The Pink Army Spacelab Chronicles : Part 1

NEW WEBSITE!

2006-12-21T06:56:00.000-08:00

For all fans of the Pink Army, or if youre just curious about our new projects:
www.thepinkarmy.com
check it out and be enlightened
with love,
N.Moser

Inspection 25/3

2006-03-29T02:50:00.000-08:00

Fieldmarschalk Moser, General Creeper and Corporal Runnagates were inspecting the operating army-cells last saturday. The Marschalk were satisfied with the status of the cells and the work that has been done there. She will give uppdates on further plans for operation Rascal later today. Hold your positions and await instructions.

2006-03-29T02:38:00.000-08:00

Stillphotos filmset 23.03.06, Tarjei Ekenes Krogh,www.fireoyne.com

2006-03-28T07:15:00.001-08:00

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2006-03-28T06:19:00.000-08:00

Soldier spotted

2006-03-13T16:18:00.000-08:00

Army Archives:
One of our devoted soldiers were spotted by surveilance cameras during an operation,placing spy-equipment in the smoking area of Minestry of Cultures´ offices.
Headquarters must stress the importance of keeping clear of such cameras for future operations.

PinkShop

2006-03-13T16:05:00.000-08:00

Support PinkArmy by purchasing their unike products.
Contact:aslongasitspink@yahoo.no

t-shirt:200,-
tank:150,-
-do it yourself Balaklava kit:200,-

2006-03-13T15:55:00.000-08:00

PinkDecorations:150,-

Uniforms Arrival

2006-03-13T15:06:00.000-08:00

Uniforms just arrived from Germany. Headquarters will have fittings the whole week for all soldiers.

PINKMOBILE ESCAPE

2006-03-13T14:21:00.000-08:00

ARMY ARCHIVES: 13-03-06
The Pinkmobile managed to escape location and confrontation with authorities,
by smoke screening the following cars, disappearing into a pink fog. The Pinkmobile was transporting soldiers between headquarters and Rådhusgata for unannounced activities.
The soldiers were spotted by police cars and chased for ten dramatic minutes before they successfully escaped.
The Fieldmarschalk will personally thank the Corporal H.Hybrid for excellent driving and handling of the situation. There will be a small ceremony in Mosers office Tuesday at 8 am.

BATTLEFIELD GALLERY

2006-03-11T11:14:00.000-08:00

PINK ARMY MEETS WITH THE ELEMENTS

2006-03-11T10:18:00.000-08:00

The one and true story about Corporal Creepers travels in the Maridalen forests.

It all started one cold and storm full morning. The group of five soldiers; Moser, Creeper, Ruppel, Markham and Rodriguez, went with cheerful minds towards the white Forrests of Maridalen one Wednesday in March. The first sign that we should have taken as an omen considering what was ahed of us, was, apart from the weather, Creepers ski that broke and had to be tied to his foot by a piece of string. But no, nothing was going to stop us on our quest to find the small cottage and secret hideout for the Pink Army Bootcamp. After following the road for some time, we discovered there was no ski tracks prepared after the heavy snowfalls the past days, and therefore our route turned out twice as long, having to go around in a circle before we could find further signs of the old ski tracks. Creeper and Ruppel were disappearing behind us. We were getting tired and ready for a break. Suddenly there are no more roads, just a sea of white and a sign pointing into it saying Sellanrå. Sinking down in one and a half meter of snow we started to make our own tracks following what’s left of some blue paint on the stems of the trees, a summer track for hikers. Walking endlessly like this, Markham had to turn and go back. It was getting late, and our spirit was sinking. This is when Creeper started getting troubles with his newly operated back. There were no other options than getting him up to the cottage as soon as possible. And at last there it was. At least we could spot a chimney and part of what seemed to be a house, completely covered up in white. We realized the situation with Creeper was getting serious, and that he was in no state of leaving the cottage by himself. The Emergency central agreed on sending a snow scooter to pick up Creeper later on, and Ruppel was staying with him there until then. We made a little fire, found some old cans of beans in the kitchen, and prepared for the hours it was going to take before anything was happening. Moser and Rodriguez went down to the city just in time for sun dawn and waited anxiously by the phone for news about the situation. Finally at 2 am, Creeper was taken to the hospital drugged on morphine by a ski-patrol. The snow scooter lying upside down in the snow, helicopter parked because of no sight for flying in the stormy weather, this was the only option for getting the patient out at all. Sadly when they finally reached the ambulance, it got stuck in the snow, and had to call for someone to drag them out.
The Pink Army is forever grateful to the brave emergency personnel, and is now reconsidering wether extreme camping is a necessary part of the army education.
But a camp will take place; we don’t give up this easily. Vice from our encounter with the elements, we will be back soon with a new and even better plan for training young men and women into becoming fearless pink soldiers.

FLAG ANTHEM

2006-03-10T07:34:00.000-08:00

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Composed by Marcus Paus
Lyrics by Moser/Twig

FLAG ANTHEM

Roll down the carpet for the pink Battalions
Claiming the street for reception of the Troops
Look up at the rascal
Eyes full of hope
The day brakes aspiering for freedom and light

The Pink Army marches with quiet solid steps
Comrades imprisoned held down by their strings
Flags high
Ranks closed
The Pink Army marches
March in spirit with us in our ranks

//And then again the call shall be heard
Casting a shaddow the honoured flag is raised//

ARMY GALLERY

2006-03-10T03:15:00.000-08:00

I:GENERAL VIRGINIA CREEPER
II:OFFICER HEDERA HELIX

2006-03-10T03:10:00.000-08:00

III:CORPORAL MEADOW RUNAGATES
IV:CORPORAL DROPMORE SCARLET
V:GENERAL SMØRSOPP
VI:GENERAL MISTLETOE TWIG
VII:FIELDMARSCHALK NELLY MOSER

PINK MARCH

2006-03-09T07:50:00.000-08:00

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2006-02-05T07:40:00.000-08:00

2006-01-22T11:16:00.000-08:00

here

My dear dear comrades.
Thank you for a wonderful nights venture, this cold and otherwise magical-snowy-landish weekend.
We have surpassed and overcome initial obstacles. Now the P.Alleys lay before us cleaner and rosier than ever before. I am convinced and inspired!

Documentation has been superb, and I dare speak for us all when I admit to much eagerness when looking forward to the re-collection of footage from our thrilling joint escapades in the harsh spaces of the winter-night.

Material will follow. Be good, and stay strong in the realm of the squares.

Yours truly

Misty T

2006-01-22T10:15:00.000-08:00

touch and explain
From a high level we see a person creates the object (content) and makes it accessible to others. Other people (groups of people with the same vocabulary represented people blobs and noted with alphabet letters) tag the object (lines with arrows pointing away from the people) with their own terms (represented by numbers). The people also find the information (arrows on lines pointing from the numeric tags back to the people blobs) based on the tags.
Thomas Vander Wal on broad and narrow folksonomy

2006-01-22T08:46:00.000-08:00

headquarters
PA has transformed its organizational structure, streamlining the agency and putting it in a better position to implement the Vision for Space Exploration.

This transformation fundamentally restructures our Strategic Enterprises into Mission Directorates to better align with the Vision. It also restructures Headquarters support functions and clarifies organizational roles and responsibilities. PA functional offices have been restructured as Mission Support Offices.

The agency has redefined its relationships with the Field Centers by developing clear and straightforward lines of responsibility and accountability. Specific Mission Associate Administrators are now assigned as Headquarters Center Executives. They have oversight of field center performance in implementing agency policies and programs

2006-01-17T00:41:00.000-08:00

Comrades!
Thank you for a wonderful Play-shop this past weekend.
Nelly Moser and myself, Misty T, will soon uppload recordings from the curious achievements.
This time PinkArmy`s very own Mr SH- www.window-shopping.no
,brought with him a new accomplice: Mr AK- http://aipotu.org/
-An inspiring addition to the pink battleground.
It has been a pleasure, and I am anxiously looking forward to the next assignment. This time lead by the honorable Mr SH, who is taking us to discover the peculiarities of certain urban spaces between the hours 03 and 07 -nighttime Saturday to Sunday.

Mistletoe Twig
Misty

2006-01-11T14:29:00.000-08:00

P- is PERSISTENCE
I- is the INFINITE
N- is for NEXT time and also before
K- is to KLAP secret knock at the door

A- is the ANSWER to all of our dreams
R- sounds the ROAR of the trumpets of dawn
M- is for not MEANING nothing at all
Y- is the Question to which we are drawn

information from last meeting.

2006-01-09T13:32:00.000-08:00

Commerads and ascociates!
Since our last meeting I have spoken to a composer, Mr. M.P., about the making of the Pink Army march. Mr. P. has now agreed to become our companion, and is going to compose a piece that can be recorded as soon as in the end of January. We will then have a band of 11 musicians to perform, and the pink Army itself will be contributing with their powerfull voices with the lyrics of the march.
This music will be of use in different settings such as in parades, installation work, and first, but not last it will take part in the making of the Bootcamp videomaterial into a musicvideo.
The ones that have the opportunity to meet with me and the composer wedensday next week, meets at the corner of Josefinesgt and Hegdehaugsvn at 07.00 pm.

Our meeting last friday was a very good one, and an inspiering start on the new pink year.
We heard our commerads: Mistletoe Twig, Hagelid Hybrid, mr. Snorre, ms.Sara and ms. Marthe R.talk about their projects outside our unit, that has lead them to join the pink commeradhood, and are going to be of inspiration to brand new pink stunts in the public space.

Summing up the experiece of listening to our commerads, I put up a little mind game of collecting words that could provide a sample of the topics discussed. These words evolved into visual responses. The task was to try to convert these visual responses into one specific action that relates to a specific space and could take place in the public sphere.

some of the words: spectator, survailance, the "doer"/the one who is acting/a part of acting,
some of the images:
1.reflections-a man standing on a bridge, looking down at the water, being watched by a flock of birds on a phonewire, birds being wathed by a man in a bird costume, reflections of birdman in the water seen by man on the bridge.
2. the "doer", participant, image of a group of ascociates together surronded by exlamations such as: follow me, where is the path, safe and sane, it all starts now.
3.a girl stretching out her arms that dissapears out of the page. A circle with trees as marks,also going out of the corcle, footsteps, traces, a chair with cows feet, tracks. Words written over the images: the subconsciousness is working as satan himself, danielsen is alive!, sleep walking, alot of people, some in yellow, some is sitting, we are, all is, but where is it?, in the eye, follow the tracks, misleading tracks.

see pink

2006-01-07T10:33:00.000-08:00

see pink

posted by Misty .aka Mistletoe Twig

N.O. Araliaceæ

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Haymaids.Tun-hoof.Hedgemaids.Lizzy-run-up-the-Hedge.
Gil-go-by-the-Hedge.Catsfoot.Robin-run-in-the-Hedge.

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