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Sunday, December 06, 2009 

Current mood:  happy
Category: Music
Oracle 8
Lost at Sea




Oracle search word: Lady Vain Interview
Oracle search engine: Youtube








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Thursday, November 19, 2009 

Current mood:  working
Category: Music

Oracle 7
marine chronometer


A marine chronometer
 is a timekeeper precise enough to be used as a portable time standard; it can therefore be used to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation. 
When first developed in the eighteenth century it was a major technical achievement, 
as accurate knowledge of the time over a long sea voyage is necessary for navigation without electronic or communications aids. The first true chronometer was the life work of one man, John Harrison, spanning 31 years of persistent trial and error that revolutionized naval (and later aerial) navigation as the 
Age of Discovery.

Quest search word: Longitude (2000) TV - Jeremy Irons (Rupert Gould)
Quest search engine: Youtube

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Saturday, November 14, 2009 

Current mood:  rockin
Category: Music


Oracle 6
Satellite Navigation

In the history of science the scientific revolution 
was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of doctrines that had prevailed from Ancient Greece through the Middle Ages,
and laid the foundation of modern science.

Quest search word; Galileo and the milkyway (1 of 2)
Quest search engine; Youtube


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Thursday, November 05, 2009 

Current mood:  animated
Category: Music

Oracle 5
Radar Navigation

Operational Radar and "Chain Home"
Although television and radar serve different purposes, there is a lot of overlap between the two technologies.
The detection of large objects by reflected radio waves was first documented in 1904 when Christian Hulsmeyer of Germany had used a spark gap pulsed transmitter to detect ships located several miles away, although he never managed to measure their range.
 By the early 1930s, much better results were being reported on the reflection of radio waves by moving objects, by organisations such as the U.S.Naval Research Laboratory in Washington and the Telefunken company in Germany.
 These reports were buried in the patent literature and technical journals;
 they did not grab the attention of the general public in the same way as television.
Nor were governments much interested in radar from an operational point of view,
until 1935.
In that year, Britain was the first country to start developing radar operationally.
A wall of secrecy surrounded the Chain Home project and the radar research station.
Although the British public was unaware of radar, there were a few gaps in the wall of secrecy.
Awareness of radar and its crucial role in World War II only reached the general public in 1945, as victory was achieved.

Quest search word: ORACLE FIVE
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Friday, October 23, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Music

Oracle 4
Radio navigation.

The first system of radio navigation was the Radio Direction Finder, or RDF. By tuning in a radio station and then using a directional antenna to find the direction to the broadcasting antenna, radio sources replaced the stars and planets of celestial navigation with a system that could be used in all weather and times of day. By using triangulation, two such measurements can be plotted on a map where their intersection is the position. Commercial AM radio stations can be used for this task due to their long range and high power, but strings of low-power radio beacons were also set up specifically for this task. Early systems used a loop antenna that was rotated by hand to find the angle to the signal, while modern systems use a much more directional solenoid that is rotated rapidly by a motor, with electronics calculating the angle. These later systems were also called Automatic Direction Finders, or ADF.

Quest search word: Frequency and Volume - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Barbican, London)

Quest search engine: Youtube
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Saturday, October 17, 2009 

Current mood:  working
Category: Music
Oracle 3
Celestial navigation 

Also known as astronavigation, is a position fixing technique that was devised to help sailors cross the featureless oceans without having to rely on dead reckoning to enable them to strike land. Celestial navigation uses angular measurements (sights) between common celestial objects or to the horizon.
 

Quest search name: Celestial Navigation 2008
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Friday, October 09, 2009 

Current mood:  breezy
Category: Music
Oracle 2
PilotAge



Involves navigating in restricted waters with frequent determination of position relative to geographic and hydrographic features.






Quest search word: Shoreditch rave 94
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Pilotage depends on the pilot being able to recognise the visual references in order to make use of them. The pilot must either be familiar with those visual references or be able to discover them from a map

 



 
 



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Saturday, October 03, 2009 

Current mood:  blustery
Category: Music
THC
Travellers Guide; 

The Quest
into the

StEpPiNgStOnE
AgE
 Oracle 1 + DR positioning!

This information is about determination of position and direction on or above the surface of the earth.


Navigation is the process of reading, and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.


[1] It is also the term of art used for the specialized knowledge used by navigators to perform navigation tasks.


The word navigate is derived from the Latin "navigare", meaning "to sail".


[1] All navigational techniques involve locating the navigator's position compared to known locations or patterns.


The Modern Technique!

 

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Friday, September 04, 2009 

Current mood:  fabulous
"Now then show your ticket, child!" said the guard, looking angrily at Alice.
"I'm afraid I haven't got one," Alice said in a frightened tone: "There wasn't a ticket-office where I came from."
All this time the guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "Your'e travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.

Quest into the Steppingstoneage
The new album
will be sometime in the making.
Our journey to you is taking longer than we thought, as with all good things that come to those that wait, we will be harvesting the crops this equinox however your trip across the threshold is not yet due.
We hope to see you all at our live events, where you can see and & hear a glimpse from the quest's chest.
2010
will be our time to travel!

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end?
"I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?" Alice said aloud.
"I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.
Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think-" (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) "-- yes that's about the right distance -- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?" (Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 

Current mood:  blessed
Category: Music
On behalf of all The Higher Craft Alice writes:

The Journey to Montsale turnt out to be easier than anticipated. After reaching Southminster, a quant village idle literally on the edge of the earth, we were greeted by David from HB. After much communication on-line & by telephone we finally met in person...
& what a great positive person he is :)
Also cooped up in a convoy was a large matt black transit van with two Oktalogues inside.
After final directions from David towards the venue we set off once again on the corkscrew path into the remote Essex countryside.
As we passed the matt black van Alice gestured a peace sign with her hand to the golden haired germans who responded back as such.
The path (one single rd on a flat plateau) surrounded either side by fields of hay rolls as far as the eye could see, lead us onto Montsale.
We landed after another 10 mins of tranquil countryside driving thru what can only be described as a very magical location. Passing nothing but tractors and acres and acres of hay bails, some round, some oblong, which reminded Alice of when she was small and her definition of them thus!
"They look like giant weetabix".....
We had arrived, the weather was perfect, a truly beautiful warm sunny day with clear blue skies.

Our german friends were already taking full advantage of the wonderful location, and were seated upon the grass in the studios gardens re-stringing their guitars and chilling with a smoke and  English cider.
Growing all around the gardens were fruit trees, plums, pears, apples as large and red as a wallop on the head from timmy mallet? (i'm still half asleep as I write this,so please forgive the analogy..)  and goosey gander by the pond side looking ornament like but letting us know he was real by a bout of banter and a face off with Christina.

After our introductions we all gathered and enjoyed the surroundings and began to get to know each other. Zaphire Oklalogue a 4 piece psych stoner rock outfit from Germany we're a cool bunch of people and the bonding began.

David worked his socks off to get things together for this gig and in our opinion it was A HUGE SUCCESS FOR ALL
 (Despite a low turn out).

Time was drawing close to show time and the guest's began arriving, the stage was set, props and costumes in place, we were ready to begin
"TIME HAD COME"

We played a 45 minute set consisting of Magic Box tracks and 4 new songs from our forthcoming album.

The sound was good and the liquid lightshow gave a rich organic flow to the set.
Craig, Chaz and J.D. all in fine form let expel the power in their touch and the music was flying, Alice felt completely at home
(as usual)
up on the stage and gave out insights into madness in-between each trk.
The audience of course were bemused.


Next up were Hoffman's Bicycle.
 Christian & Bob on guitars, placed low stools besides the guru that is David.
 Adorned with his tunic and beads David sat centre stage hooker one side of him incense burner on the other.
 His tabla playing giving an eastern strong hold to the guitar riffs and psyched out journey.
A very impressive set & unique transition for both bands to sit amongst.
Hoffmans Bicycle we have no doubt will also delight a festival crowd with their spiritual cosmic mynd trip.

After several tokes from the green ganja gardens it was time for Zaphire Oktalogue.
The boys hit us hard and deep and took us on a higher plane we were not anticipating.
 This young band have promise to greatness and we're very happy to have been able to experience this band in such intimate detail.
The after show party was awesome nature decided to thrill us with countless meteorites that showered across the sky.
 We were beginning to run out of wishes as so many falling stars danced across the perfect blackness of the sky.
Galaxies and the milkyway in abundance could be seen and the silhouette from the studio lights formed shadows upon the hay bails which transformed into what looked like standing stones upon the land,
what a sight!  

We had a PERFECT time, and we would like to thank you all for your kindness and open friendly welcome.

Let's do it again real soon.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 

Current mood:  chill
THC
Another date added to this years live appearences
22nd October
o2 Academy Islington
N1 Centre
16 Parkfield Street, London, N1 0PS
supporting
The Drellas

Ticket cost
£4

TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE HELD WITH ALICE
 Message us for more details of how to buy!
N1 Centre
16 Parkfield Street, London, N1 0PS
A
rare glimpse into the upcoming
sounds from the craft
to be deployed
Hope to see you all there!
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 

Current mood:  high
Category: Music
Greetings
The Higher Craft Traveller!
We are pleased to bring you news of our continual journey thru space and time to this navigational point
RIGHT NOW!
The Higher Craft have released Legends of Time limited edition live e.p.
which
includes:
Legends of Time (Studio Version)
A musical concrete collage
Ode to Great Granddad +
& 5 Live songs, 4 from our debut album Magic Box 
Time Has Come (live)
Lazy Daisy (live)
New Moon (live)
Senorita (live)
Legends of Time (live)
Also we are supplying all travellers with:
THC king size rolling papers ,
(in the case of emergency)
We travel far, thus we need to be equipt at all times as we will be following a journey that consists in memory.
Also along with your limited edition CD You will receive
A Magic CD case,
limited edition ephemera
and Magical Mushroom munchies.
Curtsey of
The THC Creative Confectionary Company
circa 2009.
(which we hope will feed your head until our next destination.)
For your collection Tickets for the journey are now on sale!
you can buy your CD & Kit bag here
www.thehighercraft.com
just, 5 + p/p
www.thehighercraft.com
Legends of Time
Our steppingstoned track,
leads us into the next phase of vast psychedelic mind travel, along & amongst the patchwork fields of the underground movement and into the belly of wonderland!
YOUR TECHNICOLOR
 Guide Map
Our journey ahead
UPDATE!
What's to come 09!
Our 3rd Destination & 2nd album Release scheduled for arrival Sept 09.
The Quest
into
The Steppingstoneage
Based upon
- A Multi-medium - Art & Musical formation - Scripted Stage Play -
written by Alice.
All members of the craft are co-writing the music, symphonies and songs and we will also be joined by several guest's to enhance vibrations even higher.
  We are exploring each scene with intense excitment with the prospects and sounds that will form.
As we delve deeper into the higher craft
we will discover more about our journey into the light surveying
 of our
Psychedelic Re-evolution.
we're happy your onboard with us
THC
Psychedelic-Re-evolution.
www.thehighercraft.com

The Steppingstoneage!
ARE YOU READY?
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Friday, June 12, 2009 

Current mood:FLYING!
Category: Music
"WORDS BE JUST WORDS DEAR ALICE THERE BE NO REPRISE"

Ummm, well i've been told, so i'll keep it short n sweet.

YOU CAN PRE-ORDER YOUR LIMITED EDITION
OF
THE LEGENDS OF TIME LIVE E.P.
NOW!

LIMITED EDITION
MERCH ALSO AVALIABLE
WITH THE RELEASE

DON'T MISS OUT ON THE JOURNEY
ORDER NOW
JUST 50 COPIES AVALIABLE
IN CIRCULATION
FIRST COME FIRST SERVE!
ORDER HERE
www.thehighercraft.com
non paypal customers send us a message
TO ADD
TO YOUR THC MUSIC COLLECTION.
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Friday, April 24, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music

THC
We're currently busy writing for the next album due for release Sept 09.
It is quite a mountain for us to climb and
 is some what of a monolithic epic task ahead, however the work is underway and FINALLY a Separate Reality
based upon the writings of Alice,

THE
"STEPPINGSTONEAGE" 
"A Tale to Tell" 

Will be projected from the Magic Box where it has laid patiently for over 15yrs awaiting it's
"FREEDOM!"
-
We hope that during this pause, you will enjoy our second release in the form of a
  Live E.P. 
Titled
LEGENDS OF TIME
Which is
due for release on the same date, one year after Magic Box was opened (21-06-08).
-
Legends of Time Live E.P.
will be avaliable
SUMMER SOLSTICE JUNE 21st 09.
-
Alongside this live CD
you will also be able to obtain
"THE LINK"
for your collection connected by our debut album 
"Magic Box".
Each release from THC will contain connections with the previous and so the journey will unfold as we follow Alice on her adventures thru the underground of wonderland.
Also within the box other gifts will emerge.
 Your very own
THC
Memorabilia.
 Which will be contained in your purchase of the live E.P.
We can't tell you too much too soon, but for all THC heads it will be 
SMOKING
;)

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 

Current mood:  rockin
Category: Music
Greetings all in WONDERLAND.
This is to inform you of our NEW SOUND!
We have NOW obtained the mastery of J.D.Tait (The Meads of Asphodel) as our second guitarist, and as a result of this we have crossed the threshold into NEW REALMS yet unheard.
It is the goal of the craft to bring A NEW RE-EVOLVED light of sound down to you all dwelling upon this planet we call earth, you are the lucky ones right here right now. All onboard with us shall travel beyond WONDERLAND and into the stream that is the main and from that the world will be our oyster.
As you know we kick off our journey on the 24th of March in London at the Boston Music Rooms, Tufnell Park. We are to set to descend and ensure complete transformative vibrations upon this our first LIVE show in 2009.
We like to give and in this light we will be uploading for you a NEW TRK and the evolved THC sound on our page very soon.
The re-evolution has begun, and all that is left for us to do IS KICK ASS AND BREAK ON THRU!
We hope you'll enjoy the trip of a lifetime with us.
 

Through the Looking Glass


Lewis Carroll


Chapter 8 - ..It's my own Invention'



After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no one to be seen, and her first thought was that she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those still lying at her feet, on which she had tried to cut the plum- cake, ..So I wasn't dreaming, after all,' she said to herself, ..unless -- unless we're all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream,' she went on in a rather complaining tone: ..I've a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!'
At this moment her thoughts were interrupted by a loud shouting of ..Ahoy! Ahoy! Check! and a Knight dressed in crimson armour, came galloping down upon her, brandishing a great club. Just as he reached her, the horse stopped suddenly: ..You're my prisoner!' the Knight cried, as he tumbled off his horse.
Startled as she was, Alice was more frightened for him than for herself at the moment, and watched him with some anxiety as he mounted again. As soon as he was comfortably in the saddle, he began once more ..You're my -- ' but here another voice broke in ..Ahoy! Ahoy! Check!' and Alice looked round in some surprise for the new enemy.
This time it was a White Knight. He drew up at Alice's side, and tumbled off his horse just as the Red Knight had done: then he got on again, and the two Knights sat and looked at each other for some time without speaking. Alice looked from one to the other in some bewilderment.
..She's my prisoner, you know!' the Red Knight said at last.
..Yes, but then I came and rescued her!' the White Knight replied.
..Well, we must fight for her, then,' said the Red Knight.
 









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