02/10/04 05:21 - ID#30734
Buffalo, Divided We Stand
In response to Robins's journal. There is no myth or mystery. In Buffalo, there exists extreme racism to the point of almost absolute segregation. I rememeber when I moved to South Carolina for College, I thought it was weird that black and white people sat on separate sides of the cafeteria in 1995! Here up North it is no different. The neighborhoods are totally divided. So much so, that in my High School there was only one Black person.
I think the idea is that after the Civil Righst movement Southern Blacks moved up north and then started to work in the factories, which made the white immigrant offspring angry. So they divided the city in half and put each one on its own side. Sadly, they are by no means equal.
What's really insane to me is that Soyeon said she has never seen racisim before, she is from Korea, and suggested she wanted to travel to the South just to see what the phenomena is all about. I told her she didn't need to go so far.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: religion
02/10/04 02:41 - ID#30733
French Ban Religious Symbols in School
Another Google News Quote - "The French National Assembly has overwhelmingly voted a ban on "visible" religious adornments in public schools."
I am sure this makes people really angry but I say, "more power to you secular government!" I would like to see an all out ban on religion in France, as a model of social evolution for the world!!! I would like to see Buffalo follow in the model.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/10/04 02:36 - ID#30732
Atkins was Obese
I find this google news report to be really amusing in an ironic way. It must make all of those poor people in Buffalo eating six pounds a bacon/day with chicken wings for desert, feel really nervous. I know lots of people that follow to this diet here in Buffalo. I think the weight ocurrs because eating only protein requires more water in the digestion process and thus you lose water weight. However, I am not a nutritionist and could be totally wrong. It just sounds disgusting and dangerous. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we find out he was being financially supported by the meat and diary industry!
The following quote is from google news in a report about the circumstances around Dr. Atkins death.
"Dr Robert Atkins, creator of the famous low-carbohydrate diet, was clinically obese at the time of his death, according to medical reports made public today.
The examiner's report said that Dr Atkins had suffered a previous heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension, all conditions that are related to obesity."
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/09/04 01:29 - ID#30731
Republican PopUps
It makes me sad the way that people abuse popUp windows. Its starting to ruin the internet. I know you can block them, etc but I really wish people would just stop using them maliciously, instead of us having to cut out a feature of the web to protect ourselves. I escpecially feel bad for the dial-up user who's connection can easily be overwhelmed by a barage of popUps that call for new popUps.
PopUps such as that one are particularly malicious in that when you click on them it send information (possibily a great amount) to their parent site, in this case republic-info.com.
The address it takes you to is For those of you that don't understand what this is doing, it is sending you to their site but it is also sending information about what site the popUp add came from and the particular media is in the popUp window. It is probably also recording your IP addr, MAC addr, etc.
By the way the popUp add was "Paid for by the Republican National Committe Not Authorized By Any Candidate or Candidate Committee, 310 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/08/04 06:08 - ID#30730
Mask With Hair
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02/08/04 04:21 - ID#30729
Machine Validated Vocal Performance
Terry sang "Billy Jean" and I sang "Girl's Just Want To Have Fun." The machine picked them for us. My cousin, her husband, my brother, Terry and I sang three rounds in a competition and the machine validated our performance.
The whole time I was thinking about how weird it is that we found this activity to be totally normal yet I cannot imagine the situation with the machine. I can't imagine sitting around taking turns singing and voting on who is better at it. By the way Christina is the best, by far. She is a karaoke diva.
QUESTIONS:
So what about the machine makes the activity so normal and accepted? Is this the situaion for many other activities? Does the addition of a machine make it seem somehow logical and thus acceptable? Is it perhaps that we are slowly being conditioned to accept the machine as source of authority? Have we been convinced by Sony/Konami that its more fun with a machine, so that we can buy their products? Does anyone have any ideas about this?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: design
02/07/04 02:04 - ID#30728
HornDance
I added some bones and some soft Ik and was able to re-pose the geometry to look like two object walking or one object stalking the other.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/07/04 12:12 - ID#30727
First Nerve for Brain
Its kind of hard to imagine them without seeing them in his project. So we will have to see. The project involves the viewer being present in the brain of a riot police man during a protest march. You watch through his eyes and then judge, using the facts and feelings you are presented with. When speaking with him on the way to the Trinh Minh-Ha screening yesterday,, he said it was an experiemnt of mixing documentary and VR.
I hope he likes the nerve. I have a feeling it would look nice if it had a pulsing light texture.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/06/04 11:39 - ID#30726
Masks for the VR Project
Since these models were created Josphine had me change t hem a bit - they look more like China Dolls now but I like them like this so for now you can see this version.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/05/04 02:37 - ID#30725
Music Lower Middle Class
The lower to middle middle class download music. Belonging to that income range, many of the people I know download music of the internet with some sort of P2P program like Kazaa or ?.
It is noteworthy that it puts them in a specific class I believe, directly in the middle of the class spectrum. They are the people that are wealthy enough to have a sohpisticated computer system and broadband internet connection but not so wealthy that buying retail priced CDs in mass quantity is no problem. It seems that the upward limit of the music downloading scheme are probably people in the upper middle and wealthy classes. At that point you are able to just buy CDs without monetary impact, so downloading music might not be worth the time.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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