Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Kiku, I'd be interested in participating in the Skype demo lessons.  You know I'm a big fan of Skype lessons!

I'll email you off the forum for more details.

Hi Kiku,
i can help out with discussion/interview if time is ok. I am software developer in real life but very critical on social webapps these days. While I enjoy reading the stuff here or on FB, I still refuse skype lessons.
If that helps, I am available.
Cheers,
Christian

I'm in if it can be useful.

Jarle

Just wanted to let ya all know that Skype has group conference now. So it would be easy to meet up in groups now. Till now I didnt tryed it but I will check it out in a few days. Time for Shaku BBQ on Skype

Cool its progressing. Hope there is a chance to view the outcome afterwards.
Best regards,
Christian

The pilot project of looking at skype lessons and the shakuhachi community online was great! Again thank you to all who participated and also to the ones I never got around to talk with. This project will continue, so hopefully I will get around to as many as possible in the near future.

The conference was called DIY Citizenship: Critical making and social media was a conference held by the faculty of Information, University of Toronto. http://diycitizenship.com/

I worked with Margaret Lam, who is a student of the Faculty of Information. We had a kind of presentation that was like an installation in the art museum and the space during the conference was called "the Hack Space".


The space we occupied in "the Hack Space" and the view of some the others

People exhibited their creations which had something to do with online communities. There were some extremely creative interactive digital "things" exhibited. I was very happy to be there.
Margaret and i edited the interviews I conducted into themes: 1) online community; 2) Teaching pedagogy and methods; 3) Opinions. These were organised so people could have a look on the two screens provided and click on the themes they were interested in. Excerpts from Skype lessons were added as well.

We also did live skype lessons, which was very popular and people were amazed when they realised he persons were in Vancover and Berlin. Thanks to Erin and Chris for agreeing to be my guinia pigs!!!


Skype lesson with Chris (Ōshūsaji)


Skype lesson with Erin (Sokkan)

I am hoping to look more into the online world of music - not only shakuhachi. The digital media is very interesting and a whole new area for me. Very exciting! Who should have known that ethnomusicology would take me here...

I love the look of that flute! Lovely curve.

Nice posting, yeah it was really nice to take part and a great opportunity. Hope to see more of your work in the future, its quite interesting.

Best,

Chris

Actually, I think we are the masters of tax, not you danskerne.... :-)

Anyway, you need to write a proforma invoice, as you send it out, declaring the reason why it is sent. And the return sender has to make a proforma invoice upon return....

Should they still claim tax (which happens), its usually OK to write another letter to explain better, just remember to keep the receipts from the package out of Denmark as that is your proof when the flute returns.

I just made a proforma invoice as I sent my wooden flute to US as someone wanted to borrow it to study how it was made....., and I don't want to pay VAT when it is returned.

The people at freight company told me USA and Brazil is the strictest countries regarding customs, and yes, the borrower of the flute was claimed customs as it arrived even when I had written a proforma invoice..... Hopefully a complaint written as the flute is returned to me will give the money back.

You can find several templates if you google proforma invoice, it should be no problem. It can be used for repairs, exhibition purposes etc...

Jarle

Hi Kiku,

there is also a thing called "outward processing", a guy from our local custom office told me as I got one of my flutes back from repair I have to register it first at a custom office or something before I send it away for repairs and then it will be no problem to get things back without paying any taxes again otherwise they always can try to get taxes even with a proforma invoice. I had the same problem and had alot of trouble even with the invoice, I talked half an hour or more with the guys at the office to get the flute without paying taxes and me and them where really pissed at the end of our "conversation". I think your offices must have nearly the same.

Here is a short description of that.

http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/cu … dex_en.htm

I would love to tell more about that but you know my english is very limited to get the whole process together.

Last edited by Christopher B. (2010-11-19 17:23:05)