In the White House spin-doctors where working overtime to keep the president out of the storm. And although little George W. until then had always been full of praise for secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, spring 2004 he suddenly hung him out to dry. It looked like Rummie was to be sacrificed. Strange of course, after all Rumsfeld was responsible for what was going on in Iraq, but the president is always more responsible. We felt the need to summarize these events in a (*). However, in September 2004 George W. Bush was re-elected to office and Donald Rumsfeld could also stay on.

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When you decide to burn yourselves a cd form your mp3 you also might want to own a nice cover. Again: Photo Opportunity comes to the rescue.

Below you will find the option for cd-cover. A regular jewelbox and a selfdesigned, paper only, arty, cut, fold, glue and stick it version. For this you may need some help.

Jewel case

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You can use standard multicopy paper, but the cover of course will be stronger if you take something a little heavier, for example 160g/m2. And if you, just like Photo Opportunity, love nature and feel a strong hatred against your local cable company, just tear out a fine piece of second hand out of that nice subpoena by UPC that is probably lying about somewhere. Keep al the equipment within hand and carefully follow up all instructions. The more precise you work, the neater your beta 2.003 CD-cover will look!

Step 1
Print the image on a piece of paper and carefully trim the paper on the edges of the drawing. Use a paper cutter or a steady hand, and look out for your fingers.

Step 2

Cut out the drawing along the dotted lines. Don’t cut any further than the lines dot, and keep looking out for your fingers. Don’t forget the little snip at the end of the big one!

Step 3
Fold over the two flaps of Corner A along the line. Make sure the edges of the flaps are parallel to the edge of paper.

Step 4
Spread glue on thin on Adhesive Edge 1.

Step 5
Fold over Corner C along the line and glue it on Adhesive Edge 1. Make sure that salt cellar and pepper pot connect nicely. Then spread glue on thin on Adhesive Edge 2.

Step 6
Fold over Corner B along the line and glue it on Adhevise Edges 1 and 2. Make sure the little corner folds along. And again make sure that salt cellar and pepper pot connect nicely.

Step 7
Fold over Line D along the edge of the sword.

Step 8
Seal the two flaps together.

Step 9
Use a sharp knife in order to make Incision E. Make sure to cut through both layers of paper and be very careful for your fingers!

Step 10
Put the cd on which you burned beta 2.003 in the sleeve. To close the cover, fold over the flap and put the point of the sword in Incision E.

Step 11
Voilà. If it doesn’t work smoothly at first, just piss about a bit. After all, its new.

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A song  like Few Additional words is constructed according to the principles of the VJ software Vjamm. This software makes it possible to play on a visual sampler by using your keyboard. By hitting a key not only a sound is produced, but photo’s, video fragments and animations are also evoked. For example, when you strike a central C you hear and see Rumsfeld say ‘A few additional words’. The whole song is construed in this manner. Sound and vision are a complete unity. Manipulating sounds – for example adjusting pitch, timbre or mix – affects the images in a corresponding fashion. And vice versa. Sound and vision are a complete unity: what you hear is what you see, and what you see is what you hear. For this reason we prefer to speak of a ‘video-song’ rather than a ‘video clip’.

We put it on disk & sent in to the VPRO. To our surprise, the editors of Nachtpodium were hardly polite enough to confirm the receipt of our contribution. No ‘thank you’, no email about possible broadcasts, and so on. The ‘Being a jerk’-mentality in the VPRO apparently still highly valued.

That does not alter the fact that the movies were fun. So we put them on you tube.

1: Extreme music

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2.  Dirty Sounds & Strong Opinions

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3. Explicit music

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Those of you who don’t have an ipod or some other mp3 playing device, and thus are probably the grandmothers of the members of the band, feel free to give us a call. We are more than willing to assist you in burning our songs to a CD.

For that same category of people we have designed two CD-covers you can print out. The do-it-yourself-level of one them is actually so much fun it would almost make you buy a new CD-player!