An Historical Atlas of Fluxlist
Fluxlist has effectively evolved into a small community, an example of the 'global village' at its most, well villagy (sp?). Village elders and village idiots, friends and vague acquaintances, over the back fence chatters, curtain twitchers, the odd recluse and a whole host of folks who just go about their daily business, minding their own and showing up at the odd parish meeting to put their two pennerth in. On occasion itinerant travellers wander through offering wares varying from the delightful to the downright dubious. Sometimes the circus turns up and erects its big-top in the carpark, sometimes hooligans from neighbouring villages show up and cause fights in the pub. People pass away and are mourned, people get married, have babies and their neighbours raise their glasses in acknowledgement. Sometimes new villagers turn up out of the blue and others up sticks and move away to the city. The strange thing is that most of the villagers live thousands of miles away from each other, many have never met any of the others, some have met but a handful, many can not put a face to the name and most a probably quite unaware of the existence of some of the remainder. The idea is this: To construct an historical and geographical atlas of fluxlist, past and present. Each current member of Fluxlist is invited to write about another - a biographical piece placing that person geographically, historically and contextually into the story of Fluxlist. These biographical pieces may be based on truth or complete fantasy. Pieces may vary in length, there being no maximum or minimum enforced and may be written in any language deemed appropriate by the author. Anecdotes and stories of bravery, stupidity or particularly successful dinner parties, artworks and animals, music and missing weekends. When and how they joined Fluxlist, motives and mysterious sudden disappearances. Notable contributions to Fluxlist, faux pas and folly. Place of birth, date of birth, date of first date and outcome. Famous/noted/ignored for... Place of abode, distance travelled by bicycle, bravelled by tricycle and amount of interest in % of learning to unicycle. Information on place of abode, including address, city, state, country etc. Participants may produce as many 'biographies' as they wish. Or you could write something completely different. The aim is document Fluxlist to date, to produce something which records Fluxlist membership at various levels, not just names but information about the person, a short biography (as stated) and information about their geographical location (and their location in time if you so wish). Entries may be duplicated. In fact duplicate entries, especially about 'active' members, are to be encouraged thus building up a broader view of the individual. Eventually the biographies will be used to build up a 'map' of Fluxlist. The aim is to publish this 'atlas', eventually, as an actual book if costs are not too prohibitive, and in digital format (PDF and HTML) Those interested in contributing are kindly requested to let me know within the next week or so. Thanks Alan
