Spearhead takes one for the home team!

As some of you have noticed we've had some issues with a camera. Dropouts in sound and video. We are now happy to present a new sponsor that will lend us a new camera the duration of the Bed-in.

Spearhead!

Today during "Bagism Day" we wore brown paper-bags on our heads for 4 hours. We were totally communicating.

Bedding by Drottningen av Saba

I ran into Ellen Utterström (The queen of Saba) at Wisp´s lecture a while ago and it proved that Ellen makes clothes that are a littlebit like pyjamas, that they feel like you are wearing a pyjamas. So she told us we could borrow some clothes for the week and we are super pleased and we love the outfits.

Thanks to WomenInStagePerformance also for bringing us together!

Herman´s!

Great news! We don´t have to do a hunger strike cous we now have food all week thanks to the vegtarian restaurant Hermans!

Brilliant, exellent, Fantasticastik!
Now we just need someone to bring us the food everyday...

tre days to go.

peace of cake.

Järnia brings the light!

We proudly present another player for the peace-team!
Åke at Järnia wants to provide the flashlights for our Mass Bed-in at Clarion the 29th of Oct!

So here is the deal. The 29th we will make some (white) beds for you to rest on, located to right of the ramp in the lobby of Clarion hotel. While enjoying the comfort of Clarions HighQ beds we will perform a little concert for you before we host the actual Mass Bed-in in which we will play together. Sounds good? Why, yes it is!

Vi presenterar stolt en ny spelare för hemmalaget!
Åke på Järnia ställler upp med ficklampor till vår Mass Bed-in den 29 okt!

Den 29 okt ställer vi upp sängar nere vid rampen vid Clarions lobby. Sen kan man från sängarna se oss göra en liten spelning från sängen. Kom, ligg, sjung med och njut!

Peace!

Happy News and Setbacks

GOOD
Ok, so we met with Peter from Framtidens Team today and it was really a upbeat meeting!
Peter decided he'd go in and give us actual monetary support! We are proud and immensely thankful towards him and his gang over at Framtiden Team. Big thx also to Ewa, who tipped us off!
This means we will be able to go through with ideas we've had for the Bed-in from the get go! Awesome. Truly fantastic.

BAD
On the downside we can share that Cous Cous decided to pull their support for our project. Considering the economic situation at the moment I can't blame them, but too bad, we really felt they were right for us.

Oh, NO!
Now we find ourselves with no sponsor of the food. We have nothing to eat!
Now, If you know of anyone willing to chip in for food, let us know! We do need to eat.

Note to self: Tomorrow, we need to look into the coffee issue, can't do a Bed-in without coffee - you really can't.

We add Billebro to our list of sponsors!

We proudly present Billebro as another sponsor. They are giving us magic mad spons on all things lighting and FX. Without them we'd be lost in the dark - forever.

Billebro gives peace a chance!

Phat Sunday!

A new sponsor has arrived!

As most of you know, if you have followed us here on the blog, we will be broadcasting our Bed-in live over the Internet and show it on monitors on different locations over the city of Stockholm. Of course we invite other places in other countries to pick up our video-feed as well. We have a few leads but more about that later.

Ok, so when looking into the different solutions on what will be our final solution for the technical part of the video-streaming, we have to consider a lot of different aspects and altenatives.
One of the things we are looking into is setting up our own streaming server. Now, running your own streaming server has a lot of benefits but also a few extra kinks you need to consider.
One of the most critical issues is the bandwidth.
Consider that each video-stream in real nice quality requires around 300kps. Now if you do the math you soon realize it poses some serious problems if you are limited to the 2mbit bandwidth I measured in the room at Clarion.
Now we have a solution for this, a new sponsor!
We are happy to present Swelaser that will provide us with sufficient bandwidth in case we opt for using our own streaming-server.

Very cool! Peace.

Spreading the word

Spent the day mailing, among others our super-producer Louise and the boss over at PP - he spoke passionately about football.

Ok, we are now trying to find florists who are willing to support our cause!
If you are a florist or know of any florists who you think would like to help us out, have them contact us!

Wednesday I went on a meeting with Mabel to Kulturhuset. We met with Jaana and Mabel explained what The World March is all about, about the Nuclear Abolition Flame initiated by the mayor of Hiroshima and activities taking place the 2nd of Oct. That's the date when the World March for Peace and Non-Violence will take off in New Zealand. If you've missed it, the march will arrive in Stockholm, Sweden the 28th of Oct, the night of our Mass Bed-in. I Spoke about our plans in conjunction with The World March - the Mass Bed-in. The meeting went well and among other things we spoke about showing the Bed-in at Kulturhuset. It would be fantastic - we won't march for peace but among other things we'll dance for peace.

Anders over at Mellqvist Kaffebar Södermalm said he'd be psyched about showing us on their wall during our Bed-in. Whoa, very close to home but very cool, if he can work it out.

So for now we have Mellqvist Söder, Clarion Söder and perhaps Kulturhuset on our list of places that will show the Bed-in. Where will this end? Heh!

Peace!

Food for the win

During a Bed-in you need to eat. Any activist needs to eat. Today we received the good news that we probably have some good people wanting to help us out by feeding us. This is great news!

Peace!