Pre-Raphaelite moments for the Pilot

The Pilot is published in Soanyway magazine!

http://www.soanyway.org.uk/johnhyattM4SK.htm

Pilot selected for MachinExpo

My collaborator, Piloteer David Moss, entered our Pilot of Bee Patrol video/song "This is a time of alternative being" for the Machinima expo 2011 and it has been accepted, the details of the expo are on the blog here:

http://blog.machinima-expo.com/

It will be screened for a week before and a week after the actual event, during the event. We think it gets an audience screening in Second Life and also on their website, and then they have a vimeo playlist which it will also be screened after the event.

Nice one, David.

Pilot's Car spotted at Faro Airport

The Pilot tours the Portuguese speaking world!

This film, This Thing About Gravity (my newest collaboration with M4SK 22) is featured on the quarterly classwar karaoke compilation and will be screened in the open air in Faro, Portugal (14th September) and also in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October at the Cinematica Brasileira as part of the finale of the Rojo@Nova Arts festival.

Piloteer Emrys Morgan finds a sign

Whilst experimenting with his new digital camera, Piloteer Emrys Morgan came across this sign, photographed it as evidence, and sent it in.

How to Change the Future

Piloteer Martin Luther King agrees, "There is Only the Now!"

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late…We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: Too late.”

Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Where do we go from here: chaos or community’

In the company of the Tin Man

Piloteer Emrys Morgan and myself went underground with the Tin Man, Geoff Treseder, in August in search of the tin to make more tin bee brooches for the Piloteers. I would call it a life changing experience, either crawling through a two foot space or a foot deep in water in the pitch blackness.

Here are some photos from the adventure. Imagine my surprise when the next day I saw the Tin Man walking out with Dorothy!

Beehaviour

Check out Piloteer Thomas D. Seeley's research:

"My analyses of collective decision-making by honey bee colonies indicate that a group will possess a high level of SI (Swarm Intelligence) if among the group’s members there is:

1) diversity of knowledge about the available options,
2) open and honest sharing of information about the options,
3) independence in the members’ evaluations of the options,
4) unbiased aggregation of the members’ opinions on the options, and
5) leadership that fosters but does not dominate the discussion."

See: http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml

You can hear about bees dancing themselves into democratic consensus:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/24/136391522/natures-secret-why-honey-bees-are-better-politicians-than-humans?ps=cprs

John

The Pilot - a Commentary.

Piloteer Mike Hughes of Horsforth Modern Art gallery in Horsforth near Leeds has made an exciting new video addition to the Pilot of Bee Patrol oeuvre. Here is his movie, judge for yourselves. I am looking forward to a series of commentaries.

The Tin Man - Piloteer Geoff Treseder

Ever wondered where the Pilot's bee was from. Well, it is dug out of the earth of Cornwall and hand-made by Piloteer Geoff Treseder. Here is Geoff at his womb of tin bees workshop.

Piloteer Mike turns to video collage!

Piloteer Mike Hughes has made his own video collage of the Pilot's installation at Horsforth Modern Art. Nice one Mike!

Pilot says, "Plant for Bees"

Can't seem to make this a hyperlink at the moment but...

http://ierossendale.ning.com/forum/topics/food-crops-for-bees

There is a really useful download offered here called

bbka_shrubs_for_bees_3-way_1306864579.pdf

for everyone who wants to make their garden friendly to bees.

An Evening with The Pilot

This Episode is made as a part of an Installation at HoMA (Horsforth Modern Art, Leeds) during the John Hyatt exhibition, 'There is Only the Now' and forms part of a special evening at 7.00 p.m. on 16 July 2011, 'John Hyatt: The Artist and his Alter Egos'. All welcome. Meet other persona too: Sir Stuart Farquar; Doria Hemming; Gerry Windrim! All welcome.

Evening includes a viewing of Art Wars: Division and Design, last shown as the featured painting of The British Art Show, 1985.

Pilot's drawing machine (seen in video) is by Jack Tait. My thanks to Jack.

New Video from the Navigator

The Pilot of Bee Patrol is Missing!! The navigator is questioned. New video contribution starring Piloteer Alex Smyth-Osbourne, self-styled Navigator of Bee Patrol. See it now - only available from this blog:

Thank you, Piloteer David!

http://m4skingtape.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/a-time-of-alternative-being/

This is a Time of Alternative Being

Beeutiful!

The Pilot's ship is beecoming!

Looking good and coming along

Piloteer Dave Moss's version of the Pilot's ship is coming into being!

The Craft in Wireframe

Piloteer Dave Moss is beavering away and the Pilot's Second Life ship is developing.