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.

Sunday as usual

Not much going on today but then again, tons of stuff is happening all the time. Right now we are just trying to focus on the things we feel are the most important. Or as Tony Gustavsson said yesterday during the Sweden vs Denmark game in football: "You want to "act" and not "react"!"

I like this line of thinking. It is really easy to say. Let's act. Let's try and practice "acting". Uhm. Somethings missing here.

Ok, so on the list of todays "have duns" we can find:

♥ mails to different service-providers considering the public-streaming part of the project

♥ conversations with our bandwidth provider for select feeds to different public locations

♥ baked bread - "Ciabatta" like

♥ cleaning up of mailing-list (rooted out dead addys among other things)

♥ more text to be used on news sites

♥ washing clothes

We are still looking for sponsors willing to give us flowers - any amount is GOOD!

We are still working out details on The World March for Peace manifestation.

We still have tons of things to do but... it is Sunday. So cruising softly is ok. It is. Really.

That's it for now.

Peace.

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!

Kulturhuset - Mabel and no meeting

So I was on my way to a meeting with Mabel, the swedish coordinator of The World March for Peace and Non-violence but somehow we were planning on meeting different days. No meeting then! Standing there in front of Kulturhuset, I thought - great, this will give me another 2 hours to think about who to call considering the videostuff we are planning.

We were planning on working with this kewl video-artist that works with surveillance-cameras and modification of perceived occurrences through time-manipulations but the way it looks now, he is too busy to get involved. We will have to look for someone else. I have a few ideas but still, I need to make some calls to find the right person for this. Not only do this person need to understand the concept of mediating the Bed-in but also be tech savvy and perhaps have some experience in live editing and web-streaming. Not the most common professional profile but I'll call my good friend JP and check if he might have an opening somewhere with someone.

Andrea has gone to Norway and well, while working long-distance can be productive nothing beats sitting in the same room, around the same table. We will just have to keep pushing when she comes back. Still, Google Docs is a fantastic thing. Hooray.