Hi Guys!! Very unfortunatey, have a gig in Bristol with me band tonight so can't be with you. Have a wicked time one and all. xx and I want to see Ali balancing that trumpet ONE MORE TIME!! Richie Smith Car Breakdown !!! Anyone travelling from Bristol tonight ??? A lift would be FAB ! More than happy to pay Bridge ! Myke Vince Hi. I am going to the party on the 11th Dec. Can someone put me up for 1 night please? Thanks. Angela de Castro Hi De Castro, welcome to stay at ours. Great you're coming down and looking forward to tonight. xx Dave Id Have a damn fine evening Olly Crick Have a great night everyone! Sorry I can't be there. May there be dancing till dawn… x Jenny Sanderson Have a brilliant evening, congratulations to you all xx Janine McCretton Have a fun evening and get into no fit state, can't come making short hop up to Arctic circle tomorrow Chris Hills To all at nofit state, congratulations on making it to 30. Here's to another 30 years of fun. Sorry I can't join you tonight but I'm there in spirit. Enjoy the launch & the party. Love you all loads. Xxxx Helen Fangelman Have a great evening. Sorry not to join you. I would love to catch up with the exhibition soon xx Kate Verney Congratulations everyone - have a great evening x Sarah Rowland Barker Have a great night everyone Al Orange Well done on all your excellent work! I look forward to viewing it all. Sorry I can't join you tonight for the launch frown emoticonMark Morreau
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Pete Gregory is on board, tweaking some bits (writing words for Risky, etc).
Paddy and Toby added Ali’s wonderful anecdote about blagging the customs officer in India, to the Timeline item about Mumbai (chapter 6).
Paddy gave me the Chapter headings for chapters 5, 6 and 7 and I will upload them shortly. All chapters don and dusted.
NB: I have to staff the office tomorrow (12-4) so volunteers can work, so Paddy and I will work on improving the thumbnails that appear for the clips he has made.
Got to exit John St archive office the week before the exhibition, next week.The year long archive office is, along with the whole of NoFit State Circus classes and rehearsal space, passing into the past, and Four Elms and the new premises in Splott for the classes, will come into focus and the present.
The website is fab, and photos, oral histories, biographies, videos are being uploaded to it. It's like a treasure trove, full of golden nuggets from the very beginning of NoFit State. Toby and John's bottom line is trying to make what could an unwieldy mass of information, easy to navigate and user friendly.
blokes in tutus on unicycles
HAHA! This was so fun to watch - loved it xD
They all seem really talented. I've been looking for a unicycle to buy for almost a year now; can't wait till I do/hope I'm ever half as good as them.
Is this the ballet hooligans.I think I played unicycle hockey with one of the prime movers of this ballet,LEE JELLYHEAD .We were both Lunis at the time.Martin 1Wheel
Interview with Jeremy Rees on Thursday's regular Cardiff in Action volunteering program. Interview begins at 33mins 50 seconds.
Catrin
"I think Four Elms has been an interesting and possibly challenging space to work for in terms of ..um.. setting up the exhibition, it's got lots .. Four Elms has got lots of rooms that can be quite different to each other, it's got one room that's quite cosy, it's almost like a lounge, it's got a room that's like a studio space that we're using and we're also going to be using the big main performance space
so it's quite interesting to see how the exhibition would work in all these different spaces and also it has some quite unique elements that Lauren whose the girl I'm working with and I have tried to incorporate into the exhibition as well so obviously it used to be a church building, it's still got those features, it's still got stain glass windows"
Liz
"..incorporating little things into toilets, and all manner of …
Jeremy
"Incorporating little things into toilets?!"
Liz
"Yeah you wait and see what we ..
Jeremy
"This is going to be a bit different, you've won me over I'll be there!"
Sci-Circus - that toured in the Blue Tent in 2002.
Website progress 4 weeks ago
Once several people start working on the site it will become much more complicated
checking what has been done, and what needs doing.
I am currently using check sheets for each show on the website.
Of course, they are never quite up to date, as they change every day.
I have just checked the Live Drive copies against my paper/scribbling
copies, so the ones on
Live Drive are fairly accurate for today.
Archive Project / Cheat Sheets for Website editing / Other useful stuff for website /Web Page Check lists 18 Oct 2015
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Bear in mind that occasionally things have been
uploaded, but don’t appear immediately (I have to nag John to tweak
things) – so for a complete check I don’t look at the Show Page, but
backstage (to see what has actually been uploaded,
even if it doesn’t display correctly).
In addition, the Oral Histories fields are almost
certainly out-of-date, as I haven’t double-checked all OH to see which
have been linked to particular shows.
The Risky in Pink video 1990
The last six weeks has seen an increase in the number of people putting their efforts into the website and the exhibition. Up until then Toby was mainly constructing it with John Ellingsworth, and this was the state of play then, at the beginning of October:
Glamorgan
Archive material
Almost all of our
paperwork has had duplicates removed, and has been sorted roughly
into years and shows. We transferred the material into correct
storage style for the Archive, and have done a list of contents of
each of 16 boxes.
There is a lot
more work to be done to them (labelling photos, etc), and we will
still be drawing on them as a resource for the website, but if I
had to hand them over today I might apologise that the work was not
complete, but would not be embarrassed (they’ve seen worse).
Website
I have more or less finished feedback on the design of the website, (and quite a lot of content is already up) but now we have a real push to fill in all the details.
I am content that most of the Timeline is done (although new thoughts pop up occasionally).
I have made check-sheets of each of the Show pages, so I can monitor where we are up to with content loading. I will type these up, so you can see the progress (and the glaring holes) in them.
The People pages have hardly begun (and that includes oral histories, biogs, photos).
The website
obviously will not contain all the material we are handing to the
archives, but we want it to be representative of what we have
gathered.
Newspaper
reviews
We
sorted these into date order, and all were quickly photographed. The
photos have been sorted and labelled in date order, so we could
cherry-pick some good ones for the website.
For
ideal presentation of these good ones, we would make PDF copies from
the originals.
Photos
This
is still an enormous task, and currently Matthew is the only person
working systematically on it. Photos need to be selected, resized
where necessary, and uploaded.
Programmes
For
elegance, we have decided to put these on the website as PDFs. Quite
a few are done, and someone like Esther could probably finish them in
a session.
Posters
We
have all the currently available posters in PDF format, and most are
uploaded.
Scripts
We have
turned all those we can find into PDFs and uploaded them.
Tour
Dates
Most
of these were compiled (some are missing) and just need uploading
(again, maybe a day’s work for someone competent). I have started
on this, for lack of a volunteer.
People
I have loaded 50 people on the website, but their content (photos, biogs and links to projects) need adding. This is potentially a huge project that needs someone drawing on our spreadsheet ofcast
members, and knowledge of the people. I have the next 50 in a list,
ready to go.
Oral
Histories
Just
one aspect of the content for People. We have to deliver them to
Cardiff Story Museum with all their data attached (for future
researchers) but for the website we need to remove all that stuff at
the beginning (…”it’s recording when the numbers, go round, OK
we are in John Street, can you spell your name.” “T – i – m
A-da-m”) and start with the first question. If the interviewer
has used correct technique (getting the interviewed person to include
the question) then we can start at the monologue.
This
is a huge task, and we would be better off focusing on a general tidy
up, rather than trying to get rid of the sound of a bus passing.
For
any future summaries, we need to keep it simple, not write it all
out, and just note mentions of any
Show
Person
Date
as
that is the way the website tags them. And then note any ‘funny’
anecdotes.
Music
As
noted, we don’t have a lot of material available yet. Ideally we
would have a sample track from each of the recent shows. If we do
have whole albums we may have to decide exactly how to store them
online (SoundCloud, etc) to be able to link to them. The website
does not appear to have the capacity to store albums.
Exhibition
As
far as I can tell, this is in hand, but I have not monitored it
closely. Rather like the Oral Histories, I have assumed that we were
proceeding quickly enough. I am in position to help provide
material, and will certainly focus on it more, as we get closer to
the time, but right now the website is consuming most of my time.
