[Oceania-video] Bumped into Newsreal2

andy nicholson andy at cat.org.au
Sun Jun 19 15:44:14 UTC 2005


hey waz,

ingenious ! like it lots... nice one mate

andy
croatia

On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 08:55 +0000, Warwick Boote wrote:
> >what's yr traffic crossing distro idea?
> 
> 1.  Burn up lots of copies on CD, costs about 20-25c each
> 2.  Rubber stamp the CDs (label printing to much hard work)
> 3.  Cut up some cardboard so that there is a spike that you can put the CDs 
> on (the carboard spike goes through the hole of each of the CDs)
> 4.  Gaffer-tape the cardboard+CDs to a CBD traffic crossing, so that you can 
> take a CD.  Tape it just above where you hit the button to make the green 
> man appear.  You should be able to fit around 10-12 on each one.
> 5.  Add a little sign at eye level saying 'grass roots activist media, plays 
> in most DVD players' or the like
> 
> Experimenting with this method, i found i could burn about 100 copies a day 
> on a 52x burner in the background while at work (advantage of being a 
> drone). And tape them up in my lunch hour.
> 
> N.b. street cleaners in the CBD are _very_ efficient you've only got about a 
> 1.5hr window at lunch (about 12.15pm or so is good)  same in the arvo, about 
> 5pm is good.  Getting that information was kinda fun.  I reccomend whizzing 
> around at the end of lunch and taking the distro points down so they can be 
> reused the next day.
> 
> I distributed around 350 copies of newsreal2 over a week without too much 
> effort.  It would be cool to do some sort of organised blanket of various 
> CBDs when the next one is ready.
> 
> 
> Peace+love+respect,
> 
> Waz.
> =)
> 
> 
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andy nicholson <andy at cat.org.au>
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