RETRO RADiO?!
There is certainly nothing quite as absurd as taking a $3000.00 computer and converting it into an old radio. Alas that has been just the result of recent Research Developments at VBC Studios, Salt Spring Island.
Perhaps it comes from extra time being available over the holidays but when push comes to shove it is hard to keep an idea from materializing over there at the Visual Breakfast centre.
StoneAge RADiO
Whenever there is a gap, nature abhors the vacuum, so after years of waiting for a SaltSpring Radio Station to hit the airwaves, it seemed logical to forge ahead with at least a Virtual Internet installation.
Enter StoneAge RADiO at http://www.dreamscaping.com/radio Become a subscriber to what may really turn out to be an excellent venue for exposing local Salt Spring Music and other content to a much wider audience. The beauty is that all programming is archived and can be listened to on demand instead of relying on broadcast scheduling and the rigors of filling air time 24-7. Entire stations can be assigned to single artists for that 'all you, all the time' saturation of the airways if need be. People will choose to listen or they won't, just like in the real world.
Currently VBC Studios is soliciting interested DJs and content providers who have the facilities to create their own programming. Submissions should be burned onto CD or provided on cassette or mini-disc as finished programs.
Contact Paul Marcano by email or through the website above for further information.
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BC Premier Campbell
fails test of character?
It is tough being in the public spotlight and there seems to be something about British Columbian Premiers that really attracts attacks, if not from others then from within each Premier's natural self-destruct mechanisms themselves.
Alcholism is no petty problem but it does reveal inner problems and weaknesses that many of us never have to face. Interestingly alcohol has an uncanny ability to lobotomize the mind leaving the body to seek out its own altruistic goals, many of which are survival-based insofar as one usually ends up in a stupor, waking up safe and sound in a cell somewhere.
In its capacity to survive the body once released of the domination of the mind through alcohol, will carry the body intuitively into situations where, unihibited, it will naturally provoke those around to look after it either through a mindless brawl or some inevitable form of restraint. In either case body preservation is the underlying modus operendi of a alcohol induced state of mind. It is a forgiving substance, in most cases blotting out memory and purpose, but it is also highly addictive which leads to more and more consumption resulting in a spiralling pattern of degenerative behaviour. In the end, the body either takes over to save the entity through incarceration or the entity perishes of its own accord. Great people have failed to hear the message of moderation and they are great no more.LUMAR Archive Services The lads over at LUMAR continue to upgrade their services and are now offering digital slide scanning. As part of their ongoing development of Digital Family albums, they now archive data from photos, slides, video - VHS - Hi8, 8mm, CD, cassette and now slides. PH. 537-1793 to make an appointment.
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Salt Spring Monetary Foundation There has certainly been a lot of flotsam and jetsam floating around about our local monetary fund and one has to question where it is all coming from and why? Good ideas are hard enough to realise without critics and naysayers jumping on the first cracks of weakness that eventually appear in any enterprise.
What is this perverse side of human nature that rears its ugly head so often, the one that gloats at the misfortune, the weaknesses in others and takes the first opportunity to destroy objects of success. It is a fundamentalism that refuses to acknowledge the good in human effort and ingenuity. Notwithstanding the broad spectrum of personalities involved in the monetary fund, it is silly to jump to conclusions about a total effort based on the mere possibility that one or two participants may or may not be 100% to anyone's satisfaction.
The other thing to keep in mind is that perception is 99% of the law in any dream or vision and there are many natural unknowns that visionaries will generally forge beyond for the sake of the goal and the chance of success. The rest, surprisingly follow much later only to declare that "we thought it was a great idea all along".
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Saturday the 18th, 2002 - Peace demonstrations against the new 'television series?' War on Iraq - contact Irene Wright on Salt Spring for more information about busing and events planned.
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