User:	baconmonkey
	Date:	2009-07-16 14:10
	Subject:	MEAT is tonight
	Security:	Public

MEAT starts a little later than usual tonight because of the Jim Rose Circus. MEAT starts at 11pm, immediately after Jim Rose.

	User:	jwz
	Date:	2009-07-16 13:31
	Subject:	Rebel!
	Security:	Public
	Music:	Fever Ray -- Keep the Streets Empty for Me

The guy on the bike ahead of me had socks that said "REBEL" in an Olde English font. I had assumed he was a loyalist, until the fuzzy knitting on his ankles set me straight.

They looked warm.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I can't use Twitter.

140 characters just isn't enough for any coherent thought. I find that to say anything worth reading, I need 200-300. I need a setup, the story itself, and the punchline. If you leave out the intro and the punchline it's just a damned laundry list. Look, 315 characters in this paragraph and I barely said anything!

No, I don't want to edit it to make it shorter. I also don't want to rephrase it into iambic pentameter.

	User:	jwz
	Date:	2009-07-16 11:48
	Subject:	hobos, browless
	Security:	Public
	Music:	Chew Lips -- Solo

The aghast prose in this article is really something: Punks invade Williamsburg as heroin-addicted hobos set up shop in trendy Brooklyn neighborhood.

The newcomers, who call themselves "gutter punks," [...] "The girls here like it that I'm dirty and I ride trains," he added. [...] "This is not Haight-Ashbury," said Community Board 1 member Evan Thies. "This is a family neighborhood."

Also: Before shaving off both eyebrows, we suggest doing just one to see if it suits you.

	User:	mylai
	Date:	2009-07-16 05:04
	Subject:	so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully pretty
	Security:	Public

my next boyfriend is gonna be super awesome
and this will be the theme song to our super awesome adventure.

	User:	ioerror
	Date:	2009-07-15 16:31
	Subject:	Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 magazine
	Security:	Public

Emmanuel Goldstein
Originally uploaded by ioerror

	User:	baconmonkey
	Date:	2009-07-15 15:23
	Subject:	work by the ton
	Security:	Public

Saturday was the utterly amazing party, Sand By The Ton. It was epic in both it's awesomeness and it's clusterfuckery. It was a prime example of what happens when you create a huge event starting from the decor, and working inwards towards production and infrastructure. This means that it will look amazing, but critical things like electrical power and crowd flow are sorely mismanaged.

I was most impressed by the Bordello in the live sound room (which was also where most of the sand was). It was a wooden facade of a stylized old-west bordello. I suppose what impressed me most about it was that it was the most unique piece there. After a decade of Burning man art, I am unexcited by metal-sculpture that shoots fire, metal sculpture with LED lights, and thumpy rave land.

The carnival midway was wonderful. arcs of balloons and lighting overhead made it easy to forget you were in a warehouse. Sadly, the midway was THE only corridor through the event, so it was a slow moving constant sardine collision. That is, until the Fire department deemed it too hazardous and stopped letting people in. Remember that mention about crowd-flow mismanagement? There were some amazing sand sculptures as well. Amazingly, none of the above-ground pools collapsed.

So yeah, clusterfucks? there were many. I couldn't do much until the stage was built, and that showed up 4 hours late, right about the time I had to rush out of there to go to DNA. There was no centralized power, different areas/groups were handled differently. There was no master electrician and no power grid. I had to beg power off the lighting company because the folks in charge of my room didn't plan on power, nor did the event organizers as a whole. The next day, I spent a fair bit of time waiting on the elevated sound platform to be built. This was a huge platform, about 14 feet in the air. They finished it at 4pm, which was when the event was scheduled to start. Fortunately, the first band wasn't scheduled til 7pm. Unfortunately, I couldn't get my sound board up there until it was complete, which delayed soundcheck a lot. I was able to get one band soundchecked.
The biggest disaster I hit was when power to my sound board went down in the middle of a performance. It turned out the video projection people and the greenscreeen photobooth people (who had a huge bright photo light) had tied into the same dedicated breaker that I was using for my board. This led to much yelling. One of them tried to pull "procedure" on me and wanted to radio in to find "the guy" to tell me that they were allowed to use my outlet. "what's your name, I need to radio this in" was quickly shot down with "you just killed the stage. there is no performance thanks to you". I was able to eventually find them some dedicated power after I got mine back up. This disruption caused the lighting board to reset and not come back up. The stage lighting guy could not be found, so the lights that Vau De Vire brought in just for the bordello were quickly re-aimed at the stage. Eventually somebody on production was able to get the lighting board back up.
John was doing a stage on the midway which got shut down by the fire department when they closed the midway attractions.
At the end of the night, after the event was closed, there were still a handful of people milling about. The usual assortment of "but I know so-and-so" people and a few workers. One of the pools had started leaking and was flooding an artist area that had some extension cords. Some folks scrambled to start draining it. Of course, some of the hangers-on got in the way of this process and were standing on the hose that was draining it. This led to escalating attempts to get their attention and get them off the hose. This did not go well as a potential water-damage/electrical disaster collided panic with a "dude why you gotta be harshing my mellow, man?". This led to an aggressive confrontation and almost to fisticuffs. The hangers-on did not have any manner of staff credentials, but there were no security personnel around to escort them out. So they hung out and griped about being yelled at.



There are some amazing photos here (bordello somewhat visible at #67, #68)


Between DNA and setting up for this, I estimate I put in 48 hours of work in a 63 hour period. I was so exhausted afterward that I slept for about 14 hours and woke up with clay for muscles.

	User:	jwz
	Date:	2009-07-15 11:04
	Subject:	SUPREME STONE SOVIET HEAD IS NOT AMUSED BY YOUR MINCING.
	Security:	Public
	Music:	Metric -- Gold Guns Girls

	User:	phreddiva
	Date:	2009-07-14 17:49
	Subject:	Grand Adventure, Part III
	Security:	Public

Is ( here ), with photos starting here and, if you'll excuse me, I need to go set myself loose in this town.

	User:	baconmonkey
	Date:	2009-07-14 15:11
	Subject:	helium + tazer
	Security:	Public

a bunch of meatheads decide to taze each other. They do, however, have the brilliant foresight to inhale helium before getting tazed - which makes it a whole lot funnier.

	User:	unwoman
	Date:	2009-07-14 10:42
	Subject:	Interactive iPhone Remix App - Romplr
	Security:	Public

In my day job at Moderati I began as a ringtone producer in December 2005. It was an amazing job because it actually made use of the skills I went to college for (I majored in music & minored in electronic music.) However things change and my job morphed into handset multimedia testing, mobile video production, and QA on these new iPhone apps.

We're a small company that used to be bigger. We have tight relationships with record labels and phone carriers. My coworkers and I put many hours of development and testing into the Romplr apps and I hope my iPhone-having readers will check them out.

Wired has great things to say about our remix app as a savior of the music industry (heh): http://icanhaz.com/romplr

Soulja Boy Tell 'em is our first artist romplr. He's twittering about it, promoting it more than we possibly could. http://icanhaz.com/souljaromplr

We also have two original Romplrs -- Romplr Lite is free and has one kit on it, and Romplr Dance has 3. If Soulja Boy isn't your cup of tea I strongly recommend checking out Romplr Dance or at the very least Romplr Lite so you get a feel for it.

Links to the apps on itunes:
SOULJA BOY ($4.99)
http://icanhaz.com/souljaromplr
DANCE LITE (Free)
http://icanhaz.com/literomplr
DANCE FULL ($2.99)
http://icanhaz.com/danceromplr

There are other artists, mostly hip hop, coming out in the next few months, so stay tuned. There are also two Unwoman romplr kits with *completely new songs* that I've made content for that we may or may not release, depending on how successful the romplr in general is.

Let me know what you think if you check it out!

	User:	jwz
	Date:	2009-07-14 09:39
	Subject:	head
	Security:	Public
	Music:	Fol Chen -- The Idiot

	User:	gordonzola
	Date:	2009-07-14 09:20
	Subject:	Co-op developement
	Security:	Public

I start a course in co-op development today: “From Workers to Owners: Steps to Start Worker Cooperatives”. It’s part the economy and part the recent press our store has gotten, but we are getting calls or emails multiple times a week from people wanting to start co-ops. In addition to the cheese buying, one of my jobs is to field those calls. It’s an online course – and not a free one -- and I heard that 83 people are signed up.

I don’t want to out anyone before they are ready so I won’t name any places or details, but I talked to two incredibly different groups last week. One group of African Americans from an urban area in another state who want to do something – anything – that will help provide jobs and better health in their community. They were information gathering in general, without a specific plan of the type of model they wanted.

The other was an API ethnic group with a very specific idea of taking an existing, successful franchise model and converting it into a worker-owned version of the same thing. I don’t know that business model well, but they seemed pretty sure they could make it work.

It’s almost unfair to have people come for a tour and answer questions about our modes of operation since our blueprint for success is uncopyable. They see the result of nearly 35 years of work, starting in a totally different economy and era, with the good luck to be starting in an industry that – at that time – wasn’t an industry. I think there could be a blueprint. (The Cheeseboard/Arizmendi model is certainly a very good one) We just haven’t figured it out yet.

Historically-speaking I also speak to about 25 groups for every one that actually starts a co-op. I hope that this course – and two other Rainbow workers are taking it as well -- helps provide some groundwork to increase that ratio.

	User:	mylai
	Date:	2009-07-14 03:38
	Subject:	14 days in iphone pics
	Security:	Public

with help from the camerabag app (out of order):


kimmie is the cutest.



( thirteen more pics. )


currently listening to:
you got me where you want me, but i ain't all there...

	User:	structurefall
	Date:	2009-07-13 15:27
	Subject:
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quoting mopmonster, who i've asked to do some guest guitar on the EGC track "ignore":

I'm recording some guest guitar tracks for Everything Goes Cold this week. The part sounds very mechanical. I feel like I am a robot when I play it.

	User:	lucifire
	Date:	2009-07-13 12:03
	Subject:	latitude this weekend
	Security:	Public

yay, this week it's the loveliest, most relaxed festival in my calendar, the one with the multi-coloured sheep gazing by the lake and the hidden stage in the middle of the woods, it's latitude!



*le sigh*

this year will be super-chilled, i'm forgoing the annual "tree fairy" suspension from the beautiful old oak and simply presenting the furry bitches with fancy chance on friday night (about 1am) and then compeering saturday evening, 4pm-8pm.

that's it!

wow!

what a chilled weekend. and to make it even better, the line up in my tent (that'll be the cabaret arena, duh!) is simply brilliant, loads of my favourite people and unlike glasto and elsewhere, this time i'll have time to hang out with them :D

~ Pippa Evans ~ Ida Barr ~ Miss Behave ~ Stark Dallas Naked with Jonny Woo, david Mills ~ Good Morning, This Evening with Timberlina and David Mills ~ Whoopee Club ~ Deborah Frances-White ~ London Swing Dance Society ~ New Art Club ~ Jessica Delfino ~ Zimbani ~ Cardinal Burns ~ Watson and Oliver ~ Stuckey and Murray ~ La JohnJoseph ~ Dead Man In A Box ~ Tommy and the Weeks ~ Orkestra del Sol ~ Wanderlust ~ Kirsten O’Brien ~ Bourgeois & Maurice ~ Lenny Beige ~ Dusty Limits ~ Kalki Hula Girl ~ Sarah-Louise Young ~ Revealing Eve ~ Helix Dance ~ Sounds Familiar Quiz ~ Ward & White's Karaoke Circus ~ Musical Bingo ~ Lucifire ~ Fat 45 ~The Penny Dreadfuls ~ Phil Nichol ~ David Hoyle ~ The Voguettes & Glitterbanditz ~ The La De Dahs ~ Nathan Evans ~

wooooooooo!

hoping to see paloma there too and give the girl some love, she's doin so well and it pleases me greatly. also, nick cave, gossip, camille o'sullivan and many more goodies.

after the manic chaos and intense schedule of the past couple of months i'm really looking forward to being entertained.

it will also be lux and jay's first festie. hope the boys like it.

	User:	mylai
	Date:	2009-07-13 03:39
	Subject:	freelancers work sundays
	Security:	Public

me, josh’s loft in bedstuy.



[by josh]

	User:	mc_kingfish
	Date:	2009-07-12 11:08
	Subject:	Photographers Are Filth
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	pissed off

Why I Hate Photographers, Vol. 32


Now, to any shutterbug who already knows I don't hate them, just carry on confidently in your status of not being hated (I love you.) This is not about you. I freely and happily admit there is a small (very amall) number of wonderful persons who do the little camera-hobby-thing and do it intelligently, respectfully, and in an unobtrusive way that also adds value to events and performances. Again, this is not about you. Please do not write to me and ask, "was this about me?" --it is not.


All the rest of the steaming piles of dog feces out there who assume a camera makes them somehow important, useful, or in any way worthwhile, please note the following:


1) You suck. Your lame-ass attempts to capture the "essence" of everyone's good time is destroying everyone's good time. You are a worthless parasite infesting any good event and acting as an intestinal blockage in the greater scheme of party dynamics. Go the fuck away, everybody hates you.


2) Nobody cares about your stupid idea of what a "great shot" should be, how much leeway you think that gives you to force your way between the audience and the fun, or even right up onto the stage in front of the performers. Seriously, just go the fuck away (see above: everybody hates you.)


3) You have no authority. You are nobody. In fact, you are _less_ than nobody. You're there to use a toy you _purchased_ to record interesting things _other_ people created. How you haven't yet been replaced by a machine, I have no idea.


4) Your multi-thousand dollar pervert/idiot-box hanging around your neck means nothing. You know the guy who empties the vomit out of the trash cans at all the big events you go to, camera in hand? That guy has more value than you. He is fullfilling a useful purpose to the event, you are not.


5) Every single time you stop the fun, interrupt the fun or even in any way make yourself _visible_ --in fact, any *fraction* of a second wherein your existence is in any way noticeable, you are fucking up the event. Know that. Use it as a yardstick for your future endeavors in photography.


6) If you don't wake up every single day _hating_ yourself for what you do, seek psychiatric help: you have lost touch with whatever shred of basic decency and humanity you might have once possessed.


Special Thanks to the oh-so-typical camera-toting asshole at the otherwise unbelievably outstanding Regency Center Centennial Party last Thursday. Your smart-ass, self-important, shit-for-brains attitude reminded me yet again why you and all your kind would be best employed as compost. Please go to Hell. You will find many other photographers there. You can all spend the rest of eternity together, acting as if anybody gives a shit about you or what you do.


Ahhh... That's better...


--KF

	User:	jwz
	Date:	2009-07-12 10:14
	Subject:	RFID passport wardriving
	Security:	Public
	Music:	Emergency Broadcast Network -- Station Identification

Obviously the workaround is to stay away from Fisherman's Wharf.

Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, Chris Paget's scanner downloaded to his laptop the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic U.S. passport cards embedded with radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags. Within an hour, he'd "skimmed" four more of the new, microchipped PASS cards from a distance of 20 feet.

"There's a reason you don't wear your Social Security number across your T-shirt," Albrecht says, "and beaming out your new, national RFID number in a 30-foot radius would be far worse."

But Gigi Zenk, a spokeswoman for the Washington state Department of Licensing, says Americans "aren't that concerned about the RFID" in a time when "tracking an individual is much easier through a cell phone."

User:	ellyorg
Date:	2009-07-11 06:37
Subject:
Security:	Public

http://www.elly.org/foto/2009-22

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	User:	structurefall
	Date:	2009-07-12 03:10
	Subject:	NEVER FORGET
	Security:	Public

( NEVER FORGET )