the reality tunnel

We played with John Anderson, Morrow, and Wastleand DC.
For the slideshow, I projected this video from YouTube with a digital projector:
and this text (from a soldier’s blog that I came across when excerpts were published in the copy of Best American Nonrequired Reading that my brother gave me as a Christmas gift) with the overhead [...]

set list:

research
lightning strikes
untitled (it’s new)
death at an early age
this is where we’re from
new song
human contradiction i
human contradiction ii

Update: I’ve uploaded the slideshow that we projected for this show. Link

Lightning Strikes: Climate change/Life change

Video of Al Gore talking about climate change
Global temperature change graph
Global carbon emissions graph
Retreat of the Northern Larsen ice shelf

This is Where We’re From: 46 houses behind miles away
Research: NOLA, voyeurism, ownership of tragedy
Death at an early age: photos from palestine, privilege and solidarity

$ mplayer rtsp://real.npr.org:80/real.npr.na-central/fa/20060414_fa_01.rm -ao pcm:file=hater.wav -vc dummy -vo null
This page was helpful as a reference.

Lord Acton once said, “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power absolutely.”  He could have gone on to say “and by the way, powerlessness also corrupts, and absolute powerlessness absolutely.”  That is, people who are opposing the government and feel they are getting no place tend towards bitterness, tend toward hatred.  They fight national righteousness [...]

It takes photo solutions 3 business days.
3-10 slides are $5.50 each.
Format accepted:

TIFF at 300dpi.
Landscape orientation
4×6, 8×12 or equivalent aspect ratio

I’ve recently finally gotten into podcasts. I’ve thought they were a cool idea for a long time, but never really use them. I bought a dvd-rw drive so I could make a dvd slideshow for the last disaster show. I now use the slick (and multiplatform) juice to manage my subscriptions and [...]