Seattle Training 2004

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Originally uploaded by rwx.

Cypher, CC Sallie, and Bloofish (along with one person whose callsign I can't remember) at the Seattle Ranger Training in 2004. I don't remember what's going on here, but Bloofish has a wonderfully fluid expression on her face.

6XSW: all the star wars movies at once.

6XSW: infrared
Originally uploaded by Corprew / Zeitgeist.

So, while they were taking down the art exhibits, Y- and A- had the inspiration to watch all the star wars movies concurrently. So, here we are watching them on the projectors for the visual arts display. This shows the basic layout of the theatre while we were doing this... Ep 4 is below me, lighting the bar, ep 2 is on the freestanding screen to the right, and ep 5 is on the far right. (the ones on the upper left are episodes 1, 6, and 3 respectively.)

Watching six movies at once with the sound on relatively loud is a disorienting experience, especially with movies such as these that have a lot of shooting, dramatic music, and shouted dialog. Empire is the only movie with really different cinematography than the others. We just laughed and laughed while we were watching it, it exceeded our ability to take in all that information at once.

There were a lot of weird coincidences during the movie -- for example, the band in Jabba's fortress (which I assumed was lengthened since the original release) synced perfectly with the Jedi/Dooku fight in episode 6.

Others of note: Luke going to Yoda is simultaneous in episode 5 and 6; at one point all three actors playing various incarnations of Anakin were on screen; the mentor scenes in episode 6 and 3 end at the same time with the same wipe; and Anakin's fall into the lava and suffering and Darth Vader's death happen at the same time.

I don't know if I'd do this again, but it was really really interesting to have done. Lots of fun, a couple of good people, and an interesting thought experiment. I'm really glad they had this idea.


You can see other pictures that I took here. I have deleted all pictures that have coherent views of movie content. There are a couple of interesting photos there, battles, title sequences, more infrared crowd shots, and shadow puppets.

update: since someone asked, this was a one-off thing that we did for amusement. it was last night in the interlude between taking down an art show and taking down the video equipment. they're actually selling the projectors, if you want one..

pepper: butthole surfers vs. sylvia plath

Hope was the thing with feathers.
How she hates us. Lady Lazarus
only 30, unwrapped in hand and foot.
Tulip was too excitable,
the winter came she froze.
Misty walked out into the sun,
the air was a mill of hooks.
Luna has a face in her own right,
With the O-gape of horrible despair.
Yew wasn't sweet like Mary,
she unleashed small bats and owls.

I don't mind the sun sometimes
the images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
and smell you in my clothes
Cinammon and sugary
and softly spoken lies
You never just how you look
through other peoples eyes


A woman bends over me, searching the reaches.
In me she has drowned a young girl, an old
woman rises towards her day by day.
Susan cut an onion's thumb,
jumped, trepanned, thumb's stump.
I don't mind the sun sometimes
the images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
and smell you in my clothes
Cinammon and sugary
and softly spoken lies
You never just how you look
through other peoples eyes

Ariel stood still, black sweet blood mouthfuls.
Electra died, six feet of yellow gravel cover her,
the rains dissolve a bloody dye.
Miss Drake was no novice,
in these elaborate rituals--
devoured and dragged down into the carpet's design.

Some will die in hot pursuit
In fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
while sifting thru my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
and drink it from a fountain
that is pouring like an avalanche
coming down the mountain

My own blue razor rusting at my throat.
O pardon the one who knocks for pardon at
Your gate, father - your hound-bitch, daughter, friend.
It was my love that did us both to death.

THEY WERE ALL IN LOVE WITH DYING,
THEY WERE DOING IT IN TEXAS.