I apologise for not posting this weekend, missed the oppotunity to post on friday...couldnt get the images home, my fault....However here is what we have for what the boards are going to look like

To who ever is involved you can take one of these ideas from the brainstorm session bring sketches doodles other ideas in asap thanks...

Food 1 Starter - Fish (mackeral) Boats nets, actual net attached to the bottom of the board. "russian dolls" fish idea smaller eaten to big, Old fish boat drawings, BUBBLES FROM FISHES with info inside.

Food 2 Main - Loose quick line drawings of the Key Foods, (menu in below in the blog) Mushrooms Earthy looking foods being picked forgaged With a person eating

Food 3 Dessert - Bring in some of the characters from the apple board, apple men with blackberry men, outlines of people and details of the desserts. Dandellion Head and Seeds

Drinks - Have kinda touched on the drawings falready...chris is to collaborate with apple men squezzing apples...having a elaborate pressing machine....Lots of drips and juicey trees

Carbon Footprint - Smoke flowing around the board with illustrations errupting from certain parts...Hand holding apple, City out of the smoke

People - Me and chris are going to draw a whole board of faces and speech bubbles, characturing some people at the event and writing down how they have travelled have a age diversity of children to older faces.

Event Stuff - Tree Diagram portraying how things have all come about. With each of the individual things like lights baords cooking and such expanding from the centre.

Project Development - Time line/Comic storyboards following from the idea lucy orta all the way up until the actual time of the event touching on the things that were used. Map of where events were before and now...

Doodles and images

El Menu

Wild food from Fat Hen our expert forager and chef from darkest Cornwall. This meal might have the smallest carbon footprint 70 people have ever sat down to eat (perhaps since the arrival of the superstore).

The Menu:

Starter
Smoked mackerel & Dulse seaweed tart with wild leaves dressed with an
elderberry viniagrette

Beetroot and cumin soup

Main
Vegetable gratin made using local seasonal vegetables (beetroot, courgette
and mushroom with a three cornered garlic & wild black mustard infused cream
and local cheese sauce

Wild Sorrel pomme puree

Wilted wild greens (sea beet, watercress, Alexanders, mallow)

Pudding
Carragheen pudding with shortbread and blackberry and apple coulis

And locally baked bread.

Please research your own images of food and their locations or origins. The images at the top are Dulse seaweed which is 'one of the richest sources of bio-available minerals on the planet' and wild black pepper. Additional pics:

The venue - The layout

Sherwell United Church Hall is the place. Eclesiatical vernacular, almost gothic. Red interior.

The layout is in a symbol of inifinity. The black lines are the boards. We have them surrounded.

A Pressing Issue - The Apples Board

See previous blog Effordless Apples for links to Growsheffield sites for some images.

Above are some presses. You can focus on the apples themselves in all their round varieties if you like.
Some stats:
Apples harvested Middlewood (AMC + JS) transport (see below) 1 trip
Apples harvested from Plants for a Future, Higher Penpol, Fowey Estuary
(http://www.pfaf.org/cornwall/index.php) transport to Middlewood (32 miles) then Middlewood to Plymouth
Apple Press picked up from North Devon (need to get figures)
Apples pressed in Efford, Plymouth – some energy used for crushing and pasteurizing.
More apples coming from Combeinteighnhead in Devon.
You could go down the map route showing Penpol, Combeinteighnhead and Efford and Plymouth.
Cider – still sourcing
As ever you don't have to be literal to get it across. Hand to apple to press to squash to lovely amber juice. Juice miles.

stuff you probably know

El cartel a story but never sure if it quite makes sense

but where does the water go?

and

ignore the advertising skater talk; i include this to say you can indulge in lovely drawing of objects if you want and can then link em to make sense of their travel/carbon implications. This might be good for food pages. I also like the chaos spaghetti a bit.

and

you may want to tell a story literally Kugler style from photos with annotations

or

do a Chad Maccail sinister linear cartoon

or

or a zen diagram of the whole damn system (also by Chad)

or none of the above

story of stuff is

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

and

carbon weevils (that is us)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nALyKU_N5x0

too much stop!

8 boards

There are 10 boards . (The intention is to elaborate about individual boards with more info as it comes in on separate posts elsewhere on this blog). The 10 boards are:
1. carbon. why calculate carbon footprint of project? – background info – how it works - this will have a fair bit of text and will talk about networks, interconnectedness.
2. food1. the starter (local fish plus)
3. food 2. main course (many foraged items and local food etc)
4. food 3. Pudding course (blackberries, apples etc. all local) tea/coffee (herb, dandelion coffee, real coffee)
5. Drinks. Apple pressing,  sourcing apples, cider
6. project development. Travel (including L.Orta)/energy use/computer/phone use/ paper/postage
7. people (on the night) travel – how did you get here (bike, foot, bus, train, plane, car)..will be footprinted live on the night - drawings/layout can be done before
8. event stuff - lights, blackboards, art materials (chalks, fix etc) cooking, electricity and other equipment, compost, get out + L.orta (runners, plates, aprons)
9. Composting of food waste, unknowns...outcomes…equivalences?
10. Comments board….for guests to write/draw on?

I guess the thing to do is to start googleing and  drawing some of the objects involved that interest you whether it is seaweed or wind power, choo choo trains or people picking fruit, brambles or light bulbs, icebergs or rain forests.