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10 Athletes Who Dominated Their Sports Like a BossPosted By: Sufia Banu | August 18, 2017
This article explores some of the most talented individuals who dominated the sports they played or are still playing.
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10 Athletes Who Dominated Their Sports Like a Boss
In our little lives, only few of us are lucky enough to surpass our childhood heroes. Robert Kelly Slater (a Floridian professional surfer) is one of those lucky dudes. In 2007 when he became the all-time leader in career event wins by winning the Boost Mobile Pro event, Slater transcended the three-time world champion and his hero Tom Curren. Known for his competitive prowess and style. Kelly Slater is 11-times ASP World Tour Champion, 5 of which he'd won in a row between 1994–98.
Nicknamed the 'Russian Bear' Karelin, now retired was a Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. He's been crowned with a bunch of other names too -"Alexander the Great", "Russian King Kong" and "The Experiment" which he absolutely deserves thanks to a record 887 win with only two losses in his entire career. [watch some of highlights]
Karelin was born extraordinarily big, weighing 6.8 kg (15 lb). He began training as a wrestler in 1981 and went undefeated from 1982 to 1987 then after suffering a pair of losses resumed his winning streak for the second time from 1987 to 2000. Karelin is known for his inhumanly strength, lightening quickness combined with his dominance of the sport. This Hulk of a man knew well how to utilise his power to his advantage. Karelin was known for something called the 'Karelin lift' where he would hoist his opponents up into the air and slam him down violently. That throw alone would get him 5 points. He'd won gold medals thrice at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games and a silver medal in the 2000.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame states, "For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match (her)". Margaret Smith Court is now a retired world No. 1 professional tennis player who amassed more major titles than any other player in history of professional tennis.
Court entered the tennis world with a bang winning seven consecutive singles titles at the Australian Championships starting at the age of 17 in 1960. During the open era in the 1970s Court became the first woman and the second woman in history to win the singles Grand Slam all in the same year. Court won a record 24 of those titles, and also 19 women's doubles and 21 mixed doubles titles making a record 64 major titles overall. Believe it or not she is the only player in tennis history to complete a multiple slam in all three disciplines: singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles.
Widely regarded as the greatest formula one racing driver (the game that considerd to be one of Highest Paying and Popular sport in the world, Schumacher has won the Formula One World Champion seven-breathtaking-time.
When he was young his parents took him to the karting track where he joined and became the youngest member of the karting club. And when he found out that in Germany one had to be 14 years old to obtain a kart license he flew straight to Luxembourg and obtained the license at the age of 12.
Schumacher holds a number of records including most championships, most races won in a single season, race victories, pole positions and fastest laps. Besides his kicking career, Michael Schumacher had also invested his efforts as an ambassador for UNESCO and a spokesman for driver safety. An unfortunates skiing accident in December 2013 has currently left him paralyzed and wheelchair-bound.
Sébastien Loeb, now retired, was once hailed as the 'Champion of Champions' in professional rally and racing driving. This French asskicking athlete has won the world championship a record nine times in a row. Added to this he holds several other WRC records, including most wins, most points and most podium finishes.
He had started his career as a gymnast becoming a four-time Alsatian champion. But in 1995 later having found out that he was fascinated by speed he turned his attention to racing. And thank God he did because by 2001 he'd impressively won the Junior World Rally Championship. Loeb is a three-time Race of Champions winner. He was named the French Sportsman of the Year twice (in 2007 and 2009) and was also entitled as the Knight of the Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur) in 2009. He retired from World Rallying in 2012. Definitely one of the 10 Athletes Who Dominated Their Sports.
Gebrselassie is an Ethiopian long-distance track and road running sensation. When he was a little boy Gebrselassie had to run 10 kilometers to school which not only resulted in honing of his talent but he developed a peculiar running posture where his left arm became a bit crooked as if holding invincible school books. Definitely one of the 10 Athletes Who Dominated Their Sports.
Having broken 61 Ethiopian national records, Gebrselassie is widely considered as the greatest distance runners in history of the game. He gained prominence at the 1992 Junior World Championships in Seoul after winning both the 5000-metre and 10,000-metre races. His record at Berlin Marathon of having completed run in 2:03:59 still stands. Gebrselassie has won Olympic gold medals twice, Berlin Marathon four consecutive times and also three straight wins at the Dubai Marathon. Need we say anymore?
This badass badminton player belongs to China. Nicknamed 'Super Dan' started playing badminton at the age of 5 against his parents' wishes who wanted him to learn piano. Surely they don't mind their son's defiantness now. Anyway back to Dan's amazing achievements – he is a five-time world champion, five-time world champion and two-time Olympic champion.
Dan has won all nine major titles in the badminton world – Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, Thomas Cup, Sudirman Cup, Super Series Masters Finals, Asian Games, All England Open, and Asian Championships – therefore completing the "Super Grand Slam." No wonder today there are plenty of people who regard him as the greatest singles player of all time.
Interesting fact: Lin Dan had received a master's degree from Huaqiao University becoming the first active Chinese badminton player to have been honored thus.
I've already mentioned this God of squash before but non-the-less this list would be incomplete without mentioning Jahangir Khan. Born in Pakistan, ever since the day Khan had started playing squash in 1979 at the age of 15, he has excelled. He went on to become the youngest winner of the World Armature Individual Championship and later becoming the youngest World Open Champion. Believe it or not but between 1981 and 1986 he won 555 consecutive matches which was hailed as the 'longest winning streak' in the history of professional sports. It earned him a place in the Guinness World Record. Definitely one of the 10 Athletes Who Dominated Their Sports.
The great Indian Field Hockey player, Dhyan Chand is often recognized as Definitely one of the 10 Athletes Who Dominated Their Sports. to have ever lived. He played in India hockey history's brightest era and had reputedly scored more than 400 goals in his glorious international career. Cricket world's legend Don Bradman after watching Chand in action had remarked "He scores goals like runs in cricket". He had earned three Olympic gold medals in 1928, 1932, and 1936 and once had served as the captain of the national team. Chand passes away in 1979.
Interesting facts: This master player's magical control over the ball wasn't just extraordinary goal-scoring feats but also earned him the nickname – 'The Wizard'. And ridiculously enough in Netherlands, the authorities broke his hockey stick to check if there was a magnet inside.
Vergeer (now retired) is a Dutch wheelchair tennis player who dominated Wheelchair Tennis for 14 damn years – starting from 1999 right to her retirement in 2013. She had one heck of a childhood when she often suffered from strokes, migraines, basically a lot of pains. Shuttling between home and hospital, they soon discovered that Vergeer had a vascular myelopathy around her spinal cord which led to a 9 hours operation. By the end of the operation Vergeer had lost her ability to walk. Following this sad incident Vergeer while rehabilitating began playing basketball, volleyball and tennis in her wheelchair. Definitely one of the 10 Athletes Who Dominated Their Sports.
For 668 weeks Esther Vergeer had held the world's number one position. In single matches she's got a jaw dropping straight 470 win. In her moderately long career she has lost only 25 matches and won 700 more. Now finally speaking of titles, combining both singles and doubles, Vergeer has managed to win 7 Paralympics, 22 year-end championships and 42 Gram Slams. I know Roger Federer is probably jealous too.
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Yes, setting the timeout will not effect methods that have already been executed. Even if it did, I'm not sure it would help much in this case. Gustavo, is sounds like you want a per method execution timeout. The SO_TIMEOUT is for each individual read operation at the socket level. Mike Oleg Kalnichevski wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 19:11, Gustavo Hexsel wrote: > >> I already have a reference to the input stream - the method was already >>executed. Will it still set the timeout for the socket? >> >> []s Gustavo > > > > All right. I see. It will not. Feel free to file a feature request. It > is still not too late to have this included into the 3.0 release > > Oleg > > > >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >>Sent: October 8, 2004 11:07 AM >>To: 'Jakarta Commons Users List' >>Subject: RE: [HttpClient] getting the http connection or setting the >>param s >> >> >>On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:41, Gustavo Hexsel wrote: >> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> thanks for the prompt answer. >>> >>> By connection params I meant the HttpConnection.setParams(). I saw the >>>javadoc for that class, and it states that if I set SO_TIMEOUT there, it >>>will change the value for open sockets as well. If I just set the method >>>parameters, by calling HttpBaseMethod.setParams(), it will change the >>>parameter only when opening new sockets. >> >>Gustavo, >>This is not the case. HttpClient resets SO_TIMEOUT every time the >>connection is obtained from the connection manager, because the >>connection can be still left open ('alive') and may contain an arbitrary >>SO_TIMEOUT value set by the previous method. >> >>When SO_TIMEOUT is defined at the HTTP method, the method value is used, >>otherwise, default value defined at the HTTP connection/connection >>manager level is used. >> >>http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/xref/org/apache/commons/htt >>pclient/HttpMethodDirector.html#379 >> >>Oleg >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com >>For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com >>For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts 30th Anniversary Annual Conference. Best Western Royal Plaza in Marlborough, MA.
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2017 Baseball News
Baseball's Third Annual Golf Tournament set for Sept. 9June 29, 2017The third annual Baseball Golf Tournament is scheduled for September 9th. Alumni, parents and friends of Susquehanna Baseball are invited to attend the third annual tournament. The tournament has grown each year and continues to bring together friends and former players in support of the baseball program.
Fallon and Leone Named All-Region by ABCAMay 24, 2017Senior Cory Fallon and junior Zach Leone were each named to the All-Region team as selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) as announced on the association website Tuesday afternoon.
Cory Fallon Named All-RegionMay 23, 2017Senior Cory Fallon added to his post-season accolades with his selection to the D3Baseball.com All-Region team as a First Team selection from the Mid-Atlantic region as announced on the D3Baseball.com website Tuesday.
Fallon and Grigas Named First Team All-ConferenceMay 16, 2017Senior Cory Fallon and freshman Bobby Grigas led a group of five players from the Susquehanna University Baseball team with selection to the Landmark Conference All-Conference team as announced by the conference office Tuesday afternoon.
Baseball Falls in Championship FinalMay 14, 2017Zach Leone finished the day 7-for-9 with two doubles, two runs scored and one run batted in including a 4-for-4 effort in the second game as the Susquehanna University Baseball team forced a second championship game Sunday in the Landmark Conference Tournament against Elizabethtown College at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.
River Hawks Power Past Catholic to AdvanceMay 13, 2017Three player hit two doubles each and two others had home runs including Cole Luzins who belted a grad slam leading the Susquehanna University Baseball team to a 13-3 victory over Catholic University Saturday afternoon in an elimination game of the Landmark Conference Tournament in a game played at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.
Nathan Madden Helps Susquehanna SurviveMay 12, 2017Sophomore pitcher Nathan Madden allowed two runs on six hits with a complete-game victory as the Susquehanna University Baseball team avoided elimination with a 6-2 victory over Drew University Friday afternoon on the first day of competition at the Landmark Conference Tournament in Washington, DC.
Weather Alters Baseball Tournament ScheduleMay 11, 2017Due to anticipated rain in the Washington, DC area forecast for this weekend the Landmark Conference announced Thursday that the schedule for the Landmark Conference Tournament has been changed with the use of two different facilities to increase the probability of completing the tournament.
Schedule Announced for Landmark Baseball TournamentMay 08, 2017The waiting is over the for Susquehanna University Baseball team as the final standings and Landmark Conference Tournament match ups were decided and announced Sunday afternoon.
Baseball Falls to Division I Navy by a 3-0 scoreMay 07, 2017Taylor Luckenbill was 3-for-4 and six pitchers combined to allow just three runs Sunday afternoon in a 3-0 loss to Navy in the regular season finale for the Susquehanna University Baseball team at Max Bishop Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.
Baseball Wins Home Run Battle with YorkMay 04, 2017Sophomore Nick Berger along with seniors Dylan Jenkins and Cory Fallon each hit home runs to lead the Susquehanna University Baseball team to a 7-6 victory over York College Thursday afternoon in a non-conference game on Bollinger Field in Selinsgrove.
Late Rally Clinches Playoff Spot for BaseballApril 30, 2017Freshman Craig Roumes doubled home the tying run and Nick Berger followed with a single to score Roumes with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning for the Susquehanna University Baseball team and the River Hawks held on for the 3-2 win Sunday afternoon at Drew University in the final Landmark Conference game of the season for Susquehanna.
Baseball Falls Twice at DrewApril 29, 2017Cory Fallon hit his eighth home run of the season and Cole Luzins added his third long ball of the year for the Susquehanna University Baseball team but it was not enough as Drew University won both games of the Landmark Conference doubleheader Saturday with 4-2 and 3-1 wins in Madison, N.J.
Baseball Nearly Comes Back but Falls 8-6April 26, 2017Ben Burman had four hits and scored two runs for the Susquehanna University Baseball team Wednesday night and nearly came back from an early 6-0 deficit to trim the lead to 7-6 but eventually fell to Albright College by an 8-6 score on Kelchner Field in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Baseball Seniors Power River Hawks Past ElizabethtownApril 23, 2017A quartet of seniors played key roles in a 9-8 victory as the Susquehanna University Baseball team came back for a 9-8 win Sunday afternoon in the final game of the three-game Landmark Conference series with Elizabethtown on Bollinger Field in Selinsgrove.
Baseball Splits a Pair of Extra-Inning GamesApril 22, 2017Senior Danny Gordon ripped an RBI single to right field in the eighth inning of game one as the Susquehanna University Baseball team took a 5-4 come-from-behind victory in the opener but fell by a 6-3 score in the night cap in a game that lasted 11 innings Saturday afternoon in a Landmark Conference doubleheader against Elizabethtown on Bollinger Field in Selinsgrove.
Baseball Builds Early Lead and then Hangs on for WinApril 18, 2017Dylan Jenkins and Zach Leone hit back-to-back home runs in the third inning as the Susquehanna University Baseball team built an early 14-7 lead and then the River Hawks hung on as Messiah tried to come back before Susquehanna posted the 14-12 victory Tuesday afternoon in a non-conference game on Starry Field in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Bobby Grigas Named Pitcher of the WeekApril 17, 2017Freshman pitcher Bobby Grigas threw a complete-game, nine-inning victory Friday against Juniata and recorded a school-record 15 strike outs in the win earning him the Landmark Conference Pitcher of the Week award for the week ending April 16.
Strong Pitching Gives Susquehanna a Sweep over JuniataApril 15, 2017A day after Bobby Grigas set the school record for strikeouts in a game for the Susquehanna University Baseball team, Nathan Madden and Tyson Thrush combined to shut down Juniata with a pair of 4-1 wins in seven-inning games as the River Hawks completed the three-game sweep of the Landmark Conference series with the Eagles Saturday afternoon on Harold Bollinger Field in Selinsgrove.
Bobby Grigas Strikes out 15 in 3-2 win over JuniataApril 14, 2017Freshman pitcher Bobby Grigas continued his impressive rookie season with a complete-game victory as he recorded what is believed to be a school-record 15 strike outs as the Susquehanna University Baseball team posted a 3-2 victory over Juniata College Friday afternoon in the first of a three-game Landmark Conference weekend series. The same two teams will complete the series with a doubleheader starting at Noon Saturday in Selinsgrove.
Baseball Comes Back for Big Road WinApril 13, 2017Senior Cory Fallon hammered his sixth home run of the season and five players had multiple hits as the Susquehanna University Baseball team came back from an early seven-run deficit to defeat Wesley 17-10 Thursday afternoon in a game called after eight innings due to darkness on Bob Reed Field in Dover, Delaware.
Late Inning Heroics Lead to Baseball Split with MoravianApril 09, 2017The Susquehanna University Baseball team scored six times in the eighth inning of a scheduled seven-inning game Sunday to post a 6-0 win over Moravian but the Greyhounds used late-inning heroics of their own in game two, winning on a walk-off hit with a come-from-behind 4-3 victory in the second game of the day and third game of the Landmark Conference series.
Baseball Scores Early and Often on Win over MoravianApril 08, 2017The Susquehanna University Baseball team scored eight times in the first three innings to build an early lead and the tandem of Bobby Grigas and James Panzarino combined to shut down Moravian as the River Hawks posted a 12-4 victory Saturday in the first game of the three-game Landmark Conference weekend series with the Greyhounds at Gillespie Field in Bethlehem.
Baseball Empties Bench in 10-1 Win over King'sApril 05, 2017Head Coach Denny Bowers used 20 different players Wednesday afternoon and 11 players combined to produce 16 hits as the Susquehanna University Baseball team scored a 10-1 win over King's College in a non-conference tilt on Harold Bollinger Field in Selinsgrove.
Baseball Wins One but Settles for a Split against CatholicApril 02, 2017Dylan Jenkins and Cory Fallon connected on home runs and Sean Rodriguez picked up his third win of the season as the Susquehanna University Baseball team opened a doubleheader against Catholic University with a 7-2 victory Sunday but the Cardinals came back to win the nightcap 2-1 as the teams split the three-game Landmark Conference series.
Offense Struggles in Series Opening LossApril 01, 2017The Susquehanna University Baseball team managed just four hits and scored twice Saturday night as the River Hawks dropped a 5-2 decision to Catholic University in the first of three games against the Landmark Conference foe. The Saturday night games was played at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy.
Baseball Drops Home Opener against KeystoneMarch 30, 2017Zach Leone had a solo home run and Cory Fallon knocked in a pair of runs for the Susquehanna University Baseball team but it was not enough as Keystone College took an early lead and held on for a 6-3 victory Thursday afternoon in the first game of the season on Harold Bollinger Field in Selinsgrove.
Baseball Players Sweep Landmark Weekly AwardsMarch 27, 2017Freshman Bobby Grigas and senior Taylor Luckenbill helped the Susquehanna University Baseball team complete a 3-1 week including a Landmark Conference sweep of the three-game series with Scranton. As a result, the players have been named the Landmark Pitcher of the Week and Player of the Week respectively for the week ending March. 26.
Baseball Sweeps Scranton with 10-Inning ThrillerMarch 26, 2017Danny Gordon doubled down the right field line to start the bottom of the 10th inning, advanced to third on a wild pitch and came home on a Cameron Ott sacrifice fly to right field to score the winning run as the Susquehanna University Baseball team completed a sweep of the three-game series with Scranton with a 4-3 win Sunday. The game was played at Juniata College due to unplayable field conditions in Selinsgrove.
Baseball Sweeps Scranton to Open Landmark ScheduleMarch 25, 2017The combination of extra base hits and solid pitching led the Susquehanna University Baseball team to a pair of wins over Scranton to open the Landmark Conference schedule Saturday afternoon in a doubleheader played at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland.


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Eric called the meeting to order at 7:05 P.M. Members present: Eric
Anderson, Terry Cliett, Frank and Pam Covelli, Bill
Nicholson, Larry McCaw, Stan Helmka,
Katie was present to talk about her senior class project. She wants to put on a cross country fun run in Feb. or March and wanted to get some input from the club.
The minutes of the last meeting were then read and approved.
New Business: Tom Kelleher is heading up the Washington State Games being
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Treasurer's report: Tony said there was not a lot of activity again this
month. We had income from
Membership: Two new, five renewals and total membership stands at 198.
Fun Runs: Larry announced he would be stepping down as fun run coordinator. Lots of people were at the last run from Fred Meyers. B.J. Zahn won a $25 gas card in the participation drawing. Tony suggested that we need to get a full report on the fun runs in the newsletter.
Old business: Equipment training went well.
Other New Business: No one in attendance had been to the YRCM meeting so no report was made.
Tony made up an equipment rental schedule for the clocks so people can sign up to take the clocks to various events.
Meeting adjourned Respectfully submitted, Jack Carlton


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 66851
Misleading error if HTTP install server address is wrong.
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
I tried to do an HTTP install from pcmcia.img, and I entered the wrong server IP
address. The error message that came up on the next screen was "Unable to find
/RedHat/Base/netstg1.img on the server", without mentioning the IP address. It
took me a little while to figure out that I entered the wrong IP server IP
address; the error message led me on a wild goose chase, looking at the apache
configuration on the server, etc.
Since I entered IP addresses, error recovery code should distinguish between two
error condition: unable to contact the server; and receiving a 404 from the server.
Assigning to an engineer.
Made the error message give the full URL that's unable to be retrieved so that
it's more obvious
fix verified in -re0106.0


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Hunter tried to ignore the ringing in his head as he made his way backstage. There was so much to think about, so much to feel. So much had transpired in the last hour. He and Stephanie's relationship went from absolute perfection, to total crap within that time frame.
The look of sheer devastation on her face when he told her their marriage was over, was one that he couldn't get out of his mind. By the time he had finished tearing up the wedding set and beating the holy hell out of her father, it had shifted. She was...outraged. Absolutely livid. She jumped into his face screaming "How could you do this?" while gesturing wildly to the destruction he had just caused.
Then something terrible happened: his rage reached a boiling point. He extended his arm, covering her face with his big hand. He squeezed his fingers tightly and pushed, as hard as he could. When her body collided with the ring, she looked up at him in shock and that devastated look came back as he slipped his wedding ring off of his finger and hurled it at her. Desperate for some alone-time, he stormed away from her.
I won't look at her, he had repeated to himself inwardly as he made his exit from the ring. But, he caught sight of her face on the Titantron. The look dominated his senses and he found himself turning around to meet her gaze. Her chest heaved and her body shook as she glared at him. He stared back at her blankly. He had never seen this look before. The obvious expression was pure fury, but he knew her well enough to detect the pain underneath. He blinked in shock as she screamed – really more like screeched – at him.
Finally, he reached his locker room. The walk had cooled the harsh edges of his temper. With the rage gone, he focused on the situation in its entirety. He had physically hurt the love of his life intentionally and ended their marriage, all in one night. Despite how upset he had been with her, putting his hands on her like that was inexcusable. It made him think back to his feud with Kurt Angle and how Stephanie kept getting caught in the middle of their brawls. She had been knocked around quite a bit, but it was always an accident on his part. Kurt, in his desperate attempts to ruin his marriage, had insisted to Stephanie and to the world, that he was intentionally causing his wife physical harm. He knew it was untrue, but had to wonder if the lies were causing Stephanie to doubt that the incidents were total accidents.
He felt that his suspicions were confirmed when the cops arrived to haul him in for questioning. The reason: a police report made that accused him of spousal abuse. As it turned out, Stephanie hadn't made the report; it was her ex-fiancée, Test. Stephanie stood by his side through the ordeal, insisting that her husband was innocent of these claims. She readily admitted that her husband had a nasty temper, especially where it concerned her. It didn't faze her that much when he lost his cool and ended up breaking things in the room. Nothing had ever come even close to hitting her – not him, nor the objects he threw around.
Test had admitted he made the report out of contempt for their relationship. Hunter kicked his ass and that was the end of that chapter. The whole thing actually ended up bringing he and his wife closer emotionally.
What was it all worth now, though? He had struck his wife purposely. He was now exactly the man people accused him of being. He couldn't erase that solitary thought from his mind.
Stephanie should be in the back, by now, he thought. Where would she be? Certainly, she wouldn't come back to their shared locker room after what just happened. He needed to apologize for hitting her. He would find her as soon as possible. He would try Vince's office first. As he made these easy decisions, he gathered his things from the room. If any of Stephanie's things were here, he would be a gentleman and give them to her, along with his apology. But, she had prepared for the renewal of their wedding vows elsewhere.
The next few minutes made him more nervous than he'd ever been with her. He hadn't felt this nervous since the time Stephanie had walked in on him showing Trish Stratus wrestling moves. It looked pretty bad. Stephanie cried and yelled while she threw a vase of flowers and a lamp at him. They spent the rest of the week as well as the weekend apart. She wouldn't pick up his calls or return even one of the dozen messages he'd left on her voicemail. His chest was in knots every moment he was without her, knowing that the more time that passed, the more she was slipping away from him. She forgave him after he gathered up everything that he had inside of him and begged for forgiveness on national television.
Up until she forgave him, he was so nervous he thought he would faint. Compared to what he currently felt, that was nothing. He would gladly go back in time to that very situation. Go back, deal with it and be glad. At least with that situation he had done nothing overtly wrong. It had just looked really, really bad. There was a plausible, rational explanation for what had occurred. It was a misunderstanding. He knew where to start – explain his actions, apologize and tell her how much he loved her.
But this? He had no idea where to start.
The door to Vince's office was open halfway. He didn't knock, he just walked in. What he saw before him, broke his heart into a million pieces. Stephanie sat on the couch, sobbing while she held an ice pack to her face.
Without thinking, he rushed over and crouched before her while repeating, "I'm sorry" firmly. Stephanie lowered the ice pack to stare at him in shock. He noticed the red finger-tip welts on her temples and forehead. Instinctively, he reached out to caress her cheek, but she jumped as if she'd been hit with a stun gun.
"Don't touch me," she whispered. "Just go away. Please," she pleaded, closing her eyes.
He ignored her request. "Stephanie, listen. I'm really sorry that I hit you. I just completely lost my temper. I was so upset with you and I wasn't thinking about what I was doing. I don't want to be that guy everyone has accused me of being. I promise it will never happen again."
Suddenly, her eyes snapped open and the sadness he'd seen in them before was replaced by venom. "I know it won't happen again, since you've decided it's better to walk away from our marriage than fix it."
"I don't think it's better. I just can't be with you if I can't trust you. You lied to me. After everything we've been through together, you lied to me about one of the most important things in the world."
"I didn't mean to. Not at first, anyway." She waited for his reply and got a questioning glance instead. "I took a pregnancy test a couple of weeks ago. It came back positive, so I made a doctor's appointment. They confirmed that I wasn't actually pregnant. And I felt devastated. Over the next few days I just couldn't stop thinking about how much I wanted to be a mother. And how much I wanted you to be the father of my children."
"You knew how much I wanted that, too. You knew it so well that you lied to me about it so that you'd get your spotlight from renewing our vows," he interrupted her, shaking his head at her audacity.
Deciding it was better to ignore him and finish her side of the story, she continued, "I wanted to talk to you about trying for a baby. But, our marriage was in such a bad place. It made no sense to discuss bringing a child into a three-ring circus. I thought that maybe if we renewed our wedding vows – reminded each other of how good things used to be, we'd get back on track." She smiled a little. It really had been a wonderful idea. The event should have been beautiful and heartwarming, but instead it turned into an absolute disaster, centered on the lie she hadn't meant to tell. But, once she had uttered the words that she was pregnant, she couldn't take them back. So, she put on this charade and desperately hoped that she'd get pregnant for real. And soon!
"Don't bullshit me! Your reasoning had to do with proving a point to the rest of the world. It wasn't about us at all."
Now, she got angry. "Yes it was! It's only ever been about us but you're too damn stupid and wrapped up in being the lone wolf, to see it!"
"I-uh- what the hell? What are you on about? You admitted to as much."
A resentful chuckle escaped her. "I did. Not because it was true, but because it was effective."
He nodded. "Why yes. It was very effective in pissing me off even more than I already was that night."
"You don't understand me when I'm emotional anymore, Hunter! When I try to talk to you about my feelings you just shut me out and shut down on me. I thought if I presented it in a different light you would come around. Kind of like how you used to get pissed off and beat up anybody who insulted me. I sort of thought that you would agree to renewing the vows if I made it about the insulting things people thought about me after your return. Clearly, I was mistaken. When that failed, I just thought about how we couldn't have our baby unless we fixed our relationship. Before I knew it, the lie was out of my mouth. I was shocked at what I said, but I couldn't take it back. So I rambled on, crying, because I couldn't believe what I had just done."
Hunter stared at her intently. "And at no point did it cross your mind that when there was no baby in 7 months, you'd be caught?"
Stephanie gave a wry smile. "Well, you were so over the moon and we had so much sex afterwards that I figured I'd get pregnant soon enough."
"And what would you have done? Try to pretend the baby was overdue?" He had to laugh a little. The thought of Stephanie holding a normal sized infant, while trying to convince him it was 2 months or more overdue, was hilarious. Didn't she realize she would've had to continue paying off doctors to lie about how far along she was? Fake pregnancy symptoms until she got pregnant for real? Come up with a damn good explanation for why labor wasn't being induced? There was no way she would've gotten away with this.
"Well...no. I'm not quite that stupid." Her eyes narrowed as she guessed what he had been thinking. "I figured that things would have been so great between us again, that you wouldn't care enough to leave me. I would have told you the truth right after finding out I was really pregnant."
"Steph...I wouldn't have left you if you'd just told me the truth yourself, instead of bringing in the fake doctor."
She shook her head sadly. "I didn't see that as an option. Ever since your injury, you seem ready to leave me at the slightest annoyance or problem. So while you were in that state, no, there was no way I would have told you. I had to get my old Hunter back first."
"I could never have left you."
"It sure as hell didn't appear that way to me."
"I was trying to make you leave me," he admitted.
Her blue eyes widened and she stared at him slack-jawed. "I-you-but-it-you" she sputtered incoherently.
He held up a hand to spare her from trying to compose a sentence. "We married each other for power. We're both masterminds, but my role was also the enforcer. The brawn. When I got injured, I lost all of that. You stayed by my side and supported me anyway. But then your father tried to convince you that I was replaceable and you should leave me. You didn't listen to him; you encouraged my recovery and were convinced I'd get back to being 100 percent."
"And what? My unrelenting support for you somehow gave you the idea I wanted out of our marriage? If I'd known that, I would have kept my distance," she bit out, sarcastically. He made absolutely no sense.
"No. I started questioning my ability to get better. A quad tear isn't the kind of injury people recover from and get back to life as it was. I worried that I wouldn't be able to wrestle again...and that if I did, I wouldn't be nearly as good. I wondered what my role as your husband would be if that happened. So I pushed you away. I didn't want to wait around and be caught off guard when you left me. I figured if I was enough of an asshole you'd say "to hell with him" and go. And it wouldn't be a surprise. It would hurt less because I caused it."
At his words, she softened. Hurt him? The only time he had ever made her aware that her leaving had the potential to hurt him was during the Trish Stratus fiasco. During the Kurt Angle situation, he was just angry. He never said anything to indicate he would be emotionally effected if she had chosen Kurt over him. In that situation she felt like his possession and not necessarily his wife. Which had been most of the reason she continued with her flirtation. She wanted to know that he truly still loved her and she wasn't just some damn shiny prize like his championship belt. Not only did she never get what she wanted, but her husband managed to get his ribs smashed in. Boy, did her conscience have a field day with her on that one.
"I really don't know what to say, Hunter. Except that I would never, ever leave you willingly. I would do anything to save our marriage and keep you around. Even when you're being a complete asshole. I know that what I did was very wrong. For that, I apologize. But, I can't apologize for doing what was in my power to keep us together. I mean I can apologize but I wouldn't really mean it. I knew that somewhere in there you still cared about me and if I could just find a way to bring it out of you, we'd be okay."
"You're wrong." He smirked as her face fell."I don't just care about you...I love you. So much that I thought it was impossible that you loved me the same way. So I just...don't express my feelings for you. I let that fear control me after my injury and I've been pushing you away ever since. I've hurt you so much over this last year, especially. And I'm sorry for it." He reached out to touch her cheek, and smiled when she didn't flinch but instead leaned into his embrace. The welts on her face also seemed to be less irritated, which pleased him.
Hunter slowly brought his face closer to hers. He looked deeply into her eyes and saw the love that resided there. God, I'm an idiot! But I'm going to change that. He pressed his lips to hers briefly, not wanting to scare her off. Stephanie shuddered a little bit, at the feel of his lips on hers. The tingles that his touch could cause to radiate throughout her body were nothing short of amazing. But, they had some things to work out still.
"What does this mean?" She asked him.
"That I love you more than anything and I'm going to make sure you always know it."
She smiled. "So we're getting back together?"
He pulled away and looked at her seriously. He reached up and tucked a stray strand of her hair behind her ear. "If you'll take me back, yes."
"I absolutely will. But, we need to promise each other something." At his nod, she continued, "I think we should be more open with each other. Let's not lie to or deceive each other anymore. And no hiding of our feelings either," she added while pointing her finger at him.
"Done," he told her simply.
The smile she answered him with was dazzling. Before he knew it, she had pressed her lips firmly against his. Her arms wrapped around his neck and he threaded one hand in her hair, letting the other hand roam her waist.
June 2003
Stephanie was awakened by soft wailing. She groaned and rolled over, fully expecting to see her husband lying next to her. His side of the bed was still warm so she assumed he hadn't been gone long. She pulled on a purple, silk robe and headed down the hall to her daughter's room.
No one had been more surprised than Stephanie herself, when she found out she was pregnant in March of last year. Apparently, she had been one week along when she and Hunter had attempted to renew their wedding vows. They had to laugh at the irony.
The parents-to-be decided that they wanted the sex of the baby to be a surprise. The pregnancy itself was mostly uneventful. Her morning sickness wasn't so bad and neither were the occasional kicks the child had given her abdomen. In November, she was overjoyed when the nurse placed a pink, arm-flailing bundle in her arms and congratulated her and her husband.
Hunter cried the first time he saw their daughter. That was a first. She had no idea what to do or say to comfort him. Sure, she'd seen him be emotional before, but this was so much more. At her concerned gaze, he explained that he couldn't help but think of how this moment might never have come to pass if they'd continued conducting their relationship so badly. She had to agree and soon became an emotional wreck, herself.
As she continued down the hall she heard Hunter's voice ask, "Where are you going, huh?" from the direction of her daughter's room. A few seconds later, she heard her child giggle, right as she crawled, with her one piece baby outfit halfway on, into the hallway.
7 month old Harmony Sophia Helmsley headed straight for her mother, who was smiling right at her. Her blue eyes brightened and her light brown curls bounced a little, as she sped up. When she reached Stephanie after a few seconds, she grabbed onto her leg, using it as leverage to stand upright. She reached up for her mother with one hand and hung onto her leg with the other. She grinned toothlessly and babbled when Stephanie reached down to pick her up.
"Hi baby. Are you giving your daddy a hard time?" Stephanie laughed when Harmony laughed and clapped excitedly. "I'll take that as a yes."
"I think maybe she wants to start her morning off by streaking around the house," Hunter told her with a chuckle as he stepped outside of their daughter's room.
"Maybe. She seemed very amused at running away from being fully clothed," she said before kissing Harmony's rosy cheek.
Hunter stared at her for a few seconds. Finally, she said, "Hi" with a shy smile.
"Hi. Do I get one of those, too?"
"Maybe. Have you been good today?"
"Absolutely...in fact, I was on a roll until Harm ran off. I was trying to get her fed and dressed without waking you."
"Awww," she gushed, leaning up to peck him on the lips.
"Why thank you," he told her before dipping his head to brush his lips lightly along the side of her neck. He failed to hide his snicker when she shivered and let out an almost inaudible moan at the contact and was rewarded with a smack to his bicep.
"Did you eat breakfast yet?" She asked him, pulling away from his roaming lips before he could do any more damage to her senses.
"Nope; I was waiting for you. How about you grab a shower and I'll take care of Harm and make us some food?"
A perfectly manicured brow lifted along with her smile. "Daddy's being awfully sweet today" she told Harmony, who was babbling quietly and patting Stephanie's cheek.
"I try," he told her, buffing his nails against his chest.
"Your efforts don't go unnoticed." She took a step toward him and ran a hand down his chest and abdomen, then around the waistband of his track pants.
He gulped and whined, "This is how you repay me? Try to get me all hot and bothered when we don't have an opportunity to finish?" He playfully shook his head and added sarcastically, "That's love, baby. That's love."
Hunter gave her a kiss on the cheek as she handed Harmony over to him. Harmony immediately started pulling at his hair, which was down and cascading around his shoulders. "Hopefully when her hair grows longer she'll play with it, instead of ours." He gave a laugh and turned towards the staircase so he could go downstairs and get started on breakfast.
"Wait," his wife called out to him, grabbing his free hand. "I hope you know I fully" she nipped at his earlobe "intend to continue this later."
Now it was his turn to shiver. Damn her, he thought. She knew what that did him.
"Until then I'll just enjoy teasing you," she quipped before smacking his ass and running back to their room.
"See? Do you see how mean she is to me," he asked the baby. Harmony just patted her father's face, seeming almost sympathetic.
Stephanie let out an audible sigh as she stepped into the shower, letting the streams of hot water soothe her. Life was great. Every day she got to wake up to her husband and daughter – the two most important people in her life. While the road to get here had no doubt been rocky, she couldn't really say that she would have changed anything. Had things not gone down the way that they did, she might not have ended up in this exact situation.
Maybe she and Hunter had to mess up their marriage a bit, to truly come to accept how much they loved each other. They had to lose one another to find out that it was unbearable. Each of them had to face their own insecurities and really just believe that the love they shared wouldn't allow them to ever hurt each other that way again.
While Hunter was certainly not abusive, he did absolutely lose his head with her that one time. In a strange way, she felt the need to be thankful for the incident. He had come to her father's office that night to apologize for it. If that hadn't happened, would they have ever talked things out? It took Hunter a few weeks to truly forgive himself for what had happened. But, since then he worked very hard to stay level-headed around her. He didn't even throw things around their locker room when he was upset anymore. His anger was strictly taken out on his opponents now. He didn't so much as raise his voice at her now.
So no, she wouldn't change a single that about the past. Not even that nasty temper.


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Work in process & excerpts from doctoral research.
Exploration into the capacity of protest design has profound implications within a variety of contexts. Practitioners in the field (both from the past and today) have produced work that creates a solid foundation for research and further application of design for agitational protest.
Design as a professional activity, in conjunction with a mixed method approach to image production, has the potential to create ways within which we can work against the stakeholders of commercially oriented mass media.
As a researcher, this topic relates to me in two ways. Firstly, as a member of society who consumes media and secondly, as a commercial designer and media educator. Practitioners within the design industry often create media to influence sales, establish brand loyalties and construct identities. The boundary between mass media and propaganda is sometimes difficult to see. I have an established history of using my skill set to benefit corporations and political figures. Only after continuing my education, did I realise the extent of my capacity to influence others and question the quality of the influence.
An increased awareness of the power of media facilitates growth in critical understanding. The production of alternative images that represent 'what is hidden', create a record in time that would otherwise be absent. Hidden content can refer to minority groups, beliefs or subcultures. The impact of protest design may not be immediate. It moves through our history, reminds us of who we are and may take time for society to understand its impact.
There is extensive research about the impact of mass media and growing critical awareness about its power, but continual effort is needed to ensure we are able to maintain and refine our understanding. In particular, this research will investigate the capacity of design to act as an instrument for agitational propaganda, that acts to counter the mainstream and expose the constructions of commercial media.
Why does this matter?
Culture and economic power are no longer separated (de Oliveira 2009). The images of 'political reality' and 'commercial reality' dominate our physical and psychological environments. Few places represent this statement better than the city of Gold Coast, Australia. It is simultaneously branded by media, advertising and political agendas as many different things:
- The crime capital of Australia (Larkins 2013)
- Family friendly holiday destination (Potts, Dedekorkut-howes, and Bosman 2013)
- Party town with easy access to drugs and sex (Schindeler and Ewart 2014)
- Government moderated Schoolies destination (Pennay and Lubman 2013)
- Prosperous business destination (City of Gold Coast Council 2013)
As evidenced by the list above, the Gold Coast is not an easily definable place with a singular identity. This indicates a need for exploration of the tension between the imposed identity of the city and the alternative reality (Griffin 1998; 286). It is imperative that the Gold Coast has a force able to push against the images generated by those who maintain power.
Using design as a form of protest is not a new concept, but continual effort is required to maintain and refine our understanding. The Gold Coast provides an ideal location for this exploration, and the process will be explored in the future to incorporate wider locations and issues. Initially the Gold Coast was selected as a focus for this project as it provides easily accessible resources within the scope and time of this research project. In addition, the issues sounding the complexities of the city's identity provide valuable data that require exploration and increased understanding. Although the creative culture on the Gold Coast is growing, there are few public practitioners using design to agitate and protest the ideas currently dominating mainstream media.
By undermining the mainstream narrative through the exposure of alternative messages, we can work towards revealing and recording what is hidden within the Gold Coast. Designing an alternative visual message that disrupts the idea that we are not visible unless we confirm to the mainstream. Through examination of the recent subcultural phenomenon of the 'Hipster', we can argue that there is a lack of alternative or counterculture available. Unlike previous subcultures, hipsterism acts as a consumer group, without any political stance or social agenda. It is the first subculture to be constructed by the advertising industry and it provides no real alternative to the mainstream. (Kauffman 2013)
The exposure of the 'real or alternative' has potential to be dangerous. (The 'real' may include an unattractive or non commercial aspect of a place, a group of people who are suffering because of lack of government services, or everyday occurrences that are not presented to a wider audience by mass media.) Not because its content is necessarily traumatic, but because it directs our attention towards an ellipsis within the historical record where none is supposed to exist. (Shoulette 2011) Shoulette further highlights this by telling us that:
"If we were to extend our inventory of heroic defiance to include those many minor, sometimes petty acts of everyday disobedience that Michel De Certeau theorized as tactics of resistance… then it seems suddenly as if an entire realm of shadowy, non-compliant labour has materialised into gloaming visibility about the margins of mainstream social, political, artistic, and economic discourse… Nevertheless, isolated flashes of defiance are disjointed acts of insubordination. They do not necessarily knit together as sustained politics, and they are not inherently progressive or democratic. By and large these are gifts that often "forget themselves" insofar as they are generally not perceived as gifts given or received. Still, insofar as this creative dark activity refuses to be productive for the market, it remains linked, however diffusely and ambiguously, to an archive of resistant practices—past, present, and to come—that Fredric Jameson called a "political unconscious," and that theorists Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge described in more literal terms as a counter-public sphere made up of dissident affects, re-appropriations, and fantasies." (Shoulette 2011; 187)
In addition, art, design and media (and hybrids of all creative outputs) contribute to our collection of social-historical data. Regardless of whether any form of protest design creates change, it will become a part of the historical record, creating information that would not otherwise exist. Its impact may not be immediately apparent, but over time we are able to better understand the impact. It tells us who we are, and over time this becomes apparent.
Practitioners in the Field.
An examination of literature has been conducted to provide a solid foundation for the project. It is a continual process, with a wide selection of resources available. Interaction with my supervisors, peers, practitioners in the field and friends always result in the suggestion of new resources, theories and creative work to explore. Below are some of the sources currently in focus at this stage in the research process.
The only female member of the Berlin Dada group (that included John Heartfield, who rejected her participation), Höch was a photomontage artist who utilised content originating from mass media publications, to highlight her objection to a male dominated society (Somerville 2014). She is known for mocking public male figures by placing their head onto female bodies, a concept that is mirrored in my own work in relation to political figures on the Gold Coast (see Tom Tate series). She differed from other members of the Dada group by focusing on her reality of the redefinition of social roles of women of the time (the rhetoric and the reality), and maintained use of fine art principles in conjunction with photomontage experimentation.
Her work investigated the difference between the new and old perceptions of women within society, criticising mass media representations of women. Like Carrie Moyer, Höch reached her audience by making the unknown familiar and the familiar unknown, combining images to create a new reality (also supported by her commercial design employment) and like Peter Kennard, aimed to recontextualise images to create new layers of meaning. Her work 'Der Vater' focuses on gender roles within family and society while depicting images that seem joyful and contradictory.
As an outsider within her artistic practice and political values, Höch is an exemplar of how the emotion and motivation born from being silenced or hidden can be used to produce powerful images.
One of the most valuable statements I have found to date comes from John Heartfield; 'what is important is not so much the medium itself as who is deploying it'. (Gough 2009) As a member of the October (Oktabr) Association, his work involved processes which allowed for mass production or simple technological reproduction. These processes link closely with my own creative practice; graphic design, cut and paste, hand colouring, photomontage, photography and combinations of these methods. Heartfield spoke of two variations within the development of photomontage; the first having origins in American advertising and the second belonging to Soviet political-agitation photomontage. Both had individual methods, principles and laws of construction. It can be argued that the photomontage was one of the primary agitational weapons of Soviet propaganda (Gough 2009).
Although controversial, Heartfield believed that the hybrid medium of photomontage had superior agitational efficacy when compared to realist (painting) outcomes. The impact of the photomontage was also said to represent the dynamics of life (not fixed or frozen like a standard photograph) and that its manipulation with text, colour and graphic elements produce an image of reality (Gough 2009). The photomontage agitates by creating disjunctions with composition and scale "to tell a story, to agitate, to explain" (Gough 2009; 138).
Heartfield's practice involved forcing a standard photograph into something else, revealing the lie it had been used to tell or to create a new meaning. He altered the meaning of the original images by embedding them into a new and uncomfortable relationship with other elements. He celebrated photomontage and technological reproduction as the medium for revolutionary artists. He identified the fear some had over the unfamiliar technology and the pressure to achieve technical accuracy, but urged artists to come to terms with the production methods and use them as a weapon, a way of mass communicating his message (Gough 2009). In regards to technical skill, Heartfield confessed to being a poor photographer, preferring to pay professional photographers, cut images from magazines and photo agencies.
In regards to my own visual practice, I utilise disjointed elements (often appropriated from existing media as evident in Vagina Octopus) to disrupt the viewer's gaze and steal an extra few moments of consideration. The elements in my work are often ready made (stock photography or vector images), or produced by other designers for commercial output. I digitally 'cut and paste' elements, using them in a way that was not originally intended to comment and reflect on aspects of our society. This process allows me to comment on both the mechanics of graphic communication and its interaction with the viewer. My technical ability in regards to commercial graphic design is being utilised as a weapon against itself.
In regards to both its visual style and intended meaning, Heartfield's 'Adolf, The Superman, Swallows Gold and Spouts Tin', reflects the goals of my own practice. Through photomontage, he reached a large audience and communicated a message of political contradictions and ethical standards. Within my teaching practice, this is often an example I present to students to showcase the power of graphic design to communicate and provoke change. This photomontage depicts Adolf Hitler with his chest transparent and full of gold. He is suggesting to the audience that Hitler wasted the money of those who financially supported the war effort. Originally indented as a magazine cover, the image was reproduced as a poster and displayed throughout the city. The works of Heartfield will be further explored during this project, as he provides a powerful and historical context to design and protest.
Through use of art and design, Kennard aims to instigate debate about politics, society and global themes. Like Heartfield, he utilizes photomontage to create more 'truth' than an individual photo. He says of his own practice "…pummel these pictures into revealing invisible connections, disconnecting them from direct representation into statement and argument" (Kennard, 2001). He unapologetically uses religious icons to disrupt the complacency of the audience, resulting in dialogue and exploration. His work reflects a strong emotional reaction to events within our global community, and disrupts the idea that art and profit are inseparable. Kennard aims to connect with the real world rather than produce art for the market. He describes it as combining creativity with protest (Kennard 2008), which is a statement that directly links to my own motivations and research project.
Photoshop is Kennard's weapon of choice for manipulating images of Tony Blair into a Middle East bombing scene, making the political figure appear as though he is taking a 'selfie'. He seeks to produce art that reflects what's happening in the world right now. His life is funded by teaching design, providing him with the financial means to create non-commercial protest art. This mirrors my own employment situation and provides an exemplar of how the two 'life objectives' can work in harmony.
The well known (and largely unidentified) graffiti artist and activist is an exemplar of agitational street art and design. His work subverts the status of public spaces and art galleries and simultaneously occupies the space between cultural criticism, art and vandalism. His work has been described as 'high street irony', utilising both words and images to create meaning, a method that frequents my own practice. He uses comedy, intertwined with heavy themes (racism, poverty, consumerism, political authority and terrorism), resulting in urban interventions that inspire and work towards the subversion of well known clichés. 'Toxic Mary' (2004) and 'Christ with Shopping Bags' (2005) demonstrate how Banksy uses a type of humour to engage the audience, while still allowing views to make meaning within the context of a political idea or message.
Critics of Banksy highlight the connection between his attack on mainstream ideology, his production of retail merchandise and relationship with stakeholders. He has created the image of a subversive street artist who questions mainstream assumptions, while making significant profit from the sale of his art, retail products and commercial collaborations (Branscome 2011). Regardless of these corporate/street relationships, Banksy represents the use of street art (or design) to critique culture, drawing attention to social issues while understanding his target audience. Like Adbusters, those who critique the practice of Banksy provide me with the framework to look critically at my own work with the view to avoid hypocrisy within my practice.
A painter and graphic designer who also explores agitational propaganda within the context of street art, lesbian culture and New York. She states that the best way to connect with an audience is by using the familiar to arrive at the unknown (2007). Her work as a graphic designer not only funds her art practice, it significantly impacts her public art outcomes. She uses commercial strategies to create a point of difference, cutting through the existing visual noise of the city. Moyers' reflection of her own commercial practice has a significant link to this project and also relates to the practice of Barbara Kruger.
She comments on varying degrees of success in regards to the success of her work, its ability to engage the audience or contribute to any positive social change. Moyer questions 'what painting is good for', as a mechanism for advocating for queer equality and representation (Moyer 2007), while appropriating the means of production and distribution from her graphic design job. The outcome resulted in a 'counter-narrative' to the outcome of her paid (graphic design) work, exposing the absence of lesbian visual representation in mainstream culture and its implication that an individual is not visible within society unless they belong to the niche market. The image 'Shared Women' represents the culture of both collaboration and exploitation and related themes that need to be shared with an audience wider than the 'alternative community'.
In conjunction with members of 'Dyke Action Machine', she interrupted mainstream visual culture by inserting lesbian images into the mainstream, through poster installations (a form of culture jamming) and reclaiming public space from commercial dominance. Moyer refers to this as 'speaking to the Citizen as well as the Consumer'.
With a professional background in graphic design, Barbara Kruger influences my design practice in both her professional path and movement towards art and photomontage for the purpose of questioning ideological control by political and economic power. Her outcomes and processes resist neat classification and the content of her work consists of aggressive, argumentative or provocative images. She sourced images from magazines, newspapers, and instruction manuals, combining them with text to create new meaning. She utilised various methods to publish her work in both formal and informal public spaces; galleries, train stations, billboards, magazines, posters and t-shirts. This created outcomes and messages that were 'circulating endlessly and relentlessly throughout society.' Her work is a 'powerful presence that interrupts instant legibility and undermines immediate subjectification while simultaneously invites us to decode the message' (de Oliveira 2009).
She uses neutral spaces to activate tensions associated with society, beyond the reach of the 'art crowd' and into non-academic spaces. The use of neutral or 'low brow' installation spaces is an element this project will explore. Kruger aims to expose the need for openness to others, expose instability, failure and inadequacy (de Oliveira 2009). One of her main objectives is to expose the violence of stereotypes and interrupt the ambivalence of viewers. Her work seduces and intercepts, mimics and disrupts. Importantly, Kruger states that her work is not designed to be a threat in itself, but it is designed to signify threat with instability and a lack of fit.
She uses her understanding of design principles to accelerate the transference of the message to the viewer and to attract attention. The ideas and methods of both Heartfield and Kruger relate to my research in numerous ways. Their method of image construction is based on both traditional and technological graphic design practice, for the purpose of (mostly) non-commercial outputs. This relationship may appear to be a basic connection, however it is important to my practice in that it showcases a contrast professional design and the view that graphic design practice is largely superficial and commercial (or requiring a 'client/designer relationship).
Although Heartfield's and Kruger's specific skill sets are based in media, their outputs focus on anti-media messages, creating a visual that represents an alternative to the messages presented to society by those in control.
Her recent work on the cover of W Magazine (featuring Kim Kardashian) is inspirational in that it blurs the line between commercial culture and protest. Her transparent use of graphic design in conjunction with a print publication is in direct contrast to a message that is not really clear to her audience, confusing social commentators. The ambiguity of the text and image are what cause the disruption, highlighting the void surrounding the usual celebrity image and suggesting space for an alternative to the mainstream. Slogans in her older work include:
These are combined with pictures that create a new layer of meaning; these works are an example of the success of graphic design with counter culture themes.
An exploration into the capacity of protest design can have profound implications within a variety of contexts. Practitioners in the field (both from the past and today) have produced work that creates a solid foundation for this research and further application of design for agitational protest. The skills and resources from 'graphic design' as a profession in conjunction with montage and mixed media creative practices provide numerous avenues to work against the stakeholders of commercially orientated mass media. In addition, this creative practice will explore the power behind mass media and the process of control relating to communication in society.
Increasing our critical awareness of the powers of media allow us to continue to understand it, and keep up with the same changes that perpetuate technological growth and change. Generating images that represent what is usually hidden from commercial media provides a record and representation of the alternative.
Research publications & conference papers/presentations.
- 2017 Book Chapter. Engineering Teams: Supporting Diversity in Engineering Education. Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Engineering Majors and Careers. Co Authored with Dr Jen Loy and Simon Howell
- 2017 Book Chapter. Engaged Learning for Diverse Student Cohorts. Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Engineering Majors and Careers. Co Authored with Dr Jen Loy.
- 2016 Conference Paper/Presentation. CreateWorld: The Creativity of Things
- 2015 International Exhibition. QCA Exhibition at Crane Arts Philadelphia. Curator: Cassandra Lehman-Shultz


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