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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Headlines
For the past three months my front desk friends and I have taken part in a piece by conceptual artist, Tino Sehgal. The piece is called This is New and was somewhat "performed" when visitors purchased tickets. The instructions we were verbally given (Tino doesn't like things in writing) are as follows:
Step 1: business as usual, collect the money, print the ticket. Step 2: As you pass the ticket to the visitor say a news headline from the current day. Step 3: If they walk away, the interaction is over. If they say "what?" repeat the headline and add "This is New, Tino Sehgal 2003". If they ask about the content of the headline you may discuss it however you see fit.
My ICA friends and I saw this experience as somewhat of an annoying challenge. We did not ask to do this. We were "persuaded" to participate. It has been the source of both laughter and complaints...at times even outrage. We can now breathe a little easier since the show is no longer here. On a positive note, it was a good excuse to browse CNN and the New York Times in the morning. In any case we have endured. Below is a list of headlines I have stated.
“Michelle Obama Touts Husband”
“Blogtalk: S.C. and Florida”
“Edwards Drops Out”
“Democrats Change Tone”
“Phil Says Six More Weeks of Winter”
“Super Bowl vs. Super Tuesday”
“Counting Delegates”
“Mukasey Won’t Investigate Waterboarding”
“Majoring and Minoring in Theater”
“The Vanishing Establishment”
“The Early Word: The Count”
“Center Stage Wisconsin”
“Conflict on the Menu”
“A Different Recollection”
“The Charisma Mandate”
“An Oscar’s Crystal Ball”
“Preparing for the Oscars”
“New Harmonies”
“Super Delegates Defect”
“Voter Turnout in Texas”
“Rhetoric High, Anxiety Low”
“The Border and the Ballot Box”
“Crime Down in ‘08”
“A Predictable Ride”
“Design and the Elastic Mind”
“Fashion Sees It’s Shadow”
“A Sand Dollar Riddle”
“Storm Damages Downtown Atlanta”
“Up and Running in Space”
“Towels Go Green”
“Richardson Endorses Obama”
“The Fuzzier Crystal Ball”
“A Chocolaty Buzz”
“Room on the Bus”
“Krazy Glue Moment” (yes with a k)
“Clams in Sherry”
“Battle for Hearts and Minds”
“Seeing the Light”
“Taking Back the Streets”
“Meditations on a Cure”
“Professor as Student”
“Sketching a Future”
“Where the Tigers Roam”
“Changing Speeds to Go the Distance”
“The House that Green Built”
“Veggies in the Shade”
“Going Hands Free”
“What Darwin Saw Out Back”
“Three of a Kind”
“Couldn’t Turn Away”
Shelby Finger
ICA Boston, MA
Step 1: business as usual, collect the money, print the ticket. Step 2: As you pass the ticket to the visitor say a news headline from the current day. Step 3: If they walk away, the interaction is over. If they say "what?" repeat the headline and add "This is New, Tino Sehgal 2003". If they ask about the content of the headline you may discuss it however you see fit.
My ICA friends and I saw this experience as somewhat of an annoying challenge. We did not ask to do this. We were "persuaded" to participate. It has been the source of both laughter and complaints...at times even outrage. We can now breathe a little easier since the show is no longer here. On a positive note, it was a good excuse to browse CNN and the New York Times in the morning. In any case we have endured. Below is a list of headlines I have stated.
“Michelle Obama Touts Husband”
“Blogtalk: S.C. and Florida”
“Edwards Drops Out”
“Democrats Change Tone”
“Phil Says Six More Weeks of Winter”
“Super Bowl vs. Super Tuesday”
“Counting Delegates”
“Mukasey Won’t Investigate Waterboarding”
“Majoring and Minoring in Theater”
“The Vanishing Establishment”
“The Early Word: The Count”
“Center Stage Wisconsin”
“Conflict on the Menu”
“A Different Recollection”
“The Charisma Mandate”
“An Oscar’s Crystal Ball”
“Preparing for the Oscars”
“New Harmonies”
“Super Delegates Defect”
“Voter Turnout in Texas”
“Rhetoric High, Anxiety Low”
“The Border and the Ballot Box”
“Crime Down in ‘08”
“A Predictable Ride”
“Design and the Elastic Mind”
“Fashion Sees It’s Shadow”
“A Sand Dollar Riddle”
“Storm Damages Downtown Atlanta”
“Up and Running in Space”
“Towels Go Green”
“Richardson Endorses Obama”
“The Fuzzier Crystal Ball”
“A Chocolaty Buzz”
“Room on the Bus”
“Krazy Glue Moment” (yes with a k)
“Clams in Sherry”
“Battle for Hearts and Minds”
“Seeing the Light”
“Taking Back the Streets”
“Meditations on a Cure”
“Professor as Student”
“Sketching a Future”
“Where the Tigers Roam”
“Changing Speeds to Go the Distance”
“The House that Green Built”
“Veggies in the Shade”
“Going Hands Free”
“What Darwin Saw Out Back”
“Three of a Kind”
“Couldn’t Turn Away”
Shelby Finger
ICA Boston, MA
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Old Camera, New Camera
It's sad to say it but my first digital camera has bit the dust. I was in denial for a short while...but over the past few days I have found the strength to move on. I have ordered a sleek and shiny new 7.1 mp Canon. It should be arriving some time tomorrow. This will be quite an upgrade from my 3.2 mp. With this new arrival I remember my dear old friend. It was there with me in good times and bad. It has seen multiple dorm rooms, family gatherings and parties. It has perched upon Roman bridges and rested upon a stony beach of Collioure. It has even captured a distant Barack Obama within a few pixels. My old friend has been good to me. The memories remain.
Shelby
Somerville, MA
Shelby
Somerville, MA
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Political Nerd
So I found this fun little "what if" tool on the CNN website. It's the Democratic Delegate Counter Game. I realized that Obama can get to 2025 even if Hillary wins by 20 delegates in Pennsylvania. Considering he normally does well in the south and northwest, it looks promising.
You can play too:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/29/delegate.counter/index.html
-Shelby Finger
You can play too:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/29/delegate.counter/index.html
-Shelby Finger
Monday, March 10, 2008
Wet Plate Collodion Fun
Some new wet plate collodion plates to be scanned. Friday I did some pictures of my self and my bee. Shelby came in Monday and sat still for 30 seconds at a time.-Kristen and Shelby
Boston, MA
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Shelby's Studies
My "home school" course load:PS Educating Your Vote
required reading The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
TS Adventures in Spirituality
required reading A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
FA Studio Art: Mixed Media Correspondence
Mon. 3-11 pm, additional field trips may be required
Shelby Finger
Somerville, MA
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Fluffy Strawberry Frosting
1 egg white
1 cup sugar
8 oz frozen strawberries
Let strawberries defrost until not rock hard. Whip ingredients together for thirty mins or until pink fairytail-like mountains and caves form. 24 cupcakes
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
The First Black Bird Ink Mailing
This is the beginning of a collaborative correspondence project. We will create a new mailing each month, much like a publication. The contents of which are a compilation of and ideas for the purpose of enjoyment, inspiration and human connection. Our hope is that for every package we send, you will send one back in return. (see list of ideas below) We truly believe that the giving and receiving of tangible objects holds meaning beyond the everyday email.
Recipe, postcard, letter, story, artwork, anything you like, poem, picture, stick-figure drawing, small treasure, new word in any language including English, buttons, feathers, bobby pins, old costume jewelry, mixed CD, letter, lace, dried flowers, tears from a magazine.
If you would like to be added to our mailing list please write either Kristen or shelby at their emails listed on the right.
Shelby and Kristen,
Somerville, Ma
Monday, February 4, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Ten Reasons To Be A Vegetarian
Hunger
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year: 20 million.
Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced
their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million.
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80.
Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95.
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds.
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 40,000.
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250.
Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56.
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of beef: 16.
Environmental
Primary cause of greenhouse effect: carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels Fossil fuels needed to produce meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet: 3 times more . Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75. Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85.
Number of acres of U.S. forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered diet: 260 million. Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound of rainforest beef: 55 sq. feet. Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year.
Cancer
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than
once a week: 3.8 times. For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times. Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times. Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
Cholesterol
Most common cause of death in the U.S.: heart attack.
How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 45 seconds.
Average U.S. man's risk of death from heart attack: 50 percent.
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy or eggs: 4 percent.
Amount you reduce risk if you eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from your diet: 90 percent
Average cholesterol level of people eating meat-centered-diet: 210 mg/dl.
Chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol level is
210 mg/dl: greater than 50 percent.
Natural Resources
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production.
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25.
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000.
Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centered diet:13.
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260.
Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calory of protein from beef: 78.
To get 1 calory of protein from soybeans: 2.
Antibiotic
Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55.
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13.
Percentage resistant in 1988: 91.
Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: ban.
Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: full and complete support.
Pesticide
Fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical
residues.
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99.
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8.
Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal
products, found in meat-eating mothers vs. non-meat eating mothers: 35 times higher.
Ethics
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S.: 660,000.
Occupation with the highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker.
Occupation with the highest rate of on-the-job-injury in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker.
Spiritual Consciousness
Food is the source of the body's hemistry, and what we ingest affects our consciousness, emotions and experiential pattern. If we want to live in higher consciousness, in peace and happiness and love for all creatures, then we should
consider not eating meat, fish, shellfish, fowl or eggs.
Karmic Consequences
Major religions around the world such as Buddhism or Hinduism teach that all of our actions including our choice of food have karmic consequences. By involving oneself in the cycle of inflicting injury, pain and death, even indirectly by eating other creatures, one must in the future experience in equal measure the suffering caused.
http://www.vegecyber.com/others/about_vegetarianism.shtml
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year: 20 million.
Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced
their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million.
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80.
Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95.
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds.
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 40,000.
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250.
Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56.
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of beef: 16.
Environmental
Primary cause of greenhouse effect: carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels Fossil fuels needed to produce meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet: 3 times more . Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75. Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85.
Number of acres of U.S. forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered diet: 260 million. Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound of rainforest beef: 55 sq. feet. Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year.
Cancer
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than
once a week: 3.8 times. For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times. Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times. Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
Cholesterol
Most common cause of death in the U.S.: heart attack.
How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 45 seconds.
Average U.S. man's risk of death from heart attack: 50 percent.
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy or eggs: 4 percent.
Amount you reduce risk if you eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from your diet: 90 percent
Average cholesterol level of people eating meat-centered-diet: 210 mg/dl.
Chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol level is
210 mg/dl: greater than 50 percent.
Natural Resources
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production.
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25.
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000.
Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centered diet:13.
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260.
Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calory of protein from beef: 78.
To get 1 calory of protein from soybeans: 2.
Antibiotic
Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55.
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13.
Percentage resistant in 1988: 91.
Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: ban.
Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: full and complete support.
Pesticide
Fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical
residues.
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99.
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8.
Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal
products, found in meat-eating mothers vs. non-meat eating mothers: 35 times higher.
Ethics
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S.: 660,000.
Occupation with the highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker.
Occupation with the highest rate of on-the-job-injury in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker.
Spiritual Consciousness
Food is the source of the body's hemistry, and what we ingest affects our consciousness, emotions and experiential pattern. If we want to live in higher consciousness, in peace and happiness and love for all creatures, then we should
consider not eating meat, fish, shellfish, fowl or eggs.
Karmic Consequences
Major religions around the world such as Buddhism or Hinduism teach that all of our actions including our choice of food have karmic consequences. By involving oneself in the cycle of inflicting injury, pain and death, even indirectly by eating other creatures, one must in the future experience in equal measure the suffering caused.
http://www.vegecyber.com/others/about_vegetarianism.shtml
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