Alan,
I shall drag myself kicking and screaming into this
new project. Cheers, Reed
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: FLUXLIST: An Historical Atlas of Fluxlist - Proposal
An Historical Atlas of Fluxlist
Fluxlist has effectively evolved into a small community, an example of the
'global village' at its most, well villagy (sp?). Village elders and
village idiots, friends and vague acquaintances, over the back fence
chatters, curtain twitchers, the odd recluse and a whole host of folks who
just go about their daily business, minding their own and showing up at
the odd parish meeting to put their two pennerth in. On occasion
itinerant travellers wander through offering wares varying from the
delightful to the downright dubious. Sometimes the circus turns up and
erects its big-top in the carpark, sometimes hooligans from neighbouring
villages show up and cause fights in the pub. People pass away and are
mourned, people get married, have babies and their neighbours raise their
glasses in acknowledgement. Sometimes new villagers turn up out of the
blue and others up sticks and move away to the city.
The strange thing is that most of the villagers live thousands of miles
away from each other, many have never met any of the others, some have met
but a handful, many can not put a face to the name and most a probably
quite unaware of the existence of some of the remainder.
The idea is this:
To construct an historical and geographical atlas of fluxlist, past and
present.
Each current member of Fluxlist is invited to write about another - a
biographical piece placing that person geographically, historically and
contextually into the story of Fluxlist.
These biographical pieces may be based on truth or complete fantasy.
Pieces may vary in length, there being no maximum or minimum enforced and
may be written in any language deemed appropriate by the author.
Anecdotes and stories of bravery, stupidity or particularly successful
dinner parties, artworks and animals, music and missing weekends. When
and how they joined Fluxlist, motives and mysterious sudden
disappearances. Notable contributions to Fluxlist, faux pas and folly.
Place of birth, date of birth, date of first date and outcome.
Famous/noted/ignored for... Place of abode, distance travelled by
bicycle, bravelled by tricycle and amount of interest in % of learning to
unicycle.
Information on place of abode, including address, city, state, country
etc.
Participants may produce as many 'biographies' as they wish.
Or you could write something completely different.
The aim is document Fluxlist to date, to produce something which records
Fluxlist membership at various levels, not just names but information
about the person, a short biography (as stated) and information about
their geographical location (and their location in time if you so wish).
Entries may be duplicated. In fact duplicate entries, especially about
'active' members, are to be encouraged thus building up a broader view of
the individual.
Eventually the biographies will be used to build up a 'map' of Fluxlist.
The aim is to publish this 'atlas', eventually, as an actual book if costs
are not too prohibitive, and in digital format (PDF and HTML)
Those interested in contributing are kindly requested to let me know
within the next week or so.
Thanks
Alan
