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A diagnosis of breast cancer often leads to a treatment plan that includes surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation and frequent check-ups. As the treatment takes place over time, a routine develops. But what happens — and what should a patient do —– once the treatment ends?
"There is the common misconception by someone who hasn't dealt with breast cancer that you go out to the parking lot and pop open the champagne," says Lisa Graziano, manager of the Breast Cancer Survivorship Patient Navigator Program at the Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center at Hartford Hospital. "It should be a happy day, but now there's anxiety —– I still don't feel well, I still have scars, I'm depressed, I'm afraid that the cancer will come back."
For some, the future can seem bewildering and, in some cases, frightening. "When people go through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, they come to the center every day and attach themselves to a team," says Dr. Andrew Salner, director of the Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center at Hartford Hospital. "Then, we pull the rug out and say, 'See you in six months.'"
"Those people have needs," Salner says of the two-thirds of patients who survive cancer. The hospital has found a way to help patients deal with life after treatment for breast cancer. In 2008, the care center received a grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation to develop a Patient Survivorship program. Through the program, breast cancer patients who were treated at Hartford Hospital can get a coordinated, personalized after-care plan. Participation in the program is voluntary, but every breast cancer patient is invited to meet with a nurse practitioner and receive a treatment summary and a wellness plan.
"There is no magic pill to prevent cancer, but we can teach [patients] some really good strategies" for good health, Graziano says. Among the important lifestyle habits are a healthy diet (see related story, page ???), 150 minutes of exercise a week, weight management and stress reduction. "These are things that are proven," she says. "We don't just say, 'Go and eat some vegetables.' We will hook [the patient] up with a nutritionist, or a smoking cessation counselor.
We have a whole network of people" such as financial counselors and social workers.
Lucinda Von Duntz of Storrs, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in May, 2011, and took advantage of the survivorship resources at Hartford Hospital, can attest to the benefit of diet and exercise. Through the program, she found out about the LIVESTRONG at the YMCA, a 12-week exercise course for cancer survivors. Von Duntz and her husband, who had also undergone cancer treatment, joined the program.
"I'm not a joiner type of person, but we needed to get exercise," she says. "These people were wonderful. It made all the difference in my life. It gave me an outlet to meet people who were in different stages of their treatment. It gave us all a place to be ourselves and to be positive. Everyone encouraged one another."
Von Duntz found that going to a support group, even while she was still in the hospital, was beneficial. "It gives you a place to get some perspective," she says. She also took advantage of the one-on-one appointment through the survivorship program to go over her treatment summary and wellness plan. "You're confused, and you don't know why [the cancer] happened," says Von Duntz, who is a nurse. "[The health professionals] have so much knowledge to pass on. Why not take advantage of it and learn everything you can?"
Moving Forward
For any breast cancer patient, certain lifestyle changes and programs can help a person move forward. Support groups are a place where the participants share common experiences and feelings. Physical activity, eating right, losing – or gaining – weight, if necessary, and stress reduction can improve both a person's physical health and outlook, Salner says.
The kind of treatment summary that the survivorship program supplies contains valuable information. "The treatment summary is big help to the patient; it empowers them," Salner says. "It lets them know what was been done and can offer some strategies for how to stay well, including exercise, proper body weight, diet, what kind of screening they need for monitoring their disease, and what screenings they may need for other types of cancer. The primary care doctors really appreciate [the summary] because they feel they receive bits and pieces [of information]. Here, they receive it in one fell swoop."
By 2015, the National Institutes of Health will require all accredited cancer centers in the United States to offer survivorship programs, Graziano says. With funding from the state, Hartford Hospital will lead a mentorship program for hospitals in Connecticut that are setting up such programs.
While the survivorship program at Hartford serves patients who received treatment at the hospital, Salner suggests that a patient ask her oncologist or team of doctors to put together a treatment summary. The team of surgeons and oncologists treating a patient also are likely to recommend strategies to live by once treatment ends. Salner also offers these tips:
>>Take advantage of support groups and seminars sponsored by area hospitals. Knowledge is power, and "support is such an important part of getting through this whole thing."
>>If you find new lumps or have a persistent pain or other health problem, see your doctor. Schedule regular visits with your primary care physicians after treatment. Most patients continue to see their oncologist intermittently for several years.
>>Exercise a minimum of five days a week, and aim for a goal of 150 minutes of aerobic exercise a week. "That can reduce the reoccurrence of cancer and the risk of new tumors," he says.
>>Strive for optimum body weight. "There is very good evidence that obese women have a greater risk of reoccurrence of breast cancer," Salner says.
>>Quit smoking.


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Tossed toilet bowl kills Brazilian soccer fan in World Cup host city
SAO PAULO – A Brazilian soccer fan was killed when he was struck in the head by a toilet bowl hurled from stadium stands as supporters of rival clubs clashed in the northeastern World Cup host city of Recife, police said Saturday.
Also this weekend, authorities detained more than 40 people because of fan fighting outside the stadium that will host World Cup matches in the nearby city of Natal.
A police officer in Recife said the death occurred on Friday at Arruda Stadium after a second-division match between Santa Cruz and visiting Parana. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
The officer said fans ripped three toilet bowls out of stadium restrooms and threw them from the stands. He said one hit and instantly killed a fan he identified as Paulo Ricardo Gomes da Silva.
The incident comes six weeks before Brazil hosts the World Cup. Five tournament games will be played in Recife, although none at the Arruda. The city will host World Cup matches at the new Arena Pernambuco.
The Brazilian soccer federation said it was "preventively closing" the Arruda until authorities finish their investigation and a sports tribunal makes a ruling on the case.
In Natal, fans clashed before a match between rival clubs ABC and America in a test event at the Arena das Dunas on Saturday.
Police officer Roberto Andrade told the UOL website that the fighting began when a small group of America fans crossed into the path of ABC supporters on their way to the stadium. The ABC fans went after the rival group, throwing rocks and pieces of wood at them until officials intervened.
Andrade said fans from both clubs were detained and taken to a police station for interrogation.
The match marked the only official test event at the Arena das Dunas before the World Cup in June. The stadium will host four tournament matches.
Violence involving fan groups are common in Brazil, and the number of incidents escalated last year.
FIFA and Brazilian authorities have downplayed concerns about violence inside stadiums during the World Cup, saying security will be heightened and such incidents were related mostly to club matches.


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I'd fallen in love with the Spiral Shawl in Meg Swansen's "A Gathering of Lace" the moment I laid eyes on it. When I needed a travel project last summer, it seemed like just the thing.
Malabrigo Sock is one of my favourite lace yarns: the colours are gorgeous, it's soft and drapey, and it's smooth and easy to work with. (Less keen on it for socks, I'll be honest: the softness and drapey-ness that make it so good for lace make it too fragile for socks.)
Bets were taken on which I'd lose first: my eyesight, or my sanity. I had nearly 900 yards of sock yarn in black, and I was proposing an enormous lace project.
I worked on the shawl on and off throughout the fall, as travel permitted: it went with me to the UK, I took it to Rhinebeck, and it spent a fair bit of time travelling around Toronto with me.
I tried not to set myself a deadline, because I knew it was going to take a while... as it got bigger, the rounds got longer, and by the time October arrived, each round was taking me about 15 minutes. And that was only about half the size I wanted.
But I kept working on it, between other projects. Trying not to count, trying not to set expectations about when it would be done.
And then one day, it was done... about one and three quarter skeins of the yarn, and a huge crumpled mess!
Well, not that huge, actually. I'd done some math (as is my way), and I knew that I'd had to stop where I did to make the edging pattern work out evenly... but unblocked it was about 36 inches in diameter.
And it went from a crumpled 36 inches in diameter to 54 inches! And it's fabulous.
Keen eyes will notice that it's not perfectly round - I had a heck of a time with that, so one side is a bit wonky. Even keener eyes will notice a few dark spots - these are where I made corrections to mistakes - specifically picking up extra stitches where I missed yarnovers, and so the fabric looks darker because I've got an area of tighter stitches.
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During its financial briefing, Nintendo revealed that it does not plan to host a big press event at the upcoming E3 Expo scheduled to open its doors on June 11th in Los Angeles.
Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata noted that the company decided not to go with the big event since there will not be any new hardware announcement and that it will rather host a few smaller events specifically focused on its software lineup for the US market. Different people demand different types of information, so Nintendo might actualy host two events, one for distributors and another one for the media.
While E3 Expo will be crowded by keynotes from Sony with its Playstation 4 and Microsoft with the next-generation Xbox, Nintendo decided not to go with a big keynote.
You can check out more at Nintendo's site here. (via Engadget.com)


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Cycling in Winter Tips
Be Prepared
· Check your brakes are working properly as they will be less efficient during wet weather.
· Ensure moving parts are always well lubricated to keep them working and to help keep out water.
· Clean your bike regularly during winter to prevent any corrosion as a result of the salt used in road grit.
· Mudguards will help keep you and your bike clean during wet weather.
· During wet or icy conditions allow yourself extra time for your journey and adjust your speed to the conditions.
· Remember the sun will be much lower during the winter months and glare will be especially bad when the road surface is wet. Having a pair of sunglasses to hand or a peaked hat will help keep out some of the glare.
Be Seen
· Make sure everyone can other people can see you by using good a good quality front (white) and rear (red) light, these are required by law together with a rear reflector and pedal reflectors.
· Think about the times you may be travelling. You can be caught out during winter by setting off somewhere in the daylight and not realising it will be dark when you return.
· Check your lights are working properly before you set off and try to keep spare batteries to hand.
· Be aware that many off-road paths are not lit during the hours of darkness so you may need to find an alternative route using the road network or invest in a set of lights designed specifically for off-road riding in unlit areas.
· Wear light coloured, contrasting or high-visibility reflective clothing.
Keep Warm
· A hat and a pair of gloves, together with a good set of waterproofs are essentials during the colder / wetter months.
· Remember wearing several layers of clothing whilst out on your bike will help you to keep warm. You can always take some of them off when you get to your destination.
Ride Safely
· If you don't feel safe at any time whilst out riding, always pull over to the left of the road and stop until you are happy to proceed.
· During late Autumn and early Winter take care when riding through fallen leaves, especially if they are wet, as they can be slippery. Avoid sharp turns and take care on bends and slopes.
· If you are having problems seeing because of a low sun during Winter remember that other road users and drivers will be too – so take extra care when you are turning across other traffic. If you don't feel safe, pull to the left of the road and stop until you are happy to proceed.
· Remember visibility for drivers is reduced when it's dark so take particular care when turning right, if you don't feel safe, again pull over and wait.
· In wet conditions avoid riding through puddles if possible as they may conceal potholes or other hazards.
· Always avoid cycling through floodwaters.
· Beware of the possibility of black ice during cold conditions, what may appear to be a puddle may have ice underneath.
· Take care on ridged tactile paving when it is wet or icy as the ridges can become very slippery. Always try to ride in the same direction as the ridges to avoid losing control of your front wheel.
· Take care when riding over manhole covers, cattle grids or any other metalwork on your journey as these will tend to be more slippery than the road surface.
· Take extra care on slopes, bends and in sheltered areas away from the sun where ice may not be as visible or the path surface may be much colder than other parts of your route.
· In icy / snowy conditions, try to steer in as straight a line as possible and avoid any sharp turns. Always be ready to put your feet down if your bike does start to skid.
· In icy / snowy conditions ease off on the use of your brakes where possible, particularly your front brake. Where possible slow your speed and use an easier gear to give you more reaction time rather than have to resort to braking.
· If you choose to ride after snow has fallen you may need to use main roads as these will be the most likely to be clear of snow, you'll also need to ride further out from the kerb than normal to avoid the snow and slush which will have been thrown there by passing vehicles.
· Try to avoid riding on compacted snow as it will make controlling your bike very difficult. Fresh, undisturbed snow can be easier to ride on provided it is less than a few inches deep.
· Remember other cycle path users may find it less easy to hear you approaching if they are wearing hats or have their hoods up so make sure you give them plenty of warning by ringing a bell or by using your voice.
Walking in Winter Tips
· Choose shoes with textured soles to help with grip.
· When walking, keep your hands out of your pockets so you are prepared in case of slipping.
· Take it slowly and allow time to get from your home to your destination.
· Be aware when you are walking and keep an eye on the pavement, some areas can remain icy while others are not.
· Be visible and stick to set footpaths and routes.
From the i-Travel website: http://www.itravelyork.info/cycling/road-safety/winter-cycling-tips/


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|Pub: Bethesda Softworks
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|Release: Oct. 19, 2010
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by Steve Haske
If theres one thing Fallout 3 is most often remembered for, its arguably the ability to roam as you would, taking missions if you felt like it, and screwing others up when it suited you. The amount of messing around you could do just wandering around the Capitol wasteland was astounding, and left to their own devices, players could spend hours exploring, looting, pillaging, or engaging with passerby and random NPCs before ever embarking on the games primary quest (god knows I did).
Obsidian has taken this to heart in New Vegas it seems, at least if my hands-on time with the game at this years PAX is anything to go by. Unlike most game demos that are either guided or shoehorned into only a small section, my time with New Vegas was limited only by my characters level and the amount of time I was able to play it. Since the demo reps dropped me into the middle of the game (from what I am assuming isnt too far into New Vegas core progression), my impressions are going to be different from what any other journalist may have experienced. Basically, after I asked if there was a progression or something I needed to take, I was told I was on my own and just to roam around take in the game as I saw fit. So, with little else to go on, thats what I did.
Before I get into my personal experiences within the world of New Vegas, lets go over what changes Obsidians made to the Bethesdas core Fallout 3 design. At first glance, there dont appear to be any; New Vegas looks, more or less, like it could be a western-themed expansion to the last Fallout game. Despite the visual similarities (the desert is actually much more colorful than the bombed-out Capitol wasteland, which was pretty much irradiated to the point of utter erosion everywhere), New Vegas actually has some new tricks up its sleeve to keep it from being more than just Fallout Heads West. For starters, theres a real story here; not that anyone probably played Fallout 3 for its basic narrative, but its a nice touch that Obsidian is actually putting some thought into the fiction of New Vegas. Not that I saw any of this, but at the beginning, your character is essentially left for dead, and because of it, you have an actual objective when the game begins. V.A.T.S., the specific-body-part targeting system introduced in Fallout 3, has also been given an overhaul, which makes it both easier to use as well as more versatile; now you can target enemies with melee weapons, with expectedly gory results. The morality system has also received a facelift after the somewhat binary feel in the last game. Obsidian is promising there will be a lot more gray area with decisions now, and your actions may not have such clear-cut or one-sided consequences. There are also traits you can choose to take (or not take), which can affect the game, and who or what you encounter in different ways. Finally, weapons can now be tricked out with new parts and ammo types (likely a not-so-subtle nod to Borderlands) to achieve even more effective and deadly weapon combinations.
While I didnt get to see much of this for myself during my relatively brief time with New Vegas, I can tell you that fans of Fallout 3 will feel right at home. Everything from the wasteland itself to the NPCs to the look and feel of your Pipboy is largely the same as in last Fallout entry, making gameplay easy to pick up and play if youve spent anytime roaming around the Capitol wasteland. My time in New Vegas was then spent talking to random folk about their various problems, the most notable being an interaction with an NPC who was looking for a shady character that had apparently involved himself in some disreputable behavior in the town of Goodsprings. I was able to find him hiding out in a seemingly abandoned gas station. Although the man was at first suspicious of my motives in finding him, he quickly dropped his guard.
After a few curt words (I wasnt too nice in my demo time), I decided rather than helping out this sap, I would just drop him with one of the guns that came preloaded with my save. Combat is as satisfying as it was in Fallout 3, if not more so, and the man went down without too much trouble, although I did have to take cover behind an old shelf briefly. After gunning him down, I went to see the man who was looking for this shady character and told him Id taken care of the problem. Although the man was appreciate of this, I decided to gun him down, as well, running a good distance off and readying my trusty grenade launcher with V.A.T.S. After watching the appropriately violent action, I decided to head off towards New Vegas (at least Im pretty sure it was towards it) to see what else I could see. This yielded a few encounters with roaming geckos, which are harder to kill than you might think, at least with the low-grade rifle I had, as well as a couple of scuffles with desert bandits, who, much like in Fallout 3, will try to kill you indiscriminately. I was reaching the outskirts of another city when my time ended, leaving much to still uncover in the final game.
Though a brief demo cant possibly do a game as massive as New Vegas justice, I went away feeling impressed with what Obsidian had done with the series. It feels like Fallout 3, but improved in all the ways it should be, and with a wicked Mad Max-look that was missing from the very East coast Fallout 3. What may be the coolest thing about New Vegas, though, despite the fact its not really a Western, is you can die of dehydration in the desert. Not even Red Dead Redemption had that feature, which was sorely missed in such an otherwise jaw-dropping rendition of the West. In any case, well find out what other secrets New Vegas holds when it hits October 19.
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I had less time for reading this year than I would have liked. When I selected Drago Jancar's haunting and beautiful The Tree with No Name for Slate's Overlooked Books, it was still with the knowledge that I'd read a lot less fiction than I'd wanted. And Antal Szerb's excellent, though modest Journey by Moonlight is a bit of a cheat, since I read it (and wrote about it) when Pushkin Press published it all the way back in 2003, rather than when NYRB Classics reissued it this year. It's stayed with me, though, so I can pick it with more certainty than some of the other choices.
Seeing Richard McGuire's long-gestating Here finally be published bookends my reading the original 8 page version in RAW when I was 13, when it changed my life. I wrote about the original Here in 2003 too.
And Alonso de Ercilla's 1569 Spanish-Chilean epic The Araucaniad has been an alluring title to me since I read about it in David Quint's fascinating Epic and Empire in connection with Lucan's Civil War. Quint described The Araucaniad as one of those rare epics that takes the side of the losers, and it's one of those artifacts, like Lucan's Civil War, that doesn't fit neatly with any common sense of literary history. Its relevance stems from its own grim variation on a theme that is at the heart of so many great epics and books: in Quint's words, "that those who have been victimized losers in history somehow have the right to become victimizing winners, in turn." It deserves a new translation.
As with last year, I haven't read the entirety of some of the nonfiction selections: Chris Wickham is an excellent historian but I'm not going to deny that some of his Annales-ish wonkery had my eyes skimming. And while the biology and physics books are pretty interesting, I can't say with much certainty that they're accurate.
If anyone's curious as to why some book or other made the list, feel free to ask in the comments. Thanks again for reading my work here or elsewhere.
(As always, I do not make any money from these links; they're just the easiest way to get the thumbnails.)
The Araucaniad
Alonso de Ercilla Y Zuniga (Vanderbilt University Press)
Contemporaries and Snobs (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
Laura Riding (University Alabama Press)
The Tree with No Name (Slovenian Literature Series)
Drago Jancar (Dalkey Archive Press)
I Am China: A Novel
Xiaolu Guo (Anchor)
All Our Names
Dinaw Mengestu (Vintage)
Foreign Gods, Inc.
Okey Ndibe (Soho Press)
A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly (Contra Mundum Press)
Prae, Vol. 1
Miklos Szentkuthy (Contra Mundum Press)
The Time Regulation Institute
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (Penguin Classics)
The Alp (Swiss Literature Series)
Arno Camenisch (Dalkey Archive Press)
The Stories of Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam (Europa Editions)
Harlequin's Millions: A Novel
Bohumil Hrabal (Archipelago)
Journey by Moonlight (NYRB Classics)
Antal Szerb (NYRB Classics)
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories (NYRB Classics)
William H. Gass (NYRB Classics)
Midnight in the Century (NYRB Classics)
Victor Serge (NYRB Classics)
Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
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Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall "Wikipedia Art" project, which was deleted by Wikipedia users soon after it went live, was intended as an artistic intervention in the open yet closely regulated space of Wikipedia. Considering the context, it is unsurprising that the project was so short-lived. In the artist's statement, Kildall and Stern claim that the work "MUST BE written about extensively both on- and off-line" and, indeed, it did generate ample debate. Check the Rhizome Discussion board for a conversation related to the function of truth on Wikipedia, as well as the discussion section for the Wikipedia Art entry itself, where users consider the place of an art project of this type within Wikipedia.
This project is being mostly panned over at Paddy Johnson's blog:
(cross posted to the other discussion at http://www.rhizome.org/discuss/view/41713)
Yeah, I saw that blog the other day. I think that some art would be eye catching but I can see why the idea is not embraced by everyone. You never know what you're going to get.
Angela from Aberdeen
Well hey, I guess some people don't appreciate the fine arts! /sarcasm
To be honest, I seriously think Wikipedia is one big, piece of fail. But that's just me..
- Julie, consultant for Free Credit Reports
yeah, not a big fan of wiki myself
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of wikipedia either, but think the art should be allowed. - magic jack review
This comment of Patrick Lichty's in the Wikipedia discussion section is completely biased advocacy masquerading as scholarship (TS is Lichy):
"This sort of artwork already has strong precedents in history - the Surrealists' Exquisite Corpse, Debord's idea of Situationist detournement, and although I am not part of this collective, I fully intend to include it as part of my chapter for the upcoming book of distributed writing commissioned by Turbulence.org, and it will be mentioned as part of my talk on new art practices at a guest lecture at Denver University on 2/16/09, and I have already written on it on my critical blog in London. Therefore, the reference is to the emergence of the concept, which now exists outside Wikipedia, and is paradoxical but not solipsistic. I think that the person suggesting the idea of letting the idea grow is well-reasoned, and a time for review (say, 90 days) could be set for re-evaluation.--220.127.116.11 (talk) 22:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)--TS"
In other words, "Just wait three months, gang, and I will have ginned up enough mock outrage and pseudo-discourse to make this art its own subject!
I noticed Patrick Lichty's advocacy of the project and assumed that he was
a) paid for his essay (which was posted on Rhiz right?); and
b) a co-conspirator either directly or indirectly (i.e. he decided on his own to co-conspire)
In other words, his pseudo-discourse and ginning of mock outrage is all part of the larger project and that Stern, Lichty, et al are playing the structures and systems of Wikipedia and the academic art world off each other. It's all one big performance.
Being that Lichty was part of RTmark and Stern understands Wikipedia better than most artists (he's not naive enough to think Wikipedia Art would have lasted very long), it makes sense to me.
Hi Tom,
In a sense you're right, but isn't that the way all canonicity works? How is "non-intellectual" Brooklyn underground gallery canonicity qualitatively superior to "intellectual" academic press canonicity? How is a consensus at artfagcity qualitatively superior to a consensus at rhizome (or at iDC or nettime, where dialogue is also happening about this piece)? Warning: You will have to engage your intellect to properly consider these questions.
Whether or not this piece intended to raise these issues regarding the inherent subjectivity of canonicity and authority, it has effectively raised them. The wikipedians are right that the piece doesn't belong in their encyclopedia, but they are deluded into thinking that they are achieving some sort of clinical objectivity via rational consensus (or that any such objectivity could ever be achieved).
de Certeau has this to say about belief -- it used to be that people believed in something because they had subjectively evaluated the quality of that something and decided to believe in it. Spectacular media changed all that. Now people believe in something because a critical mass of other people have been convinced into believing that same something.
Here's how it works in the "objective" news media. CNN can't do a gossip story on Britney Spears, because such a story is not newsworthy. But The National Inquirer can do a gossip story on Britney Spears, the Inquirer story can generate public interest, and CNN can then do a story on the media buzz generated by the Inquirer story. The CNN story is essentially still just a gossip story on Britney Spears, but it has been legitimized because it is no longer a story that CNN itself believes to be newsworthy; it is now a story on what CNN believes to be a critical mass of other people who believe the story to be newsworthy.
The same phenomenon is unfolding now regarding the "discussion" surrounding this piece. If the piece itself is not newsworthy, the discussion surrounding the piece will soon become newsworthy. Whether or not the piece or the discussion every becomes "artworthy" is something that I think Paddy is right to question. Is the immediate removal and subsequent viral discussion of this piece something that the artists intended and implanted into the piece as a self-undermining, self-perpetuating aspect of the piece itself? If so, it's kind of ingenious. Just a personal guess, but I don't think they meant it to play out this way (but of course it hasn't fully played out yet, so who knows). The amount of time spent on the logo design seems to indicate that they at least hoped for some kind of more permanent home within the wikipedia structure, and that the dialogue they hoped to engender would occur there on wikipedia itself. Instead, a nugget of dialogue happened there, and the rest is happening now outside of wikipedia on the rest of the interweb (or on the still self-referential and very insular "net art" interweb). We are "policing" the "art-worthiness" of the piece here at rhizome the same way the wikipedians were policing its "encyclopedia-worthiness" there at wikipedia.
Paddy's criteria for the piece's failure is curiously similar to Karl Popper's critique of logical positivism ( cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism#Karl_Popper.27s_objection [wikipedia reference pun intended]). Paddy implies that the piece has to somehow be falsifiable. There has to be some criteria by which to assess its failure. Is the piece purposefully attempting to get kicked off wikipedia and be spread as a meme (in other words, is the subsequent discussion about the piece the actual goal of the piece)? Fine, but then that intention should somehow be implicit in the text of the original wikipedia post, in the title of the piece, in the logo, etc. Otherwise, the piece fails. It's like having to call your shots in pool. If you accidentally sink a ball in the side pocket when you were aiming for the corner pocket, then you didn't really sink it.
Personally, that seems a strange criteria to apply to internet art, where unexpected propogations are par for the course. Whether or not the piece was "intellectual" enough to have purposefully engendered all this "intellectual" dialogue, it may at least prove conceptually porous enough to have absorbed it. At least the subsequent dialogue is about language and the consensual mechanisms of truth (grrr), and not about white cube gallery culture (yawn).
Not that the artist's intention need have anything to do with how a critic interprets the piece, but here is Scott Kildall's stated intention for the piece:
"The results of this project/intervention (or what I would now prefer to call an "experiment") is that we have discovered certain facets about the Wikipedia community. The aims of the endeavor were not to posit anti-Wikipedia stance, but rather to elicit a response in the form of a conceptual intervention. The fundamental tension between democracy and authority is a kernel of contradiction that was one key idea behind the project.
Performative art on Wikipedia itself was quickly deemed inappropriate by the gatekeepers. Nathaniel and myself were hoping, but not expecting, that we would be able to succeed through its very nature of self-referentiality: that it was an artistic project that could be sanctioned by Wikipedia in that it pointed out a discrepancy in the production of knowledge.
Apparently not so. We're still left with the issues that something on Wikipedia which is stated becomes "true," essentially (re)writing histories. This also manifests itself in the negative space of Wikipedia: what is not included is also not worthy. The fabric has many holes: Joseph Grigely, for example, doesn't have a Wikipedia entry but Marlith, a type V demon race in Dungeons and Dragons does ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilith )
The primary revelation that sticks with me is the culture of the gatekeepers. What I saw was a distinctly non-academic culture with a tilt towards a very young (16-25) demographic. Since Wikipedia is *the* source of encyclopedic knowledge, this could very well explain an over-emphasis on Wikipedia covering popular culture. Even with the success of the Wikipedia project, which I applaud in many ways, the mechanisms for inclusion and exclusion seem like they could use some reworking."
- Scott Kindall (posted on 2/17/09 to The List of the Institute for Distributed Creativity)
The wikipedians are right that the piece doesn't belong in their encyclopedia, but they are deluded into thinking that they are achieving some sort of clinical objectivity via rational consensus (or that any such objectivity could ever be achieved).
Here's a thought: Maybe plenty of Wikipedians have already taken college survey courses about Derrida et al.
Maybe they aren't deluded about the possibility of "clinical objectivity via rational consensus", and don't actually need to be enlightened by brilliant avant-garde artistic interventions that will shatter their small-minded worldviews.
Maybe they recognize the limitations and provisionality of their project, but nonetheless prefer construction to deconstruction.
Just a thought.
Hi MDC,
Point well taken, although de Certeau hardly fits into the category of "Derrida et al" (you're stereotyping your philosophers like I'm stereotyping my Wikipedia editors).
Not that the artists of this piece are necessarily referencing either philosopher. I agree that if the project was meant to preach to wikipedia editors, then it comes across as preachy.
I don't speak for the artists, or Patrick Lichty, or "Rhizome," or academics, or the avant-garde, or "new media artists," or people who are almost 40, or people who have never lived in New York City. In this particular instance, I am personally interested in the way that online consensus (particularly at Rhizome, nettime, iDC, and artfagcity) is being used to evaluate the success or failure of a piece intended (however hamfistedly) to explore the topic of online concensus.
Well, there is an assumption here that could generate more interesting discussion.
Wikipedia exists as an online collaborative encyclopedia. But why do encyclopedias exist? If knowledge is fixed, and the wiki-police seem to think they recognize valid documentation of the world around us better than the collective invlolved in this project then we have a problem. It becomes the judgment of a coterie that determines *truth* or at least *what is it?*. If this project challenges the politcal hierarchy of an encyclopedia with a ^sparkling^ reputation, then it's a good thing.
The most obvious comment here is that a good chunk of wikipedia wouldn't exist without the content provided (without consent) by artists, engineers, etc. etc., most of whom are of course dead.
If the collaborative nature of the artwork and it's lack of a fixed point induces nausea in the wiki collective, then it's probably doing what art does best.
I think it's pretty generally accepted by now that knowledge is not fixed and that's why wikipedia will accept anything that can be backed up with citations. Based on the documentation around Wikipedia Art I would say that it was much more about trying to challenge wikipedia's rules rather than any sort of political hierarchy. The primary problem was that the challenge was based on a flawed interpretation of the rules, which was quickly pointed out.
What surprised me the most about this project was the level of academic arrogance that followed. We had "the professor" declaring its notability, and another notable academician touting this as a significant event in the history of conceptual art the day after it happened.
We can argue that the fact that the work generated much debate makes it significant but if you read through the delete debate you'll see that most of the keepers are attempting to force it into a debate about things that are entirely irrelevant given the setting and the original premises. It wasn't really a debate. More like two separate discussions, intertwined.
What began as something that could have been an interesting experiment disintegrated into silliness.
there is also a nice interventionist tautology to the piece. is it enough to sustain it or does it require the controversy?
it's interesting, but isn't all of this a little too pumped up?
it is nothing different that street art, even in the idea of continuous evolution (with graffiti artists having whole mythologies of walls covered again and again in sagas of aesthetic wars, debates, territorial "ownership" and even collaboration and mutual reinterpretation)
and as with any detourn, illegality is a viable option: the artwork is fine either they remove it or not.
i just don't see it being "notable" just because it is on wikipedia.
wikipedia is specific in it being closed to experimentation, just as
and the fact that "anyone" can contribute to it does not make it a "free space". It is just like in physical society, where people argue about stuff and the people with more skill/stamina/karma/charisma/empathy win and their concepts break through.
yet it is a nice concept, but wikipedia is just "a wall" and the artwork is "a graffiti", with gangs and citizens discussing wether the ugly grey building was better or worse without it, and wether the act of reappropriation is legit or not. It is an art of reappropriation, of detorunment, of critique to a urban context (only this specific urban context is digitally networked). And the act itself includes the discussion and possible removal.
You will have to engage your intellect to properly consider these questions."
Curt, there you go again.
There you go again."
Come on Tom. I've got kid gloves on. If you can accuse Patrick of "ginning up... mock outrage and pseudo-discourse," then I can point out the inherent conundrum that one's "intellect" is always required to assess the relative merit of pejoratively dismissed "intellectual" dialogue.
In basketball, when you don't have a referee, you call your own fouls (you say when someone else has fouled you). It's a matter of working out some kind of fun balance. If you cry foul at every instance of legitimate/lively contact, then the level of play is always safe but tends to be boring. On the other hand...
Curt, I don't doubt you are capable of being even more condescending.
On my blog I've listed other instances of Lichty's "pseudo-scholarship as performance," or however it's being justified here: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2009/02/17/daniel-rigal-toughs-it-out/
On the Wikipedia "articles for deletion" page Lichty repeatedly cites himself as an authority in support of the piece and refers to "a developing discussion on a 10,000 person listserv (Rhizome)" without mentioning that he initiated it.
He isn't playing academia off of Wikipedia. He is earnestly arguing for inclusion of the piece, citing himself as an authority. Either way it is wasting the Wikipedia editors' time.
Editor Daniel Rigas was the soul of patience in saying: "I don't think it is productive to discuss this. I now regret giving it an opening as it isn't relevant here. (This is what I get for trying to be helpful.) Some people reject the concept of encyclopaedic knowledge. That is their choice but I don't see any reason for a person of that view to hang out on an encyclopaedia. This sort of stuff gets discussed interminably by philosophers. We are not going to get anywhere with it here. Lets let it drop.
I think I prefer: the time I went to the Leonardo DiCaprio entry and it was just the word "gay" copied 1000 times.
Here are the two artists contribution pages on Wikipedia:
Scott Kildall
Nathaniel Stern
I looked into this because I was wondering if they had enough experience with Wikipedia to know that there is no way the article would last more than a few days. I only have 6X the contribs of these guys, but I've participated in enough deletion discussions to know that Wikipedia nerds ain't gunna put up with this kind of shit. They're gunna just delete and direct you to this article, but Supercentral (and probably others) kinda already did that.
If they knew it was going to be deleted, then I respect their trolling, but thousands of kids with lots of free time have already explored this concept on Wikipedia to my satisfaction. If they thought they could really maybe keep the article on Wikipedia, then personally I think they didn't learn enough about their medium before they dipped into the "paint".
Hi Tom,
First off, you abuse me with your language when you doubt whether I am capable of being even more condescending. It really hurts my feelings. Not only that, but it's condescending. The truth is, I am capable of being much more condescending. I only pray that this paragraph has increased (even if ever so slightly) your respect of my condescension skillz.
The strange thing is, I'm mostly agreeing with you about this particular piece. I don't think it is terribly successful on its own terms. It came out of the gates claiming (in tone) more than it was able to achieve. And in fact, much of the dialogue here and on nettime and iDC has been critical of the piece for exactly those reasons.
I do think it is a bogey and "the soul" of utilitarianism to make an ethical issue out of the poor Wikipedian's longsuffering.
For more on the funky inner-workings of Wikipedia, check:
Was it deleted due to conflict of interest? The domain has Wikipedia in it. What a waste of time and resources for people doing all the hard work and it was not even recognized.
easy diets
Hey, all.
Good conversation.
I'm not offended at all at Tom's mock outrage at my mock outrage, or the other criticisms of the project.
After the fact, I'm very honest that it was an intervetnion; sometimes I think that Scott and Nathaniel actually thought it might have had some time to survive. I didn't. Nor did I believe that my protestations and breast thumping give me any more hope. It was texture, as was the demonization of it was here.
Creating the gesture created the fait accompli that it was an event. It's a performance, sure - again, was there any real doubt of this? The idea that somehow the Rhizome community demands full disclosure while the fight went on merely said that others were merely taking positions while we were. Not that interesting, and for anyone with any knowledge of Tactical Media, pretty predictable, and near machinic. Anyone with a little experience could see the conversation unfolding like a script. Mock outrage, indeed...
I think what was most interesting were the dramatis personae on the Wikipedia side, and the arcane bylaws that we saw while going through the event,, like the "Snowball" and "Don't Feed the Trolls" rules. Crazy stuff. Not to mention the 18 year old, the Deletionists versus the Inclusionists, and so on. It's nearly Steampunk. It reinforced my belief in disallowing WP as no more than a tertiary source, for sure.
I also think that the "gestures' being thrown around (here and there) were largely cynical ones, until we got to the underbelly of the beast. When the honest reactions started happening, I think that's where the real art happened.
Interesting. Really interesting.

Yes - this was the revelation for me. I actually think most commentators have been far too kind to Wikipedia and the Wikipedians, as if they're just blameless folk trying to do a job rather than enmeshed in a *profoundly* ideological enterprise. I found the discussion, with its cult like terminology and arcane procedures and precedents, chilling. Irrespective of what position one adopts on epistemology in general & the merits or otherwise of the encyclopedia form in particular the fact that the discussion showed *no* aliveness on the part of the would be deletors to the fact that there might *be* a deeper discussion to be had and substituted a kind of religious obscurantism for *thought*, together with the sheer haste with which they rushed to stamp out this evidently brain-hurting anomaly, certainly terminally ruined Wikipedia for me.
There's a huge degree of disingenuousness too about sophisticated media types all of a sudden demanding that a project be judged entirely on face value.
Critic: They're playing a role! They planned things in advance! They (almost shakes with rage)... colluded!
The World: You don't say!
I must admit when Nathaniel proposed it for a Rhizome commission last year I didn't - despte my predisposition in favour of pretty much anything he's involoved in - really *get* it.
But both the splendid confusion and bad temper and the equally real enlightenment it has engendered amply vindicate it in my view - much more interesting & fun than the rather dull & worthy schematism of the -mysteriously to me- lauded 'google will eat itself' &c.
I have to admit that it hadn't occurred to me to compare GWEI and Wikipedia Art. What I thought was interesting about the Wikipedia Art concept was the idea of anyone and everyone creating a work of art with no premise, no concept, no goals and no time-frame. That's also why I didn't (and don't) understand why it has to happen on Wikipedia. As a critique on Wikipedia itself it fails because we really have no right to critique it in the way that Wikipedia Art attempted. OK, that might be unnecessarily strong wording. Of course we have the right to critique whatever we want but something like Wikipedia doesn't have to listen. Google, on the other hand, should and here's why they're different. Wikipedia is a repository of information that has been produced specifically for Wikipedia and within the guidelines enforced by Wikipedia. Google is an aggregate repository of information, created by pulling information that wasn't produced specifically for them. They've built up an industry based on our work, that's why we have every right to critique them. Violating Google's terms of use has a very different meaning than violating Wikipedia's rules.
And just for the record, I think GWEI is one of the best pieces of Internet art out there, especially in the category of "activist" work, and is well deserving of all of the attention and recognition it has received.
Wikipedia is great but I think there are limits to what it is able to accomplish. It's great to keep experimenting though. Keep pushing those limits.
I heard that Wikimedia Foundation is trying to receive the rights for using the domain WikipediaArt.org
However, all those attempts have been vain.
Whether or not this piece intended to raise these issues regarding the inherent subjectivity of canonicity and authority, it has effectively raised them. The wikipedians are right that the piece doesn't belong in their encyclopedia, but they are deluded into thinking that they are achieving some sort of clinical objectivity via rational consensus (or that any such objectivity could ever be achieved).
Dog Obedience
Whether or not this piece intended to raise these issues regarding the inherent subjectivity of canonicity and authority, it has effectively raised them. The wikipedians are right that the piece doesn't belong in their encyclopedia, but they are deluded into thinking that they are achieving some sort of clinical objectivity via rational consensus (or that any such objectivity could ever be achieved).
Dog Obedience
Tom Moody Wrote.
My outrage wasn't mock and Lichty's wasn't outrage. He repeatedly cited his own academic credentials to justify the project. Now that it's failed he claims to be blase about it. Either way, he played the Wikipedia editors for suckers-kind of icky.
As for the Cage, how many days did it take to come up with that? Everyone who undertakes a project like this thinks they're Cage or Duchamp. What if they're not?
tom moody // 22 Feb 2009, 6:11 pm
Regarding Tom's commentary on my Rhizome posting @ Artfag..
Well, if it wasn't mock, then Tom needs a little perspective, a beer, a hug, a kitty, something. At the end of this I do get a little miffed at my character being questioned, but I'm being pretty honest abotu this.
The difference between today and the days of Black Mountain, is that I'm really not sure that Cage strategically planned to be Cage, and Maybe Duchamp did, but not like today. Today, today, people have media strategies and marketing plans as how to be who they are. Everyone has their schtick to one extent or another, especially Tom. If I had MORE of one, I'd probably be more "successful" as a festival/gallery artist. But I'm still a bit driven by my interests too much, and less by a pr/image/marketing plan.
I'm not blase, maybe a little jaded, maybe a touch clinical, as little about WPA was that surprising UNTIL they got into the inner community. Sure, WPA was a very tight little system. Arguing about that is moot.
As for my putting my own credentials behind it, it's not icky - it's sticky. That actually had a little risk to it, and almost has to do with things like Second Front, the Mattes, etc. Who should care about virtual performance art? But in all honesty, compared to the tactical media projects I've been involved in, art in general is a microcosm. Tempests in teapots, until you become someone like Steve Kurtz… Then they try to throw you away for life.
That's not blase; that's just speaking the facts.
The fact that (for some strange reason) we care about art is not blase, either - although the larger society may consider us academic/hermetic in our own right. Again, in many cases, the arguing is people fighting over scraps of credibility when there are so many better things to do. It's almost like a Star Trek Fan club, arguing whether Cage/Duchamp or Kirk/Spock are better - it's just a larger audience with far more real power.
0: I actually was not a progenitor of the project, but I thought it was "interesting" to see what they would do, and formally lent my support. Using my creds was probably necessary; although it probably didn't help me that much. Took one for the team if it lessened my cred any, but you have to take risks once in a while.
1: Sure, it was strategic. Maybe one could also look at it as a model for critique of the contemporary "strategic" artist. I don't find this that interesting, because the argument devolves quickly.
2: It did get interesting when I saw the arcane underbelly of Wikipedia, and I will never let my students cite from it again.
3: … (to be continued)
4: As for Tom's "icky" and other comments during the Surfin Club debacle on Rhizome (another tempest/teapot. This pose of the growly troll is old - Josh Zeidner, Kandinskii, Lismore, Antiorp, Brad Brace, nn, integer, have all institutionalized this position as "anti-strategy" that's just as much of a pose as a strategy. If it is not a pose, then see my previous comments.
4b: As for my veracity, as I told Joseph McElroy - I'm a pretty straight up person, and rarely pose for the camera. I just have a passion for art, and if I lost that, I'd walk. Many of today's new media gang are about the PR game, positioning, strategies, and honestly - it works great, but I don't really do it. I do that a little bit if it fits the concept. Beyond that, while nothing's pure, my veracity is still pretty much there - you see what you get, and it's out of a spirit of support for a love of this stuff and support of the community. so for those of you who think otherwise, well, comments from people like the 'nasty' Tom Moody are often not worth a lot of my time. Although I'd buy him a couple rounds on the spot, were I ever to see him in the flesh.
And if I'm seen as disingenuous in any way at this point, then stay in your wilderness of mirrors, because I can't help you.
Patrick Lichty // 07 Mar 2009, 10:46 am
Yeah, I saw that blog the other day. I think that some art would be eye catching but I can see why the idea is not embraced by everyone. You never know what you're going to get.
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<applause> that is an apt description for most art .
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Maybe they aren't deluded about the possibility of "clinical objectivity via rational consensus", and don't actually need to be enlightened by brilliant avant-garde artistic interventions that will shatter their small-minded worldviews.
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Make what you will, but a similar project I initiated in 2007 was pulled from Wikipedia in a matter or hours - despite my best attempts to justify with reference. I launhed the same project through another wiki site - and you can view it at :
Note though that it has changed from its original form and the theoretical content has moved from the initial page due to user edits.
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Like Angela said ". . .I think that some art would be eye catching but I can see why the idea is not embraced by everyone..." It really depends on what your likes and background experiences have been.
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perhaps they were paid to do it? with all the credit card crisis going on at the moment you never know what people will lower themselves to doing to earn a few bucks
Was it deleted due to conflict of interest? The domain has Wikipedia in it. What a waste of time and resources for people doing all the hard work and it was not even recognized.
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This is one of those projects that I and many other people are just not going to get. Do you know what I mean? What is the point of this concept. It does not deliver on the collobarative nature of all wiki sites....pointless, and I'm glad to see it getting panned everywhere.
I hope i saw those blog, before it got deleted. Well, I guess the Wikipedia admin have enough reason to remove it, if it has a valuable content they will not removed it.
open but closed"... that is so well put. Did anyone catch the Episode of "The Office" where they are so very succinctly criticizing the authority of the Wikipedia. I wish I could remember the episode number... it's absolutely subvertly hilarious.
Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.
'Wikipedia Art' is utter bollocks.
I have no intention of helping to further legitimize it it by providing reasoned and cited debate to support my statement.
I just checked in with this thread again, and found:
'Wikipedia Art' is utter bollocks.
I have no intention of helping to further legitimize it it by providing reasoned and cited debate to support my statement.
There was an admin by the name of Daniel Rigal who was probably the greatest catalyst for the canonization of WPA into a viable project. This is both expected/ironic as he was the most vociferous people against it. However, this is a very minor version of the usual tactical media formula - create a scene to elicit a response, and Rigal was probably the greatest responder, and therefore, outside of the 2 originators+3 "advocates", probably the greatest partner of the entire WPA project.
I can almost be certain given the language, etc, this is %80 of it being him, and if I were not so clinical about it, I almost feel a little troll-pleasure in this post. Of course people get angry for being taken for a ride.
I wonder as I write about it, I wonder if something with the power of tactical media practices should be used on relatively small matters like this? Of course, we can say that Miltos Manetas' Whitneybiennial.org project was a similar thing, but it snubbed more of a top-down organization.
My main satisfaction in WPA is that it showed me the underbelly of WikiPedia, and gave me a justification for banning it from the classroom as anything other than a tertiary source.
This consumer based petro-chemical age, Well? What do you think? I've been posting subliminal messages, so far no one seems to have seriously responded. My theory. No one wants hard labor for low wages. Everyone wants to be a "rockstar-artist-musician" or someone important or wealthy. The farm is paid for I still need money? Money money money......I'm so much cooler than you!(don,t ake anything personal keep reading) I never got into playing stupid video games. The computer I,m presently using is a gift .My Friend a computer engineer. Who is underemployed and owns a small residential electrical contractor Co. Recycles used broken computers and re-builds them. I live an eclectic somewhat recluse lifestyle This is the best I can come up with for cheap entertainment (laughing) Art music it,s saturated Tons of starving artists...I,m still trying. The minimalist approach is the hardest. You have to compete with hollywood? No.... watch for my art in the future. Thanks. babylon john john mcardle
I hope i saw those blog, before it got deleted. Well, I guess the Wikipedia admin have enough reason to remove it, if it has a valuable content they will not removed it.
Well to be honest, I don't rely too much on Wikipedia esp. when I need some solid research. If anyone can easily add and delete an article, and if someone else can easily modify that article with little authorization from the original author, how reliable do you think such article could be! Maybe it is just me.
Wow, pretty interesting thing about Wikipedia that I did not know about. Thanks for sharing it here. By the way, was Wikipedia able to resolve this matter?
Wikipedia? My 1st impression was A Hawain-pediatric research institute Wiki- Hawai pedia-pediatrician but of course I was wrong. bABYLon joHN John McArdle. There is only so many resources available at any given time. Artists and Musicians scrambling for as much as they can get. Doesn,t anybody look back that has made it and help a "bloke" like me? NO! Spending my own time and money presently to bring you my humble feeble attempt in the universe. More money, better attempt. Soon I'll be relagated to spraying graffitti or something? If I can scratch up some money for spray paint? No, video/aRT/Music PLEASE endorse me financially Whoever you are! HELP HELP I need a grant writer or something. OR NO more aRT/Music/culture/opinion nothing! (relegated to a meager boring Day job) Emotional death of an artist and his soul and passion. Depression angst anxiety etc. PEACE?
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Yes! by all means! poke the stick in the wasp nest. Stir up controversy, create dialogue which incourages debate or pretentious and contentious comments. Snubbing my nose @ the establishment elite. Six figure or above salaried executives who try to run this consumer based petro-chemical nightmare. Which we all now know is not sustainable at current natural resource use. So your great great grandchildren will witness the demise of a once pristene planet. So what indulge your hedonistic desires. Go ahead persue that matierialistic goal. A NEW CAR (mercedes benz)- Convertible. A House in The Hamptons on Long Island. Purchase that winery in Napa valley california. See if i care? I'll be dead and gone and they will still be pouring new concrete foundations for nuclear power plants refinerys chemical plants. Just for once in your life "Throw the dog a bone!" ARF ARF! musicians busking on the streets. Poets philosophers sages "enlightened ones" Seeking a refuge. CONTACT ME "babylon john john mcardle" Upstate NY artists summer refuge and self sufficient farm has begun.(BINGHAMTON ITHACA area) Regardless of your greedy petty endeavors. Success is built on a mountain of failures. Adversity builds character. It is better than to have tried and failed and died in poverty and recluseness than to succomb to mediocrity and the status quo. Viva La Revolution!
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Kildall is not anymore a troll or cyber squatting vandal than the reader who edits his Facebook page, or comments to a favorite blog or online news story. If anything, this whole thing is beginning to smell like a selfish little publicity stunt by Wikipedia to exclude and dismiss an internet phenomenon - public intervention - demonstrated by the huge successes of YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, and it's own format - the world of Wiki.
What I wanted to say was that wiki is of limited value anyway, when any random member of the public can edit what is held there the value has to be questionable.
Wikipedia? My 1st impression was A Hawain-pediatric research institute Wiki- Hawai pedia-pediatrician but of course I was wrong. bABYLon joHN John McArdle. There is only so many resources available at any given time. Artists and Musicians scrambling for as much as they can get. Doesn,t anybody look back that has made it and help a "bloke" like me? NO! Spending my own time and money presently to bring you my humble feeble attempt in the universe. More money, better attempt. Soon I'll be relagated to spraying graffitti or something? If I can scratch up some money for spray paint? No, video/aRT/Music PLEASE endorse me financially Whoever you are! HELP HELP I need a grant writer or something. OR NO more aRT/Music/culture/opinion nothing! (relegated to a meager boring Day job) Emotional death of an artist and his soul and passion. Depression angst anxiety etc. PEACE?
The illustrious postmodern world of design in the eyes of an internet monopoly. Wikipedia makes me laugh because any person opinion to update an archive is a recipe for disaster. Remember when they said Heavy D died and he was like what? lol
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my friend was able to legitimize a nickname he and our friends gave Jim Edmonds ("Hollywood Edmonds") by getting it in the article with weasel words and then having a sports journalist reference the nickname in an article which gave him the reference he needed to backup the nickname. bing bong!
Do you think that all them artists of this piece are that necessarily referencing either philosopher. I think that if the project was meant to preach to wikipedia editors, then it comes across as preachy.
Here are a couple posts related to Wikipedia Art...
Scott Kildall on this:
Lichty on Wiki, etc as curatorial model.
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That is some beautiful artwork. What is the theme and meaning behind the theme of it? Please share. Once again, thanks for the dialogue
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Toddler fights over sand toys, and water bottles.
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There is no such thing as constant bliss--at least not on this earth.
This quote really fits those kind of moments, don't you think?
As the sun sank lower and the beach grew emptier, my heart was full from our time there together with friends, and with each other.
Time in the sun, in the water, and enjoying God's glorious creation.
It blesses us so deeply.
After the tedious job of loading everyone in the car, we pull away from the curb, and I say the same thing every time, "I had such a great day with you guys! I love being at the beach with you. I love you all so much."
And it's so true.
Even if there is chaos when we get home.
At 9 pm I am still wearing my damp bathing suit and cleaning up the kitchen from our slap-dash dinner.
I am tired.
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The good things always are.
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Monitoring and policing the nearly 200,000 inmates in California prisons has long been a challenge for authorities. Officials constantly struggle with controlling contraband such as drugs and weapons, but now they face a new challenge: a rise in "prison cheese." Department of Corrections Media Relations Director Byron Hadley explains:
"For years we had problems with pruno, a fermented wine-type beverage that inmates would make in their toilets with fruit from the dining halls. Gradually, some inmates switched from produce to dairy, and now we increasingly have inmates producing cheese in these same cell block toilets."
Referred to by inmates as "milk rot," this homemade cheese has led to an increase in black market activity both in cheeses and cheese making supplies. Last month, a group of guards at Pelican Bay was arrested as part of black market ring that sold rennet tablets to inmates.
The problem has become so widespread in the system that different prisons are associated with different types of cheese. Ig Jenkins, director of the Department's new Contraband Cheese Task Force (CCTF), explains, "When we recover a cache of illegal cheese, we can tell where it comes from, which gives us clues to the lines of operation between different prisons in the system. For instance, Corcoron is a big cheddar producer. Solano is only a stone's throw from all of those Sonoma County goat farms, so if we see a chevre, we know there is a 95% chance it originated there."
But California's most notorious prison is also its most notorious source of contraband. According to Jenkins, "Pelican Bay is a cesspool of illegal cheese. I've seen everything you can think of come out of there, epoisse, livarot, guryere, ricotta salata, even feta."
The CCTF is up against great odds, but Jenkins believes the Task Force's approach needs to use a carrot as well as a stick.
"We can bust hundreds of illegal milk rot mongers, but until we give inmates an option beyond USDA Loaf Cheese in the dining halls, we're going to have to deal with this problem."
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I actually read four paragraphs in before I figured it out. Blame it on my cold, I guess.
- September 30, 2010 at 6:11 PM
- James said...
Great story Steve. Especially enjoyed the Shawshank reference, Pelican Bay's cesspool of..., and the black market rennet running. Good stuff!
- October 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- glutster said...
ha ha. wow. This is some cool stuff.
- October 6, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Back when I was serving time in San Quentin with my cellmate Ig, we used to make a milk rot dry jack. Out of necessity, we used hot cocoa powder for the rind.
Sometimes I long for that flavor so much that I consider going down to the station and confessing to some of my more recent crimes...just so I can get back into the milk rot gambit.
- October 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM
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