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Podcast #11

Ok, here’s Episode 11:

you can download it directly here
…and its available on Blip

Or get it from iTunes

and also there is Feedburner

This is Episode 11, we’re recording again through SL voice due to unexpected technical problems (we’re cursed, i swear). We discuss a penis fountain, a giant floating cube, an audiobiographical story-sculpture inside a pink hemisphere and many other strange and wonderous things. Don explains how Jack the Pelican exists because he wants to fall in love and later goes off on formalism.

A few more notes after listening to this podcast again: In this podcast Don says a number of things that Jay takes time to disagree with in this later blog discussion. We talk about Amy’s Creepy Loveletter to AM Radio. We also take note of the huge up-tick in traffic to the BIW sim that has happened since SecondLife.com featured us on their showcase… um late-night avatars out there… not all of us think of you as rats. I know alot of you are out there listening to these podcasts because we can see the steady rise in our stats so let your voice be heard by posting on this blog and telling us what you think about all the crazy nonsense that came out of our mouths during this podcast. Which works would you give a 10 out of 10… or 4 thumbs up… or any of the other rating systems we are using?

Panel includes: Jay Newt, Amy Freelunch, Don Carroll, Boris Kizelshteyn

Artist Discussed: Czarhahn yao, Markus Wirthmann, Selavy Oh, Klink Epsilon, Juria Yoshikawa, Sebastian Standish

NEW! – here are pics of all the work we are talking about 

Posted by jvanb on Saturday, May 24th, 2008 at 4:07 pm.

7 Responses to “Podcast #11”

Hey!

Thank you for the kind words about my piece :D .

The color is actually Vermilion but with the SL lighting and shinny applied it can look like other colors. That is one of the reasons used the word Vermilion in the title. It was the best color I felt expressed the emotion of the piece. Red is would have been to express just anger on it’s own but there is a lot of sorrow as well so that’s why the color was chosen.

I’m glad the piece got such a great response. I known now that I’m on the right track :D

Thank you again

Klink

Left by Klink Epsilon on May 24th, 2008

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Left by Brooklyn Is Watching Podcast « The Art of Klink on May 24th, 2008

um… something is wrong with the blip.tv link. that or a bunch of munchkins got into the editing booth with you… :)

Left by Amy Freelunch on May 25th, 2008

Hello folks,

I’d like to respond to something that was said on this podcast, I think by Don or maybe Dan? He talked about the BiW sim being turned pink and said “how interesting is that?”. I was responsible for some of the pinkness that week and it did actually mean something. The pink triangles I left related to an installation I had in Amsterdam that week focusing on the theme of injustice and intolerance toward homosexuals throughout history. The large pink triangle I left near the entrance of BiW had a notecard in it with the following explanation:

“The pink triangle, now a gay pride and gay rights symbol, was originally used to denote homosexual men as a Nazi concentration camp badge.

The pink triangle was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used by the Nazis to identify male prisoners in concentration camps who were sent there because of their homosexuality. Prior to WWII, pink was historically a male colour as an offshoot of red, and pink was chosen not because it meant the wearer was feminine, but because they liked other men. Every prisoner had to wear a triangle on his or her jacket, the color of which was to categorize him or her according “to his kind.” Jews had to wear the yellow badge, and “anti-social individuals” (which included vagrants and “work shy” individuals) the black triangle.

The inverted pink triangle, originally intended as a badge of shame, has become an international symbol of gay pride and the gay rights movement.”
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I do accept that the large triangle and 100 smaller ones I placed at BiW may not have been interesting to you as art, which may have been why it was overlooked. It was also intended as an invitation to see the large-scale installation at Amsterdam where the message was much clearer and stronger.

*video here .

-Arahan-

Left by Arahan Claveau on May 26th, 2008

Arahan! I completely missed that — I didn’t see the pink triangle- and infact didn’t see the pink as a triangle at all–maybe it was there black overlapping part of it?

For anyone reading this– this is a good reason to use the mailbox that Amy Set up on the sim to inform us of your activities– or send email to watchable@brooklyniswatching.com

Left by jvanb on May 26th, 2008

Ah yes Jay, I did also make a pink floor but that wasn’t what I was talking about above. There were 100 tiny pink triangles scattered near the entrance that were set to physical and a larger fixed one with the info inside. I got a quick snapshot of the tiny triangles before the pink floor was laid -

(img src=”http://www.crabcult.com/biwpink.jpg”>

I don’t think the mailbox Amy placed was there at the time. Good idea though, if I leave anything again I will use it.

Left by Arahan Claveau on May 26th, 2008

Bloody HTML! -

Left by Arahan Claveau on May 26th, 2008

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