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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:07:26 GMT

THERE! I figured it out.

Hello God's green earth. Looks like I was a weird guy 2 years ago. The question...do I move to blogspot since I'm basically starting fresh, or keep this old thing? hmmm

Monday, April 11, 2005

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:00:29 GMT

I think I'm done blogging. I can't give my friends and old friends the time they need. The blog is just a fake place to post stupid stuff that nobody cares about anyhow. Bye.

Sunday, April 10, 2005

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:45:41 GMT

Man smuggles own art into MoMA

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Many a visitor to New York's Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, "I could do that."

A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed.

The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York's top museums on a single day.

The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and anti-war graffiti in the background.

The other two targets were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, where he hung a glass-encased beetle with fighter jet wings and missiles attached to its body -- another comment on war, Banksy told Reuters on Thursday.

"It was just an outsider's view of the modern American bug, bristling with listening devices and military hardware," he said.

An art Web site called woostercollective.com has posted pictures of the artist -- wearing an Inspector Clouseau-style overcoat, a hat and a fake beard and nose -- hanging up his work at the four museums and describing how he did it.

Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location in Britain, Banksy said he conducted all four operations on March 13, helped by accomplices who filmed him and provided distractions where necessary.

"They staged a gay tiff (lovers' quarrel), shouting very loudly and obnoxiously," said the artist, declining to give his real name or any personal details beyond his occupation as a professional painter and decorator.

It is not the first time he has staged such stunts.

Last year he smuggled work into the Louvre in Paris and London's Tate, attracting attention in the British media.

"My sister inspired me to do it. She was throwing away loads of my pictures one day and I asked her why. She said 'It's not like they're going to be hanging in the Louvre."'

He took that as a challenge. "I thought why wait until I'm dead," he said.

His preferred creative outlet, graffiti on trains, was growing more difficult due to greater security so he decided to branch out into infiltrating museums. "I tend to gravitate to places with less sophisticated security systems," he said.

Officials at the Natural History Museum declined to comment on security. Museum of Modern Art officials said only that the offending picture was taken down on March 17.

It was unclear what gave the game away but Banksy's version of Andy Warhol's iconic images of Campbell's Soup Cans showed a can of Tesco value tomato soup, a discounted brand sold by a British supermarket chain.

"Obviously they've got their eye a lot more on things leaving than things going in which works in my favor," Banksy said. "I imagine they'll be doing stricter bag checks now."

He said the painting in the Metropolitan Museum, a small portrait of a woman wearing a gas mask, had been discovered after one day, while the others stayed up for several days. The paintings were fixed to the wall with extra-strong glue.

Asked how he managed to escape notice while putting them up on a busy Sunday at the museums, he said: "They do get pretty full, but not if you put the pictures in the boring bits."

Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/24/art.prank.reut

Friday, April 08, 2005

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:40:09 GMT

I'm sick.

Again.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:55:36 GMT

Booyeah!!! I finished both my 8 page history research paper AND my 10 minute rhetoric speech today.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:43:49 GMT

This is my life: campaign speech Thursday, judging Saturday in MD, history exam monday, rhetoric speech monday, philosophy paper due 3 days after, 8 page western lit due three days after, court next day, history 8 page due next day, theo exam two days after, high style speech four days after, 7 page theo paper 2 days after, 10 page rhetoric final paper due 2 days after, finals week.

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 22:14:34 GMT

We're back.

I'm addicted to debate. I had 5 debate rounds in the car with Jim Wilson (Dean Wilson's 11 yr old son) on various topics, like deforestation, movies, and campaign finance reform. He's a bright kid and I only won 3-2.

Which is

Sadly

Better than Kawika and I did this weekend. I thought we whupped butt (well, we did, better than at any tourney I've ever been at, kawika and I debated so well) and were 5-1 but the judges decided we were 2-4. Yowch. Kawika's first losing record in years. My second losing record ever (last one NY tourney protectorate year).

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:54:29 GMT

Kawika and I are done printing, now we're just filing. We are leaving at 9 am for nationals in debate in Indiana. Wish us well. We're getting up to play volleyball at 7 with other debaters to start off on the right foot

*mwah*

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:00:57 GMT

Jayni's a maggot

Joy's a Nazi

Simon's a dorkwad

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:21:08 GMT

Kawika is an idiot.