Recent events in the long and illustrious history of Festival Object Trading (FOT) are here recorded. Customers, according to established traditions, used the FOT Exchange Rate Mechanism to add FOT currency to an object of their choice, which could then be used to purchase from a long list of Products, Events and Services. These Products, Events and Services include legal services, the world-renowned Mate Peg(TM), a Giraffe Stamp Licking Service, Festival Alarm Call Services, Festival SMS, the fantastic Sombrero Self-Portrait service, and the Lovers’ Cigarrette.

This is a retrospective post. Film through the convoluted return to light- the eye and the brain, the meter and mechanism, the x-ray bag the luggage hold, the train the lab, the developer and scan, the disk the hard drive the applications, the wordpress web architecture, and the php back and forth across the pond to the server.

The post title I wrote whilst in Beirut. It’s hard to recapture the wonder I found again when I came across these places on the edge of west Beirut. So here are some of the photos. There will be a gallery up on one of the pages to your right, it might even be soon. The crumbling lived in, the worn out used still used, these tend to fascinate. Also, hollowness, containers, the insides out. Occupation.

So disassociated till now the text and the image, here is provisional integration #1.