Its not your normal weekend.. heading out to the forest to find a disused iron mine, getting dressed up, and partying like.. well.. like it’s Halloween..
We spent the weekend in the Forest of Dean, heading out to Clearwell Caves, a disused Iron Mine for one of the most fantastic parties of the year. The main cave lit entirely by candle light, a live band – Centre of Attraction was amazing, live DJ, barbecue, and enough ghouls ghosts, vampires and un-dead to seem like the end of the world is just around the corner.
The costumes for the evening were really excellent, everyone made a huge effort. Every possible ghoul and ghost, animal and beast, witch and warlock was there, and a few really cleaver costumes. I have some video of this guy to put up in his cartoon neon costume which allowed him to wink, blink, smile and more in the darkness.
Funny enough I don’t actually look normally like Nosferatu, although I seemed to get a lot of attention, possibly my new bald look which took about 2 hours to put on with some expert help from Michelle. My face is still a little dry from the spirit gum, latex, rubber and makeup today, and I’m still terribly tired from the whole mammoth party, but it was worth every bit..
Its hard to describe exactly just how good the weekend was, because unless you’ve been in an old iron mine cave partying with 350 people.. you wont really get the idea of just how good it is, but to try and get a rough idea, you can have a look at my flickr photoset
I love DaneilN’s Flickr Flight Center set. Daniel says that since attending a lecture by the Chris Buck, he decided to shoot things in a way that he had never done before.Fying out the next day to San Francisco and had no model to shoot after the lecture, he decided to capture himself flying. Over time trying to record every time he traveled by flight at both places of take off; home and the hotel.
His final word on the subject.. “..yes I have broken a bed while jumping. Listen to your parents; they sometimes know what they are talking about.”
Now Moo are providing MiniCards for Skype users as well as Flickr users.. Getting your Skype name across can sometimes be a bit difficult, so Moo have teamed up with Skype to make more MiniCards. Just like the Flickr ones, they are little cards where you can put your Skype Name, your web or blog link, pictures, and really just about anything else you want.
To celebrate the MiniCards launch, Mooare giving away free packs of 10 cards during this week. Just go to moo.com/skype, look for the “Enter promo code” field and type freebie. You can then customize your card.
It’s just a fantastic idea, and really well suited for them (amongst the other uses are bookmarks, house move cards, door stops, and table un-wobblers)..
With a couple of simple supplies, and not a lot of time at all, you can whip up a set of fridge Moognets. The Moo MiniCards are just the right thickness for sticking onto magnetic strips..
As Meg says, “I’m thinking about experimenting some more – perhaps with just food-related designs, or (even better!) individual words, so that I could use it like a giant set of magnetic fridge poetry. That would rock.” there’s a million and one ideas I have of using these magnets…
You have to just love this.. Bathroom lights can be painfully bright in the middle of the night. So why switch them on?.. is the girl in your life always complaining that she has to go paddling after you’re been to the loo in the middle of the night? Does she moan when she falls into the toilet because you left the seat up during the evening?
Incorporating a nightlight, visual targeting system, and “Put the damned seat down!” reminder technology, the LavNav is a practical solution to those familiar issues.
The LavNav turns on when you approach in the dark, and turns off after you leave, shining gentle yet sufficient light where you need it, when you need it.
When the seat is down, the LavNav shines a gentle green light across the seat. When the seat is up, the LavNav’s shines a red light directly into the bowl.
“Missed targets at the toilet in the middle of the night may well be a perennial problem, but [LavNav] aims to ease the crisis with the latest in sensory technology.” – Elisa Batista, Wired.com
“For every problem in this world I’m convinced that there’s someone out there working on a solution. I’m happy to announce that one of those problems has been solved. No longer does anyone have to fumble in the dark to find … the toilet.” – Gary Krakow, Columnist, NBC
There still seems to be no official date on when the complete TV presentation of FISM will be aired, although some British segments have appeared on YouTube, even more have now appeared on DailyMotion. This time they appear to be of some of the close-up finalists. Helder Guimaraes, Rick Merril, David Stone, and Shawn Farquhar, unfortunately all with French overdubbing..
So they got here safe and sound!! The Moo MiniCards I ordered the other week turned up while I was away in Germany, and they really are just as nice as they looked.
Its also the first time I’ve really seen my photos in glossy professionally printed form, and they look really good. The quality of the card is really great, and they are very tactile, and I think even without Andy Pipers recommendation, I think I’ll be ordering some real soon.
I also love the way that Moo put the photo of us into the pack on top, so we appeared sat in the droplet on the card holder. That little personal touch, whether pure chance or someone at Moo being a little bit caring, is enough for me to be convinced that Moo is a great company, good luck guys (and ladies)
I just have to decide what to put on the backs of the cards, and which photos I want in my first batch!!
Well its Friday, and that means I get to leave Munich, the DataStage Enterprise Edition Mentoring training (part one), and head back home..
It’s been a fairly good week, mad cat lady taxi drivers, souvenirs form restaurants (so far one large menu, for the comedy value of the translated items on the menu, and shot glasses from last night), Wim catching beer mats like some dog thats never seen a stick before, squealing pig impressions,Le F*cking Car, and evenings sat under lamps hanging from reindeer antlers..
Last night we experienced more traditional German customs, this one, the ordering of starters at the restraunt. It seems that you can’t have white sausage after 9am, and having been sorely told off by the waiter for even considering that I might be able to have one, he took my alternative starter option, the beef stew with pancakes..
It seems though he took great offense to this, and decided to completely ignore all our starters, and skip straight to the main course when he delivered it, although maybe this was some other weird German custom of just stating, if you did have a starter, what would be really nice to have..
It also seems that whatever desert you have, and you are allowed deserts between the hours of 9am and 1am, it consists of a loaf of bread in custard.. or.. for us a big bun in custard..
I guess the final thought for the week is, Do my ears look big in this??
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