the bear is pretending to be tough - bluffing, essentially. these tourists are not being chased. bears are generally too lazy to chase much of anything. they're just being given a spook so she can walk through with her cubs. and the cubs frankly look like they're enjoying the excitement...
these people are consequently in no danger, so long as they keep back like they're being herded to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQd9-aBp6E
Monday, May 11, 2015
the tories went up a few seats, but i'd suggest this is a turnout issue. the snp may have picked up some seats from labour, but the swing seems to be mostly from the liberals. there does not appear to have been significant movement towards or away from either of the traditional governing parties - suggesting that they command older voting bases and are unpopular with younger voters.
rather, there seems to have been a large swing from the lib dems to the ukip, among young people. that might not make sense on first thought, but it does. every country has this "protest vote". in the united states, it's called "independent". in canada, it tends to swing around between the ndp, the greens and the liberals (and often decides elections). this protest vote is not strongly ideologically aligned, but merely against whatever exists. since wwII, it's tended to lean left in most places outside of the us, but there's no reason to think that ought to be static.
what this indicates is a strong rightward shift in the british counterculture, especially amongst young people. should that trend continue, the liberals will be replaced with the ukip. it might not have a direct electoral consequence, but it indicates a cultural swing to the right. and that should be concerning to everybody.
rather, there seems to have been a large swing from the lib dems to the ukip, among young people. that might not make sense on first thought, but it does. every country has this "protest vote". in the united states, it's called "independent". in canada, it tends to swing around between the ndp, the greens and the liberals (and often decides elections). this protest vote is not strongly ideologically aligned, but merely against whatever exists. since wwII, it's tended to lean left in most places outside of the us, but there's no reason to think that ought to be static.
what this indicates is a strong rightward shift in the british counterculture, especially amongst young people. should that trend continue, the liberals will be replaced with the ukip. it might not have a direct electoral consequence, but it indicates a cultural swing to the right. and that should be concerning to everybody.
at
22:06
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
publishing la la la la (inri062)
inri043 completed.
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this was meant to be the last rabit is wolf track, but instead morphed into the first trivial group song. this single explores the track from various angles.
sean wanted a song that just went "lalalala". i think his intent was to try and simplify my thought process, because what i'd been doing sounded more like FTIeikdTY7isdD7E5dk!. he was just kind of like "how about.....lalalala.".
it got a bit of an eye roll from me, as you could imagine, but i played with it. he wasn't really that excited about what i did, and it just didn't move forward. there were no further sessions, as he became interested in working with a more conventional early 00s "emotional hardcore" (think at the drive in) style guitarist and i got very involved in a relationship.
despite his initial suggestion, i'd consider the result to clearly be of my own doing. so, i took the core of what i did and warped it into the first track on the reflections symphony. this track has lain dormant since, comfortably completed.
it's now 2015, and i'm completing my discography. that puts this track in a blurry space: it was completed, but not as initially intended. while there may have been a vocal part recorded, i don't have it any more. yet, the intention is clear enough - and the manipulation would have been thick enough - that i do not consider it to be invasive to complete it on my own.
i'm releasing it as rabit because it's collaborative in the abstract, despite sean not actually existing in the track. this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitar, effects, bass, drum programming, soundscaping, sound design, sampling, vocals, vocoders, digital wave editing
sean - lyrical concept
released november 15, 2002
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/la-la-la-la
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this was meant to be the last rabit is wolf track, but instead morphed into the first trivial group song. this single explores the track from various angles.
sean wanted a song that just went "lalalala". i think his intent was to try and simplify my thought process, because what i'd been doing sounded more like FTIeikdTY7isdD7E5dk!. he was just kind of like "how about.....lalalala.".
it got a bit of an eye roll from me, as you could imagine, but i played with it. he wasn't really that excited about what i did, and it just didn't move forward. there were no further sessions, as he became interested in working with a more conventional early 00s "emotional hardcore" (think at the drive in) style guitarist and i got very involved in a relationship.
despite his initial suggestion, i'd consider the result to clearly be of my own doing. so, i took the core of what i did and warped it into the first track on the reflections symphony. this track has lain dormant since, comfortably completed.
it's now 2015, and i'm completing my discography. that puts this track in a blurry space: it was completed, but not as initially intended. while there may have been a vocal part recorded, i don't have it any more. yet, the intention is clear enough - and the manipulation would have been thick enough - that i do not consider it to be invasive to complete it on my own.
i'm releasing it as rabit because it's collaborative in the abstract, despite sean not actually existing in the track. this track was written in late 2002 and completed over april and may, 2015. final completion date is may 11, 2015. as always, please use headphones.
credits:
j - guitar, effects, bass, drum programming, soundscaping, sound design, sampling, vocals, vocoders, digital wave editing
sean - lyrical concept
released november 15, 2002
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/la-la-la-la
at
20:41
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
reflections (string orchestra mix)
as mentioned, i was going to do an orchestral mix, but decided against it in favour of a chamber mix. the chamber mix got a bit too big to be a chamber mix, so it's a string orchestra mix.
the major reason i'm uploading this is that the skittered up, glitchy percussion at the end transfers over well to pizzicato strings, creating a rather wonderful mess.
this render is from may 11, 2015.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/reflections-string-orchestra-mix
the major reason i'm uploading this is that the skittered up, glitchy percussion at the end transfers over well to pizzicato strings, creating a rather wonderful mess.
this render is from may 11, 2015.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/reflections-string-orchestra-mix
at
13:55
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
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