Last signs of winter, the heavy rains, the bare branches. Each rain brings memories of the drought which the land has been suffering for years. And the heat waves which are becoming more intense. Summer brings its own dread.

The opening moments of "Bloom Where You're Planted" by local artist Tangerine Meg. The animation was projected on the back wall of the church (on Wakefield St, Adelaide, near the bus depot).

These are postcards of Tanera Mor, a small island in NW Scotland that is part of the larger group of islands called the Summer Isles. Last year a group of artists buried a tupperware lunch box full of coins, art and writings somewhere on this island...

The Sea-Devils were relatives of the Silurians in early 70's Dr Who, a sci-fi television programme in Britain. It is common knowledge that, even today, this low-tech series instills fear in young children causing them to take refuge behind the sofa...

Whilst Olympic spectaculars concentrate on tired tropes of nation, other ways of collectively being, living and working together continue to bubble up from the underground wellsprings. TAA - There are alternatives! We can, as Zapatista spokesperson Subcomandante Marcos suggested at the First Intercontinental Encuentro in August 1996, "tear off the clothes that resignation has woven for us and cynicism has dyed grey".¹

This image of a weaver bird nest is placed at TNL as an invitation to enter the nest of dyne.org, and read their latest inspiring + poetic + liberatory missive entitled 'The Weaver Birds' published on the auspicious date of 8 / 8 / 8.

http://dyne.org/first_dharma_dyne.pdf

fromGeorge Perec's 'Street' (1974): 'Unitl the whole place becomes strange, strive to picture to yourself, with the greatest possible precision, beneath the network of streets, the tangle of sewers, the lines of the metro, the invisible underground proliferation of conduits (electricity, gas telephone lines, water mains, express letter tubes), without which no life would be possible on the surface'. Photo taken at the London Cans Festival 2008.

Knowledge workers at Booti Booti Beach, central New South Wales coast