The text and t-shirt method of meeting people
Needed a little coaching from Adelaide Thursday evening.
I was sitting at the back of the Festival Club in Newcastle for the This Is Not Art Festival opening night's entertainment. Great music, interesting visuals on the video screen from ELE-MENTAL. Needed to talk to someone instead of feeling slightly lonely and like a wallflower. I started feeling the limitations of living - It is hard going to a place for a limited period and to start meeting people just like that. Sent out a a four-way text to Sammy, Becci, Piet and Benji - saying the like - and it would have been nice if they and other peoples were here with me, but if that can't happen then texting is the next best thing, hey? Texting is a convenient way to be engaged in two places at once. I realised this as I was on my second text *and lots of Geeks* to Piet and Becci who responded almost immediately, nice one. the outer reaches of steve's living limitations were getting tested quickly.
Didn't know if Sammy would respond anyway as he is in China so it was one of those texts that you do to be just out there and see if a common text moment will occur.
The little coaching from Becci and the advice to find randoms and impress them with my geek superority from Piet along with the pluck from a couple of alcoholic ginger beers was all I needed to turn around and introduce myself to this guy Guthrie, who introduced me to a Wagga massive up for the weekend of tech fun and not art stuff - in one swoop. Making small talk to people over loud music is really challenging but managed to keep the half heard conversations going for quite a while along with trying to remember all their names. Out side together for a quick smoke when my degree hoody was spotted by Simon from materialism and Josh from atlantis - lads from Adelaide - Josh designed my hoody and Simon designed the t-shirt I have on today.
Then last night after watching an hour of AV clips from artists around Australia and the world bumped into Jen and Carl from tallstoreez who I had only met a few weeks back in Adders for a meeting re: Fringe things. After the first intelligent conversation of critical art anaylsis I have had in almost four weeks by a rubish bin - we decided to continue more intelligent conversations at a thai restaurant.
Back to the t-shirt and hoody - never thought of my wardrobe as being Adelaide-centric before and some of it is, especially my t-shirts.
Newcastle is slightly odd - more on that later.
Been thinking about SDF1 and #2.
Been thinking about future tech projects in Adelaide.
I was sitting at the back of the Festival Club in Newcastle for the This Is Not Art Festival opening night's entertainment. Great music, interesting visuals on the video screen from ELE-MENTAL. Needed to talk to someone instead of feeling slightly lonely and like a wallflower. I started feeling the limitations of living - It is hard going to a place for a limited period and to start meeting people just like that. Sent out a a four-way text to Sammy, Becci, Piet and Benji - saying the like - and it would have been nice if they and other peoples were here with me, but if that can't happen then texting is the next best thing, hey? Texting is a convenient way to be engaged in two places at once. I realised this as I was on my second text *and lots of Geeks* to Piet and Becci who responded almost immediately, nice one. the outer reaches of steve's living limitations were getting tested quickly.
Didn't know if Sammy would respond anyway as he is in China so it was one of those texts that you do to be just out there and see if a common text moment will occur.
The little coaching from Becci and the advice to find randoms and impress them with my geek superority from Piet along with the pluck from a couple of alcoholic ginger beers was all I needed to turn around and introduce myself to this guy Guthrie, who introduced me to a Wagga massive up for the weekend of tech fun and not art stuff - in one swoop. Making small talk to people over loud music is really challenging but managed to keep the half heard conversations going for quite a while along with trying to remember all their names. Out side together for a quick smoke when my degree hoody was spotted by Simon from materialism and Josh from atlantis - lads from Adelaide - Josh designed my hoody and Simon designed the t-shirt I have on today.
Then last night after watching an hour of AV clips from artists around Australia and the world bumped into Jen and Carl from tallstoreez who I had only met a few weeks back in Adders for a meeting re: Fringe things. After the first intelligent conversation of critical art anaylsis I have had in almost four weeks by a rubish bin - we decided to continue more intelligent conversations at a thai restaurant.
Back to the t-shirt and hoody - never thought of my wardrobe as being Adelaide-centric before and some of it is, especially my t-shirts.
Newcastle is slightly odd - more on that later.
Been thinking about SDF1 and #2.
Been thinking about future tech projects in Adelaide.
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