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Shellac ATP... How was it for YOU?
I had a bloody marvellous time. First time at Camber and yeah the chalets are a bit dodgy and cold but I don't think it had a bearing on my weekend really.
+ Both of Shellac's performances were brilliant, I like the opening and closing the festival idea. Definitely glad I made the first one and had End of Radio to kick the whole thing off. They also just seem like a bloody nice bunch don't they?
+ I think my other favourite performances were Neurosis, Rachel Grimes, Oxbow (apart from the Israel pants bit) and The Ex & Brass Unbound (I was feeling completely flattened by Sunday night but they brought me back to life dancing).
+ Met Kim Deal and Niko from Oxbow who were both lovely.
- same gripes as everyone about lack of beer and food options but this was my first time in a chalet with a fridge and oven so it didn't really matter.
How did everyone else get on?
very good
friday broke me - too much alcohol - so i felt awful all weekend after that but had a great time anyways. our chalet was fairly OK by sunday night but was so cold until then, some douche left the window open before we checked in.
favourite bands bla bla melt banana especially
Good to be back in Camber.
The nearly 2 hour queue to get wristbands in the cold and missing most of Shellac on the first afternoon was bad. As was the woeful alcohol selection at Pontins.
Favourite bands, in this order:
1. Melt Banana
2. The Ex
3. Rachels
4. Future of the Left
5. Shellac.
Overall a good solid ATP with flashes of inspiration: 6/10.
Pretty good!
The chalets were ok and the electricity meter was stuck at 20p so didn't have to pay for that. I wouldn't say it was good to be back at Camber though, I liked it when there were better drinks and bigger bars so you didn't have to stand forever queueing. Mind you I didn't spend as much money and didn't get as drunk as usual because of it so I suppose that's good really.
Also if there's one thing on at a time when people won't still be in bed you should have the one thing on in the big room so everyone can actually see them. Huge queue for Nina Nastasia that remained there the entire duration of the set pretty much. Gave up on that room after Rachel Grimes (AMAZING) on Sunday.
The Ex were maybe the best.
Kim Deal solo was great whadda voice. Charmingly nervous. Thought solo Cannonball was a potential disaster but it totally worked.
Zeni Geva & KK Null solo set was really good. That sort of thing is great as a two piece if your drummer is Yoshida Tatsuya. What a guy. KK Null seems like a top bloke too. 'I present my solo project. If you only came to see Zeni Geva now is a good time to go to the toilet'.
Melt Banana as a two piece weren't really any different! 'You can't replace that bassist, she's a machine!' My friend said. Well they've replaced her with an actual machine and it sounds the same.
Buke & Gase might be the next sufjan newsome sensation. Verr good
I liked the Cravats frontman reviewing the band's performance straight after the song. 'Hmm. Nearly flawless'.
I liked Stnnng & Scrawl & Turing Machine on the Friday.
Top tips for those of us going next week?
Always been to Butlins so not sure what to expect. Sounds like I need some warm pyjamas and a fuck load of booze, anything else?
What is the alcohol selection actually like in the bars and do they actively stop you taking your own in?
bar selection: generic lager, newcastle brown ale, guinness, generic cider. generic spirits. gets the job done. they didnt seem too bothered check bags or pockets. a well hidden flask will serve you well.
other advice: fill in your forms before you get there - apparently that is what slowed down the entry on friday. you probably wont need to spend any money on electricity - no-one i know saw the meters go down in value. if you want to see something in the second room, get there in good time - that place fills up quick.
They actually ran out of everything bar Carlsberg by the Sunday night.
you can walk out of the venue with your glass ...
... and then walk back in with it without problem, particularly through the queen vic entrance. chalet pitstops = essential.
oh, and thoroughly agree with comments about security
they were the best bunch atp have had for ages. didn't really see any dickhead officious behaviour which has marred some recent minehead ones.ithica, SarcasticFringehead, and crashingthrough this'd this
- Pre-filled in forms + photo ID
- Splitter plugs (there were only six plug points in the entire chalet, and that includes those powering the electric heaters)
- Towels
- Loo Roll
- Sleeping bag/duvet
- Washing up liquid
- Sharp knife
- Food and drink. Unlike Minehead, there are no massive supermarkets near the site.
- Drink. The bars ran out of all beers but Carlsberg on the final day.
- Drink. You'll need spirits to keep you warm.
Don't bring:
- Anything that needs to go in a freezer
Get there before 2pm on the Friday, if you can.SarcasticFringehead this'd this
Oh yeah, if you're vegetarian, bring your own food.
There is a stall selling Buddha Boxes, but that's it.
Washing up liquid but also...
Sponges/scourers of some sort and a teatowel, our chalet had neither of those.
So they don't have
a supermarket on site?
nice ale bars?
There is bedding, but the chalets can be cold.
And there are two supermarkets on site (plus a little shop over the road), but they're nowhere near as big or as well-stocked as the Minehead ones.
i had a fucking blast. didnt think the chalet was THAT cold, although one plug socket per kitchen was a bit of a pain. some minor admin gripes aside, it was pretty near perfect for me.
highlights: the ex, shellac, shannon wright, nina nastasia, uzeda, rachel grimes, red fang, mono, bottomless pit, three second kiss, the cravats.
Have to give a mention
to Shannon Wright. She was as awesome as ever.thegoodmrbrodie this'd this
Great festival, but...
...I think we've been a bit spoiled with Butlins tbh. I'd forgotten how much of an absolute and utter dump Camber is by comparison.
My first time in Camber
So so so so bleak. I never even ventured outside during daylight. Couldn't face it. Imagine going on holiday there?
The positive stuff is that several bands were absolutely exceptional (especially Melt Banana) and the general vibe was great fun. Everything being sort of in one building, claustrophobia/bottlenecks aside, meant I only really remembered I was in a Pontins when I went outside, whereas Minehead was all BURGER KING PIZZA HUT BIG TOP WOO.
I liked as well the 2 stage mostly staggered lineup, plus the late night stuff (what I remember of it). Bit gutted about missing both Shellac shows thanks to arriving in the evening/leaving Sunday night but if it wasn't them it just would've been someone else so whatever.
Not particularly happy with the chalet. OK it was old and cold, expected that, because Pontins. But a "5-berth" consisting of 1 tiny bedroom with 3 beds plus a sofa in the main room was a bit of a pisstake when we'd all punted in a grand or so altogether to be there. Thankfully some of our group got down early and phoned up an airbed order.
But overall, ATP is ATP. Glad I went.
Back in Camber. Hurrah!
Nina Nastasia (wonderful set, so much better than the last time she played ATP)
Buke and Gase (my pick of the weekend, probably)
Shannon Wright
Shellac, obviously
Mono (despite the chatty crowd)
Prinzhorn Dance School
Zeni Geva
Future Of The Left
The security guy who looked into our chalet, saw the lasers, lights, smoke machine, amp and mixing desk and offered be our bouncer.
Walking all the way along the beach on Saturday morning and down to Rye Harbour
The lack of plug points
The bar staff not knowing how to work along the bar to serve people
Not enough staff on the bar
Shit beer selection and running out of Newcastle Brown every evening and all beers bar Carlsberg by Sunday afternoon
The amount of bands who just sounded like bad versions of Shellac
Gay Witch Abortion not really being that out of the ordinary
Missing the following: The Ex, Kim Deal, Kim Deal doing kareoke, Rachel Grimes, Red Fang
Oh yeah. That fucking hobby horse.
Just, ATP, please find some way of destroying it, please.Battlecat this'd this
quick question
about tickets/wristbands. did the wristbands get handed out when checking into the chalets (like in minehead) or was there a separate wristband exchange? how does it all work at camber sands?
well, 2 of us checked in to our chalet and did all the forms and got the keys
and our 2 wristbands. the 3 other people in our chalet came later on, we had to leave their wristbands in an envelope with their names on which they picked up on arrival. wasn't too bad.
we didn't show ID or anything but i'm sure others did.
they got handed out
the people who arrived later had to go and get theirs from the check-in bit though. They actually put the wristbands on for you.
I'd be very surprised if they didn't change how they organised things,
but they had a long queue outside where they checked ID, and then marked your forms, before allowing you to go into the lobby area and queue up to collect your wristbands.
When you're in the lobby, make sure that you get into the right queue - they're divided into four groups by surname (of the booker). People seemed to be just milling into one group/queue, and there wasn't much organisation in there.
Yeah, good times, if not the greatest ATP ever
somebody had put an old Reds line up in their window and I did feel a bit nostalgic for the breadth of acts you got with four programmed venues rather than two.
As I understand it, Pontins is still in administration, so the fact the staff weren't very experienced/plentiful was due to them mostly being temps (because it's not opens for holidays). But I thought they were very nice, and security were positively saintlike next to the Minehead lot.
A few too many bands who sound like Shellac, but actually the Saturday and Sunday line-ups were pretty diverse in their way. Nina Nastasia, Kim Deal, FOTL, The Ex, Shellac, Buke and Gase all highlights.
The was security?
just seemed like friendly guys in jumpers to me. One of them even nodded his hat at me and went 'mornin' as I sat outside my chalet on a comedown with a spliff in one hand and lots of discarded Pontins tokens in the other. If that were Butlins I'd have had my head kicked in then reported to the police
Music Highlights:
Prinzhorn Dance School
Bottomless Pit
Melt Banana
Bear Claw
Future of the Left
Was a bit disappointed with Mission Of Burma and Wire as love them on record but they weren't bad by any means, and really enjoyed everything else I saw.
The second stage occasionally got too full and was annoying when you couldn't get in but don't really see what they could do about this... Security were overall great, didn't have any bad experiences, no unnecessary searching of people or dickhead attitudes, kept the crowds flowing.
The sound was awesome on both stages, seriously every band sounded great, was a treat to see bands who would normal play small venues really work on bigger stages.
As mentioned lack of beer choice was disappointing and they could have done with bringing some extra food in though the one Vegan choice was yummy. Also if you did go for any trash Pontins food it was pretty cheap.
Managed to keep the Chalet warn and everything worked and was nice and clean. We had one extra space luckily as think it would be really crammed if full.
Obviously there could have been a few improvements i.e. food and drink, but seeing as you could bring your own I think this is minor gripe. I was too busy trying to catch as many bands as possible so didn't spend much time in the chalet or doing anything else in Pontins so can't comment on that.
Overall possibly my favourite ATP ever. I mean music wise it very much catered to my tastes so was always going to be fun but getting to see bands like Arcwelder sound so great on a large stage was really special.
No one has been complaining about sound quality, bands running late or anything like that which goes to show how well things ran. A few problems with organisation elsewhere but I think ATP should be congratulated on putting on a brilliant festival.
aye the sound was mint
especially for Neurosis, they sounded huuugeSpicer, JustJay, and crashingthrough this'd this
My first ATP so can't make comparison to other ATP's...
Really pleased that I went despite not knowing quite a few of the bands in too much depth when making my decision to go. Melt Banana were amazing and the crowd was an absolute riot. But great to see some other acts which I'd never normally see and which I will explore more on record (Zeni Geva, Love in Elevator). Missed Buke & Gase but their performance seems to have gained a lot of acclaim. Rachel Grimes was great; perfect for a Sunday afternoon.
Pontin's did look rather tatty, and I can't imagine staying there on holiday, but the chalets were ok for a few days stay. Do bring everything that Marckee mentions above as they are quite austere in terms of stuff provided. Electric meter didn't decline at all while I was there, so we just had the heater on the whole time (it was very cold). Security were fine, not heavy handed at all.
Apart from that, big fan of the general ATP vibe. It felt small, compact, friendly, fun loving. Definitely thinking about going to the TV On The Radio one in May.
If I have friends who don't have tickets but have arranged to get them on-site
via the ATPeople Facebook group, are they going to have any trouble?
This was really really great.
Actually liked CamberSands a lot more than I thought I would, and we just kept the heater on all weekend so it wasn't cold or anything, the actual venue bit really suited ATP as well, and if there was a queue for the downstairs stage you could just go round to the Queen Vic entrance. Nearly every band I saw was great, but especially The Ex + Brass Unbound, Future of the Left, Nina Nastasia, Rachel Grimes, Prinhorn Dance School, Melt Banana and Red Fang.
do the bands programme a tv channel?
In the chalets like minehead?
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I was fuming when Dan_THW broke our ashtray
thought it would be listed as £50 or something (being able to smoke in Chalets is greatly appreciated btw)
The Ex + Brass Unbound
were my no.1 I think. Amazing combination, really fantastic for bringing out the affinities/convergences between two very types of music that maybe aren't immediately obvious. Or, idk, but those at least were my musings after about 8 beers.
Bands-wise, I actually think *everything* was pretty great, maybe sans Gay Witch Abortion (a bit boring) and a couple of them Italian bands (a little meh, although I was kind of zoned out at that point).
As for chalets, I had no real complaints. Were some much better than other, or are my standards really poor?
chalet was hideously cold, but by the second day having left all the heaters on, it was quite pleasant.
bumped into Marckee but not Yesiamaduck and Sarcastic Fringehead or any other DiSers. shame!
had a weird encounter with some 'friendly' girls who might just have been terrible people being terrible.
Buddha Boxes are so tasty.
our table bossed the (interminable) book bingo. if they hadn't asked Danny to hold back, he would have got way more than five.
finally seen Mr. Show. :D
Rachel Grimes and then Nina Nastasia with Grimesy and Helen Money were perfect on the Sunday morning. gentle and deeply affecting extended moments of calm.
Neurosis had a really sparse crowd, FU BEDWETTERS. they were monsterously good, though. heaviosity.
Oxbow full band AND orchestra? orchestra should have been higher in the mix, though. so great, though.
so glad people digged The Ex. me and my pal Danny danced quite a bit to them.
FoL freak-out at the end of their set was fun.
Dead Rider were so worth checking out. like US Maple plus Suicide divided by Royal Trux. or something. 'It's quiet time' *crazy drumming* 'NOOOOOO'.
I love KK Null. and his song title announcements. mini solo noise set yay but not nearly LOUD enough. Zeni Geva were cool but I was too tired to enjoy.
Melt Banana were great and all, but it felt less spectacular with just programmed drums and bass.
Turing Machine were unexpectedly fucking super fun. DFA does krautrock. so much energy.
Cravats were great, avant jazzy noise punk with chubby aged droll northern frontchap.
Bottomless Pit were really nice, top guitaring.
poor mixes for Arcwelder and MoB, I reckon.
should have watched some of Shannon Wright.
Shellac were great both times. immaculate sound. love Bob.
we walked back to Rye station because we failed in taxi booking, but it was a gorgeous walk. was chatting to my friend Arfie about Warp records and I started thinking about old times walking through fields as a teenager listening to 'Music Has The Right...'. really wonderful countryside. good for my soul or what have you.
Agree on the Grimes/Nastasia/Money combo as perfect Sunday morning* music
I suspect such scheduling was to some degree just pragmatism as they had to tune a whole fuckin' grand piano, but it was brilliantly arranged nonethelesss.
(*morning broadly defined)
the time we left the chalet, blinking and grizzled
I loved the Music for 18 Musicians influence on her pieces.
and I always loved Nina...love her even more now. how about Albini's words in the booklet, who knew he was so emotionally tactile.
I think I might have met some DiSers on the Saturday night briefly...
Me and dan_thw were at someone's chalet (I was pretty stoned and near incapable of conversation at this point and didn't stick around for too long) and met some people he knew.
The countryside's great around there, it does feel rather remote though. People said it was bleak but it's December and it's cold, if you go in May or June it'll be fine.
it was lovely once the clouds rolled in
it felt like my halls at Huddersfield Uni, living off pizza.
I bet I would have spotted Dan if he hadn't been recently shorn...
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living off pizza is rubbish and unlovely.
ah man...
Decided to give Dead Rider a miss and have some recovery time at the chalet thought your description maeks them sound awesome. Agree about MoB but thoguht Arcwelder were one of the best sounding bands of the festival.
they were still great
buuuut idk, the sound had this harsh and blunt feel...not in a good way. imho.
Didn't more people
see Uzeda? Their pre-ATP show during the week was stunning, ridiculously under-rated band.
saw uzeda
they were magnificent.
It was good.
Funny to hear all the bitching from people who'd only ever been to Minehead.
Still the best for actually seeing bands and still the worst for actually living there for a weekend but hey, ho. It's about the music more than anything else.
Generally great line up.
I think I preferred Nina Nastasia's stories to the musical interludes in between, except when she got Helen Money and Rachel Grimes on stage.
Enjoyed Bear Claw. Enjoyed Helen Money a lot. Mission of Burma and Wire disappointed. Future of the Left weren't at their best but still a good show from them, although that new guy unbuttoning his trousers and feeling his dick was a bit much, really.
Giving me a laugh seeing all the Camber complaints
I'd been to both sites, & seemed in a minority at not being happy about the return there, both on this board & amongst my friends. It was a dump then, sounds like it's a *bit* worse now.
Nah, it wasn't worse.
I think some chalets still hadn't been refurbished. Ours had and it wasn't great but it did mean it had double glazing and heaters and was warm, and the electricity was free.
So on that basis it was 'better' but they could have done more. The main venue hadn't changed one bit.
FOTL's set was the best i've seen them play over the years and probably the single standout set of the festival. really exhilarating.
Hmm. Just didn't really work for me.
There was good stuff there but not quite up there. I think I preferred the Lexington set I saw when the Kong guy was standing in. Really liked the bass sound now, though: They've managed to make it sound incredibly huge.
nice beach /
Did anyone see the guitarist from neurosis head butt the microphone and start bleeding from his head? That was cool.
The Ex with brass were so good, as were Turing Machine who I had absentmindedly assumed were an electronic group.
The dunes and beach were nice in the sun, with had lots of bizarre buildings and a dead sheep (metal as fuck).
Off site there is a super weird place called the Camber Café where you can get an okay breakfast if you can stand the weird pictures of clowns and patio doors. Round the corner is a much nicer place called Rye Bay café with free wi-fi and peroni.
You say Pontins is bad but it does have its own Pound shop.
An enjoyable festival
The great bits:-
Mono closing Stage 1 on Friday night were a joy. Could've done with playing a song from one of their earlier records rather drawing the entire set from the last 2 records though.
Kim Deals performance seemed to be pretty divisive amongst those who saw it. Personally I thought it was outstanding. Particularly the slow song she played off Title TK ("Off You" I think it's called) and of course Cannonball.
Nina Nastasia was class. Staying seated throughout and playing a set of largely slow songs worked wonders. Her 'twinkie' story could've maybe been cut by 30 or 40 minutes to squeeze in some more songs though.
Rachel Grimes was mesmeric. Her beautiful smile alone lit up Stage 2. Coupled with her magnificent piano it was easily one of the festival highlights.
The beach
The shit bits:-
Only two stages
Very limited number of bar staff
Too many bands sounding like Shellac. Nowhere near enough variety (despite the defensive claims made by ATP)
Cold Chalet (by Sunday it was ok)
Poor selection of drinks at the bar (and running out!)
Overall I'd say going back to Camber is a negative thing, especially after the relative luxury we've experienced with Minehead. Personally, I wont be going back to ATP if they hold it there especially if I'm parting with £180. After the terrific value for money I felt from the last 5 or 6 ATPs I do feel slightly fleeced.
I'm not sure about this 'bands sounding too much like Shellac' thing.
The Shellac sound is really a sort of blueprint for Albini's production and I'd say most people who are into Shellac are into *that* sort of sound, so when you buy a ticket to a festival curated by them you expect bands to have that aesthetic.
Some didn't live up to expectation but I don't have a problem with bands sounding like Shellac per se, and I'm not sure that's a particularly valid criticism.
I also think that compared to camping and the options at pretty much any other festival out there, ATP at Pontins is still a fuck load better in terms of accommodation. Obviously Reading and Glastonbury have many many more bands but if it's all about the music then at ATP you can pretty much be watching bands for 11 hours on the trot so then the state of the site isn't really a concern.
Agree with this
Slightly lazy comparisons. A band like Bear Claw sounded more like Big'N than Shellac and similarly for other bands different comparisons came to mind.
You've got a point
What I meant was that there were way too many male fronted guitar bands (a la Shellac) on the bill. They didn't necessarily all sound like Shellac but their overwhelming number gave the festival a lack of musical variety that I've never felt at an ATP before.
Bob's stats, though
45% with female members
25% all female.
I actually doubt it's been much different on other ATPs. I guess it depends on how many you've been to and particularly which ones there were. It's generally been a massive sausage-fest both on and off stage.
It was my ninth ATP
Most of the other ones have had a clear distinction between the line ups on each day. I think splitting the curators between three artists should be compulsary.
Well the 2006 ones were absolute blinders in that sense.
Although I remember the Sunday of each being a bit disappointing due to a lack of heavy rock compared to the ones before so I guess I like the one-theme feel more.
With one curator I've noticed the theme tends to be pretty clear, apart from maybe Godspeed with their (excellent) Weird Al choice. :D Obviously it can depend on the band dynamic. Dinosaur Jr. in 2006 clearly felt like we had a J Mascis Stage and a Lou Barlow stage for much of it, but I felt like Shellac delivered on what I wanted, which was a bunch of bands that Shellac liked.
Did you expect the line up to more varied though?
I think Shellac picked exactly the sort of line up I expected. From the ATP's they have done before and the sort of bands members of the bands have been involved with over the years it was quite easy early on to get a sense of what the line up would be like. I understand where your coming from but seems your critisims is more to do with what you wanted the festival to be rather than what it was always going to be.
Who does sound like Shellac?
I can only really think of Uzeda and they were brilliant.
(Love the faces their guitarist pulls)
How can Wire have disappointed anyone???
Absolutely utterly glorious noise for an hour.
Total bliss.
Wire disappointed me.
I only got to see 30 mins before I headed down for Melt Banana (even then I had to queue a bit which was annoying) but in those 30 mins they played Please Take but nothing I really recognised from the stuff I'd heard by them. Dunno, for me it didn't feel like a set of the punchier, punkier stuff Elastica ripped off, which is the kind of Wire tracks I like.
Wire were a blissful dronefest
...for the greater part so I guess if you were after a set of hits you were in the wrong place. Great for me though!!!
Blinding version of Map Ref though - I guess you went to Melt B - who I thought were okay.
Don't agree at all about Myownflag - wish that they were! Much more grungey and Nirvana-lite for the most part to me...and a tad boring?
Oh yeah, I gave up on them after a couple of songs.
Their opening track sounded like Cult of Personality by Living Colour when it started.
Yeah, drones from Wire wasn't what I was after.
saw them support Pissed Jeans maybe four years ago
they struck me as the living embodiment of the Local Band. as much as it's cool that you don't have to have a 'profile', so to speak, to get on the ATP bill, it completely mystifies me what Todd Trainer* sees in them above whatever else he happens to hear
*according to an interview I just read
were really poor. they were more like bush than shellac or even nirvana. in fact they were a lot like bush. a lot.shes_so_high this'd this
I had a pretty good time
Prinzhorn, Wire, Red Fang, Shellac, Shannon Wright, The Cravats, FOTL, The Ex all killed it. Not as good as last year's NBC thought. I kind of wish ATP would have a different curator for each day more often as I was getting a bit sick of serious white people with serious guitars by the end of this weekend.
First time at Camber after going to 6 at Butlins - it is a truly awful and depressing place. It makes me very sad to think that people go on holiday there. Anyone who thinks Camber is better than Butlins is basically either mental, nostalgic or being a contrarian hipster. Literally the only 2 good things it has over Butlins is proximity to London and a nice beach. OK, and there's less walking as it's smaller. I suppose Camber gets extra points for managing to sell hot dogs without filling the venue with the smell of rancid arse. So that's 4 things.
Shit stuff about Camber:
- chalets freezing, damp and should probably be demolished soon
- bedding was disgusting
- reception too small to deal with loads of people arriving at once
- beer running out and nowhere near enough bar staff
- no proper supermarket nearby
- not enough to do aside from watch bands
Basically, they should move ATP to fucking Center Parcs or something.
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Our chalet was fine..
kept heaters on and was always warm...
- no proper supermarket nearby
Really? A negative to a festival is there was no proper Supermarket?! The Nisa provided the basics and you could bring stuff with you.
- not enough to do aside from watch bands
Not enough to do aside from watch bands? Its a 2 and a half day music festival, its not you have to spend whole days finding ways to occupy yourself. There was a cinema, swimming pool, mega crap crazy gold, a beach and castle to wonder around, an arcade, bingo, quizzes, DJs went on till 4-5 in the morning. Plus you can also just choose to chill with your friends drinking in a chalet or pub... I barley had enough to just relax a bit let alone do some of the other things.
I agree they could do with maybe bringing in a bit more food and adding maybe some sort of Ale stall like at Butlins.
I agree if you want to do other things Butlins is better, but that main stage in the food court area sometimes suffered from poor sound and not much atmosphere in the day.
it is december
not really unusual
what time?
my boyfriend went about 10.30am saturday and it was closed
i had an awesome time
first one at camber and sure, i missed the minehead chalets but the venues are better at camber. i like that the site is smaller too as i have a shit sense of direction and get lost a lot.
Red Fang were amazing. i was really looking forward to seeing them and they didn't disappoint. cool guys too as i met one of them and the merch guy on friday night.
wire and gay witch abortion were disappointing. shellac were awesome (both times). i'm kicking myself for not speaking to steve albini when we walked past him.
oh, and it was annoying that you can't drink alcohol in the arcade
i didn't get to play the 2p machines, damn it.
no alcohol in the arcade?
oh god that arcade
the flashbacks......
I may be exaggerating but that crazy frog whack a mole
almost certainly had the same piece missing on it way way way back in 2008
not much love for
was blown away by them.
thought kim deal's set was cringingly amateurish but kinda lovely too.
wire were very dull and shoddy.
I missed them on account of getting food.
They were at a time on Friday when I think most people were just arriving and sorting themselves out or (like me) went to eat. Unfortunate given everyone who saw them said they lived up to their name. :(
yeah we all enjoyed STNNNG
kept seeing the singer about all weekend too.
he was always
on his own and checking his phone. so eventually, on the 50th time of seeing him stood on his own we made him come for a drink with us. he was lovely, polite, quiet, drank his drinks, thanked us for our company and then left alone once more, checking his phone. strange, awesome fella...strange, awesome band.
he looks like one of our chalet mates
one time when we passed him i drunkenly shouted 'chris' (friend's name) at him...to which he replied 'yes'. turns out not only do they look similar but they have the same name. it was funnier than this sounds. or maybe you had to be there (and drunk).
were VERY excellent - one of the best of the weekend - I was going to do a write up saying that but I am too busy being knackered.
I bought an LP and I'm after more now!
Prinzhorn Dance School were another band who were cracking...
Really enjoyed The Membranes and The Cravats from the past?
I missed Buke and Gase who I think I may have liked (although foot percussion? really? I think the voice may have grated too)
Was really pleasently surprised at how enjoyable Buke & Gase and The Membranes were
they were 2 bands I was expecting to maybe see if I was around the stage at the time but turned out to be 2 highlights.
Buke & Gase sounded pretty much nothing like the recording & were all the better for it. Think everyone I spoke to RE: Buke & Gase were taken back by how much they enjoyed it.
Buke and Gase are amazing
So excited to see them tonight and at this weekend's ATP. Such a weird, awesome band, and lovely people too.
The bands were good, so cannot fault the festival
however Potins many short coming were made all the clearer in the winter when the beach and good communal areas around the site aren't exactly popular choices.
We got lucky and go to bust electric meter in our chalet so just kept the heating on all the time without the credit going down.
Best bands I saw: Melt Banana, Red Fang, Future Of The Left, Rachel Grimes, Love In Elevator & Buke & Gase
Also I didn't enjoy the Kim Deal set very much and misse almost all the headliners
Oxbow were really good as well (and The Membranes/Bottomless Pit) in fact the line up was all good/to great from what I saw with Kim Deal being the weakest set.
Plus guys guys guysd
you HAVE to have ID on you (all of you) in order to get in. Saw a 40+ year old get ID'd and you all have to get your wristbands at the same time now
Ah, maybe it was because I was all checked in by 1pm?
I hear it got a bit busy shortly after
nah, we got there early too
around the same time, I reckon. no queues or anything. maybe some folks were just more reasonable?
I hope they stopped that
They'd done so by the time I went in to get our stuff. Good thi.g too as the only thing I had like ID was my credit cards.
I got the impression that the ID check wasn't all that serious. Seemed to me that as long as you had something you were fine. All I had was an expired university staff card which they didn't even look at to validate the photo. There again, I am 35.
Also a special shout out to the Europeans in attendance
Same group of people spotted moshing at EVERY single gig (within reason) including a half empty 2nd stage with enough room to swing a cow in between each person
Also the tactile strike on the unfortunatecamera man in the pit for Melt Banana (no photo pits) was a personal festival highlight only if it meant yelling charge with 14 strangers
I hadn't seen a mosh pit of any not at an ATP before, so this was a bit jarring.
Also Pontins is really shitty in the winter, it's fine in the summer as I love the beach and communal areas between chalets. But it really offers nothing but a bar with no beer and an arcade without any functioning machines besides that.
I don't get that line about mosh pits
are you saying you've never seen a pit at ATP or never not seen a pit?
there were pits at ATP vs. The Fans Pt. II for The Jesus Lizard and at Les Savy Fav/Battles/Caribou for No Age.
I was over exagerating
I have seen the odd pit crop up in the past and the Les Savy Fav one in 2008 is one of the biggest pits I've probably been in but nothing close to the scale and numbers we got this weekend.
oh, well fair enough
it was almost all REAL WORKING MEN'S NOISE ROCK so that makes sense.
wish I'd gone down the front for The Ex. looked like so much fun.
Was down the front for Melt Banana
now that was quite the endurance test!
Also add 'Scrawl' to my highlights, they were really good riot grrl punk and just looked so happy to even be there yet alone actually playing.
I like Scrawl
regret sitting at the back for them, but I was distracted by the three girls trying to befriend me.
The lead vocalist broke out into tears during the set
it was like Blur at Glastonbury accept on a much smaller scale and without the huge reunion tour raking in the simolians
yeah, I was dead chuffed for all the unsung paragons of the indie rock underground past getting props/money.
- DaddyorChips this'd this
yes it was
you could tell people had been waiting for it for a long time.
best pit was either Taraf de Haidouks or Omar Souleyman
I remember coming out of the Omar Souleyman pit and watching Mr Cool Ice Omar Souleyman as multiple crowdsurfers sailed over the barrier. Didn't take his sunglasses off, didn't look remotely surprised, didn't give a shit. Love you Omar.
I remember Negative Approach too
when Thurstin Moore was wielding a chair (maybe a table I can't remember) and trying to look like a badass
and the Stooges one
in which Nate Young shouted 'FUCKIN STOOGES MAN' in my face
basically loads of good pits
awww man
I haven't been to nearly enough ATPs.
missed that ATP
but I'm glad to hear it. were there also people near the back hair-windmilling and/or air-guitaring?
special moment from rachel grimes and shannon wright. this is what makes ATP great.
fantastic weekend
so glad it's back at Camber Sands - I'm not being a hipster or a contrarian (although there is possibly a little bit of nostalgia colouring my judgement, having been going to ATPs since the original Bowlie) ... I just think the atmosphere there is so much better - less people in less places means you bump into friends more often and everyone is happy, friendly and sociable and there are more chalet parties so you make plenty of new friends ... Butlins did grow on me a bit over the years, but it always felt like a festival in a shopping centre
+ loads of great bands/performances
+ winning the pop quiz and the top trumps
+ great karaoke on Sunday (Kim Deal, Nina Nastasia and woman from Uzeba performing a haunting rendition of Are You Lonesome Tonight?, followed by Carrie Weston doing an excellent and sultry Fever, followed by my mate performing The Real Slim Shady)
+ I was delighted at being IDed at receptionliz1973 this'd this
I beat someone at top trumps
got myself a deluxe reissue of 'Electric Warrior', which isn't too shabby.
well done to you, sir
I got the Rolling Stones comp, which saved me buying it just for the two new tracks
special thanks to the stars of the Marvel universe.
Funniest moment of the festival...
A really pissed Dan_thw going up to Jamie Summers in the pub (who was DJ'ing) to say hi, and accidentally spilling beer on the decks, which he then tried to clean up with his hand, making the record skip... cringe :D
I was showing off my scratching skills
Jamie_Summers got a couple of free apology drinks out of it so I'm sure he didn't mind.
May or may not have turned to an incredulous Barry Hogan and said "WHOOPS, LOL" without knowing who he was.
Does the main stage have a photo pit...?
Asking for a friend.
Yup, both stages do, but only for those with photo passes,
and only for the first three songs of a band's set (unless you're one of the ATP film guys, when you can stay on afterwards).
They're a two-piece now.
It appears you can replace a drummer and bassist with a MacBook Pro.
They were immense. I looked up to the doors that led back to the Queen Vic during their set and the glass was all misted by sweat. Loads of people were pressed against the doors waiting to get in. It basically looked like this:
Didn't know they'd become a two-piece.
It's kind of weird, but I guess if they were still as fun as everyone's saying they were, it doesn't matter.
Whilst I appreciated them being on the smaller stage as I was right up front
I still didn't understand the logic of putting one of the most popular bands on the smaller stage
It felt topsy turvy a lot of the time.
I think maybe it's simply that everyone who came wanted to see all the bands they put on because the line up was so strong. I guess flackcaptain was right in that sense, that there wasn't such a mix of bands, presuming a mix means a lot more stuff that your fans struggle to get into. But yeah, it seemed like everyone downstairs was insanely 'big'.
Exactly the same happened at ATP Tokyo
Melt-Banana, Envy etc. on the smaller stage, hundreds queueing to get in.
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I had a great time
I didn't see as many bands as I desired, due to Stage 2 being rammed or clashes and my friends mostly being annoying weirdos who wanted to play the puggy machines instead of watch bands as well as being hard to rally for awesome stuff.
What I did see was great, though! These especially: Neurosis were huge, Melt Banana was insane, Mission of Burma was triumphant, Red Fang ruled (totally needed some galloping metal right when they were on), and Shellac was Shellac. And other stuff!
Did not like Buke & Gase at all though. I thought I was losing my mind while they were on because it sounded like they were all playing different songs from each other. idk.
Pontins is also pretty bleak, my word. I'd go back there in the summer, but no more winter ATPs - and my chalet was RIGHT NEXT to the venue this time.
Had a great weekend
Camber sands is brilliant. It's horses for courses i suppose, but i don't think minehead compares really.
Shellac were excellent, as performers and curators. Little touches like getting everyone to come for the starters each day, opening and closing the festival, playing great music.
Really enjoyed shannon wright, uzeda, rachel grimes, three second kiss, the first half-hour of bottomless pit, turing machine, loads of other stuff. The ex and brass unbound were amazing.
Buddha bowls! Pretty much perfect festival food, had one three days in a row.
Yeah, great weekend.
Nearly forgot!
Got to watch raising arizona at the camber sands memorial hall. It was cold and a bit weird to be there with one other guy and a security guard.
Felt a bit bad for the security guy, he said he was staying there til 2am!
He thought a few people might be turning up for zombieland, but i dunno...


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Milestones 2. Halloween, Betamax and Kevin
by Geoff on Dec.31, 2011, under Milestones
It must have been some time around 1981 when we got our first video player, the ultimate Sony SL-C5. Smooth sleek design, a classic which set the benchmark to all those other machines at the time. Of cause, the C5 was a Betamax. Superior in many ways to the more commercially successful VHS with incredibly crystal clear quality viewing. I can vividly remember my folks binging it home: for some reason, they got the bus home with it, even though the car was on the drive. Must have been a killer carrying it. The miracle that was the video player/recorder back in '81 was stunning and quite difficult to express by today's standards and realistically, it wasn't really that long ago.
So, for the first few months, I watched a small handful of movies, over and over and over. Ned Kelly (with Mick Jagger), Gone with the Wind, Butch Cassidy and then there was Halloween. A strange collection of films thinking back. I can remember my folks watching Halloween first, screening and weighing up how nasty and possibly how disturbing it could be and drawing to the conclusion that I, at age 10, would be ok to watch this one. From that point on, Halloween was played probably once a week with friends sometimes, who left my house pale as the day, parents wondering why their children couldn't sleep at night after the horror which thy witnessed. For me though, the first viewing was one of mixed emotions, excitement and terror, one which I embraced and took the white knuckle ride. Myers' picking off the local girls, his dominant pose, expressionless mask and unknowing rationale. Back then, I'm not sure how much I actually understood what was going on, not that there is a complex plot or anything, but I seem to think I used to skip the first 20 mins or so to get to the real spooky stuff. Myers behind the white heart with glasses etc. The wardrobe scene was and possibly still is quite harrowing but I loved it.
I find it quite amazing though, thinking back on this journey of mine into my horror milestones that Halloween is my second notch after my primary introduction with Frankenstein five years earlier. Only after my 365 project did I realise the mirroring of the 70's horror offerings with the original Universal classics. Myers, Leatherface, Pluto et al, all reincarnations of horror henchmen from the castles, Hunchback, Phantom, wolfman and of cause, Frankenstein. Unstoppable villains, silent, overpowering, masked and monstrous with a real direct link between Myers and Frankenstein both in stature, dominance and power. Again, how much of an impact has this film had on my young mind?
For the following year, we'd joined the local video shop. Ours was a real classy one with a massive selection of every type of film. Walton Road video. I used to stand looking at covers, imagining the plot, the adventure and always knowing that the films I'd be quite interested in would never be selected by my folks. Virus, Exterminator, Martin, Shivers, Microwave Massacre, GBH. Pigs was one such film, with a picture of a pig on the cover eating a human hand. (I might have imagined this one) but instead, we'd be taking home Kramer vs Kramer. A friend of mine at the time, Kevin, lived near this video library, above a pub. His brother used to rent the lot. He'd tell me all about them, full detailed plots which only encouraged my desire to watch horror and films of the fantastic.
Next time, further obsession with Video rental, Linda Blair and a lost unrecognised classic from the '80's.

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Best Kids Parties: Space Cowboys
Space cowboys. Makes perfect sense to us! Alissa shares: This year we had a Space Cowboy birthday bash! We built our own rocket ship for about $35, and decorated the backyard in a vintage spaceman comic theme, and "decorated" the kids all as cowboys. Or cowgirls.
I made the holsters, bought the space guns, and served sack lunches in vintage cowboy popcorn bags. I may have had more fun then the kids, but they had a pretty good time too :)
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Opinion: IRS Harassment, Up Close and Personal
American Center for Law and Justice Director Jordan Sekulow on his experience fighting the IRS on behalf of tea party groups. Photos: Getty Images
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... I ... stay on the Ira scandal now we've got American Center for law and justice director ... Jordan Sokol off joining us on the phone ... from Washington he represents groups that have been harassed by the IRS so this is a first hand ... perspective It Jordan ... just to give the viewers a sense of the breadth of your experience here how many groups tissue organization representing how long it you've done ... fighting the IRS musicians shared a ... very real represent twenty seven group said ... a day covers seventy different states ... they perceive those questionnaires from four different office did not just that that that the ups that was played ... every bid representatives in March twenty twelve vote at ... most applied before we were representing them ... opened it and he waited about here they realize because they were grassroots activist of individuals that ... you don't talk to other two were also ratchet back to Pei Wei we are pretty getting ... really impatient question because a priest about it so ... that's what exposed to the trouble here for the IRS that would cause the trouble ... these people know each other as they realize they're being targeted to begin it now Jordan was the IRS is responsible for this scandal broke and they treat this organization specific ... these organizations have been waiting and waiting and waiting the inspector general's report it noted that the seventy two with up to three years for what is usually a happy here to hear long process to get approved for ... that the Bible with the three or five to one before ... bed and that had the honor of the fact that there is nothing strange going on here ... Dow ... respond back you go with these questionnaires and people were getting apps for their ... turn to order with them ... do they ever consider it their diversity can ... be the future to ever run for office if you better tell them what you're thinking of possibly doing ... that we would write back to respond to your left we go to the inappropriate question we communicated to the IRS main office here ... sometimes ... it which is that the letter back saying ... approval for repeal fifteen group the part that got approved state was never Topol the theory of ... why ... they have the inappropriate question now we get the apology ... that started all this talk last week lull in an apology not accepted this organization has said ... Jordan when you asking for ... now ... well but we still let it be acting IRS Commissioner to do this was going on and didn't tell Congress that there were ... about which it did it by Friday doing it to her baby groups that we represent are not approved ... we will hit five of their legal right to seek redress to creep into that lawsuit to get the IRS I will tell you buried at the party got them ready to go still think they what they will take that next step if they are not approved ... and were we party got options wealth of twenty two were approved ... but they were showed to wait that there was damage done to the organization so different ... from our perspective it owes to represent the group's of the we support all the investigation we think there's gotta be furious take it and ... agree with data that it didn't picture painted is not just about ... by the presiding but resort to jail ... oh we're up to their quiet weekend of the civil side ... and show potential Friday at neuter were to become a have the full force Jordan we have lesson thirty seconds left I just wanna be clear when you say damage to the organization ... do you think that any of these groups by not being approved ... had some in full if it reduced influence over the election is Nov of one group right off the bat Barry ... picker to keep it due to be the attitude of people by the way God had other question here last week from the IRS did not do ... it he could not be that the thirty thousand dollars donation ... I hear a half ago to bring in a oh well though speaker because ... the person you have the body to get what the couple giving it to Hollywood under IRS investigation ... it's shocking stuff American Center for law and justice director ... Jordan Sokolov thank you so much ... for sharing these experiences with us ...


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2018 Chevrolet Equinox
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$685/mo est.
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224 Days on Lot
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Int. Color:
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Drive Type:
all wheel drive
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1st and 2nd row curtain head airbags
Passenger Airbag
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Rear spoiler: Lip
Bluetooth wireless phone connectivity
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Audio System Premium Brand: Chevrolet MyLink
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Total Number of Speakers: 6
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Privacy glass: Deep
Silver aluminum rims
Wheel Diameter: 18
Wheel Width: 7
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Manufacturer's 0-60mph acceleration time (seconds): 9.0 s
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Fuel Capacity: 15.6 gal.
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Early childhood educators understand the importance of sensory play for young children. As a Waldorf early childhood teacher, I came to an even deeper understanding of how profoundly important it is to provide a young child with materials and playthings that will nourish his senses.
Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Waldorf education, once described a baby as being "wholly sense organ," That is, she learns about the world and takes it in through all her senses (furthermore, Steiner claims we have twelve senses, and not just five, but that's the subject for another post!).
As Waldorf early childhood educators, we seek to provide sensory stimuli that is soothing and nourishing to touch–materials such as natural wood, the soft wool of a lambskin, silks, dolls made of cotton and wool, smooth river stones, and so forth. Outdoors, a child's senses are stimulated and nourished by playing in sand, water, mud and soil.
What current research shows us is that a child's sensory experiences are aiding his brain development. Trillions of neural pathways are being formed and strengthened by his repeated sensorial experiences. This is one reason I am committed to carrying playthings and materials at Bella Luna Toys that will nourish and gratify a child's senses.
For more information on the importance of sensory play, here's a great blog post from Amanda Morgan, another (non-Waldorf) early childhood educator.
A Handful of Fun: Why Sensory Play is Important for Preschoolers


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The 1919 apron is still a mystery. Members of the Orient Lodge No. 395 AF&AM in Wilmington will never know how the apron belonging to one of their lodge brothers found its way to Cleveland Lodge No. 202 in Shelby. The story of the apron, published on The Star's Flashback Page in March, didn't yield any clues.
The 1919 apron is still a mystery.
Members of the Orient Lodge No. 395 AF&AM in Wilmington will never know how the apron belonging to one of their lodge brothers found its way to Cleveland Lodge No. 202 in Shelby. The story of the apron, published on The Star's Flashback Page in March, didn't yield any clues.
The lamb skin apron, which belonged to Horace Clifton Johnson, was given to Dennis Reel, who moved to Shelby in 2005 from the Wilmington area. As a life member of the Orient Lodge, Reel can visit any lodge in the world and has visited several. Because of Reel's contacts in Wilmington and across the state, Cleveland Lodge members thought he would have the best chance of finding Johnson's relatives.
Reel found someone related to an in-law, but didn't locate Johnson's grandsons.
"On the fourth of this month, (the apron) was returned to Orient Lodge in Wilmington," Reel said in an email. "The members of Orient Lodge and myself felt the best place for it was to be in the lodge."
A Wilmington television station, WWAY TV 3, filmed the ceremony and presentation of the apron to the lodge. Reel said nearly 60 members attended the ceremony.
From the distant relative, Reel learned that Johnson came to the port of Wilmington on a troop ship in January 1919. He had served in the Army in France during World War I.
Johnson was born in Aug. 20, 1894, in Fayetteville and died March 25, 1956, in Durham. His wife was Esther Dew Johnson. They had a daughter, Georgia Johnson Symmes, a school teacher in New Hanover County, who died in July 1993.
All three are buried in Masonic Section (Section 17-B, Lot #12) of Greenlawn Memorial Cemetery, Shipyard Boulevard in Wilmington.
Reel knows the names of Johnson g randsons - Michael Courtland Symmes and Patrick Symmes - but doesn't know where they live.
The distant relative said that Johnson was well liked and thought of by the community. He attended Wrightsville Beach United Methodist Church, but was not a member. He was a U.S. Army Corporal when he arrived in Wilmington and joined the U.S. Army Reserves, advancing to the rank of captain.
Helping Reel with his research were Ken Hinson, Ed Becton, Bob Irwin, Chris Hall, D.C. Heilman and other lodge members. Charles Lewis helped him locate and obtain information about Georgia Johnson Symmes.
Horace Clifton Johnson's gravesite in Green Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Wilmington is located across the street from Orient Lodge No. 395.
"We found it amazing that when he became a member of Orient Lodge in 1919, it was downtown on North Front Street in Wilmington about two blocks from the Cape Fear River, across from where the USS North Carolina BB-55 now sits as a memorial," Reel wrote in an email. "Orient Lodge is now less than 500 feet from where he lies. We all feel that the hand of God made all of this happen - the locating of the apron, my living here near it and it being returned home to Orient Lodge by myself."


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Information Based Architecture (IBA) was originally set up in London in 1998 as a partnership between architects Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit. Using the newest technologies the practice challenges conventional thinking and seeks to exploit new opportunities to enrich our cities with conceptually interesting, and well thought through environmentally responsible architecture.
The practice's most interesting project to date is the Canton Tower, a 600 metre observation tower with 114.00 m2 of restaurants, conference and entertainment spaces. The project aims to seek coherence by integrating architectural, structural and environmental design. In the project of the Canton Tower, the structure's façade functions as an environmental filter that reduces sun loading.
IBA's work can be typified as both experimental and progressive. They constantly attempt to extend the boundaries of artistic design, while introducing the newest digital technologies. Their project, the Canton Tower uses parametric design to control cost, structure and space all at once. Both structure and space in this project are complex. Through complexity the architects produce a diverse field of material variation, which are controlled and optimised as it were with a single radio button. Through this controlling approach they hope they can reinvigorate architecture again with the needed level of control with which it can produce meaning and value, all while still create coherent design.
In 2002 IBA was short listed for the Young Architects of the Year Award in the United Kingdom. They have received support by the Dutch Department of Trade and Industry and received several encouragement-grants by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
Currently based in Amsterdam the Netherlands and Guangzhou China, IBA continues its work on both large and small projects in Europe Africa and Asia. The work includes urban masterplanning, architecture, landscaping and furniture design.


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Stiletto lunge on cop lands woman in court
A Sydney woman has been brought to heel after allegedly attacking a policeman with her stiletto shoe.
The woman was at a mass brawl outside Darling Harbour's Sydney Aquarium on Saturday night.
As police tried to break up the fight, a male sergeant was battered around the head with a the high heel shoe, causing a deep cut.
A 26-year-old woman was arrested at the scene and charged with assaulting the officer. She is due to appear at Downing Centre Local Court on July 7.
A constable was also hit on the head as he arrested a 21-year-old man, who was later charged with affray and is due to appear at Parramatta Bail Court on Sunday.
Both injured policemen were taken to hospital and one was discharged in the morning.
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Jacksonville, Ala. - The Tigers fell behind early once again and could not recover as they dropped the final game of the Ohio Valley Conference series on Sunday afternoon. Jacksonville State solidified the series sweep with a 5-0 win at University Field. TSU starts conference play 0-3 and is now 9-19 overall. JSU improved to 16-10, 3-0 in the OVC.
The Tigers ran into trouble early as an error allowed the Gamecocks to score three unearned in the bottom of the first. JSU continued to add to their lead as they added runs in the third and the sixth.
TSU started to chip away at Tiffany Harbin, who held them hitless in game one of the series. Kiarra Freeman was the first to get to Harbin with a two-hop single to short in the third inning giving TSU two runners on base with two outs. But JSU held tight, as they did all day.
Trailing 4-0 in the sixth inning, Freeman recorded her second single of the game with a high hopper to third that gave her enough time to out run the play. Ashley Haynes followed with a shot down the right field line that just stayed fair and found its way into the corner. Freeman sprinted around the bases and slid into home ahead of the throw, for what seemed to be the Tigers first run of the game. The catcher moved Freeman off the plate and applied the tag as was called out for not reaching home.
The play seemed to take the wind out of the sails for TSU as Haynes was stranded at third. Kate Morris and Tayler Shimizu tried one more time to give a boost to the Tiger offense with back-to-back one out singles in the seventh, but to no avail. Tiffany Harbin would record strikeouts number 10 and 11 on the day to close out the game.
Olivia Gamache went the distance for TSU surrendering just two earned runs on 11 hits and two walks. The junior fell to 3-10 on the season.
The Tigers return home next weekend for a pair of OVC cross-divisional double header. Saturday's twin bill is against UT Martin, while TSU will host Southeast Missouri State on Sunday. Both days have first pitch slated for 1:00 pm. All games can be heard live on tsutigers.com.


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By Stephen Bosch, Cory Tucker, Christopher L. Sugnet, and Lauren E. Corbett
October 2011
Digital content blurs the lines of traditional library acquisition workflows and organization. For example: link resolvers and the loading of order confirmation record files may be handled by systems staff in one organization and by technical services staff in another. Lines are being crossed between acquisitions and interlibrary loan functions, notably with electronic versions of theses and dissertations. Regardless of this blurring of lines, library staff use vendors still in acquiring content for the library collection. The reasons for using vendors have stood for decades, but are changes in the information industry having an impact? In the current environment, what interactions with vendors are most useful to a library?
For this publication, vendor is a general term used to refer to a third party, other than a publisher, that sells content and supporting services specifically to libraries. Most of these vendors still have a focus on either books or serials (aside from some specialty vendors such as for audiovisual materials), but the digital environment is decreasing the distinctions in acquisition transactions between books and serials. For example, serial subscription agents now sell electronic books (e-books). Book vendors (also called booksellers, dealers, or jobbers) now sell book collections to libraries that a few years ago might have been bought direct from the publisher. Several large publishers make book and serial digital content equally available on the same platform (e.g., Springer, Elsevier) and some publishers have experimented with eliminating the use of the subscription agent, so it is possible that for digital content, the publisher may yet absorb the role of the vendor. Additionally, the number of major longtime print book vendors has decreased during the past decade, with those remaining now offering e-books, while a newer type of vendor, the electronic book (e-book) aggregator such as EBL and ebrary, has come into prominence.
Basic Content Services
The traditional basic operation of book and serials vendors has been to sell publications to the library. Historically, the advantages in using a library vendor have been the consolidation of ordering, claiming of outstanding items, and paying consolidated invoices. Book vendors also offer savings through price discounts and consolidated shipments. The approval plan was initially a vendor service to ship print books according to a library's custom guidelines (or profile) to decrease title-by-title selection and ordering. Approval plans later expanded to include music, video, and more recently, e-books. Standing orders and blanket orders meant that the vendors ensured acquisition of each title in a series or each title from a particular publisher rather than library staff tracking forthcoming titles and ordering them individually. For the library, managing book and periodical orders on a title-by-title basis is an overwhelming prospect, and too expensive in terms of the internal labor that would be needed to interact with all of the different publishers. The consolidation by vendors has long freed up valuable time of library workers for other responsibilities. Saving time in purchasing traditional content has become even more important as increasingly time is spent both in finding out-of-print materials more readily on the Internet and in handling the complex work of acquiring digital content.
Specialized Content and Vendors
Some book vendors can supply audiovisual materials, maps, government documents and out-of-print items. For example, Ambassador has both book and media specialists. There are also a few specialty vendors to facilitate the more difficult acquisition of these materials. Without the vendors, these may have to be ordered directly from various suppliers and distributors, which are sometimes hard to identify and contact, thus highly time-consuming and frustrating for library staff. This is particularly true for niches which might require expert understanding of the topic, for both library and vendor staff to be certain of obtaining the exact item needed by the library user. For example, a music professor may require a part for a specific instrument or a particular performance and variations available for the same piece can easily lead to errors. If expertise is lacking in the library, using an expert vendor can be an effective solution in terms of both cost and quality of service to the library patron.
Music is acquired by libraries in multiple formats, including monographs, dictionaries and other reference materials (both print and electronic), scores, DVD and VHS for music video, and for audio, compact discs (CDs), and less frequently now, phonograph records. While monographs about music can be acquired through general book vendors, scores are most often purchased through vendors who specialize in this format, such as Theodore Front Music Literature and J. W. Pepper. However, some major general book vendors, especially outside of the United States, supply music materials as well, and can be very helpful in locating scores from European publishers. Approval plans for scores are offered by most of these vendors, as well as MARC records for a small fee, which is helpful to those libraries whose staff lack music cataloging expertise. Some music vendors deal in both scores and recordings, but most often they are separate. Large web retailers which are primarily consumer-oriented, such as Amazon, carry a wide variety of commercial audio products but do not always offer the same support services (invoices, preprocessing, etc.). Specialty vendors such as eJazzlines.com and Music Library Service Company offer services such as new CD releases each month and core collections because they cater to libraries. Some are beginning to offer MARC records for CDs.
Video content has gone from tape to primarily DVD and streaming video. Streaming video can be served from prerecorded files, or it can be distributed as part of a live broadcast in which the video is converted into a compressed digital signal and distributed using a Web server, sending it to multiple users at the same time. DVDs go out-of-print quickly for all but the popular films, so purchasing at the point of release is important. Specialty vendors such as Action! Library Media Service offer new releases and core collections just as specialty music vendors do. The vendor can ensure that the materials are acquired upon "street" release. Expensive pricing continues to be as much of an obstacle as the acquisition process for audiovisual materials, so vendor discounts are not as great as with books. Quality improvements in delivery of streaming video make this a more viable option than in the past for libraries, particularly with new services emerging, such as Digital Campus from Swank. Utilizing the few vendors specializing in audiovisual sales to libraries often is the best way for libraries without their own expertise to make such difficult purchases.
Electronic Books
An e-book may be either the electronic counterpart of a printed book or an original work that was "born" digital, and may be viewed either on a computer or on a hand held device (cell phone, tablet, or e-book reader such as a Kindle or Nook). E-books are undergoing a rapid phase of development and there are multiple business models: transactional payments for portions of books, traditional one-time purchase, standing orders for books in series, and subscriptions to collections. Also, there are several e-book formats competing in the marketplace, including Adobe PDF, ePub, Microsoft Reader, eReader, Open eBook and OpenReader. Both publishers and vendors are marketing e-books to libraries and the services offered will vary greatly depending on the source. Recently, some of the largest e-book vendors have begun partnerships with print book suppliers where e-books are available for ordering in the traditional book vendor's ordering system.
Electronic Journals
The complications for electronic versions of serials of all types (periodicals, newspapers, annuals, yearbooks, proceedings, transactions; or numbered monographic series), require additional library staff time on support for access, licensing, registration, linking to owned content, maintenance of accurate holdings, and access to archival issues. All of this may have to be updated if a journal is sold or transferred to a new publisher, another management function that did not exist for the library in the era of print, with bound volumes sitting static on the shelves. Subscription agents and other vendors, such as Serials Solutions and Ex Libris, offer newer time-saving services to assist library staff with many of these administrative tracking and updating operations.
Many e-resource management vendors now offer a suite of tools for e-journals that include link resolution, searchable alphabetical title lists (called A–Z lists), collection analysis tools, and MARC record services. The combination allows centralized library management for the plethora of full-text resource subscriptions and more-efficient decision-making regarding electronic full-text collections than when library staff tried to manage updates from each separate publisher and compiled their own usage reports. The availability of updated information gathered by the vendor provides an economy of scale to libraries.
In addition to the consolidation services described above, support from vendors now commonly required by libraries includes:
- Increased customer service and communication tailored to the specific library's needs
- A customer-friendly interface to a web-accessible catalog of the publications available, with the ability for the library to effect transactions in the vendor's database (plus training in the use of the database)
- Bibliographic services (order confirmation records and catalog records)
- Reporting capabilities to support collection development decision-making, whether purchasing data or usage statistics
- An ability to work with consortia (licensing, business processes, resource sharing, training, management of trials and introduction of new products)
Customer Service and Vendor Database
Communication, as in most situations, is the key ingredient to the relationship between a library and a vendor. In an increasingly global business environment, is important for vendors to have customer service departments that are available during peak times and to cover various time zones with toll-free telephone numbers, email, and online chat options. Vendors need personnel who are knowledgeable not only with the vendor's database, but also with any customization implemented by each library client and compatibility of resulting batch files with other systems the library uses, to compete for today's library business. How quickly and efficiently vendors handle technical issues and communicate information on updates or new features also plays a vital role in their effectiveness. In-person and online training tools are necessary for libraries now, since instead of a few expert users in an acquisitions department, decentralized use of the database has become common, enabling librarians who primarily teach and consult with patrons, to be the initiators of purchase transactions. Again the vendor aggregates this work onto a single platform, a key to success with decentralized use, since those who teach have a number of platforms to learn in helping library users and will not willingly take on the additional work in learning multiple selection platforms. A vital role of the vendor is having the means to help the library staff avoid duplicative purchasing, whether the case is the same title chosen by more than one person or if it is between print and electronic versions. The vendor provides the opportunity to see when a choice between formats is possible as well.
Bibliographic and Shelf-Ready Services
Bibliographic services consist of electronic delivery of a file of MARC catalog records, which may cost a small per record fee that is less expensive than local cataloging. With books, each file creates multiple records (administrative, financial, and public description) simultaneously for a batch of items as it is loaded into an integrated library system. In some cases, this may be a two step process with an abbreviated, preliminary descriptive public catalog record embedded with the order details and financial data, which is later overwritten with a complete catalog record containing all desired access points for discovery by library patrons. Both the preliminary order confirmation records and the complete catalog records can be loaded using local automated electronic processes on a standing frequency—(typically daily for orders, while for cataloging it will be in correlation with timing of shipments. This can be done for both print and e-books. Specifically for print books, it is common for a library to pay the vendor for materials processing (e.g., spine label with call number, security strip, ownership stamp, RFID tag or barcode) to make the materials ready to circulate, or "shelf-ready." These file loads along with the advance processing shorten the amount of time between arrival of an item to the library and its availability for use by the patron, with very little added time prior to shipment from the vendor to the library.
With digital content, the record delivery is the equivalent to the physical shipment of print. Vendors are struggling in providing efficient bibliographic services for e-books because of the limited availability of quality cataloging records. Unlike print books, catalog records for e-books can lag significantly behind the availability of the e-book itself, whereas cataloging records for print books have long been available before the books themselves because of the time lag with physical distribution. Bibliographic service for e-books is a less-effective area of vendor and library interactions currently. Nevertheless, for some libraries, an internal cataloging process may be slower than the multiday lag in vendor record delivery, with the result that the vendor service still may make the item available to the patron more speedily.
In the case of serials, again the content may be ready for use with the flick of a switch upon purchase, but patron discovery is dependent typically upon updates from an electronic management service (through A–Z title list updates or catalog records, or both), offered by vendors such as Serials Solutions or EBSCO. Libraries have benefited from the collective sources of data in the electronic management services, and the actual speed of updating records is greater than when each individual library created its own records, but the time that passes before obtaining catalog links to the content may seem longer because of the rise in expectations of immediacy.
Vendor Interactions with Consortia
Consortia have utilized vendor-managed coordinated book purchasing plans to avoid overlap in members' collections. A vendor can provide a neutral platform for initiating collaboration and assessing results for joint collection development projects. This has been the case in the past with print materials, but has become even more prevalent with digital content.
The continued benefits of vendor intermediation to libraries include streamlined workflows, the reduction of paper processes, and the ability to capitalize on the aggregated and updated information vendors can make readily available, whether for ordering new materials or for managing electronic content links in library catalogs. Initially, freeing staff time in this manner enabled better service to patrons, sometimes in unexpected ways. For example, finding out-of-print titles became easier with the Internet (such as through Amazon MarketPlace), but required more time than purchasing through traditional library vendors. While those time-saving benefits and economies of scale from vendors remain, more recently the strictures of a severe economic recession put pressure on library staff to leverage additional efficiencies for their institutions. Newer vendor services such as making public domain e-books visible through library search tools and catalogs, or automating appropriate purchasing through demand-driven acquisition of e-books, are more critical than ever in order to provide the most-needed library resources to stakeholders in the most fiscally responsible manner. The impact of change has served to strengthen the need for the remaining library vendors, particularly in facilitating new methods of electronic resource acquisition and management.
Stephen Bosch, Materials Budget, Procurement and Licensing Librarian from the University of Arizona, has been involved with various aspects of acquisitions, collection development, and library administrative services during his thirty-year tenure at the University of Arizona. He has held positions as Acquisitions Librarian and Coordinator for Collection Development, Information Access Librarian, Financial and Administrative Services Librarian as well as his current position. He has been chair of many committees, teams, councils, and projects focusing on information resource development and management, user needs assessments, licensing issues, and serials/monographs acquisitions both at the University of Arizona and nationally. Of his many publications, the most recent is his book, Guide to Licensing and Acquiring Electronic Information published by the American Library Association and Scarecrow Press. He is the 2006 recipient of the American Library Association ALCTS Leadership in Acquisitions Award and was recently elected Chair of the American Library Association ALCTS Acquisitions Section.
Chris Sugnet is the Assistant Dean of the division at the Colorado State University (CSU) Libraries that selects and licenses commercial information resources for the CSU community and includes the college liaisons and the collections and contracts units. College liaisons handle instruction, in-depth research consultation, and collection development for their assigned colleges. He also manages over $6 million in annual expenditures for access to information products in all formats, including electronic books and journals purchased directly and through various state, regional, and national academic library alliances. He has worked in similar capacities at private and state-sponsored university libraries in the U.S. and UAE since 1974 and holds a BA in English and MA in Library Sciences from SUNY Geneseo and a MA in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. He is currently an editor of an open access electronic journal, Collaborative Librarianship, and a consultant on international scholarly publishing.
Cory Tucker is Head of Collection Management at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries. Cory is responsible for administration and coordination of collection development activities for the University Libraries and leads the identification, evaluation, selection, and initial licensing of print and electronic information resources for the UNLV Libraries. In addition, Cory coordinates and implements the collection assessment activities for the Libraries. Cory is an active member of ALCTS and is currently the Chair-Elect of the Collection Management Section. Cory received his undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and received his MLS from the University of South Florida.
Lauren E. Corbett, Director of Resource Services for the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University, oversees collection management and technical services. Lauren has more than sixteen years of experience in library acquisitions and is past-chair of ALCTS Acquisitions Section. She also received the First Step Award from the Continuing Resources Section. Past scholarship includes "Serials: Review of the Literature 2000–2003," published in Library Resources & Technical Services. She has a MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a BA in French from Davidson College in North Carolina.


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What will Santa have in his bag this holiday season? Toys 'R Us, the largest US toy retailer, has issued its forecast for the hottest toys.
With consumers still watching their spending carefully, one theme that stands out is a focus on value. Toys on the list range from $10 (squeaking Zhu Zhu interactive hamsters) to about $350 (Disney 's Netpals netbook computer).
Click ahead to see which toys made the cut.
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FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Day two of the Pac-12 Championships came to a close with the UC Santa Barbara men's swimming team in 7th place with 93 total points. In the preliminaries of the 50 yard freestyle, junior Wade Allen set a school record with a time of 19.45.
Andrew Barmann was the top swimmer for the Gauchos in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:30.25, good for 24th place. In the men's 'C' final of the 200 individual medley, Randy Aakhus and Andy Castilleja swam a 1:48.32 and 1:48.68, respectively.
In the finals of the 50 yard freestyle, Allen came in 8th place with a time of 19.64. The Gauchos concluded the day with a 6th place finish in the 200 freestyle relay. The team of Allen, Alex Campbell, Chase Lemley, and Ryan Hanni swam a 1:18.92. Hanni also set a personal record in the 50 yard freestyle consolation with a 19.92, breaking the 20 second barrier for the first time in his career.
Day three will begin at 11am on Friday with the preliminaries of the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, and 100 backstroke. The finals of each of those events will take place at 6pm including the finals of the 400 yard medley relay.


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The very first publication: Open Source Film Making
Posted by katip in Publications on April 16th, 2009
The first publication, open source film making, was actually written as a master thesis dissertation.
The thesis is a critical analysis of self-proclaimed open source movie projects, Elephants Dream and The Digital Tipping Point.
The theoretical framework derived from the new media discourse on film making, mainly based on Lev Manovich's database narrative and spatial montage theories among a detailed reading on database narrative with theoretical works and publications by Marsha Kinder, Allan Cameron, and Ed Folsom.


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by Molly Cain
Some years ago, I was chatting with a prospective employer, sharing tales of my experiences and selling him on the many reasons he should hire me, and doing it by using very specific examples. At one point in the conversation he turned quickly around in his chair and started furiously typing. As it turned out, he was Googling me mid-interview to learn if what I was telling him was true (it was true, and I snagged the job).
If this hasn't happened to you in an interview, don't think it hasn't happened in one shape or form. Because even if you don't witness them doing it, I can almost guarantee they do indeed, Google you.
What are they looking for? Not your Facebook page (although if you don't have that blocked, they will definitely enjoy the read). Not your dating profile (if they did, that's actually über creepy). Instead, what they're looking for is your online professional presence. And in today's world, you need to have one out there for them to find.
For many (and I dare say, most) professions, an online professional profile will only help you. And until someone rolls in with something better, the best place to go to build one is LinkedIn.
If you have a profile on LinkedIn already, kudos! But this isn't really about that. You should have already created one of those years ago. If you haven't, you should Google around for some tips and tricks for building a great page. Then circle back over here.
This is about using your profile correctly — and to your advantage. Because in the corporate world, people read into things. Including the things you're doing on sites like these. So here are the top eight things you might be doing wrong on LinkedIn.
1) You don't have any recommendations. If a hiring manager is scoping out your LinkedIn profile and doesn't see a recommendation, they might think, "Hmm…no one likes their work," or "They must not have impressed anyone," or even, "Umm, this is a dud networker."
The Fix: Get some recommendations, duh. If you haven't tried it yet, that's your homework for today. Send out a request for a recommendation to at least five people you've worked with or currently work with (check your company policy). You'll be surprised at how willing, honest and complimentary people will be of your work (granted, that's if you've impressed them in the past – I don't recommend you sending a request to an enemy).
2) You get a flood of recommendations. One word. Shady. If you get a flood of recommendations one day, we're all going to know you're looking for a job. More often than not, job searching occurs under the radar. Well, broadcasting a bunch of recommendations all at the same time is the complete opposite of that.
The Fix: I know what you're thinking, "I need recommendations to get a job, but you're telling me not to get a bunch of them!" The trick is to always be looking for recommendations, even when you're satisfied with your job. That way, when you're not satisfied, you're already set. If you've done great work for a client, ask them for a recommendation via LinkedIn as soon as the project is completed. If you leave a job for another, ask all your former colleagues to give you a shout out. There are lots of ways and reasons to get recommendations, get creative.