The Official Community Of Nitin Sawhney

I have a suggestion. I suggest that Nitin looks at emails and responds - even if it is to say thanks but no thanks. If he is too busy - what's the point of the forum?

Hi Ana!

Heavens, it's been ages! How's the poetry coming along? Have you been busy writing? I meant to suggest to you to get hold of a copy of the Writers' & Artists' Handbook but, typically me, never got round to it . You've probably got a copy anyway, but it's a useful guide for finding publishers. Also, wanted to ask you if you found any useful websites, books etc, yourself that you would like to recommend? Did you try approaching any other artists' websites, aside from his nibs', for advice? Anyway, hope it's all going well.

Don't be too tough on Mr. Sawhney though. Poor old thing's probably slaving feverishly over a hot Rowland 24/7 or otherwise, putting the world to rights! I can see your point about the forum though. Myself, I'm not too bothered about getting a response from the man. It's much more fun just to mess around (oh, and occasionally poke fun at the moderator's expense! ) but then I can't think of anything to ask ...... unless he knows how to get sand out of chubby crayons. Whatever the reason for Nitin's absence, I'm sure that it's a good one. Perhaps he just needs a little encouragement!

Best wishes,

Buga

Ah...... I see........

Alright, alright.....

I'm sorry. Life gets on top of you sometimes. Anyway, yes I do read the e-mails..... pretty much always, although sometimes due to either technical madness or work demands it's not so easy to answer. I will aim to do better in future and answer questions with more frequency (well, that wouldn't be too hard I guess) from now on.

Apologies once more and I really do appreciate the effort, people.

Cheers

Nitin

Hey wellcome to your forum!!!

Can we call that a 'virtual' or 'e' hibernation?!?!?! But spring is here and so is the sound of tapping on the keyboard?!?!?!

So the thing is, have you thought about employing a moderator?

Hi "r",

Well yes, a moderator would be cool and, staying with the hibernation analogy, I guess it would be good to start storing away the "nuts" as they seem to be in abundance on this site.

However, this job falls primarily to v2, as they share the site with us and we can only bring their attention to any rogue messages by using a range of communication techniques including, most recently, semaphore and smoke signals.

Today, for example, I've planned to absail into their offices and convey your concerns through the medium of dance. I tried the same technique at the whitehouse over Iraq but they decided to stick with systematic genocide. They couldn't see the profit margins in withdrawal.

I feel your frustration but you are not alone......

Cheers

Nitin

mmm........'nuts', yeah, I don't know what you are going to do about Buga and Rosemary either!?!?!? Just joking......before I get slated, although having said that it is better to be slightly nutty I reckon........

The communication thing, amazing isn't it, we can be the most developed organisms in the animal kingdom, apparently, have mulitple methods of communication, as you have highlighted (when do you get the time to practice?!?!), but who listens? There is a guy, he lives on Downing Street, and he didn't even notice when one million people walked past his front door!! I am led to believe that he has communiction problems at a number of levels, particularly with his next door neighbour, although apparently he does not have the same trouble getting into the Whitehouse that you had.......

I tell you what, if v2 ain't listening, I bet they have a forum, you should camp out on there for a while

Buga Divino:

Hi Ana!

Heavens, it's been ages! How's the poetry coming along? Have you been busy writing? I meant to suggest to you to get hold of a copy of the Writers' & Artists' Handbook but, typically me, never got round to it . You've probably got a copy anyway, but it's a useful guide for finding publishers.
Buga

You may well find a copy of the Writers' & Artists' Handbook in the Reference Section of libraries in main town. The college I work in also has a copy.

I've just had a look on the Amazon site and the 2007 edition is not yet out but will be selling for just under a tenner (before VAT).

Rosemary

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Confucius

Hello you lot!

Rosemary, thanks for posting details of the book. Thankfully, I'm not ever likely to need it (did I hear a collective sigh of relief just then? ops: - you're a rotten bunch!) but you never know, Ana might indeed find it useful. On reflection, given my dodgy 'fogging' techniques, I think it's probably a good idea if I simply hang up my kid gloves and say nothing in future. If I force myself to be that nice again to someone so rude, I shall end up relegating myself to Nitin's autumnal cache ..... if I haven't done so already!!!

r, sorry that your dreams of becoming a moderator have been temporarily crushed ..... blogspots are easy enough to create but how sophisticated can they be? And how do people create their own websites? Perhaps that could be the way to go ..... Meanwhile ......

..... Mr. Sawhney! Exactly HOW atrocious is your dancing, dear? I mean, clearly it's not the most ideal form of communication for you to adopt if you're not able to get the message across. And having already failed to communicate with their government, with your incomprehensible shuffling, twirling and tear-jerking, high-kicks, how can you possibly hope to succeed with getting through to America's "largest investment bank"?!!!? Perhaps r isn't the only to be found sobbing audibly into a mousemat .... anyway, I have a suggestion, if I may be so forward!

Stick with the abseiling - great idea (crawling through ventilation shafts is SO overated) BUT - and I want you to give this some serious consideration Mr. S, instead of all that silly dancing nonsense that nobody understands, why not employ your hitherto unexploited skills as a kickboxer? I'm sure that you'll definitely find you'll have their undivided attention and, just incase they are still looking a little mystified, you could slip them a note that reads,

" THE MEMBERSHIP OF MY FORUM IS LESS THAN 2/3's HUMAN - THE REST ARE ALL ADBOTS. PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF HUMANITY, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT OR, I'LL BE FORCED TO SEND YOU PRINT-OFFS OF MEMBERS' POSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

or, something like that anyway.

In the meantime, I blew the dust off the following link and Lo! and Behold! It's still active! Calme sent it to me last year and I think it might still raise a smile.
http://www.dancingbush.com
Buga

Buga Divino:

Hello you lot!


" THE MEMBERSHIP OF MY FORUM IS LESS THAN 2/3's HUMAN - THE REST ARE ALL ADBOTS. PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF HUMANITY, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT OR, I'LL BE FORCED TO SEND YOU PRINT-OFFS OF MEMBERS' POSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

or, something like that anyway.


Buga

Which part of you is still human, Buga! Don't tell me that you have mutated with the mice in your kitchen.

On a more serious note, Nitin, would it help if any of us wrote to the web team (who seem to be listed on the site) and expressed concern that your reputation and that of V2 itself is being jeopardised by unwanted advertising and unseemly links?

Rosemary

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Confucius

Hi all,

We are gathering tomorrow to discuss the antics of adbots and all other purveyors of irrelevance on this site. We will subsequently send in an irrelevance inspector who will then carefully assess the potential threat of individual cases before we indiscriminately delete the *** out of everyone involved.

Remember.... You're either with us or agin us.

Thanks people.

NS

Hello Nitin and all,

Please see my post in the International section re. My Space if you missed it. I really think you should have a page there so that you can use that additional opportunity to promote your music. And also bring people back to this site as well. Your pals (?) at V2 can and should take care of it on your behalf, if you want them to. Otherwise it's not hard to do yourself either, and kind of fun.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for sharing yourself and your art, Nitin. 8)

Lisa

Hello Lisa!

I was going to quote your first post in my reply to Rosemary but got sort of carried away for a few hours churning out some mouse-related nonsense before getting side-tracked by something else and accidently jamming my keyboard (much angst!) ..... anyway, been meaning to check out Rosemary's taxi (what - are all career-advisors moonlighting now?!!?) to see what it's all about...

Nitin,

Sounds like you've just outlined the plot for some sci-fi thriller ("The AdBot Blasters!"). Fingers crossed that you don't have to resort to a follow-up. A few of us are a little nervous though - will we have to tone down our cheekiness and write (gulp!) SENSIBLE POSTS ?

All the more reason to post my mouse saga...just incase!

You know, Rosemary, I had very little chance to interact with my cute-but-incontinent visitors during the winter, much less mutate! They seemed to disappear shortly after Christmas ..... I blame my flatmate's joss sticks - I'm bit of an incense snob but it has to be said that my flatmate does tend to go for ones that evoke memories of living in the sticks and being downwind of the neighbouring stables on the days when they mucked out the stalls and burnt the old bedding ....

Although there was a time when they (the mice, not the horses ... could you imagine having to live with a horse infestation in your kitchen? It's a hard enough job trying to persuade someone to come out from the Environmental Health Department to deal with mice....) used to live in our flat all year round, they now only hang around until late spring, preferring to then flit off to prepare for the festival season. Yes, you see Rosemary, I don't like to brag too openly about our mice but they are incredibly creative. It's their inability to hold it in and, what they can't hold in is usually invisible to the eye ( you have to follow the little trail of droppings to work out where they've been). However, when exposed to ultraviolet light it glows like a capped tooth in a disco.

Having stumbled across this bizarre little nugget of information, such a light was purchased out of the household consumables kitty. The very same evening, we took it into the kitchen and turned it on and there, THERE, glowing magically beneath our feet, was the most amazing, most awe-inspiring copy of Jackson Pollock's Number 23! Of course, we knew it had to be a coincidence. The following day we mopped the floor several times until we were certain that we had left them with a 'blank canvas' to work on, gave them until just before daybreak to go about their business and then tiptoed in and turned on the light. Again, we found ourselves staring down at what appeared to be ANOTHER Jackson Pollock, although, for several minutes we couldn't decide if it was meant to be his Number One (though, evidently it was theirs) or his Lavender Mist. We edged carefully around the room until we came to the cooker and looked down once more. Ah, yes, there was no doubting it now - it was indeed Lavender Mist, perhaps with one or two embellishments but, now that we had worked out which way "up", there was no mistaking it.

That they were extremely gifted artists could not be denied but, oh, so predictable! The following night it was Number 23 again, followed by Lavender Mist and so on and so on. Why copy only these two great works of art? And, how on earth did they manage to discover Pollock in the first place? As though these questions weren't enough to torment us, another mystery gradually presented itself ..... while they were still replicating the same images, the 'paintings' appeared to be shrinking! They began to leave ever larger portions of floorspace unmarked and the paintings took on a ragged appearance.

The morning after we found Lavender Mist reduced to something that barely covered two linoleum tiles, the fridge appeared to give up the ghost. None of us knew a thing about fixing fridges but we decided to haul it out from it's dreary corner and inspect it anyway. Traditionally, in flatshares if nowhere else, if you drag a large appliance like that, out from where it has sat since the dawn of mankind, you are not going to want to look too closely at where it has been sitting ..... this is especially true of flatshares with a history of having been simultaneously occupied by several generations of furry cohabitants, and not the rent-paying kind either! However, stand there long enough and you will find your gaze irresistibly drawn to that very spot, eventually...

I peered down, bracing myself for the usual medley of horrors and recoiled with a shriek! The floor, THE FLOOR where the fridge had stood, surpassed all possible expectations - to our utter horror and absolute amazement, we discovered that THE FLOOR WAS CLEAN!!! Well, almost. There was a half-chewed, wizened baked bean and .... two scraps of card. Both of these had a blank side but, when we turned them over to there, on each piece was a tiny replica of their latest renditions of the two Pollocks! POSTCARDS!!! They had been copying postcards (and eating them)! Carefully, we put them back. I had an idea. I shot into the livingroom, tore a page from a book about Renaissance art and, returning to the kitchen and the space behind the fridge, placed it next to Pollock's fragments. The fridge was pushed gently back in place and that evening, we hovered excitedly on the stairs, waiting for the familiar chorus of squeaks and scratching to die down. As the sound of the very last mouse ebbed away behind the skirting, we crept into the kitchen, turned on the light and let out a communal gasp. There, staring right back at us was Botticelli's Birth of Venus!!! Beautiful beyond the realms of even Sandro's imagination, Simonetta Vespucci shone radiantly, as though almost floating off the surface of our kitchen floor. We were speechless. After that we took to leaving a wealth of visual material to stimulate and amuse our tiny community of artists and you know Rosemary, they never failed to rise to the challenge and impress us!

Sadly, one late Spring evening, a visitor (the two-legged kind) left his copy of a festival guide on the kitchen counter. The next day, we discovered it, the pages slightly nibbled at and, below the picture of a large marquee, there was a generous pile of droppings..... a sure sign that they had spent not a little time studying that very page. Quickly, we gaffer-taped the grotty teatowel collection to the window, closed the door and switched on the ultraviolet light. Across the floor danced a myriad of abstract shapes, so unlike anything we had seen before! The mice had, artistically, "evolved" and unleashed a copious ocean of imagery, like giant and incredible plankton, set free from their wondrous, collective imagination, and strewn across our humble, grimy, "Italian Marble", kitchen floortiles. The mice themselves, disappeared until later in the year and, as a mark of respect, the floor was left untouched until their return.

That Summer, I found myself sheltering under the vast canopy known as the Siam Tent, for the first time. Weary from the ever-present and uncompromising sun (Nitin wasn't billed that year), I threw down my bag, which doubled as a makeshift headrest on such occasions, and lay down, appreciating the coolness of the dry earth beneath me. I gazed upwards, allowing my eyes to adjust to the welcome dimness, and smiled broadly. Way above me, that same sea of beautiful geometry swam across the underside of the immense marquee, a perfect replica of our kitchen floor!

As for which part of me is human? Well ................

LJoy:

Hello Nitin and all,

Please see my post in the International section re. My Space if you missed it. I really think you should have a page there so that you can use that additional opportunity to promote your music. And also bring people back to this site as well. Your pals (?) at V2 can and should take care of it on your behalf, if you want them to. Otherwise it's not hard to do yourself either, and kind of fun.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for sharing yourself and your art, Nitin. 8)

Lisa

Have you seen the other sections of the site - the audio and video gallery. Take a look around and enjoy!

Actually I was under the impression there is a my space site devoted to Nitin, but I am not sure that it is authentic as it seems to originate from Ireland. Also there don't seem to be many "friends" from the music scene.

Rosemary

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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness" Confucius