Thursday 29th October- Sunday 1st November

Mayhem Horror Festival pushes the boundaries of the genre to the limits with this year’s weekend of the weird and the wrong.

Night of the Living Dead: ReAnimated

Night of the Living Dead: ReAnimated is a mass collaborative artistic re-envisioning of George A Romero’s cult classic from 1968 Night of the Living Dead. International artists and animators have been invited to reinvent scenes from the film, using any means at their disposal from oil paintings, flash, cgi and puppetry, organised and curated across the original films time-line creating a completely original artwork and an experimental take on a horror classic. The completed work will be screened around the Broadway building with a special free screening of the piece held in the Studio.

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According to Chris Cook, Editor with the Forks Forum, there have been several requests for pictures from the area to be included in Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight – Directors Notebook:

Photos and photo permissions of Twilight-related images were sought in January from Forks sources including the Forks Forum. The City of Forks was asked to give permission for use of the landmark Welcome to Forks sign, and the sign appears on an advance release copy of the book’s cover. Photos of a visit by Hardwicke to Forks High School were also requested from the high school. The Forks Forum provided photos of Hardwicke and members of her production staff scouting locations at First Beach at LaPush in Jan. 2008. In addition, Twilight producer Jamie Marshall requested a copy of the Forks Forum from late Jan. 2008 that featured Hardwicke at First Beach on the front page.

Downtown Forks stores that handle Twilight items are planning ahead for the Twilight DVD release. Annette Root, co-owner of the Dazzled by Twilight store on N. Forks Avenue, told the Forks Chamber of Commerce meeting held Wednesday, Feb. 4, that she is planning an event the night of Friday, March 20. She is renting the Rainforest Arts Center to handle the overflow crowd she is

Attending Mayhem Horror Film Festival this weekend to see Mum and Dad a debut feature film from Writer/Director Steven Sheil.

Not really a horror film fan but want to support Steven who is part of Nottingham creative community. I’ve posted about mum and dad earlier so type mum and dad into search bar for details of the film’s release schedule.

You can see a trailer here.

Mayhem is playing at the Broadway Cinema, Nottingham 31st Oct to 2nd Nov.

It is co-organised by Writer/Director Chris Cooke amongst others. Chris directed the feature One For The Road back in 2003.

Recently I spent a week in beautiful countryside of Hertenstein, Switzerland, 30 minutes around the lake from Luzern, immersed in conditions created to support the development and emergence of 6 people eager to contribute to the Spiral Dynamics Group (SDG) as potential trainers. Co-leading with Christopher Cooke, new insights were revealed and seen by me, as result of dedicated, intensive and protracted interaction with Chris while “training” others.

One of those insights relates to an “open wave.”

I’ve known Cookie, as he is often called, for about 5 years now, our paths crossing in various cities across the US and many phone conversations related to the future of SDG. Chris has used a metaphor of an open wave for several years now in speaking about the process of emergence. The nuanced thing about metaphors, is they either connect and offer meaning and guidance or they miss. The open wave has usually missed with me, that is until last month. The context of this training, from Chris’ point of view is act as if we operate from second tier, which intrinsically means beyond yellow into the space of turquoise. Co-leading for the last 3 years with Don, the premise focus tends to emphasize yellow, leaving turquoise to the imagination and co-opting of first tier minds. My 10-day interaction served as an entre to dipping, full bodied, open hearted and mind twisting into a sequence of state experiences more closely aligned with turquoise than I have recognized before, leaving behind a flow that I have been surfing in ever since.

Here’s a cool video to bring the imagery and experience of surfing to this post.

As I watch in video form; what it’s like to surf a wave, I notice that, metaphorically, for the entire time I have been surfing at all (I’ll admit..much of my life has been spent on the beach…maybe even to the parking lot…not venturing into the water all) I have been inside the breaking water. Lately, and you can read several posts on my blog, here, I have written about being more in the break, where it is messy and hurts and I spill all over everything. Manly, however, I’ve gotten very good at breaking through the barriers, finding the open wave just long enough to return to the pipe waiting for the next break to appear in front of me, then working on the breaking though to the open again.

The biggest impact of revisiting the open wave metaphor, for me, was in the realization that it was time move out in front of the “breaking”, into the wide open space where the boundaries, instead of always being in front of me, shift behind me. In fact, the entire world of boundaries closes off behind me when I stay in the open wave.

Gulp!

Yet, notice that in surfing, no boundaries doesn’t mean chaotic, directionless abandon. In the open wave, as a surfer I am held in place by the momentum of the movement of the wave in combination with the competencies of practiced surfer. Controlled freedom in awareness of my surrounding conditions. AND I notice, in this place “the pulse” of the prime directive, or the pulse of evolution keeps me grounded, aligned and totally connected.

I think I might have the “hang” of the open wave. Ooops, there I go again, back in the break. Oh, well. It’s a good thing my capacity for resilience is active and strong. Getting up and out in front of the wave again is becoming easier too.