I don't have much sound gear or baffling for a sound studio. If a situation or ongoing process required we could bring it in.
Unless a sound studio is needed it will be more like a photography studio with sound stage ability - except with white walls instead of black. I've got a lot of red velvet and red velour curtains, and plan on getting more black curtains for the walls, ceilings, and moving about wherever necessary.
Otherwise the space is for whatever we like. The first plans are for freedom meetings, Santa skits, greenscreen videos, podcasts, photo shoots, tabletop shoots, and of course social soirees. Plus we've got about 50 chairs there, and could bring more. Not sure the 34x17 space could comfortably handle more than 70 for very long. In the dingy dungeon I'm creating a kind of unexpected oasis. In time I may clean up the whole basement too. Got to rewire the large illuminated sign out front sometime this week.
A [community] collaboration and creative space for animation, arts, audio-video, classes, creatives, editing, events, lectures, meetings, newsletters, podcasts, productions, recordings, screenings, workshops, etc. ~ https://projex.wiki/wiki/The_Lions'_Den
That is impressive. I can never get 70 out to any of the meetups I run. How do you market your meetups? I'm about to try using Luma. I may be forking off of the org I volunteer for and do my own to set up game jams.
I know your meetups are freedom oriented and mine are tech. What is interesting is all the libertarian meetup groups in my area are dead. Maybe we could set up a chapter based thing.
Turnout is usually hit or miss and largely random. We have email lists, Facebook groups (that I avoid, full of noise, repetition, drama, misinfo, stupid biased people, etc.), and a lot of person to person social activity. Some of the web-flyer-invitations are well done and some are terribly amateur, with everything in between - and it doesn't seem to make much difference. It's critical to hope with gratitude and avoid expectations that will lead to disappointment and resentment.
My advice is to mix it up if possible, as Leamington does the best, having a few different topics covered in an evening, and occasionally a dedicated evening to one issue/presentation. Freedom/liberty applies to everything - so it would make sense to at least touch on that regarding every topic.
Chapters sounds good. Don't know much about that.
Sherri started the FreedomAllianceCanada.ca thing years ago, mainly a Windsor Facebook group, and I guess there are other chapters across Canada, but to this day I have no idea where, what the alliance is about, or anything. Their outreach and communications and site are terrible. Some wonder if she's a controlled op, like some others among us, but that's easy to say about poor management and harder to manage effectively. Plus there are some that definitely have much more evidence of stuff worth suspicion. Sherri is a busy grandma with an autistic son living in trailer park - and I wish she was better at collaborating, cooperating, with less drama, and less need for whatever glory she's seeking - but at least she's trying and doing. Anyways...
Regarding Windsor meetings, we haven't had 70 for a couple years. They averaged about 50 at the Green Room (though I lived within sight, I quit due to mismanagement but finally attended the last meeting), then it fell off with meetings at Brown's Lounge of 8 to 30. Those meetings died when I got unfairly evicted, so now it's seasonal or monthly potlucks of 15 to 40. If we ever got to more than 70 people we'd just go upstairs to the restaurant that can seat 150 - and with more than that we'd easily find another space - or as in the past host a rally (over a thousand a few times, mostly during lockdown). This is for the Windsor group, that tried to focus on freedom, action, etc. but had/has a lot of counterproductive meh or dumb or "righteous" people. All the groups have overlapping members, but not all folks do. Windsor is the city. Puce is a county town, Maidstone is a small town but it was on a farm, and Leamington/Kingsville is a small city with lots of farmers and Mexicans.
Sanctuary meetings died when Dawn did. It was more of a social club that talked about action but did little. Still, good ideas and good friendships emerged.
The Maidstone meetings at Bob & Gerrie's organic farm, focused on union stuff and freedom. From 100+ down to a trickle - folded over a year ago.
The Belle River / Puce meetings seemed to be doing well, busy even 2 months ago varying from 15 to 100, stopped last month for some reason, but hosts Rene & Lori are still active. It was focused on health, nutrition, freedom, and more recently private trusts. They have their yoga studio, private Wellternative Clinic, and do private trust courses.
Leamington is still going strong, and just last Thursday there were easily 50 folks there. I think there's something about self-reliant farmers. They focus is on freedom, self-reliance, farming, and for the last year it's just different presentations on the same thing - private trusts. I guess there's not much else to share, present, discuss.
The Media Centre group(s) have problems with management, health, etc. But they might be rekindled - especially with the new space.
The local political party and politician groups have their pros and cons.
Gavin Mounsey, as seen on the Corbett Report several times over the last couple years, has presented at least a couple times in Leamington and Puce. I wish he'd take me up on my offer to up the production value of his content.
For years I've considered starting some classes (which I'm putting in my videos) about a variety of topics, issues, terminology, psyops, and technology. I'm no tech guru, but I can at least teach folks not to use the default shit of Windows for more security/privacy, and introduce them to alternatives, solutions, and tech/communications concepts they otherwise would never have bothered to learn about - but all so laymen could understand. Some of them are even more basic and would benefit from very rudimentary computer basics tips and tricks classes.
I've often considered developing the tech and other curriculum on Projex with Goat/Said forum input - but I doubt enough productive interactivity would make it worth the effort. Resorting to visiting a larger forum would just mean filtering more noise. I'd guess there are already ripe sources to borrow extensively from if I/we looked.
If teaching/presenting a class/lecture, it would make sense to record it - whether to learn what not to do, how to improve the presentation or content, or to edit with or simply post. Naturally constructive development could then be global.
After I have some hopefully high quality LeverMind episodes to share, I'll finally ask my communities for production assistance, a for better or worse can of worms. The first solo hump seems to be the hardest. I imagine it may be similar to hand-building a forum - different as a interactive work-in-progress rather than a work-in-progress series releasing finished products - both similar communications seeking audiences.
The last meetup I did we had 8. So 50 is pretty good.
This org I work with has a tradition of doing a summer hiatus. It's the dumbest thing ever. We lost all momentum. I get it, some of the organizing members doing want to do things while enjoying their summer. But if you have some organizing members that don't mind or making meetups exactly matches their ideal summer why would you shut things down for three months? Now we have to do 10x the work to try to rebuild to where we were in the fall.
I just got done with leaves myself. Wow that was a huge time suck. I think I've given up on building a new pit for bon fires, at least this year. I have some raised beds I need to get rid of because I've stopped gardening. But I want to rebuild one of them into a smaller raised bed that would just host a fire pit. Unique in using wood for a fire pit but the real point is to be really cheap while having something to landscape against. The only thing cheaper would be having random rocks on the ground but that's not friendly for a mower.
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Sounds busy. So for this studio, are you talking about a sound studio or recording room?
I don't have much sound gear or baffling for a sound studio. If a situation or ongoing process required we could bring it in.
Unless a sound studio is needed it will be more like a photography studio with sound stage ability - except with white walls instead of black. I've got a lot of red velvet and red velour curtains, and plan on getting more black curtains for the walls, ceilings, and moving about wherever necessary.
Otherwise the space is for whatever we like. The first plans are for freedom meetings, Santa skits, greenscreen videos, podcasts, photo shoots, tabletop shoots, and of course social soirees. Plus we've got about 50 chairs there, and could bring more. Not sure the 34x17 space could comfortably handle more than 70 for very long. In the dingy dungeon I'm creating a kind of unexpected oasis. In time I may clean up the whole basement too. Got to rewire the large illuminated sign out front sometime this week.
A [community] collaboration and creative space for animation, arts, audio-video, classes, creatives, editing, events, lectures, meetings, newsletters, podcasts, productions, recordings, screenings, workshops, etc. ~ https://projex.wiki/wiki/The_Lions'_Den
That is impressive. I can never get 70 out to any of the meetups I run. How do you market your meetups? I'm about to try using Luma. I may be forking off of the org I volunteer for and do my own to set up game jams.
I know your meetups are freedom oriented and mine are tech. What is interesting is all the libertarian meetup groups in my area are dead. Maybe we could set up a chapter based thing.
Turnout is usually hit or miss and largely random. We have email lists, Facebook groups (that I avoid, full of noise, repetition, drama, misinfo, stupid biased people, etc.), and a lot of person to person social activity. Some of the web-flyer-invitations are well done and some are terribly amateur, with everything in between - and it doesn't seem to make much difference. It's critical to hope with gratitude and avoid expectations that will lead to disappointment and resentment.
My advice is to mix it up if possible, as Leamington does the best, having a few different topics covered in an evening, and occasionally a dedicated evening to one issue/presentation. Freedom/liberty applies to everything - so it would make sense to at least touch on that regarding every topic.
Chapters sounds good. Don't know much about that.
Sherri started the FreedomAllianceCanada.ca thing years ago, mainly a Windsor Facebook group, and I guess there are other chapters across Canada, but to this day I have no idea where, what the alliance is about, or anything. Their outreach and communications and site are terrible. Some wonder if she's a controlled op, like some others among us, but that's easy to say about poor management and harder to manage effectively. Plus there are some that definitely have much more evidence of stuff worth suspicion. Sherri is a busy grandma with an autistic son living in trailer park - and I wish she was better at collaborating, cooperating, with less drama, and less need for whatever glory she's seeking - but at least she's trying and doing. Anyways...
Regarding Windsor meetings, we haven't had 70 for a couple years. They averaged about 50 at the Green Room (though I lived within sight, I quit due to mismanagement but finally attended the last meeting), then it fell off with meetings at Brown's Lounge of 8 to 30. Those meetings died when I got unfairly evicted, so now it's seasonal or monthly potlucks of 15 to 40. If we ever got to more than 70 people we'd just go upstairs to the restaurant that can seat 150 - and with more than that we'd easily find another space - or as in the past host a rally (over a thousand a few times, mostly during lockdown). This is for the Windsor group, that tried to focus on freedom, action, etc. but had/has a lot of counterproductive meh or dumb or "righteous" people. All the groups have overlapping members, but not all folks do. Windsor is the city. Puce is a county town, Maidstone is a small town but it was on a farm, and Leamington/Kingsville is a small city with lots of farmers and Mexicans.
Sanctuary meetings died when Dawn did. It was more of a social club that talked about action but did little. Still, good ideas and good friendships emerged.
The Maidstone meetings at Bob & Gerrie's organic farm, focused on union stuff and freedom. From 100+ down to a trickle - folded over a year ago.
The Belle River / Puce meetings seemed to be doing well, busy even 2 months ago varying from 15 to 100, stopped last month for some reason, but hosts Rene & Lori are still active. It was focused on health, nutrition, freedom, and more recently private trusts. They have their yoga studio, private Wellternative Clinic, and do private trust courses.
Leamington is still going strong, and just last Thursday there were easily 50 folks there. I think there's something about self-reliant farmers. They focus is on freedom, self-reliance, farming, and for the last year it's just different presentations on the same thing - private trusts. I guess there's not much else to share, present, discuss.
The Media Centre group(s) have problems with management, health, etc. But they might be rekindled - especially with the new space.
The local political party and politician groups have their pros and cons.
Gavin Mounsey, as seen on the Corbett Report several times over the last couple years, has presented at least a couple times in Leamington and Puce. I wish he'd take me up on my offer to up the production value of his content.
For years I've considered starting some classes (which I'm putting in my videos) about a variety of topics, issues, terminology, psyops, and technology. I'm no tech guru, but I can at least teach folks not to use the default shit of Windows for more security/privacy, and introduce them to alternatives, solutions, and tech/communications concepts they otherwise would never have bothered to learn about - but all so laymen could understand. Some of them are even more basic and would benefit from very rudimentary computer basics tips and tricks classes.
I've often considered developing the tech and other curriculum on Projex with Goat/Said forum input - but I doubt enough productive interactivity would make it worth the effort. Resorting to visiting a larger forum would just mean filtering more noise. I'd guess there are already ripe sources to borrow extensively from if I/we looked.
If teaching/presenting a class/lecture, it would make sense to record it - whether to learn what not to do, how to improve the presentation or content, or to edit with or simply post. Naturally constructive development could then be global.
After I have some hopefully high quality LeverMind episodes to share, I'll finally ask my communities for production assistance, a for better or worse can of worms. The first solo hump seems to be the hardest. I imagine it may be similar to hand-building a forum - different as a interactive work-in-progress rather than a work-in-progress series releasing finished products - both similar communications seeking audiences.
The last meetup I did we had 8. So 50 is pretty good.
This org I work with has a tradition of doing a summer hiatus. It's the dumbest thing ever. We lost all momentum. I get it, some of the organizing members doing want to do things while enjoying their summer. But if you have some organizing members that don't mind or making meetups exactly matches their ideal summer why would you shut things down for three months? Now we have to do 10x the work to try to rebuild to where we were in the fall.
much off this will roll over into december, but it was good to write some of this out
I just got done with leaves myself. Wow that was a huge time suck. I think I've given up on building a new pit for bon fires, at least this year. I have some raised beds I need to get rid of because I've stopped gardening. But I want to rebuild one of them into a smaller raised bed that would just host a fire pit. Unique in using wood for a fire pit but the real point is to be really cheap while having something to landscape against. The only thing cheaper would be having random rocks on the ground but that's not friendly for a mower.
Is it gonna be say nigger at work day?
Kill animals.
Eat dead animals.
Take a great shit made from dead animals.
Light a homeless man under a bridge on fire and pretend its you.
BASED
Feel free to make my list your own.