Hey!

Thank you for the kind words about my piece .

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

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

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 -

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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

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Left by Arahan Claveau on May 26th, 2008