A Plastic Existance

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Hey there, spunky men I know. If you were at all interested in the Beautiful Agony project get yourself into Feck for an interview! At present we are quite short on male contributors.

This project pays $250 cash, you film at home in your own time and space. Your short confessions interview is done when you return your footage to the office.

Check out the site here:

http://beautifulagony.com/public/main.php

On Saturday morning Adam and I went to check out the canopy company we found online, that looked to have good quality marquees at the best prices.

They are awesome!!

We can get a super strong commercial marquee with hexagonal legs and all metal connections and supports. It comes with a 5 year warranty too! All marquees come with a bag, guy ropes, pegs and wall toggles.

It definitely looks like the option of joining together two 3x3's works out cheaper and much better than the 6x3 stand alone marquee.

In terms of functionality, we obviously get much more flexibility with two 3x3's - we can use one or both and these marquees are designed to join together. We can purchase a gutter to run between the two 3x3's for $20 and we get 10% off when we buy 2 marquees making this a cheaper option.

The marquee guy asked us some questions regarding intended usage and pointed out to us when it is windy the gusts will pass between the two peaks on the 3x3's whereas with the 6x3 the wind gets caught in the 'fin' on the top of the marquee. Our current 6x3 cover is damaged and totally stretched out from wind.

There is an awning option for either marquee size, making them a better shelter in general. We saw the awnings on a marquee and they are simple to put up and down. It's $160 to get an awning down one side of the shelter (whether we go with the two 3x3's or the 6x3)

The two 3x3's come with 3 walls each - meaning we can totally enclose the 6x3 structure if needs be, whereas the 6x3 comes with 3 walls, but that means one of the long sides is always open. All of the wall types are of our choosing too, so we can get shade mesh, solid walls, windowed walls or doorway walls ect.

There are printing options also - basically we can pre-decore our marquee, for example with the DMF logo.

Basically for two 3x3's *with* the gutter to join then together it is $1496 - to get a 6x3 it is $1650.

Awnings down one side is $160.

Printing is extra, $313 per 3x3 or $460 per 6x3. I think this is a good option, as we will have decore marquees that will be perfect for any event we put on. Also saves us having to make decore for them for Samsara, for instance.

An example on pricing: if we bought the two 3x3's with a gutter, the awnings down one side and the DMF logo printing on both marquees it would be $2282.

This is a lot of money, yes, but this is an item that is warrantied for 5 years, comes with everything we need and possibly some extras, such as printing if we want it. These marquees are designed and built to last for a long time and anything else we need for it, is very local, they're just over in Bayswater.

Please post your thoughts, comments or questions - we need to get this moving as I do not think our current shelter will survive another round of RSF high winds.

I AM HYPERVENTILATING FROM JOY :D

That's right bitches German Sparkle Party is an official Mad Monday RAINBOW FUCKING SERPENT FESTIVAL event.

I get 3 tickets, advertising and stage time!!!!

*faints*

Ps. EVERYTHING IS AWESOME OMFG

*busts sweet disco moves*



*spining in circles*



YES

We have lift off.

Yesterday Adam, Rowan, Ash and I trekked back out to Lerderderg State Forest and found the perfect site (and a better backup site too):

It's located on:



and



Seems to good to be true no!?

See the map of the precise location here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=-37.504251,144.253469&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.555061,79.013672&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14

This is the view of the dancefloor/main area, from the track.



This is a closer view of the main area (although you can't fully see the cul-de-sacs either side of the d-floor) It's about 30 paces across both ways. The dome/stage would be setup on the opposite side to where I'm standing taking this photo:



Room for about 30 cars close to the main floor:



Plus there's a spot a few hundred metres up the road for DMF vehicles and room along the sides of the track for more cars.

This is up and on the way towards the chill/healing space, my shot of the actual clearing didn't work out and I stupidly took only 1 shot. This area is to the right and behind the main dancefloor area:



Ultimately this is a super lush site, enough of a clearing, lots of trees, a clearing away from the music for chill space and healing. Plenty of spots for camping and a reasonable amount of parking as well. There is a creek in a small gully and on the other side is a huge, pretty much sheer cliff face, it's in the direction we want to point the music at which is perfect!

We also found a backup/emergency site another 6 km's down the road - it isn't as good, but would suffice if we couldn't use this spot at the last minute.

From here we will be contacting the ranger :)

If you took a note out of our house money jar on Friday night to use, you still have it.

There is at least a $50 note missing.

Please check your wallet ASAP and check if you have extra dollars.

It's a pretty sucky situation for us.

Luke D took detailed minutes and he will hopefully get them up online for everyone tomorrow and if not, the following day.

He also filmed all of the meeting, which was a brilliant idea.

Thanks heaps Luke, we all really appreciate your efforts :)

Stop arguing on the internet, please.

It's awful, it's ugly, no one EVER wins and it will all be discussed and hopefully get sorted out tomorrow.

Just one more sleep!

Had totally forgotten about this little gem :D