fish highway!

cool, I want one

clipped from www.fishighway.com

Wednesday is Big Bang Day!

They've done the clockwise test and are preparing for the anti... Lets hope they don't create a black hole...

Scientists
working on the most powerful particle accelerator ever built have
successfully sent subatomic particles on one circuit of the Large
Hadron Collider and are now preparing to send them on a second circuit,
in the opposite direction.

My view of this excellent film from the back of the Royal Manor Theatre for the 1st screening of FILMDOCKS first ever season. A fantastic start. Nice one Elmlea. www.rizingdamp.com/filmdock/

clipped from www.flickr.com FILMDOCK - the diving bell and the butterfly My view of this excellent film from the back of the Royal Manor Theatre for the 1st screening of FILMDOCKS first ever season. A fantastic start. Nice one Elmlea. www.rizingdamp.com/filmdock/ Posted 89 minutes ago. ( permalink | delete | edit )

FILMDOCK - Season 1

It's here, decent cinema for Portland and Weymouth

clipped from www.rizingdamp.com Royal Manor Theatre 138A Fortuneswell Portland DT5 1LT Free parking available nearby at Chiswell, next to the Little Ship pub on your right hand side as you come onto the island, and also at the top of Fortuneswell, opposite the Royal Portland Arms. Weymouth College Theatre Cranford Avenue Weymouth DT4 7LQ Bar open from 7pm. Parking available at main campus after 6pm. Disabled parking available close to theatre entrance.

Cool sculpture

made from flotsam and jettsom by Swa at emeraldant

clipped from www.flickr.com Emeraldantics

Awesome gadets

especially the salt and pepper shakers...

clipped from technology.17things.com

love marmalade? hate marmalade

I don't know why they're called this or why they think they're so great. I kept getting calls from and 0161 number and then no-one tere, I could hear talking in the background though. These guys sell phones, I've recently upgraded to a Nokia N95, so I'm sorted. What is the point of phoning someone who doesn't need a phone to sell them a phone and then not even trying?! Twats

clipped from lovemarmalade.com

Awesome Sand Hotel a world first

Awesome Sand Hotel a world first. Built by Weymouth, Dorsets sand man Mark Anderson this is a great feat of sand engineering. Perhaps it should become a semi-permanent fixture...

sand,sculpture,weymouth,dorset,2012,mark,anderson,hotel

World's first sand hotel

tagcow review and privacy warning

clipped from cripplerant.blogspot.com clipped from cripplerant.blogspot.com Tag Cow Privacy Warning I use Tag Cow to autometatag my flickr photos for FREE, which is nice... . Sometimes a bit sketchy but handy, see below... Tag Cow uses Mechanical Turk and state that ALL photos will be visible to tagging "resources". Mechanical Turk uses A.A.I, artificial artificial intelligence, i.e. people. You see where this is heading.... Just so you know,... my mates are going to laugh when I tell them my photos are autometatagged by aai.... westside! meh

Google trends top search

quite a juicy one by the look of it

clipped from www.tmz.com Design on a Dime Host Gets XXXtreme Makeover While the network continues to regularly air episodes featuring former host Lee Snijders, we've learned the guy who helped homeowners for more than six years is still giving advice to couples -- but purely of the girl-on-girl variety nowadays. Snijders used the cash he raked in from "DoaD" and his stint as a Disney Imagineer to start his own porn company with porn star girlfriend Jett Angel. You can even catch Lee in several of the reality-style skin flicks manning the camera (or so we've heard).

Weymouth Carnival - Mobility team

In an effort to have a good time and raise some much needed awareness for those of us with mobility issues, (like why aren't there double yellows in front of dropcurbs?) I thought I'd enter the carnival...

I don't know yet if anyone else in a mobility scooter or wheelchair is planning to? I've had four volunteers so far, please let anyone you know who might be interested know. I was thinking an aquatic theme?

There's not long enough for the giant, animated puppets I had in mind this year, though apparently wheelchairs and scooters make excellent bases for these...

Please email me if you or someone you know is interested

Google trends (US) Current no.1 Poveglia (peaked 5hours ago)

When I get the chance I'm going to check out the yanks news and try and work out why some things peak... You'd think this would be a halloween one...

The Spookiest Places - Forbes.com

Italy is full of spooky places, from the cursed Abbey of Lucedio--where, rumors say, the monks became devil worshippers beginning in the 1600s--to the catacombs of Rome. One place--Poveglia Island near Venice--is so scary that no tourists are allowed to step foot on it.

When the plague hit Italy in 1576, thousands of dead bodies and the still living victims were dumped on the island to be buried or left to rot. Centuries later, a hospital was built by a doctor who tortured patients there. The hospital, his office, a church and the crematorium still stand, but no tourists are permitted on the island at any time.

The Science Behind Reiki

The Science Behind Reiki

Covered in bees?

Sam just drew my attention to this article, the last line is indeed a classic," as is the headline... But fuck em... they're only bees...

The Canadians should think themselves lucky,n at least they're not wearing bee helmets...


image from jamd.com
Technorati Tags: bees, beard, helmet, canada, million, 12000000,

A good frined of mine is a leading paranormal researcher (nutter) and often sends me links about the unexplicable, and rants about them, a lot... A lot of this stuff is actually very interesting, and inexplainable. Crop circles are very hoopy with some very strange things going on, but no-one is prepared to fund any research...

Anyway, I thought I'd start sharing these links with you all, til she gets her own blog sorted....
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These 1st two articles are about the reasent sightings in Wales, both interesting reads... & i've never seen an article like this in the Sun... (not that I read it) It actually mentions the soldiers names!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027990/Invasion-bobby-snatchers-Police-helicopter-close-encounter-UFO.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1336870.ece

(video is pants, soldiers and girls vids identical)

This reported the same weekend, A pilot & a plane full of people see ufo... was actually reported but parts of report is being kept secret...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-463637/Mile-wide-UFO-spotted-British-airline-pilot.html

(pretty compelling but not necessarily aliens)

Experts call on Goverment to re open ufo investigations...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-493407/Experts-US-government-reopen-UFO-investigations.html

Former MOD chief, says we could be attacked by Aliens at any time

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-473311/Secret-government-X-Files-reveal-97-UFO-sightings-Britains-skies-year.html

& just another little twist to think about... Are we all psychic...???

(wow! my mind is fried... crop circles later, must do physio....)

That is what Dr Roe is investigating. A parapsychologist based at the University of Northampton, he is examining whether it could indeed be possible to project your "mind's eye" to a distant location and observe what is going on - even if that place is hundreds of miles away...

While Dr Roe's work may appear controversial, he is starting to garner the support of eminent academics such as Professor Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Cambridge University, who says: "The experiments have been designed to rule out luck and chance. I consider the evidence for remote viewing to be pretty clear-cut."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-510762/Could-proof-theory-ALL-psychic.htmlTechnorati Tags: aliens, unexplained, space, Experts, US, government, reopen UFO, investigations

LEBSWUK- live event blogging with Nokia N95 - bcidecsidemedia and WAN

Nokia N95 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wow! 3 are giving me this phone. I wanted it for the 5Mp camera but what a toy! Basically it is the nuts and it's going to kick off my new LEBing escapade nicely. I'm sure the accelerometer will be handy too...

Live event blogging is nothing new, it is very effective for dissemination of otherwise exclusive content and is very useful as an activism tool. Also great for any festival event of gallery opening, gig etc. Combined with a youtube and facebook campaign it is THE way to get noticed on line and draw people from the web into your event and world.

Allegedly the phone should turn up tomorrow, I hope to LEB from South West Arts Contemporary Arts Exhibition at Weymouth Museum Brewers Quay 24th May - 29th June 2008 10am - 5pm.

So, if it does arrive you should see stuff straight from the gallery appearing at http://lebswuk.blogspot.com/ tomorrow afternoon...

Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, live, video, nokia, n95, moblog, weblog, video, photo, event, gig, festivsal, marketing, media, social, facebook

can you tell what it is yet?

answers as comments below please

lifeboatphalanx

lifeboatphalanx
Originally uploaded by theonewhoistall

lifeboat being towed back in by lifeguards in canoes...

Like.com’s Creepy, But Effective, Facebook Ads

It is a bit spooky... doubt the techs actually that sharp...

Visual-shopping search engine Like.com is running ads on Facebook that appear to match objects in profile photos.

Is this art or animal abuse?

"In 2007, a so-called artist named Guillermo Habacuc Vargas (I probably have the spelling wrong), took a stray dog from the street, tied him up in a gallery and left him to slowly starve and die." This is completely sick, obviously. I can't believe the gallery allowed it and the artist got to represent his nation...

Metamonkey draws similar criticism, but is not even in the same ball park, as one commentator puts it

" ...Sadly, the opinions of the masses have (for one of the first times in my life) convinced me to perform a U-turn on my own principles.
As you may have guessed, the subject is the Meta Monkey installation. A concept which as you know I was particularly taken with. As long as it was executed with decency, no matter how secretive said decency may be from the audience, I was all for it. I advocated it as a genuine and original way of, sadly, FORCING people to confront their reactions and their hypocrisy in terms of their regard of the sanctity of life and freedom...."

Thats the point and it's off to a great start...
Technorati Tags: art, cruelty, animals, monkey, metamonkey

SOS Weymouth - Spirit of the Sea on facebook

If you're a facebooker please join this group, it may well help get me a job, then I'll buy you a pint..

Spirit of the Sea will be awesome and it will be building every year in the run up to the Olympics, as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Moving Tides will hopefully become a much enhanced Carnival., this year it's Armada down the Esplanada

If you want to know more about local art opportunities or just taking part please email me.


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Metamonkey installation

Right. This is a joint concept for an installation from bsidecsidemedia, commenting both on the explosion of web culture and ingrained cultural perceptions regarding animal/human cruelty.

The installation will consist of a cage containing what appears to be a person dressed unconvincingly as a monkey, when in fact it is a monkey unconvincingly dressed as a monkey.

This "metamonkey" can be interacted with via bluetooth controlled devices, and photos with the monkey can be purchased. There will also be a metamonkey cam and website. Plastic, "taunt" bananas will be for sale throughout the evening.
This "metamonkey" will clearly be japed and trousered playfully by people, safe in the knowledge that it is a minimum wage "humanzee", when in fact it is an unpaid monkey.

So we need;

• a licensed monkey (1500gbp)


• a venue


• a bad monkey outfit


• 3000 pounds (for building set from recyled fairtrade undergrowth, website and tauntnanas)


• portrait partner (limited franchise already in negotiation)

Expressions of interest are invited for all the above, with the intention of taking things forward ideally looking to implementation in July. Please email

Technorati Tags: seaside, 2012, meta, monkey, emeraldant, emerald, ant, weymouth, dorset, animal, cruelty, bsidecsidemedia, bside, cside, media

Bridport TLC

Awesome idea and ethos. Every town should have a community recycling project which is developing sustainable waste & recycling initiatives alongside local schools & businesses. We are a volunteer-led group, offering solutions to improving our local environment & contributing to a sustainable local economy.

Check it out, let's get one started....

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Bridport TLC

Awesome idea and ethos. Very town should have a community recycling project which is developing sustainable waste & recycling initiatives alongside local schools & businesses. We are a volunteer-led group, offering solutions to improving our local environment & contributing to a sustainable local economy.

Check it out, let's get one started....

Technorati Tags: Bridport, biodiesel, vegetable, waste, oil, sunflower, recycling, recycle, bicycles, cardboard, paint, plastic, education, B100, taxed, legal, fuel, diesel, travel, car, van, community, enterprise, save, fuel, planet, ecology, permaculture

Carnival workshop a great success

A glorious weekend saw a good turn out for a fantastic workshop. Ali and Tony from Kinetika were great sources of knowledge and Ali gave us a fascinating history of carnival, followed by a brainstorming session for a range of projects, including Spirit of the Sea.

On the 2nd day Tony demonstrated lightweight backpack manufacture and explained the range of techniques for attaching wings/puppets etc plus explaining the many detailed techniques learnt over the decades and passed among carnival engineers. Ali ran a batik workshop to provide skins for the backpack creations with some beautiful results.

Attendees included Sarah from EmeraldAnt (Spirit of the Sea - moving tides), Jenny Stiling of Weymouth Community Volunteers, Gary Jones of SWANK, several representatives from Bridport TLC, Irene Archibold of Dorchester Arts Center, and Ana and Margaret from Weymouth and Portland fairtrade. Plus of course several members from Weymouth college.


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Donor children!?

Maybe I misheard? Hopefully it's a mistake... I just heard on radio one that the government are debating new science laws that will allow parents to conceive children to act as donors for their other children? This has already happened with bone marrow and is often the subject of terrifying literature.

Surely this IS a mistake. I've found nothing on google as yet. Watch this space...

Technorati Tags: baby, babies, gm, organ, donor, children, ethics, clone, cloning, bone, marrow, leukiaemia, kidney

Kinetika carnival workshops this weekend

spaces still available on these free workshops at Weymouth college.

All
you have to do is e-mail alan_rogers@weymouth.ac.uk
with “KINETIKA MAY WORKHOP” as the subject line.

Hope to see you there

groovy design

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