Carrcasses 00

I posted this to an audiovisual synchronicity related Facebook group today. Yes, my planned weekend vacation in Second Life is already over… which didn’t happen in the first place of course. My cabin is real enough, however.

I’m back after a shorter than expected vacation. The starfish was tough, the everpresent sun hurt my eyes, and the water tasted like air. I couldn’t sleep on my hard, virtual mattress, so I just decided to abort the thing. I think I’ll be alright in Real Life now as long as I stay indoors the remainder of the weekend and don’t look through the windows at all the white outside. And be thankful that at least I don’t live in a place named Whitehorse or Yellowknife. I’m very excited about recent progress here in synch or sync world and I hope we can get to know each other better in the coming months and years. I personally haven’t made a decision about doing an updated podcast. I’m certainly looking forward to Dave Bytor’s upcoming one, as I enjoyed his 2007 (2008?) entry so much. I think Karl should do a new podcast — it seems he still has a lot to say and challenge us with after all. 🙂 One thing that I think would benefit all of us is to find some way to post synchronicities online in a group pool for potential sharing. Karl and I recently discussed Dave’s Being Geddy Lee, and I think that one would be a target for such a pool. I have a feeling Dave would agree. If we don’t have access to the work that others are doing — at least *one* work 🙂 — then the group will fail, or at least be severely limited, even in comparison to the old days of tape trading. So I think this is our main challenge, and it may be up to the more technically savvy of us to figure out a solution (hint: this is *not* going to be me, har). And I don’t feel *just* samples of synchs are going to be enough. Good work all, once more! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to all the new podcasts, with still a couple to go. I still plan to work on a group history and help save at least the transcripts of the old podcasts, which I enjoyed very much as well. Ideally, I’d like to have transcripts of the new ones, but that may be too much work for someone — we’re all limited in time and have other interests pulling on us. I think the first batch are important to retain because when we did them, we were considerably closer temporally to the excitement of the original, sharing process, which probably culminated around 2002 I suppose, or about the time of Shared Fantasia. Group energy is very important.

Here’s a link to the the older set of podcasts mentioned about. These are all my “syncher” friends. I’ve made some new ones in the last half year, but it takes time to build trust. I’m baker b., obviously.

Interviews, Etc.

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So here’s my follow-up comment to the above post coming several hours later:

I haven’t read the latest comments but I’m figuring stuff out. Just got up from watching a synch and a number of things just clicked into place. Details soon hopefully. Thanks all!

So what happened?