Part two-- Stamped Memory Imprints: Footsteps to the Castle

To:Imaginary Band Collective
Re: Only Anything
From: Starmaster, curator, OA-IBC
Date: this twenty-second day of August, two thousand eight.

Footsteps to a Castle that was so built up inside my mind that...
when it was overcame I felt the shame and tasted my demise
I wanted something real, that I could call my own
when all the world was crumbling, crumbling like old palaces of Rome.

--Thwaits, Footsteps to a Castle, 1994

Part two-- Stamped Memory Imprints: Footsteps to the Castle

Once again, I great you official members of the Imaginary Band Collective:

I am pleased that some of you are already actively gathering historical documents and have been pleasantly surprised by what has been uncovered. These photographs, pictures, cover art, and et cetera will be the life-blood of our archive and will be an important piece of what draws the world's eye in the direction of our Imaginary Band.

Google holds the keys of both our archiving project and the way we choose to display our work to the world. We will start with a simple blog as a means of distributing our work to the world's stage. This blog can be found at the following address:

http://imaginarybandcollective.blogspot.com/

I would like to look into registering onlyanything.com to host our collective, but for now, the above address will work nicely.

We will use Picassa to archive scanned photographs and photographed archives. Mr. Marvel, if you don't mind, can you upload the pictures you have put on your personal Picassa site onto this shared space? I can always move them too.

We will use Blogger to write and post blogs. I have been thinking about issues of chronology and think that we need not worry (especially at this point) with telling the story in order. I think it will be better to just write and post items as they come to you. Please include an estimation of date on your posts. More on the content of said writing in the part 3.

We can use Google Documents (see the top of the screen when you are logged into gmail) for drafting or collaborative work. It's cool and may or may not come in handy.

We can also use gmail for official onlyanything.oa press-releases. I usually use it as a gateway to the other services, as there are easy links to each of the above services once you have logged into gmail.

If you would like, we can also tie our personal accounts to the blog. Blogger allows for multi-users to add content. If you think that this would be a more useful way of accessing the blog and uploading content, let me know. All using a centralized login may be the most simple alternative.

My one divergence from the Google universe is my affinity for Vimeo. Like YouTube, Vimeo is a place to upload and share videos. I like the interface much more though, and there is no limit to how long clips can be. I have put several clips there already from a New Moves show in 2000 or 2001. The login is the same (though you will need to write the whole email address in the space provided).

You'll notice that the blog currently has two entries. An initial entry penned by the curator when this project first imprinted upon his mind, and the second, posted today, with selected content from these first two letters to the Imaginary Band Collective.

Please feel free to begin adding content (especially to the Picassa site) as soon a you feel obliged to. Further instruction on potential content for the blog will follow in the next email, parts 3 and 4: Dream of the Way Autumn Felt that Day: Writing Imaginary Histories

Remaining your devoted poetaster,

Starmaster, Curator OA-IBC