#diana1love Soul Sessions 2, heard it still think Motown should promote Diana Ross

I may have gone a bit fanciful since I got into radio a bit more but I am still thinking that Motown or whoever is supposed to do such things should promote the Diana Ross version of One Love in My Lifetime. Last week and this I am backing up for an hour on Phonic FM while the Storyteller is at a festival. Both shows based on the CD, but last week mostly from YouiTube. We found most of the originals and One Love is the most interesting. Not promoted much so far though Joss version now on YouTube.

Teardrops is slowed right down so One Love is the most obvious dance track, I think. thing is, Diana Ross version just that bit easier to dance to, especially in remix already available.

Not sure what Motown know about this. But they should either promote it or something similar. Not that I go out dancing much now but this seems to me a possibility worth exploring.

By the way, track only on the deluxe CD, an extra couple of pounds for four tracks.  

Listen again c/o YouTube, sections from Soul Sessions on Phonic FM

Last week and next I am doing the 9-10 slot in the morning. The Storyteller has some sudden festival bookings. I also do the first half hour of the Wild Show so this fitted ok.  Monday is the UK release for Soul Sessions Vol 2 so this was the main focus of my selection. Several tracks are on YouTube already. Next week there will be tracks from the actual CD. Phonic FM has no listen again feature so I have put some sequences on YouTube - Phonic Soul Sessions A-D. Thanks to Gareth for bringing the equipment and knowledge to play the vinyl. More vinyl may turn up before Thursday or maybe some other time. One welcome consequence of this new release is the energy for checking out past potential.

Questions for Cross Media Live, magazines moving to web, Adobe interest in PDF

My recent posts may have gone into rave mode just a little.

Here is an attempt to formulate some questions in a more reasonable tone. There is still a month or so and I find the way a blog works is that answers sometimes turn up, even if indirectly.

The Guardian group is not the only media organisation moving online. I notice presentations connected to Haymarket, Future and Dennis. What is the current viability of the print publishing? Is the resource there to cope with an online future? Do the current readers understand what is going on?

Also I think there are issues around social media that I can't summarise easily. The audience can contribute in various ways and also expect to. Do the journalists understand this or want to?

Adobe are getting interested. I don't know if they have a stand but they are sponsor for some talks. It may just be me but I know nothing of any future Acrobat though the Creative Suite was updated a while back. If there is little interest from Adobe in development or promotion, why will the high price levels for Acrobat continue? iPad Photoshop for less than a music CD, Acrobat on the desktop what price to expect? I guess PDF is still of some interest for people attending.

New Flickr set on Exeter High Street Morning, Volkhardt Muller at work

From the museum cross Queen Street towards the High Street and look for the stairs to the first floor of the Guildhall Shopping Centre. The temp studio is in the opposite corner of the first space you get to. He may be there or he may be in the museum or somewhere else.

The show won't close till September. 

Leadership as Design Science

This blog post is to suggest some connections.I'm not sure how this will work out but something seems possible.

http://www.institute.nhs.uk/quality_and_value/introduction/article_9.html

Found this through Google. Not an academic source but I am interested in #mtw3 as a way to link practice and theory. ( search on #mtw3 for more )

The keynote for #mtw3 is from John Burgoyne. So far there are two versions on YouTube, latest shown

It turns out that scientific leadership might be possible and although this might be an aside it could be explored.

Design Science is referenced in an article from 2006 - 

British Journal of Management, Vol. 17, 303–316 (2006) 

Towards Best or Better Practice in

Corporate Leadership Development:

Operational Issues in Mode 2 and Design

Science research

linking to

Management Research Based on the Paradigm of

the Design Sciences: The Quest for Field-Tested

and Grounded Technological Rules

Joan E. van Aken

Eindhoven University of Technology

Journal of Management Studies 41:2 March 2004

0022-2380

I started thinking about this again when I found Teaching as Design Science, a recent book by Diana Laurillard

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415803878/

It seems likely that this could work with a management approach but I need to know more about Design Science to be able to describe how.

I am also interested in Deming and the Model of Sustainable Organisation

http://www.thecqi.org/moso

Leadership is part of this and it might be design science. Again, not sure how to map this.

Also I think that soft systems thinking is related. One of the mysteries of Lancaster Unbiversity is that Systems and Learning are in different departments. This may be a general situation, not sure. 

Anyway, comments please.

Design for Wild Show tomorrow, Anita Baker permalink for Joss Stone

I'm not quite sure what will happen tomorrow so design takes the form of readiness for various options. Chris is returning but has asked me to do the first half hour, 10 - 10.30. The Storyteller is away this week and next on some sudden festival bookings so I have offered to take over. I think there should be some stories and have found him on YouTube. But the main event is Soul Sessions Volume Two, available as a CD next Monday for the UK. Most of it is on YouTube already or at least a few tracks.

I mentioned this on an internal Phonic email list and I think someone may turn up who understands how to play vinyl. It may sound obvious but requires some extra bits of kit. How many actual records will appear I don't know. The tracks go back to the '60s so I think eventually a lot of links will be discovered.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/07/14/071412-wknd-music-joss-stone-bradley/

Bill Bradley has made one error I think. Joss Stone was born in Dover but he was probably not phoning her "Dover home". Why this kind of music comes from Devon is still a bit of a mystery but the facts will sink in eventually.

All we need is a credible narrative. This extract is a start-

Who are some of your influences?
When I was really young I liked a lot of female vocalists. My parents’ music collection was what I had, so they luckily have really good taste. My dad liked the Specials and Linton Kwesi Johnson, and he had a James Brown record that I stole. And my mom liked the big singers — Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Melissa Etheridge. I really like emotion in music. Without emotion, it’s a bit wasted. 

Joss told Andrew Marr that Teardrops was the only song on the CD she knew previously. So maybe the style is coming from Anita Baker, I shall try to play some and see how it fits. JD will turn up about ten so there could be some 80s dance. He likes Teardrops but I think Joss is trying to take the style of this back in time. I will get in some country as well.

Also hope to talk about the Any High Street show at RAMM. The promotion / rights access on music is not the same as with gallery images. Discussion could take a long time and an hour and a half is not that long for music.  

Guardian media and education coverage, where is this heading?

Looking back on Monday and Tuesday in print. I think the Guardian may have given up on news as such. Print journalists now offer opinion, maybe hoping for some comment. Do they really mean what they write?

Previously from Antonia Senior

Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other things lurk. Sci-fi and self-help. Even paranormal romance, where vampires seduce virgins and elves bonk trolls.

This week

The humanities graduates expect to read a book and learn from it. Developers are more hands-on, trying things out and adapting as they go.

So do techies read books? 

The real problem seems to be the employment prospects for recdent humanities graduates or indeed anyone else- 

Growing numbers of arts graduates squabble over dwindling jobs in contracting media industries. The money's rotten, the prospects are poor, and yet still the next generation come, drawn by the lure of being "creative". And the faltering industries welcome them in, using them as unpaid labour and skivvies while pretending that the jobs at the end of the rainbow are worth having.

There is still almost no discussion in Guardian Media about citizen journalism on the OhmyNews model - including the readers on a sensible basis. Possibly professional journalists can continue to fill space with opinion and anecdote, but the news organisations face other issues.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/17/guardian-observer-report-losses-44m

Print sales down 10% , how long till they go weekly? or stop printing altogether? 

Tuesday , education, critique on Pearson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/16/pearson-multinational-influence-education-poliy?INTCMP=SRCH

I can't help thinking about BETT where the BBC used to have a stand. The Guardian and others were very vocal in demanding that the BBC cut back on such activity. If there is not much happening from other sources then Pearson and other companies will make the running on tech innovation.

Recently Google paid for a page of the Guardian that took a look at educational policy in the UK. Around the time of BETT Michael Gove did have a look at e-learning. Perhaps some of the exhibitors were influential. 

Another story found while looking for this one.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/17/top-universities-free-online-classes

Edinburgh is the only UK one.

Dr Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, which represents leading universities including Oxbridge and Edinburgh, said: "Online technologies provide huge opportunities for the dissemination of knowledge, and our universities are continuing to take advantage by, for example, putting lectures online through iTunes U and YouTube, or by making much of our research open access. Russell Group universities have always been at the forefront of online innovations, and we are keen to exploit this further."

So that's alright then. If the Guardian has a clear plan of a digital future, it could be better known to readers. A drift of casual knocking of techies and Kindle readers is not helping. At least Pearson seems to have a clear direction.

 

 

Richer Sounds, top of Fore Street more photos from near Exeter High Street

I think the third woodcut will appear soon in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. thjis is a couple of weeks in so something should appear even if it is not finished.

Meanwhile I have done some more photos. In daylight, I need the sunshine to get me walking.

Richer Sounds

Fore Street

Other consumer electronics shops do exist. I just think the video skips over Richer Sounds as the camera bike copes with the roundabout. So these are as balance.

There could be more photos of the High Street and the city centre. I still think the scope can be seen as wider.

Critique and transformation, scope of media

I have put a comment on the Critical Management site.

http://www.criticalmanagement.org/content/critical-governance-studies-conference-2012-critique-transformation#comment-2181

The conference on Critical Governance is titles this year as "From Critique to Transformation" so is looking beyond academic journals. My comment is intended to ask what this means for the media in use.

The link works ok to YouTube from Tariq Ali, one of the speakers.

 .

I have also found a PDF

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/CARR/pdf/RiskRegulationCloseCalls.pdf

editorial by Michael Power. So there is free access to academic writing. But I'm not sure how widely known this is.

If social media is included in the scope of the conference there could be new forms of communication by December or soon after.

Wild Show, more on design #Design!? #phonic_fm @phonic_fm

See previous posts for attempts at linking the Design!? conference to a radio show and how the two shows were "designed" before the event.

Story so far in summary, there was an email about free access to journal articles from Sage on the occasion of Design!? , a conference in Helsinki that closed recently.

Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work 

By J. Wajcman and E. Rose

http://content.news.sagepub.co.uk/emessageIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5&a=10050&r=3929&m=14314&l=10&e=2&x=2456198.0

The Dialectical Sense of Humour: Routine Joking in a Taylorized Factory 

By M. Korczynski

http://content.news.sagepub.co.uk/emessageIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5&a=10050&r=3929&m=14314&l=11&e=2&x=2456198.0

So these were discussed during the first show by JD and me ( I covered two shows for Chris Norton on a short break ) by means of a question whether Chris is actually a manager, and my claim that I could not cope with email, phone calls etc. Then in show two we got an actual phone call from Chris announcing we had to be ready for an outside broadcast. So the second hour is not much like what I thought it would be.

Design is really interesting by the way. The London College of Printing keeps changing the name. Also the structure. Print and Publishing has gone, there is now Design and Media. Maybe these are just generic terms that could cover anything. I did once understand publishing and print as sort of stages in a workflow, but design and media are just an overlap with no distinction at all. Anyway I shall just mumble on about this. Someone has an answer.

Another bit worth copying-

In 2013, for the first time, the Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) will be held outside Europe! As a city historically based on different cultures, Montréal has long been considered a hub for people and merchandise flowing between North America and Europe. It is thus a perfect location to explore the theme of the 29th EGOS Colloquium: Bridging Continents, Cultures and Worldviews.

Also I found an interesting topic in the archive-

http://www.egosnet.org/archive/2011_gothenburg/symposium_i_has_management_studies_lost_its_way

Has management studies lost its way? Very interesting, but I can't find any other info. Maybe there is a journal somewhere in an academic library with the answer or at least what was said. Working on a radio show offers me a very different take on copyright, distribution and publicity. Most tracks from Joss Stone Soul Sessions Volume 2 are on YouTube as live performance. Probably not all of them. Still worth buying the CD. But the contrast with academic writing is stark. If some of it is critique, who is the critique intended for? Another post later.

There is not much to be found on Twitter searching on Design!? so far I only found one blog, see previous post.

worth repeating

 Yiannis Gabriel 

  on Serendipity

I found especially fruitful the discussion of whether serendipity can be routinized, which I think persuaded me that this is impossible. By contrast, I remain convinced that it can be facilitated by allowing or creating safe unmanaged spaces in our lives where unexpected things can happen. Of course, such spaces are all too often experienced as messy, dangerous and confusing, but as my old professor Paul Feyerabend liked to say "Without mess, no discovery". If serendipity favours the prepared mind, it also favours the soul that is willing to live with messy uncertainty. It favours the person who is not afraid to get lost from time to time, to make detours from his/her planned journeys and to waste time and other resources without regrets and shame.

.

http://www.yiannisgabriel.com/2012/07/reflections-on-28th-egos-colloquium.html

If there is more, please add a comment. Gibson Burrell stories on quality projects would be interesting.

For the next few months I only have half an hour so will concentrate on music. Starts with pop / soul , then folk, then dance/electronics through August Sidmouth folk week and Joss Stone in Exeter around September. Aims include pushing the scope of folk to include more pop and taking JD back beyond the '80s ( several old soul tracks )  . Of course Chris is back so the show may return to normal.

Wild Show ok, YouTube links for speech play it again #phonic_fm @phonic_fm

Yesterday I loaded some clips to YouTube from the Wild Show on Thursday. This seems to be working ok and marks a new phase in my broadcasting. That is, FM radio really is broadcasting, even if quite local. I still mix this with Rougemont Global Broadcasting, the willpollard channel on YouTube. So I mention some of the video clips on air and also have posted several based on sound from the Phonic archive machine.

I don't understand how the costs would work out for a "listen again" feature on the Phonic website but meanwhile several shows turn up in various places. I find that YouTube sometimes refuses to load content where the copyright is disputed. This is fair enough and often it just seems to mean that the adverts appear and the income is tagged to the record company. For example the ISCA Wheelchair Dancers so far get nothing from promoting Press The Button by the Sugarbabes.

So my current idea is to put clips of speech and then link to music, it often started out on YouTube anyway. 

HMV is a continuing topic and shows the state of how the web effects music in Exeter. we are just chatting but there are some visits to actual Princesshay.

The Any High Street event still has several weeks to go. In theory there could be a lot of sound from the RAMM to the Phonic studio. With Ghostwriter we got permission to use a clip just as the Spacex Blast Theory was closing. So things get better. I still think that "Any City Centre" would be more representative of what is there. The court and the cells are not usually obvious to a casual visitor. Also I think a university or similar could be included. There are civic universities even if Exeter has one on a campus a few miles away with a distinct retail experience. The Phoenix building was oncer academic so this can still be explored.

There was an actual interruption ( see below for more on design ) when Chris phoned in to say he had an interview lined up. So we have coped with a pre-recorded interview and a live phone call. Previously I phoned in to JD in the studio from the Winter Games so more on this in another post. We also have a clip on the Tramper and Chris in the area around the canal but this will be revisited when the sunshine arrives, sometime later.

We continue to comment on why the World Service plays such short bits of music. By the way, Jonathan Friedland in the Guardian this morning explains that the World Service will be paid for by the licence fee from 2014. He also claims there is "comic improbability" in affection for Dave Lee Travis. More in another post later on why some people like radio to include music.

The Celebration of Failure was about public taste I think. It included a chance to play records and also bring your own. So I have explored that on several occasions since. Last week JD brought in some '80s electronics and this week a selection of '70s "naffness". So we may have simplified this a bit, but it works on radio. In the world of JD, everything before the '80s was naff and probably everything since is essentailly a remix.

Second version for copyright reasons in some countries

Chris will be back next week but I will start the show for the first half hour or so. More on design later today, this took longer than I thought.

Revised design for Wild Show this Thursday, slightly different to last week

Previously

/will789gb/clip-from-wild-show-on-youtube-design-and-que

this has a link to a clip from last week

/will789gb/draft-design-for-wild-show-this-thursday-and

the design for last week.

Thing is, I can't find much from Design!? in Helsinki. It still seems possible to link an academic conference, social media, and a radio show. But not that fluid at the moment.

I did find interruptions a problem. JD says he can cope but when he found the request on YouTube it turned out to be the karaoke version. I still think Facebook a few days ahead is the best way.

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http://content.news.sagepub.co.uk/emessageIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5&a=10050&r=3929&m=14314&l=10&e=2&x=2456198.0

Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work 

By J. Wajcman and E. Rose

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The Dialectical Sense of Humour: Routine Joking in a Taylorized Factory 

By M. Korczynski 

http://content.news.sagepub.co.uk/emessageIRS/servlet/IRSL?v=5&a=10050&r=3929&m=14314&l=11&e=2&x=2456198.0

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I think the links work for free till the end of July. Chris is still talking to us. We might make another remark about "management" .

I could only find one blog post from Helsinki -  Yiannis Gabriel 

  on Serendipity

I found especially fruitful the discussion of whether serendipity can be routinized, which I think persuaded me that this is impossible. By contrast, I remain convinced that it can be facilitated by allowing or creating safe unmanaged spaces in our lives where unexpected things can happen. Of course, such spaces are all too often experienced as messy, dangerous and confusing, but as my old professor Paul Feyerabend liked to say "Without mess, no discovery". If serendipity favours the prepared mind, it also favours the soul that is willing to live with messy uncertainty. It favours the person who is not afraid to get lost from time to time, to make detours from his/her planned journeys and to waste time and other resources without regrets and shame.

.

http://www.yiannisgabriel.com/2012/07/reflections-on-28th-egos-colloquium.html

This more or less describes what community radio should be like. The mess takes the form of dead air which will be edited out for the YouTube clips.

We will still mention the Celebration of Failure and the Eclectic Electric event. but there is also Any High Street at RAMM. I do have one interview already and it won't close till September. And Stonehenge continues.

I forgot to play Neil Young last week. So more space for the folk part, still need to leaver time to ask JD about the '80s.

Guildhall as in Shopping Centre #Exeter Any High Street

http://www.pr-works.co.uk/news/artist-in-residence-at-guildhall-shopping-centre

“Volkhardt Müller: Any High Street”  is in the Guildhall, the Guildhall Shopping Centre that is. I really did not understand this. The Guildhall staff in the High Street know nothing about it. No wonder I could not find anything.

I did find the artist in residence at the RAMM on Sunday. The video projections of Pastoral from the cells was not shown as the space was in use for printing out small sections from the woodcut as ordered by visitors. The plan is to do enough copies of each to eventually fill the display on the wall. But it needs someone to order each space.

There is a video display now showing the complete length of the High Street at three times of day. The illustrations are based on this. So far I think one is done, one mostly done, one not started. When I find the site in the Guildhall I will post again. Eventually this blog will form a sort of review, before the show closes in September.

Clip from Wild Show on YouTube, Design!? and questions for Bobby Womack

I have loaded a clip from last week's show

It starts with chat about interruptions and humour. I am interested in how much we can cross over with academic topics.

Based on the 28th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies. Papers include-  

Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work 

By J. Wajcman and E. Rose

The Dialectical Sense of Humour: Routine Joking in a Taylorized Factory 

By M. Korczynski 

I will get the links on to YouTube later.

About 4 minutes in there is talk about Bobby Womack and whether we can re broadcast an interview with Front Row on the BBC. JD suggests I edit it as if I am asking the questions but I think this is a bit out of order. Maybe he will send us an mp3 to explain his state of health and real plans to tour.

Future shows will include tracks around Soul Sessions Vol 2 from Joss Stone and start with this as a way to play other tracks. 

Bookshops still in a growth phase at Northumbria University #uoeforum

It is reported in the Bookseller that Blackwells will open a new bookshop in September to take over from the previous bookseller at Northumbria University.

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/blackwell-moves-northumbria-university.html

So the evidence remains strong that Blackwells is still supporting actual bookshops. It will probably be after September that students in Exeter will realise whether or not they can manage without a bookshop. There is no sign of any new retail activity at St Lukes though there is still an empty shop.

Meanwhile Exeter Central Library have started an arrangement with Overdrive for lending digital content such as e-books and audio books. They are still planning to invest in new physical buildings. But he question is still there, if a university is better with a bookshop demolished, what is the case for a library? 

Any High Street, Any Museum where Any = (Exeter, RAMM)

I made a first visit to RAMM for the Any HighStreet show by Volkhardt Muller

http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/volkhardt-mller-any-high-street

It is nowhere near ready yet. There is a triptych or at least the frames for such but only one section ready at the moment. I think this was done in the central library a few months ago. The origins are wood cut but there is some digital tech in the presentation. You have to do your own winding up for the animation to work. The largest projection is from Pastoral as shown in the cells of Exeter Castle a few years ago. This was when Exeter Art Spaces were based there. Transition was a show that used most of the available space including the cells. As the work was scratched on the cell walls it was not possible to remove it. In the RAMM there is also a paper record of some cell walls as found. You can walk round this but not get inside as paper is more fragile than a purpose built cell.

Volkhardt Muller will be at the RAMM on several days starting this Sunday. You can buy for quite small sums a print of a chosen section of carving to print. Obviously no photography is allowed or all the photocopiers in Exeter would be knocking out illegal versions.

But I did have permission to photograph Transition so here is a set from Flickr

I also had a chance to interview Simon Egan about his sound work called Fraud

He even agreed to answer a follow up question on another occasion

I now realise the sound recording is not very good. I will have to try to ask the same questions again, maybe in a studio.

draft design for Wild Show this Thursday and the remakes

It turns out that I may be doing the Wild Show on Phonic FM for the complete two hours both this week and next week - Thursday 10-12. Chris Norton is busy with the Isca Wheelchair Dancers though I think he may turn up at some point. He has asked me to do the first half hour most weeks but I try to concentrate on music. Over two hours there should be more scope for talk.

I started as a guest or rather at an attempt at a YouTube chatshow during Beer At The Castle organiswed by CAMRA. Carl Munson turned up and then invited me back to Phonic. The name of the show has changed, more on this another time.

I have bought three new CDs - Bobby Womack, Neil Young Americana, Beach Boys and I will buy Joss Stone Soul Sessions volume 2 when available. The summer is over or at least it has mostly rained but there will come a time to play the Beach Boys. Americana folk may fit with Sidmouth. Several Joss Stone tracks are on YouTube already so can mix with recent Bobby Womack.

The order can change. I hope my laptop will work ok as well as the CD players but sometimes what can be played depends on the equipment. Probably start with the pop aspect of the Soul Sessions, then more folk and then more dance. I want to talk to JD about 80s music and electronics.

JD also presents an 80s show on Totnes FM. Previously we have discussed the Celebration of Failure by Laura Kikauka at Spacex. Later we found an interview about "irritainment", content that is irritating enough to be entertainment. This is ok but opinions vary about what is irritating. I am a fan of Philadelphia International Records for example, mostly from the 70s. So far JD has told me that the 70s were not up to much, the 80s were a lot better. So we may reach agreement on a sort of celebration of the 80s. This would be based on sound, but also with graphics to suit the club or gallery location ( we exist in a basement studio but imagine where the sound is going) So my question for JD is what happened with electronics to make the 80s so good? Perhaps there will be some clues at the Eclectic Electric festival

http://www.electric-eclectics.com/

Bobby Womack the Bravest Man in the Universe is onto another stage of electronics production. We may not understand this much so please send in comments.

Topics often include what is happening with copyright, CDs the high street etc. We do play directly from YouTube but also buy CDs and hope the Exeter HMV continues with at least some space for them.

Something related is happening with print publishing such as academic journals. I recently got an email about articles from Sage that are available to the public during a conference on Design in Helsinki. This is the 28th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies. Papers include-  

Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work 

By J. Wajcman and E. Rose

The Dialectical Sense of Humour: Routine Joking in a Taylorized Factory 

By M. Korczynski 

So we may experiment with the amount of interruption we can cope with. Sometimes we answer the phone and also email. But I may turn this off. Facebook during the week is good, it gives us time to plan.

 

Testing Vimeo embed code , gallery jitters continued, Phoenix on Thursday.

<p>Topophobia: An overview from Spacex on Vimeo.</p>

Spacex have posted some video to Vimeo. Hope this shows it. If not seach Vimeo on Spacex the first two are about the current show.

I can't find the Review Group on the new site. I expect it will turn up eventually. My idea of a blog is to post stuff quite quickly in a form that could be revised. So I am just commenting here in a way that might change later.

I notice the style of video here is what I take to be fairly typical of what a gallery will allow. There is online video but posted by the gallery, not any sort of independent source. Including bloggers like myself, anyone with a camera. The public at the opening of this show were faced with a notice saying that they may be included in a video but could avoid this by asking to wear a special badge. My point of view is that I don't mind being in a video if I am allowed also to use a camera. So if there is a recipe exchange for example I would like to record the talk not just be photographed in the audience.

In this Vimeo video there is only one voice. The audience appear but they do not say anything.

What I remember most clearly is my question about whether there is anything good to be said about the internet. My impression still is that the web is seen as a place to avoid when compared to the aura of a gallery. There was some balance but I think fear of virtual spaces came up quite quickly as an approved topic.

Meanwhile I really like Sacriledge2012 and the photos etc that flow from it. Stonehenge is not curated by English Heritage, is not in a gallery, can be bounced on and there are no restrictions because of image rights etc. at least I have not found the limits yet. Search Twitter for more - #sacrilege2012  

I am looking forward to Thursday at the Phoenix, a mashup on Hanging Rock the movie. But when will fine art accept the same kind of freedoms?

Stonehenge in Totnes #sacrilege2012 @sacrilege2012

This photo shows Stonehenge moved to Totnes. Already this has two likes on Facebook so it must be ok that I borrowed the sound for YouTube from Rafel Rodney. Also Clive Chilvers likes it. I am not going to borrow his photos for Demotix. There is a clear difference between Demotix and Creative Commons. And he did stay in Belmont Park during all the rain when I went home.

Continues on the Wild Show Facebook page. JD also presents an '80s show on Totnes FM so I am asking him to comment on Stonehenge in Totnes. I think there could be several made once the Olympics are over.

The original Totnes photo is on Flickr, Creative Commons, thanks to Old Fogey 1942

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10164913@N02/

testing Flickr photo code - Old Fogey in Totnes

hope this works, explained in next post. I think it is there but is not displaying in Chrome. Click on the space to get to Flickr.