The last weeks were so crazy. In a desperate attempt to improve my life I took even part in a competition to get funding to make a documentary film. See here. Surprisingly enough, I got shortlisted and am now the subject of extended theoretical input of how the ruling elite wants us to make documentary films. First we got shipped- or better trained, to the Sheffield International Film Festival Newcomers Day. Unfortunately, the Newcomers Day proved to be as boring as it can be. Lots of professionals telling you how to adapt best to get into “the industry”. Luckily I was able to skive off and to watch “Condor- the Axis of Evil”:

Ideasfactory was launched in August in Edinburgh with a weekend full of documentary film screenings. The films were presented, and subsequent discussions were led by experienced filmmakers, who ranged from newcomers to professionals from the media, including organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Lately, the Ideasfactory team were guests at the North Edinburgh Arts Centre, where they gave examples of Mark Cousins documentary film manifesto and discussed how a dream to make a film might and can become a reality. In short, clips, ranging from Michael Moore’s popular political Oscar-winning “Bowling for Columbine” which documented the high school mass murder at the hands of two local students to a musical agitation documentary “Now” about the black civil rights movement.

The last days were quite hectic, I should write down a plan of what to do… The new Independent Indymedia Site for Scotland has been set up. It is still very faulty, and i hope that after having had to wait for half a year for this page, that sorting out its mistakes won’t take as long. Now I get the hang of it the IMC UK Scotland subsection seems to be much easier in admin, and I even start people teaching the admin site. (unfortunately with limited success so far.) I wonder and hope if more people will get involved with the new site than the old one, I really do hope so, but it is all so confusing now and how to get people on board is really not a skill of mine.

The Panther _His gaze, going past those bars, has got so misted with tiredness, it can take in nothing more. He feels as though a thousand bars existed, and no more world beyond them than before. Those supply powerful paddings, turning there in tiniest of circles, well might be the dance of forces round a center where some mighty will stands paralyticly. Just now and then the pupils’ noiseless shutter is lifted. – Then an image will indart, down through the limbs’ intensive stillness flutter, and end its being in the heart. [Rainer Maria Rilke] more poems Actually it sounds odd in english translation, but it is incredibly strong in German:

I have been writing a whole long text on Sunday about EF! and environmentalism and such, but unfortunately it logged me out, Opera crashed and everything was lost. But it isn’t a huge loss, because it was all getting a bit too weird anyway.. To not make the same mistake again I’ll save the text right now. Anyway, I found out in the meantime, that any links I’ll do in the text might be displayed in the right column, which seems to be quite practical to me. What’s new? The Edinburgh Flashcrowd has announced another media stunt,.. I won’t be there, hopefully.