From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #323 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, December 2 1999 Volume 04 : Number 323 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Re: alloy calendar ["Ian Gifford" ] Re: Alloy: Cubist Notions [Spencer2424@aol.com] Alloy: Just back.... ["electrix" ] Re: Alloy: Just back.... [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:01:04 EST From: "Ian Gifford" Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy calendar I am wondering how hard it would be to get peoples together from similar areas....Like Crackers, Myself (and is it Darcy Salzmann in Toronto?) Then the California contingent, the "rocky Mountain" contingent. The Brits, the Finlanders, etc. This would make for some very interesting "reunions and Photos. My Brother and sister AND brother inlaw are all photogs with pro setups....this is one possibility.... Any one see what I am getting at here? Ian ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:22:56 EST From: Spencer2424@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Cubist Notions In a message dated 11/30/99 9:51:49 PM Mountain Standard Time, RThurF@aol.com writes: << think so too! :) !! The production of these may be a bit too expensive for this particular calendar project though, since I'd hoped to be able to produce things that each participant could receive, no matter how many. But your Rubik variety Dolby's Cube is a really wonderful idea. What's the most inexpensive way this could be done? >> Robin - Perhaps you could have everyone who wants a "Rubic" mail you their own, personally purchased Rubik's cube. Then it would just be the expense of printing the images for the cubes, getting them die-cut, sticking them on, and sending them back. Or, for a cheaper version, you could just send out printed sheets with adhesive backing and registration marks (so you know where to cut). Then each person could apply them to their own cube at home. Cheaper still, include a page in the calendar that has the six sides of the cube printed on it (again with registration marks), and let people cut them out and glue them on to their own Rubik's cubes if they wish. This would be somewhat in the spirit of the "May the Cube Be With You" 12" single, which had crop marks on the sleeve that could be cut to make the cover look like a cube in perspective. - - Craig ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:19:18 -0800 From: "electrix" Subject: Alloy: Just back.... from a two weeks hiatus from the Net, only to find my mail server malfunctioning and a mailbox filled with interesting collaborating idea... a Calendar! Oh My!!! What would the alloyite crew think of next. This sounds like fun (my cup of tea)... How about in order of birthday. We could always have a record of members' birth date from the first issued calendar. Regardless, if we are to select a month or week, can I have dibs on the week of the 5th of February 2001?. I will try to keep my ageless self from being older... though I can't guarantee _that_... you know, Mother Nature and all.. :-) There is only so much I can do with nootropics and life-expansion pills! :-)))) I'll be in and out of the Net for the next 1 1/2 couple of weeks due to professional demands. On my personal side of the fence... I have been engrossed in my latest reading effort "Critical Path" R. Buckminster Fuller's --- littérature fatale. This book relieves any doubts that the technology of today is able to transform the planet into 6.5 billion billionaires. Seems likes the only things from keeping mankind from fulfilling a world close to Utopia is fear, greed, and ignorance. The tools to "make it so" on this Spaceship Earth, however, are here! Although obvious in concept it is a far cry from being placed into action by the "chosen" controlling few inhabitants. > the edge...of mental transformation electrix ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:59:42 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Just back.... In a message dated 12/1/99 10:19:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, electrix@mail.electricson.com writes: :: What would the alloyite crew think of next. This sounds like fun (my cup of tea)... How about in order of birthday. We could always have a record of members' birth date from the first issued calendar. Regardless, if we are to select a month or week, can I have dibs on the week of the 5th of February 2001?. :: Of course (I'm printing out any specific requests such as this, & pasting them straight into my scrapbook so I don't forget!) I'll email you my mailing address very shortly so you can send in your photo when you have it ready. Birthdays (even if you don't contribute a portrait... if you're an Alloy member, we want your birthday on this calendar so we can celebrate it!) are a must for this calendar. And remember, this is not just a portrait calendar, but also a costume party event !! where your images can win prizes (most original, best artistic interpretation, most frightening, etc) and grand prize will be awarded for Best of Show. Most of all it should be fun. I'm trying to work out a way to do a cube project to go along with it... and you know, speaking of which, it's just occured to me that I have seen those lovely little Rubik's Cube *keychains* around..! (read: *affordable* :) Puzzle cubes, with Thomas on one face, and some of his well-known musical collaborators on each of the other faces? Or... Thomas in various cool articles of clothing covering the cube entirely? Which would be best? Robin T ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #323 ***************************