Here's his idea, from the article: "In the 4D Gallery main room, I’ve constructed a 22 ft tunnel out of plywood that leads into the project room. There is no way in or out of the project room except for this tunnel. As you travel through the tunnel, it gets smaller and smaller, making it so that you have to crawl and put yourself in a submissive position in order to reach the tunnel’s destination. At the end of the tunnel the subject will find me waiting in the project room and I’ll try to the best of my ability to overpower and rape the person who crawls through."
When asked "Why rape?" he answers, "Because as an artistic gesture, it’s one of the most impactful I can think of."
posted by rottenseed3 months 2 weeks ago • 432 views
So I was watching this show on National Geographic. It was called the Devil's Bible. I'm not going to explain what it was about because it was a crappy piece that seems to be status quo for NatGeo these days. One thing I absolutely loved about it though, is the montage of dark artwork depicting demon possessions in a literal manner. I like the more macabre, "evil" and romantic part of Christian folklore. Does anybody know where I can find more art like this? It was mostly drawings, some were paintings. If I had to guess, I would say it's 17th century Mannerism. Some was more Medieval, but the good shit seemed to be a bit more contemporary than medieval, like I said Mannerism or maybe Renaissance.
... I just saw a beautiful sift of Nuriev dancing Le Corsier (sp? because i'm drunk), and it occurred to me: what an amazing thing that I can sift something from a 9 to a 10 and bring it to a wider audience and hopefully expose them to something so unlikely in the grand scheme of the universe... just beautiful...
... It got me to thinking. If by some chance we were to find a way to overcome the rules of physics and communicate with other intelligence across the universe and set up an "internet" that went beyond our planet... can you imagine the absolutely amazing, unlikely and wonderful things that we would sift? Could we possibly imagine the insanity of sifting something from 9 to 10 that just goes beyond anything in our conception of our own cultures?
Sorry, drunk and feeling inspired by the sift and all that it brings to me on a daily basis... I swear, if my financial situation improves, I'll become a charter member on a subscription, because the sift is a wonderful wonderful thing...
posted by kronosposeidon5 months 2 weeks ago • 679 views
I don't know if it would boost VideoSift's revenue stream or not, or if it's an effective form of advertisement, or if there are enough interested members who would buy one. That's why I'm asking. Here's an idea I had for one:
I'm not saying it's great; it's just an idea. I figured a few famous thumbnail images might help to convey that we're a site with famous videos. The only thumbnail on that t-shirt that could cause problems is the one of Yahtzee, because I'm guessing it's trademarked. The others I'm pretty sure aren't. If any of you can think of better thumbnails to include then please suggest them, or if you have a completely different concept for a shirt design then please suggest those too. I don't know how all the colors in my design would come out on a silk screen, so maybe mine wouldn't work anyway.
posted by rasch1875 months 3 weeks ago • 683 views
A long time in the making, but at last NicoleBee got her Gold 100. Finally she'll be able to include pictures in sifttalk posts. I'm sure I'm not the only one who hopes for more of her beautiful artwork in the future.
Besides being a talented artist, Nicole is the (un)official geek chick on VS. I feel pretty confident saying she has her veritable pick of the litter among the many male geeks of the sift.
Major congrats, Nicole, you're a funny and interesting girl and anyone who doesn't visit your pqueue will deserve getting stung. How does a bee survive in the arctic wasteland that is Canada anyway? Never mind that! CONGRATS!!! ... more inside ...
I know that we live in a post 3/11 world. Sometimes I still wake up in a cold sweat after nightmares of seeing my vote count at zero. But it's time for us to move on. Ever since that fateful day some of you charter members opted to stick with the default dark green color (008800) for your screen name rather than switch back to the color you were previously using. Now I'm not going to name names (rottenseed, theaceofclubz, oxdottir, laura, etc), but it's been over two months since that fateful day, so I think it's time for you to get on with your lives.
In other words, pick a new color, damn it. Like avatars I also use name color as a form of instant recognition, but I use name color more often because people change those less frequently than their avatars, or so it seems. (Except for gwiz665. He changes his screen name color more often than his underwear.) Now I know some of you have always used dark green, like ant, Sarzy, E_Nygma, and big daddy dag himself. But the rest of you? Come on. And blankfist, quit using rasch's color. The guy's already embarrassed to know you, so can't you leave his color alone?
I come here to watch stuff, not read. I'm virtually illiterate. There, are you happy I admitted it? And every time I'm forced to read a name instead of instantly recognizing it by color a little part of me dies inside. And don't tell me to look at the avatars, because people are always changing those. It's my Talk post and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to...
posted by rasch1876 months 3 weeks ago • 1973 views
I got an idea after seeing KP's monumental Sift/Star Wars post. So I went ahead and inserted various avatars into famous pictures. I hope you'll enjoy it and if anyone feels the need to do some image editing of their own; let me know and I'll add your picture.
So without further ado...
"Emperor Schmawy crossing the Alps" based on "Napoleon" by Jacques-Louis David.
[UPDATED x 2 - NEW PICTURES AT THE END] ... more inside ...
posted by bluecliff6 months 3 weeks ago • 523 views
For the cultural elitist
(I'm looking at you blankfist. you really thought the act could fool anyone?)
CAT IN AN EMPTY APARTMENT
Die — you can't do that to a cat. Since what can a cat do in an empty apartment? Climb the walls? Rub up against the furniture? Nothing seems different here, but nothing is the same. Nothing has been moved, but there's more space. And at nighttime no lamps are lit.
Footsteps on the staircase, but they're new ones. The hand that puts fish on the saucer has changed, too.
Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
Every closet has been examined. Every shelf has been explored. Excavations under the carpet turned up nothing. A commandment was even broken, papers scattered everywhere. What remains to be done. Just sleep and wait.
Just wait till he turns up, just let him show his face. Will he ever get a lesson on what not to do to a cat. Sidle toward him as if unwilling and ever so slow on visibly offended paws, and no leaps or squeals at least to start.
Congrats to ObsidianStorm (gold 100), RhesusMonk (gold 100) and ponceleon (gold) for collectively birthing 250 videos and may they temper their newly learned skills, spells and invocations with wisdom and mercy.
posted by NeuralNoise7 months 3 weeks ago • 341 views
...Was a Portuguese fellow by the name of Fernando Pessoa. He had many heteronyms, which is a sort of literary multiple personality, each an amazing and particular author on its own.
His work is really really hard to translate without the colossal loss that accompanies translations of works that are strong and subtle and utilize the deeper intricacies of the language...
Still, he was raised in South Africa and wrote a bit in english as well. I recently found his 35 sonnets in english on Project Guttemberg.
Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others’ dreams.
posted by rasch1878 months 3 weeks ago • 687 views
mauz15 is a sifter of pure quality in my eyes. He posts so many great documentaries it's impossible to keep up. Besides posting great vids, he has also made a great effort in *deading and fixing videos. A long time member who joined the sift back in May 2006, mauz15 has finally joined the Diamond rank.
1. We want to sing of the danger of love, the daily creation of a sweet energy that is never dispersed. 2. The essential elements of our poetry will be irony, tenderness and rebellion. 3. Ideology and advertising have exalted the permanent mobilisation of the productive and nervous energies of humankind towards profit and war. We want to exalt tenderness, sleep and ecstasy, the frugality of needs and the pleasure of the senses. 4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of autonomy. Each to her own rhythm; nobody must be constrained to march on a uniform pace. Cars have lost their allure of rarity and above all they can no longer perform the task they were conceived for: speed has slowed down. Cars are immobile like stupid slumbering tortoises in the city traffic. Only slowness is fast. 5. We want to sing of the man and the woman who caress one another to know one another and the world better. 6. The poet must expend herself with warmth and prodigality to increase the power of collective intelligence and reduce the time of wage labour. 7. Beauty exists only in autonomy. No work that fails to express the intelligence of the possible can be a masterpiece. Poetry is a bridge cast over the abyss of nothingness to allow the sharing of different imaginations and to free singularities. 8. We are on the extreme promontory of the centuries... We must look behind to remember the abyss of violence and horror that military aggressiveness and nationalist ignorance is capable of conjuring up at any moment in time. We have lived in the stagnant time of religion for too long. Omnipresent and eternal speed is already behind us, in the Internet, so we can forget its syncopated rhymes and find our singular rhythm. 9. We want to ridicule the idiots who spread the discourse of war: the fanatics of competition, the fanatics of the bearded gods who incite massacres, the fanatics terrorised by the disarming femininity blossoming in all of us. 10. We demand that art turns into a life-changing force. We seek to abolish the separation between poetry and mass communication, to reclaim the power of media from the merchants and return it to the poets and the sages. 11. We will sing of the great crowds who can finally free themselves from the slavery of wage labour and through solidarity revolt against exploitation. We will sing of the infinite web of knowledge and invention, the immaterial technology that frees us from physical hardship. We will sing of the rebellious cognitariat who is in touch with her own body. We will sing to the infinity of the present and abandon the illusion of a future.
posted by Kreegath10 months 1 week ago • 514 views
On January the 25th, it's 250 years since the birth of Robert Burns. He's Scotland's national bard and one of (if not THE) most revered poets from that country. He's famous for mostly writing in the Scottish language, having pioneered the romanticism movement and for being a great lover of womenkind. His work include poems and songs like "Auld Lang Syne", "Address to a Haggis" and "To a mouse" (of which John Steinbeck got the title "Of Mice and Men", from a line contained in the second-to-last stanza: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley".) In commemoration of the great poet, every year on the 25th of January there's a sort of second national day in Scotland, and all over the world it's celebrated with a Burns supper. It's a tradition to make it just like it was in the olden days, with as little variation as possible. The supper classically contains haggis to eat, whisky to drink and reading of a Burns poem for entertaining the guests.
There's lots more to tell of him, but that's not what this post was supposed to be about. What I'm proposing is to celebrate the 25th by sifting something by Burns, about him or concerning that theme of poetry. Finding something you deem worthy to sift will not be a problem, because there's a lot of really good things out there. Some of which you're very familiar I'm sure, some of which you're vaguely familiar and some of which you've never heard before. Who knows, we might even be able to catch the eyes of some future contributing members from Scotland. What's for certain is that we'd definately warm their hearts with the good kind of national pride and the best kind of publicity. We might even expand our own horizons aswell, the possibilities are endless!
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posted by rottenseed1 year 1 month ago • 1037 views
So I bought a shirt online, and the company sent me a second one as a gift. This is what the second one has on it. I feel like this is a Warholesque rendition of a famous model/actress from the late 50s to the 60s. Who is she???
My guesses are Linda Harrison, possibly Raquel Welch or maybe Diana Riggs. Does anybody know?
I am a little fascinated by the NSFW tag. And i will try to present my questions as best as I can, but it will probably end up as a rambly mush of words NSFW for me would be illegal stuff, like kiddie porn or something. But the tag covers swearing and human anatomy, right? The "f-bomb" is an instant NSFW tag, isnt it? Why? would it really get you fired to watch a video where someone curses? Is it because you are not doing proper work and slacking off watching videos, or is it the word itself? Obviously the word "fuck" loses its impact in norway as english is not our native language, but we understand the meaning of it. I can't think of any swear word in norwegian that has the same potential of endangering your job. Or any combination of swear words. Actually the more swear words you use in combination, the more silly and funny and less offensive it would be. And then there's the ultimate sign of evil. the female nipple. thats also an instant NSFW, isnt it? I was about to sift a video about a photographer who recently passed away, and one of his most famous photos is one of his wife in a swimsuit but not covered up boobies. There's no porn in there that i can see. of course the woman is beautiful and seeing it can cause some sort of male reaction in me, so is it the idea of being sexually aroused at a workplace that is so offensive? a boner can get you fired? and tinking of it, if i were ever to link to an article in a norwegian news paper, i might have to add a "this link might no be safe for your workplace". because theres probably pictures of human bodies at the site somewhere. Maybe some pictures from a fashion show, theres almost certainly at least a hint of some nipples there. so you sit a your desk, you watch for example a video that displays lots of black and white photography, and in one of them there's a female breast. your boss sees it, and he can fire you for that?
can you write the words that are NSFW?
and as an end. honestly. in a normal context (lets say most ay other than porn) does it really hurt your kids to see what a humanoid shape looks like in detail? I realize that one of the TV programs I grew up with, would probably get me banned from videosift. search for "kroppen" with "trond viggo" on youtube. they are a great (and rather dated now) series about the human body and how it works, cleverly and humourosly illustrated by the host; check out how he illustrates how sperm swims around and one ends up "winning". I would say it is a parent exaggerated reaction to an event that will cause the trauma in a kid. ok, thats enough rambling whats it like where you work? how does the NSFW protect you? To me and my workplace, it most likely does no difference at all.
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