provocations, pacman and triathlons

ever wondered what mac geeks are doing on stage?looks like the labyrinth was a success

we had fun at breakout leading a session in the big top saturday night and then a communion this morning. i don’t know if you have ever been to gigs where there are computers on stage and people leaning over looking busy and you are wondering what they are doing? well simon was caught on camera here with the crowd facing him in the communion service and what’s on his screen?! pacman!!!!! mmmm… he tells me he was also playing music.

if you are dropping by from breakout hi… if you want to follow up any of the music visit
proost | dubb | twotone | cntrst

here’s dubb and twotone in action

if you’ve ever heard me speak about creativity one of the idea i like is provocations. edward de bono says that we get ideas or get creative when our routine is interrupted so when something unwelcome happens learn to receive it as a provocation and see where it might lead. well on saturday we had got about an hour out of london when i remembered that i had left my laptop behind with all the visuals on. so i turned round to head back but dropped joel, harry and simon at newport pagnell service station to wait. when i picked them up two and a half hours later they had composed a new track in reason on simon’s laptop and harry had written a rap on the theme of the breakout weekend – beyond. they duly performed it live that evening and it was brilliant – so leaving my laptop behind proved to be a great provocation!

jenny smashed her personal best in the triathlon this weekend getting below the 3 hour mark with 2 hours 49 minutes. that knocked 20 minutes off her previous personal best which is amazing. she has trained really hard and it all came good – congratulations! sorry we missed it…

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  1. Ontherun

    Really enjoyed your Saturday night session in the big top – I’d seen the (weird!) music video with the kids following the drummer on this site before and didn’t really think much of it, but it worked really well for me in a worship context – and for those I was with too. Harry’s “instant” rap was amazing.
    Good feedback from my 14 year old on your Sunday morning communion. He came home and downloaded “Be yourself” instantly and I heard it was a pretty amazing live performance of it. Well done Harry! You perhaps ought to cultivate being forgetful….

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