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Bicycle glamping. That’s what we’ll call it.

Our Adventure Vibes 2 bicycle camping trip started, oddly enough, in the car. The group had only coalesced around the idea of camping mid-week, propelled by the argument that Robby would soon have a job again and Sam and Mary Ellen were leaving the next weekend. Unfortunately, due to the beautiful weather and the Florida Ironman, camping spots were limited. Top picks Topsail and Grayton Beach State Park were full, which meant a last-of-the-season beach camping trip was out. Since we were riding with a couple of casual riders (me and Jennifer) and a couple of fit non-riders (Sam and Mary Ellen) the options were also constrained by distance. So Jennifer, Robby and I loaded up our car and drove north on 79 in the hopes that we would grab a first-come first-served camping spot at Pine Log State Forest early Friday morning.

As we drove through the campsite, we were increasingly dismayed by the “Reservation Only” signs posted prominently on each site. One by one we passed the prime camping spots on the pond, until we finally reached the last two sites. The only sites that didn’t require reservation. Sites 19 and 20. And site 19 had a RV, and it looked like it had been there all summer. With pleading eyes we glanced as one at Site 20.

Empty.

With a collective sigh of relief, since the whole trip was riding on our securing a site, we pulled in and jumped out, unloading all of our gear with speed since we were already a little behind, and we needed to get back in time to meet with Sam and Mary Ellen (henceforth known as Sam-Ellen for brevity’s sake. or Mary-Sam. But don’t tell Mary-Ellen’s mom).

Leaving all of our precious and heavy gear behind, we sped south again to drop Robby off in time to drink coffee and eat before he headed over the bridge to meet us down in the Cove, where we’d set off to Lynn Haven to meet with Sam-Ellen.

We agreed on 10. At 10:15 I texted Robby. At 10:30 he rolled in, sweating in the only mildly warm air of late October.

“I got stuck waiting on a train,” he smiled, not breathing heavy despite the obvious speed of his journey.

“So I went around.”

We assured him it was no problem as I shot a text to Mary-Sam and we finally set off, barely carrying any gear but sunblock and Robby’s Bluetooth speakers. Don’t worry, this was not the same speaker than only lasted 10 seconds on our last trip. Maybe, I dreamed, the speakers would last a whole song.

Five miles north on 77 and we approached the Wal-Mart area where we’d planned to meet up with Sam-Ellen.

Mary-Ellen is the sister of last adventure’s hero, J.Michael. Compound names are a family trait, although Mary-Ellen and Michael are different in other, less obvious ways.

Mary-Ellen and Sam were in town, having just returned from Spain where they did something nefarious for a year to make ends meet, strung together by shoe string trips to Mallorca for volley ball tournaments. There were rumors of mafia activity. Or weapons trafficking. J. Michael would be joining us later in the evening after work, but Mary-Sam were borrowing bikes, and ominously, his saddles for the trip. They were also loaded down with fresh fruit and vegetables, along with a great deal of grouper for dinners.

We spotted Sam-Ellen by the side of the road and met up briefly before deciding to hit the Wally World for supplies. And because Robby had forgotten to eat. We mentioned there was a Subway in the Wal Mart, so Robby headed for food while we got other needed items.

When we got back to the bikes were Sam was standing guard in one of Mary-Ellen’s bright yellow tournament tank tops, impressively tanned guns on full display, we realized Robby had completely missed the Subway and instead bought mac-n-cheese and barbeque chicken.

At one point as Robby scarfed down his food hurriedly, I glanced over and noticed he was leaning on the nearby grocery carts as he ate, not remotely seeming to enjoy the meal. He laughed and packed up the leftovers for later.

At last we pulled out heading north again, on 77, before wheeling off onto a side road to ride through less heavily trafficked neighborhoods until we reached the Bailey bridge.

We cruised merrily along in a loose formation through shaded suburbs. The sun was bright but the air was not yet hot. Suddenly, our peaceful ride was thrown asunder, as Mary-Ellen, riding with Sam at the rear the five ship formation, shrieked.

Just then, a squirrel darted from a well-manicured lawn, hell bent for the sweet release of a rolling bike tire. With no time to react, Robby’s death machine continued forward as the tan flash of fur darted right into his wheels, its head wedging into a spoke, spinning him around and casting him out like a weak child from a merry go ‘round. Just milliseconds later, Sam’s bike rolled right over the poor rodent with a quick thump thump.

In shock, we rolled on for half a block until we turned back to look, jabbering, aghast at what had just happened.

There, in an ironic pocket of sunlight, dead center in the middle of the unlined street, lay the squirrel, twitching and writhing, unable to run away.

“Should we do something?”

“We should at least move it from the road,” Mary Ellen suggested, taking the moral lead.

We all agreed.

We slowly approached the still spasming vermin.

“Should we kill it?”

“Yeah, snap it’s neck.”

“I don’t know if I can do that.”

“Let’s just move it off the road.”

Mary-Ellen knelt, gently touching it’s fur, which seemed to calm it.

She reached carefully under his heaving torso and lifted him, cradling him to her chest. Pacified, it seemed to grip her fingers, as if holding on to life.

The rest of us stood transfixed.

After a few moments, Mary-Ellen placed the squirrel in the grass near a shrub in the hopes that it might recover a bit, or at least die with the dignity it would be denied in the middle of the asphalt strip that had been its reckoning.

Someone shifted the feet, and the squirrel shockingly leapt nimbly a few steps before stopping.

We were all amazed it had moved, seemingly without injury.

Finally, it leapt ever farther away, quickly and with vigor.

As we moved away, we were all relieved to see it dash up a pine tree. He would live after all!

Or die out of sight. Either way, our conscious was clear.

With dazed but lifted spirits we hit the road again, heading north with all the speed our ragamuffin group could manage.

5 miles up the road or so, we stopped off after an uneventful stretch at a Dollar General to refill water and snack on ice cream before continuing on our journey. It was now officially hot, and the route was decidedly not shady. Robby turned the speakers on and we were propelled to the beats of gangster rap and techno-pop, or something like that anyway.

We finally turned west on highway 20 where we began to see Ironman markings on the road, and where 20 miles or so into the 30 mile trip, Sam had to wrap J.Michael’s much beloved Brooks saddle in towels to aid his ailing buttocks.

At last, as the sun approached the horizon, we turned onto 79 to head 1 more mile to Pine Log after a quick stop at the convenience store.

It was downhill, so we were moving nicely until Sam had to stop as Tupperware’s full of some exotic homemade hummus tumbled off his rack, which went unnoticed by Robby who kept right on rolling, feet tucked on the top tube as he descended the gentle slope towards the state park.

After securing his load, we restarted the final stretch, before Mary-Ellen struck a sharp rock, puncturing her narrow road tires. The slow leak allowed us to arrive at the dirt road entrance before it finally gave way. And so, unceremoniously and 5 hours later, we arrived walking our bikes.

 

We arrived just before sundown, so with only a few minutes of light left, we set about gathering firewood. Robby began darting like an enlivened forest hermit through the fringes of the surrounding pine forest. As I grabbed dead branches and small sticks, the quiet evening campsite was filled with the cracking and thrashing of entire logs being pulled across the gravel road and into the campsite. Robby dropped the logs one by one and bounded back into the dim dusk to find more.

Meanwhile, Sam-Ellen set about arranging their campsite, while Jennifer likewise began to prep dinner. Katie was inbound from PCB in Robby’s car with more supplies, and J.Michael would soon be getting off work and setting out to join us. With a pretty large pile of firewood, or wood at least, Robby and I also happened upon a stack of pre-cut wood that may or may not have been free for anyone to use, but somehow made its way into our site.

With the last bit of light, Mary-Sam set up their slackline and began to balance as best they could on tired legs and frazzled minds after a long, hot ride. And like that, the sun dipped below the bunched tree tops of the swaying pines, reappeared intermittently between the thin trunks, and at last fell below the horizon.

Katie finally arrived, but the gate code we’d been given was wrong, so as we tried to figure out the best way to get the correct code, while also squirreling away the aforementioned pre-cut, maybe-free wood, Katie befriended a kind elderly gentleman, who turned out to be the camp host. He revealed the correct code, which we’d reversed, and she truly arrived.

As we ate, J.Michael called to complain to Mary-Ellen about the bike he’d been left with, the gear he had or didn’t have, and most significantly, the headlight Sam had accidently taken, leaving J.Michael with no light to make the 30+ mile journey from Lynn Haven. Over the next couple of hours, we got cryptic, half-finished texts from J. Michael about his whereabouts, until he emerged suddenly out of the darkness, sweaty and clearly a tad bit irritated. He stopped abruptly when he was nearly closelined by the slack line, strung waist high between two stout trees, before anyone could warn him.

J. Michael had ridden all the way in the dark...well, all the way from the airport, where his mother had graciously dropped him, anxious to have him out of the house for her own date night. But still, 15 miles on 388 and 79 with zero light on a new moon...ghastly.

His first act was to remove the headlight from Sam’s borrowed bike and put it on his.

“How’d you do it, Michael,” someone asked.

“I mostly just tried to be a disembodied spirit.”

With the full cast assembled, the rest of the night was passed in increasingly drunken revelry, lit only by a very bright spotlight Robby brought and the crackling camp fire. We pulled the picnic table close to the fire and played Cards Against Humanity and Exploding Kittens until it was well past midnight, stopping only to eat too many s’mores.

Jennifer and I had rented cots from the Navy Base and only discovered after arrival at Pine Log that they didn’t fit in our tent, so we slept out under the stars and froze, eventually sharing one cot in uncomfortable, cramped misery.

It would be much colder night two.

Saturday broke cool and clear, and we all awoke in our own time. Michael first with his quiet yet penetrating voice and clicking clipless shoes, followed by Jennifer and I. We made breakfast, trying to be quiet, until Robby and Katie awoke, followed by a sarong’d Sam, and Mary Ellen. Before breakfast, they slacklined, the equilibrius envy of Robby, who tried himself later in the morning, after his birthday breakfast of mimosas and steak as prepared by Katie.

After breakfast, J.Michael, Jennifer and I ventured out to the nearby gas station for snacks, only to find ourselves smack dab in the middle of Ironman Florida. Despite our garb of straw and trucker hats, casual clothing, and mountain bikes, the eager volunteers offered us water and bananas.

On the way back we were passed by several leaders of the race, one of whom J.Michael attempted to keep up with on his fixie. He was going to win, too, but he was stung by a mysteriously invisible bee, which derailed his glorious ride, slowing him inopportunely.

We all went for a hike around the oddly shallow and clear cypress pond, returning to the camp in time for an afternoon nap. Michael and Robby went trail riding while the rest of us dozed in the mild November sun and Sam-Ellen went for beer and such.

Our firewood supplied was buoyed by the afternoon visit of a firewood salesman, which allowed for a brief conversation between him and J. Michael on the merits and expense of woodcutters, and the virtue in the good hard work of chopping wood.

That evening was a low-key affair of similar events and fare, but the night grew colder than the night before, reaching the 40s. Jennifer and I froze, literally (ok, figuratively, but it sucked bad).

The night was riven by coyote calls and the cries of a nearby peacock, or a woman being murdered (we’ll never know).

At one point Robby got up to relieve himself and I called out in desperation for an extra blanket, which Robby graciously brought me in the dark cold night. Eventually Jennifer and I climbed into the tent, which was a bit warmer, if uncushioned. We only got to sleep for a couple of hours as a rooster crowed from an area farm.

With a loose deadline to return our borrowed cots and needing to get home in time to drive back to the park and then to the navy base, we woke up and got moving early, eating then packing. The camp eventually all woke in time to eat and hit the road right at 10 as planned. That is, until J. Michael, he of flat tire fame, got to work. He inflated his tires and leaned the bike against a tree while he packed, when out of the blue the tire burst and deflated in a flash. Cue Michael’s patch skills, which were unfortunately unable to correct the sidewall blowout, which was severe. Michael refused to use the brand new tube he’d found, dropped by an Ironman competitor, so he tried and tried to patch the tube until finally he relented, taking a spare tube to ride home on.

So, an hour later we finally departed, with Katie taking half the camp supplies in Robby’s car. Before we left, Sam re-wrapped his seat in towels. His poor posterior was not yet healed nor hardened for another Brooks ride, yet.

As we headed south on 79, taking a different course for fun and sights, we spotted a water bottle, which Robby scooped up. Shortly, we spotted another, and another. Then a gear bag with a multi tool, then a trip computer, spare tubes, and more! The trip home had become a giant scavenger hunt, as we rode what had been the final stretch on the Ironman, where competitors, tired, clumsy, or fed up, had ditched gear. Soon, we were all spotting stuff and calling it out, eventually gathering hundreds of dollars of gear. Our tired, under slept bodies were enlivened by the thrill of the hunt, and soon we had reached the mid-bay bridge and were topping it and rolling down towards the beach.

At the intersection of Gayle’s Trails and 79 we turned onto the trails, heading east. At Frank Brown Park, Jennifer and I continued east while Robby, J. Michael, Sam, and Mary-Ellen continued south to Diego’s for lunch and some beach time.

And with happy hearts and full packs, we went our separate ways, concluding another awesome ride. 10/10 would bike glamp again.

   

 

12th Athens Exclusive Designers Week Oct 2012 fb album

 

fashionwalks raw slideshows blog

bilwanderings raw slideshows blog

 

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remains visible but not accessible by bilwander who

currently may be reached on fb only via his new fb page

 

Luis Suarez reacts during Barcelona's match against Olympiakos in the Champions League. Photo: Reuters

News Source: www.thedailystar.net/sports/football/barcelona-held-goall...

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

 

www.lovebytes.org.uk

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

www.europarl.it/it/react.html

 

This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license (CC) and must be credited: "© European Union 2014 - European Parliament" (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license). For HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

Quality of life: from safe food to data protection

 

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!

 

In the past few years, European parliament worked on wide range of rules to improve the quality of life in Europe: ensuring safe and accessible medicines and medical treatments, strengthening passenger rights, enabling consumers to buy clearly and correctly labelled food, cutting CO2 emissions and preventing other environmental pollution, but also making sure that privacy of European citizens is protected and their data safe. Read more in our Top Story.

 

Three of those topics: environment, health and food and the “European way” to protect them are to be debated during fourth ReACT conference “Cutting Quality of life: past, present and future” that takes place on 23 January in Rome. Chef Carlo Cracco, climatologist Riccardo Valentini and Professor Michele Mirabella present their points of view and debate them with the audience. Conference is moderated by geologist Mario Tozzi. Follow live and comment #Reactroma via links on the right.

 

ReAct Roma is the fourth in a series of five interactive conferences on subjects vital to the EU, ahead of the European elections in May 2014. They take place in different European cities where opinion leaders will share their ideas about today's issues. Previous events were dedicated to jobs and employment (15/10 Paris), EU in world (14/11 Warszawa), EU and finances (5/12 Frankfurt). The fifth event will be about EU and economy and will take place on 20/2 in Madrid.

  

Streaming ReACT Rome, 23 January 19:00

www.europarl.it/view/it/react.html

 

ReACT Rome: web site in IT

www.europarl.it/it/react.html

 

This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license (CC) and must be credited: "© European Union 2014 - European Parliament" (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license). For HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

17/08/2013. Ladies European Tour. The Solheim Cup, Colorado Golf Club, Parker, Colorado, USA. 16-18 Aug 2013. Michelle Wie of the USA reacts to a putt during the Friday afternoon Four-Balls. Credit: Tristan Jones

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 16: Jason "f0rsakeN" Susanto (L) and Wang Jing "Jinggg" Jie of Paper Rex react after a victory match at the VALORANT Masters Bracket Stage on April 16, 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

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

 

www.lovebytes.org.uk

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 14: G2 Esports' Oscar "Mixwell" Cañellas (R) and Cista "keloqz" Wassim react at the VALORANT Champions Tour 2021: Stage 3 Masters on September 14, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

 

Reactone react graffiti

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 01: Martin Odegaard of Arsenal reacts after a missed chance during the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Phase MD2 match between Arsenal FC and Olympiacos FC at Arsenal Stadium on October 01, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 17: Jaccob "yay" Whiteaker of OpTic Gaming reacts onstage after victory at the VALORANT Masters Bracket Stage on April 17, 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

Quality of life: from safe food to data protection

 

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!

 

In the past few years, European parliament worked on wide range of rules to improve the quality of life in Europe: ensuring safe and accessible medicines and medical treatments, strengthening passenger rights, enabling consumers to buy clearly and correctly labelled food, cutting CO2 emissions and preventing other environmental pollution, but also making sure that privacy of European citizens is protected and their data safe. Read more in our Top Story.

 

Three of those topics: environment, health and food and the “European way” to protect them are to be debated during fourth ReACT conference “Cutting Quality of life: past, present and future” that takes place on 23 January in Rome. Chef Carlo Cracco, climatologist Riccardo Valentini and Professor Michele Mirabella present their points of view and debate them with the audience. Conference is moderated by geologist Mario Tozzi. Follow live and comment #Reactroma via links on the right.

 

ReAct Roma is the fourth in a series of five interactive conferences on subjects vital to the EU, ahead of the European elections in May 2014. They take place in different European cities where opinion leaders will share their ideas about today's issues. Previous events were dedicated to jobs and employment (15/10 Paris), EU in world (14/11 Warszawa), EU and finances (5/12 Frankfurt). The fifth event will be about EU and economy and will take place on 20/2 in Madrid.

  

Streaming ReACT Rome, 23 January 19:00

www.europarl.it/view/it/react.html

 

ReACT Rome: web site in IT

www.europarl.it/it/react.html

 

This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license (CC) and must be credited: "© European Union 2014 - European Parliament" (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license). For HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

Arsenal fans react to Joe Cole's red card. Liverpool 1:1 Arsenal, Anfield

Quality of life: from safe food to data protection

 

RISOTTO CON ACCIUGHE E LIMONE,CACAO

di Carlo Cracco

 

240 gr. Carnaroli del Pavese

45 gr. burro

1 piccolo scalogno tritato

½ bicchiere di vino bianco secco

½ l acqua

50 gr. mascarpone

 

50 gr. pasta d’acciughe

la buccia grattugiata di 1 limone

50 gr. cacao puro

1 pizzico di sale

 

Temperare il cacao stendendolo in un foglio, mettere il sale e il peperoncino. Far asciugare e “coppare” con uno stampino rotondo dal diametro di 2,5 cm.

In una padella soffriggere lo scalogno con il burro, unire il riso e tostarlo leggermente.

Sfumarlo con il vino bianco secco e continuare la cottura aggiungendo piano l’acqua. Aggiustare di sale e pepe.

Mantecare fuori dal fuoco con il mascarpone.

Spalmare la pasta d’acciughe sul fondo del piatto, distribuire la buccia del limone, versare sopra il risotto e appiattirlo.

Finire con il disco di cioccolato.

 

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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

www.europarl.it/it/react.html

 

This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license (CC) and must be credited: "© European Union 2014 - European Parliament" (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license). For HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

during the second One-day International between West Indies Women and England Women on Monday, October 10, 2016 at the Trelawny Multiplex.

 

Photo by WICB Media/Athelstan Bellamy

 

#364 Couldn't get any more difference in weather between yesterday (still) and today (40mph+ gales).

 

The sea reacted accordingly. I found it difficult to stand up and a tripod was a definite no-no!

Ramen, Yes! JYK reacts to receiving a birthday present from the World Bank Group's Tokyo office - a bag of ramen noodles on December 6, 2013. Photo © Ken Katsurayama/World Bank

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

 

www.lovebytes.org.uk

Golf legend Arnold Palmer smiles before teeing off at Hole 16 of the Prospector Golf Course at Suncadia resort near Roslyn, Wash., on Aug. 30, 2005. Palmer's company designed the golf course, and he came to play the back nine and interact with the resort's lot owners. About 500 people attended.

ReACT Sofia, organized by EP Information Office in Bulgaria: Kristian Filipov, Private Sector Development expert from the World Bank Bulgaria and moderator journalist Mario Gavrilov from Bulgarian National TV

 

More information: www.europarl.bg/reactsofia

 

Quality of life: from safe food to data protection

 

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!

 

In the past few years, European parliament worked on wide range of rules to improve the quality of life in Europe: ensuring safe and accessible medicines and medical treatments, strengthening passenger rights, enabling consumers to buy clearly and correctly labelled food, cutting CO2 emissions and preventing other environmental pollution, but also making sure that privacy of European citizens is protected and their data safe. Read more in our Top Story.

 

Three of those topics: environment, health and food and the “European way” to protect them are to be debated during fourth ReACT conference “Cutting Quality of life: past, present and future” that takes place on 23 January in Rome. Chef Carlo Cracco, climatologist Riccardo Valentini and Professor Michele Mirabella present their points of view and debate them with the audience. Conference is moderated by geologist Mario Tozzi. Follow live and comment #Reactroma via links on the right.

 

ReAct Roma is the fourth in a series of five interactive conferences on subjects vital to the EU, ahead of the European elections in May 2014. They take place in different European cities where opinion leaders will share their ideas about today's issues. Previous events were dedicated to jobs and employment (15/10 Paris), EU in world (14/11 Warszawa), EU and finances (5/12 Frankfurt). The fifth event will be about EU and economy and will take place on 20/2 in Madrid.

  

Streaming ReACT Rome, 23 January 19:00

www.europarl.it/view/it/react.html

 

ReACT Rome: web site in IT

www.europarl.it/it/react.html

 

This photo is free to use under Creative Commons license (CC) and must be credited: "© European Union 2014 - European Parliament" (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license). For HR files please contact: webcom-flickr(AT)europarl.europa.eu

05/08/2019. Ladies European Tour 2019. AIG Women's British Open, Woburn Golf Club, Woburn, England. 1-4 August 2019. Hinako Shibuno of Japan reacts to holing the winning putt during the final round. Credit: Tristan Jones

The +1 is a magazein that can carry 1 extra round to be loaded into the chamber in addition to its maximum capacity.

 

K++ is a soft point expanding bullet, with an inner core of pure elemental potassium sealed within the lead, upon impacting a target the bullet expands and exposes the potassium to the watery flesh of its victims causing it to violently react.

 

www.pastie.org/1419102

U.S. Army soldiers from the 97th Engineering Company, Guam, react to a simulated attack by enemy aggressors during convoy training at Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., May 16, in support of Global Medic 2011 and Warrior 91 11-01. Global Medic is a joint Reserve field training exercise for theater aeromedical evacuation system and ground medical components designed to replicate all aspects of combat medical service support.

4th Combat Camera Squadron

Photo by Staff Sgt. Donald R. Allen

Date Taken:05.16.2011

Location:FORT HUNTER LIGGETT, CA, US

Related Photos: dvidshub.net/r/4bkodv

TOKYO, JAPAN - JUNE 14: EDward Gaming reacts onstage after victory at VALORANT Masters Tokyo Group Stage at Tipstar Dome Chiba on June 14, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

Students react as SpaceX Crew-1 NASA astronauts, from left to right, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi answer questions during a live question and answer session in the Oprah Winfrey Theater at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Washington. Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi launched on the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program and spent 168 days in space across Expeditions 64 and 65. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 22: Gustavo "Sacy" Rossi of LOUD reacts at the VALORANT Masters Semifinals on April 22, 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

Lovebytes - Digital Spring.

 

Part of 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

 

www.lovebytes.org.uk

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