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Hotels-London Launch First Ever Affiliate Programme
Online destination specialist, Hotels-London, has launched their first affiliate scheme in their 11-year history. Their sister website, LateRooms.com, has managed an award-winning affiliate programme with Affiliate Window's sister network, buy.at, for the last six years. With a highly intuitive website and over 600 hand picked hotels to choose from, Hotels-London offers publishers a first-rate customer proposition. Combined with the bespoke technical tools and solutions available via the Affiliate Window platform, the brand is in a fantastic position to capitalise on the power of the affiliate channel.
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Following the launch, a strategic affiliate recruitment drive will commence to raise awareness of the Hotels-London brand to potential affiliate partners. Harnessing the existing experience and knowledge of the LateRooms account management team, the Hotels-London programme will be hosted on the AW platform but come under the remit of the buy.at account management department.
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After appointing an external brand research specialist in February, Hotels-London is currently developing new and exciting features which will firmly establish their position in the market. These are scheduled for release in Spring 2011 and will provide affiliates with additional linking methods to specific global hotel brands, as well as new features aiming to drive higher conversion rates and basket values.
Following on from the success of Hotels-London, additional affiliate campaigns to other specialist websites in the portfolio, including Hotels-Paris, will commence in addition to new websites launching in the next few years.


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Movie buffs, get your popcorn--the Beloit International Film Festival begins today.
(Want to see a full schedule for this annual event? Click here.)
Beloit College will also be the site for several BIFF events. The Hendricks Center for the Arts will be a venue for film screenings, and BIFF Honorary Chair Mark Wood, the foremost director and producer of films for the deaf, will be speaking on campus on Wednesday, (Feb. 19) at 8 p.m. in the Fireplace Lounge of Morse-Ingersoll Hall, following a showing of his new film, In the Can, at Domenico's.
Beloit students, faculty, and staff will also perform music as part of BIFF+Music, the music festival extension of BIFF that will bring 24 bands to downtown Beloit venues next weekend, and 10 Beloit College students have worked on the festival as interns--many of whom have been profiled in the Terrarium over the last week. This year's group of students is "extraordinary," according to intern coordinator and BIFF creative director Kristin Peterson. "With our expansion to 10 days we have needed assistance, and interns from the college are involved in every aspect of planning and execution," she said.


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Date: 09/15/2001 at 14:00:48 From: Ash Thotambilu Subject: Circles and squares A circle of radius 1 is inside a square whose side has length 2. Show that the area of the largest circle that can be inscribed between the circle and the square is (pi(17 - 12sqrt(2))).
Date: 09/15/2001 at 15:03:25 From: Doctor Jubal Subject: Re: Circles and squares Hi Ash, Thanks for writing Dr. Math. The little circle is inscribed in the corner of the square so that it touches the big circle and both sides of the square. Its diameter lies along one of the square's diagonals. Draw in that diagonal of the square, and label the following points: A: the center of the big circle B: where the diagonal intersects both the big and the little circles. The two circles are tangent at this point C: the center of the little circle D: where the diagonal intersects the little circle, opposite B E: the corner of the square that the little circle is inscribed in A,B,C,D,E should lie on the diagonal in that order. The square has side length 2, and the diagonal of a square is sqrt(2) times longer than its side. (You can prove this to yourself with the Pythagorean theorem. Feel free to write back if you have trouble.) So, the square's diagonal has length 2*sqrt(2). AE is half the square's diagonal, so AE has length sqrt(2). AB is the big circle's radius, with length 1. Comparing AB to AE, we can arrive at the following theorem: When a circle is inscribed inside a right angle, distance(center of circle to vertex of angle) AE ----------------------------------------------- = ---- = sqrt(2) radius of circle AB Now, the smaller circle is also a circle inscribed inside a right angle, so we can use this theorem to write CE / CD = sqrt(2) CD is just the radius of the little circle (I'll call this r from here on out), and we can find CE by noting CE = BE - BC But BC has length r, and BE is AE - AB = sqrt(2) - 1. So, we can write CE = sqrt(2) - 1 - r sqrt(2) - 1 - r ----------------- = sqrt(2) r I'll leave it to you to solve for r and use r to find the area of the circle (A = pi*r^2), but if you have any further trouble, feel free to write back. - Doctor Jubal, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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Americans don't like to be misled, which is why the guys on the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters can make such a good living debunking false beliefs.
However, before you can disprove a "myth," you have to start with a myth—something that's simply not true. Recently, the Washington Post's Sunday "Five Myths" section stubbed its toe on that very concept.
Author Stephanie Coontz attempted to tackle "myths" about marriage, one of which is that "married couples are the building blocks of community life." Why does the writer consider this a myth? Well, for one reason: "All that time couples invest in their children comes at the expense of being involved in the world beyond the family's front door."
The reality is far different. Rather than keeping to themselves, couples with children often become involved in their communities because they have children. My wife's group of friends consists almost entirely of people she's met through mom's groups, school groups, the community pool, and so forth. Because of my sons, I've been coaching baseball and basketball for years now. That has allowed me to meet scores of parents and children I wouldn't have otherwise.
More than a decade ago, the book Bowling Alone warned "that we sign fewer petitions, belong to fewer organizations that meet, know our neighbors less, meet with friends less frequently, and even socialize with our families less often." The growth of children's sports (and the parental involvement it necessitates) seems to be reversing that trend.
Coontz notes, "Men without wives are much more likely to call their parents than their married peers." And that may be true. But are they as likely to Skype? Or to return home to visit Grandma and Grandpa? Married couples, especially those with children, take steps to keep in touch with their parents.
Coontz also asserts, "Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain."
Exactly the opposite is true, of course. There's a very low bar to enter marriage. And rather than closing a gate in front of low-income people, marriage is the key to lifting people out of poverty. Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation writes:
According to the U.S. Census, the poverty rate for single parents with children in the United States in 2008 was 36.5 percent. The rate for married couples with children was 6.4 percent. Being raised in a married family reduced a child's probability of living in poverty by about 80 percent.
The problem is that, starting with the Great Society's "War on Poverty" in the 1960s, federal policy provided incentives that undermined marriage. Rector advises, "If society wishes to slow the growth of non-marital births and pregnancies, then the government must clearly communicate that, on average, having and raising children inside of marriage is more beneficial than having and raising a child outside of marriage."
It's no myth: Marriage is the building block of civil society.


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Billy Clayton waited weeks to hear the sound of water spilling into Columbia County's new 5 million water tank.
"That's a real good sound to hear," said the county's water and sewer services director of the constant hiss Monday of water flowing into the the creme-colored tank just off Belair Road.
The four-story tank, which will help alleviate some of the county's recent water shortages, has remained empty since it was completed three weeks ago because there wasn't enough water to fill it.
So far, the gauge along the tank's outer wall measures 18 feet -- 22 feet below its capacity. The tank represents a quarter of the county's water storage capacity.
"We just haven't had anything to put in it," Mr. Clayton said, adding residents had been using 26 million gallons of water per day for the past two weeks. "Everything I could put in the pipes was already sold."
Water was diverted to begin filling the tank Monday after residential use dropped during the weekend.
"What really helped us was the restrictions we enacted Thursday," he said. "By Sunday afternoon we were in good shape."
Columbia County residents are under an odd-even watering schedule -- but can water only from 5 to 9 a.m. and 5 to 9 p.m.
An early Monday storm, which dropped 1.25 inches on parts of Columbia County and nearly 1.5 inches of rain at Augusta's Fort Discovery, also helped ease the water woes.
"It was wonderful," Mr. Clayton said. "It was a God-send, and it was unpredicted. It was the best kind of rain in the world, for sure."
Meanwhile, it'll take at least two days to fill the tank with a pipe pumping about 150,000 gallons of water per hour. By comparison, using an average garden hose to fill the tank would take a year, Mr. Clayton said.
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Examine your overall plan and break down how much time each step may require. Some examples of questions to consider:
- How much needs assessment will you do before establishing your service, and how long will that take?
- Do you have money in your budget to start right away?
- If you need to work with partners/helpers, how much time will they require to make their contributions?
- At what pace can you expect staff training to move?
- Do your staff or partners have any other major projects or commitments coming up that might draw time away from planning and implementation?
- Is there a natural time to start a new service, such as in between terms, after a break, at the start of a new fiscal year, etc.?
- If you want to have your staff ease into virtual reference, you might consider starting the service during a slower time or doing a "soft launch", where you offer the service for a period of time without marketing it heavily.
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Call on Limerick City and County Council to repair water main
RESIDENTS in an estate are calling on the council to repair a burst water main which has caused problems for two years.
Some people living in the Janemount Park estate, just off the Corbally Road, have had to put up with regular floods in the road, as a shallow pipe bursts.
Kate O'Sullivan, who lives in the estate, said it first burst on Christmas Day in 2012 and has continued to burst ever since.
"It keeps bursting in a new place each time going up the hill. It burst again last night, and only burst about three weeks before this," she reported.
Limerick City and County Council have taken the estate in charge, which means engineers have attended the estate on many occasions.
However, Kate says they are only patching up the problem, she says.
"They need to fix the problem properly, not have a temporary solution," she said.
Frances O'Sullivan added that she is fearful of the impact on older people in the estate, saying they could fall.
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The UK's national electricity grid is vulnerable to cyber attack which could bring about the collapse of the economy.
According to the Independent, James Martin, a fortune teller for the IT industry said that the only sure way of safeguarding the electricity grid against a coordinated cyber assault is to disconnect it completely from the internet.
Martin has advised various governments and donated a huge chunk of his fortune to Oxford University for studying future problems and still has piles of cash.
Apparently the national electricity grids of Britain and the United States are especially vulnerable because they are connected to the world wide wibble.
Now living on a private island off Bermuda, one of the world's most successful fortune tellers said that there is ample evidence that hostile foreign agents have already targeted the American electricity grid in order to test whether it would be possible to cause widespread blackouts.
The American grid was packed full of trojans not coming from the States, he said.
"If you knocked out all the power in America, it would be devastating. Normally when you get a blackout it comes back very quickly but there have been some that don't. If it was a deliberate attack, then the people attacking it would try to do damage that could not be repaired quickly," he said.
He said that computers controlling the electricity grids in Britain and the United States are constantly sending messages to one another over the internet in order to balance supply with demand.
This leaves the door open to hackers to gain access to critical control systems, Martin said.
He said that computers are doing the buying and selling. Computers are giving the instructions to the generators and the transformers and the sub-grids. All it takes is one good hack and the whole lot is in trouble for a long time.
While everyone knows the risks, Martin believes that not enough is being done by western governments to address the threat. This is because the companies are all private. If governments intervene with private companies they end up being called communists and control freaks rather than being sensible.


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"The City Of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
Rating: Excellent! (5)
The city of Ember was built as a last refugee for humans. 200 years later the lights are flickering more and more with the threat to go out so when Lina finds an ancient message she trys toget everyone to leave the city but just her and her friend Doon leave and now they must find a way to get the message to the people of Ember.
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I so enjoyed all your projects and stories last week. Here are a few that stood out!
This Week's FeaturesHouse of Hipsters shared some gorgeous images of their trip to Camp Wandawega. Look at this bookshelf!!! So sweet. The Painted Drawer shared these fabulous paneled doors that cost her peanuts: These geometric nightstands by The Painted Willows are so fun!
- Link up your fun, creative, thrifty projects. I'm partial to painting furniture, but anything goes for this link party – DIY Projects, home decor, cooking, crafts, painting, sewing…
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In 2008, when the young, charismatic and charming junior Senator promised "we are five days away from fundamentally transforming America," not a single person asked the question "from what to what?"
Those are two seminal questions I try to tackle in my book Guardian of the Republic because if our electorate continues to be poorly informed, then any smooth talking charlatan can come forth with poll-tested bumper sticker slogans and our Republic will fall to a "cult of personality."
I hope my book will be seen as a clarion call for Americans to rediscover the greatness of our nation – at the very least, it will help you understand why I feel so fervently and passionately that what we have here needs to be protected and guarded. You can read an excerpt here.
I've just finished a whirlwind first two weeks out speaking and doing book signings for Guardian of the Republic. Tonight I'll have my first local South Florida book signing at Deer Creek Country Club in Deerfield Beach Florida.
I've been so encouraged by all the people I've met over these past two weeks from NYC to Walla Walla, Washington from Fresno, California to the Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Pennsylvania. Americans are looking to reconnect with the essence of this Constitutional Republic and seek a brighter future.
It is amazing to me that we're close to reaching the one million mark on Facebook, and our website has racked up over 16 million page views since we launched. I am so very humbled that so many Americans are interested in what this fella from the inner city of Atlanta has to say.
I hope you'll check out my book as well, because I want to share my story, and most of all, I hope you'll join me as a Guardian of the Republic.
And stay tuned for when I may be coming to your neighborhood. I'd be honored to sign your copy.


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The producers of The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival and Chicago Women's Funny Festival are proud to present a brand new, one-day festival for young comedians Comedy Prep School includes workshops taught by professional performers and teachers from Chicago's world-class comedy institutions, opportunities to learn, play, and perform with 100+ fellow young comedians, and an exclusive performance by hilarious, high-caliber comedy group, KERPATTY. The Comedy Prep School will focus on Stand Up Comedy, Music Improv, Political Sketch Comedy and Improvised Stage Combat.
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Are you tired of never having access to the files you need for your youth work? Do you get home from work, only to realize a document you need is saved on your work computer? Or you're at work but the document you need is on a USB flash drive in your coat pocket at home?
Or even worse – your computer's crashed and you hadn't backed it up, meaning all the important documents on your hard drive are gone forever. Templates, youth work session plans, photos from youth events – gone.
Don't put yourself through this. There are so many free online storage options where you can backup all of your important youth work documents, there's no need to risk a hard drive failure wiping all your work. The best thing of all is that these online storage options enable you to access your files from any computer. No more getting home and not being able to access your documents because they're on the work computer.
Here are three of the most popular and trustworthy options. As with all things though, it's best not to put all your eggs in one basket. I'd therefore suggest taking advantage of all three of these online storage options. You could do this by keeping all your documents saved on all three services, or splitting your documents out so that photos are on one service, templates on another, etc.
1) Google Drive
Google Drive has finally been launched – there had been rumors of this service for years and it's finally here. At launch, they're offering 5GB of storage for free. You can pay a monthly fee to increase the storage space, ranging from $2.49 a month for 25GB to $799.99 a month for 16TB of storage (kudos if you own enough documents to necessitate that much storage space!)
Here's a brief video from Google that explains what Google Drive is about:
2) Dropbox
Dropbox is a service we'd featured previously in our list of online tools to help your youth work. Dropbox is another online storage option that offers 2GB of free storage, but is great due to how simple it is to use.
You can increase the amount of online storage you get with Dropbox in a couple of ways. One is to pay for it – $9.99 a month for 50GB or $19.99 a month for 100GB.
The other way is to get free storage. You do this by referring other users to Dropbox – you get 500MB for every referral, up to a maximum of 16GB. Not only do you get a bonus 500MB, but the person you referred also gets 500MB free. If you're planning on signing up, feel free to use this link for both of us to get the 500MB free.
3) Skydrive
Skydrive is the online storage option from Microsoft. With Skydrive, you get 7GB of free storage, so the most of the three options we've listed.
Similar to Google Drive and Dropbox, Skydrive offers larger storage space if you're willing to pay – $10 a year for 20GB, $25 a year for 50GB and $50 a year for 100GB. These prices therefore compare very favorably to Google Drive and Dropbox.
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Keeping up with all the new music that gets released can be overwhelming, there are simply too many options. It's a full time job to stay on top of it all… fortunately we've got the Cliffs Notes version for June. This mix features our favorite online releases, including NP Podcast favorites Parquet Courts and the hauntingly beautiful JJ, with her most accessible single to date. Follow along with the track list and enjoy the best new music swirling around the Internet right now.
Track Listing:
- "Goddess (Jerome LOL Edit)" – Banks, single
- "Down On My Luck" – Vic Mensa, single
- "Komorebi" – Craft Spells, Nausea
- "I Don't Know You Anymore" – Bob Mould, Beauty & Ruin
- "Bye Bye Big Ocean (The End)", A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Sea When Absent
- "Alkaline" – Papertwin, Vox Humana EP
- "Suffering You, Suffering Me" – Slow Club, Complete Surrender
- "Instant Disassembly" – Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal
- "They Come In Gold" – Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty
- "Hotel" – The Antlers, Familiars
- "All White Everything" – JJ, V
- "Down From the Rafters" – Hundred Waters, The Moon Rang Like A Bell
- "All The Time" – Bahamas, Bahamas Is Afie
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August 25, 2005
The Gates: A Visual Literacy Case Study
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I came across this fantastic online lecture about the Gates by John Weber, Director of the Tang Museum at Skidmore College. It's called The Gates: A Visual Literacy Case Study. He says things like: "I'm going to guess that more pixels and film were expended on it than have been deployed in the service of any single work of art to date, and while I can't prove it, I'm sure this has to be true. Walking through the Park with a camera in hand it was impossible to avoid taking one picture after another in an attempt to find the perfect summation of the experience." Bravo John, we couldn't agree more.
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June 7, 2005
Sorting the Pile
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The Gates Memory Project blog will remain dormant for the time being as we plan next steps for the archive. As of this writing, there are 3,564 photos collected under the "gatesmemory" tag in Flickr. Contributions have certainly slowed, but new work has continued to trickle in. If you still have images you'd like to be part of the project, it's certainly not too late!
As part of working through our ideas, we've submitted a paper to the 2005 Computers & Writing Online Conference that discusses our experience of creating a networked archive with everyday social software tools. The paper, "Sorting the Pile: Making Sense of A Networked Archive," can be viewed here.
Thanks to all who have contributed. Keep checking back for updates on the project.
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June 3, 2005
"Christo's Dream," by Becky Phillips, 18.5" x 14.5"
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"Christo's Dream," by Becky Phillips, 18.5" x 14.5"
Originally uploaded by djwhelan.
"In early April 2005, a Florida-based quilter, Becky Phillips (Flickr | Webshots), contacted me about using my Gates images as the theme and inspiration for a monthly quilting challenge in which she and some far-flung quilters participate. I gladly made my works available to them.
"Becky used "The Gates Stand Alone" as the starting point for the group, but her quilt ended up being inspired by my "Torn".
"This is part of the power and excitement behind Flickr! I am honored to be the inspiration for an effort like this, and I look forward to being part of other such collaborations."
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April 29, 2005
Gates summer share
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Cape Cod News published some great parodies of the Gates. The Eastham Gates were my favorite (pictured above).
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April 27, 2005
a del.icio.us anthology
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The Gates Memory Project now has a del.icio.us bookmark page. We are using it to compile a list of online stories and other ephemera about the Gates project. It will serve as a companion to our Flickr photo archive. To be included, post a comment below with your url, or add the tag "gatesmemory" to your del.icio.us account.
Posted by kim white
April 25, 2005
built by community
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Originally uploaded by Amelia 11211.
The Gates were a quintessentially public work of art built by the public for the public. The following articles give a brief glimpse into the life and experience of Gatesworkers.
Hello all from the Gates Project by
Maja Klüver
A Day in the Life of Gate 8430
By ADAM NICHOLS, Daily News Staff Writer
We meet the people passing through one portal
Central Park Makeover: Reality Show, in a Way
By CAROL VOGEL, New York Times, Feb. 10, 2005
The paid volunteers installing Christo's "Gates" in Central Park share a common bond: a resolve to be a part of the city's biggest public-art happening ever.
Art Project Pilgrims Prepare to Install 'The Gates'
By CAROL VOGEL New York Times, Feb. 5, 2005
Hundreds of workers put their lives on hold to install "The Gates."
Posted by kim white
April 15, 2005
Kid's-eye view of the Gates
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Fourth grade students at Dalton have created their own Gates memory project. After learning about Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work, and visiting the Gates through different stages of their installation, students created journal entries, poems, and artworks. These reflections were synthesized in a "culminating project," a work of art that interpretated the Gates experience. The projects are marvelous. Above, left is a picture by Isabelle. Above right is Gabriel's collage which incorporates a poem.
Posted by kim white
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Originally uploaded by blackoutny.
Posted by ben vershbow
April 14, 2005
where do we go from here?
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Ben and I have been talking at length about the next step for the gates memory project. We came up with three ideas briefly outlined below. We decided to open up our internal conversation to our readers. Please let us know what you think.
Unless we actively engage them, memories fade.
We've now collected over 3,000 photographs of the Gates in Flickr. Let's try to imagine an interface that captures the perishability of memory and at the same time gives a compelling reason to interact - i.e. if you don't, it will all disappear.
This could work in many ways. Here are two:
1. Rating
Visitors could watch a random slideshow of the archive. Next to each picture there would be sliding meter between "remember" and "forget." If you love the photo you will slide it to the top. If you hate the photo, you will slide it all the way down to forget. Most will choose somewhere in the middle. These actions will be registered on some sort of visualization of the entire archive - a grid, say, with every photo arranged as a small tile. Depending on visitors' actions during the slideshow, some tiles will be brighter than others. Some will have paled slightly, some will be very faded out, and some will have disappeared altogether. The more people visit, the more nuanced this memory map will become, and photos will fluctuate in and out of memory. You can either let it go on indefinitely, or eventually freeze it and voila: your lasting, definitive document.
2. Half Life
This is about imbuing the archive with a sense of decay and steady erosion. The archive is fading away and can only be held onto if people interact with it. It's not so much about rating individual components as keeping contact with the collective. Like a bit torrent, as soon as people abandon it, it dies.
Archives as landscape: this interface allows visitors to "play" with the images to build a collective work of art that reconstructs the Gates photo archives as virtual pathways.
We would turn each of the 3,000+ Gates photos into a tile which can be dragged and dropped onto a surface/screen that is scrollable horizontally and vertically. The object of the game is to layout a string of photos that connect to each other like dominos. Orange bleeding off the side of a photo = a possible connection. Visitors look for images that begin where the last one left off. These progressions can proceed vertically, horizontally or diagonally, growing and spreading as visitors search the archives, finding new connections and adding new tiles. We could also allow users to "edit" the collage, replacing existing photos with better photos.
The Result: threads that build and ribbon across the space will form a kind of virtual memory of movement through the Gates. The landscape of our collage can be examined close up or far away, using a zoom function. Zooming out gives you an aerial view of the Gates, zooming in allows you to see it on the ground level.
We would like to ask guest editors to review the photo archives and select pictures that exemplify a single, specific idea about the Gates. Each editor will have something different to say. Our hope is that a multifaceted understanding of the Gates project will emerge when the various viewpoints are seen/read together.
For the guest editor project, Ben feels strongly, and I agree that this should take place on on our existing blog rather than on a new one. The guest editor project could be a distinct thread on the Gates blog, or it could take over the entire blog (I lean towards the latter). To get the project going, guest editors should send an email to Ben or to me with the contents of their blog post (text and links to the photos they want posted) and we will post it for them. If the project mushrooms and we get several submissions a day, we should talk to Kalina about building a form field for submissions.
Another way to go is to utilize Flickr's "my favorites" function, which allows users to create a page with their favorite photos. We could ask Gates visitors to make a page of favorites and we could create a gallery space on our website to display clickable thumbnails of these pages. The only problem with this option is that the favorites function does not have a space to write commentary, so this would be a strictly visual commentary.
Bob's thoughts
i love the Rating concept -- especially if we could make it work like the baby name site
half-life is interesting, but not clear to me why the archive should die if no one looks at it for awhile -- a key rationale of an archive is to counter ephemerality
the game is OK, but seems forced and a bit trivial as it only draws on the geometry of the photos; i.e. an interesting exercise but not clear what importance it elucidates re:The Gates as a work of art.
agree that if we do the guest photo editor -- which i still think we should because that can be started immediately, while we develop other ideas such as the Rating meter -- that it should be on the existing gates memory blog.
Dan says:
2. Half Life
I like the idea of this. But how do you make something like information-death tangible on the Internet? The internet's made information cheap: we feel like even if one website dies, someone will have a copy somewhere. (This isn't always true, of course - despite the efforts of archive.org, a lot of the internet did prove ephemeral.) How would we do this with Flickr images if a) the images don't belong (a loaded word) to us, and b) they're on Flickr already?
SECOND IDEA: Archives as landscape:
This wouldn't be hard to do - there are a lot of slide puzzles done in Java or JavaScript & we could pull the code apart until it suited our purposes. Is this, though, the sort of project that might be done best by a computer program, then edited by hand? Or maybe have a computer program that does it algorithmically side by side with a human-edited version: the two could be aesthetically compared.
What if we combined a link to Flickr's "my favorites" with a blog post? The editor could write a paragraph or so about what they liked, then there could be a link. Or a thumbnail of the page could be a link if they didn't want to write commentary.
Posted by kim white
April 13, 2005
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"The horse looks as if it is irritated by all the saffron, it jumps a gate."
Posted by ben vershbow
Chuck's Gates--Cost: $25
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Chuck's Gates--Cost: $25
Originally uploaded by Pink Cloud.
Posted by ben vershbow
April 12, 2005
tape drawing + the baby gates
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tape drawing + the baby gates
Originally uploaded by R.bean.
Posted by ben vershbow
The Collective Collects
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The Gates Memory project is working in collaboration with Flickr to collect and archive photos of the Gates. We are also relying on the internet community to help us connect to stories, conversations, blog posts and articles that have emerged in response to the Gates installation. Sites like Furl, del.icio.us, and technorati do for blog posts what Flickr does for photos. Technorati, for example, has 59 posts from 23 blogs tagged with "the Gates."
Several blogs have taken up the task of archiving (by copying and pasting) all the articles they can find about the Gates. nyc.architecture.com, 1 Central Park Forum, and wired new york.com just to list a few.
Most interesting are the blogs that really try to understand all of these points of view. Ann Althouse's February 13, 2005 blog post "Is anyone saying anything interesting about "The Gates"? tries to find conversations and critiques that look "beyond the basic facts (Christo and Jeanne-Claude spent $21 million of their own money and accepted no grants), the obvious starter question "Is it art," and the snap judgments (from "I love it" to "Get this out of my park").
Posted by kim white
April 11, 2005
beautiful photos by Enigmanote
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Christo's Gates
Originally uploaded by Enigmanote.
Posted by ben vershbow
April 7, 2005
Meer Reflections
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Meer Reflections
Originally uploaded by djwhelan.
Posted by ben vershbow
April 5, 2005
The Process
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In an article in
Art a Go Go, Kathleen Lang writes about the length of time it takes Christo and Jeanne-Claude to realize their art works. "Sometimes it can take years for the artists to obtain the required permits to carry out their plans. The permit process often requires extensive environmental studies, costing millions of dollars. Avoiding words like "red tape" or "bureaucracy," Christo and Jeanne-Claude simply call their quest to get a project approved as "process."
Interesting to note that this is exactly how we are proceeding with the documentation of the Gates. We are interested in the process as much as the end-result. How will the experience of the Gates be unpacked, discussed, and re-assembled by a large and diverse group of observers? To follow are a few examples.
A film documentary by Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles is currently in production. The filmmakers have been following the Gates project throughout its 25-year life-span. Both Leslie Camhi and Kathryn Shattuck, mention the Maysles documentary in their respective articles on February 8th.
During their brief stay, Justin Ferate, an award winning tour guide offered historical background to go with the direct experience in his walking tour of Central Park and the Gates described as follows on his website: discover the interrelationships between the billowing saffron-colored Gates and Vaux and Olmsted's magnificent Central Park. Learn of Christo's career and of his artworks around the world. Experience the tremendous transformations of Central Park and the most recent visions for its future.
There are a wealth of creative approaches to understanding the artistic value the Gates. The New Criterion published a quiz-style art review that compared Christo and Thomas Kinkade. This article was followed up by post on the blog StepNewz Christo vs. Thomas Kinkade: Reloaded
A blog called "the Sheila Variations," offers this hilarious collaborative art review, poking fun at the cliches of art criticism.
Several other blogs stage rich discussions/debates over the artistic value of the Gates. Two good examples are: The Charlie Rose Show's: Tell us what you think discussion board A river the color of saffron IS art and Republican Professor's glowing review of the Gates with contentious discussion to follow.
Posted by kim white
April 4, 2005
the gates at wesleyan
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The collegiate Gates parodies continue to roll. Latest iteration: an april fool's piece in the Argus, the student paper at Wesleyan. Anyone know if they actually put it up, or was it just in the article?
Posted by ben vershbow
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1) Vertical Shine - originally uploaded by rfwomon
2) VERTIGATES - originally uploaded by Red Hawk
Posted by ben vershbow
April 1, 2005
faking places: the grates
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Abigail points to a great a April fooling by the Project for Public Spaces, also known as the Project for Phony Spaces, supposedly "a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities." Paging through their site, you're not quite sure if what you're looking at is serious. At one moment they talk about "placemaking," a kind of enlightened urban planning technique, all under the Public Spaces banner. Turn the page and suddenly they're talking glibly about "placefaking," under the phony banner. It's a genuine fake.
Their April 1st newsletter announces plans for the next project from Christo-Bloomberg productions, the Grates - a series of turquoise banners installed over the city's sewer grates.
Thanks, Abigail!
Posted by ben vershbow
March 31, 2005
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on the last official day of The Gates, during the 7-hour marathon walk through the park with ashton, rebeca mendez, and adam eeuwens, rebeca and i talked at length about locating art in time rather than space. The Gates, rebeca pointed out are a perfect example of artwork that has to be experienced over time. Seems true enough. However if it's true, how come the photos people took of The Gates seem to be more compelling than the video. i think it's quite possible that this is an artifact of the fact that many of us have developed decent amateur photography skills during a life-time of photo taking, and simply haven't had enough experience shooting video. but there may be something else going on, specific to The Gates themselves. would love to know what people think about this? to prime the discussion pump, i've put up a bunch of video snapshots that a friend and i made. and here's a link to the Gates Memory photographs on Flickr.
Posted by bob stein
more from the Lerner Gates underground
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Originally uploaded by GatesMemoryProject.
I just had a brief email exchange with the mysterious authors of the Lerner Hall jape. I asked them how they got the idea. Like the prank itself, it was quite simple:
"We just sat around, and one of us (who had not left campus in a while and lamented the fact that they had not seen the gates) had the idea of doing it for the senior prank. Other than that, we got some orange tarps, some dowels, and some shower hooks, along with some structural planning and design, and that was it. Fin."
Posted by ben vershbow
March 30, 2005
gates memory project in Time Out NY!
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Posted by ben vershbow
the scepter
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Posted by ben vershbow
March 29, 2005
invisible columbia pranksters
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An image of the fantastic Gates prank in Alfred Lerner Hall appeared today in the Columbia Spectator with a brief caption attributing the stunt to an underground group of seniors. It appears they snuck in yesterday at 1am, just as Lerner was closing, and quietly installed the banners. They finished at 4am and snuck back out. Above are the image and caption from the Spectator. I've also created a small photo set of my shots on Flickr.
Posted by ben vershbow
March 28, 2005
the gates at columbia
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Columbia's class of '05 has executed a great prank at Alfred Lerner Hall, the main student center on campus. In spite of truly foul weather, I managed to get some pics (captions link to Flickr).
Posted by ben vershbow
The Fun of Making Fun
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The Gates had an unmistakable joie de vivre; they were about fun, and parodies of the Gates attest to that. Their puzzling non-art/art status, their exuberant orange, their rhythmic repetition, their grand scale and defiantly ephemeral nature inspired a crop of brilliant parodies that entertained supporters and detractors alike.
The John Stewart show's hilarious commentary on the gates can be viewed On Lisa Rein's Radar.
Artist and photographer, khang kijarro nguyen is responsible for the toothpick gates executed february 2005 in central park, a site specific art installation coinciding with another site specific art installation of strikingly similar appearance in the back ground.
The miniature, Sommerville gates or Hargo's gates, as they were called, were perhaps the most widely-known. The website for the installation, which traces the pathways of creator Geoff Hargadon's cat through his Sommerville apartment, got 5.5 million hits in one week and Hargadon received about 3,000 e-mails from fans and academics.
In an equally hilarious tongue-in-cheek associated press article published on MSNBC's website Hargadon said that his project wasn't intended to mock the Central Park installation, which Hargadon visited last week and enjoyed. His target is the monumental hype…one review, which called "The Gates" the first great public art creation of the 21st century, pushed Hargadon over the edge. Soon he was at The Home Depot buying materials for his own project.
The article went on to say that Hargadon has no plans to make money from his gates. However, he does plans to auction one gate to benefit the Massachusetts College of Art.
"From what I can tell, it's majorly important for him to keep it pure," said friend and co-worker, Bart Smith.
The Sommerville Gates provoked discussion on dozens of blogs including, The Conversation Café and Brian Bernard's blog. Brian is a big fan of the Sommerville Gates and is assembling an archives of all the photos he can find, a sort of sister project to our Gates Memory archives.
I also love the simple parodies that focus on the orange color and the repeated motif such as the snack crackers parody.
Many visitors took pleasure in finding themselves or others costumed in similar saffron hues, as many of the photos uploaded to Flickr including Rochelle Ratner's shot of a man with orange scarf and pamplet attest. Some took it a step further, celebrating the Gates by participating in an orange-hued conga line. One Gates fan even created her own line of "Gates Viewing Attire."
Posted by kim white
gaming the gates
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Fantastic photo from IT IN place - the Gates as seen on the new PlayStation Portable (thanks, Alex).
"Max plays with the PSP" - Damon Itin '05
The only Gates games I can think of are pretty dumb - dueling installation crews, tennis ball pole jousting, or racing gates (imagine Super Mario Kart with Central Park Conservancy golf carts). But seriously, the archive should be viewable on smaller screens.
Posted by ben vershbow
March 26, 2005
Video Gates
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Via Unmediated, Flickr for Video:
Mefeedia has inconspicuously turned into Flickr for video, at least in terms of tag usage. Several of us that use Mefeedia are putting out a call for people to add videos with the tag "gates", in honor of Christo and Jean Claude's Central Park exhibit.
You can see the start of the compilation here. More and more videos will be added over the next two weeks and we are encouraging anyone who has video of The Gates posted on their site to submit it to Mefeedia.
If you use an RSS reader, you can add this feed to keep up with any new videos that show up with the same tag.
Posted by michal migurski
March 25, 2005
a single place can be bottomless
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Last week, Flickr photographer ejmachad posted three luminous photos of Gapstow Bridge. There are two versions of each, identical as far as I can tell. We have over 2,700 photographs now tagged with "gatesmemory." Many are new uploads, and many are photographs that were already on Flickr before we announced the project. For the latter, some simply added the new tag to all their Gates-related photos. Others made a selection. Already, people are thinking as curators, as editors - it's interesting to see how the project added another layer to the Flickr system. ejmachad only uploaded these photos of Gapstow Bridge. He/she may have taken dozens or hundreds of other Gates photographs, in as many other locations in the park, but something clearly came together here. There's a nice feeling of having settled into one place, drawing on its full depth.
Posted by ben vershbow
The Gates in the News
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This is the first in a series of posts summarizing news stories about the Gates. So far, they seem to be breaking down into three catagories: money (how much they cost and how many tourist dollars they brought in), their value as artwork and their "meaning", and the community response to the Gates.
Religious Leaders Draw Spiritual Meaning from 'The Gates'
By Adam Phillips, Voice of America, 11 March 2005
Details about the interfaith event titled, "Spirit of the Gates," which took place in Central Park on February 21, 2005 and drew religious leaders and worshippers from a variety of faiths.
Christo's Gates: A Little Creaky
By Blake Gopnik, Washington Post, Sunday, February 13, 2005; Page D01
Blake Gopnik contemplates the meaning of the Gates.
Christo's Gates in Central Park
By Carolyn Weaver, News VOA Com, New York City, 15 February 2005.
Embedded in Christo's "Gates"
by Deborah Ripley, artnet
Deborah Ripley, a NY art dealer, writes about the Gates from the perspective of a Central Park Conservancy volunteer.
Christo's Gates: Big $ for Big Apple:
Artist's central park project brought in $254 million in economic activity for the city: mayor.
March 3, 2005: 3:58 PM EST
CNN Money reports on the financial windfall created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "free" art display.
Christo's 'Gates': Lots of green for the orange
By Mike McIntire, The New York Times (as seen on the International Herald Tribune online), Saturday, March 5, 2005
Christo's 'Gates' Open in Central Park
this page gives you a listing of the stories NPR ran on the Christo project and an opportunity to listen to them. Stories include:
Christo's 'Gates:' Preparing for a Short Stay by Margot Adler, All Things Considered, January 28, 2005
Miles-Long Christo Art Exhibit to Open in Central Park by Neda Ulaby, Morning Edition, February 9, 2005
Central Park's Bright New Clothes Talk of the Nation, February 10, 2005, with guests Adam Sternbergh and Robert Storr.
Christo's 'Gates' Finally Open by Robert Smith, All Things Considered, February 12, 2005
Christo Does Central Park by Margot Adler, Weekend Edition - Saturday, February 12, 2005
Awe, disdain for Christo's 'Gates' Reuters article, seen on Fairfax Digital (an Australian News Organization), February 14, 2005
Reports on the various reactions to the Gates.
New York buzzing over Christo's 'Gates' CBC Arts, Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:14:28 EST
A Canadian news service reports on the Gates
Posted by kim white
March 23, 2005
Their Stories
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The truly wonderful thing about the web is the opportunities it creates for networks and connections. Stories culled from personal blogs--those glorious online self-portraits that offer interesting "peeks" into the blogger's thought-life, home-life, and work-life--will be a textual counterpart to our Flickr image bank. What makes this "chapter" particularly interesting, is that we plan to leave the stories in their original context (for now at least). You can access them through links to the personal weblogs themselves.
If you have a story, please post the url in our comment section.
Three wonderful essays from Lorianne DiSabato's blog "Hoarded Ordinaries"
"and i quote" (favorite quotes collected by Mr. Hell's Kitchen)
Korijane about a wedding she witnessed beneath the Gates
And the detractors:
Chris Dykstra
I'll be starting another thread tomorrow archiving News Articles about the Gates. Here's a sneak peek:
WNYC transcript of a story about a procession of Buddhist Monks through the Gates
Posted by kim white
March 22, 2005
gates rain
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gates rain
Originally uploaded by joeholmes.
Image of the day.
Posted by kim white
March 21, 2005
"simplified images"
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Posted by ben vershbow
March 17, 2005
The Gates, on average
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brevity writes:
I wrote a program to blend Flickr images which share the same tags. It's partially inspired by the work of Jason Salavon.
Posted by michal migurski
images of the day
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1. rain and saffron - originally uploaded by Thom.
2. held - originally uploaded by Thom.
Posted by ben vershbow
Blogging the Experience
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"It's only the gates. A work of art of joy and beauty," -- Jeanne-Claude.
When their creators, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, declared that the Gates had no meaning, they were, in this writers estimation, attempting to get the viewing public to ignore the art-world preoccupation with capital M "meaning" and instead think of art as a catalyst for experience, connection, and pleasure.
My favorite personal essay on the Gates comes from David Patrick Columbia's "New York Social Diary." It's a marvelous explaination of why the Gates are great. Plus, he makes his observations while lunching with NY art-world celebs on a fabulous Central Park South terrace--stunning photos of the bird's-eye view included.
"Meaningful Connections" Blog comes up first on a Google search for "Christo's Gates." It has a small selection of reader experiences. Dan Zukowski's entry was particularly interesting. It documents the conversation he had with himself as he attempted to ignore the hype and experience that Gates as honestly as possible. Here is an excerpt.
Crossing Madison Avenue and 96th street - two blocks from Central Park:
Looming larger - I like the orange color - saffron they call it. Now I see lots of gates. Nice - This is interesting. OK OK A big population of gates. OK Look at that! I see my first shot. See those three gates against the big tree - OK- I feel engaged.
And there were several blogs by people whose experience of the Gates was only through second-hand information, the photographs and stories of others.
Posted by kim white
March 16, 2005
the Gates recycled
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Newsday ran a great article yesterday describing the recycling of the Gates in Nazareth, Pennsylvania at Nicos Polymers & Grinding Inc. Evidently, they are taking great pains to ensure that no materials are stolen while awaiting destruction, and that the nylon mulch and re-ground PVC pipe do not become collector's items in their own right (though this seems inevitable).
From a particularly vivid passage in the article:
"Delivery trucks back up to the 180,000-square-foot plant, revealing orange poles stacked floor to ceiling in snug, honeycomb-like symmetry. The other day, the driver of a saffron-colored forklift was off-loading 120 poles at a time while another worker, Hilberto Mendez, handled the grinding.
"Mendez plucked a 16-foot pole from a neat stack and slid it into the maw-like chute of a Cumberland grinder, which distantly resembled an industrial-sized Cuisinart. The grinder swallowed the pole whole, as if it was a 16-foot carrot stick, and with a grating crash chewed it into lightweight orange "gravel," which it spit into a 3-foot cardboard cube."
This ties in nicely to the "gates as labor" discussion that began here the other day.
(Photo by Rick Smith)
Posted by ben vershbow
image of the day
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the gates again
Originally uploaded by Hugo VT.
A number of photographers have chosen to emphasize the Gates' bright color against the wintry landscape by photoshopping the image to produce a black-and-white background. This one does it particularly well.
Posted by ben vershbow
March 15, 2005
gates go AWOL
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The Gates were once bound by time and space (16 days in Central Park). But no more. With thousands upon thousands of shots from every conceivable vantage, we've reached critical mass. The Gates have broken the boundaries of the park and are now officially at large. Imagine the Great Wall of China dotted with billowing saffron gates, or gates lining the shores of Lake Michigan, or gates along a jetty, receding into the ocean. Or imagine an astronaut on the moon holding not a flag, but the signature tennis ball-capped de-snagging pole... This afternoon, we cobbled together a couple of Gates remixes and came up with ideas for dozens more. This could open up a great new chapter of the project. Create your own, post them on Flickr with the "gatesmemory" tag, and comment here with a link.
Posted by ben vershbow
Games you can play
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The Gates celebrate repetition. Each gate alone was an unremarkable object. Put 7,500 of them together, and they effect a radical change in perception.
The Gates Memory Project is also about repetition, of photographs instead of physical objects. Each collected image has unique traits - time, place, photographer, subject, light - that can be abstracted and appreciated for their membership in a set. When I look at the 2,000 images that have been submitted so far, I'm amazed by the formal games you can play. Photos of the same place, or photos at the same time. Iconic viewing angles. Single gate against blue sky. Saffron fabric against sunshine. Rows of gates receding to a vanishing point. Rows of gates crisscrossing the frame. Gates framing people. Gates framing other gates. Gates photos in a pile ("gatesmemory" at Felix Turners' postcard browser), gates browsable by tag.
How about Gates on a map? Collective memory stimulated by shared activity and a collaborative effort to annotate gatesmemory images by location. I hope that project participants would willing to lend a hand with a widespread spatial annotation project. All it would take would be few interface modifications to Mappr and participants familiar with the park.
I am in the strange position of having never seen Central Park without its saffron makeover, but the reactions of visitors made it clear that it was a changed environment. Our host in New York made a point of leading us through parts that remained ungated, to provide a brief view of the bare park in winter.
Posted by michal migurski
March 14, 2005
the gates and the human figure
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At its best, parody can uncover the essential truth. These funny send-ups challenge the oft-trumpeted complaint that the Gates were meaningless, insisting on a basic affinity with the human figure (just as classical columns evoke so many Atlases raising the roof). It would be interesting to see this explored in a more serious way.
The photos are:
Posted by ben vershbow
hacking with permission - experimental color picker
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Flickr's philosophy of sharing runs through and through. Not only does it apply to the thousands of photos people have uploaded there, but also to the fundamental building blocks of its unique platform (the API, or the code describing what happens in Flickr and how). Flickr is very open to development, and maintains a sort of approved hack policy - an interesting model for what could be described as semi open source. Take a look at their services page to learn about some of the wonderful Flickr applications people have made simply by shooting a quick proposal to the exceedingly friendly powers that be. One of the best-known examples is Jim Bumgardner's Color Pickr, which resembles a painter's palette, with circular dabs of color in a multitude of shades spinning through the ROYGBIV spectrum. Click a color area, or adjust brightness with a slide bar to the side, and a dozen or so photos right in that sweet spot will arrange themselves around the wheel. The photos are drawn from the color fields photo pool, a page on Flickr assembled by devotees of the project.
As we build this dynamic archive of the Gates, we should survey not only existing visualizations but also the tools we have at our disposal. Color Pickr is an inspiring example of what can be done with the Flickr architecture.
Posted by ben vershbow
March 13, 2005
Image of the Day: Sunday
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Originally uploaded by the-vorlon.
The landscape framed by Gates.
Posted by kim white
March 12, 2005
image of the day - saturday
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texture. Originally uploaded by Thom.
The camera here catches what I don't remember seeing with the naked eye.
Posted by dan visel
March 11, 2005
great Gates parody
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Posted by ben vershbow
the Gates through Central Park benches
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Here's my favorite of the day (thanks much to DogFromSPACE..) Reminds me of Charles Demuth's "Figure Five in Gold."
Posted by ben vershbow
March 10, 2005
visualizing the archive
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To begin discussing in earnest how we might visualize/organize the archive we are compiling, it seems like a good idea to do a quick survey of existing examples. I mention a few below, but to get this going, please point us to other examples, and comment on what we've mentioned here.
The most stunning visualization we've seen so far is the New York Times interactive feature, The Gates: Christo's New York Moment, designed by Ty Amhad-Taylor. In addition to a four-minute audio review by Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman, the piece provides a fantastic map of the park with three possible views: a basic scheme with dotted lines tracing the path of the Gates, and two aerial photographs, before the Gates and after. Designed as a user's guide for the 16 days when the Gates actually stood, the map includes a legend and corresponding markers for "recommended views," information booths, food, and "warming stations." In a sidebar to the right can be found the entire map in miniature, with a drag-able zoom window. Certain parts of the map contain links to panoramic views. Click these and the screen bisects into a lovely two-panel stack, with an interactive panoramic photo scrolling above the map section. The screenshot I've posted here shows a panoramic image from the Harlem Meer.
The Central Park Conservancy, which manages the park, has a "virtual tour" of the Gates up on their site - essentially a boring old slideshow, whose one redeeming feature is that it notes very specific geographical locations for each photograph. This suggests the possibility of mapping the archive (Mappr folks, we're hoping you can weigh in on this..).
The last example I'll mention is simply a fun montage program we came across. Plug in "christo" and "gates" and you get something like this. It's worth mentioning because we should keep our eyes open for existing visualizations that could be applied to, or adapted for, our project.
Check out also this post on the Flickr blog about parodies of the Gates. And also this interesting analysis posted on the Flickr Central forum on "the emerging 'genres' when it comes to 'shooting the gates.'"
Again, please comment and refer us to other examples..
Posted by ben vershbow
March 9, 2005
nearly 1,000 photos in just 24 hours!
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After just one full revolution of the earth, the Gates Memory Project has amassed almost 1,000 images on its Flickr page. Thanks to all who have submitted so far...
Posted by ben vershbow
The Gates: An Experiment in Collective Memory
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So . . . .about two weeks ago I had a dream, (actually more of a nightmare) in which I was asked to judge a contest to choose "the best photograph of the Gates" from among three million orange photos. Over the next few days, however, the more I thought about it,I became intrigued by the idea of seeing people's different creative solutions to photographing the gates.
[Note: I loved the Gates. Ashton (partner-in-crime) and I were in the park almost every day we were in the city, we even gave a party for 150 friends who came from all over the world to walk through the park at dawn (see nifty video by alex itin, orange you glad).
On the last day Ashton and I walked through the park for seven straight hours with Rebeca Mendez and Adam Euwens -- talking almost the whole time about the phenomenon of the Gates -- as an art work that requires significant effort on the part of its audience; like all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work, it requires you to be at a certain latitude and longitude at a specific moment in time; you need to see it from different vantage points at different times of the day; as Ashton said, "there are as many views of the Gates as footsteps in the park."
And of course you talk endlessly to the people you meet along the way.
Early that last day, high up on the Harlem Meer, we came upon a big man with red orange hair who was quickly slipping a big coat over his obviously naked body. His friend had just as obviously been taking pictures. Ashton and Rebeca immediately realized that they were taking pictures of his orange pubic hair against the backdrop of the Gates. Impulsively I mentioned that I was planning to sponsor a contest for the best amateur photograph of the Gates. Surprisingly they wrote down a URL for the competition I made up on the spot. A few other times during the day I mentioned this to people who seemed to be taking interesting photos. Without any prompting, they also wrote down the URL.
So the next day, Monday, while sitting around the table with Kim, Dan, and Ben, my colleagues at the Institute for the Future of the Book, I mentioned the whole Gates photo idea and to my delight everyone thought it would fit in perfectly with our experiments in the area of open-ended networked "books."
Voila -- the beginning of the Gates Memory Project which we are launching today at gatesmemory.org. It's quite a bit more ambitious than the original (and impossible) idea of choosing "the best photo." Now we are aiming to to harness the creativity and insight of thousands to build a kind of collective memory machine -- one that is designed not just for the moment, but as a lasting and definitive document of the Gates and our experience of them. As Ben Vershbow says in the press release announcing the project, "The photographs are a jumping off point for further exploration. Ultimately, we are interested in collecting anything that can be shared over the web - film, audio, text - parodies and remixes."
While the photos and stories are being collected, the institute will encourage discussion and debate on how best to present the archives in hopes of finding new, unexpected ways to view and bring meaning to the content. The institute also welcomes the possibility of collaboration with designers, developers and web curators. This project is the beginning of a long-term exploration for us. Through this work, we are asking: how do we use social software to create works that are in the spirit of the web - i.e. free-form, ad hoc, always evolving, and driven by people's enthusiasm to share - but are also edited and shaped into something of lasting value? It is that tension - between frozen and fluid works - that we aim to explore. We are excited to see the ideas people will bring to the table.
See the complete call for the project HERE.
Posted by bob stein
March 8, 2005
introducing the Gates Memory Project blog
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What are we building? How are we going to build it? How should it be organized? What should it look like?
An integral part of the Gates Memory Project is a public space for discussion of these meta issues. Everyone will have a chance to suggest possible directions and designs for the project. Some will bring technical knowledge to the table. Others will advise more on our conceptual bearings. Others will just come along for the ride. We'll also examine the process of building a work of collective memory in digital space, using the Gates as a pivot point for larger contemplations. How do we use social software (like Flickr) to create works that are in the spirit of the "infinite game" of the web - i.e. free-form, ad hoc, always evolving, and driven by people's enthusiasm to share - but are also edited and shaped into something of lasting value?
It could be argued that the web is itself one enormous collective memory. Like memory, it is in a constant state of growth, transformation and decay. Like memory, it is layered, it sprawls, and is traversed both by brightly lit boulevards and shadowed alleyways. To cope with this enigma, humans have always created works that help fix or focus the memory. An obvious example is a book, painting, photograph, or film. Similarly, in public space, we have museums, memorials, and monuments. Certainly, there was something monumental about the Gates. But while some monuments fix a spike in the earth, as if to say "here it was," others establish a frame, or space, in which memories can move and reverberate. This second sort of monument, much more like the Gates, is a good place to start thinking about what we are trying to build with this project: a work with defined dimensions that still allows for unpredictable movement within, and which, like a great acoustical structure, is designed to resonate.
And of course, the blog will also serve as a forum for discussion of the Gates themselves - their design, their politics, their message, their role in the life of the city, their place in the larger mediascape.. And it will be a place to offer stories and personal meditations on those sixteen days when the Gates stood.
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Apollo 18 is one the first bands that made a huge impact on me. While other Korean bands have shown me the heights of other genres; Apollo 18′s dense and complex rock really spoke to me as I listened to their different releases.
Now in their preparation for the upcoming United States tour, highlighted by their shows during SXSW and dates around that time, the band had their big fundraiser for the tour.
I asked guitarist Hyunseok Choi if the band could answer questions after the fundraiser and thankfully they agreed.
How did the fundraiser go? With the support of many other bands, it had to be a wild night.
Daeinn Kim: The fundraiser show was very good. More than 200 people came to the concert. All the performers were great. We're very thankful to all the artists and fans that helped us. Their support is really going to help us during our American tour.
Apollo 18 is receiving a lot of press in the United States, much more than I expected for a Korean band. How has this changed your perspective on the upcoming tour?
Daeinn Kim: We're so surprised and thankful for the attention we have received so far. We hope it'll help bring some people out to our concerts.
Hyunseok Choi: It has raised our expectations a little. We're still going to be the same loud and energetic rock band, though.
With the tour coming soon, what are the preparations the band is going through before the flight?
Sangyun Lee: We're so busy right now! Daeinn has been designing merchandise, making posters, and planning our driving routes in the U.S. We spoke with Orange Amps and they are helping us with equipment for our American tour. We're so grateful to them.
We've been looking for a van, and are trying to find places to sleep in all the cities we will visit.
Is there anything the band is afraid of, coming to the United States?
Hyunseok Choi: Having to use only English is a little scary. We can all speak and understand a little English, but we're not native English speakers. We're a little worried about the long drives between cities, too.
Is there any food that you really want to try? (I suggest real Texas BBQ, though be careful of digestion)
Hyunseok Choi: We want to eat lots of Texas BBQ. Another friend also warned up about digestion problems. She said if we eat too much American food, we're going to get a stomachache because we're used to Korean food. We don't care, though. We're tough guys. We can handle it!
Daeinn Kim: We'll play a day party in Austin, Texas at a place called Hoeks Death Metal Pizza. We really want to try their pizza. Seoul has a really good restaurant called Reggae Chicken. We don't have any metal pizza in Korea, though.
Sangyun Lee: I want to eat many burritos. I love burritos. People have told me that the Mexican food in Texas is very delicious.
Has there been any response to the band's request for help during the tour?
Hyunseok Choi: Our fans have tried to help us, which has been really great. Apollo 18 has some very kind and supportive fans. Orange Amps are helping us with the backline for our American tour. 8 Volume has given us free Apollo 18 t-shirts to sell.
The LE iPhone case and LE t-shirts, whose idea was it to produce and distribute those during the tour?
Daeinn Kim: The iPhone case was Hyunseok's idea. We will give out 500 free Apollo 18 iPhone cases during SXSW. The iPhone case has our Apollo 18 band logo on the back and our email address and websites on the inside.
These iPhone cases will only be available in Austin, Texas.
The t-shirts aren't limited edition. We've made several different t-shirt designs in the past. We just wanted to make some new t-shirts for this tour.
We'll be selling the t-shirts in all the cities we visit. We'll also have a self-titled tour CD for sale that includes songs from our Korean Red, Blue, and Violet albums.
Apollo 18 recently released an English version of the band's website, are you working on broadening the audience that listens to you?
Hyunseok: We really want our music to reach a wider audience. To do this, I think we need to have more English information about the band. We've talked about eventually making a Japanese version of our website as well. Apollo 18 really want to be an international band.
Our goal is to play in many different countries. We want to meet people from all over the world, eat food from all over the world, and drink tasty beer from all over the world.
The band keeps adding shows during the tour, now with 16 shows in 13 days, it sounds like you all are going all out for this tour. Are you going to spend anytime seeing other bands during the tour?
Hyunseok: We never planned to play so many gigs in so few days. Originally we hoped to play maybe eight shows in 11 or 12 days. We decided to extend the tour a few more days and picked up a few more shows. Then we got offered some more concerts during SXSW.
Traveling to the U.S. is really expensive, so we wanted to take advantage of every opportunity presented to us. We're happy with our tour schedule, but we know it's going to be a lot of work. We'll be watching all the bands we play with.
We'll try to catch as many bands as we can during our free time at SXSW, too. At SXSW, we will appear on concert bills with bands from all over the world. We're excited to experience new music and to make friends with people from lots of different countries.
There was talk of the band coming back to the US in Winter 2011, are there any new places that you want to play?
Sangyun Lee: We want to play everywhere we can! We will start to plan our fall North American tour when we get back to Seoul in April. We plan to play some shows in Canada and will visit more areas of the U.S. also.
Hyunseok Choi: There are many places in the U.S. I want to visit. I want to go to New York, Chicago, Miami, and lots of other cities.
Is there anything you want to say to SXSW attendees and fans of Apollo 18 in the United States?
Hyunseok Choi: Please come and see us perform. We're playing six times in Austin during SXSW. We will also play concerts in other parts of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Oklahoma. Come enjoy our music and then let's drink together!
Daeinn Kim: We like to play really loud. We're happy to meet so many new people and make lots of friends, but while we're playing we want to try and break everyone's ears with our volume. We're doing this with love, though, so please don't be angry at us if your ears are ringing after our concert.
I have to thank Hyunseok, Daeinn, and Sangyun for answering the questions amidst their preparations for the tour. If you're in the area of their shows, please support the band and buy them a beer afterward.
Follow the band on Twitter at: @apollo18band


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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) With extremely cold temperatures again invading the area, Fort Wayne's Department of Animal Care & Control is reminding pet owners to limit the amount of time dogs spend outside and to not let cats outside at all.
According to Peggy Bender, Community Relations & Education Specialist with the department, frostbite tends to involve the tail, ear tips, pads of the feet and the scrotum. These are the parts typically least protected by fur. Once an animal suffers frostbite, it will experience pain as the circulation returns to the affected area. The tissue will become read and swollen and may even separate from the animal.
The two-year-old female cat in the picture above was turned over the Animal Care & Control by a concerned citizen. It had suffered frostbite to its ears. Within nine days, the animal lost tissue from both of its ears. The cat is being rehabilitated at the shelter and should be ready for adoption within the next two weeks as healing progresses. The shelter is calling her Circe #A311782


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Guess what?
I am going to be 29 years old. I can hardly even believe it!
Almost 30.
And you know what? That is okay.
I am alright with getting older. I don't see getting older as a bad thing. I like to look back into my years and see what I have accomplished and what I have learned.
Since I am almost 30 I have looked back over the past 9 years. I have had some MAJOR stuff happen.
My 20s:
- I graduated from one of the best public colleges, Penn State University and earned a degree from the Smeal College of Business, which is one of the most prestigious business programs in the country
- I got my bunny, Gizzy
- I moved from PA to CT and started a better life
- I started a full time job with an annual salary and have gotten promoted and received raises every year since I have worked at the company (5 years)
- I bought a car all on my own with no outside help & now fully OWN that car in full with no loans
- I had the strength & respect for myself to end an abusive relationship and start living my own life even though I had no idea if anyone would ever love me again
- I have continued to dance with a group, Eclipse, that has helped me build so many friendships that I know I will have for many years to come
- I started RavieNomNoms.com, which has become such an outlet for me to express my inner self and my love of all things, and food of course
- I walked 60 miles & raised thousands of dollars for Susan G. Komen to fight breast cancer and it was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done
- I still have both of my parents in my life, even though one is rather sick. I cherish all the moments I get with them
- I met the love of my life, Patrick
- I bought a house with Patrick
- I remodeled that 2800sqft house with Patrick from the ground up and it was such an amazing feeling of accomplishment when we finished even the smallest of tasks
- Patrick proposed to me and I accepted
- Patrick and I are getting married 10/25/2014
- I am getting in the best shape of my life and have learned to love myself for who I am (which is still a struggle every day, but at least I am trying and accepting who you are makes life so much easier)
- I still have the same best friends I have had for over 8 years (some much longer) now and plan to keep them forever
- I have learned that women who are self-confident are sexy and I strive to be that way
- I have traveled to Mexico, Canada, California, Washington, Kansas, Missouri, Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois and Portugal.
- I have learned not to give a f*ck what other people think and do what makes me happy even if that means the people closest to me might not understand or even approve
- I have learned that believing in yourself, no matter what, is one of the strongest motivators
- I have learned that food is such a powerful way to bring people together from all over, throw a dinner party in your town…see what happens and how many bonds you make
- I have learned that life is worth living each and every day to be the person you have always wanted to be and to never give up hope, but accept who you are and embrace that and let others really know you
- I have learned that aging isn't scary, it is just another lesson and journey
I have done a lot! I don't know if my 30s will bring so many large moments in my life, but I am grateful for what I have now.
I am glad that I have learned what I have, done the things I have and am finally learning who I am and want to be.
I won't be around this weekend so don't expect any love notes from me, Patrick is taking me away to Simon Pearce up in Vermont. Both for a meal and for the awesome glass work.
In honor of "dates" enjoy some lovely date bars with me. NOMS
- 2 cups pitted dates
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup Organic Applesauce (no sugar added)
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup Raw Vegan Protein Powder
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Cooking spray
- Combine dates, water, and maple syrup in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil; cook 12 minutes or until most liquid is absorbed, stirring frequently. (Mixture will look like jam.) Stir in rind and cool completely.
- Preheat oven to 400°.
- Whisk apple sauce and sugar together until smooth.
- Place flour, protein, oats, baking soda and salt. Stir mixture with whisk. Add the flour mixture into the sugar mixture slowly stirring with a spoon. This mixture will be crumbly.
- Press 2 cups flour mixture into bottom of a 13 x 9-inch baking pan coated with cooking spray. Lightly sprinkle with one tablespoon olive oil.
- Spread date mixture over flour mixture. Sprinkle with remaining flour mixture and remaining olive oil on top.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.


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Grinding feeling
Hi Everyone,
I have an older Trek 930 with a 250 watt Bionx system which is only a year old. I unpacked the bike after winter storage in the basement and I've been riding to/from work for the past 2 months. Starting this spring, I am getting a grinding feeling most of the time when the motor kicks in. Because it seems to come and go, I tried to figure out what the pattern is. It turns out, if the front wheel of the bike is turned even slightly to the left, the grinding happens. If I am steering right, it goes away. If I zig zag, it comes and goes as I go left and right.
I'm pretty sure the problem has something to do with the Bionx system since it feels like it is coming from the back and disappears if I turn the system off.
Any thoughts?
Is it possible the regen is kicking in? The most common problem I have had with my Bionix is the cabling. Occasionally a connection will come loose and cause inconsistent behavior. In this case I'd pay close attention to the magnetic switch on the hand brake that engages the regeneration. That could easily become sensitive to handle-bar movements if loose or misadjusted.
I don't think it's the regen. I unplugged the handlebar control which disabled regen and I still get the grinding feeling. It also has a different feel than the braking regen.
I had this on my home built electric bike. If I turn left I get a grind (feels like rubbing sand on paper). It sound like your left bearing has become dirty. I don't know this bionx system but if you look at your front wheel, in the middle you will find bearings on the left and right of the hub (motor or not). You can try adding a good amount of sewing machine oil to lube and flush out any dirt. But if the ball bearings inside the bearing are gone then you will need to replace the whole bearing. Bearings usually only cost about $9. Mine did. But I had done 5800km on my electric bicycle though. So I just bought 2 new bearings. If you are unsure take it to a bike shop.
Ok my bike had a front hub motor. I just read ur post again and googled bionx and it is a rear hub motor.
I also see you only get the problem WHEN the motor is turned ON. This nearly eliminates bearings (but not totally). Points to maybe mistimed hall sensors but ONLY when you turn left so that eliminates hall sensors. So basically it only happens when torque is applied and turning left. Hmmmm. Maybe a bearing works under pedal power but can't handle the power from the motor anymore? Hopefully that's all it is.
Another possible cause is that one side of the magnets inside the hub motor touch the rotor when power is applied. This will also give a grind feel only when power is applied. It will only happen for a few weeks or months then the hub will stop working. I've had this happen too.
It's possible that it could still be a bearing. The extra torque created by the power assist might be adding to the grinding. I also might not be going fast enough without the power assist to feel it.
I took the bike back to the Bionx dealer on Saturday and he said he couldn't feel anything unusual. I assured him that this feeling is recent. He agreed that most bike riders (or car drivers for that matter) can feel problems sooner since they are more 'in-touch' with their vehicle. He recommended taking the wheel off and adding lube to the bearings. I haven't had time to do so yet. I guess this might make sense since I rode in New England into November last year after the roads had been salted. I did rinse my bike but maybe wasn't thorough enough around the bearings.
Well, I have a resolution to my problem and I'm almost ashamed to admit what it is. Last biking season (2011), I got so many flats on my rear slick tires that I changed to my older knobby mountain bike tires. If my knobby tires are not inflated to max pressure, I get that 'grinding feeling' especially on the left edge (AKA, making a left turn). I only figured this out because I went a few weeks without pumping my tires and the grinding got progressively worse. As soon as I inflated my tires, it got better. Once I inflated to the uppermost pressure allowed, the problem disappeared altogether.
Now I know how important my tires are.