This brings a new meaning to street warfare and keeping yourself undercover
The thrill is in the chase I guess
Liao Yutai: Moustache Commander
Showing posts with label spies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spies. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 August 2010
Something in the Game
I saw this, the move of paint-balling and Laser Quest turns to real life soaking of Water Pistol Games.
This brings a new meaning to street warfare and keeping yourself undercover
The thrill is in the chase I guess
Liao Yutai: Moustache Commander
This brings a new meaning to street warfare and keeping yourself undercover
The thrill is in the chase I guess
Liao Yutai: Moustache CommanderTuesday, 13 July 2010
History in Perspective?
The Lives of Others (2006), gives an interesting account of the GDR before it fell in 1990. I've been somewhat in thought and in question about what the recent history has meant. I've always been fascinated by the Cold War at both the large scale Superpowers side with MAD and that at a much more local scale and human nature, of what society was like working for the system, and acting as the shadows operating the system. Those agents who watched and listened to judge each others next step during the arms race. In context it comes down to political and social views at a broadened scale.
As WW2 ended so began the questioning doubt of the USSR and its role. The movement of capitalism versus communism began. Soon a divided state and nation formed leaving Germany in two halves. Meanwhile, the Berlin Wall became a very real part of the Iron Curtain which remained the border between the east and west cutting Europe in half no less. So a new era in the history of human turmoil began- but without turmoil (just about).
The effects of the 20th Century are still felt very real. In my recent sleepless periods The Forum from the BBC World Service has provided even more questions and thoughts surrounding the effects even now 20 years on. The changes and cultural identity can still be felt being bounced and reflected, soaked up and consolidated into a meaningful feeling. Getting society to feel able to talk of the past without being judged or saying non PC things as we may put it here.
The amount of literature in fact and fiction has become vast in the subject, true stories of the published and unpublished accounts become more available and the fiction stories of so many secret agents and intelligence communities. I do really wonder what it was like to live in that time period, what was it like for the people not working for the government? Will history tell me all I need to know?
As WW2 ended so began the questioning doubt of the USSR and its role. The movement of capitalism versus communism began. Soon a divided state and nation formed leaving Germany in two halves. Meanwhile, the Berlin Wall became a very real part of the Iron Curtain which remained the border between the east and west cutting Europe in half no less. So a new era in the history of human turmoil began- but without turmoil (just about).
The effects of the 20th Century are still felt very real. In my recent sleepless periods The Forum from the BBC World Service has provided even more questions and thoughts surrounding the effects even now 20 years on. The changes and cultural identity can still be felt being bounced and reflected, soaked up and consolidated into a meaningful feeling. Getting society to feel able to talk of the past without being judged or saying non PC things as we may put it here.
The amount of literature in fact and fiction has become vast in the subject, true stories of the published and unpublished accounts become more available and the fiction stories of so many secret agents and intelligence communities. I do really wonder what it was like to live in that time period, what was it like for the people not working for the government? Will history tell me all I need to know?
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Living in a Movie
Experiences Part 2
I was talking about experiences the other day and then last night I heard this on the radio and remembered I had mentioned the same series a few weeks back called "Jon Ronson On ...".
This week is: John Ronson On Living in a Movie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pxng6
I found this quite a worry when listening to it, for I can understand what its like to have to live a world of treachery, lies and deceit at every corner, wondering who is your friend and friends enemies.
This particular episode goes into not just how people have lives which may seem to be only found in a movie, but the consequences of living those lives which always seem so good to us who watch them...
"I want your Fantasy"
Its a scary claim in many respects, so many people would like to be living the life of that portrayed in a movie. Many are action packed or romantic in genre, but others see a light in a most different of corners.
Have we all been sucked in to believing we are all living in the world of fiction... so many TV and film characters, especially those of the undercover police officer type (without wanting to stereotype) are portrayed as living on the edge, close to a thrill, brilliant at there job and working against the flow of the majority.
For example, if you read any of the Ian Rankin Rebus series, we learn of the music, drink and nightmares that travel through Rebus's mind as each crime is committed. As if the ghosts of the past are there to catch him, there to distil fear and upset him. A thought that is only in his mind, but still we can see the pain, and the after effects of all the things in his life's past.
Another example would be that of Proof of Life, when a man is kidnapped in a fictitious South American country called Bogotá, the family strive for his freedom. Meanwhile we see the process of what it takes to release a hostage from captivity.
With these two examples in mind, how long does it take before:
1. You start feeling your living a life portrayed in a book or film
2. You feel like the portrayed in a book or film
3. Begin the route towards schizophrenia or paranoid schizophrenia
The final thing to think about is the impacts this makes not just on your own life and well being, but that of those around you. How do you cope with such things? If you were really living the life of James Bond, would it really be as glamorous as that seen?
I was talking about experiences the other day and then last night I heard this on the radio and remembered I had mentioned the same series a few weeks back called "Jon Ronson On ...".
This week is: John Ronson On Living in a Movie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pxng6
I found this quite a worry when listening to it, for I can understand what its like to have to live a world of treachery, lies and deceit at every corner, wondering who is your friend and friends enemies.
This particular episode goes into not just how people have lives which may seem to be only found in a movie, but the consequences of living those lives which always seem so good to us who watch them...
"I want your Fantasy"
Its a scary claim in many respects, so many people would like to be living the life of that portrayed in a movie. Many are action packed or romantic in genre, but others see a light in a most different of corners.
Have we all been sucked in to believing we are all living in the world of fiction... so many TV and film characters, especially those of the undercover police officer type (without wanting to stereotype) are portrayed as living on the edge, close to a thrill, brilliant at there job and working against the flow of the majority.
For example, if you read any of the Ian Rankin Rebus series, we learn of the music, drink and nightmares that travel through Rebus's mind as each crime is committed. As if the ghosts of the past are there to catch him, there to distil fear and upset him. A thought that is only in his mind, but still we can see the pain, and the after effects of all the things in his life's past.
Another example would be that of Proof of Life, when a man is kidnapped in a fictitious South American country called Bogotá, the family strive for his freedom. Meanwhile we see the process of what it takes to release a hostage from captivity.
With these two examples in mind, how long does it take before:
1. You start feeling your living a life portrayed in a book or film
2. You feel like the portrayed in a book or film
3. Begin the route towards schizophrenia or paranoid schizophrenia
The final thing to think about is the impacts this makes not just on your own life and well being, but that of those around you. How do you cope with such things? If you were really living the life of James Bond, would it really be as glamorous as that seen?
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Porlock
Why this photo?
Have a study of the photography. How much quality does it represent?
Now think about why it has sat waiting at the bottom of this blog for so long...
This is a photo that you should try to connect with the fictional story that has been occurring.
Look at all the photos, what do they all mean? Where do they come from? What kind of things have I been attempting to get across to you?
As this fictional story comes to a close, I will move more towards a true representative side of life. This blog will move in the way it has over the last few months, odd articles, criticism's of what is out there, but with true evidence. No more attaching a web link to the news. Although the idea is to get you to use your imagination. That was the thing about Kirill, it was there to provoke your thoughts.
So with everything to with The Invisible Force, an unfriendly creature who appears and tells you they are watching you. With a grey scaled photo of a dead tree in Porlock, with the eyes of a CD Album from Pink Floyd- Pulse and The Division Bell. Hopefully you will have come to recognise that David has been in much of a struggle. The Guards have not been easy on him, the news reports and media are not much good, and are quite biased depending on what you read and watch. Hopefully, the demons that live will be expelled and "Eyes Only" will finally come up and start to show the truth.
Where do these quotes come from. How do they relate to David's situation?
Hint: from a film with Mel Gibson
Hint: TV series season 3 Criminal Intent
Hint: from a film with Mel Gibson
Hint: Pink Floyd lyrics
The virtues of what was once part of Dark Angel, are finally coming to light. Keep watching this space. A new future a new realisation of what has been going on will slowly be shown.
Hint: Film with Steven Seagal.
And in the words of Alex Leamas, one of John Le Carre's characters:
However, in this world capitalism and communism have no room left to play.
We will look beyond our ethical judgements scrutinise harder than aliens from Mars (War of the Worlds). This will go beyond "Question Time" and "Moral Maze".
Academics must stand tall and proud, the scientific revolution of the early 20th century has come round again. Environmentalism has gone from a small thing to a very powerful partner with political movements involved. But new ideas have slowed. It's time to readjust our thoughts and find new paths in what we have thought we have understood for the past 40 years or less. There is still much to learn. Society must work together.
It has a word:
Geography
P.s. My English will get much better from here on. It has been some what lacking so far.
Have a study of the photography. How much quality does it represent?
Now think about why it has sat waiting at the bottom of this blog for so long...
This is a photo that you should try to connect with the fictional story that has been occurring.
Look at all the photos, what do they all mean? Where do they come from? What kind of things have I been attempting to get across to you?
As this fictional story comes to a close, I will move more towards a true representative side of life. This blog will move in the way it has over the last few months, odd articles, criticism's of what is out there, but with true evidence. No more attaching a web link to the news. Although the idea is to get you to use your imagination. That was the thing about Kirill, it was there to provoke your thoughts.
So with everything to with The Invisible Force, an unfriendly creature who appears and tells you they are watching you. With a grey scaled photo of a dead tree in Porlock, with the eyes of a CD Album from Pink Floyd- Pulse and The Division Bell. Hopefully you will have come to recognise that David has been in much of a struggle. The Guards have not been easy on him, the news reports and media are not much good, and are quite biased depending on what you read and watch. Hopefully, the demons that live will be expelled and "Eyes Only" will finally come up and start to show the truth.
Where do these quotes come from. How do they relate to David's situation?
"The Truth Will set you free"
Hint: from a film with Mel Gibson
"He's crazy but you are just plain evil"
Hint: TV series season 3 Criminal Intent
"Geronimo"
Hint: from a film with Mel Gibson
"If you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding. How can you have any oudding if you don't eat your meat."
Hint: Pink Floyd lyrics
The virtues of what was once part of Dark Angel, are finally coming to light. Keep watching this space. A new future a new realisation of what has been going on will slowly be shown.
"Welcome to the Revolution"
Hint: Film with Steven Seagal.
"I believe in history"
And in the words of Alex Leamas, one of John Le Carre's characters:
"You're kidding, you, you're a communist..."
However, in this world capitalism and communism have no room left to play.
We will look beyond our ethical judgements scrutinise harder than aliens from Mars (War of the Worlds). This will go beyond "Question Time" and "Moral Maze".
Academics must stand tall and proud, the scientific revolution of the early 20th century has come round again. Environmentalism has gone from a small thing to a very powerful partner with political movements involved. But new ideas have slowed. It's time to readjust our thoughts and find new paths in what we have thought we have understood for the past 40 years or less. There is still much to learn. Society must work together.
It has a word:
Geography
P.s. My English will get much better from here on. It has been some what lacking so far.
The best till last
Dave had managed to spend a couple of days twisting the guards arms, John and Roger they're names were and he was now being accepted as a human being. Things were in progress. The guards had decided he could listen to Billy Connolly. This of course would lift anyone's mood since he was imprisoned and never allowed to leave his room.
"There are two seasons in Scotland June and Winter" Billy Connolly (WHSmith 2009-2010 diary quotes).
Soon the weather would be David's mind, and he would a be a free man.
He thought it was all to easy getting the guards to relax but a number of changes had been going on, the economy was making them nervous
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLNE58S02F20090930
there was political unrest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8282535.stm
so they allowed for a little bit of lee way in the hope that as guards they would not have to do the job too much longer and could let David out and he would be sent on his way to wherever they send them.
Soon it could only be soon... save the best till last David thought, he had an opportunity to exploit, escaping was all he had on his mind...
"There are two seasons in Scotland June and Winter" Billy Connolly (WHSmith 2009-2010 diary quotes).
Soon the weather would be David's mind, and he would a be a free man.
He thought it was all to easy getting the guards to relax but a number of changes had been going on, the economy was making them nervous
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLNE58S02F20090930
there was political unrest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8282535.stm
so they allowed for a little bit of lee way in the hope that as guards they would not have to do the job too much longer and could let David out and he would be sent on his way to wherever they send them.
Soon it could only be soon... save the best till last David thought, he had an opportunity to exploit, escaping was all he had on his mind...
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Black and White
Or is it in colour,
One of the problems that David had begun to realise during the month...Oh yes, indeed a month since his last capacity to get word out...was that the guards clothes were certainly dirtier, less frequently washed and most certainly looking older than usual. Maybe a down turn in the economy had been happening and finally it was taking its toll on the guard’s capacity, maybe a security issue had arisen which meant putting the secrets that no one wanted to find out completely underground thus making the guards think twice. Eventually David would have the upper hand, the guards would do as he said.
This world where David would be able to control the guards in David's mind meant non existent, 'black book' working. It was so underground the government may not even know what was going on. Something not even the most secretive of secret services would know about. The government would completely deny the existence of the mental home come prison. It was practically like this anyway. A world where the criminals get used and blamed for something they never ever did. However, the criminals are bought off; they work with the ‘good guys’ but the ‘good guys’ would appear to be bad these days.
So who has control now?
To David the news was conspiratorial as ever...
With a flick of the switch it would not take long to take control of society. With black outs an increasing issue in the future, gas lines unsecured across Europe which keep fossil fuel prices up, how long will it be before the fossil fuel runs out and the Eastern bloc re-asserts itself with the wealth of the ‘used’ fossil fuels? Is no one willing to take charge and make renewable energy and environmentally friendly methods the way forward? If the prices stay up, if the war never ends...maybe a deal between the NATO forces and the ‘Iraqi-Afghan forces enemy force’ has already taken place. Terrorism was just an economic ploy. After all whatever is on the news has to be believed, much of the media coverage is owned by the government.
This is no longer a cold or hot war, just an economic theatrical one with real lives at stake to make it all too real. A storm is brewing, everybody wants their version of a free world but, how free will it be when the heavens open and a global pandemic ensues from famine, pollution and population increase. Time after all was ticking.
One of the problems that David had begun to realise during the month...Oh yes, indeed a month since his last capacity to get word out...was that the guards clothes were certainly dirtier, less frequently washed and most certainly looking older than usual. Maybe a down turn in the economy had been happening and finally it was taking its toll on the guard’s capacity, maybe a security issue had arisen which meant putting the secrets that no one wanted to find out completely underground thus making the guards think twice. Eventually David would have the upper hand, the guards would do as he said.
This world where David would be able to control the guards in David's mind meant non existent, 'black book' working. It was so underground the government may not even know what was going on. Something not even the most secretive of secret services would know about. The government would completely deny the existence of the mental home come prison. It was practically like this anyway. A world where the criminals get used and blamed for something they never ever did. However, the criminals are bought off; they work with the ‘good guys’ but the ‘good guys’ would appear to be bad these days.
So who has control now?
To David the news was conspiratorial as ever...
With a flick of the switch it would not take long to take control of society. With black outs an increasing issue in the future, gas lines unsecured across Europe which keep fossil fuel prices up, how long will it be before the fossil fuel runs out and the Eastern bloc re-asserts itself with the wealth of the ‘used’ fossil fuels? Is no one willing to take charge and make renewable energy and environmentally friendly methods the way forward? If the prices stay up, if the war never ends...maybe a deal between the NATO forces and the ‘Iraqi-Afghan forces enemy force’ has already taken place. Terrorism was just an economic ploy. After all whatever is on the news has to be believed, much of the media coverage is owned by the government.
This is no longer a cold or hot war, just an economic theatrical one with real lives at stake to make it all too real. A storm is brewing, everybody wants their version of a free world but, how free will it be when the heavens open and a global pandemic ensues from famine, pollution and population increase. Time after all was ticking.
Friday, 31 July 2009
1st things 2nd...
When the small things appear in the world to be much larger- what is it that goes round our minds to believe that they are bigger than they really are?
As I slowly formulate the ideas to make the first adventure come together, I shall let you know about the some small innocuous details...
Firstly, whilst I know the original drama script relatively well and almost backwards- some of its details will be changed so as to fit with the blog style, and having given it some thought, is unlikely to appear literally as a script but more of a short story in each blog. Secondly, it has to be said some of the details I will edit because they are beyond my own capacity to write the original without giving a more plausable and 'real' account, the original would be far beyond the realms of authenticity and realism. Hopefully I will make my blog seem as realistic and real life to you.
Here's part of where the idea has been developed further from:
A recent online 'reality show' by MSN called Kirill apppeared in late 2008. It was a trial online reality program, trying to move the likes of reality TV to a more realistic and interconnected world. Scarily, if it took off it could be come part of everything without anyone realising it.
Like the fictional and potentially fact based spies, where blinds are flickered, street lamp posts and signs have markings put on them by secret agents as tells, undercover cars are only known to be undercover cars by undercover operatives (and can tell by the minutest of detail changes), notes are swapped and dropped in secret locations by any manner of ways. Kirill could effectively do the self same thing.
Kirill is a man who is living in a disused nuclear bunker hiding from the government troops- all with green eyes- who act as government agents, removing anybody who knows too much about what is going on in the 'outside world'. Is Kirill just schizophrenic or has he a reason to suspect the London population are being used as lab rats?
A compelling story it is. It connects to many websites of fictitious companies who the 'government' are helping out, and blogs of the scientists and journalists who these agents try to lock up, denying their ever existence to the public. Even more realistic, the clues can be found on real websites and in real world places- it surrounds the CERN program at its undercover paranoid (stories) heart. Therefore it has many news articles from real life that the characters in Kirill can use to confuse the uninitiated.
As a first attempt it works, but with added authenticity it wouldn't be too hard to make it seem too real. TV programs, radio programs, news articles, and adverts to follow. As well as mini clips online and the blogs would add to a realism- special items hidden away for the general public to locate and feel it was actually happening in the world. All too easily reality could be merged with real life. Kirill (played by David Schofield) could be expanded further from what it is.
Don't get me wrong some of these things already exist. Geocaching for example, and does anybody remember the TV program: The Prisoner from the 1960s. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/prisoner/
More on this tomorrow.
As I slowly formulate the ideas to make the first adventure come together, I shall let you know about the some small innocuous details...
Firstly, whilst I know the original drama script relatively well and almost backwards- some of its details will be changed so as to fit with the blog style, and having given it some thought, is unlikely to appear literally as a script but more of a short story in each blog. Secondly, it has to be said some of the details I will edit because they are beyond my own capacity to write the original without giving a more plausable and 'real' account, the original would be far beyond the realms of authenticity and realism. Hopefully I will make my blog seem as realistic and real life to you.
Here's part of where the idea has been developed further from:
A recent online 'reality show' by MSN called Kirill apppeared in late 2008. It was a trial online reality program, trying to move the likes of reality TV to a more realistic and interconnected world. Scarily, if it took off it could be come part of everything without anyone realising it.
Like the fictional and potentially fact based spies, where blinds are flickered, street lamp posts and signs have markings put on them by secret agents as tells, undercover cars are only known to be undercover cars by undercover operatives (and can tell by the minutest of detail changes), notes are swapped and dropped in secret locations by any manner of ways. Kirill could effectively do the self same thing.
Kirill is a man who is living in a disused nuclear bunker hiding from the government troops- all with green eyes- who act as government agents, removing anybody who knows too much about what is going on in the 'outside world'. Is Kirill just schizophrenic or has he a reason to suspect the London population are being used as lab rats?
A compelling story it is. It connects to many websites of fictitious companies who the 'government' are helping out, and blogs of the scientists and journalists who these agents try to lock up, denying their ever existence to the public. Even more realistic, the clues can be found on real websites and in real world places- it surrounds the CERN program at its undercover paranoid (stories) heart. Therefore it has many news articles from real life that the characters in Kirill can use to confuse the uninitiated.
As a first attempt it works, but with added authenticity it wouldn't be too hard to make it seem too real. TV programs, radio programs, news articles, and adverts to follow. As well as mini clips online and the blogs would add to a realism- special items hidden away for the general public to locate and feel it was actually happening in the world. All too easily reality could be merged with real life. Kirill (played by David Schofield) could be expanded further from what it is.
Don't get me wrong some of these things already exist. Geocaching for example, and does anybody remember the TV program: The Prisoner from the 1960s. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/prisoner/
More on this tomorrow.
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