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PodCamp UK – I survived!

Just got back from PodCamp UK a few hours ago, travelling back on the train with Scott from the Night Nurse Show. I’ve met loads of people, chaired a session on Music Rights and Podcasting, did a great DJ set which at least made John laugh til it hurt and was great fun to do – loads of extremely silly bootlegs and my shizzle also.

Photos and stories to come (and possibly podcasts of the set and sessions, and one from me) but first I have to say a tired thank you to the organisers of Pod Camp UK! Here’s to the next one…and to end for now sharing with you a great little video by the insane (insanely cute or cutely insane, not the other criminal sort) Paul Knight of PJK Productions which myself and Scott appear in (according to Scott he also likes teh \METAL/!!! :-D)

It also features Dean Whitbread talking ZX Spectrum samplers in biscuit tins and Linda Mills from Podcast User Magazine and excellent hugs fame wanting to fly, fly away.

Gladly I seem to have avoided all other media so far apart from one pic (phew). I have a nasty feeling though that blackmail-able video exists of me jumping around like a loon during my DJ set…*cringe*

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3 responses to “PodCamp UK – I survived!”

  1. John avatar
    John

    I’d planned to do a set, but ran out of energy. here, without the pictures or the chart is roughly what i would have said, or did, or now have

    PodKampf

    Don’t know how many times I’ve started knew Birmingham galleries, but this time I was here for the podcamp, thanks Tim.

    1. The Friday I went up and did the Barber, which I remembered, then a little more of Edgbaston, which I still haven’t cracked. There is a book in the shop at the Barber by a local historian, though not enough on the Brownian landscape or how to walk or find it. Winterbourne Botanic Garden rather puzzled me, I can’t remember how this connects with the main Botanic Garden.

    Or the old church, where there was to be a fete.

    In the Barber, an exhibition contrasting the Italian and Netherlandisch ideas of something which might be called the Renaissance. There is no catalogue, simply some pictures, perhaps placed in antimony, a four page set of notes, all most unsatisfactory. But they have Mabuse H&D which fits into my Kranach as evidence. Buy the post card. Mabuse is Gossert, of course. It is a good question, whether there could have been a renaissance in the Netherlands. Rather like Huizinga on the Waning of the Middle Ages. Can there be progress? In art, history, philosophy, politics? Podcamping?

    There is rather a good walk along the canal from the students halls back to University railway station.

    2. Saturday, trying to find the place where the meeting was to happen was an absolute classic.

    Moor St. station, walk towards Ashton University, done that before, but all I had was nti and Ashton Business School. I was clearly a bit underprepared.

    The motorism is the key.

    The Aston University map at the entrance doesn’t have the nti marked.

    Find the Business School, signing to entrance most puzzling.

    Person knows about podcamp and nti, not part of campus, and directs me to another.

    Pedestrian gate locked.

    Back to entrance, and then retrace route/

    Find Thinktank and Millenium Point. Find Technology Innovation Centre, which is not the same thing.

    Ask.

    Directions.

    But they don’t make sense.

    I simply can’t find it.

    Then see nti sign. The problem is where it is placed on the building you can’t see it unless you approach from one direction, look at one moment, or know it is there.

    Motorism

    Trip. Fall. Taxi

    { A note on method :- when trying to manage the continual stream of words which move through the mind; experience or sensation emerging upon one; decision action (or some such taxonomy) it seems to me to be useful to have a method. This is different from trying to sort out definitions and meanings for semantics, or semantics for meanings. It works on cases. You make a case and reason. Such a case arises because something occurs which fits the matter. So the podcamp is a case. It is an experience or a sensation about which we wish to reason. We might wish to act. We need a case with which to act within the podcamp case. The combination of these two will become a case in whatever matter is in hand. }

    3. Redditch

    Perhaps just a note of explanation? Doing green and smart and landscape gallery. This is art, history, politics, philosophy, about the dominant ideas of the ruling class, DIRC, people making history, in conditions not of their own making, and of material conditions determining consciousness, MDC.

    Rail

    Bus interchange

    Information

    Some things never change

    Alcester

    Studley

    Coughton

    Ragley

    Then on the return I am told of the fare for the region and offered a bus map for Reddich.

    4. Soho

    Another accident

    In the art gallery, an attendant, having tried to explain to me how to get there, suddenly finds or remembers the heritage bus, first Sunday of the month, and this is such.

    Luck.

    Boulton

    This opens the beginning of a knew gallery.

    The Lunar Society we know something of already.

    But how do the landscape gardens of this part of the world differ from those of other places?

    What do we know?

    There is a very good little book for a fiver on Aston Hall. A fiver, 1983. It tells us that the son of James Watt had bought it from the family which had owned it for four hundred years.

    The exhibition has told us something of Soho.

    On a wall, a copy of an engraving of the siege of Valenciennes. This makes a good case. What was the position in Britain after 1789? How close did the revolution come to Britain? What was happening in Valenciennes? Why there, why 1794? Now that makes a good case and joins up with the Vauban case from Lille.

    Though how much we will put into it I don’t know.

    All this lot so far must be almost incomprehensible to someone who wasn’t with me while we were podcasting.

    Words.

    Semantics

    Notes

    Order

    Sequence

    So what comes between grep and google?

    [ A note on method :- what is now Birmingham is only very recent. So Birmingham isn’t a good grep. What was it before? how can one tell? Who were the nobility who had hunting parks? There can’t have been too many of them? What were these parks called and where were they? How did they make history, in conditions not of their own making? Who were the beneficiaries of Henry’s taking of the wealth of the monasteries? Or weren’t these rich landowners around here? in which case why? How did the beneficiaries make it? In other words, how did ideas and history change, or happen? What line did these people then take in the 1640s, through to the 1720s? Who now were the winners and how were they making their landscapes? Through this thread there is Birmingham, but other places too. How many cathedrals are there around Birmingham? How many castles? Great estates? Then comes the industrial revolution, and all change, except its makers went out and made landscape gardens. The same, or different? But to know, we have to find, order, sort, So far I have Edgbaston, Aston, Pevsner will be part of the problem and so will Taylor. And even more so, the VCH But has someone done all this work already? Up the English Garden Path. ]

    My angels of course come to my rescue, perhaps apologising for trip?

    5. The cover of the Economist this week is on google.

    There is a long article on google.

    5.1 Don’t be evil.

    And the obituary article in the issue is on someone active in the Musicians Union for a long time. There is a paragraph about evil.

    This makes a good case.

    Stalin, music. Links to podcast people.

    Rather by accident, though these things never are, I was in Boxgrove church recently and took a photograph of a monument to a son of a duke who volunteered for service and died with British Forces in North Russia in 1919, and another to the dead of the first world war, 1914-1919.

    Now I am most puzzled.

    Who volunteers for service after 1916? What were British Forces doing in Norrth Russia in 1919? i thought the first world war finished in 1918? Where was it being fought in 1919? North Russia perhaps? But I thought the treaty of Brest Litovsk took Russia out of the war? And that Russia had been fighting the Germans alongside the British and the French?

    Perhaps this is a Bazra case? [this is a grep] {But it is also about a contract to build a railway, and a cause of the first world war.}

    Churchill incidently is involved in the 1919 North Russia case, and he is also involved in the Dyer case, which is another grep. But the military treatment of the general of Armitsrar (check spelling) was the consequence of Churchill’s argument on the use of terror as an instrument of policy, he of the naughty document. (which is another grep)

    So all that is simply evidence of how much we should regard who as being responsible for what?

    Could all this have been done with pictures and bullet points?

    5.2 Change the world.

    This is another part of the google article in the Economist, and as chance will have it, the exhibition in the art gallery is the commissions of the British Council over sixty years. (4.1 but now we have a problem, the notation begins to fail.)

    Public policy.

    The title of the exhibition is change the world.

    So now we have a second case.

    And a third, at least, for if you join don’t be evil with change the world, you have a complete modelling language.

    And we can now add the etching of Valenciennes. (5.3 perhaps)

    What were the British doing there?

    Incidently Henry VIII had been here two hundred and fifty years earlier (about the same time from then to there as from there to here).

    What were the British doing in North Russia in 1919?

    What were they doing in Greece in 1944?

    Don’t be evil. Change the world.

    How would Boulton have understood that?

  2. tim avatar

    Why don’t you do this as a post? Might be better than stuck in the comments….

  3. John avatar
    John

    ’cause I haven’t learned how to do that yet 🙂

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