FoolishPeople

Spent

I'm tired and spent after finishing and sending the two proposal's for FoolishPeople's next project late last night.

Feels good to have finished them. Have allready had an email back from the theatre stating that they will let me know by the middle of November.

Now all I have to do is finish three plays by the end of November before casting starts in December.

How d'you do?

New blog, new start, nice to meet you I’m Vittoria. I’ve worked with FoolishPeople since the start of 2002 on their collective projects, and I hope to use this blog to draw some of your attentions to the factors of every day life and culture that influence our own state of mind. With the effect, hopefully, to give you more of an insight as to where FoolishPeople’s productions come from and where they want you to go after them.

Though the entertainment value is of course paramount, I think I can safely say that we want to open a good few minds too. The collective was set up to shed a new light on the traditional concept of theatre, no forget shed a new light, think more knocking theatre right out of the picture and creating a whole new genre of interactive live art. An experience that will shock you, disturb you, enlighten you and dismiss any conventional expectations you may have about its content, just like the real world that we all live in.

Ipod love

Everyone who knows me knows how much I love the Apple ipod.

I love my ipod so much that I moved to Mac from windows so that I could use itunes.

I originally had a windows ipod, so I reformatted the hard drive to change it from fat24 to Mac. I'm now using aac encoding instead of mp3.

The only problem I have since changing to a Mac ipod is the battery life has decreased notably.

So either the aac encoding or the Mac formatted hard drive uses more juice.

Not sure if the new ipod's have an improved battery inside (let me know if you know it does) but its something that should be improved along with increases in hard drive size.

Went to use my ipod today and its dry. I'm lost without it.

Letchworth

I'm in Letchworth tonight. Its filled with pissed people. The English do drunk like no other country. A girl is picking her nose and eating it in front of me. She's pissed. Her nose has now begun to bleed. Joy.

Update

Ok update time. I'm currently in the process of putting the finishing touches to two proposals to a London theatre.

Once either of them is confirmed I will post details here.

I will say this though it looks like the first FoolishPeople production of 04 will be much earlier than I had originally planned.

The new FoolishPeople online store opened last week and its been very busy. We appreciate your custom.

The Hutton Inquiry

I would love to know why television cameras are not allowed into the Hutton enquiry. Its ridiculous that we have to put up with dramatised re-enactments of what was said in that days hearing’s.

I just know it's some pathetic half arsed reason.

Why is it that it’s ok for our lives to be invaded daily by CCTV whilst we are privately going about our lives.
Yet we are not allowed to see the expressions on the faces of the people we elected when they refute the deadly and serious allegations that our government blatantly lied to us and lead us in to a war that has cost thousands of innocent lives.

FP Blog

Pleased to say that later this week Vittoria Russo the producer of FoolishPeople's last and next production will be joining the FoolishPeople blog.

The FoolishPeople Online Store

The FoolishPeople online store is now live at
http://www.cafeshops.com/foolishpeople

All the FoolishPeople products will be avalible to you through cafepress.com. Its taken me a long time to pick a manufacturer to produce FP products as the quality of the products we would be selling was very very important to me.

I ordered one of everything to make sure that they are all up to scratch and to check on delivery times and reliabilty. Very pleased to say that I am very impressed with Cafepress.

In the next few months we will be having a limited reprint of Vacuum my first book of prose. Vacuum will also be avalible through the Foolishpeople store.

All profits from products sold will be added to the budget of the next FP production.

Fire Fire

I had fire training today for my part time job as a residential social worker.

The training consisted of setting things on fire and seeing how they react to different types of extinguishers. After that we were locked in a shipping container with a fire at one end, to give us all an idea of how smoke can fill a room very quickly. Fun. No really it was fun. Made funnier by one of my friend's getting very scared and having to be taken out of the container.

The Death Of The CD

The future for the Compact Disc is looking bleak. I won’t be unhappy to see it go. I made the move to Mp3 two years ago and I’m now on AA. Neh nah neh na na. For once my geek tendency to early adopt new technology has paid off. (Just don’t mention my UK Tivo)

The CD for me is now just a delivery tool to allow me to put the music I buy onto my power book and then onto my ipod.

All you hear in the press is music industry type’s bemoaning the fact that peer to peer file sharing is destroying music. Well maybe if you hadn’t been so fucking greedy then you might be in a better situation. I mean just how many homes, whores and smack do you and your artists need anyway.

If the music industry had listened and thought for a second they should have embraced the mp3 evolution and tackled it head on. If they had used their initiative and had used a customer driven business model instead of a greed greed greed model then maybe they could have stopped the decrease in revenues by seriously looking at new ways to deliver music to the public. The reason that the itunes store is so successful is because it’s run by a company that is world renowned for putting customers need first.

In the UK we have had to pay up to £17 in the past for a single CD about $28.00. Which is just ridiculous.

The irony of the situation is that Vinyl may still outlive the compact disc.