Random crap with Uno.

[Buster's Uncle]

...It would be a lot tougher sell at the schools for a haunt than a renfair, too, even if you were in the middle of Salt Lake City...



Pester BA for some poster designs - I'm serious; sideshow posters sounds right up her alley.  Dunno how you'd get anything large enough printed unless you abused you access to engineer printers at work, but I can easily imagine this otherwise.  Send 'er a PM.

[Unorthodox]

Exactly.  I don't NEED them, yet, just figured it a way to support some local artists.  Guess not. 

Presently trying to cobble together enough to buy my own sound system so that I'm completely independent of my brother.  It's actually been a good thing that I'm anonymous to most his employees.  Pretty sad they treat me better than my family. 

[Buster's Uncle]

That IS sad.  I sensed a lot of pride in him in that drumming video you posted.

I assume your family doesn't keep volunteering your services to their online friends, so at least there's that.

[Unorthodox]

That would be my YOUNGER brother.  My OLDER brother owns the store...and fired the younger one.

Well, that's not exactly right.  The [complaint or disagreeable woman] my older brother married took over the business side of things when the previous partners retired, and made it so uncomfortable a host of people decided to leave rather than accept some written criticisms in an employee file, including my younger brother.   

She was a manager in a bank.  You can't treat musicians as you do tellers, and you don't want them treating customers like that either. 


Anyhow. 

[Unorthodox]

Actually kinda going nuts right now. 

I had planned a big Christmas build.  (yeah you read that right)


But, it got canned before it got started.  Was going to be for a charity event, but it seems you have to submit your concepts in July for such a thing.  Crazy Christmas folks. 

Guess there's not going to be a life sized Ghost of Christmas Future pointing at a Scrooge tombstone in the middle of all those happy cheery trees after all.     (they all get auctioned off for charity)

[Buster's Uncle]

 



I just assumed the musician and the music store owner were the same brother...

I'm so glad there's someone in the family you get along with.  And glad you love your kids enough to put up with the rest so far.  You're a good man, Uno.  I mean that.

[Unorthodox]

Older brother's a musician as well.  We all are. 

I'm just the one that didn't make a career out of it because SOMEONE didn't want pianos/keyboards in the store.  While I can play others (decent at drums), my strength is the piano. 

In fact, back in the day we were a band.  Did a charity concert (with tons of other people as well), have a thank you video from Sr Bush somewhere around here.  I handled the light show while we were off stage, older brother handled the sound mixing. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I wish I'd been encouraged more with one or another instrument.  I really like music and singing, and wish I was good on an instrument.

[Unorthodox]

"encouraged".......


yeah.......

[Buster's Uncle]

HEY - I didn't say nothin' 'bout getting DADDY involved.  That'd been a sure way to make sure I hate whatever instrument now, possibly all music. 

He got a little carried away sometimes.

[Unorthodox]

Ah, found one of the spiders. 

http://s68.beta.photobucket.com/user/the_PROCRASTINATOR/media/VillageHaunt/VIDEO/SPIDERWIPER/spiderrev-A010.mp4.html

Going to see if my old record player I bought for prop building can slow down enough to make it usefull for this.  Otherwise, I'm looking at a good $60 in motor and control board.  Any idea if throwing a dimmer switch on a record player controls speed?  Could I be that lucky?

[Buster's Uncle]

On an old or simple enough player, I don't see why not, but it would also diminish strength of the motor by the nature of the thing...

YouTube video embedding is fixed, BTW, but you gotta post just the plain page url, I think, and it doesn't work in quotes...

[Unorthodox]

Testing.

fence closeup

http://youtu.be/xdMAZ0bmup4


Heh.  that was actually innovative in 2007.  Now you can't go to a wall mart without seeing that same design.   

[Buster's Uncle]

Always being out in front of the creepy trends and being copied so much has to be good for your ego...

[Unorthodox]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/11/13/315050_ntnews.html

A CHURCH pushing violent anti-homosexual and anti-abortion messages in a play disguised as Halloween fun could involve vilification, the NT's Anti-Discrimination Commission said.

But the Territory doesn't have vilification laws - unlike other Australian jurisdictions.

Acting Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Traci Keys said the Potters House church play could give rise to potential vilification issues.

"(But) there are no vilification laws in the NT," Ms Keys said.

Ms Keys said federal race vilification laws did apply in the NT, but that was it.

Ms Keys was asked if Territorians could get away with hate speech that might be illegal in other states.

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"I guess the answer is yes," she said.

"It would be interesting to get some public discussion around the issue."

But Ms Keys said that didn't mean aspects of the play might not be caught by other NT laws, such as anti-discrimination.

"Vilification can often come hand in hand with discrimination,"she said.

The NT News reported yesterday complaints against a "haunted house tour" that turned out to be a church performance.

It involved violent retribution - beatings, slashed throats, eyes torn out - visited on homosexuals, women who'd had abortions and the doctors who performed them.

Vilification is usually classed as an act that incites others to hate or have serious contempt for a person or a groups because of their race, religion, gender or sexuality.

Discrimination is where distinction is made between individuals or groups to the advantage of some and the disadvantage of others.

Ms Keys said the Commission would be happy to hear from play attendees and look at whether it fell under NT law.

But she said they wanted to hear from people even if their complaints could not be taken on.

"Part of our role is to look at what laws should be in place to protect people," Ms Keys said.

People can contact the NT Anti-Discrimination Commission on 8999 1444.

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It was a hell house. 

This is an offshoot of the Halloween huanted house that specifically involves Sinners, and their awaiting punishment in hell, based mostly on Dante's work.  The "violent retribution" would be what's going to happen to them in hell, not advocating this violent retribution.  If they designed it poorly, that could get lost though. 

I have actually designed one of these on commission before. 

Simpsons did a good spoof on one as well...