Littlestone
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 10, 2010, 09:18
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jimit wrote: Looking forward to seeing you both again. BTW it is the National Trust which give out crappy "prizes" to the winners of their photo competition "Circles in Time" :(
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28869623@N00/
(Plus original)
Jim.
Gawd... is that something the National Trust made, Jim, or were they 'commissioned' somewhere?
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jimit
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 10, 2010, 10:50
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Sponsored by the Atrium Gallery, Swindon.
http://www.freeindex.co.uk/profile%28atrium-gallery-ltd%29_216171.htm
Jim.
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Littlestone
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 10, 2010, 12:30
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jimit wrote:
Jeeze... they should have gone to Specsavers :-)
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BuckyE
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 11, 2010, 12:40
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The box of matches was worth a little something. That was a nice thought.
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BuckyE
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 11, 2010, 12:52
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Aren't people stupid? The prize SHOULD have been two free passes to a National Trust pay venue of your choice: any time, any place. That would have cost them nothing, and encouraged the winners to visit an NT site and hopefully appreciate the supposedly good work the NT is doing.
Perhaps the National Trust doesn't "Trust" themselves enough? Or maybe they just don't have good publicity people. Loie's librarians are more savvy than that!
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Littlestone
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Edited Aug 11, 2010, 21:38
Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 11, 2010, 20:35
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BuckyE wrote: Aren't people stupid? The prize SHOULD have been two free passes to a National Trust pay venue of your choice: any time, any place. That would have cost them nothing, and encouraged the winners to visit an NT site and hopefully appreciate the supposedly good work the NT is doing.
Perhaps the National Trust doesn't "Trust" themselves enough? Or maybe they just don't have good publicity people. Loie's librarians are more savvy than that!
It really is extraordinary isn't it. The tackiness of the prizes is almost beyond belief when, as you say, free passes (or perhaps a book from one of their shops) would have cost them (the National Trust) little or nothing at all. It's because official, or semi-official, bodies behave in this way that people lose confidence in them and then go on to wonder what else they might be getting up to behind their miss-managed closed doors.*
So come on National Trust, let's see some acton, let's see a public acknowledgment that you got it seriously wrong here, and that you'll be offering the photo winners an apology and something a little more than a box-of-matches type 'framed' photo of their submission as a prize.
* Re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxkXdK2hcs4 (04:40 minutes in) where it’s difficult to reconcile that footage with what seems to be a ‘cleaned up’ version of the opening here - http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/multimedia-library/conservation-projects/ (Holes in The Hill: The Conservation Project Begins. 03:00 minutes in).
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goffik
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2
Aug 12, 2010, 10:16
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I thought the matches were part of the prize! A sort of KLF-style disposable art installation you can set fire to in the comfort of your own home. If that were the case, good on NT! ;)
But I know now it's not. In which case they should be embarrassed...
G x
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BuckyE
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 13, 2010, 18:19
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And at that rate, why even offer a prize? The "prize" could be prominent placement of your photo in a winners' gallery.
Here's an even better one. One tenth the profits from the posters they're going to make from your photo and sell all over the country and the web. Hah!
Or maybe for grand prize winners there was some such. I dunno.
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jimit
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 14, 2010, 09:11
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The 20 prize winning photos are displayed in the cafe in Avebury and the NT have told me that these, of much better quality, will be sent to the winners when the exhibition finishes in Sept.
Jim.
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tjj
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Re: Avebury: World Megameet. Saturday, 21 August 2010
Aug 14, 2010, 16:19
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jimit wrote: The 20 prize winning photos are displayed in the cafe in Avebury and the NT have told me that these, of much better quality, will be sent to the winners when the exhibition finishes in Sept.
Jim.
Yes, they are very good ... was there last weekend with some people who were admiring them at length. I didn't realise the connection.
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