Found some footage of an early Blip Festival:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FDc1ZQl-uk

So, I was thinking - Blip is during the Spring this year, we should take advantage of that. So... picnic.

12 Noon
The Sheep's Meadow - Central Park, NYC
Bring some food to share with all of your new (and old) friends

If it rains we'll just do it the next day.

See you there!

P.S. If you play hackey sack I'll make fun of you.

Video by the estimable Louis Sasano:

http://vimeo.com/22004928

http://vimeo.com/22457624

invaderbacca wrote:
Natty wrote:

Yeah, so if you haven't nominated me for anything yet do that now.

this

Just checked the almanac and unfortunately it doesn't look like hell is gonna freeze over.

Yeah, so if you haven't nominated me for anything yet do that now.

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So damn good.

I'm all the visuals you need, sweetness.

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George wrote:

I found that in Montreal and Paris - with ZERO trains between 1am and 5:30am - people go out more than in NYC.

Finally, someone else who's willing to say it. New York is like a ghost town. Every time I go out there's nobody in the bars or on the streets. It looks like a scene from "I Am Legend." I smashed a car window the other day just to hear the alarm because I was so afraid that I had gone deaf in the overwhelming silence of the city. I've been hanging out with a couple of rats and a pinecone because I can't find anyone to talk to here. And forget about bands. The village voice music pages look like a broad desert of nothing, fit for naught but frustrated and lonely origami. I miss the good old days when you could run into as many as six people in a night. Sometimes I think I'm dreaming and I've truly been abandoned here. Last night I walked from Fort Clinton to the Cloisters and the only person I saw was a statue of Fiorello Laguardia. I talked to him for THREE hours just for the company. The nice thing is that all the liquor stores and supermarkets seem to be stocked so i can have as many canned vegetables and drinks I want (I'm trying to drink all the Kahlua in Manhattan before it goes bad.)

I'd love to move to Montreal or Paris because I've forgotten what it feels like to hug someone or even shake a hand. But I don't know if I'd be able to find a qualified pilot in the deafening emptiness of these fatal concrete valleys.

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Sorry, I got bored. Let's get back to Blip Fantasies:

Somehow, Goferboy and I get locked in a utility closet with no hope of getting out unless we make enough noise to be heard over the sound of A.M.U. There's only one thing to do...

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PREACH ON

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Bit Shifter wrote:

The fact that it's taken us five years to log 125 acts, and that there are so many more incredible artists that we have yet to involve is a testament to the already staggering, and growing, number of massively talented people active in chipmusic...

Also Blip is just one event. I don't know why there aren't more of its scale, elsewhere in the world. There should be, and anyone with the interest and motivation to make it happen really should. The Blip team is basically three scatterbrained fuck-ups with a questionably functional practical relationship. If we can do it, other people definitely can.

HOME RUN

e.s.c. wrote:

2 gigs on sunday

Confirmed.