A guy is doing a naked walk from Lands End to John O’Groats in an attempt to get Brits to have a more continental attitude to the human body. He has recently changed his route to traverse the Pennine Way .
See – http://www.nakedwalk.alivewww.co.uk . See the bottom of his dialogue page for a daily update of his progress. Please support him and tell others
http://www.nakedwalk.alivewww.co.uk
Naked rambler’s ‘freedom of expression’ – BBC News
Lots campaigning, lobbying and general ‘common scence’ argument, BUT, it will now be law with a couple of years ……..
The Licensing Bill received Royal Assent Thursday 10 July 2003.
It was ratified in the Commons on Tuesday 08 July.
http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/articles
Read the full Commons debate:
Previously on this blog …..
Two in a bar to none in a bar – the Licensing Bill
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_01_05_tash_lodge_archive.html#87056601
Licensing Bill 2003 – a threat to live music
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_01_05_tash_lodge_archive.html#87123542
Pub music scene ‘under threat’ : licensing bill 2003
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_01_26_tash_lodge_archive.html#88219744
Music Licensing Bill – update http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_05_04_tash_lodge_archive.html#94003682
Have just joined the Yahoo Group Smarthphone Voyeur – p800 – 7650
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smartphonevoyeur
“Smartphone Voyeur!
Photo taken with your smartphone, p800 ,
nokia 7650 , and the other camera phones!!! ”
Have been adding images to my CamBlog and this Blog, by the use of this p800 phone. But this might be another facility to simply take the pic, and upload, and it can be viewed immediatly.
I still code in html, and ‘ftp up’ files. ’tis a bit fiddly sometimes ……
Have had quite a few mails recently asking me for ‘what’s on’ and festival lists. I usually point out, that there aren’t any ‘festivals’, [well not what I mean, anyway. I suggest folks bookmark this page …
SchNews Party and Protest Guide – This is the most updated and up-to-date listing in the UK.
Personally, I come from a free festivals and travelling background. New Age Travellers etc.
A number of sayings have helped guide my life over time. Like….
Bring what you expect to find?
If no you, who?
If not now, when?
If not here, where?
In sum, this means self-reliance. It means gigs are ALWAYS better, when people attending don’t just attend , but are a main part of the act. It is obvious to all those there, when this magic happens.
This is actually where I came in. 1972 Windsor, Stonehenge etc….. These were my motives then and remain so now.
Of course the authorities have difficulty with a system that means they are not in sole charge, hence all the law and violence since the Beanfield etc……
Over time, I have been involved I raising awareness about the law changes and their implications to us all.
· Public Order Act 1986
· Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
· Noise Act
· Barry Legg MP: Places of Entertainments (Increased Penalty) Act
· Security Services Act
And now all the Acts that have been going through parliament – with the words
“conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose” being a new definition of serious crime!!!
With the new definition of serious crime, that enable the use of some ‘heavier’ police departments to be applied against us. And will be the end of all the RTS and similar gigs.
Shame eh?
Now, in ‘rave mode’, I have spent time with the Velvet Revolution and All Systems gigs, I had written ‘Sound Advice’ and the ‘Right to Party’ – to try and raise these matters in peoples minds.
Well, we have lost each of the matters I’m on about here. Whoever you vote for, the government gets in!
What I am absolutely positive about though, is that people involved in the scene,
DID NOT DO ENOUGH ABOUT ANY OF IT AS IT HAPPENED AND NOW IS STILL GOING ON.
People have to realise that self-interest and their own immediate happiness ( hedonism?), is not enough to make a festival, party rave, traveller site, gathering.
Important, but not enough.
Some folks on reading this will have been too young, to have had any objection to these changes as they have happened over recent years. But many others of you will have been.
The way parties are now organised, between those trying to conform with some pretty onerous conditions, (ie half to 2/3 of a ticket price to ‘self-police’ and pay for your own public order management and drug search.!) and those involved with the ‘free’ end of things but at continued ‘personal’ rather than ‘sheared’ risks.
This division is of course orchestrated by the other side.
This old hippy / raver? Is now of the opinion that folk have now got the party they deserve. Discuss……..
Love
Tash
Oh busy busy. being july in Britain, the summer has only really just got underway, and in another three weeks, it will be autumn, I guess 🙂 Perhaps I exaggerate. But I’m an ‘outdoor type’ and so much I have to do is inside! Including this blog, if you look back through the archives of the previous year [‘cos I’ve been doing this a year now ….] you’ll see that I’ve tried to post more of what I’m up to, and links to new work, and work in progress …… anyway, doing my best.
Stuff going on ……
* More experiments with film speed, low light conditions, handy for surveillance and evidence
* Set up picture taking, and general comms use of my Sony Ericsson p800 mobile phone
* Borrowed a Sony Cybershot ‘point and shoot’ from a mate. Running around taking loads to get an idea of the’issues’ when shooting digital rather than film.
* A whole new exercise in self-portrait.
* Bit of website reorganisation
* ‘Polishing’ of a few recent projects including Stonehenge last month
* Getting stoned and drunk, a few times …….!
The Glastonbury festival drew to a close last night, and the broadsheet journalists all seem to have enjoyed themselves – though, ironically, it’s the Telegraph which laments the “embourgeoisiement” of the event, and the Guardian which tends to feel that, really, it was rather nice to have kept out the crime. “Glastonbury might be a bit more commercial than the old days,” one 43-year-old festival-goer tells the paper, “but it’s so much better organised.”
The GBP105 ticket fee may have had something to do with the “overwhelmingly white and middle-class” audience, says the Telegraph. Certainly, when Chelsea Clinton turns up with bodyguards in tow and two attractive young women dressed as fairies appear on the front page of the Telegraph, something’s changed.
Eavis plans for 2004 Glastonbury – BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3029330.stm
Best ever Glastonbury, says Eavis – Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/glastonbury2003/story/0,12902,987498,00.html
A really jolly super Glastonbury – Telegraph
BBC want you free photos, have mentioed their ‘submit a picture’ using your mobile phone cam. Now they want your work from Glastonbury
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3007326.stm
BBC News Online wants your pictures and reviews from Glastonbury 2003.
If you saw something interesting at Glastonbury, please send a picture to us – either from a digital camera or by mobile phone. Our picture editor will then select the best images to publish.
Or, if you were one of the 112,000 fans there, please send us your thoughts on the festival using the form on the right of the page.
If you want to e-mail a picture to us, send it to entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk .
If you want to send your picture from your mobile phone in the UK, dial 07970 885089. You can send them from any network or phone. Please send the large full size images (usually 640×480 pixels) taken by the mobiles otherwise they are too small to publish.
Don’t forget to include your name and some background information as to what the image is about.
Instead of using a password to unlock your cellphone, a Japanese company called Earth Beat has come up with a way to use a picture instead. You just snap a picture of yourself with your cameraphone, then whenever you want to unlock the phone it uses face recognition technology to verify that the person trying to use the phone matches the photo it has in storage. Which also means you might be unable to use your phone if you ever change your appearance.
There is, of course, a big hole in this so called “security” feature…
what’s to prevent someone from stealing your camera phone, then using a photo of you to authenticate them as you? Unlike a password or PIN number, etc, your likeness (i.e. photo of you) is not something that you can protect from being public.
Oh, these Japanese Geeks ………
Just borrowed a 2 Megapix camera from Phil. These are some pictures from it.
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/06/273217.html
Have just added my Stonehenge 2003 work, to the Indymedia UK database and a few listings
Have been informed by someone who is sad enough to have taken a laptop + satellite link with them to glastonbury, that there will be a live lost vagueness audio stream available here:
Welcome to RadioVague. Currently beaming at ya via satellite from somewhere on pilton festival site…
Coming soon: Bands from the Ballroom, Big Caravan evictions, Stanley Donwoods wigwam party, Casino Chaos, Raymundo and some other stuff.
Somewhere on your dial.
Inside the UK – http://live3.radiovague.com:8000
Outside the UK – http://live1.radiovague.com:8000
A Photo selection from the event.
On these pages, have finished a ‘best edit’ selection from my jaunt to Stonehenge, to celebrate the Summer Solstice, but to sadly miss the festival the was / should be there.
I arrived on the friday afternoon in the Airmans Cross area, a couple of miles west of Stonehenge. Folks were parked up the road, at least 3 miles north and west. On a drive about earlier, had noticed folks gathered in Amesbury and Woodhenge. and a few droves. As usual, most of the lay-bys for a few miles around, coned off.
Some had taken a week or so to get there, the walkers and horse drawn. ‘Twas a hot afternoon and was with the horses till the evening. Police generally un-helpful about allowing advance access to the car park field, for the animals’ comfort. Layers of authority, and hours later, the problem had been passed up the chain of command, resulting in the arrival of a police superintendent. He saw the need, came to an agreement that the vehicle wouldn’t follow, and off they trotted.
Then, numbers still building, we formed a queue before being finally allowed into the car park, now its dark. Thus began our ‘managed access’ to the event. Authorities are soooo alert for the possibility of festival getting established.
This is the record of my time there.
Stonehenge Solstice 2003 :: http://tash.dns2go.com/xtra/stonehenge2003/index.htm
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Previous Stonehenge selection :: http://tash.dns2go.com/xtra/stonehenge150_vert1/index.htm
Also, a reminder to check out some ealier work, describing how we have arrived at this phase, in the story, The story so far .. .. ..
Stonehenge: http://tash.gn.apc.org/stones1.htm
Solstice Ritual: http://tash.gn.apc.org/solst_0.htm
[pdf version] http://tash.gn.apc.org/solstice.pdf
Beanfield: http://tash.gn.apc.org/sh_bean.htm
Operation Solstice: http://tash.gn.apc.org/op_solstice.htm
The Story so far: http://tash.gn.apc.org/history.htm
My Diary: http://tash.gn.apc.org/diary.htm
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Pictures taken, live at the event, using a CamPhone.
http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_06_15_tash_lodge_archive.html#95872280
Guilfin has some more examples at:
http://www.guilfin.net/gallery/?id=pxINET2219
Picture Index :: http://www.guilfin.net/database/showevent.php3?ev_id=evINET2169
Am half way through process and scaning of the the weekends work. Have just uploaded a first edit to Guilfin Database, Thought you might wanna ‘sneek preview’ … … …
Early ‘live’ set :: http://www.guilfin.net/gallery/?id=pxINET2220
Proper Colour Slide edit :: http://www.guilfin.net/gallery/?id=pxINET2263
Stonehenge Index :: http://www.guilfin.net/database/showevent.php3?ev_id=evTSE6688
Picture Index :: http://www.guilfin.net/database/showevent.php3?ev_id=evINET2169
Have been going off a bit about the use of a mobile PhoneCam, in taking pictures for immediate use, out and about. Although the quality is not as good as ‘proper photography’. Not the only one with the same idea …..
Here is an example from the Solstice at Stonehenge
Solstice revellers watch sunrise – BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3008828.stm
Stonehenge’s summer solstice goes ahead – BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/2996450.stm
Thousands witness solstice – Channel4 News
http://www.channel4.com/apps26/news/news_story.jsp?storyId=1782592
Road to ruins: Plans are afoot to transform Stonehenge in the next few years. John Ezard visits the focus of this weekend’s summer solstice – Guardian – Travel
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/saturdaysection/story/0,8922,981426,00.html
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