Me in Okayama wrangling home tasks & helping wifu for tree doctor test in Ibaraki, yet somehow simultaneously, my disembodied head appears on screen(s) welcoming a group to @vancouver_ai mission 21 {even sharing bits of wisdom learned from previous communication revolutions}
If’n curious to see my special welcome vibes, dig in:
Thanks to James Lester from Sons Of Vancouver, and Jaime Stein for the audience snapshots and Kris Krüg for inviting my participation & and a special hello to Kemp Edmonds, Neal Cropper, Mark Busse and other friends who I hear via the podcast participating in the event
Memo: And to anyone who watched the video, yes I really typed out the script on that Remington Junior machine… Maybe I can mail it to someone as an artifact?
Yes, an ancient temple tree is inside our “caboose” though (noting it’s a little bit tricky to see the tree cause it’s right behind my head and has a Balinese robe hanging on a hook in this *all natural* room is insulated with #hemp from Germany & sheep wool from New Zealand All real wood, no laminate + mud, lime plaster, bits of charcoal)
Bonus
Even more
In 2013, in this very same room, I presented “poets, punks and revolutions – forgotten Vancouver stories” which was the very last talk at the very last iteration of Northern Voice – the fantastically impactful personal expression conference/event/camp.
At the time, frequent collaborator, filmmaker Andrew Lavigne (with glowing hearts, generation social etc.) produced a lovely edit including me in a majestic chair with all kinds of *i spy with my little eye* props and a campfire on stage along with a gaggle of attendees, and featured the “dossier of importancy” with all kinds of fun homework digressions for the attendees, enjoy:
As such, this HR McMillan Planetarium/Museum of Vancouver building is really special for a lot of reasons to me since childhood and the talk above turned out to be my final “big gig” in a eight or so year run in which I did dozens of spiels & prezos until such exploits was curtailed by the illness :( don’t worry, I still did a few little small things along the way :-)
PS another related riff was “art and technology are old pals” in the adjoining Museum of Vancouver building which is another personal favorite – each talk for the most part only ever done once and done, so many faded to the land of broken links yet done my best to archive as possible
