City Foods and Thistle Byre Farms 101 – a short presentation intended to update the public, members, and volunteers, of City Foods progress and mission. Abbey Abbott-Rider will also provide a background of her family-run farm, Thistle Byre Farm. Ms. Abbott-Rider, Nurse Practitioner, will also speak about the nutritional benefits of eating whole, local foods.

After the presentations, we were able to chat with Mary Lehmkuhl of City Foods to get the run down of the food co-op.

Be sure to check out the City Foods calendar for upcoming events.

The music we used in this show was Gepel’s Astart from their album, Moducué. You can download it from the freemusicarchive.org

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In this soundscape you will hear various speeches, conversations, and the various other noises that occurred during the 4 and 1/2 hours we were at the protest. We apologize for the microphone grumbles and audio drop-outs near the end.

Click here for audio interviews from the Bill Ayers Protest at Purdue University

People started forming around the city block near the building, some of them belonging to the Citizens in Action and Purdue University College Republicans groups. Bill Ayers was scheduled to speak at 7PM that evening. We decided to interview those active in the protest and passerby from 5PM until about 9:30PM.

The full interview is listed below. To listen to the interviews broken down by Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, click the “There’s more! Continue reading” link below and then download the appropriate segment you want.

A soundscape of the protest will be uploaded in the coming week.

Individual Question Audio

Click here for a soundscape from the Bill Ayers Protest at Purdue University

We attended the three pillars of comedy put on by the Purdue improv group, The Crazy Monkeys. The night consisted of three different types of comedy: short form, long form, and sketch. The Ship of Fools, The Crazy Monkeys, and the University tWits performed each of these styles respectively.

We recorded the introduction to night given by Shauvon at Hot Box Pizza, followed by Andrew’s warm-up of the crowd before the Ship of Fools came out on stage.

Download audio file (themediacollective.org-introduction-04-03-2009.mp3)

We missed the intro to the Crazy Monkey’s show at Greyhouse so we don’t have anything recorded there.

Before the third installment of this great even started, I managed to snag an interview with a member of the Crazy Monkeys (Logan?). We talked about the night, how he become a member, and the process of animating imaginary people.

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And, like the idiots we are, nothing of the University tWits was recorded. So there you have it, an incomplete documentation of the nights events. Enjoy!

We took our recorder to the gallery walk last night and recorded some of the street performers. If you have never been on a Gallery Walk, you should. It’s a great time to see local art exhibits, enjoy some live music, drink free wine and eat some free food. A very enjoyable time.

The flyer can be downloaded from the Tippecanoe Arts Federation website.

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Download Downtown Lafayette Gallery Walk Audio Collage 08-01-2008

When it was time to go, I headed towards downtown Lafayette. I parked the car in the 5th street garage and walked over to the address, 514 Main St. The office was setup in a decent size space, easily accommodating those that were in attendance. By the time the speakers started, the place was packed with local officials, young Obama supporters outfitted in the various Obama clothing lines, and several people draped in the campaign garb for local people running.

As usual, I recorded the whole thing. Below you will find MP3s of the entire speech, and each speaker’s speech as its own separate file. Further down, we included a short list of things we learned from attending this event. Enjoy listening to your local politicians.

Listen to the full event
Download audio file (obamaofficeopening-07-19-2008.mp3)
Download the full event (38:34)

The speaking order for this event was:

1. Christine Schellack (audio download) (1:57) Download audio file (christineschellack-07-19-2008.mp3)
2. Joe Hogsett (audio download) (3:20) Download audio file (joehogsett-07-19-2008.mp3)
3. John Polles (audio download) (2:25) Download audio file (johnpolles-07-19-2008.mp3)
4. Nels Ackerson (audio download) (7:29) Download audio file (nelsackerson-07-19-2008.mp3)
5. Birch Bayh (audio download) (23:27) Download audio file (birchbayh-07-19-2008.mp3)

Things we learned from this event:

• Sheila Klinker wears very large platform shoes.
• Four years ago in the Democratic Party primary barely 300,000 people votes. In this past Democratic Party primary, 1.3 million people voted.
• You should know the full names of the people you are introducing at a function, such as this. Joe Hogsett will be posting an article on his blog dealing with this topic.
• Clapping will pickup very loudly on our audio setup.
• Elected politicians wear suits. Campaigning politicians wear polos.
• Politicians can be very loud and very quiet, depending on microphone placement.
• Young people are exciting in a campaign.
• Obama supporters have energy, representing an Americana from 200 hundred years ago.
• Senator Burch Buy is change embodied—he is the champion for change in the State of Indiana.
• Nels Ackerson and Birch Bayh graduated from Purdue’s School of Agriculture.
• Obama’s daughters are going to have an opportunity to participate fully in every aspect of American life with that glass ceiling fully removed, because of the leadership he is going to give to this great country that we love.
• Birch Bayh was a fighter, from the beginning, for civil rights. Voting hard votes that cost him cotes.
• We are going to bring to an end, judging people based on the complexion of their skin.
• We can reclaim the greatness of America, both home and abroad. We can do that in this State, Indiana, because this State will be blue.
• For the Democrats to win in West Lafayette—that is change.
• If we can put somebody on the moon, we should be able to find a solution to breast cancer and some of these other types of cancers.
• The word change has been mentioned a few times.
• The Democratic process usually works.
• Birch Bayh was involved in the actively involved in the civil rights movement and in Title 9.
• Joe Hogsett was the first campaign manager for Evan Bayh when he was running for Secretary of State.
• Moving towards the common good is great.
• Birch Bayh grew up with a grandmother and grandfather who said, “If you can’t say something good about somebody, don’t say anything.”
• Birch Bayh would like the record to show that he did not say anything bad about the President.
• Children laugh at times of war.
• All of Congress laughs at President Bush.
• It’s much better to have local change than federal change. You can see the people’s faces.
• It is important to put together teams.
• The time has come for some who may know neighbors who are Democrats, but don’t like the complexion of our nominee. Time to have a sit down with that individual and some other folks and say, “Hey. What’s really important? What he looks like or what he is going to do?”
• People in Indiana have feelings they are not proud of.
• Birch Bayh has bathed himself in an old sawmill pond.
• Hoosiers are Christians and love it when politicians hark back to the New Frontier era and quote John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK).

It turns out there used to be one here for thirty years that finally died in the mid-90s. It’s time to bring this idea back to downtown Lafayette. If anyone has a inexpensive place that would need a little fixing up, please contact them!

Download audio file (newschannelinternet-lafayettefoodcoop-05-01-2008.mp3)
Download the Lafayette Food Co-Op Interview

Contact Information:

E-mail: lafayettefoodcoop [a] yahoo.com
Website: http://cityfoods.club.officelive.com/

The co-op is in the very early planning stages, so be on the lookout for further developments. If you want to help out with this project, please contact them at the above address. We are very excited about the possibilities with this project. Please support local food, media, and community.

Perhaps you have seen the people standing along State Road 26 holding signs in protest of abortion. Maybe you tried to engage them in conversation. Maybe some of you yelled your own slogans from your cars. We went out and asked them Who-What-Where-When-Why-How.

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Download: News Channel Internet – Life Chain Interviews (24:48)

A few things first: We apologize for the quality of the audio. We sat outside (too beautiful of a day to pass up [and one person did not have shoes]). We only had one lapel microphone. For the setup we did have, we’re pretty pleased.

Will and Tim, two brothers making a feature length documentary called Hitching for Humanity, set out on a journey in search of random acts of kindness and to show the world that beautiful people still exist. They started in Massachusetts and plan on ending up in California. This interview covers their stop in West Lafayette, Indiana on the campus of Purdue University. They plan on submitting the film to Slam Dance and where ever else the people take it.

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Download: News Channel Internet’s Interview with Hitching for Humanity (11:42)