tash/ is avalable to be view on the ‘i-Mode’ system of mobile phones. I wrote pages for WAP content, but this means that i now ‘open in Japan’. Gosh.
You can see my WAP site in ‘normal’ emulator or ‘i-mode’ emulator
Gives a feel, of what can be done, on the move.
i-Mode Links FAQ http://www.imodelinks.com/desktop/faq.html
Mobile Media – Japan FAQ http://www.mobilemediajapan.com/imodefaq/
CYBERBUSS
CYBERBUSS will be making its 6th trip to Burning Man this year.
It is well rested after a year off last year.
CYBERBUSS camp will be located at or around 250 Degrees and Abyss.
We plan to set up radio Free Wrybread/CYBERBUSS at 88.3 and play lots of music and noise
we plan to introduce the Barnacle – Black rock city’s smallest, simplest and laziest art car.
also there will be plenty of Olympic style games and competitions.
For virtual trippers we plan to be in comunicato via satellite phone with gametone who will post a daily C y b e r sAM One Sentence Summary (and maybe a photo or two) at da gammablog
http://wrybread.com/gammablablog/index.shtml
You are all welcome to join/camp with uss on da buss
KEEP dA FIRE BURNING,
CYBERBUSS.
Drunkeness
Difficult Things To Say When You Are Drunk
Indubitably
Specifically
Innovative
Preliminary
Proliferation
Cinnamon
* * * *
Impossible Things To Say When You Are Drunk
Thanks, but I don’t want sex.
No, I don’t want another drink.
No kebab for me, thank you.
Sorry, but you’re not good looking enough for me.
Good evening, Officer
I’m not interested in fighting you.
No one wants to hear me sing.
Guilfin Re-Design site
Glad to see Guilfin http://www.guilfin.net/ continue with re-design. Think they probably have a fair sized resource now, and still think that it is only a serious enthusiast, that dredges around in the back of the site. For troublemaking reasons, I think it is a good idea, to keep text and pix, ‘rotated’ in front of them, at the front. I think ‘reminding’ people of the size, and scope of our mission is important. As an ‘old gezzer’ I’m am frequently becoming more gobsmacked, at the lack of many knowing a bit of our history /roots /deviations / others involved etc etc …. and think it all stronger when folks do know some on these things. What I try to do at my own site I guess. I put a list about earlier, wonder if that says what we are and were we’re trying to get to. I think these connections describe ‘us’, so, something from all that should go past as links/extracts on your front page. Wonder, is all this complicated? or, no.
Thats a bit on content then …. Excuse my naivety, since I’m in the company of webdesigners, but i have just discovered example of the use of ‘textbox’. I’ve never knowingly seen it before. But for the use of a photograph, on the front of a site, I’m impressed. Take a look at: http://gominosensei.org/green.php
The picture is the background. Text scrolls in textbox, all described in CSS.
Apparently the chap nicked idea and code form ‘Independence Day film!’
So, as far as I’ve got as an experiment is a ‘front’ for my blogs!
My effort at: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tash.lodge/Blog/Blog.htm
Do people see what I’m at here, is there any merit, or, does all this make for complicated delivery.
Just thought I’d chime in again.
Very best
tash
Phd in Dance Culture
Thanks for a really interesting message. Its good to know that there are people out there with the time to read and the ears to hear.
I would really like to keep in touch with you. I used to be active in trying to stir things up a little, but have recently taken a back (academic) seat. I am currently researching a phd on dance culture and oppositional politics, and am also working on a cd-rom on the free parties (with harry from diy, who you might have come across through your involvement with All Systems Go (about which i know little, as i have only recently made the Notts connection)).
I hope that this will have some postive, practical repercussions, and i also aim to link my work up with people such as Celebrate! who are actively trying to work on these issues (although they’re a little too cosy with the home office for my liking).
I would welcome a bit of a longer perspective on such struggles, and so would like to hear more about what you know about eralier festivals. I knew many people who were at Stonehenge that year, and do know people involved in the traveller scene, but my real experience comes from dance culture, and i could do with broadening my horizons.
Drew Hemment – Lancaster University
Phd in Dance Culture
Thanks for a really interesting message. Its good to know that there are people out there with the time to read and the ears to hear.
I would really like to keep in touch with you. I used to be active in trying to stir things up a little, but have recently taken a back (academic) seat. I am currently researching a phd on dance culture and oppositional politics, and am also working on a cd-rom on the free parties (with harry from diy, who you might have come across through your involvement with All Systems Go (about which i know little, as i have only recently made the Notts connection)).
I hope that this will have some postive, practical repercussions, and i also aim to link my work up with people such as Celebrate! who are actively trying to work on these issues (although they’re a little too cosy with the home office for my liking).
I would welcome a bit of a longer perspective on such struggles, and so would like to hear more about what you know about eralier festivals. I knew many people who were at Stonehenge that year, and do know people involved in the traveller scene, but my real experience comes from dance culture, and i could do with broadening my horizons.
Drew Hemment – Lancaster University
Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
Bristol Party – Witnesses Contact
This is a reminder of the contact details for the chap, sorting out witnesses to the Bristol Party Attack, back in June
Matthew Williams
3 Bourton Lane
Bishops Cannings
Devizes
SN10 2LH
01380 860994
mobile 07816 539787
here is the main party stuff / info:
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2002_07_21_tash_lodge_archive.html#79299422
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