One half of Ecostani, The Infinate Scale, has his launch party on the 7th July. You all know we love this guy's work so heres the flyer:

DOWNLOADABLE HERBALISM SETS

The sets from last month's Herbalism have been up and available for download. The "skips" on the sets are from the hard drive recorder skipping and is not due to the decks jumping or the DJ's fucking up. We've sorted the problem for the next Herbalism.

From next month, 4 sets will be available to download over the course of 4 weeks. Each set will be up for one week only. Details on how this will work will be sent out in the next email.

If you download PLEASE click on the War Child Banner and go to the "How You Can Help" bit of their site.

Much Love. N*

From Asians in Media's Media Bandar:

"Holly-Bolly - made by a brother in the film-making trade Kamal Husain - is about two guys trying to raise enough money to fund their feature film.

The movie starts off with the two mates approaching funding bodies (probably meant to be the Film Council) who reject the idea because its not "edgy" enough compared to another Asian filmmaker who makes movies about lesbianism. An American is willing to give them money to make his movie about "fusion". "A fusion of English cockney gangster meets Bollywood," he says to the horrified faces of the budding film-makers.

The movie progresses and changes with witty dialogue and hilarious consequences, going from a bunch of East London gangsters terrorising Asian boys (which the American doesn't like) to an Asian gang singing and dancing to a Bollywood tune while terrorising some white boys. Not surprisingly the film-body now likes the mini-production and decides to fund a full feature."

Watch the 12-min movie here!

Plus, speaking of AiM, who's this Brit pimping for Dhamaal at Glastonbury?

Shiva Soundsystem's got some competition from MC Vikram and Ludakrishna... ;)

Peter Parker becomes Pavitr Prabhakar in...Spider-Man India!!!

Interactive discussion on Human Rights for Women and current situation in Bangladesh

Date: Monday the 21st of June 2004
Venue: The Brady Arts Centre, 192-196 Hanbury Street, London E1 5NF
Time: 18.30 to 20.30
Speaker: Sultana Kamal

Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (BSK) London has organised a Lecture on Human Rights for Women on Monday, the 21st of June 2004. The Workshop will take place at the Brady Art Centre from 6.00pm to 8.30pm. Sultana Kamal will be the lecturer of the evening. Sultana Kamal, the Daughter of Poet Sufia Kamal will speak on Human rights for women and current situation in Bangladesh

She graduated From Dhaka University in English and in Law,MDS from Institute of Social Studies , England . Sultana Kamal started her career as a teacher. She settled in Sylhet for a few years to work on Women’s Development. She also worked for the UN Refugee Development Department in Hong Kong. She was honoured by CNC for her contribution in the Independence war in Bangladesh .Sultana Kamal has been involved with the Women’s Right Activities for the last 25 years.

SONIK GURUS & The Buddhas of Cyberbia LIVE

Saturday June 19th @ LIFT International theatre festival.
9pm - 1am @ The Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, Barge House St, London SE1
Entry: £8 / £5 concessions. Nearest tubes: Blackfriars/Waterloo/Southwark

20 New Management Styles

1) MANAGING BY WALKING FASTER THEN THE EMPLOYEES
These kind of managers you will always see in the corridor, ten steps away.
"We'll have to talk" you can hear them say, just as they have disappeared
around the corner.

2) MANAGING BY STARING OUT OF THE WINDOW
These managers you usually meet with their backside faced to you with their
hands in their pockets. When you talk to them, their thoughts keep staring
out of the windows.

3) MANAGING BY POST-IT'S
Some managers forget everything. They want to impress you with their
'busy'ness by continuously writing on Post-it's while you are talking.

4) MANAGING BY DELEGATION TO THE SECRETARY
These managers just delegate everything to the secretary. If he is good, He
knows what she must do.

5) MANAGING BY KNOWING NOTHING
These managers don't really know anything at all. They let YOU give
answers. Meanwhile they fill the time with nice anecdotes of irrelevant
cases.

6) MANAGING BY CONCEPTUAL THINKING
These people try to explain the present from a theoretical view of the far
future. The idea that this never will work, completely satisfies them: They
will always have something to talk about.

7) MANAGING BY HIDING INFORMATION
Information hiders are aware of the market value of strictly secret kept
information. You must be very thankful to get any information at all.
Beware of simulants from category 5!

8) MANAGING BY DOING EXACTLY WHAT THE BOSS SAYS
These managers prevent their bosses from creative thinking. Else they got
more work to do.

9) MANAGING BY WALKING ONE FOOT BEHIND THE BOSS
In hierarchical organizations you can watch those groups walking in the
corridor. The more equal managers are directly followed by the lesser equal
managers, and so on.

10) MANAGING BY SMILING AND WEARING NICE SUITS
If you drink beer with them, lunch with them, smile to them and also wear
nice suits, nothing can stop your career anymore.

11) MANAGING BY STUDYING
Despite their continual attendances of all kind of studies and congresses,
they still belong to category 5. The longer they learn, the further they
get from the practice.

12) MANAGING BY CREATING VAGUE OVERHEAD SHEETS
Do you know them? Those sheets with some big arrows,boxes or circles? These
sheets provide the ultimate proof of their overall brilliance.

13) MANAGING BY OPEN DOOR AND EMPTY ROOM
This is a major improvement of the older 'OPEN DOOR' management style. Now
you can really walk in and out anytime you want. Nobody ever knows where
these managers are.

14) MANAGING BY SPEAKING WITH OTHER MANAGERS
This kind of managing is very popular. It will give them within a few hours
the same information as an employee can tell them in 15 minutes.

15) MANAGING BY HAVING A NON SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE
In an organization with a hopeless infrastructure, managers are really
necessary. These managers will naturally prevent the organization from
having a better infrastructure.

16) BUA MANAGEMENT ( BY USING ABBREVIATIONS )
This management style is ATRASACWOC. ( Adopted To Reach A Shorter And
Clearer Way Of Communication )

17) MANAGING BY USING BUZZ WORDS
These managers like to bluff your head off with hip, nearly undefined,
terms.

18) MANAGING BY REORGANIZATION
If they think there is nothing more to organize, they reorganize.

19) MANAGING BY BELIEVING
These managers must be spiritual educated, because they have no clues at
all.

20) MANAGING BY FORGETTING PROMISES
If you remind them to one of their promisses, the priority of that promise
is to low to remember.

Thanks to Davide for those.

Asian Massive/Underground designers in Trans-Atlantic, on-camera face-off...
It's about time they got some exposure considering the work they've done.
It ain't just about the music...

Seb Ahmad


and

Sankar Sury


Check it here

WARNING: Swearing and needs Real Player to view. And is over 8MB.
Directed by Revolting Hoosier
Filmed by Laura Taflinger

Check the trailer out here.