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when will the list of tgc 115 comeReplyDelete
urgent plz,,if my rank is 235 then is it sure i am going to IMA?? there is a litlle confusion becoz it says 32 seats reserved for ncc'c' candidates..ReplyDeleteReplies
As you can see there are total 250 vacancies for IMA and only 259 candidates have cleared SSB Interview for IMA-133th. 10%-15% of them mostly have some medical problems so there are just 9 additional candidates are there. If any 9 out of 259 are medically unfit for IMA-133th then all 250 will be in . So your probability to be in is 99.9%.Delete
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well ,,thnks fr your reply, i am going for sure :)Delete
my rank in merit list is 94...ReplyDelete
but i haven't received the joining letter as of yet.
my frnd has got it 4 days back.
i dont know how to get the status of my letter.
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That depends on the postal service of your area also, any ways you can contact Army for more queries but you will get the JI soon .Delete
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i have received my JI....does army HQ display any further final merit list to confirm the admission into IMA????ReplyDelete
and sir, i have my provisional certificate only,pass certificate will need time, so mean time will provisional certificate be able to do the needful?????Replies
sir plz guide for territorial army.one of brother wants to join army at any cost.but he didnt get any study material plzz refer some books so that he can perform well.ReplyDeleteReplies
TA SSB procedure is also same as normal SSB, he can join a good coaching academy.Delete
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is this list related to OTA??ReplyDelete
I mean the candidate who is in the merit list of IMA but finds no vacancies may get a call from OTA....?
is this list related to OTA??ReplyDelete
I mean the candidate who is in the merit list of IMA but finds no vacancies may get a call from OTA....?
sir how many candidates are getting merit out in ima per courceReplyDelete
good evening sir this is gagan bhonde i m a civil engg. wants to be part of indian army i m also attend the TGC116 but still i m confused how i can creak it any guidence regarding to u . i am national lavel fotball player also . is help to me or not ,....... but how i creak SSB .... kaise prapair karu..............................ReplyDelete
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sir, kindly tell me which subject we have to prepare for tgc entries ... as i am a b. tech( ee)...ReplyDelete
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How much marks does one need in "CDS" so as to stand in the merit list for all academies ? pLz reply....!ReplyDelete
Sir i have cleared my ssb and medicals a few days back and everything just went perfect.But still i am worried about the final merit list.what happens in that?ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank u so much admin!!..ReplyDelete
sir i was merit out in nda and now i have been recommended for ima 135,but still the dark memories threatens me and above reply gives a huge comfort but still my doubt is that if around 300 candidates get recommended then will they give a call to everyone..please reply sir.and what about joining dates..ReplyDelete
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"I wanted to know if you know of paints or markers or other mediums I can use on my gear that wouldn't be harmful to the coral or marine life. I want to put elaborate, colourful stuff on my fins to begin with but I don't want to do it at the expense of underwater life. If you know of anything I could use please let me know."
Great question! Fortunately, these days paints and markers are fairly safe for the environment and getting better every year. The main things you want to avoid are:
Lead-based paints. These are getting harder to find, but just like its toxic to humans, lead paint in the water can be harmful to sea critters.
Anti-fouling paints. Again, you aren't likely to find these at a local crafts store, but anti-fouling paints are used for painting the hulls of ships. They are designed to kill barnacles, algae, and other marine organisms that would slowly eat away at boat bottoms, so they are of course not good for anything living in the water. I doubt you would run across these, but I don't want readers to see them, see that they are intended for boats and think they are a good choice for equipment decoration.
When looking for paints, one of the key things you need is for it not to be water-soluble, otherwise it will dissolve into the water. Your best bets for decorating are the old standbys:
Acrylic paint is actually a good option, with one caveat: it must stay on the material you paint! I personally found out that acrylic paint (at least the "beading" squirt bottle kind) does not hold well to fins, and will easily get knocked off. Because acrylic paint is just a form of plastic, this can't be great for whatever it lands on. However, it will stick well to BCD's and possibly wetsuits as long as you spread it flat, and it's not any worse for the environment that any other plastic on your BCD, regulator, mask. etc.
If you are unsure, test it out by painting the equipment, let it dry, and knock it around a bit to simulate a dive. If some of it chips off, then you probably should peel off the rest and use something else.
Tip: many scuba shops sell pricey paint specifically for dive gear. This is just acrylic paint, sometimes called "fabric paint", that you can find at any hobby / craft store for one-fourth the price.
Permanent markers are awesome for drawing patterns and coloring. They are not water-soluble and will not leak toxins into the reef. Better yet, permanent markers can write on just about anything, even fins, which acrylic can't hold on to. I personally use them to write my name / initials on my gear.
Update: another email from Marwah alerted me to this option.
Paint markers are oil-based and will soak into a lot of materials that acrylic and permanent markers may not penetrate. In fact, if I were to decorate equipment from scratch, I would buy a small set of paint markers and supplement with a few permanent markers that I have on hand.
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Le Parkour: An Introduction
London, UK - 3flow - Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 : goo
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Le Parkour, Free Running or PK for short is a relatively new urban activity conceptualised by Frenchman David Belle. First seen by us in the UK in the BBC promotion Rush Hour. In it we watched Belle swinging and leaping from roof top to obstacle flawlessly like a real life Spiderman. It was then brought to the masses by Belle's childhood friend Sebastien Foucan amongst others, in the 2003 Channel 4 documentary Jump London and more recently the explosive Jump Britain.
Photograph courtesy of Kiell.tk
In many ways parkour is more akin to dance, tai chi and the discipline of martial arts than it is a sport. It embraces the philosophy that urban obstacles no longer act as barriers but as a challenge, a series of playthings tempting us to find an alternative route from A to B... in other words over, under and above in the most fluid manor possible. Keeping the flow between obstacle and moves is as important as any aspect of your free run. Sometimes stylised tricks borne from gymnastics are used to add flair and expression en-route.
Through parkour we run free from the restraints and rules laid down by civil planning and architects, we take the short cut and in doing so increase our awareness, fitness and our frame of mind. It is often commented on that Le Parkour is what many of us did as children before social restraints and inhibitions where instilled into us as we grew up. Next time you are in the street watch how a kid will climb, jump and run along pretty much anything. This is possibly evidence that it is an innate, instinctive way for man to move about his "jungle".
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jeeff: 11th Mar 2005 - 04:00 GMT
i think this is really fascinating. i've never heard of it before. photos are great, but the idea of the movement really intrigues me. any links to online videos of parkour?
hasslehoff: 11th Mar 2005 - 08:58 GMT
try the goo link at the top of the article. Urban Freeflow seems to be the authorative source for all things parkour.
maxis: 5th Apr 2005 - 19:27 GMT
Re: Le Parkour: An Introduction
Jamie: 7th Apr 2005 - 23:18 GMT
No one said Parkour was a Martial Art. The article states that Parkour is more akin to dance and martial arts than it is a sport. Which is true. As i understand it, Le Parkour is a form of artistic expression through the use of movement and ones urban environment. In this way it shares many qualities with dance and indeed the martial arts. If only i wasn't such a clumsy bumbling fool i would give it a shot. But i think i would break many of my bones, so i shall stick to conformatively walking along prescribed pedestrian walkways and suchlike.
Jamie: 7th Apr 2005 - 23:29 GMT
With reference to what has been said about kids navigating their environment in this naturalistic way i have been studying my two year old son. Jumping onto and over low walls, running along them and jumping off. I began shouting Parkour at him in an encouraging tone every time he exhibited this behaviour. He now, much to my amusement, wildly shouts Parkour every time he jumps off something. He also, on cue, will recite Gary Coleman's classic catchphrase "watchoo talkin' 'bout willis?". I am a poor role model for any child.
Jamie: 7th Apr 2005 - 23:32 GMT
No one said Parkour was a Martial Art. The article states that Parkour is more akin to dance and martial arts than it is a sport. Which is true. As i understand it, Le Parkour is a form of artistic expression through the use of movement and ones urban environment. In this way it shares many qualities with dance and indeed the martial arts. If only i wasn't such a clumsy bumbling fool i would give it a shot. But i think i would break many of my bones, so i shall stick to conformatively walking along prescribed pedestrian walkways and suchlike.
skull: 23rd May 2005 - 00:55 GMT
does ne1 here know where i can find the vid of david belle doin the roof to roof jump??? the crazy high one ware he has no shirt
phatness-flies: word, kid! one love! PARKOUR WORLDWIDE!
spiney: 29th May 2005 - 17:01 GMT
if u want more of this rent the movie yamakasi
its a must see movie
Appearing_kid: 30th Jun 2005 - 23:45 GMT
i think its the greatest thing ever... it tried it out once but i broke my arm so im gonna stop and just admire the people who are good at it
gift shop: shit ... that looks fun
it a crap web put the sport is good: 15th Jul 2005 - 08:38 GMT
parkour is a good way to show your enajetic and its fun beleve me i do it!!!! were very skilled at me and my crew
Kelsey Grammar: 15th Jul 2005 - 08:53 GMT
You're not very skilled in the art of spelling though are you.
future freerunner: 26th Jul 2005 - 19:02 GMT
hey, are there any freerunners around in southern OR??, I wana start training w/ somebody
Albury/Wodonga parkour: 29th Jul 2005 - 14:06 GMT
Just starting to parkour and i was just wondering is there any advice i could get off you guys? please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or add me to your msn email@example.com
piranha erem: 29th Jul 2005 - 14:14 GMT
to hear some of these comments you would think this is a parkour hook up site!
Albury/Wodonga parkour: there is much more here. do look around the site :-)
Anonymous (host86-129-110-5.range86-129.btcentralplus.com): 5th Sep 2005 - 12:22 GMT
any beginers in london looking to practice email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
yuzdin yanzen: 5th Sep 2005 - 21:04 GMT
pk is the most extrodinary thing to me. it is the only way for me to clear my head
js in belleville: 12th Sep 2005 - 23:38 GMT
parkour or freerunning, whatever you want to call it... It reminds me of a game I played as a kid. only one rule. whoever touches the ground the least on the way to school wins. I do a bit myself with less flips and what not but praise to all who can. Any one in belleville ontario (canada) who wants to do some training, send me an email at email@example.com
js in belleville: 12th Sep 2005 - 23:43 GMT
ps. gizmondiz.. maybe you should take a closer look at both martial arts and freerunning. The level of self discipline and stylistic presentation present in both activities makes them very very close in nature.
hinatha: 11th Oct 2005 - 09:19 GMT
hey you guys u can do better den dat coz I do those kinds of things myself. I used to do those spinin things at da age of 3 in a little village at china but I'm now 18 at london studyin I'm jus writin in to let u guy's knw you can do better coz my mates at china are much better we do our own style's with the flips, should come and see us let youguys knw .
butter: 8th Nov 2005 - 05:37 GMT
freeeeeeking crazy wish they could flip like my ass. After watching the vid i tried a backflip on the ground an busted my ass. bloody up my nose and broke 2 ribs talk about hurt for a couple of months
wordup!: 23rd Nov 2005 - 22:25 GMT
anyone doing any pk near south west wales area ill love it if sum1 came down
SporadiC: 1st Dec 2005 - 09:42 GMT
some stuff about Le Parkour:
1. Le Parkour and Freerunning/FreePK/Urban Tricking are totally different
Jamie: 1st Dec 2005 - 10:02 GMT
Great, thanks for the info SporadiC. On a related slant, i'm interested in doing some pk/freerunning/urban tricking (call it what you will) photography. So here's a shout out to any traceurs/freerunners in the east of england. Specifically Peterborough or Lincoln areas. email editors at citynoise dot org for my contact details.
Rafinator: 11th Dec 2005 - 00:24 GMT
I just found out about Parkour and i've been dying to try it out.
Pkmadmatt: 19th Dec 2005 - 09:37 GMT
SporadiC:You said some stuff that isnt striclty true.
wuzzy: 12th Jan 2006 - 12:47 GMT
I did years of gymnastics as a child and teenager and I've missed it ever since I gave up. My body just won't let me do it anymore. I went out to do parkour the other night along Brighton (UK) beachfront and it was amazing. It's the only activity i've found that is as exciting as gymnastics was to me. One problem: i have been unable to walk properly for the past 4 days due to sore muscles! But they're better today and I want to go out again. I'm in Bath now (not Brighton) so if anyone else wants to find places in Bath get in touch. By the way, i think parkour is especially liberating in the dark (although maybe not pitch black, could be lethal!) firstname.lastname@example.com
Jamie: 12th Jan 2006 - 13:14 GMT
heh, you might sympathise with JJ. Read: I'm Too Old For Skateboarding :-)
chris: 26th Jan 2006 - 22:56 GMT
holly crap does any one else do urban freeflow or parkour out there!
Randy: 31st Jan 2006 - 00:03 GMT
hi there its realy awsome what those guys can do but i have 1 question ive seen a movie a french 1 and forgot the name of it
the movie goes like this a couple of guys are planning to break in some houses and they also use the sport parkour and i cant remember the name its a long time ive seen this movie but if anny of you now the name
soz for my bad english im dutch heheheh
mercury: 7th Feb 2006 - 04:45 GMT
hey ne 1 who wants to help a newbie to the art of parkour would be greatly appreciated. i just saw a video of david belle and i would love to start. ive been working on rollin and small jumps but i dont know of ne thing else i should do so again ne help would be greatly apreciated my e-mail is email@example.com
alvaro: 17th Feb 2006 - 15:41 GMT
Im not english im spanier of spain an also I do english on one academi.in spain we do parkour i am 1 of the bests of spain childrens
alvaro: 17th Feb 2006 - 15:44 GMT
hps si ai alguno q sepa español y kiera aprender q acuda a mi enviarme e -mails a firstname.lastname@example.com
Leszek: 25th Feb 2006 - 03:47 GMT
Hey i was thinking of startin up le PK, but i have trouble finding anyone here in toronto, any suggestions??
jeeff: 25th Feb 2006 - 17:28 GMT
skullspine: 21st Apr 2006 - 22:09 GMT
any1 into action movies av 2 watch DISTRICT 13. it icludes parkour and its bloomin amazin! MUST BE WATCHED BY ALL.
Freakface20: 9th May 2006 - 03:33 GMT
It gets easier....I started about a month and a half ago and my ankles and my endurance have both become much better.If you see us around the Arkansas campus then join in...the more the merrier!!
TheExpo: 15th May 2006 - 01:48 GMT
Our Crew Goes around PLymouth...a little place near detroit michigan, if any one near wants to hit us up... check the myspace group michigan parkour
calvin : 6th Jul 2006 - 14:08 GMT
hi i'm from south east london and i want to learn parkour in south east london and someone help me?
Merphy: 12th Jul 2006 - 20:37 GMT
parkour is the best sport i want to join bur were? i live in west london in hayes. hahaha
mitch: 8th Sep 2006 - 20:55 GMT
hi me n my m8 luv doin parkour were only 12 but were pretty good, if u dnt believe me check out da videos of us on www.mital-mital.piczo.com
Tom: 8th Oct 2006 - 11:13 GMT
After watching Parkour round my mates house i was BLOWN away! i am very much into my martial arts and i love all the dynamic stuff that goes with it. im itching to try it out. Im in Oxford so somebody drop me a line. email@example.com
PBSE: 10th Nov 2006 - 19:19 GMT
me an some mates just started a Parkour crew i got a few videos goin but its gettn 2 dark now so ill wait til spring :D
Xzation: Yeah, Parkour is my life.
Hood: It would be quite good if i could do parkour.
Hood: 1st Jun 2007 - 21:07 GMT
The only darish thing i can do at the moment is jump of a trampoline on to the ground at high altitude and speed.
Mackenzie: 28th Jun 2007 - 17:11 GMT
I'm from east London and i want to find others that are intested in doing it as i am. so if you want to get hold of me add my msn firstname.lastname@example.com
Dorky: 15th Jan 2008 - 23:25 GMT
I'm from Tulsa,Oklahoma and I'm wondering if there's anyone around who can give me tips or is just interested in it. Add me at msn: email@example.com
Jason: 30th Sep 2008 - 17:13 GMT
I'm learnin spanish in school and i have to do a project on something i'm interested in but to do with spain. How can i find out about parkour in spain?
Heero: 3rd Jan 2009 - 16:58 GMT
How can you say Urban Freeflow is GOOD?
They act like they're the official parkour organization.
Even more so, they even tried to create competitions. I don't know about you, but competitions will destroy parkour and make it too mainstream.
Parkour needs to stay with the people themselves. Forums? Okay. Extreme tag? Okay. Movies? Maybe not so much. Madonna? Where's your shame? Corporate sponsored competitions and merchandising? Get out of here, you're making me barf.
Heero: 3rd Jan 2009 - 17:04 GMT
Basically, I think of Urban Freeflow as prostitutes who sell the art.
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anon (host86-161-87-99.range86-161.btcentralplus.com): 15th Oct 2010 - 22:46 GMT
where can i watch parkour in london?????????????????????????????????
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Of all the shows that took place in Austin this evening, this one excited me the most: three of the city's best power trios playing at one of the city's best new clubs. In its first year of existence, the Mohawk has succeeded where previous clubs in its location have failed, thanks to a combination of smart booking, technological savvy (all of the venue's shows are videotaped, the best of which are spotlighted on its MySpace profile) and great amaretto sours. The soundman is occasionally ornery: last November, Pattern Is Movement's frequent pleas for mixing adjustments compelled him to turn the house jukebox on after their fourth song. What club nowadays doesn't have an ornery soundman, though? Fortunately, he was both pleasant and professional this evening.
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Grizzly Bear / Dirty Projectors
Subterranean; Chicago, IL
The Dirty Projectors opened up for Grizzly Bear with a unique set showcasing mastermind Dave Longstreth's impressive vocals, which he often pushed to the limits of his upper range. Having only heard one song before, I wasn't prepared for their odd mix of unstructured rock, funk and lounge; I had been expecting more of an offbeat indie sound, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear something more original than that. Joined by two female singers, the blend of their voices together made for a nice touch. It's not a sound I can see myself seeking out on a regular basis, so I probably won't be going out and picking up the Dirty Projectors' back catalog, but I will say it was a really interesting performance I'm glad to have witnessed.
After The Dirty Projectors wrapped up Grizzly Bear came on stage and proceeded to play the tightest, most flawless set I could have possibly imagined. Their music, which my inferior home speakers unjustly flatten, came totally alive in Subterranean, the dense layers of sound wafting all over the room. The male harmonies that often involve all four band members were on perfect pitch and sounded amazing. These harmonies were best displayed during my favorite song (and everyone else' favorite, too, judging by the number of covers currently flooding the web), "Knife," where sounds I would have thought were coming from an instrument or even a computer were proven to actually be coming from bassist Chris Taylor's mouth. Meanwhile, the fantastically repetitive choruses of "Lullabye" and "Colorado" ("Chin Up/Cheer Up" and "What Now/What Now... ) echoed beautifully around the room and left me in a trance.
Although most of the set list came from 2006 critical darling Yellow House, it was exciting to hear a few tracks from debut album Horn of Plenty performed live; songs like "Fix It" sounded so much fuller taken out of the fuzzy, though endearing, lo-fi aesthetic of Horn's bedroom recording. Grizzly Bear even managed to squeeze in a Bearified cover of the Crystals' "He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss)," the second Crystals cover I'd heard in the past week (the other being Asobi Seksu's wonderful, distorted version of "And Then He Kissed Me"). Done in their signature style, singer Ed Droste left me pontificating on the hidden meaning of the song and wondering what it was about the Crystals that make them the current 'band to cover' du jour.
The band wrapped the show up sans encore but on a great note with their most upbeat song, "On a Neck, On a Spit," sending me skipping out the door with the tune in my head. It reminded me that what I love about this band is that they somehow hide these incredible pop melodies under all these thick layers of fuzz, and the result is positively gorgeous.
The Books / Jack Rose / Essie Jain
Webster Hall; New York, NY
Music preferences can be seasonal. Summer brings sweaty, bass-heavy backbeats and punchy, sing-along choruses, while the colder months demand slower, deeper, quieter but more complex and nourishing fare. When the elements are at their harshest, we start craving aural comfort — and not the mindless kind we get from Super Mondo Rad Dance Party Hits of the '80s. We want something serene yet challenging, something that warms us on the inside while still acknowledging the deep freeze outside. In other words, The Books are as perfect for mid-winter as wool sweaters and ice skates. Lucky for me (and the rest of the assembled crowd), the rest of the night's bill was not only equally appropriate for January, but also a refreshing departure from indie rock as usual.
Singer-songwriter Essie Jain set the tranquil mood for the night, sharing a cozy corner of the Webster Hall stage with only a keyboard and her guitar player. Her folk-tinged music recalled late-'60s Joni Mitchell, with a broader vocal range and thicker sound. Essie's personal lyrics and powerful voice were most prominent, bolstered by simple, deliberate instrumentals. Though I had never heard her music before, every song felt like a familiar lullaby.
Jack Rose was so unassuming that it took me a few minutes to notice his performance had begun. An acoustic guitar soloist, his instrumental music conjured string traditions from around the world, flowing seamlessly between idioms as disparate as Indian raga and Appalachian folk. Each song was an intricate, meandering journey. I spent much of the set just watching his fingers move across the strings and wondering how he managed to get so much sound out of just one guitar.
As for The Books, here's my theory: There are two types of transcendent concerts. The first, more common, kind is an active, intense experience. You drink; you dance; you scream the lyrics; you make new friends and share in a room-wide adrenaline rush. You come home drained but sated. And that rare second type? Well, that's the concert that expands your mind.
How it expands your mind, exactly, depends on the concert. This one wasn't so much about the music itself (though I have no complaints on that front), but about the entire experience. Before I really get into it, you're going to have to allow me one little anecdote that I'm pretty much only including because it amuses me. Humor me the way you would your verbose grandpa, huh? So the first thing Nick Zammuto said when he got onstage was, "The only people that used to come to our concerts were a lot of nerdy Pitchfork-type writers." He remarked that he was seeing a lot more couples at The Books' shows, and that made him happy. My first thought was, "Haha, Pitchfork." Then I looked down at my notepad and pen and remembered that I was in no way exempt from the nerddom Zammuto described. End of anecdote. Back to transcendence.
The band warned us that they didn't have much "radically new" material, but what they lacked in previews, they more than compensated for with their unique combination of visual and aural elements. This may seem like nothing new — from Le Tigre to The Faint, it seems like every other band is integrating video elements into their live performances. The Books themselves have been accompanying their performances with video for a few years now. The real innovation comes in the way Zammuto and Paul de Jong have begun to meld video-making and songwriting into something simultaneous and interconnected. The few new pieces that the band did play featured complex, often witty and pointed, interplay between live performance, pre-recorded audio samples, and video elements. For one song, they explained, they synched the frame rate of the video to the tempo of the music. During the slow introduction, the video appeared as a series of still shots, with glitchy transitions in between. As the tempo picked up, the video speed approached 24 frames per second (the traditional frame rate for color film) and eventually exceeded it, images flying by almost too quickly to process.
There were other memorable moments, including The Books' rendition of Nick Drake's "Cello Song." Zammuto's brother, Mike, joined the band onstage for his own impressive song, "The Classy Penguin," while the screen showed a series of photos of the musicians as children. The duo left the stage completely as the clever, Japanese-themed video for (what else?) "Tokyo" played, challenging the entire notion of what live performances can and should be.
The Books have always been an idea band, and it's exciting to see them expand further into multimedia experimentation. I left the show wondering whether I should call what I just saw a "concert" or whether it was time to invent a new word altogether. It made a lot of sense when Zammuto announced the band doesn't have a new album in the works but is planning to release a DVD of their videos — The Books may be the first band in the world to evolve past the LP.
Photo: Sean Ruch
Cable #11: One-Night Experimental Fest
Blockhaus 10; Nantes, France;
Cable #11 was a noisy, nasty, wonderful night of music held in a cramped bunker built during WWII by the Nazis. Homemade benches and tables. Homemade instruments too. The soirée was organized in part by Will Guthrie, an Aussie and Nantes resident whom I saw perform at Pannonica a few months ago.
Keith Rowe and Ben Patterson showed early on that this was going to be a special night. Their set was, at once, medical, visceral, and abstract. They sat at a card table and scraped rocks across rocks, sometimes knocking them together, occasionally employing the amputated neck of an electric guitar with a motorized toothbrush sitting atop the strings. Everything was closely mic'd and reverbed. The smallest movement of the stones on the table created sounds that made the bones in my chest vibrate. I imagined steps down a corridor to a giant morgue or boulders falling in a deep crevasse. The duo performed two pieces in one stunning half-hour burst. I love how experimental music can bring your focus back to essentials; in this case, I rediscovered my appreciation for the simplicity and power of rotation, vibration, and friction as musical agents.
Next, Fabrice Favriou unleashed a distortion fetishist's dream: a 30-minute screed where the dude recorded the carnivorous feedback from his guitar with pedals and then looped the shit over top of new noise he made by jamming a wire brush from a drumkit across the pickups. His show had a nice crest and release that finished with some pecking at a cymbal with the headstock of his guitar. I must emphasize the violence of the sound and technique here: halfway through the set, I could no longer hear and he was no longer holding his ax like it was an instrument. It was swinging in front of him, parallel to the ground. It looked like he was holding his guts in.
The best act of the night was Anthony Pateras / Sean Baxter / David Brown, a trio of Aussies that improvised on prepared piano and guitar and drums. The music was somehow raucous and sophisticated all at once, and the dynamic tension among the three was fascinating to watch.
The oldest member of the group sat in the middle and tweaked the prepared strings of his polished guitar with the precision of an acupuncturist. He remained stoic throughout the set. The men to his right and left, however, let fly. For a while I thought the pianist had even taken the strings completely out of his instrument. In fact, he had loaded that baby with handfuls of common bolts and screws which somehow yielded tones remarkably similar to those from an African mbira. I loved his playing style: he often looked more like a furious stenographer than a pianist, his fingers typing madly over each other at the high end of the keyboard. He used the butt of his palm to mash rows of keys at once. The playing, however, was passionate without being wayward. It was the perfect counterpoint to the broad poise of the guitar and the childlike violence taking place on the drumkit a few feet away.
The drummer used a large set of wind chimes as "drumsticks" and simply pulverized his kit with them. He shoved the chimes into the drums, as if they were long metal pills to be swallowed by the drums' flat mouths. His foot was always on the kick pedal, sending agitated rolls of bass tone through the cacophony spilling out above them. At one point his drumsticks were actual sticks (like from trees), which he broke and dropped onto the drums from two feet above.
In the last piece, he used tin flatware to attack his drums. After several minutes of battering breadpans and platter covers, the piece reached its dramatic peak as he cracked a plastic plate with agonizing slowness.1 He and the pianist often looked at each other as they played: the pianist's head bobbed; the drummer's eyes widened with what looked like the fierce hope that he could keep assaulting his kit all night.
The final set came courtesy of Brit Tim Goldie, who poured beer on himself, struck kung-fu poses, put a snare drum over his face and screamed through the surface of it, and generally did his best to torture us with acute metal-on-metal screeches. It was a fittingly discordant end to a night that was altogether beautiful thanks to the originality of its attendant terrors.
1This, to me, was amazing. P, B, & B had developed the tension in this piece so thoroughly that a room full of people was fucking {mesmerized by a guy bending a plate. This is the only thing that was happening. No guitar, no mad piano. Just a man and his bare hands and a Frisbee. And it was musical.}
Pierre Gordeeff / Pierre Bastien
Pannonica; Nantes, France
When I walked in there was a metal frame about the size of a walk-in closet set up on the left wing of the stage. An incredibly elaborate assembly of homemade instruments and machines was affixed to the joints and struts of the frame. It looked like the coolest science fair project ever, or maybe a prototype for the game Mouse Trap that got rejected for being too dangerous. Toilet brushes, CDs, computer hardware, springs, strings, forks and spoons, miscellaneous Erector set components, probably even the obligatory chewing gum and shoelaces: this thing, whatever it was, caught the attention of anyone who came in the room. I was intrigued but also a bit worried. It seemed like this show could become obnoxiously gimmicky real quick.
Luckily, that was not at all the case.
Like almost every concert I've gone to at Pannonica, this show did not disappoint. I am now a fan of Pierre Gordeeff because his built-from-scratch apparatus and the ambient music he makes with it have changed my understanding of electronic music, the relationship between humans and machines, and light and space. The man made a drum out of a fork wrapped in a sock striking a compact disc.
When his set began, all the lights in the place were turned off, save a pair of little bulbs attached to two of the stations of his Great Glass Elevator, Supercalifragilistic, whatchamacallit: the big instrument thing. As his songs progressed, different stations went to work - simple machines in motion. The lights were connected to the machines; they moved when the machines did. The ingenious part of the performance was its visual component. Gordeeff had arranged the lights in such a way that they created a stunning shadow theatre on the walls, making the room shrink and expand as they became large or imperceptible according to the position of the light. One bulb shone through a fly swatter, freckling the wall with circles of light and dark.
The accompanying music was mostly a minor key drone with occasional percussion. Although the songs were simply constructed, I think he made a compelling statement about electronic music by showing the intermediary nature of any instrument. He situates himself between those who play traditional musical instruments and those who work primarily with computers and synthesizers, but he does this without relying on traditional electro-acoustic techniques (i.e. modifying the sound of traditional instruments with computers). Anything beyond a cappella involves a machine of one kind or another, and Gordeeff's performance was a captivating case for the legitimacy of any kind of machine as medium, so long as it is used with skill.
Pierre Bastien had what seemed like a miniature version of Gordeeff's equipment. His frame was closer to the size of a shoebox. A small camcorder fed the footage of his ensemble onto a projector screen. Among other instruments, he had constructed a kind of music box sans box: a collection of rods with studs in them turned and pressed the keys on a small electronic organ. For percussion, he used slowly turning, asymmetrical wheels whose spokes would push down small metal prongs. He had carefully mic'd the prongs so that the sound approximated that of an actual drum kit; he used a small mixing board to shape the tone of the "drums." Once he had his organ and erector-set drum loops rolling to his liking, he played standard jazz hooks with a very small trumpet, employing a variety of peculiar mutes to elicit unexpected sounds from the instrument. At one point he took a long straw and inserted it in the hole of the mute and the bell of the trumpet. He put the other end of the straw in a glass of water and blew a Framptonesque solo into the Dixie cup.
The toymanship of the two Pierres made for a provocative, dramatic show. Cheers once again to Pannonica for continually softening the boundaries of its identity as a jazz club by giving these artists a chance to show their stuff.
H Burns
Le live; Nantes, France
It's fascinating how much changing languages changes a personality. I tutor a French girl on Thursdays who develops a lisp and severe shyness as soon as she starts speaking English. It still surprises me every time how the shift from French to English immediately changes her from sassy to meek and a bit clumsy. "I have... boughten?" "You have bought."
On this particular Thursday, I took the 12 euro I made during our hour of preterits and simple pasts and invested it in a pint of Beamish Red and a ticket to H Burns' show. I found him all alone at the bar about a half hour before his set was scheduled to start. He was writing his setlist on a napkin. We chatted briefly, congenially. He's opened in France for Okkervil River, Smog, and Magnolia Electric Co. He's waiting on word back from SXSW about a possible slot in Austin this spring. His real name is Renaud.
When H Burns sings in English, he loses all the soft amiability that whispers through his lovely, aspirated French. He sounds like a miner's son. Who's had his nose broken. By more than one family member. He knows how to use his throat and sinuses to torque pathos from ordinary notes, but there's a humility in his intonation that keeps his stories, no matter how emotionally bare, from seeming pressed upon the listener. He convinces without pushing. He gives the listener the space -- to get inside the narrative, inhabit his scenarios, and empathize with the characters he sketches -- all while giving his guitar a smart, harmonic beating.
Typically, the 15th-Century castle that marks the center of Nantes is visible from the back windows of this little bar. I couldn't see it on this Thursday because the tiny plywood stage was set up in front of the back entrance to the bar, which was covered (incompletely) with black sheets. It creaked beneath his sneakers when he leaned into the microphone. Sitting in the second row of folding chairs, I could see single eyeballs peeking through the window behind him. He didn't know they were there. His guitar was the same shade of red as the walls. This unassuming staging helped bring about the delicious feeling that these songs were being sung, these stories told, for me. It seemed almost as if H Burns was telling me my own history, but cleverly and passionately enough that I could still be captivated by it.*
He played for an hour straight, taking a quick break halfway through. We heard his entire solid debut album (Songs from the Electric Sky -- being re-released this spring on Boxson records) alongside some covers of Okkervil River, Magnolia Electric Co. and Dylan. He stepped back onstage for one encore and bashfully refused a second. He had run out of songs.
We shook hands. "À bientôt." I hope so.
* I wonder if this is really the kernel of folk music: simple instruments played skillfully alongside simple stories that seem to belong to everyone. But that belonging to everyone: doesn't that make it pop? And with the wide availability of music software, aren't computers just as much of a folk instrument now as an acoustic guitar was 50, 70, 100 years ago? Which witch is which? (I love how an hour of songs played in a hole in the wall can confuse all the categories.)


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Last Chance to Join CU Lunch Local (Misc News: October 9, 2013)
Make your CU Lunch Local reservation now before it's too late. Thursday, Oct. 10, is the deadline to sign up to participate.
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The National Communication Association supports projects and events that advance the discipline of communication. All funded activities align with the goals of NCA's strategic plan and have widespread impact that reaches beyond a single department, campus, or NCA unit.
To apply for a grant click here.
Announcing NCA's Funds to Advance the Discipline Grant Recipients for 2014
The Common Core State Standards have been
adopted by 45 states, the District of Columbia, 4 territories and the
Department of Defense Education Activity (a field activity of the Office of the
Secretary of Defense). Its purpose is to
"ensure that all students are college and career read" by the "end of high
school" (NGA & CCSSO, 2010, p. 3).
Standards for Speaking and Listening are part of the Common Core State
Standards for English Language Arts.
This project will gather and/or create resources for grades 6-12
teachers to help them implement the Standards for Speaking and Listening. These resources will be made available to
educators and to state departments of education.
Jennifer Stevens Aubry
Project Title:
Translating Research into Outreach:
Disseminating Communication Research on Media and Body Image to Adolescent
Research in both communication and psychology
is increasingly clear that exposure to and pressure exerted by media increase
body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. Despite a critical mass of research
on this topic, there have been few attempts to disseminate the knowledge from
this work beyond those initiated by advertisers (e.g., the Dove® Campaign for
Real Beauty campaign) and some curricula created for and sustained in
educational settings (e.g., Healthy Bodies curriculum). Often, researchers in
media effects uncover deleterious effects of mass media and suggest to others
to create and maintain media literacy efforts to protect audiences, especially
young audiences, from negative effects. I propose that we know enough now about
the impact of thin-ideal and sexualizing media on young people's body image
that we need more efforts to disseminate this knowledge in a way that is
engaging and accessible to young people. As a step in this direction, in the
present project, I propose creating short, informational videos that condense
the knowledge gained from multiple studies and make them available to
late-adolescent girls and youth organizations that serve late-adolescent girls
via social media platforms. A novel characteristic of this outreach effort is
that the focus of the videos will be on highlighting key research studies and
drawing research-based conclusions and practical tips from them.
Katherine Thweatt & Mary Toale
Project Title:
Communication Attributes: Aligning
Employer Desires and Institutional Goals
The purpose of this project is to begin to
understand whether there is a gap in college and university goals for graduates
and communication attributes desired by employers. The prevalence of colleges and universities
including communication related goals within their mission statements and/or
overall goals for graduates will be assessed.
In addition, awareness of the importance of communication to potential
employers will be assessed among administrators and professors in all areas of
study. Content analysis will determine
the prevalence and nature of communication related goals within college and
university objectives for graduates. A
questionnaire will be developed to assess awareness of the importance of
communication to employers among administrators and professors. Open-ended questionnaires will be
administered to determine how colleges and universities assess the
communication skills of graduates when communication related goals are included
in objectives. Results will be used to
make recommendations to communication scholars and NCA for the dissemination of
knowledge about communication and communication pedagogy.
Joe Valenzano, Sam Wallace, Donald Yoder, Cheri Simonds &
Jonathan Hess
Project Title:
Basic Course Director's Summer
The Basic Course Director Summer Institute aims to address the need for
developing quality administration of the basic course in communication
departments around the country. The Basic Course Director Summer Institute is
designed to appeal to current and future Basic Course Directors. It will help
fill the "training gap" by educating those faculty responsible for this
important course in issues such as course design; assessment; supervising
adjuncts; training instructors; campus and community advocacy; and other issues
often encountered when directing the basic course. In many ways this is a basic
course version of the Summer Chair's Institute already sponsored by NCA, and
aims to develop strength at the discipline's front lines through training in
skills necessary to create and maintain a strong basic course.
For details and registration information click here to visit the NCA sponsored conferences and events page.
Walid Afifi & Isaac West
Project Title:
Samuel L. Becker Memorial
Conference: Interesting Questions in
Health, Social Change and Technology
On February 27th to March 1st, 2014, the
Communication Studies Department at the University of Iowa is hosting an
intradisciplinary communication studies conference to honor Sam Becker. Our
request asks NCA to co-sponsor this event for three reasons: (1) NCA members
will benefit from the conference at the time and into the future with the
digital archiving of the conference; (2) the presentations will generate
intradisciplinary conversations around timely topics of central concern for
communication studies scholarship; and, (3) the community outreach portions of
the conference will translate communication studies research for use by public
Announcing Results from the 2013 Funds to Advance the Discipline Grant Competition
Funded Projects and Events
Carlson, Fort Hayes State University
Title: Conceptual Logistics in
Communication Research Workshop
project will develop an online workshop to explain the Concept Tool Kit and
other research collaboration tools and their uses. The workshop will cover items including but
not limited to demonstrating conceptual logistics and conceptual blending
techniques, acquainting students and faculty with the Concept Toolkit tools,
demonstrating pedagogical implications for students and faculty in and out of
the classroom, soliciting feedback, and introducing the Journal of Concepts
in Communication and its approach to online, open access models of
scholarly publication.
Youtube videos resulting from the project are available here and here.
P. Depoe and the International Environmental Communication Association
Title: The 11th Biennial
Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE)
The 11th Biennial Conference on Communication and
Environment (COCE), organized under the auspices of the International
Environmental Communication Association (IECA), will take place on June 6-10,
2013 in Uppsala, Sweden. The COCE conference will be attended by over 125
scholars and practitioners from a dozen countries, including a significant
contingent from the United States (http://environmentalcomm.org/coce2013). NCA will be recognized as the "sustainability
sponsor" of the conference.
L. Glenn, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Title: Group Mentoring Approaches to the
Research and Publication Process:
Utilizing Online Research Groups for Graduate Students and Tenure Track
Glenn's project will create online research mentoring groups
to increase understanding of the research and publication process and promote
active research agendas for NCA members. The mentoring groups will combine aspects of career socialization and mentoring literature
with the limited amount of research on writing groups.
Margolis and Susan Collins, SurroundHealth
Title: Bringing Clear and Relevant Health Communication into the Patient-centered Medical Home
The objective of this 2-part online learning event is to provide
specific, practical strategies to improve the clarity of written and verbal
communication with patients. The event
will feature speakers with expertise in development and design of patient
education materials that meet health literacy principles as well as in the use
of the teach-back method within patient interactions. The online learning event will include a
variety of learning activities: didactic, video-based modeling, participant
discussion, skills checklist, medical home audit of best practices, and links
to resources for continued learning and support.
Click here to view archived webinars.
Matusza, John Tedesco and Marlene Preston, Virginia Tech University
Title: Closing the Communication Across
the Curriculum (CXC) and Curriculum in the Discipline (CID) Gap
Matusza's project proposal will replicate and expand (to 5
additional business schools beyond the present one under investigation) the
present exhaustive pilot case study of a business school's communication
education plans, practices, resources, and constraints.
Prentiss, The University of Tennessee
Title: Directing the Basic Course: A Content Analysis of Basic Course Management
to Create a Registry of Resources and Options
Prentiss's project will investigate the role of Basic Course
Director across all types of institutions of higher education and will gather
data to ascertain the roles and responsibilities of the Basic Course Director,
what classes they supervise, what training is provided for instructors of the
basic courses, what is the job title/rank of these positions and what resources they need to perform better.Read about the findings from Prentiss's survey of Basic Course directors and instructors here.
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Yes, we all knew it. Tokio Hotel took home the Comet for 'Best Online Star' in Oberhausen last night! They boys weren't present, but they had left a video in which Bill said that they couldn't make it cos they were busy at the studio getting their new album ready. And he thanked us fans of course =) Tokio Hotel für… Continue
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The much awaited re-launch of Tokio Hotel's official webpage (www.tokiohotel.de) will finally take place on Monday the 1st of June! The new site will feature tons of TH news and the release date for their single and brand new album!! Prepare yourselves, TH fans...this is gonna ROCK!!
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Tokio Hotel are up for a Comet award for 'Best Online Star'! The show will air on Friday the 29th of May on VIVA TV. To make sure Tokio Hotel walks away with this award (which they SO deserve) log on to www.viva.tv/comet and give TH your vote!!
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TODAY (16th) is Ich Bin Da Download Day!! Go into iTunes and purchase Tokio Hotel's song An Deiner Seite(Ich Bin Da). The purpose of this? To get Ich Bin Da to no.1 on iTunes and let Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav know that they have LOADS of faithful fans out there who will always be by their… Continue
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The boys of Tokio Hotel are utterly sweet! They have designed a T-shirt for H&M stores to support this year's Fashion Against AIDS campaign. From all the profits generated by this campaign, 25% will be donated to support projects to increase awareness about HIV and AIDS amongst young people. The T-shirts will be available in H&M stores worldwide on the 28th of May. Tokio Hotel… Continue
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The Most Gold Medal-Worthy Outfits of the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony
In all my years of watching the Olympic Games to a religious, compulsive degree, the Opening Ceremonies have yet to fail in bring a tear (or 20!) to my eye. As a onetime competitive athlete myself, I empathize with the overwhelming emotion of—prepare for a truly horrible metaphor here—climbing the mountaintop and finally arriving at the summit, which, of course, happens to be the Olympics.
Obviously, I tuned in to the Opening Ceremony for Sochi's 2014 Winter Games, and haven't been disappointed by the extravagant performances which, true to Opening Ceremony custom, take us on a journey through the host country's history. In Russia's case, this included a Russian Police Choir's performance of "Get Lucky," a full-scale carnival and 213-foot long display of three animatronic horses. Also, a plethora of shots of Russia's President, Vladimir Putin.
Clearly, we took this display as an opportunity to analyze each country's uniforms—and we had a little fun with it. We caught these 16 countries during the broadcast and awarded each uniform a Gold Medal for a respective creative category. Click through the slideshow above to see it all. Let the games begin!