Was asked to give comment pre-budget on what I wanted from the budget.
I’m never good at the one-line message that newspapers seem to want, I have trouble encapsulating all my thoughts in a short space, so I rambled on a bit and they picked something out that I guess they thought relevant.
The photographer was great. Used a Canon EOS-1D Mark II N. Original colour shots are here and here.
Dave
I was awake at 5am the other morning so I could go to a artistic performance in Second Life.
The performance was of Pink Floyd’s The Wall concert set to the original music from The Wall.
And it was spectacular. It is so popular we had to be there an hour before start to make sure we could get into the sim.
The group who put it together used particles, objects moving, photos and digital puppets all coreographed the the soundtrack to great effect by the CARP team.
During the performance the wall was slowly built until the climax at end when at the crowds shouting “Tear Down The Wall” saw the wall of bricks all tumble down at which point everyone was invited to go dance on the bricks.
It was at hat point you got to see just how big a stage it was. These bricks were huge.
Interestingly we were told to turn the music stream on beforehand and leave it on and not pause it or it would then be out of sync with the performance. It reminded me of just how much we a still at the infancy stage of the virtual world emergence - a sense of almost analog linear performance in a totally digital environment.
Brilliant stuff. See the slideshow on Flickr below.
Slideshow: http://flickr.com/photos/dnwallace/sets/72157604647772637/show/
Flickr set: http://flickr.com/photos/dnwallace/sets/72157604647772637/
Found this great slideshow of the event on the second arts blog:
Peace - Dave
More on the idea of people networks, Chris Carfi writes on his blog this excellent thought :
Networks don’t have people. People have networks.:
“Networks don’t have people. People have networks.” - Demian Entrekin
In it he has some key thoughts from others including Doc Searles (writes), Dave McClure (writes)and Kevin Werbach (brings it home).
The right point of integration is around the individual. Each of us is the center of our own universe.
(image credit goes to the inimitable david armano. cross-posted to the conversation hub.)
It’s about the people, people.
Dave
Extraordinary Everyday Lives show #45 - GetNaked with biff
This show we are joined by Richard Birkin (biff) from Naked. Biff is from Derby, England.
Biff outlines the Naked ideas and how it works and the ‘kernel’ of what the service offers. We talk about closed being the new open, notions of privacy and trust. There’s lotsa banter and ideas about what we as people want in our lives and how technology needs to meet that - and biff seems to take copious notes on applying all our ideas into Naked [poor guy].
thisismyjam.com - a neat new mashup service to create a jam session.
Dave
Show number #44 is out. There has been a bit of a kerfuffle on the interwebs this week as Al Upton and the miniLegends class blog was Closed. Kent couldn’t join us today due to time zone issues.
An extremely relevant topic, this show has already had the largest amount of downloads on a single day this month.
Get your ears around this!
Extraordinary Everyday Lives show #44 - Al Upton and the miniLegends
DOWNLOAD AND SAVE - Right-click. 1:05:03 22.9Mb
Once again this edition of the show is sponsored by Nick Hodge, Professional Geek at Microsoft. Our thanks to Nick for his tangible support.
Dave
Following an old meme Laurel dredged up and tagged me, here’s eight random facts about me.
The rules:
1- Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2 - People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3 - At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4 - Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
My 8 Facts:
1. I like and collect elephants (no, not real ones)
2. When I was 18 I’d never broken a bone - so I broke my neck,
3. I love eating lamb anything (well within reason)
4. I never really liked school except for Tech Studies and Art
5. I love peace but like to think I would kill or die for my family and close friends
6. I once sang in school choir at Adelaide Festival Centre (where later on saw Skyhooks in concert)
7. Favourite musician is Bruce Cockburn
8. Second life saved my sanity
Now, the 8 I get to tag. And if you’ve already done it before, just let me know?
Nathanael Boehm
Gary barber
Eshi Otawara
Naked Biff
Nick Hodge
Tracey Crisp
Roy Blumenthal
Rick Clise
Dave
Saw via twitter a friend of mine, who happens to sing beautifully, had found karaoke on My Space. So I went to listen.
Dave
My first Womad experience was a memorable one.
We nearly didn’t get in as the people at the ticket office were trying to tell us that my carer with me needed to have an ‘official’ carers card! I mean what the hell. My family carers for me, they don’t get paid, and yet aren’t official’ because they don;’t have a card saying so? There was no stipulation about this when purchasing the ticket online as I did and none stipulated on the printed information booklet I had with me. In fact this seemed to be an unwritten, unstated Womad law. We refused to accept no as an answer and sulk away with $145 ticket strapped to my wrist and so after a while insisting they relented and walked us through security (who, as it happens wasn’t scanning anyone’s tickets anyway as the ’system’ was down…telling me it was!)
So once in we quickly settled into getting our bearings and found something to watch and listen to. The dust was thick and the night balmy. I met up with Mike and Mandy after a comedy of SMS message exchanges and we settled into a great night. It was a pity the day time heat was so bad it meant I couldn’t go to more, however I’ll be going next time around.
Below are a couple video clips of the fire lanterns and other pictures can be found here on my flickr account.
Dave
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