taliesin...meImyself......CONSPIRATORS (8.30.97)

The line up in alphabetical order: Conspirators past and present with something fishy on the burner...

C L A U D I N E . o n c e . h i t h e r

A scholarly friend from my college days with nothing online (yet), but who should: Her retelling of a Breton legend about the city Ker Ys is ripe for a split screen frame-based web interpretation. Back then it was dramatized (and I made a rare but very enjoyable--for me at least--appearance in it). Told through multiple appropriated voices which are woven together with the spatial-symbolism widely deployed by the neo-pagans, it was like a neo-pagan religious ritual without the sentimental Victorian expressions I find forced and unmoving. Unfortunately she had, perhaps still does, something against the written word, a tendency which I don't quite understand. But that retelling greatly influenced my thinking at the time and consequently also my thesis project, which will be online one of these days.

E L L E N . o f . n e t h e r l a n d

A fellow Green Gartside admirer, Ellen uses her personal site as a place for self exploration through a marriage between web technology and her interests in the visual arts. Deploying the technologies efficiently, she has accomplished great visual experiements with gif animation and is currently exploring the artistic license in the frame technology without huge graphic files. Talk about fine art on the web, this is just about the best thing ever/tell baby how did it get so good ;-) [site is in English]

E L L S B E T H . d o w n . s o u t h

My partner in crime for Green Gartside stargazing/cheerleading who's surprisingly more Goth than you'd expect of a Scritti Politti fan. As she's a fiction writer, I shall therefore let her speak for herself through her verbally eloquent personal site--The Wicked Tea Party--with things twisted, but mind you, humorously so.

K A T H L E E N . a l l . o v e r . n y c

Now here's what I'd call a fascinatingly rambunctious woman: A college friend with an amazing eye for treasure-hunting among the rubbish piles. Her beginning of a personal website proffers a sample selection from her voluminous scrapbooks of immaterial treasure trove, with cultural goodies both high and low, new and old.

M A K I N G . M U S I C . i n . l o n d o n

A Scritti Politti scholar proper works for this witty and funny British magazine for musicians. The online version has sample bits from each issues, but the big and glossy real macoy is worth searching for, even if it's just for the humor if you, like me, can't distinguish one instrument from another ;-)

P A T . f o r e v e r . e x i l e d ?

Fellow generalist and my outter space prober. To be appointed taliesin resident Chinese expert in a month or so. Currently, online he is the mastermind behind the HTML-based Pirate game at the fancy-shmancy ultra-graphics-heavy kids' site JINX, which is unfortunately temporarily out of service. Offline he has written a book full of funny encounters with the everyday Chinese during his various trips there. Ironically, he, an Irishman, is more enthusiastic about Chinese culture than I. Home is where the heart does not want to be I guess.