Traveling AiR Flag

PERFORMANCE 2008 TOUR

2008-05-13T13:15:00.002+01:00

Trying to get the flag from one concert to the next will be quite a challenge. It will also not be possible in some cases because travel time between shows is just simply to short.

Because this pass of the flag is for concerts and you won't be allowed the normal time frame with the flag, you will remain on the list for a future time if you wish. This special concert tour doesn't affect the normal list in any way. Once the tour is over, we will resume the normal list.

Because of the additional requirements for coordinating the travel to each venue during the tour, we will need you to follow these instructions to the letter. ONCE YOU HAVE PURCHASED TICKETS, send an email ensuring that you cover each item:
1. ETS Name
2. First Name
3a. Phone Number (indicate whether cell or home)
3b. (If you are not already on the list) Complete Mailing Address
4. Venue(s) (city, state)
5. Seating (list the section or GA)
6. We need to know if you can ship the flag Next Day Air (Also, if you can receive it.)
7. We need to know if you are willing travel, how far, and on what date to pass it off to the next person for the next concert. (Also, for getting the flag.)

Please, Please, Please:
Do not send an email before you have purchased tickets. Do not sign up for this providing information that you aren't sure you will be able to do. Do not say you will travel etc without calculating the costs and time requirements. If you can only attend a concert without traveling before or after; if you won't have enough money or the time to send Next Day Air first thing the next morning, then say exactly that! Just be honest and we will get it figured out.

Oneel @ Glastonbury

2008-05-13T12:26:00.001+01:00

On Feb 03, 2008, Oneel posted this video and message on ETS:
This is the flag yesterday......it was damned freezing. Sorry for the wait, I`ve just been crazy busy recently. I put some Glastonbury mud in there too...it sells on e-bay apparently so I thought our lil` flag could use some.

Oneel @ Somerset

2008-05-13T12:11:00.002+01:00

After Oneel sent the video in, he disappeared and fell out of contact. We all didn't really know what to think. Months went by, and we feared the flag was lost for good. YKWYA began making a new one. Just as he was about to complete it, Oneel returned to ETS with some shocking news:
On Apr 26, 2008, "Hey, sorry its taken so long for a reply. You wouldn`t believe it but I`ve been busy having surgery on my brain..."

We're glad you're alright my friend!

kagey @ Wirral

2007-11-14T22:48:00.000+00:00

18/10/07

…And so it lands.
Its trip is lengthy due to postal strikes, screwing up my timetable.
To future bearers of the flag, make sure you plan out your main ports of call and make sure your team is highly trained, available, and willing.

Restructuring of the cloth

The flag arrives somewhat haphazardly created from a large sheet, folded and tied in place making the first session with the flag somewhat messy.

The decision was made to give it some shape and unattached the patches to re-stitch them, as they were pinching the fabric. However there are no gifted seamstress's.

So out came the gaffa tape.

Making our Mark

Jay adds a Liver Bird to the flag, the emblem of Merseyside.

Whilst I add my number.

On with the show

I had a number of shots I wanted to get...
CLICK, CLICK, BOOM!

Welcome to the Wirral!
That’s where we stood at the entrance the motorway. As we took this pic, the Police pulled up on our right. Needless to say we legged it!

Subliminal Advertising
Standing at the side of a busy main road at peak travel time.

Superlambbanana
Created by Japanese artist Taro Chiezo
As a statement warning of the dangers of genetically modified food using two of the main imports from Liverpool’s heyday as a trade and commerce capital… You guessed it, Bananas and Sheep

When in Rome...

…Mr Lennon-
Art as Resistance, need we say more?

…Miss Eleanor Rigby-
Keeps Warm

…Yellow Submarine-
The Beatles were recruited to save Pepperland by bringing joy back to the land via music. Built 5 minutes from me in the world famous Cammell Lairds shipyard in 1984. Pictures are crap quality due to security taking a particular interest in us… Night time photography with unfamiliar flags outside international airports doesn't bode too well!!!

Year Zero-
I live next to an Oil Refinery and thought we'd get some decent YZ style Imagery.

13/11/07

The Flag continues its journey, heading to the south west of UK to reside with Oneel.

Update from Kagey

2007-11-03T06:11:00.000+00:00

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perchee @ Celje

2007-10-10T05:21:00.000+01:00

There's something cursed about the flag being in this town... or it's
just the impression I leave on by passers while doing stunts with the
flag! After all, I'm alone in this since people don't participate
because they're at work, or tired from work, or don't want to be in a
part of some internet movement... lame!

Anyway, I've been given quite a few weird/angry looks while trying to
pull some of the stunts. I even swallowed the tough questions of, "Why the
hell do I need to do this?" or "Shouldn't you get a job?" (which is
funny; I lost one not long ago - not my fault). But then when I got home
and the images just wouldn't open (which is weird, previous images are
there) - that really blew my hat off.

So later, my wife and I went out to shoot a few images until
the camera battery died on us... I told you this city and the flag were not
compatible!

The flag and the city of Celje:

After the September floods on the shore of the city's main river.

The way to old abandoned industrial zone.

The model is resistance!

The sign on the wall under the bridge says "government power is suppressing us". We thought it fits to the flag.

yeh, he likes it.

The flag in front of the city hall. Out of a big number of images, this is the best one that turned out.

A few days later I met with Ishtmail, Caramell, Dianne and
her sister for our tiny meet where we signed the flag and sent it on to the
UK.

Ishtmail signs the flag

Caramell signs the flag

Dianne signs the flag

Perchee signs the flag

The sign-up ended. Dianne and the other ladies later added
the bling-blingy flag patches but.. that's for the next flag holder to
post.

cheers-
perchee

Dianne @ Postojna

2007-10-03T00:54:00.000+01:00

I wish I could do more with all the time that I had, but somehow life (also weather) got in the way, so these 7 photos are all I can contribute. It was very cool to be a part of this and I hope the flag will one day come to Slovenia again, so we can all show it an even better time.
I'll just get on with my descriptions.

September 13, 2007

1 Taking a bath

The flag was very dirty when I got it, it has obviously been through a lot before arriving to Slovenia, but even after scrubbing it, some of the filth just wouldn't come off so it's all a part of the flag now. Which is good, because it gives it character. At least it ended up smelling nice! After being washed it sat in the corner for quite a while as me and my sister could not find time to take it out. When we finally did make time, a problem arose: where to take it? Postojna is a small town with a population of a few thousand. Not much interesting architecture around (at least not in the direct vicinity of the city), not a very urban place and not very rural either. We just had to make do with what was around.

September 25, 2007

2 Downtown Postojna

First, we took it to the very centre of the town where an abandoned hotel set for demolition has been amusing tourists and locals alike with its proclamation for love of Spice Girls. It was actually done by the local graffiti artist possibly with the intent of pissing off local cops that had been trying to stop the recent flood of graffiti. It worked.

3 Postojna Cave

Then we went to the Postojna Cave, which is our town's biggest attraction. It's a system of caves spreading 21 km (13 miles) underground - at least the parts open to tourists. The photo was taken at the exit. It's not the photo I wanted to take but there were just too many tourists crowding around to do it the way I had planned. Anyway, the cave is the most awesome and magical thing ever and if you ever decide to visit Slovenia, you HAVE to see it. It has a little train and everything!

The rest of the photos were taken by the river in the park near the cave.

4 Animals

The flag and me, posing in front of some moss animals.They were kinda scary. I don't know why it seemed like a good idea to put farm animals on a river. Or why I felt the urge to snap a photo of them. But here they are.

5 River Pivka

Me and my sister holding the flag above river Pivka just as it is about to enter the cave (and come out somewhere completely different). It's basically the river that made the cave (and a lot of other interesting things on the way). It's not usually that dirty, by the way, it's just that there has been a lot of rain and whatnot.

6 Resting

After all that photo-taking the flag rested for a minute in our lovely park.

7 See you again!

See you again!

Dianne

Ishtmail @ UK and Slovenia

2007-09-12T19:45:00.000+01:00

The trip around UK was incredible, and to think that we were lucky enough to have probably the best UK NIN show of this tour exactly when we were tripping around makes my skin crawl.

Right, YKWYA and I got together with a bunch of other ETS members on aug. 29th, the day before the show, in Wolverhampton. The next day was gig day, and we camped outside the Civic Hall from 9:30 in the morning (some people even came at 3 in the morning, the crazy bastards).
The show was intense, mindblowing... And to top everything, Caramell (my girl) got 2 picks from Jeordie (one of which was the last pick he used on the show, on Hurt!), and YKWYA's brother got another pick himself...
After the show we each went our own ways, but before that, an official flag handover was done.

The flag (and me and my girlfriend along with it) then travelled back to Birmingham, where we took this photo:

If you followed the nin.com homepage, you've seen the 'Birmingham beach' photo that they had up on August 29th... This photo of the flag was taken at that same beach.

nin.com photo inserted

We then went on a late night bus to Scotland... Forgot to take any photos in Edinburgh, but we remembered at the infamous lake of Loch Ness.

The lake is beautiful, and although we didn't see the monster, we sure had a monstrous time. But only for a day...

Next stop was the hauntingly beautiful Isle of Skye, where we stayed at a hostel, owned by Lord MacDonald, the chief of the clan Donald... Lovely old chap, very nice and friendly. Isle of Skye has all the beauties of Scotland thrown into a small package... I'd love to retire there one day...

But all good things come to an end... A hop on a bus to Glasgow (where, again, we forgot to take photos of the flag!), and then a plane to London and Ljubljana.
Yesterday, we went round Ljubljana and took these photos:

This is our capital city's main park... The promenade seen here is now an openair photo gallery.

Underpasses in Ljubljana are full of grafitti art... Resist!

This is our nation's greatest poet, Dr. France Preseren. A pedophile and a drunk...

The 3 bridges of architect Joze Plecnik... This is the centre of ljubljana's life.

Ljubljanica is the river running through Ljubljana, and quite lovely this time of year.

The Dragon Bridge. Dragon is Ljubljana's symbol.

YKWYA @ Birmhingham & Wolverhampton

2007-08-31T11:47:00.000+01:00

We received the latest batch of photos from YKWYA. He went to the concerts at Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

Here's what he sent:

Hey guys I'm BACK! Holy Shit what a great two shows. The only problem was that the security at both shows wouldn't let us hang the flag out. Birmingham let us for the first few minutes then we had to taken it down! Wolverhampton wouldn't let us hang it out at all!!! thanks to Lorena and the other girls (one girl I think was Irish but I didn't catch her name, although we met again at the front in Wolverhampton) for helping me out! and to Reznik and honey_dorian in Birmingham.

Wow! I'm excited. Great to meet Ishtmail and Caramell (two awesome people) I was sad to see them go!

BUT! You can just make the flag out on this video from NIN Official from Birmigham! Its just in front of Aarron. Awesome!

Screen capture:

Sorry for all the exclamation marks guys but wow - I am still excited. The shows were awesome and it was great to meet everyone form ETS in person.

My brother and I were just to the left of the girl with red hair in Wolverhampton so if we had of been able to hang the flag out it would have been an awesome picture from nin.com

Hotel is Resistance: the flag took a beating down the front in Birmingham, trodden on, got wet, so we had to leave it drying in the room while we went to Wolverhampton for the day.

Art Gallery: this was a cool exhibition

Caramell, Ishtmail, Reznik, Me and honey_dorian. And ishtmail keeping 'tambourine resistance' alive!

Some picks we caught from Jeordie! My brother almost got a tambourine! Damn.

YKWYA

List

2007-08-30T08:14:00.006+01:00

Arkansas:
[spider.borland] (Fayetteville)
California:
Bitchgoddess (Santa Rosa)
ninature (San Gabriel)
Trentsinmypants (San Diego)
Little Girl (Agoura Hills)
xtattooed.photographerx (Sun Valley)
Colorado:
clothedinwinter (Denver)
Florida:
CapitalC212 (Sunrise)
Georgia:
Sheep_Vessel (Decatur)
Illinois:
Triple_A (Niles)
Indiana:
karenw (Mishawaka)
Louisiana:
bjgrem (Baton Rouge)
Kansas:
bwary (Overland Park)
nhale_xhale16 (Hutchinson)
tekkaman42 (Wichita)
Maine:
Ral878 (Acton)
Massachusetts:
Fadeout54321 (Allston)
Michigan:
hiddenhills (Kalamazoo)
Minnesota:
Disafect666 (Eagan)
Mississippi:
nintoxication (Columbus)
Missouri:
acid13lipgloss (St. Louis)
fishskater (St. Louis)
Pimco (Belton)
Nebraska:
Wrath (Omaha)
New Jersey:
K4mpf3r (Mount Royal)
Oklahoma:
anti (Edmond)
Pennsylvania:
necroidian (Abbottstown)
Tennessee:
butterfly42080 (Elizabethton)
Texas:
elphaba (Burleson)
NoLifeKing (San Antonio)
robotmonkey (Richardson)
wikkid_texan1 (Houston)
Valdark (Corpus Christi)
Washington:
sorrow (Bellingham)
BlossomRazor (Lacey)

Australia:
Artemisian (New South Wales)
AnitaH (Victoria)

Belgium:
Spectrious (West-Vlaanderen)

Finland:
MrThunderfield (Helsinki)

Germany:
Masma (Hessen)

Mexico:
Chaosvortex (Mexico City)

People's Republic of China:
norepinephrine (Hong Kong)

Russian Federation:
nordlyss (Moscow)

Slovenia:
~~Dianne (Postojna)~~ #3
~~Ishtmail (Ljubljana)~~ #2
~~perchee (Celje)~~ #4

Sweden:
Slechmiinh (Göteborg)

United Kingdom:
cissmiace (Chesire, England)
DontDrinkTheWater (Oxfordshire, England)
FreaK_AudiO (Belfast, N. Ireland)
~~kagey (Wirral, England)~~ #5
Miij & JohnnyMercyside (Portsmouth, England)
Oneel (Somerset, England) #6
~~YKWYA (Cumbria, England)~~ #1