Back from relaxing night in the Småvannsbu cabin. Somehow a walk into the woods and a night without electricity is enough to reduce the stresses of RL. Lots of Aunty ideas… like .. Binocular view, where breaking thru the garden fence will briefly bring up the view thru binoculars… Anyway… Wrong blog…
Lona having her teeth cleaned!
My God I´m doing too much… Im so stressed!
First there work, finishing touches to 9 episodes Anti Corruption film, you know the fiddly anal bits, new narrator, colour sound fixes.. ugh!
Then theres Aunty.. Did I finish the kitchen, the street? Have I started the hostess trolley the scones and teapot? Can I do the fun job of adding pendulums to the re-occuring dream sequence? got lots to do, PLUS Im trying to get the new funding proposal together.
Then there YK2X, the live looping festival in Santa Cruz that Im playing at in October, Iknow OCTOBER.. but my guitar needs fixing, Ive got to re-wire the pedal board, with a new Power supply, make new patch cables THAT FIT…. and figure out the signal flow, through pedals that Ive never used together. Maybe build an interface for the fat controller, thats gonna sequencer the pitch shifter, gonna have to design that and test that…
Im halfway to uploading some box photos to Etsy HERE although this isnt an offical post about that…
Thank fucking christ were going to Smavannsbu again, a weekend of no electricity, deep into the Norwegian woods…
Hopefully there wont be any mobile signal there, cos I might end up looking at my to list there!!!
Ive started using Remember the milk to keep track of all this sh… stuff, but now I just have a great big number 15 on my iphone telling me how many things I havent done yet!!
Here are 2 books that I´m re-reading, different direction, but maybe the same result?
Tonight, I made a pillar box… I don’t usually post pics from the game I’m making, bit of a giveaway really, but today I made a pillar box! I dunno,.. I thought it was pretty funny!
Im currently reading Screw Work, Let’s Play: How to Do What You Love and Get Paid for it
But I must say Im not completely convinced yet. Its a nice notion and the “character” that the author describes could easily be me. I have my finger in so many pies, that NONE ever really get done. There is some real commonsense stuff, about listing all the things you do, and thinking about getting paid a little bit for all of it, is interesting…
With the Aunty game coming along nicely, I really want to get good at this self promotion thing, I recently started twitter, but can´t bring myself to tweet all my farts and hand-washes, like most people.
Unfortunately the book goes all wobbly in chapter 2, when he starts talking about Wealth Dynamics personality types, something I REALLY dont like. Believing that all as in ALL OF US, fit into one of 8 neat little boxes is daft and somewhat Facsist!!!
Whats REALLY bad is that if you follow the links in the book to take the test, they end up (through an affiliate link – like this
One hundred dollars to tell me if im either a creator, a star, a deal maker, a trader, an accumulator, a lord, or a mechanic…
Fuck that
…of course Id be a fucking mechanic…
Its bad enough that the business world uses these stupid, infantile tests to decide whether to hire you, but ridiculous that we are now encouraged to do it to ourselves!!! For 100 bucks!
I shall continue to read the book however. I’m dying to get to the chapter about paying your mortgage… love to see how he suggests I do that…
Kim Flint, founder of Loopers Delight has died in a tragic cycle accident. He was my friend, and through the vision of his wonderful community, he shaped a generation of live looping musicians resulting in festivals, CD´s, internet TV, live worldwide jams, and a close knit community of friends. At LD we joke that …once you join, you can´t leave (usually in reference to the slightly tricky Un-subscribing routine) and for me it is true, no mails in my inbox are more welcome that those that are tagged LOOPERS.
It is a sad day for me and for us all at Loopers Delight.
I have found a couple of old photos of James and I during the filming of some of our earlier works… I think this is “Homunculus”
In case you wonder, Im the sad goth, and James is the bald primping fairy… Halcyon Days (Whatever that means)
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Enabled Tweeting from my blog, question is, Does it work?
Im suffering from a touch of modular gear lust again… damn. Heres what I want. This is really just for me to have somewhere to save some links.. Continue reading
After six months of hard and very secret work, I think the time has come to announce that my very good friend and previous collaborator, Mr James Dolan, have re-animated our original sinister organisation “Ordo ab Chao” into a new-millennium high tech version, that we call “ORDO AB KHAO“.
The reason for this is that we have started work on a new project, called “Aunty – A Metaphysical Mystery”. It is a computer game. Now we are well under way in its development, and are currently seeking forms of funding so that one or both of us can work on it full-time.
The game concerns a child who wakes in a strange house that she can´t remember having been before, despite the friendly old lady who looks after her, telling her that shes “Aunty”.
Here I am on Google maps, filming an episode for Yara. See me your self at address Frognerveien 2 Oslo. You have to go one clikc UP Frognerveien, cos on Solli plass and we are gone…
When Lo Fi just sint Lo Fi enought, then you have to go and film Merzbow at Blå in Oslo on a mobile phone!!!
WARNING.. NOISY!!!
Soon I will be performing via the internet in Austrailia, heres the flyer….
Heres the flyer
