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Edinburgh Festival Flyers
Engagement rules Breaking the rules About us 2004 photos 2005 photos What we saw
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Getting ready for 2006! So you're walking around Edinburgh during the Festival and everywhere you go there are eager young people trying to entice you to go in to dark cellars or attics to watch them perform. They have a handful of flyers to get rid of, and eagerly push one in to your hand. Whole rain forests have been pulped in to paper to advertise their one man show about environmental awareness. You are aware that it would be churlish to refuse. After all the poor boy is shivering in the street with only his underpants, a feather boa and a strap on bird's beak to keep him warm. You let him give you a flyer - and then give him one that you accepted from the girl just a few yards down the street. With a bottle of wine inside you it seems funny, but he has had that five hundred times already today and it isn't funny any more. And that's when inspiration struck... After all, some of these kids are really photogenic, so I started saying I would swap a flyer for a photo. Now that really did get some weird looks, after all, taking photographs of strangers either means you're a kind of sexually deviant stalker or in to digital satanic soul stealing. I promised I'd put the pictures on the web, and this is what I've done. Kept my promise and that was in 2004. Last year there are a lot more pictures, and since the web site wass set up we were getting them up by the next day - along with a running total weight of flyers received. All flyers were re-cycled, and some shows even attended! But this year we met up with a problem. It has been impossible to get time off to get to Edinburgh, and it looked as if there would be no pictures, but a friend of ours was going, so we plied him with business cards and the rules of engagement, and we await his photos. |
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