Das Tagebuch Murnaus

From today's paper, I'll spare you the full quote:

"The demise of Open-Air adds to an already-gaping hole in the summer arts schedule. Organizers recently cancelled both the Latin Caribbean Festival and FolkFest, which TNT also produced for the Inter-Cultural Association."

I'll bet Luminara gets cancelled this year too, or at least has another funding crisis. See http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/68027.html from 2005, when it was almost cancelled.

[edit from an earlier story: Symphony Splash apparently did get another sponsor, so it looks like a go]

Anyway, as I said a while back, Victorians are always up for a party, as long as there are significant amounts of other people's money involved. Otherwise they'll stay home and complain about how there's nothing to do.

Les Leyne's column in today's T-C (local paper for you out-of-towners) is good:

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Time to fix silliness over Beacon Hill: Judge gave the city the means to change the rules that restrict use of park

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It has been suggested by one of my Constant Readuhs that people just spontaneously congregate in Beacon Hill Park on the night that Luminara would occur in 2005, with their lanterns, and have our own little procession. No administration, no sponsorship, just a slow flash mob (perhaps a flashlight mob?). A stick in the eye for the No-Fun Brigade - they can't forbid an unofficial event, especially after it's underway.

Any interest?

(cross-posted to victoria_bc

Last night I made up two lanterns for Luminara. The design is that of an angler fish, the deep-sea kind:



I had some coffee cans lying around, so I cut them open and pounded them out flat, then scrawled on the outline of the fish, then went to work with the tin snips. I played some good loud Einsturzende Neubauten - tuneful banging on metal to cover my atonal activities.

There will be glowsticks jammed in the eyeholes, and little thumb-size glowsticks for the glowing "bait" dangling before the fish's mouth.

One fish is smaller and made from rusty coffee cans that had been sitting in my garden for a year. I worked the rusty surface over with a wire brush on my power drill to scour out some shiny stripes. The other one is larger and made from "fresh" coffee cans, and I burned the surface with a propane torch for that blue-black distressed look.

Tonight I have to do some soldering of teeth and fins, and it should look pretty good! Pictures later.