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The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment. ~ Peter Bondra
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It's easy to feel schadenfreude as Republicans react to Supreme Court Justice Scalia's death. He embodied conservative ideals with the ability to convey them with eloquent force. And he was positioned to codify these beliefs. During this contentious election year, his death is timely, one worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster.
Donald Trump has already defied all conventional political wisdom, jeopardizing both conservative doctrine and the future of the GOP. And Republican leadership is in overdrive, attempting to spin this turn-of-events to their advantage in any way they can. Senator Mitch McConnell, along and other Republicans, has said the American people should decide the next nominee with their votes in the upcoming Presidential election. But, that already happened in 2012 when Americans re-elected President Obama. So, why is the GOP suggesting such a thing? For the preservation of those conservative ideals and for self-preservation as a functioning party. The Constitution clearly lays out the process for choosing Supreme Court Justices. And it's not by a direct vote of the American electorate.
While the United States is a representative democracy (we elect others to govern on our behalf), our two main political parties actually rule. That's a problem. Senator McConnell, the rest of Congress, and the President were elected to represent the American people, not their respective parties. But, retaining party power now takes precedence over governance. Many Americans are so angry at the way our government functions they are looking for leaders outside the system. But the system is more than just Washington gridlock. It's Wall Street. It's corporations. It's lobbyists. It's the 1%. In other words, the ruling system is a complicated symbiotic relationship between these interest groups and much more nuanced than just a dysfunctional Federal government.
While both the Democrats and the Republicans are responsible for this mess, the GOP is particularly vulnerable, finding obstruction and obfuscation much more critical to its agenda. Its majority in the Senate does not reflect a majority of Americans (it represents 20 million fewer voters than the Democrat minority) and the House owes its majority to gerrymandering, where Congressional boundaries have been manipulated to favor conservatives. These facts make them nervous.
Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley recently penned an op-ed in the Washington Post justifying their belief that no action should be taken to replace Justice Scalia until after the Presidential election by pointing out the Democrats' history of gridlock in similar cases. As if two wrongs make a right! But these two "wrongs" are not equivalent. Republicans are vowing to ignore any nomination President Obama brings forth. In the past Democrats have held confirmation hearings and votes on Presidential nominees. In this case, many liberals are calling on Obama to nominate a moderate to the bench. In a recent Salon article, writer Paul Rosenberg said, "There is a consistent constituency for moderation and compromise on the Democratic side, a view commonly held in contempt by Republicans."
If McConnell and Grassley truly believe the people should have a direct say in government, they should work to institutionalize a direct democracy, dismantle the Electoral College and end gerrymandering. Both institutions are walls between governance and the people. But, of course, this would undermine the party's power. Given this, their words seem hollow and manipulative —just the type of rhetoric that fuels voters' anger and disenfranchisement.
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Original Caption: Residents React to Notice of Landlords' Meeting Posted in Market Window and Called by Massport (Massachusetts Port Authority), Which Owns and Operates Logan Airport. Purpose Is to Discuss Sale of Homes to Massport 06/1973
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Reacting camera on Rublevo station of water cleaning. Build in 1907, now it's out of use.
More about this you may find here: steal86.livejournal.com/222525.html
Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Sigma 12-24/4.5-5.6 EX HSM and two Canon 550EX flashes. The flashes was in my hands and I fired them as many times as possible during 30 sec. exposure. I tries to accent the light on the rusted water pipes and tubes and also made increasement to the forms of the walls and stairs.
#React, #GoaHead, #NoStop, #Belive, #KeepWalking, #Respect, #UrbanPhotography, #StreetPhoto, #SPLovers, #Canon, #Photo, #Photography, #ConceptualPhotography, #Brazil, #BraveBrazilianPeople, #HRSouza,
...Oscar reacting to the camera.
One fun facts about chameleon:
...here his channel (I love it)
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOHbM4GGWADc5bZgvbivvttAuW...
i had fun doing that haha,
it wasnt even for a picture.
But oh well, i decided to take one anyway.
Photographer: Alexandre
Model: Alexandre
Taken with: Canon powershot S2 IS
Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, is a Malayalam author and a screenplay writer. A prolific and versatile actor, a Sanskrit scholar, a teacher of repute, priesthood in a famous temple, National awards for the best screenplay in 2000 for the film " Karunam' and the Ashdod International Film Award for Best Screenplay for the film Parinamam (The Change) in 2003-- his life has been extremely colorful and eventful. He lives in the Kiralur village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, 77 years young.
When you think, who do you think to? Who is reviewing the processing of ideas that goes on in your mind? Some people hear voices inside their head. They hear a cocophony of sounds, as though there were a crowd of onlookers keen to add a little to their daily review of the world. Some do not talk to or hear themselves in that way at all. They don’t have an inner voice at all. If you are one of those people, how do you know when you are making a decision and when you are simply reacting? If you simply react or ‘act on instinct’, how much of what transpires next is based on your decision-making and how much is simply a reflection of your upbringing, your societally conditioned reflex or your immediate reaction of doing what is expected of you? Do you have two little characters, one perched on each shoulder, who provide ‘good person/bad person’ feedback on how you are going? What about thinking about thinking? Have you ever been thinking through something, only to find that you are simultaneously studying your own thoughts and actions and reactions to the situation? What happens in the darker, deeper recesses of your mind? We already know that the mind is greater than the mouth - that you are capable to thinking in levels that are many layers deep, and that this can be simultaneous with actions. It is clear that there are body instructions built-in to our psyche (lovely word that – ‘psyche’ – it sounds good, it looks good and when you push it out of your mouth you cannot help but focus your mind. Try saying it 10 times at 10 different speeds) that are preprogrammed, automatic and appear to be devoid of any conscious decision process. They may be essential to our survival in a chaotic and dangerous world but should we have control of them? In other words, should the ‘You’ that you internally talk to be maintaining more control over those reactions? Actions and reactions are different, just as there are different kinds of reactions. Your hand will automatically move away from a hot surface as your subconscious self protects itself, and its vehicle for existence in the physical world. When approaching another person who is walking towards you, it is likely that you will move to the left or right depending on your interpretation of the eye movements of that person as they navigate the footpath. These reactions are in-built. They are part of what you are. Some would argue that you are simply a pawn in the great chess game of competing power plays. Whether it be an unavoidable and hegemonic Marxist class struggle (with all of its associated martyr and victim mentalities) or a Wittgenstein misappropriation of language, there is a very high level of possibility that you are acting as if you were little more than a vessel channelling greater powers. If so, you must resist this. Absolutely, and with total conviction. There is no room in your world for aquiescing to the dictates of societal power structures. There is an individual resting peacefully under those deeply quilted layers of comfortable conformity, and that individual has a voice. The question is whether you will listen to that voice or if you will see it as socially inappropriate, as a perverted extension of some uncontrolled component of your inner self that cannot be assuaged without shock therapy (another magnificent word – ‘assuaged’ – it’s on a plane with ‘clitoris’, the one word that rolls off the tongue so incredibly satisfyingly). And so we swing on the roundabout until we return to the ideas of inner voices. Is it common to talk to your inner self? Apparently, more than 8 million people (no, wait – 10 million… how’s that for a runaway success?) have read the book ‘Eat, Love, Pray’, written by a self-absorbed, yet incredibly lucid New York Times writer.www.elizabethgilbert.com/
Peel aside the layers inside of layers that envelop any story about a professional writer, paid by cheque-in-advance to spend a year discovering themselves, and you will find a brilliant yet clever exposé of the inner self. Take this comment on the vagaries of self-talk, from p187 of the 2010 edition…
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“So I’ve started being vigilant about watching my thoughts all day, and monitoring them. I repeat this vow about 700 times a day: “I will not harbour unhealthy thoughts anymore.” Every time a diminishing thought arises, I repeat the vow. I will not harbour unhealthy thoughts anymore. The first time I heard myself say this, my inner ear perked up at the word “harbor,” which is a noun as well as a verb. A harbor, of course, is a place of refuge, a port of entry. I pictured the harbour of my mind – a little beat up, perhaps, a little storm-worn, but well situated and with a nice depth. The harbor of my mind is an open bay, the only access to the island of my Self (which is a young and volcanic island, yes, but fertile and promising). This island has been through some wars, it is true, but it is now committed to peace, under a new leader (me) who has instituted new policies to protect the place. And now – let the word go out across the seven seas – there are much, much stricter laws on the books about who may enter this harbor.
You may not come here anymore with your hard and abusive thoughts, with your plague ships of thoughts, with your slave ships of thoughts, with your warships of thoughts – all these will be turned away. Likewise, any thoughts that are filled with angry or starving exiles, with malcontents and pamphleteers, mutineers and violent assassins, desperate prostitutes, pimps and seditious stowaways – you may not come here anymore, either. Cannabilistic thoughts, for obvious reasons, will no longer be received. Even missionaries will be screened carefully, for sincerity. This is a peaceful harbor, the entryway to a fine and proud island that is only now beginning to cultivate tranquillity. If you can abide by these new laws, my dear thoughts, then you are welcome in my mind – otherwise, I shall turn you all back toward the sea from whence you came.That is my mission, and it will never end.And so we have one person’s very public sharing of their talking to their inner self. You may have noticed the last sentence isn’t actually a true statement. Elizabeth Gilbert is setting rules for thoughts to gain access to her inner self. Does this mean she perceives a Gatekeeper, perched on the edge of the bridge to her inner self? Who is this Gatekeeper that stands beside the bridge, asking questions and checking the credentials of that teeming horde of thoughts waiting so impatiently to cross? If that Gatekeeper is you, then who do the thoughts belong to? Are we now dealing with three separate entities, competing for the role of “me”? Do we have a Thought Generator Self, a Gatekeeper Self and a Self-Self?Who do you talk to in the deep recesses of your mind? A visit to a local bookstore will uncover the inevitable “Self-Help” section, full of motivational and directive material that promises 7 Steps to a Healthy Mind or 6 Ways to Think Better Thoughts, or How to Improve Your Thinking Processes in 9 Weeks. Go online (with a tip ‘o the hat and a wink on how silly that statement is in the context of where you and i are currently) and you will find all manner of clever, inspiring, spiritual, godly and ungodly material of this ilk. All good stuff, to be sure. It is a good thing to try to improve the mind. However, how about spending just a little more time with yourself, and quietly pondering You.The History that is not written in the pages of history books is the history of the individual human being and their search for themselves. Yes, there are historical records of people searching – and a despairingly small number actually succeeding (on the assumption that the various Saviours, Gurus, Prophets, Gods and Deities did succeed)… but what history does not record is the continual failure of the species as a whole to be aware of the Self. This would suggest that such a task is definitely a personal one, and based on the publicly available data on success rates, a rather unfruitful one. At least, if we consider the goal to be important. But is it really important? Does it matter if you stumble upon the great answer to Life, The Universe and Everything? Again, assuming that were you to find your Self then you join that very short red carpet VIP list and are elevated to a greater-than-thou status. Whether you believe in a VIP list or not, perhaps the benefit is really to be had mostly in the search itself? And if that is the case, do you need a Guru?Do you need a Guru? Let’s use that term as a catch-all for another person who is to guide you through this search process. That person will be immediately granted a 1st Level VIP ticket, under the terms of which you will bow to their greater knowledge, and their guidance that they can assist you on your search. So now you have a Guru, a Thought Generator, A Gatekeeper and a Self-Self. It really is getting crowded in here. How about just watching and thinking and being aware of what you do, what you think, and maybe why you might be doing this, and following that process for the rest of your life? In other words, you don’t stow away a months worth of packed lunches and climb up a pole to sit in silent isolation for 30 days, or spend thousands of dollars to travel the world to a place where others know best. How about devoting a small part of the rest of your life to simply working on your own self-awareness? How about thinking about why you are thinking what you are thinking? You can always search, and spend money to do so or to pay others to help you to do so but even when you take that pathway, it is the things that you do that are important to living your life day-to-day. Billions of people have processed inumerable thoughts over millenia, yet it is what is physically done by you and i and them that constitutes the world in which we live. So, before taking another person’s pathway, ask yourself what you are wanting to gain, and on the assumption that you gain that ”thing”, what will you do then? Physically, in the waking world.Of course, it is entirely possible that too much self-talk and self-analysing could lead you down a pathway you really don’t want to tread. One that leads to a loss of contact with the real world or a lack of understanding of your role in the world (if you can’t giggle at the use of the term “role” in the context of all this then you clearly need a cup of your favourite sherbet right now). If you follow your own thoughts too much then it is highly likely that your views will narrow too far, and you will allow poor or faulty logic to lead you astray. You may find yourself embroiled in a bomb plot with a group of devoted, inspired, and fanatical anarchists – or Muslim radicals – or Jewish martyrs – of American patriots – or some other such grouping of similarly blinkered minds.So we have a Guru/don’t have a Guru, we have/ have not discovered our higher Self-Self, we believe in a form of Theism/ don’t believe… In all of these cases we will still exist in a physical world, with our particular bodies directing components of our lives, society and the need to integrate with other human beings claiming another chunk of our living time, and are left with a miniscule component that is the true “us” or “me” Who is it that you talk to in the deep recesses of your mind?Of course, you would know that I am not spam but if i am then I am very clever spam. but actually, I am (mostly) vegetarian. not spam at all. mind you, spam is mostly vegetarian, too – so maybe I AM spam! I’m not saying. Also, that’s not why I was writing! Enjoyed this post about thinking about thinking. something I do a fair bit. But I have also had some of my greatest insights when I have not been thinking at all. Or at least – trying to not think. To just BE, rather than DO. reminds me of one of my favourite quotes ”don’t just do something – sit there”!!! anyhow, I am rambling – and I’m not even drunk! I just think that sometimes we should just BE and observe ourselves without judging. and great insight can come from that''s mean to say “artificial light.” Though perhaps “artificial life” is accurate enough.I have been very interested in the book The Depression Cure by Dr. Stephen Ilardi. I have suffered from clinical depression. Dr. Ilardi indicates about 1/4 of the population of the United States suffers from this ailment at one time or another. He suggests a cause of this is our “modern” life style of working in cubicles under artificial life, eating junk food, living sedentary life styles…and “ruminating” (what I would call “brooding” too much).He offers a variety of actions to combat depression, including act, don’t ruminate.I think your post offers a variety of interesting and useful questions and I will ponder them some more and perhaps more intelligent comments. Before I checked my blog this morning, however, I went out, let the chickens out of their coop and checked for eggs. I ate whole wheat toast with peanut butter and jam from our own raspberries and ate an organic orange and took my morning dose of fish oil. Before I read any more, I am going to go into town, take care of some tasks that need to be done, go to the local gymnasium, work out, bore other members with my rambling about the collapse of civilization, and then go home and tend to my wife of 45 years who is ill with the flue.
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
said Hamlet.
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North Carolina National Guard Soldiers react to a protest during Operation Hickory Sting at Fort Irwin, California, July 3, 2019. Operation Hickory Sting is a decisive action rotation focused on combined arms maneuver and collective gunnery at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, in order to validate the capabilities of the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team in the training environment and provide a globally responsive brigade ready to deploy, fight and win. (Photo by Sgt. Wayne Becton, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs)
during the fifth One-day International between West Indies Women and England Women on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at Sabina Park.
Photo by WICB Media/Athelstan Bellamy
Author Peter Levine pioneered trauma therapy with his discovery that trauma is physiological in the human body. Humans react to trauma at a very basic reptile brain level releasing chemicals into the body to fight off the attack. The resulting adrenaline doesn't go away until the muscle memory is released. In studying animals in the wild such release is expressed in the form of shivering or shaking following a life threatening attack. If that shaking does not happen the animal cannot assume its resting state and will likely die. The built up adrenaline energy created by the attack must be released. The body must be able to run away, it must go through the actual physical motions in order to complete the cycle.
In humans not only does the body have to go through this release, but the mind with all its complexity of emotion, memory and spirit, must find a path to recovery. Often people shut down and avoid facing their fears and memories of the event. The work of the trauma therapist is to help the patient regain sensory sensations that can then be used to create a path to healing, a sensate road away from the scene of trauma and towards a scene of triumph and recovery. Just as young animals learn from experience to play out their escape strategy until they gain confidence that they will be able to face another attack.
He tells some fascinating anecdotes about people who keep recreating the event in other circumstances whether though another very similar accident or a substitution event that creates the same feelings. it explains a lot about why people hold onto the same behavior patterns that harmed them the first time around. Various accidents, relationships and circumstances.
The therapy he developed involved helping the patient to get in touch with sensations surrounding the trauma that can then be used to knit together a new scene in which the human organism survives and can carry on. Trauma therapist also use somatic therapy to help release the muscle memory and gel the patient get in touch with their feelings.
He also talks about memory being a very fluid and plastic phenomena with no established location in the brain. He discusses how traditional therapy fails because it is intent on excavating the original facts as if the truth would set you free. When in fact the healing path lies in acts of imagination. Recreating the scene with a happy ending. What he calls a renegotiation. Seen through this lens explains a lot about why I pick certain verbal fights and intellectual discussions since all the early attacks on my life were through verbal attacks on my country, my homosexuality, my foreign habits and anti-capitalist perspective. I spent my life studying up so I could win these sort of discussions.
At the end of the book he talks about societal trauma and the never ending cycle of war and revenge. And a new technique that has been developed to help people who were once enemies reconnect through mothers and their babies participating in rocking exercise together. He also mentions the phenomena of trauma repeating itself through another generation in the same family.
This was a very helpful book that shed a different light on human behavior in terms of how certain behavior patterns are a result of past trauma as the body attempts to cope with and heal this trauma. It helped me to better understand anxiety and hyper vigilance that is a result of certain traumatic experience. It also made me think of times in my life that were traumatic and how those events might have impacted the choices I made later in my life. An obsession with suitcases, never wanting to buy a house, being prepared to move at all times. An identification with refugees.
While I'm without a scanner (my existing isn't ready to work with VISTA) I'm going to be doing quick Illustrator sketches of individual letters to fill out the sketch blog portion of my site (instead of the actual black book stuff I've been doing) Check out the progress at my blog. These are all supposed to be quick (< 30 minutes) and fun, so some will be better than others. I just hope they're interesting.
Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, is a Malayalam author and a screenplay writer. A prolific and versatile actor, a Sanskrit scholar, a teacher of repute, priesthood in a famous temple, National awards for the best screenplay in 2000 for the film " Karunam' and the Ashdod International Film Award for Best Screenplay for the film Parinamam (The Change) in 2003-- his life has been extremely colorful and eventful. He lives in the Kiralur village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, 77 years young.
Quality of life: from safe food to data protection
SPAGHETTI ALL’UOVO, AGLIO, OLIO E PEPERONCINO
di Carlo Cracco
Per la pasta all’uovo:
kg 1sale grosso affumicato
gr 250zucchero
n 12tuorli d’uovo
Per l’aglio affumicato:
n 1 ½ testa d’aglio
lt 2latte
sale
peperoncino
olio extravergine
prezzemolo fritto
Impastare il sale con lo zucchero , mettere i tuorli d’uovo a marinare per circa 4/5 ore, dopodiché sciacquare sotto l’acqua corrente.
Prendere i 12 tuorli marinati e metterli tra 2 fogli di carta da forno e con l’aiuto di un matterello stenderli in modo uniforme formando uno strato sottile.
Togliere dalla carta e passare la sfoglia nella trafila per spaghetti.
Far bollire l’aglio con il latte e ridurre della metà.
Passare il tutto a maglia fine e tenere da parte.
In una padella, mettere un goccio d’olio, aggiungere gli spaghetti e poco peperoncino.
Saltare per un paio di minuti e servire in una fondina con alla base la crema d’aglio.
Finire con il prezzemolo fritto e un goccio di olio crudo.
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What does quality of life mean for you? Safe food? Accessible medical care? Breathable air and clean environment? Strong consumers’ rights? Or knowing that your data and privacy are safe? European Parliament holds improving of the quality of life in the EU high on its agenda. Read more here and follow 4th ReACT conference on quality of life on 23 January in Rome live!
Streaming ReACT Rome, 23 January 19:00
www.europarl.it/view/it/react.html
ReACT Rome: web site in IT
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Reactable in performance, live at the Stone Church in NH.
The group is called Bastinado, with a didgeridoo player and the Reactable guy.
Also, laser beams! Watch out!
Lovebytes - Digital Spring.
UNQUIET : Art and music events at Sheffield's Central Library
Sat 24 March 11am-4pm
Sheffield Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield.
Sheffield Central Library provided the venue and inspiration for a spree of artistic interventions, impromptu performances and creative workshops:
Sheffield Library's documentation from Unquiet (requires Flash):
Reactable
The Reactable is a revolutionary new electronic musical instrument, designed to create and perform the music of today and tomorrow. It combines state of the art technologies with a simple and intuitive design, which enables musicians to experiment with sound, change its structure, control its parameters and be creative in a direct and refreshing way - unlike anything you have ever known before.
Juxtavoices
Juxtavoices is a large 'antichoir' under the direction of composer Martin Archer and writer Alan Halsey. The group includes many familiar faces from Sheffield's leftfield music, poetry and visual arts scenes. Although the group performs structured scores, no fixed pitches are ever notated, and the group uses improvisation to shape the detail of the scores as the music progresses. Both trained and untrained voices are included. As well as playing "normal" concerts, the group is to be found in various unexpected public places, and at poetry / text events. For this event, Juxtavoices have created 2 special pieces for performance: one in suitably hushed tones inside the main library, and one utilising the rich acoustic of the adjacent stairwell.
20Hz by Semiconductor
05.00 minutes / HD video installation / 2011
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.
20Hz is a Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.
Co-commissioned by Arts Santa Monica + Lighthouse for the Invisible Fields Exhibition at Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona. 2011-2012. Supported by the British Council.
Catalyst
This sound installation in the Lending Library presents a series of collaborative works by a number of Sheffield based writers and sound artists.
In 2011 composers from the University of Sheffield Sound Studios (USSS) were asked to produce a work drawing on Brian Eno's concept of 'ambient music' - music that could be subtly diffused into the atrium space at Bank Street. These compositions were played throughout the day and the writers spent an hour free-writing in response to them. These initial responses were then developed into poems by the writers and then were recorded reading their poems. These sound recordings formed the source material for a new series of compositions - in some cases settings of the poems themselves, in others more abstract manipulations of the source material.
Catalyst is a collaboration involving Bank Street Arts' Poet in Residence Angelina Ayers; writers on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University; Bank Street Arts Resident sound artist Ian Baxter and fellow composers working from the USSS.
Animation/Pixilation Workshop
Children's Library session beginning 11am, 12pm, 2pm and 3pm (4 x 45min workshops)
Age 6+ Free. Book in advance / places are limited.
To book a place email - kidsandteens.library@sheffield.gov.uk
or tel. - 0114 273 4734
Come and have a go at animating...Yourself! Pixilation is an exciting form of animation where everyday objects and humans are the made to do extraordinary things such as disappear into walls, change into other people, fly, get eaten by black holes and ice skate on carpets!
In this workshop you'll learn how to make use pixillation to create animated films. You and your parents or carers will also find out how to film animation at home using your home computer, a webcam and free software. No experience or equipment necessary - just bring yourself! The workshop is led by Melvyn Turnan - you can see his films at www.melmation.com
Places are very limited, so please book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Sssh! There's going to be a FREE secret film show for kids at 1PM, somewhere in the Library...
Are spy pigeons and lost mechanical aliens your kind of thing? Do you know a cat who belongs to Simon? (or is it a Simon who belongs to a cat?)...
You can only find out the secret location for this screening when you collect a free golden ticket from our information desk in the Winter Garden. Make sure you get there early, it's first come first served and there are only a few places available for this extra special, hush hush event for those in the know. The films are suitable for any age but children must be accompanied by an adult.
These films are 100% guaranteed to totally amaze you... here's a sneak preview of what you will see...
The Lost Thing by Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan (Passion Pictures, Australia 2011). This film won an Oscar for best short animated film in 2011. A boy finds a strange creature on a beach, and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to.
Pigeon Impossible by Lucas Martell. This amazing bagel bite-sized adventure was 5 years in the making. It's the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase?
Love Over Goldfish by Janet Jennings and Jon Harrison. Have you ever seen a movie that is upside-down from beginning to end? Well the star of this film has, he's lived it! He's a goldfish and this is his life story. Love Over Goldfish was filmed in Sheffield, see if you can spot any familiar locations (but don't get a crick in your neck;)
Thanks to all the staff at Sheffield Libraries for hosting this event.
Special thanks to:
Emma Croft, Sarah Hogan, Martin Dutch and Andrew Milroy at Sheffield Libraries, Martin Archer and Juxtavoices, Ian Baxter (Catalyst), Sergi Jordà (reactable), Sheffield University Sound Studios, Passion Pictures, Lucas Martell, Flatpack Festival, Amber and Joab Harrison
Technical wizards: Darren Chouings (Prism), Melvyn Turnan (Melmation), Richard Bolam (RB Digimedia).
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring
A Festival of Art, Science and Technology
22-24 March
Sheffield UK