Special Event: Fireside Conversations
Friday 10th June 2011
Born-Digital Archive Reference Code: IiS_P.B.9_2011-06-10_log-special-events-fireside-conversations
Excerpts from this evening’s conversations as captured in the Ustream Chat Room:
6:25 pm Noel: Hello... noel here 6:25 pm Noel: typing! 6:25 pm Noel: no broadcasting... 6:25 pm Noel: oh chat programme - is it you that is causing the problem? 6:26 pm Noel: there you are cara 6:26 pm Noel: You just showed up with a play button over your head! 6:26 pm Noel: can you see my typing? 6:28 pm The Loft: the smilies on the caht function weren't there earlier 6:29 pm Noel: that would rock! 6:29 pm Noel: hello? 6:29 pm Noel: ah definite lag.... 6:29 pm Noel: oh no requests (at 629) 6:29 pm Noel: My nephew gets weirded out by me singing this stuff 6:30 pm Noel: definite lag- you just read that 6:30 pm Noel: I think just because I know them really well 6:30 pm Noel: that was right on time... 6:30 pm Noel: did you say right okay to the lag or to my movie explaination? 6:31 pm Noel: which is understandable/.. 6:31 pm Noel: it's reasonably quick to me 6:31 pm The Loft: the chat is 6:31 pm Noel: let's do the clap! 6:31 pm The Loft: writing 6:31 pm Noel: (clap) 6:32 pm Noel: about 15 seconds? 6:32 pm Noel: on the watch live page 6:32 pm Noel: video is synced to sound for me... 6:33 pm Noel: hmn.... 6:33 pm Noel: let me try on another computer at the same time? 6:34 pm Noel: (I updated this chat program today - that's why the smiley faces came back... so that could have changed something) 6:34 pm Noel: (btw, yeah it is constant for me... no freezing... just a lag, which makes sense) 6:36 pm Noel: It's weird that you can't hear me! 6:37 pm Noel: yeah I never got into the herc! 6:37 pm The Loft: hi kirsty if you're able to see the page/write could you just leave a quick message? 6:38 pm Guest_672: haha it's me noel 6:38 pm Guest_672: good eye on the three viewers though 6:38 pm Noel: this is really trippy to have you up on two screens, slightly off.... 6:39 pm Noel: there are 4 viewers now! 6:39 pm Noel: hello fourth viewer? 6:39 pm Noel: can you help us with the testing? 6:40 pm noel_672: On the second computer- (PC) it is less lag time... 6:40 pm Noel: TOTALLY 6:40 pm Noel: with the disney music in the background 6:41 pm Noel: + you can hear me, but we communicate a bit 6:41 pm Noel: =WEIRD! 6:41 pm Noel: + you CAN'T hear me 6:41 pm Noel: whoops 6:43 pm Noel: nice/.... 6:43 pm Noel: should we try to get another? 6:43 pm Noel: I see RIA is online... 6:44 pm Noel: We did! 6:45 pm Noel: uh oh... 6:45 pm Noel: it's stopped working for me... 6:45 pm The Loft: the chat has just broke for noel booooo 6:45 pm noel_672: hello? 6:46 pm Guest_264: hello cara 6:46 pm Guest_264: its ria 6:46 pm Noel: Ah! 6:46 pm Noel: hey RIA! 6:46 pm Guest_264: all seems to be working 6:46 pm Guest_264: It seems like a "refresh" on the page, allowed me to see the text chat again 6:47 pm Noel: not the most elegant solution, but a solution! 6:47 pm Noel: the chat is back now though! 6:47 pm The Loft: thankyou ria!!!!! 6:47 pm Ria: yo yoyo 6:47 pm Noel: what's up Ria! 6:47 pm Ria: yeah its perfect 6:48 pm Ria im so excited 6:48 pm Ria: this is awesome 6:48 pm Ria: yeah it works fine on my ****ty acer 6:48 pm Noel: LOL the censoring... 6:49 pm Ria: what im censored??? 6:49 pm Guest_99: hello.. 6:49 pm Ria: hahahaha 6:49 pm Hannah: hi hannah here. 6:50 pm Noel: Wooo It's a party! 6:50 pm Ria: under the sea 6:50 pm Ria: little mermaid 6:50 pm Hannah: Hi Ria! 6:50 pm Noel: That's what I was going to suggest! 6:50 pm Noel: Take it from me!!!! 6:50 pm Ria: HANNAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! 6:50 pm Ria: yayyyyyy 6:50 pm Noel: Big mistake! 6:51 pm Noel: right here on the ocean floor! 6:51 pm Ria: unda da sea 6:51 pm The Loft: well darling it is better down where its wetter 6:51 pm Ria: take it from me! 6:51 pm Noel: (_rofl!_) 6:52 pm Hannah: one of the greatest disney songs for sure.. 6:53 pm Ria: Lets dance! 6:56 pm Ria: wow you look like your in an 80s video 6:56 pm Noel: What no way! Curtains?! 6:56 pm Noel: disco ball?!? 6:58 pm Hannah: I like the tidying dance elements.. this should be build into your daily routine!? 6:58 pm Noel: This is so delightfully strange 6:59 pm Noel: I love that it is such a long form performance! 6:59 pm Noel: yeah! like weeks! 7:01 pm Noel: The curtains really transform the feeling of the place. 7:02 pm Noel: I like that we have such a window box view into the loft - so you can play with our perception of the place.... (oooooh any mirrors?) 7:04 pm Hannah: still here! ahh sorry that I missed that! 7:05 pm Ria: no jasper on my screen 7:08 pm Hannah: mmm marshmellows. i used to make shmores and twistes at guides 7:09 pm Hannah: schmores/twisters 7:11 pm Ria: its a feature 7:12 pm Noel: I'm thinking of that iconic "photograph burning in the fire" 7:12 pm Ria: we used to have one and i questioned how Santa ever got the presents under the tree without any chimney and a fake fire place 7:12 pm Hannah: me and my brother used to try and toast crisps on my mum and dads gas fire 7:13 pm Ria: you should pitch a tent...do you have one up there?? 7:15 pm Noel: can you burn a digital photograph with fake fire? 7:16 pm Ria: thinking about objects and nostalgia 7:16 pm Noel: memories and moms 7:17 pm Ria: its suggested that we are in a state of post-modern nostalgia where we celebrate a past that is not irrecoverable, because it was never lost..... 7:19 pm Ria: ah 7:20 pm Ria: the longing for the person you once were 7:21 pm Ria: beautiful 7:22 pm Ria: i had a conversation with Will Foster 2 years ago 7:22 pm Ria: about never being in the present because I always long for the days past 7:23 pm Ria: a change of place and people begin the nostalgia 7:23 pm Hannah: is nostalgia intrinsically linked to ageing? 7:23 pm Ria: well ive been listening to 18 yr olds talk about the good old days, or refer to back in the day! 7:24 pm Ria: they are reflecting on two or three years prior 7:24 pm Hannah: but not just linked to old age - just the process of becoming older - day by day - year by year.. 7:25 pm Ria: yes and anc****d by objets 7:25 pm Ria: hahahaha 7:25 pm Ria: what 7:25 pm Ria: attached 7:26 pm Hannah: or to do with 'a missing' 7:26 pm Ria: 17th century nostalgia was deemed to be a physical disease 7:26 pm Ria: caused by homesikness 7:26 pm Ria: Cl***ical nostalgia 7:27 pm Ria: 19th/20th Century, nostalgia was deemed to be a state of mind 7:28 pm Ria: Now nostalgia is seen to be a socio cultural condition 7:28 pm Ria: a mode of lived experience 7:29 pm Ria: past and present in tension? 7:30 pm Hannah: i am trying to think what i consider myself to be nostalgic about.. i think it is mostly buildings/places.. 7:34 pm The Loft: he's a cu*** - bear 7:35 pm The Loft: cu***ber 7:35 pm Hannah: i am currently considering starting a campaign to save Keynsham's (where I am from) clock tower. It isn't a thing in itself that i particularly love but it was a significant site for 'meeting' when I was a teenager. I don't feel a longing for those days, but somehow would like to keep that structure around as a physical marker for all those meetings.. 7:36 pm Noel: this censoring is a real ******in on profainity! 7:36 pm Noel: I was making a lunch of a ****ake mushroom burger 7:36 pm Noel: oh sheesh 7:38 pm Ria: hang out as teen 7:38 pm Hannah: plymouth sun dial 7:38 pm Ria: hmmmm 7:38 pm Ria: a junior school 7:38 pm Ria: a bowling green 7:38 pm Ria: a park 7:38 pm Ria: the shops 7:39 pm Ria: yeah, there was a Junior school where the playground was in the centre of the building blocks 7:39 pm Ria: so you could get drunk there and no one would bother you 7:40 pm Ria: it was close to our high school 7:40 pm Ria: no one suspected teens would want to be anywhere near a school 7:41 pm Ria: I loved the playground 7:41 pm Ria: gravel 7:41 pm Ria: but with lots of illustrations on the floor 7:41 pm Ria: squiggles to follow 7:41 pm Ria: hop scotch 7:44 pm Ria: Im going to be with you on Monday?? 7:46 pm Hannah: in the archive portal? 7:46 pm Hannah: for sending stuff? 7:48 pm Hannah: cool will send a pic. 7:48 pm Hannah: you should hang up and go and have a gin! 7:48 pm Ria: and get a cat! 7:48 pm Ria: and watch die hard 7:48 pm Hannah: and watch all of the Die hards back to back! 7:49 pm Hannah: ha ha! 7:49 pm Ria: haha 7:50 pm Ria: Thank you Cara...see you Monday x 7:50 pm Hannah: thanks.see you again soon x 7:50 pm Noel: Thanks Cara! 7:50 pm The Loft: this was very amazing beautiful impromptu meeting 7:50 pm Ria: Noel your a genius xxx 7:50 pm The Loft: and i love how each day is different so thankyou for adding to todays exchange 7:51 pm The Loft: definitely noel i love your computing geniui and respect for the project big big hugsx 7:53 pm Noel: Ria! great to see your typed textual characters! thanks guys! really looking forward to evolving this up
Challenges that arose from today’s Chat Room discussions:
Challenge 6:
To add a disco ball to the loft [created by Hannah]
Challenge 7:
Build a tidying dance into my daily routine [created by Hannah]
Challenge 8:
End the broadcast and have a gin [created by Hannah]
Challenge 9:
Get a Cat and watch Die Hard [created by Ria]
Challenge 10:
Get a cat and watch all the Die Hard films back to back [created by Hannah]
