Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody

PrometheBurningDesire

Taken at Performer Stammtisch Young Performace Festival 2010 by Jurgen Fritz.

Prometheus was a son of Iapetus by Clymene (one of the Oceanids). He was a brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus. He surpassed all in cunning and deceit. He held no awe for the gods, and he ridiculed Zeus and Zeus's lack of insight. Prometheus was the creator of man. When he and Epimetheus (hindsight) set out to make creatures to populate the earth under the orders of Zeus, Epimetheus went with quantity and made many creatures, endowing them with many gifts that were alloted to the brother for that purpose (fur, claws, wings, and fins were some of these gifts). While his brother was making creatures, Prometheus was carefully crafting a creature after the shape of the gods. It was a human. However, Prometheus took so long in crafting his masterpiece that when he was finished, Epimetheus had already used up all the gifts from Zeus. Prometheus was sorry for his creations, and watched as they shivered in the cold winter nights. He decided to steal fire from the gods. He climbed Olympus and stole fire from the chariot of Helios (or, in later mythology, Apollo).

...Zeus was further enraged by Prometheus's escape and had Prometheus carried to mount Caucasus, where a vulture or an eagle named Ethon (offspring of the monsters Typhon and Echidna) would eat out his liver; it would grow back each day and the eagle would eat it again. This punishment was to last 30,000 years.

...Rockefeller Center in New York City is a virtual shrine to Prometheus. His golden statue stands at the head of the central fountain, with lines from Aeschylus inscribed below.

"A recurrent mythic model for revolutionaries -early romantics, the young Marx, the Russians of Lenin's time-was Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods for the use of mankind. The Promethean faith of revolutionaries resembled in many respects the general modem belief that science would lead men out of darkness into light. But there was also the more pointed millennial assumption that, on the new day that was dawning, the sun would never set. Early during the French upheaval was born a "solar myth of the revolution," suggesting that the sun was rising on a new era in which darkness would vanish forever. This image became implanted "at a level of consciousness that simultaneously interpreted something real and produced a new reality."

The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words Novus Ordo Seclorum.

http://www.redicecreations.com/winterwonderland/promethean.html

Fruit Battery

Use Fruit to Generate Electricity for a Light Bulb

If you have fruit, a couple of nails, and wire then you can generate electricity to turn on a light bulb. Learn how to make a fruit battery. It's fun, safe, and easy.



Here's What You Need



* citrus fruit (e.g., lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit)
* copper nail, screw or wire (about 2" or 5 cm long)
* zinc nail or screw or galvanized nail (about 2" or 5 cm long)
* holiday light with 2" or 5 cm leads (enough wire to connect it to the nails)


Make a Fruit Battery



1. Set the fruit on a table and gently roll it around to soften it up. You want the juice to be flowing inside the fruit without breaking its skin. Alternatively, you can squeeze the fruit with your hands.



2. Insert the zinc and copper nails into the fruit so that they are about 2" or 5 cm apart. You don't want them to be touching each other. Avoid puncturing through the end of the fruit.



3. Remove enough insulation from the leads of the light (about 1") so that you can wrap one lead around the zinc nail and one lead around the copper nail. If you like, you can use electrical tape or alligator clips to keep the wire from falling off the nails.



4. When you connect the second nail, the light will turn on!



Learn More



* Citrus fruits are acidic, which helps their juice to conduct electricity. What other fruits and vegetables might you try that would work as batteries?



* If you have a multimeter, you can measure the current produced by the battery. Compare the effectiveness of different types of fuits. See what happens as you change the distance between the nails.



* Do acidic fruits always work better? Measure the pH (acidity) of the fruit juice and compare that with the current through the wires or brightness of the light bulb.

PalletHouse

The Palettenpavillon by Matthias Loebermann is a structure made entirely from shipping pallets, ground anchors, and tie rods. Designed to be easily assembled and dismantled, and then entirely recycled at a later date, the resulting building is intended as a temporary meeting place.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/pallet-house.html

'One man's trash is another's man treasure," says Martin Kaltwasser, screwdriver and saw in hand. The German architect and conceptual artist is rushing to complete the Jellyfish theatre, which stands in a south London playground, 10 minutes' walk from the Globe theatre on the banks of the Thames. To say that this building is junk would be disparaging. And yet junk, of a sort, it is.

The Jellyfish theatre, which opens next week, is being built from the detritus of markets, timberyards and building sites; from redundant school furniture, hand-me-down front doors, recycled nails and pretty much anything that local residents and businesses have contributed – prompted by a public appeal by the Red Room film and theatre company. As work progresses, ever more planks of wood and stuff that would otherwise be "landfill" have been piled up in this playground in Southwark.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/16/junkitecture-jellyfish-theatre-kaltwasser-kobberling#send-share-box

Ausländer Raus! Schlingensief’s Container

Ausländer Raus! Schlingensief’s Container
Paul Poet | Austria | 90 min. | video | 2002 | Canadian Premiere | Featuring Christoph Schlingensief, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Einstürzende Neubauten

In the summer of 2000, German provocateur Christoph Schlingensief set up a refugee camp in front of the Viennese Opera House. He interned twelve actual refugee applicants in a large shipping container and streamed their life over the web for the week. As in any “reality TV” show, the audience was allowed to vote their least favourite player out of the compound – and, in this case, out of the country.

Crowned by a banner with the phrase “Ausländer Raus!” (“foreigners out”) on it, the container became a national flashpoint – hundreds of Austrians converged on the square and 800,000 others logged on to the website to cast their ballots. Schlingensief (dubbed “the German bad-tastemeister” by Variety) served as the ringmaster, watching bemusedly as people of every stripe shed their demure exteriors and let fly their inner prejudices. Jorg Haider’s extreme right Freedom Party funneled their consternation through the press – it’s never clear if they were insulted because they were being taunted or because somebody else thought of the idea first. The hippie left reacted en masse, storming the container and “liberating” those inside during their weekly Anti-Haider demonstration.

Paul Poet designed the website and documented the action from its inception to its logical conclusion. Poet’s resulting documentary covers the bases – from the use of art as a political challenge, to the concept of national embarrassment in the face of a civilised world, to the shit-disturbing narcissism of Schlingensief himself.
http://www.imagesfestival.com/2004/programs/auslander_raus.php

Moving? Pack With Banana Boxes: Why Moving With Banana Boxes is Easy, Cheap, and Green

Moving? Pack With Banana Boxes: Why Moving With Banana Boxes is Easy, Cheap, and Green

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