Running and Passing.

Found while reading the following wikipedia articles: Oliver North > Contras.

Further Expoloration of Wikipedia user Tiomon reveals:

* I’m not attempting to pass judgement, rather I’d merely like to highlight the level of gross global participation.

Penny Lane
Benny
Doogan
Doggins
Penny Doggins
Dogface
Monkey
Monk Lane
Cheesehead
Lady Penny
Lady Doogan
Bincho
Bincho Field
The Bitch

Babyman
Baby
Man
Manly Man
Boo
Boo Boo
Boy
Boy Boy
Stinky
The Bastard

Tanya
Chauncey
Chauncey B
B
Brewski
Chauncey Brewski
Brew Mama
T
Big T
T Bones
Bones
Wheaty
Wheat Bone
The Brew

Mittens
Moapy
Mappy
Meepsy
Moapum
Moapy Face
Mappy Face
Mitsy
Mitsy Bitsy
Mitsy Bitsy Pudding and Pie
Mitsu
Mapsu
The Face

undying devotion
hugs
pr / marketing / outreach and communications
graphic design
web design / web dev
art exhibits
installation work
creative direction
more hugs
- Paige Saez

Followers: How can I assist you or enliven your day? – Response from OneMikey: Just be yourself my man

If you ask a dead man what he’s learned from dying he’d say, “Give and give and give. That’s how you live.”

Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

“In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person,” Mr. Eno said. “I take the same walk every day and I eat in the same restaurants, and often eat exactly the same things in the same restaurants. I don’t adventure much except when I’m in the studio, and then I only want to adventure. I cannot bear doing something again, or thinking that I’m doing something again.” – Brian Eno

That’s what abstraction means to me: the visual demonstration of philosophical nuance. – Jeremy Blake

A teach-in is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs. The main difference between a teach-in and a seminar is the refusal to limit the discussion to a specific frame of time or an academic scope of the topic. Teach-ins are meant to be practical, participatory, and oriented toward action.

Open Source Democracy

Signal to the east, strike to the west; Avoid an opponent’s strong points, strike the weak ones; Trick an opponent into advancing without success, Then strike decisively with just one blow; If an opponent is strong, enter from the side; If he is weak, enter from the front; Use minimum force to neutralize maximum strength.
never underestimate your opponent
use your opponent’s strengths against them
prepare yourself, don’t let others to surprise you
create a long-term and short-term plan/strategy

Movie to watch : Poliwood – Tiny Furniture

I think to be an artist, on one side, you have to be a space cadet. Then on the other side, you’re basically running a small business, so you have to somehow muster the brainpower against your own instincts. – cory arcangel

“I always like a plaza where there are benches—but I like it more when people decide to sit on the steps, which is sort of like the first radical act. The first act of revolution: a bench has told me to sit down, so I’m not going to sit there, I’m going to sit where I will bother people walking up the stairs.”
- Vito Acconci

Like the internet, Zuccotti Park offers the potential to assume any identity with knowledge and curiosity. Anyone can be anything in the occupied space — cooks, janitors, nurses, librarians, dreamers.
- http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/nov/9/occupy-internet/

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them
– Henry David Thoreau

Here’s an experiment for you. Pull together your company’s latest annual report, its mission statement, and your CEO’s last few blog posts. Read through these documents and note the key phrases. Make a list of oft-repeated words. Now do a little content analysis. What are the goals and ideas that get a lot of airtime in your company? It’s probably notions like superiority, advantage, leadership, differentiation, value, focus, discipline, accountability, and efficiency. Nothing wrong with this, but do these goals quicken your pulse? Do they speak to your heart? Are they “good” in any cosmic sense?
I believe that long-lasting success, both personal and corporate, stems from an allegiance to the sublime and the majestic.
Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, held a similar view, which he expressed forcefully in “Man’s Search for Meaning”: “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended consequence of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself . . ..”

Manifesto – Daniel Eatock
Begin with ideas
Embrace chance
Celebrate coincidence
Ad-lib and make things up
Eliminate superfluous elements
Subvert expectation
Make something difficult look easy
Be first or last
Believe complex ideas can produce simple things
Trust the process
Allow concepts to determine form
Reduce material and production to their essence
Sustain the integrity of an idea
Propose honesty as a solution

re-arranging courtyard elements w/ Cory Bluemling
Newark, Delaware

This is part of a larger study on social space, community, etc

A confrontation function, “taking the struggle to the enemy’s territory, confronting, potentially disrupting, the operations at the center of the problem.”

A symbolic function which registers a collective and “deeply felt unhappiness about things as they are and the direction in which they are going.”

An educational function, “provoking questioning, exploration, juxtaposition of differing viewpoints and issues, seeking clarification and sources of commonality within difference.”

A glue function, “creating a community of trust and commitment to the pursuit of common goals; [providing] a way of coming together in a community for those who are deeply affected and concerned.”

An umbrella function, “creating a space … in which quite disparate groups can work together in pursuit of ultimately consistent and mutually reinforcing goals … a political umbrella, an organizing base for an ongoing alliance, not just a temporary coalition, of the deprived and discontented.”

An activation function, “inspiring others to greater militancy and sharper focus on common goals and specific demands … providing space for … cross discussions among supporting groups and interests, organizing … events in support of … reforms that [suggests] Occupy’s own ultimate goals of change.”

A model function, “showing, by its internal organization and methods of proceeding, that an alternative form of democracy is possible.”

Via – Peter Marcuse @ THE PURPOSE OF THE OCCUPATION MOVEMENT AND THE DANGER OF FETISHIZING SPACE through Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals

Yesterday, November 17th, marked the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The previous day, November 16th, saw the Occupy Wall Street March On Washington pass through Newark, Delaware (University of Delaware).

Inspired by the anniversary, the march, and the call for a Student Week of Action, my class and the art classes of three of my colleagues at the University of Delaware met in the Studio Arts Building’s 1st floor critique space to have an broad and informal dialogue about the movement, education, and the future. We used two projectors to display live streams from TheOther99, CNN, and occupystream.com and provided a forum for everyone involved to ask questions and express their opinion.

A big thank you to fellow graduate students Joey Grimm, Alex Fogt, and Cory Bluemling and faculty member Abby Donovan for helping to organize and facilitate this event.

November 16th, 2011 - Occupy Wall Street March On Washington meets Occupy Newark. Main St, Newark, Delaware