[Newspoetry] Yowza! Re: VIDEO SCREENING THIS WEEKEND?

[Paul Kotheimer]

sunday at 5 PM then?

sounds okay to me.  what about yer aunt Barbara?



paul

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, 
William Gillespie wrote:

> How about I come to HTML class (Sunday 1-3: Special Topics - Ripping on State
> Representative Tim Johnson on the Internet and getting away with it) and then
> we plug stuff into stuff and shoot for 5:00 to roll everything. BH: I'm buying
> you a sandwich on behalf of Newspoets everywhere. Now, yer Aunt Barb has
> requested evening, which for me starts at 5:00 PM, but I don't know when, in
> her personal Sunday the 24th of October, afternoon ends and gives way to
> evening. However the video is long and HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART it's all
> good. Let me explain:
> 
> Now when we got to Sweet Betsy's the camera that we had been rehearsin' with
> froze up. Or maybe that was me. Anyway, it wouldn't go, and it kept displaying
> in the viewfinder a blinking icon of an eject button. So I stood and stared at
> it and sweated and thought about what a bummer it would be for me personally
> if the camera didn't work.
> 
> So Kord shows up and heroically surveys the scene and rides off like hell on
> fire on his bike to get his other camera. Now, this other camera, he says to
> me, is out of alignment, so if you ...
> 
> Anyway so we watched it later after endless fruitless plugging stuff into
> stuff but...
> 
> and parts of it didn't work but...
> 
> Well nevermind about that. Ah, anyway, tonight after studying the controls of
> the thing for half an hour I figured out how to take the power cord out of one
> camera and stick it into the other camera and - this was the breakthrough - I
> mastered the EJECT button. !!! (this button is very important in the succesful
> operation of this device) Thus I was able to stick the tape that was in one
> machine into the other and press play and ... the gist of what I'm rapping is:
> 
> IT LOOKS GREAT! IT'S FUN TO WATCH! (and I've only seen the first hour)
> 
> W
> 
> PS do you guys have a microwave? or a stove?
> 
> bhagy at onthejob.net wrote:
> 
> > this weekend would be great.  there's classes here on both saturday and
> > sunday from 1-3, and then good vibes are here on saturday from around
> > 11ish till perhaps the midnight hour(ish) and on sunday from 4:15 until
> > approx. 4:16, and commerce (well, i ain't never seen one yet, so if
> > someone sees what one looks like, let me know).  popcorn and sergei
> > finally, together at last again! can we get it with cheap imitation
> > chemical additives, instead of the expensive real chemical additives?
> >
> > oh, i'm available after class (sunday is html...perhaps you'd like to sit
> > in on it and remember all the great memories of the once great and
> > powerful Club HTML?), but i'd prefer not to go too late.
> >
> > brian
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, William Gillespie wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Newspoets,
> > >
> > > Last weekend was so much fun that I'm only now recovering. Kudos and
> > > gracias all around. Enough people have expressed interest in seeing the
> > > video that I propose we have a screening of it this weekend. We can eat
> > > popcorn and watch ourselves watching ourselves.
> > >
> > > Is there time this weekend that we could do this at OJC and watch the
> > > video (with minidisc accompaniment) on Sergei's lavish monitor, without
> > > disrupting the flow of education and commerce and good vibes?
> > >
> > > The parts of the video I have seen have been of inconsistent quality.
> > > The parts that are good are really quite good. I suspect that portions
> > > of it are unuseable, although still kind of watchable, but we'll be in a
> > > better position to address that when we've assembled our minds before a
> > > bank of humming machines with both camcorders at hand.
> > >
> > > What'd'ya'll thank?
> > > Willy G.
> > >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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