THE FUTURITY: 3 DAYS OF FREE FOR ALL: OFFICIAL PARTY THREAD

Jimmy Bastard · Post by **Jimmy Bastard** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:56 pm

THE FUTURITY: 3 DAY PARTY
FRI-SAT-SUN
9TH-10TH-11TH
DECEMBER
2005

Fu·tu·ri·ty Audio pronunciation of "futurity" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fy-tr-t, -tyr-, -chr-)
n. pl. fu·tu·ri·ties

1. The future.
2. The quality or condition of being in or of the future.
3. A future event or possibility.

'It is the business of the future to be dangerous'

Hey to the everyone,
So then, just so that you are all in the know.
The Futurity is a 3-day, free-for-all commencing this Friday and running right on through to Sunday.
A bender to end all blenders.
The suss press have been duly notified, please tell every cunt you know and make sure they show.
The three days will be loosely catagorised thus

FRI: Our Friends Eclectic
SAT: Our Friends Electric
SUN: Our Friends Electronic

Please use this space to add:
Your event
Event info
Timeslot

‘What happens when the memes no longer rise from the bottom, but ooze down from the top – from ad agencies and PR firms and commercial mass media? The whole mindscape is plunged into chaos. The locus of cultural power is dislocated, authenticity and spontanaetity lost. The free meme mating dance is replaced by a culture manufacturing machine. Ideas spread not when people interact, but when they switch on their TVs or computers or when they read wire-service news stories in the paper. The result is a different kind of mating ritual for the meme: one way, non-consensual, silent and in a profound way violent.

Let’s just come right out and say it mixing communication and commercialization was a fundamental mistake…our ultimate undoing, psychologically, socially and ecologically. The job we have ahead of us is to draw a clear line between commercial and human _expression, to recreate our communication system – to restore the mental environment’ – Kalle Lasn.

RIGHT THE FUCK ON!

Jimmy Bastard · Post by **Jimmy Bastard** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:44 pm

THE FUTURITY.

FRIDAY 9TH DECEMBER

EVENT: HANG THE DJ - FREE THE TECHNICS TWO!

INFO:
Not only do we demand a revolution we can dance to.
We want to dance to our own tunes.

We all know that Joseph Public is a heavy cat and the inferior magicains that comprise the cult of the Superstar DJ has long since had its hour.

Friday Night we invite you to reclaim the decks, a night built from a streetcore of raw recruits, clued-in, inclusive, starry-eyed, style-wild talented marginals where entry-level qualifications are simple sincerity and a crusading passion.

Slots will be alloted and assigned on a first come first play basis.
Accepted formants: CDs, Vinyl, MP3 PLAYERS, MP3s*

READY
your
SET
for the
GO!

Ovah and out

Welsh Dai
(In The Fuckin' Area)

‘Life is a dream that stops us from sleeping’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Fuck dreaming – I’m gonna make it happen.’ – Sharky Major

*hopefully we will have a laptop to play mp3s, ideally email me before the event in order to make the necessary arrangements

boliviadarling@hotmail.com

Jimmy Bastard · Post by **Jimmy Bastard** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:58 pm

It occurs to me I might have been clearer in my exlanation of the above night.
It's a DJ night.
Anyone can show up and play there tunes.
Likely time - 20-30 mins.
That's it and it's great.
Any concerns email me boliviadarling@hotmail.com
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'Actually listen to this. Do you know who the first DJ was? He was the
highest paid official in the court of Henry VIII, and his job was to
assess the King's mood and then to choose what wood to put on the fire. So if Henry was fucking pissed off and was about to have another of his wive's head chopped off, he'd lay on some pine, say, to bring him down a bit, to chill him out. But then if Henry was getting drunk and rowdy, he'd choose the oak to mellow him out. He'd order in stock, trying to guess how things would go in the weeks ahead - I'll have some beech and a double-load of oak, oh and an extra bit of pine just in case. So he was like the first DJ man,the original selector'
Joe Strummer

Jimmy Bastard · Post by **Jimmy Bastard** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:19 pm

Lookee here
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The Great Scottish Santa Run

One of the favourite Christmas events in Edinburgh is the Great Scottish Santa Run, the city's attempt to break the record of the largest gathering of Santas running for charity.

Each contestant in the Santa Run receive a complete Santa suit in which they must participate while kids taking part in Santa's Little Helpers Run receive a Christmas Hat to wear during the race. Everyone receives a medal at the finish while children get presents. The Great Scottish Santa Run takes place in a 1.5 miles circuit of West Princes Street Gardens on Sunday 11th December at 11am.
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Is it just me or is this just an ace opportunity for a criminal mastermind.
1) Don generic Santa outfit
2) Choose your scale - petty shoplifting... bank robbery
3) Execute operation
4) Make with the loot and watch as the cops go all cuntybooby as you infiltrate and assimilate into a crowd of a thousand lookee-likees.

Kinda redefines the whole Secret Santa thang huh?

Jimmy Bastard · Post by **Jimmy Bastard** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:20 pm

Dorkbot Alba 2
people doing strange things with electricity

Sunday 11 December 2005
From 4pm, Free
Part of The Futurity, a three day party at
The Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh

http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotalba
http://www.theforest.org.uk

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Speakers/presenters:

Jon Rogers - http://www.idl.dundee.ac.uk/~jon/
Mark Carr a.k.a. Lockjaw

Music and visuals:

Ella
Louis Minaar
Mansi Mar
Neuromax
Operator
Pablo Veitia
Peter Pan
Pixel Mechanic
Xhadrez

What's Dorkbot Alba?
Around the globe there is a movement of small, autonomous gatherings
with a similar goal: offering a platform to artists, designers,
scientists, nerds, students and others who let themselves be inspired
by technology. This movement is called Dorkbot.

Why Dorkbot Alba?
Alba is the gaelic name for Scotland. Alba is the genetically altered
rabbit created for artist Eduardo Kac. Alba is a brand of consumer
electronics. That's why!

Subscribe to the dorkbotalba-announce list to receive further
information:
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotalba

Dandolo · Post by **Dandolo** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:32 pm

Welsh Dai wrote:It occurs to me I might have been clearer in my exlanation of the above night.

You needn't explain a thing. It is true what they say of Welsh Dai the Podster; Behold, there he standeth, aureoled in the sylvan flame of Henry VIII's hallowed valet. Fuck yah.

Jimmy Bastard · Post by **Jimmy Bastard** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:05 pm

Oh anyone wishing to get dressy the theme is, of course: the future.

I'm currently liking this look.

Jane · Post by **Jane** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:51 pm

the FUTURITY so far:

volunteers! dress as if FROM THE FUTURE. or the ancient future. tinfoil all over and look radical. dress like a SPACEPOD

friday night: hang the DJ, come play your set, sign up with DAi, make good music happen...

saturday: fuck on fuck off...
BANDWISE we have:
lapsed electronics, truth rockets, diemstar, andy&jack, the greenman bluegrass band, electronic mouth fuck.

i will organise DJs for between band sets (possibly shittrinket).

OTHERWISE we have:
bjork puppet show
alex reads selina
pillow fights
ASSASIN
boxwar playoff/showing of boxwars film
jelly wrestling
cider ap-ple bobbing
palm leaves and roman orgies
gareth's grand parade

sunday:
DORKBOT look geeky and make electronic noises, it has arrived!!! this, my friends, IS the futurity

THE GOLDEN HOUR ryan van winkle launches a book, reads poetry, find acoustic bands and other such like....

booze license FRIDAY and SATURDAY, pint of fraoch for all!!!

we need help still with many things:

promotion.... ask a KM for some posters PLEASE distribute anywhere in edinburgh. but more important: the word of your mouth. say it loud and proud to all and sundry, this weekend is going to be MASSIVE>>>> if you are a student, forward this to each and every society mailing list you can think of. if you have friends and loved ones who don't come from the forest, tell them, tell their cousins, tell strangers on the street. if you ask them they will come . this weekend will save the forest soul, but we need people and we need dancing

decoration... baby, make it look good. email me if you can help out making stuff look futurified.

DJing friday....ask dai boliviadarling@hotmail.com

kisses from the future-ity
jane
xxxx