The cool and the uncool.

[pyoor_excuse]

Well, I did some tidying, when I've finished my tea I'll throw a second coat on the wall around the window in the kitchen. Looking at coat 1 I'd say two more and we should be there. It should look smooth enough to paint with real paint :-/

So, via primitivepeople comes Caffenol film developing, a concept which is terribly interesting. We have no dark-room here, though, which makes it more difficult. We don't even have, as my parents had, a cupboard under the stairs in which you could fairly easily block out nearly all the light (and thereby load and unload film). However, the awesomeness of it, as a concept, entertains me and it's something I definately want to try.

Uncool is how I'd describe this police campaign. I'm totally with Boingboing on this, it undermines society, it makes people unnecessecarily scared and is a snooper's charter. Jeeze, if this had been around when I was a kid my parents house would have been raided weekly. My dad's stock of interesting electrical components and the vast number of chemicals from a youth and adulthood of scientific interest would have caused our neighbours no-end of fear.

What we need instead is a run of this poster (yeah, you know which one) and we need to slather the UK in it. We need to stop these creeps. These people who want you to be scared. They are dragging us all into their police state. When I was young the IRA periodically blew up bits of the UK, there were regular bomb scares, and y'know what, we didn't go peering into our neighbours bins*, and cow-towing to each and every request to dispose of the privacy we had. The world went along as it always had and we dealt. But now, now the government instead wants us to fear, because then we'll hand them control over every last bit of our lives...

...How much d'y'think it'd cost to run off enough Keep Calm and Carry On's to cover the UK's major cities?

*Unless there was something interesting I wanted, like, say a BBC Micro...

Comments

[morris1000.livejournal.com]

Whaaat? Coffee? Bookmarking that one..

[pyoor_excuse]

Cunning and bizzare. Want to try. Have a developing whatsit, just need a room.

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

If you're just developing the film (not making prints from it), it's possible to load the it into the developer tank thingy without a proper darkroom, and once it's inside the tank you can carry out the rest of the process in the light. I think I used to do mine under the bedcovers at night! ;D

[pyoor_excuse]

Thing is, it's very light around here. I've got a big streetlight directly infront of the house and a halogen light illuminated builder's yard at the back, so I'd be a bit wary of trying, but I may just give it a shot :)

[wibble-puppy.livejournal.com]

You can get a proper photographic loading bag. Very handy and you can load the film anywhere.

Loving the link :D

[pyoor_excuse]

I just had this idea for making myself a dark-box. Ponders more.

Get Excited And Make Things

[shadesofmauve]

I am in complete agreement. I loathe the fear mongering.

In this instance, the parody of that poster works with it, though! I really want one of these shirts.

Re: Get Excited And Make Things

[pyoor_excuse]

One of these shirts?

Re: Get Excited And Make Things

[shadesofmauve]

Oops, these shirts.

Re: Get Excited And Make Things

[pyoor_excuse]

Ah, those shirts. Me too :)

Re: Get Excited And Make Things

[jordax.livejournal.com]

Those shirts are awesome. :)

[c0re-dump.livejournal.com]

How many BBC Micros do you want? I have an excess of them here, you see.

As for the poster, have you seen this parody:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/03/get_excited_and_make_things_poster.html

[pyoor_excuse]

Aye, we could do with some with some of them too (the posters, not the Beebs. I've got a Master, that's quite enough for me!)

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

I can has Beebz Micro, plz? :)

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

ZOMG...thanks for pointing out those posters - that's horrific, and certainly not the sort of society I want to live in. It seems like some people won't rest until every last shred of trust we have in society is destroyed. :(

[pyoor_excuse]

I'm trying to think of something positive to do to counter all this stuff, actually. I'm hoping something will pop into my head - and when it does so I'm also hoping that I'll get around to it. I've got no idea though, just think that I should be doing something positive to stop this errosion of society.

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. This is the sort of thing Mark Thomas gets interested in. I'm very keen to write something about this on my LJ as well...