This is probably the most interesting lunch break I have ever had. See if you can spot the "To let" sign on the front of the RBS building. This was probably the best theatre production I have ever seen. Total audience participation. Screw the 4th wall.....Brecht would have turned in his grave. Welcome to the future of entertainment. There is no revolution just redirection!
Also got something featured on the BBC website...Not bad for missing some sandwiches!!!
The other day I made a decision to end my social relationship with facebook. I changed my facebook status to "I am leaving facebook on the 26th of march". What happened next was strange. My friends begun first to ask me to stay and then to begin to virtually miss me. This further reinforced my desire to leave. My reasons are varied. The first being mainly for productivity reasons. You can waste alot of time on Facebook. My brother once said that "If the first thing you do in the morning is check your facebook, your fucked". I have to agree with him somewhat. I can't deny the pervasiveness and convienience of Facebook, it has totally revolutionised low touch, loose tie comunication. The culmination being the privitisation of the UK post office.
Facebook has and is all pervasive, this alone worries me and is my second reason for leaving. I can't complain about privacy, I put my stuff up on their servers. I guess my worry is where it will be in 5 years time. I think the story of man, the horse and the wolf can act as a good metaphor for my feelings.
"Imagine a forest in which there are humans, horses and wolves. The wolves attack and kill horses and are scared of humans. The horse is strong and easily scared and the human is weak and intellectually capable.
The human witnessing the horses plight, recognises the symbiotic opportunity. The horse would endow the human with strength and speed whilst the human protected from the horse from the wolves. They strike a deal to stick together until the threat of the wolf has disappeared. The relationship works perfectly for a hundred years or more. The human uses the horse and his strength to build a greater society. Eventually, the wolf, unable to attack and kill the horses dies out from hunger. Witnessing the demise of the wolf, the horse looks to the human and asks for him to climb down from his back. The human looks at the horse and shouts 'Gidde up nag!'"
I guess you can see the relevance of this story. The horse is us, the users, the rider is Facebook and the wolf is either inconvienience or fear of exclusion. It may not happen. I may be incorrect. According to the news just today that the government wants to take the contact details of users of the site. it can only be a matter of time before, well, it serves its ultimate purpose. Okay, so you may say....your so paranoid. Chill out! I quote Kurt cobain “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you”.
But seriously guys - We are trading our privacy and ultimately ourselves for convienience and the ability to talk bollocks at a moments notice. I bid thee farewell facebook from friday 26th of March you have 1 less member!
My friend Andrea just showed me this really cool piece of film he directed with the new Sony X cam. I think its really sexy and so should you too. It seems that this is the first part so I guess we will have to wait and see for the rest. Viva erotique.
www.usebothsides.co.uk is areally nice idea. It aims to get people to use both side of a printed peice of paper...SO THAT WE USE LESS PAPER. Very simple and very interesting idea from a couple of good friends of mine.. Please help spread it by making your own poster and uploading it to their webpage. I will love you all forever....:)
Location, location, location has finally had to admit it has played a massive part in the housing crisis. The two presenting experts, after years of goading the British public into putting their money into bricks and mortar in order to gain a quick profit had a 90 minute special last night. I found this shows attempts to provide credit crunch property advice to the unwitting public still desperate to buy laughable.
The fact that they are advising anyone to buy a property at all in this market is ridiculous....but I guess the show must go on.....
a) The presenter was so desperate for the couples not to buy the houses or if they did buy, to insulate his/her own conscience he put in bids that were so outrageously low the vendor would have to have just had a lobotomy with a chainsaw to agree....Classic comment "We'll will offer at 130K and if they reject tell them we will come back in a month and buy it for 125K" - Me says too smart by half......and when they are on the street we will buy the shirts of their backs....you know...bargains a bargain......
b) These outrageously low bids were indicative of the actual personal views of the presenters...They are sharks and would undercut someone just to serve their own conscience....as long as I can get a desperate person to sell a property to someone so they don't lose money for the contestant.....Hello? Question? What about the person you have just ripped off...I mean it takes two to tango...
c) Someone watching this may have taken this attempt to create a faux bid as a genuine attempt to get a bargain and impersonate this maverick attitude further influencing the decline of the British property market. Its a funny situation when a property show is
I don't know why but watching this show last night made me wonder at the level of intellegence on these shows. I recognise that one mans distress is another mans opportunity...but on national television for 90 minutes....Come guys...it's a little bit heartless.....I am almost getting some Lee atwater vibes here....Funny really.
The rank deluxe's new guitarist.......Thom Battle.....
I fucking love this video - Its so raw and vivid....The best part for me is Dylan saying "I don't want to vomit in the taxi - I am going to vomit into the camera...." That I would like to see - Personally I put it down to the acid.
I am learning about film at the moment and have been experimenting with shooting and editing some stuff - I have decided to use this track by "the sound" - winning. Well first efforts first...I thought I should keep it simple, lo-fi. So heres some footage of my trip to and from work.
This weekend for some reason. I don't know why, perhaps little man tate? I started looking for child prodigy's on you tube. I found an awful lot of 8 years old children with a deep understanding of the blues. On this I was very excited at the future of music.....I mean watch quinn and latz and this one is outrageous. I recognise that these people learnt their craft and established interest before computer games like guitar hero and stuff...I play the guitar and am in a band but I often wonder how good I would be if I had guitar hero to hand...I mean are we going to see the rebirth of hair metal. I say this because computer games are not about expression of the soul but about high scores. High scores are all see about effectiveness and getting the high score...i.e. I can play faster than you can...I am interested to see how the technology effects the creativity of the children born in the last five years...the reality is everyone will be able to express themselves to the maximum...its just a choice....I want to be an artist ect ect. But I leave you with this young producer....
There's something inspirational about ping pong - Don't you think?...I mean its a game you have to master beyond comprehension....Like being a ninja...Smooth, elegant and effective....Even the name is great. It's a sport named after the noise it makes.....Awesome!
It made Forrest Gump more famous than "Captin Kangeroo" - Love this sequence.
And I mean Air even got in on the game....with "Kelly watch the stars"-----Roll film....
Well, this game called Ping pong can be laughed at or it can embraced - I choose EMBRACE>>>>>
What started out as a musical hook up from my New york buddy and guitarist in The Rank Deluxe, Thom Battle. Soon descended into a strange opening of the recesses of my mind. T-Battle mentioned that in NY he and his buddy's would go into a bar, put some dark heart and get all fucked up to this genre. personally I think the music is fucked up enoug. See the video -
So this lead to a full scale trip down memory lane. Its a cultural thing, but I found it hard to watch this video without being reminded about Pugwall and his band orange organics.
As if this wasn't bad enough Tom and my girlfriend, Fiona then start reminiscing about a show called "california dreams" For a second I was thinking what is this trash and then as if by magic I suddenly remembered that I had watched about 100 episodes of this as a child but had completely forgotten about it. I had removed the image of a reacially well balanced californian rock band out of my mind....Personally i think it was the precursor.
California dreams was a dire tv show and should never have been aired on British tv. I mean It gave me a complex....A big one....Then led to a quick look at the classic jesse on caffiene pills clip which for a youngster could be quite shocking and disturbing....
Woah and finally onto the a really bad anti drugs message from the SBTB crew....Did anyone even tell screech...I mean woah there that shirt is enough to inspire a young mind to get on the crack pipe and start shooting heroin between the toes. You can see the Classic "no hope with dope" NBC spot here, it is frankly ridiculous.
I have to ask myself this question after I received a flyer advertising the latest chapter in the easy history. It begs the question.....Why would I trust you to make me a pizza? I mean I know you can fly a plane and you seem like a nice enough chap but dude who's spinning the dough, who's putting the pepperoni onto the mozzarella...Will you start selling them on easy flights? I find this funny. The premise behind the concept is totally a land grab for recession pounds. it's not brain science that people don't eat out or fly whenn they are broke. But PIZZA? Is it a stretch to far? It hasn't won my vote! If I want cheap pizza I will just google 2 for 1 in my area.....Plus your pizzas look rubbish. In the meantime enjoy this ridiculous pizza commercial from Japan....doesn't make me hungry so much as want to calm down...The thing I love about this advert is the fact the pizza and the ingredients are hanging out at what looks like a rave up and then the pizza slice has a bit too much of a good time, bugs out and then has a come down...Very strange and I would love to advertise pizza in this way...I mean margherita pizza has feelings too.
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