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green movement

I wrote this long response to this blog. what is interesting is all the responses to the post.

its good to get the message out about the environment. using more than you need is not the way. some are passionate about environment some are not. unless you want to stop people from being able to knock on your door, this seems like something that happens. i’m not sure i agree with it though. consider also that a lot of people might just not be home at that time anyway.

i went to the US for a visit, what was interesting is how big the cars are and how big the plate of food I would get when i ordered something. Oh yeah, and also how packets of food in the supermarket were just bigger and seemed to be getting bigger. and yeah, no public transport. it seemed like everything was geared towards more product for your dollar.

so when we, you ,i (the past) take something and don’t give back, isn’t it common sense that this would have an effect. isn’t this the reason for the environmental problems? can we escape this? consider: maybe freedoms are being taken away from us cause of all the pollution in food products? or are all those people that buy organic food being fooled as well? i just don’t get how so many American people can think that environmental issues are a political stunt, or is the media creating this illusion. Having a green community expand around people that don’t agree with the green movement is going to hurt some people, maybe as much as the increase in price of oil. we just got to change our ways.

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what goes into your system effects things

Have started to think more about what goes into my system. if you drink a lot tap water and you live in the US, Australia, Asia. Its worth reading this article about flouride.

I drink a lot of green tea, so i was a little worried when i read this article here about tea

I buy (said to be organically grown) green tea from china via ebay, you might think that in China they don’t have organic standards, yet they do according to some articles online. Yet how to know if this is the real deal or not, without an independent inspection from out of China or do they have one already?

Toxic stuff getting into the food chain, what to think? People get paranoid about it all, yet really who how can you/i tell. I’m not sure if my mind flickers from one thing to another cause i’m into art culture or cause my head is full mutant particles invented to make sure we all stay down and confused. Although its nice to hear that fluoride has been banned in most western European countries.

anyway: I’m keen to find out if corporations that buy organic produce from China check the chemical composition of organic produce (via way of testing the soil at the farm) they sell in stores. It makes sense they would, yet if they knew that it was not really organic, would they bother testing. Royal jelly was banned at one point and also ginseng because of some high toxic element. Its said that ginseng can’t be produced without some form of pesticide, i don’t agree with that though. I also heard the same about apples.

I notice with the organic tea that i buy from China that i never get any kind of film on the top of the tea when it sits for a while. Other teas i buy often do, especially bagged tea. The organic tea seems to taste better than much of the other tea i buy.

As Europe can no-longer afford to buy farmed products from within Europe its interesting that now Europe turns to the developing world for some/much produce. Its interesting that developing countries mostly have far less regulation in industry than in Europe. Its great that the land/labor force is getting treated better (via regulation), yet if that means that the farms can’t compete with the global market and has to be given funding to stay afloat, its maybe a contradiction.

buying green tea: Its not great that i buy green tea from China, yet to find a good tea not from china, how? I reckon if I were to buy a cup of coffee (not that i drink coffee) grown on equal terms here in Oslo, it would cost around 50 US dollars. Where is the middle path, it seems the developed world has dissolved the working class here through global culture for some kind of weird beauracracy. People still work, yet work for things that they have no connection with. It seems impossible now to re-develop that connection. Wasn’t that the connection that created the culture. What to do, how to buy on par?

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cultural money gone mad.

While touring Austria i have visited the Spielboden venue on 3 occasions to try and organize a show. I was told that possibly this September i might get a show at the venue. The Speilboden is theater style venue with many places possible within for artists to perform/show their art. The venue is set up to provide entertainment to the community and is funded through the community through some kind of cultural fund.

Most of the content that is performed comes via commercial and non-commercial publishers. A self published artist from the other side of the world that visits the venue 3 times with cd’s and posters over a period of 2 years is still at the back of the queue. 20 phone calls and 10 emails and the first email I get is that 6 months away we can possibly fit you on a bill to play in the bar. is it worth it?

Its not so much the people that run or work in venues/theater’s fault, the job of the venue is to provide entertainment to the community, that is entertainment of the community or entertainment for the community.

If the venue puts on an act that is self published, who is going to know about that art? Yet was that the reason for the non-commercial venue in the first place, to provide entertainment that is not a commodity. Or do these non-comercail venues compete with the commercial venues now. Can a commercial venue compete with the non-commercial venue?

A big problem seems to be that the label/published and culturally published acts take up probably 95 percent of the program. The culturally backed venue deals almost always exclusively with professional promoters, bookers. Its considered a fluke for a self published artist to get a show in this venue. For me it seems slightly unfair that the self published artist has to compete with often published international touring acts in a culturally funded space. Some kind of positive discrimination is needed to make sure that these venues don’t always go for commercial or culturally published music. yet how to do this.

Although look at it from a distance. Its anti the established culture to provide spaces for real culture to evolve.

Does it all come back to the one price for use of content via the rights organizations. This in turn creates a need for culturally funded publishers/venues/spaces. Yet when that funding starts to feed the commercial publishers, is this a corruption. Is it a corruption that the music business in Europe is sustained through cultural funding. The people pay tax’s to fund venues to provide culture that the commercial streams should have brought them anyway? I spose all bricks in a wall are dependent on each other. Yet i’m sure that other ways exist for these venues to function. What can yo do when the people want rock stars?

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simply by being, we grow.
I posted this comment bellow on this link

how to grow if we are making things to get attention (this article included). we all have our way through the muddy shadows, is it all a strange transaction and we can’t avoid it. all this good is dependent on bad. a brick can only be so round. who are we to make circular bricks and live in a house and use the net.

maybe there is only one middle way through the urban jungle.

Knut Krywinski from Bergen

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Knut Krywinski talks about cultural landscapes, some might find this not such a flash topic. Yet its really important that people understand how all this works, cultural landscapes are being destroyed in Europe due to the global food market. The environment simply does not have the ability to adapt, man no-longer has a personal relationship with the land, what does this mean, what is the effect? Knut has created this film independently. http://www.fieldsofdemeter.org

Not sure if the film is going to go out under a creative commons license. After speaking to Knut it seemed like he was looking for a creative commons license, only he had not heard of the license yet. I hope that the film does go out under at least a creative commons non-commercials non-derivative license (CC NC ND) wait and see? although Norway is yet to get the license off to a start yet.

I just bumped into Knut at the cafe in hostel where i was staying, the sound in the background does not make the clip so great and yeah i have to learn more about lighting.

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Indra from Antwerp

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Talking to Indra from a family based in Antwerp that run events in the lounge room for local artists. Although the doors are open to the public they do not do any advertising through any off line channels. The result is that they get a great bunch of people to listen to artists from the community. Although the event is free and most of the artists that play music are not with any form of publishing, SABAM have the right (by law) to fine AMPER elders for use of music. SABAM view all use of music content as commercial. The events have become so popular that well known artists within the Belgium arts scene that are with cultural/commercial publishers see this as an event that they want to perform at. The over regulation of the scene by organizations like SABAM not only effect artists at a grass routes level. They effect artists that are at higher up the food chain. The reality is that the board of the SABAM wants to see more karaoke/cultural music than anything else, as they represent shareholders of corporations or cultural funds. SO what about PUNK culture? The only way that this can change is through these monopoly organizations being forced into deregulation by the authorities run by the government. The Belgium government is quite aware of the corruption within the system, however they want force change. Partly because so many non-profits are funded. Why are the funded? because of the over regulation. What to do? This same or similar situation exists in all of the developed world except in the US, in the US artists are able to work out agreements as they choose and remain with BMI ASCAP rights organizations. One solution would be to change the way that the common law is structured. Yet i’m still trying to get my head around that.

Interview with Steinar

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Steinar works at Kunsthall art gallery in Bergen, it seems that the art created in Norway that is not attached to some kind of cultural publishing stream, finds it difficult to get any kind of platform. Although US artists have little cultural funding, they do have a very much less regulated art world. If this creates a more real art environment or not who can say. Most US artists seem happy to make their way over to Europe and tour through the cultural landscape if they can. It does seem that few acts tour Europe that are self published. the ones that are self published are most likely going to be performing art that others created.

My experience of Norway is that almost every artists from outside Norway that does a show here is with a publisher. The conclusion in Norway seems to be a little like this: if you can’t find a publisher in your own country then why should we allow you to perform here.

For artists in Norway it seems: we can give you money to make what you want, yet if you want to get exposure for what you create, your at the mercy of the publishers and cultural funds. If you (as an artists) create content without a cultural publisher or commercial publisher then your only (most likely) going to be able to show this to your friends. You can play for free in a bar and your friends can drink lots of beer. Conclusion: oh yeah, its unfortunate that we don’t create any public spaces for these kind of events, if we did we would be under minding the well organized cultural publishing system that we have in place. So that is just not going to happen.

Punks, keep on filling in forms. Artists in central and western Europe might have an easier task at getting content out than any artists based in Norway. Although its not really possible to pay a professional in Europe to book a self published artists shows in Euopre. Yet i am finding that this also apllies in the US. DIY is the only way and those that don’t deal with DIY artists, well they are the enemy.

please find the truth for yourself, this could be more science fiction.

Torbranda from Bergen

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Torbranda from bergen talks about rights organizatio Tono and getting the pop art out and about where ‘es based.

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Niaal works in the Bar at Vamoose and is in a band

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Niaal works in the bar at Vamoose. Over the past 3 years performing in Venues around Norway.

Niaal Performs in

The low Frequency In Stereo

The Megaphonic Thrift

The Alexandria Quartet

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David Venue owner in Bergen Norway

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David run’s a venue called vamoose in Bergen. The venue is popular and is doing ok. Being a fan of live music Vamoose puts on a live act when it can. The reality is that the venue often looses money even when the band is playing for free. Stage space use and sound of artists means a night of live music can mean less money. Tono regulates the use of content in this venue even though much of the music comes through unpublished sources. David says that most bands would rather collect anything he pays to Tono direct from him. Myspace don’t pay for use of content, yet Vamoose does. Vamoose does not have soap commercial running over the artists head when they are playing their tunes to the public. What to do?

Ideas i have brought forward to the university of Oslo have been knocked back, as i have no proof that the projects i offer have a use in the community. I was not able to talk to students about ideas that relate technology and art. (you visit the projects at this link. Why? it would be un-ethical for me as my opinion is un-qualified. So the artist press kit idea gets shelved, intellectuals advise students what project they should do. The interesting thing is that few people within the intellectual community have much experience in the art world beyond a theory of understanding. Most universities promote types of art that have already been established in the media/publishing.

Every which way you loose, be sure to copyright everything and put it in a freezer and then present it as a paper and get a better salary. If your also able to merge a couple of those corrupt organization with your findings (TONO), better still and more points to you.

Anyway: excuse my cynical way here, meanwhile another person starts to write a song- cause they figured that song was better than the one they heard on the radio. They buy a guitar/amp, software for the computer, eventually an artist press kit, they sign their rights with a rights organization, they create a myspace, they try to tour out of their town, they can’t- no infa structure.

Who is going to build that infa structure. Lets wait and let myspace get around to doing that, rather than using any of that public money. The more advertising space the better, we like it best also when the artist gets none of that money that myspace get for the use of the artists content. That way the artist is sure to never be able to tour beyond the doors of her/his home, or if they do for sure its with an established publisher. We also like it that soon myspace are going to be selling stages to live venues with soap commercials above it. Yes mypsace sponsored by the rights organizations making sure that live music stays within the home for 99.9 percent of content created.

Now with the added bonus of knowing that a possibility to innovate did exist, however the idea did not have a PHD attached to it.

For sure if your good enough one of the major publishers is going to find you. Live performance skills are not needed with all this technology! Make sure you work on your online smile size, respect those building your cyber home. If we are all nice enough the walls of the future may not be all google adds.

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the tub and sink, email question

But maybe you should ask yourself why it is dangerous or scary to trust?

my issue is more with the structure that we are brought up in. does the structure not partly define the people. just the same way that the water in a bath tub is shaped by the tub (and water within the tub shall pass through the plug hole). People have a right to be plain angry about the way things are, the anger is based (from my view) on being confined to structure that is based on maintaining a being that resembles a dinosaur. if your not negative to the conditions around you, can you consider yourself normal? i’m not a fan of anything that talks about things beyond the bath tub, cause that that talks is always going to be in the tub. everything outside the tub is open to interpretation, so anyone that claims to see the way the tub works or what is beyond the plug. well that is a kind of fraud or manipulation (dam making). yet maybe its all more science fiction. what is?

exit city. the world is feeding the dog backwards from the left and right.

Its interesting that public transport is so expensive within Oslo that a person is better within a car to drive to place than via public transport. The price of fuel relative to the income here is the lowest in Europe. The tolls to come into the city are now on electro Auto. like the fuel stations on some of the highways. I thought the idea of a toll was to remind people that they could get public transport. at least in the socialist oasis of Norway, isn’t that why they have tolls to enter/exit the city. I spose them important people have to get to that meeting and they are happy to pay the tax to fund the pig to eat the moon. that followed a spider to catch the fly.

was thinking how people would be better of living out of the city where they would grow some food and do just a little work , yet how can that be? while the transport remains expensive and slower than travel by car and the highways for cars are worse, people stay stuck in cities. its interesting how even a place that produces 4 million oil cans a day and 70 percent of that goes into tax is able to set such a bad example on how to spend that money. if all those cans of oil are going into the system then why is the tax so high still. why are people still stuck in the same grind. why is the working week still over 30 hours. why are so many people in full employment in this system. the people that live here look to do jobs where they get other people to do things. so the people that do things end up being people from other countries. yet these people from other countries are the ones that are educated, so the rich oil producing country takes the money from the oil and takes the best workers from the developing countries to sweep their streets. thats a sweet deal for who? so left is right and the right is right and the real right is left. yet right was left with his hand in her pocket and run over by a bus and so now its all wrong.

i’m not sure if any of this is true, yet its ok science fiction if its not.

other interesting points. Norway produces hi quality weapons for the arms market. this means that Norway sit in back pocket of George Bush under the we are for the people banner. The flight path from Bergan to Oslo is the busiest of 2 cities in Europe. In parts of Africa, when the bus is full it leaves the bus stop. Do they really want some golden arches down that way?

it’s interesting what you pick up when you go somewhere for no real reason. pathless, path.

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Bergen

In Bergen right now. The flight path from Bergen to Oslo is on of the most busy flight paths in Europe. The train trip is 7 hours. Strange that a fast train does not go between both places. Although i did not mind the slow trip through the mountains. This place is much more relaxed than Oslo, not that Oslo is that stressed. Lot more venues and places to perform songs at around here.