quiz: which felony are you?

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Oh good heavens, I don’t know where this quiz came up with such a terrible thing to say about me! Golly jeepers I just can’t imagine! And besides, I was buying toys for orphans at the time…I put it on my Facebook Status!


You Are Stalking


You tend to be very obsessive. Once you focus your attention on something or someone, it’s all you think about.

You are also very secretive. People don’t know much about the life that you lead.

You are attracted to weak people. You may want to prey on them, but you also may just want to help them.

You need attention, and you can get desperate if you aren’t getting attention from the right person. You’ll do about anything to get noticed.

Steve Irwin, reincarnated

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Enough wit de intellectulolz! i luvs dis hooman!!!1

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Mobile Swarm by Fearless City: the transcript

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Fearless City LogoMobile SWARM.

So.

So, the idea is: SWARM is a night when a large group of artist-run Vancouver galleries cooperate for once and have openings and parties on the same night, featuring local artists. Pictures on Flickr here.

So. Here in Zone Two, otherwise known as the Downtown EastSide, we had 13 galleries participating, and the Fearless City project sent teams out to each of the galleries to capture people’s reactions to the art and post them via SMS to a Twitter clone called SIFT which civilians can think of as just a place where all the text messages got filed one after the others.

You text your reactions to art: simple.

Oh yeah, and we had a repurposed shopping cart roving the streets packed to the gills with high-tech batteries, powering in order of importance a laptop which was managing the anarchy insofar as it could be managed AND a 48″ screen on which were displayed all of the messages as they came in unfiltered and in real time or as real as text messaging can get.

For realz.

The # codes are codes for which gallery the message originated from. From which the message originated.

Whatever.

Will link these up later if I’m not too lazy.

  • #ac = access gallery
  • #as = artspeak
  • #cw = cineworks although I don’t think anyone got there, as it is nowhere near the DTES actually. Perhaps they were only there in class solidarity
  • #cc = clackclack empire
  • #gg = gallery gachet
  • # hp = helen pitt gallery
  • # iu = interurban gallery
  • #lg = les gallery
  • #na = 221a (one of my team’s)
  • # og = orr gallery
  • # pg = plank gallery (one of my team’s)
  • #sg = shudder gallery (one of my team’s)
  • #uv = UVic 2nd Year (nobody went there, just too far away practically in Hastings Sunrise.

And now, to the transcript in REVERSE chronological order, as I am too lazy to flip this all around. And this is what it looked like, entirely unfiltered.

#as Reagan, please!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:42 by Anonymous
#

Horse pussy is much tighter than female
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:35 by Anonymous
#

#pg muse needs more interesting projects. Andrew salgado rocks.
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:30 by Anonymous
#

Wheres the graveyard party at sorry!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:16 by Anonymous
#

You are the best – don’t stop ‘011
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:10 by Anonymous
#

I lub you artists- keep doing your thang! DTES Forever – masala mario
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:06 by Anonymous
#

Oh yea
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:04 by Anonymous
#

Lotussss
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
#

Where is the party at ??
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
#

I have never felt so embowered
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
#

Hey did I’d keel
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
#

Swarmmmmmmmmmm
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:03 by Anonymous
#

This is addictive!!!!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:02 by Anonymous
#

Mobile swarmin till the morn
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:01 by Anonymous
#

I came, i saw, then i came again.
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:00 by Anonymous
#
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:00 by Anonymous
#

#gg just let it out. Whatever that means to you.
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 23:00 by Anonymous
#

I love my thumbs!!!!!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:56 by Anonymous
#

Best thing I’ve seen tonight!!!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:56 by Anonymous
#

Big sad faces and empty spaces….what does that say about us?
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:56 by Anonymous
#

#as what’s happening at the after party?
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:55 by Anonymous
#

J Dilla never sounded better
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:48 by Anonymous
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Yay gachet!
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:47 by Anonymous
#

You are in the middle of the opus, right now.
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:46 by Anonymous
#

#gg We are the barbarians and our love for art and culture can’t hide that
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:44 by Anonymous
#

#iu why should i care?
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:41 by Anonymous
#

Ac
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:39 by Anonymous
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#gg I am standing right behind u
— Fri, 09/05/2008 – 22:34 by Anonymous
#
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Mobile SWARM: Live Art Project Tonight

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Mobile SWARM at Fearless CityFearless City Logo

Mobile SWARM is tonight. Since the backstage section of the project started thirty seconds ago, I don’t really have time to explain. The project itself starts at 7pm Pacific Time and goes till 10. You can see it live here:

Mobile Swarm

And if any of you technical genii know how to hook that up to a Prologue themed blog on an independent install using WordPress technology, or push it to a blog at Fearless City via RSS or something (that one’s Drupal), or hook it up with a Twitter feed (either mine or a brand new one) please put the details in the comments here.

The Atene Button goes dark

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Sigh.

Oh, it’s not like it hasn’t happened before. And it’s not like I didn’t expect it to happen again. Actors are … actorish, and this is what they do. They’re like cats on the doorstep…I want in…I want out…I want in…but unlike cats, you can’t exactly stick your foot under their butts and decide it for them. For one thing, most of them are bigger than you, if you happen to be me. For another, the whole virtual butt-kicking thing works much better in fetish DVDs than in motivational emails.

So I’ve heard.

But fame or no fame, actor or no actor, I’ve been down this pixel trail a time or two (dozen) before, and frankly, you can’t push people. They come or they go, and it can mean a great deal to the “audience” or it can mean nothing at all, but that makes no difference whatsoever to whether or not the person returns for the long term. I’ve seen people come back for twelve hours. I’ve seen people come back for just long enough to register a digital avatar trail and say “see, I went.” I’ve seen Brian Atene come and go and come back and go again over the course of a couple of years. But it’s the same process and we are just exactly as impotent.

I could email. I have his email. But I don’t for a second believe he’s playing coy: I think the man is honestly backing off, and that nothing is creepier than opening your email to see a mass of zombie grab-hands springing out from it, trying to draw you back. I’ll leave him be. If he returns, he returns; if he doesn’t, I hope he’s making shitloads of money and eventually sends me that autograph he owes me, which, no, I don’t think I’ll ever see. I’m like that myself, you see, and the list of things I owe to people I’ve never seen in the flesh is longer than I am tall. Even if I were, like, tall.

And if you think this is just about Brian Atene, you haven’t been paying attention at all.