Titan2

Titan2
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Teigan's Brownies

teigan's brownies
Originally uploaded by ChrisTitan.

MANIFESTO

Teigan posted this picture to his blog back in May 2005. I only found it recently. I was deeply touched.

The more I have pondred this picture, the more I realize that I am dealing with an operative of no ordinary powers.

The first thing to this "thought-weapon" is the bottle of disinfectant behind the brownies. This is his effort to sanitise the situation.

Second, the use of candles...almost makes you feel like it is a birthday cake. This is a VooDoo trick to pull in the vital energy of the victim.

I have to hand it to him too, Teigan is the one guy who seems to know how to lower my defence enough to actually hurt me when he kicks me in the balls. His magick is pretty strong.

I am happy to sponsor you into this new society based on the MANIFESTO.

Cheers,

'I think you dropped this'

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:16:46 +0100
From: "Scarlett Kiteway" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: newsletter@thescarlettkite.com
Subject: It's Scarlett - Allain tells me more about Viendenbourg


Hi. My name's Scarlett Kiteway, I'm 20 years old and I live in Perplex
City. Last year the Cube - a very precious object - was stolen from the
Academy where my dad, Sente, is the Master. The Cube was concealed
somewhere on Earth. We need to find it and get it back.

Some pretty weird things have been going on in my life lately. First my
friend's computer was targeted by a military trace originating in
Tanraga when he searched for the phrase "Reynolds ionizer". Then I
found
the same phrase in a note written by a dead journalist, along with the
word Viendenbourg. At the military archives, an old man gave me a map
of
Tanraga, with a place marked Viendenbourg, but other maps of that area
show nothing there at all. Now I'm travelling through Tanraga myself
with my boyfriend Brede and two friends. We'll soon be within walking
distance of Viendenbourg. But I think I'm being followed. I thought I
saw the old man from the archives here on the train. And now a guy I've
met on the train, Allain, says he's going to Viendenbourg too.

There's a lot going on in Perplex City; maybe by sifting through all
the
clues that are out there, you'll find out who stole the Cube. But I'm
following my own lead. My story is here and you can follow it with me.

-----------------------------

I couldn't believe it. Allain was going to the same mysterious location
as me!

I must have jumped in my seat when he said the word Viendenbourg,
because Brede said "What's up, honey? Is everything OK?" I told him I
was fine; I was longing to ask Allain what he knew about Viendenbourg,
why he was going there, how he'd found out the name, but I didn't want
to seem too curious. Luckily for me, Brede was interested as well.

He said: "What do you mean, you're not sure it exists?" Allain smiled
and looked down at his hands.
"I know, it sounds pretty insane doesn't it? The thing is," he leaned
forward, "you know I'm a student at Edyta College?" We nodded. Edyta
College is fairly prestigious - it's a rival school to Marmalejo where
Brede and I study. "And I guess you must be able to tell that I'm
interested in a lot of different subjects, right?" We nodded again.
"It's almost a problem, actually. I'm supposed to choose a subject of
special interest next year, but I haven't been able to. Anyway a few
months ago, among all these other projects, I got interested in
studying
the history of, you know, the war."

Brede and I both breathed in sharply. We knew about the war, of course.
Everyone does. But it's not something you talk about. It's a dark part
of our city's past - we've moved on. "I can't explain it," said Allain,
"I was drawn to find out more. I even started reading through some of
the material in the military archives. It was there that I first heard
about Viendenbourg." Brede and I were very quiet now. "You know that
material, it's mostly, well, fragments. So much knowledge has been lost
from that time, even the technological developments of the final 50
years are mostly gone. And no one wants to try to retrieve them."

Brede shifted in his seat. I could tell this conversation was making
him
uncomfortable. What Allain said was true - everyone knows that
technological advances were made during the war, but given where they
led, no one wants to try to get them back. "I know that's what everyone
thinks," Allain continued, "but the more I looked at those fragments
the
more amazed I was. From the documents, they had AIs far in advance of
our own, and medical and health developments that were just...
astonishing. I decided to try to piece some of that knowledge back
together."

Suddenly, Brede stood up. His face was pale. He looked calm, but
determined.
"I'm very tired," he said, "I think I'll go to bed. Are you coming,
Scarlett?" I looked at him. I knew why he was leaving. A lot of people
feel like Brede does about the past - best left forgotten. You can't
move forward while looking back. But I had to know about Viendenbourg.

"In a few minutes," I said. Brede looked at me. He said nothing, turned
and walked toward our carriage. Allain and I looked at Brede's receding
back, and then back to each other. There was a little pause, then he
continued.

"I worked in the military archives for weeks, piecing together records,
trying to make some sense of formulae and notes. Sometimes a hint of
meaning would seem to be within my grasp, but then it dissolved again.
I
felt I was getting nowhere. And then, one day, an old man with white
hair came up to my desk. He said: 'I see you've been working on ancient
technology.' I nodded. He said: 'You'll never get anywhere with those
old notes. You need the originals.' I smiled and told him that the
originals had been lost centuries earlier. He looked at me, and then
handed me a data button and said: 'I think you dropped this'."

He told me the rest of the story, but I felt that I'd heard it already.
Allain had also received a map showing Viendenbourg, he'd also compared
it to modern maps and found that there was nothing there. And now he
was
also travelling to Viendenbourg. There was a long silence after he
finished. I had to make a decision, but I felt it had almost been made
for me. Perhaps it was stupid of me, but I felt I wanted to trust him,
at least as much as he'd trusted me. I said: "I also met that man in
the
archives. He gave me a map of Viendenbourg. And I'm going there too.
And
there's something else... I think I've seen that man on this train. I
think he's here." And I stood up, said goodnight, and went to bed.

That was a week ago now. I've spent the past week trying to make things
up with Brede. We've walked through some of the most beautiful places
there are, but sometimes, as we're walking, I catch him looking at me
strangely. As if he didn't know me at all. I can't explain it to him. I
thought of trying to tell him the whole thing but somehow, now that
it's
linked to Allain, I don't feel I can. We haven't talked about it. We
haven't seen Allain this whole week of walking but today we reached the
train again. While Brede was getting our luggage, I sneaked a look at
the passenger manifest and found out which compartment Allain is in.
And
about an hour ago I went along there to talk to him.

As I reached the carriage, I heard raised voices. Or, at least, one
raised voice. It was Allain, shouting. It was as though he was talking
to himself, although he paused occasionally. He was shouting: "You
should never have told her! You should never have trusted her! Now
she'll find out everything!"


--
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but I won't be offended if you want to unsubscribe. If you really don't
want to hear about my adventures, just send an email to
unsubscribe@thescarlettkite.com.

If you think your friends would be interested in my emails, then you
can send
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Until next week.

Scarlett

scarlett@thescarlettkite.com
http://thescarlettkite.com

Green Grow the Rushes O

Green Grow the Rushes O
Written By: Unknown
Copyright Unknown

I will sing you one O
Green grow the rushes O
What is your one O
One is one and all alone
And evermore shall be so

I will sing you two O
Green grow the rushes O
What is your two O
Two, two the lily white boys
Clothed all in green O

I will sing you three O
Green grow the rushes O
What is your three O

Three, three the rivals

Four for the Gospel makers

Five for the symbols at your door

Six for the six proud walkers

Seven for the seven stars in the sky

Eight for the April rainers

Nine for the nine bright shiners

Ten for the Ten Commandments

Eleven for the eleven that went to heaven

Twelve for the twelve apostles

Viendenbourg

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:13:07 +0100
From: "Scarlett Kiteway" Add to Address Book
To: newsletter@thescarlettkite.com
Subject: It's Scarlett from Perplex City


Hi. My name's Scarlett Kiteway, I'm 20 years old and I live in Perplex
City. Last year the Cube - a very precious object - was stolen from the
Academy where my dad, Sente, is the Master. The Cube was concealed
somewhere on Earth. We need to find it and get it back.

Some pretty weird things have been going on in my life lately. First my
friend's computer was targeted by a military trace when he searched for
the phrase "Reynolds ionizer"; he found that the trace had originated
in the Tanraga region. Then I found the same phrase in a note written by a
dead journalist, with another word, Viendenbourg. At the military
archives, an old man gave me a map of Tanraga, with a place marked
Viendenbourg, but other maps of that area show nothing there at all.
Now I'm travelling through Tanraga myself with my boyfriend Brede and two
friends. We'll soon be within walking distance of Viendenbourg. But I
think I'm being followed; and last week I thought I saw the old man
from the archives here on the train.

There's a lot going on in Perplex City; maybe by sifting all the clues
that are out there, you'll find out who stole the Cube. But I'm
following my own lead. My story is here and you can follow it with me.

--------------------------------------

We've been travelling for two weeks now and I realise I haven't
properly explained how our holiday works, or shown you a map or anything. I
can't send a map over, but I've loaded up a quick one on my website at
http://www.thescarlettkite.com/hikemap.jpg for you to have a look. It's
quite cunning, really - the idea is basically that you hike from one
pre-designated rail stop to the next, and then take the train through
to the next part of your hike. A lot of students do this sort of
travelling; you take a tent with you to sleep in during the hike, and
then have a couple of days on the train to rest before the next leg of
the journey. The train company even take on your extra bags to your
next stop for you. Our journey goes in a wide loop, so that it's not much
further to come back than it was to go. We're planning to make five
hiking trips with rail journeys in between. Number 4 takes us closest
to Viendenbourg. It won't be easy to make it there and back in time to get
the train, but I'm more curious than ever.

In any case, this has been our first week of proper hiking (Hike 1) -
and my feet are sore! It's been great though. We've seen some amazing
places - we took the Absent Woods path, walked through the Wentome
Hills and saw the seven-tiered waterfall at Amanra. We even took a dip in the
pool at the base of the waterfall. It's been a wonderful week - I'm so
glad we came. There's a thing that happens when you're walking all day
-
your mind slows down, your thoughts become clearer, everything seems to
pop into focus. So I think I was just a bit stir crazy last week,
imagining that someone had been going through my stuff or trying the
door. I was just trying to see conspiracies at every turn, but I'm
feeling a lot sunnier now!

The other great thing about a long trip like this is the people you
meet. This kind of trip is popular with students, so there have been a
few people taking the same route as us. We've met up with a party of
six students from the University (I didn't mention that my dad's the head
of the Academy - those University people can get a bit touchy!), a
honeymooning couple and a guy named Allain who's travelling by himself.
Allain's pretty cool, actually. He's shy and keeps quiet a lot, but he
knows a lot about botany and geography - we walked with him for a
couple of days and he told us about the way this area's ecology had developed,
the kind of plants you find here. When Sanj got stung by some
hoare-ivy, Allain climbed a tree to get some berries for him to rub on it which
took the pain away. Cool, huh? If I wasn't dating Brede I think I'd be
interested in Allain. I think Margot's pretty into him ;-).

Anyway, Allain's travelling on the same train as us right now.
Yesterday night, a bunch of us all had dinner together - me and Brede, Sanj,
Margot, the guys from the University and Allain too. It got quite late
-
one by one everyone else went to bed so it was just me, Allain and
Brede.

Allain seemed more comfortable talking when it was just the three of
us. We discussed our itineraries. Amazingly, he's taking almost the same
journey as us, with the same stops and treks. Except that, on that
fourth journey, he's planning to spend longer than us.
"Yeah," he said, "I've got a little private excursion I want to make.
Off the beaten track." Brede said: "Why, where are you going?"

Allain ran his hand through his hair, looked down at the table and then
back up at us. "I know this sounds crazy," he said, "but I'm going to a place I'm not
even sure exists - Viendenbourg."

Agit-Prop Art

repost from Company23

http://company23.net/tg3d/index.php?topic=176.0

Pirates Unite!
Anyone want to engage in a little agit-prop art? And then show it to (hopefully) thousands of people?

How To Act In Public In Six Easy Steps

The point of the project is threefold: to get people to connect with strangers, and get the creative juices flowing, and to ambush the minds of innocent bystanders (that's the agit-prop bit). An image of my original concept of the project is here:
http://www.company23.net/444/images/zeripo.jpg
...but here are the details
Step 1. Find a stranger and get him/her to tell you a personal story.
Step 2. Make an art piece of any kind about this story.
Step 3. Install it in a public, out of context place
Step 4. Observe the reactions of passers-by,and record them (sketch snap pics, write vignettes, whatever)
Step 5. Make a piece about the reactions you recorded, in any artistic medium.
Step 6. Wash rinse repeat

Works in any artistic medium will be accepted, including visual, photographic, written, music, dance, performance or installation.
I will be looking for:
 Current CV and Artist Statement
 Slide or jpeg of original piece, public installation , and final piece

This is because I want to submit this work to the Works Festival in Edmonton, (usually in July) and they require all that sort of thing for a curator submission (usually in January) This is a large,very inclusive arts festival, and I’ve done a couple of things with them before – check them out here.

If our proposal is accepted by them, for the actual exhibition I’d need:

 Original piece if possible, photographic documentation otherwise
 Photographic documentation of public installation
 Final piece (film CD, DVD or video if it’s performance-based)