Monday, May 30, 2011

Intern, Inter, Interrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, indeterminate

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2011/05/29/intern_nation_interview

Thing is it's happening here too.  Let's 'employ', selectively, a load of young people for no wage giving them the hope of a job or career: sometimes it does lead to paid work and sometimes it doesn't (they can presumably only do it if they have parents or a patron who will fund their living expenses through it, unless they have their own savings but if they've studied it is likely they haven't  - so it becomes exclusive).  How has this idea come about?   What about those people who have no-one that can fund them?  It doesn't feel right.   It feels wrong, wrong, wrong and it feels like exploitation.  Minimum wage (which is bad enough) flies out the window - no wage is the new hip thing.  And what message does this send to these young people?  What will they expect from younger people, for free?  They'll be the future employers and what will they say: 'well I did it and now you can but times have changed and you will need to do it for longer (your whole life even) to prove you are worth my trust (investment) in you'? 

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Ever since I was ejected from a fairground ride I've avoided them.

Having gone again for change/flux/excitement/fear despite my primeval aversion to fairground rides all manner of ordinary things need addressing: these are my bookmarks from the laptop that needs to be returned.  Because I've 'bookmarked' them presumably they had or have a resonance with me over the last few years.  They are in date order of bookmarking, so the last is the most present.  Some I haven't visited in years.  Some are visited often.  In a partial way they catalogue my interest over that period. 

http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.msn.co.uk
http://www.lucindawells.co.uk
http://www.dmu.ac.uk
http://www.tvguide.co.uk/
http://artistbooks.ning.com/profile/RuthShawWilliams
http://lucinda-wells.blogspot.com/
http://www.yh485press.org/
http://www.apengine.org/
http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/flash_design.html
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/156/snorris_hot_tub_reykholt_iceland.html
http://greg-lucas.blogspot.com/
http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/colle/102525.shtml#
http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html
http://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/JetAge.html
http://www.memorymegastore.com/logoutuser.asp?logged_out=Y
http://hatters-domain.blogspot.com/
http://silencesprung.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fsilencesprung.wordpress.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fusers.php&reauth=1
http://schmid.wordpress.com/
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2
http://jades-photography.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.publishandbedamned.org.uk/
http://www.1000wordsmag.com/
http://www.kenwilber.com/blog/list/1
http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?gl=GB&user=ytscreeningroom
http://www.artquest.org.uk/
http://noplace-xxx.blogspot.com/
http://www.electrocomics.com/weekly/weeklydata/Blegvad/html/en_Blegvad46.html
http://www.ohiomagazine.de/
http://www.p000m0000.com/
http://mubi.com/login
http://books.google.com/books?id=zunn9VqsHQ0C
http://www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/
http://glenjamieson.blogspot.com/
http://ow.ly/user/Lucinda_Wells
http://vimeo.com/user2289957
http://www.proamimaging.com/
http://www.unity.org/prayer/prayersAffirmations/healingPrayerAffirm.html
http://www.neromagazine.it/n/?p=3609
http://www.ubuweb.com/
http://www.hotukdeals.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_Project
http://www.celiahammond.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=23&MMN_position=32:32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deiWnZK-duM&feature=share
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2010/11/14/character-of-the-week-gibran/
http://www.rnli.org.uk/who_we_are/press_centre/videos/video_detail?articleid=612976&category=-1&region=-1&mediatype=video&listing
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-do-shake-uke-180365/
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/user/MusicTeacher2010#p/u/35/pJme1gtN1SM
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/158770.html
http://www.blublu.org/sito/links/links.htm
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/
http://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline
http://www.indiemoviesonline.com/
http://mediastorm.com/
http://www.kinoblatz.com/html/films.html
http://www.shortfilmfests.com/content/passing-through
http://robinhoodtax.org/how-it-works/everything-you-need-to-know
http://audioboo.fm/
http://www.satellitedirect.com/?hop=ndmuscle12
http://www.foxyinks.com/
http://huss.moonfruit.com/#
http://www.wix.com/potearooms/tossers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTprkPg9yVw&feature=related
http://soundcloud.com/groups/jawdance-photography-competition/info
http://soundcloud.com/reinventing
http://doctoruke.com/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ26H1G_1eA&feature=related
http://www.esotericschool.net/
http://creativecoast.blogspot.com/2011/05/project-at-stade-hall.html


Friday, May 20, 2011

Doing it anyway

I'll write more about this later...

http://www.applesandsnakes.org and Jawdance plus http://www.flickr.com/photos/applesandsnakes


Image courtesy of Alexander Brattell: http://www.zetetic.co.uk

(in response to Alex's image)



  Approaching 50 Flat Out by Reinventing

Friday, May 13, 2011

Change, change, exciting, scary, daunting, energising, exciting change

So, I guess you won't be wanting your usual then?


Life goes in cycles and that's the truth (in my experience it is approximately every 7 years).   Then there's the push and pull of things that adds to the mix.

I probably won't quote anyone tonight.


Sadly, what can't be seen clearly in this image because I was laughing too much when I took it, is the writing on the label that says 'Air bag missing'  - well I don't know about you... yes, there are airbags in my car, but in my bra?  It's an interesting thought.  Or an interesting fact.  What if it suddenly inflates?   Then explodes?  Some massive surgical procedure no doubt to remove the implant that has fractured multi-dimensionally all over the shoppers in Waitrose.  Or worse still, implodes: what then?  Something resembling bullet holes the size of two small pizzas.  All for the sake of a pert uplifted breast.  Girls, girls:  Do not buy these goods, they are flawed with terrible possible outcomes.

Changing the subject entirely (really?) and going back to the original impetus for this post: the idea of change.

Why not accept graciously who and what you are and where you 'fail' and where you are 'good', why not?  Collectively we promote fail and good with people, this notion has age groups ranging from about 3 all the way to whenever, if ever people give up the problem of judgment from other people.  Being human I too struggle with this and the effect is continually trying to match up to other people's ideas, that really sucks.  Because isn't it true that everyone else is just as awkward and clumsy and finding their way as we are?



So a real bit of twaddle tonight, my life is changing - I'm embarking on a new and unknown path - I won't be using airbags.

It will all work out alright.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

10,000 emails

I never got that many letters in all my life.

Expansion

I am de-commissioning my rucksack.