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  1. Marcel

    i love father bob

    Marcel replied to planthelper's topic in Chill Space

    I love my father.
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    2013 Camping Trip - East Coast - Blue Mountains - May

    Marcel replied to Bread Filter's topic in Chill Space

    If you want I'll play some Nickelback through a distortion pedal at the camp, Bread Filter. You won't tell the difference.
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    2013 Camping Trip - East Coast - Blue Mountains - May

    Marcel replied to Bread Filter's topic in Chill Space

    Breadfilter, I think people are talking about the 27th-28th of April, so you should be good.
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    2013 Camping Trip - East Coast - Blue Mountains - May

    Marcel replied to Bread Filter's topic in Chill Space

    I'm 95% sure I'm coming. I'm looking forward to catching up with you good people, and meeting some new souls. Funnily enough, I ran into Justler in the forest out that way last week. Near where the SAB autumn camp was in 2012. Also: I think I might have an awesome new camp-site...
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    Heya. I'm in the market for a new tent at the moment. A few people at last year's EGA had those cute SoulPad tents which look ace. There's another company called Psyclone Tents that have a very similar product (which I like a little better, actually). I know they're a bit expensive but they're darn nice things. Anyone own one of these? What should I be aware of? Is the 4 metre size sufficient for a family of 4 that doesn't mind cuddling up together at night?
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    Edible mushrooms of 2013 - photos, etc

    Marcel replied to Zen Peddler's topic in Mycology

    I live for slipperies! Slice them, peel them, dry them until they're cracker dry and store them well. Add to to stews and soups for earthy flavour. The smell of drying slipperies IS my childhood! My first hunt of the season this weekend. I'm sleepless with excitement.
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    If I could grow gooseberries in Sydney, I'd remove every single plant from my garden and replace it with a gooseberry bush.
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    Wow! Ajna! That Outer Space one is awesome! What's your background, artistically speaking?
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    If that fellow in the videos is me, then this is Psylo: here.
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    Big white shroom??

    Marcel replied to Jox's question in Fungus Identification

    Not all Amanitas are poisonous, but it's a genus you don't want to experiment with. There are Amanita vernicoccora which, as far as I know, don't exist in Australia. They're edible, but fuck me, they look so much like Death Caps that it makes me shiver to think that you could eat them. And as for the original mushroom posted here, it is likely to be something of the Macrolepiota genus, but just be aware of Chlorophyllum molybdites, which look a lot like Parasol mushrooms, but are quite toxic. They're much more common than Macrolepiotas too, at least in the Sydney area.
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    It's an interesting question, and it's been the backbone of art theory for the last 150 years. I know that dirty feeling that comes from tech aided music making, but I take a Barthesian perspective on these things. Whether something qualifies as music or not (or art, or literature, or whatever) has nothing to do with the author. The audience is what makes it music. (And audience can be as simple as the maker.) I used to live in New York many years ago and for a while I worked as a photographer's assistant. I'd occassionaly work for this guy who spent his whole life refining an elaborate multiple exposure technique that meant he could layer 6 or so seperate images onto one sheet of film, all in camera. The images were disgusting and boring, but that's almost beside the point. The agonising thing was how every time he presented or exhibited these images he would barrage his audience with the fact that this was a complicated technique that didn't use photoshop. Did anyone care? No. Anyone could replicate this technique on photoshop in 20 seconds. To hold on so frantically to the technical component of your art is somewhat delusional. Especially when that technique was THE ONLY thing of note in this guy's images. It's similar with music. It might not be as fun to make music when the machine makes it super easy, and it certainly does rob the ego out of the music, but I'm hard pressed to agree that that fact alone doesn't make it music if the listener thinks that it is.
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    Hey! That's awesome, guys! Reminds me of late Soft Machine stuff, post Robert Wyatt. I can almost hear an atonal soprano sax solo about to start towards the end! My noodles are no where near as accomplished or sophisticated as that, but here are the few that I've put up on Soundcloud. (There are more, but none that I feel are finished yet.) https://soundcloud.com/aieamits
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    Great thread. My background is in video and performance art, so I've always played around with sound, but not in any real "musical" way until about a year ago. Just a few months ago I got one of the new Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar basses. The Squier factory screwed up big time and has started making exceptionally good instruments. It's incredible. All the bass forums are raving about it. I have a few bass friends who say that it plays and sounds nicer than their American custom Fender basses, at a quarter of the price. It also has both a P and a J pick up arrangement, which is nice and versatile. I have a nice and big Roland 200w bass amp that sounds more like it has 500w to it. Lovely tone. I have a little Korg microkeys 2 octave midi keyboard which has changed everything for me. I can plug it into my iPad too and have nearly everything I need with me when playing live. Speaking of the iPad... Man, what an amazing tool! I thoroughly recommend the app Loopy. It's like a looping/phrase sampler pedal but WAAAY more versatile. And it only costs about $5! I use it with my bass guitar going into the ipad as well as the midi keyboard and have heaps of fun. There's an amp modelling app I use called JamUp which is phenomenal. And a nice Reason-ish app called NanoStudio, with lots of great synth sounds. There's even a Kaosilator app made by Korg which, by all accounts, is exactly the same as the real thing, for under $20. Maybe you guys should start posting links to Soundcloud so that we can hear your stuff?
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    2013 Camping Trip - East Coast - Blue Mountains - May

    Marcel replied to Bread Filter's topic in Chill Space

    Hillbilly. You're my hero.
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    NSW Police warn of 'Gangnam Style' acid

    Marcel replied to waterboy 2.0's topic in Chill Space

    Such terrible misinformation. Gangnam is certainly NOT hip hop.
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    The cutest SABling competition

    Marcel replied to bogfrog's topic in Chill Space

    Damn it. I missed this thread. I have a photo of me at the age of 1 that even has ethnobotanical interest! That's a Boletus edulis, if anyone's wondering...
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    2013 Camping Trip - East Coast - Blue Mountains - May

    Marcel replied to Bread Filter's topic in Chill Space

    And I'm not going to be the only one to bring nangs this time.
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    Enjoyable non-sugar drinks. Are there any?

    Marcel replied to Distracted's topic in Chill Space

    Incog's jizz. Now THAT'S a beverage.
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    2013 Camping Trip - East Coast - Blue Mountains - May

    Marcel replied to Bread Filter's topic in Chill Space

    You know it boys.
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    2013 Camping Trip - East Coast - Blue Mountains - May

    Marcel replied to Bread Filter's topic in Chill Space

    Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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    I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but it's out-fucking-rageous. link: http://www.rollingst...a-joke-20121213
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    Summer Camp - December 8,9

    Marcel replied to watertrade's topic in Chill Space

    I'm still super keen but won't be able to make any weekends this year. Bummer! I miss you guys! I wore my EGA shirt to bed last night and dreamed of EGA and realised this morning that EGA was a year ago and that's when I met a lot of you lovely people. I wanna catch up soon! You're all good people!
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    x x

    Marcel replied to Psylo's topic in Chill Space

    Who's C Palmer?
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    watertrades Birthday!!!

    Marcel replied to Amazonian's topic in Chill Space

    Woot woot! Happy birthday, fellow Septemberian! -M
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    x x

    Marcel replied to Psylo's topic in Chill Space

    Two things about which I'm shocked, and no one else seems to have noticed: 1) This whole thing is about cats, and not va-jay-jay. 2) Psylo and Incog are bonding. That is all.
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