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Rhizome Ghost - 24-Hour DOA
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You enter a small candlelit library. A crowd of mourners mill about an open coffin in the center of the room. In the coffin rests a body wrapped in a white sheet. The sheet has two black spots painted on for eyes.
T.Whid approaches you dressed in black, two whiskeys in hand. As he offers you a drink, he begins...
T. Whid -- Hell. Glad you could make it out tonight, didn’t think you'd make it. Here, have a drink, find a place to stand. M.River is going to start soon. Lauren, Patrick and Luis are already here. I think they're over at the buffet table. Please, help yourself. Thanks again for coming out.
As you make your way through the crowd to the buffet table, M. River, dressed in a white suit with black armband, climbs onto a chair near the coffin. He raises his arms into the air and begins.
M. River -- Dearly Beloved, a few months ago Luis Silva asked T.Whid and I to participate in an email-based exhibition hosted on Rhizome. We had recently been thinking about how Rhizome has, in the past, been used not only as a place to announce and talk about art, but also as a platform to create art. We were also thinking about some MTAA projects like "vieweratstar67@yahoo.com" (http://www.mteww.com/3mb/), "Endnode AKA Printer Tree" (http://endnode.net/) and "Karaoke DeathMatch 100" (http://www.mteww.com/kdm100/), all of which incorporated open, group interactions.
We were thinking about a key on the floor, a group identity, and an empty room. We were also thinking about, as we often do when we think about the Internet, ghosts.
We worked with Rhizome to set-up an open account using the ghost@rhizome.org email address. We then wrote this text as our work for the "FW: Re: Re:" (http://rhizome.org/editorial/fp/blog.php/908) exhibition:
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a one-month email haunting of rhizome.org (aka ghost@rhizome.org) user name: ghost@rhizome.org (rhizomeghost@gmail.com)
password: boobooboo 11-07-2008 to 11-08-2008
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Less than 24 hours after the ghost was released, it was locked down. The ghost's password was changed barring the public from interacting with the piece. The ghost's controller next bombed Rhizome with spam, racist rants and sexist screeds for a few hours then stopped.
Two options presented themselves: 1) continue the project with a smaller group of people or 2) kill the project. Of the two choices, killing the project after 24 hours seemed like the only honest thing to do.
So, here we are one week later to bid farewell to ghost@rhizome.org.
Now, If you would all please raise you glasses with me. A toast! To the belief that utter and complete failure is still a viable option in art. The ghost is dead. Long live the ghost!
As you file out with the sobbing crowd, you notice T.Whid preparing to pound a stake into the ghost's heart as M.River douses the sheet with gasoline, while waving a dead chicken over it.
Well, kind of...
Bite me!
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Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten email of lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my inbox's door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my inbox's door -
Only this, and nothing more.'
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Post the most hideous pics you can.
Yo guys do me a solid and visit mai channel and rate my sick vids they're fucking crazy mann! YAHHH!
I have three Sony VAIO computers - one dating from ~2005 and the other two from ~2007, and one G4 mac titanium dating from ~2004/2005. Via PM, I am willing to provide other details such as which computer I am using at any moment and the identity of its operating system. Best of luck.
I think there are enough teams willing to keep playing to at least have one division going. Or is TPG going to move to Thursdays and try to keep it going. I just really dont wanna see competitive play go out the door.
israel-: sup
Dark_Phantom36: hi
israel-: yo can u do me a favor
Dark_Phantom36: maybe
israel-: can u join my cs comiunity group
israel-: i need 1 more user for vip acces
israel-: can u do that for me?
Dark_Phantom36: yeah
israel-: ok go here
israel-: steamgames.vndv.com
israel-: login and then look in the corner for groups and look for hard 2 overcome
israel-: i will apriciate that
israel-: did you find it?
israel-: the password is winout for u to join
Dark_Phantom36: oh, btw
Dark_Phantom36: i'm not stupid
Here's his profile:
http://ellenfieldn.dreamhosters.com/demos..
Here's what the site looks like:
http://ellenfieldn.dreamhosters.com/demos..
I think he also went by the alias adam think! or something.
Just thought it was interesting.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2..
Quick explination of article: Mother sent kid to school with a swastika drawn on her arm(in canada) and her kids were taken away.
someone quoted this:
QUOTE:
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has "white pride" flags in her home
person A: "What's a white pride flag?"
person B: "a flag that says WHITE PRIDE on it."
person c: "No, it's like the Gay Pride flag, only all the colors are white."
and the punch line:
person d: "No, that's the flag of the French army."
.....................yeah.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi36..
Pixar is money.
the games were amazing, but sadly I doubt the movie will do it justice :(
Everyone here needs to ask themself the following question, simply because it will allow you to know who you truly are. Without it, you're a stranger in your own mind.
Would you rather break your own index finger, or allow someone to take a poo on your chest?
Please keep your "it depends..." or "I would choose x only if..." to a minimum. Just stick to the basics and answer the question as best you can.
The poll: http://www.buzzdash.com/?page=buzzbite&BB..
Thoughts and comments are welcome.
1. Eat it?
2. Turn into lost and found?
3. Put it back in the stall (but someone else might eat it!)?
4. Give it to a homeless guy?
It made My eyes bleed
12-07-07
Now 12-07-08.
It's that time of the year.
It's time for the raids of Habbo to commence for another year, when the black man struggles to survive.
It's time to CLOSE THE POOL again.
It's time to get aids and blame it on the faggot HabboHotel Mods.
It's time to raid, once again.
I was on myspace a few days ago...was on some truth application thing on it...and I saw a girl post "Do you think I'm pretty? I don't think so.". Typical attention whore deal right? Eh...I commented...said she was cute. Later on like 10 min later I see the same pic of this chick and a paragraph yelling at people about how they are pussies for staying anonymous and saying shes ugly. Well I again said "Relax! I said you were cute earlier...", then I gave her my AIM.
She got on and we talked for a bit. I found out she was a pretty big whore. Fucks almost everyday. Twice usually. And she is a damn good whore. Takes it in the ass,no gag reflex, can be fisted in both holes and she lets you cum inside her. No rubber. Has done almost every drug also. Mostly does pot and coke. And smoke. She also is a drunk. Almost drunk the whole day. But then I started to get to know her more about herself and not what she does.
She is pretty lonely. Lives in her parents house all by herself. Her parents are always somewhere us in the world. She doesn't know their job, but whatever the job, makes them fucking rich. They're millionaires. Well anyway, she had a boyfriend. She was madly in love with him. Well...he's dead. Got killed by a drunk driver. Reason she is a whore? She just wants to feel loved. Poor girl justs want to feel loved. And fucking some random guy at a party makes her feel loved for those few min. She knows it's not real love, but she does it anyway.
Oh...and she's not really that alone. She has a 1 year old. It's the dead boyfriends.
Now me, I'm pretty alone too. No one here in this town wants me. And I'm a lil chubby. So I start to fall for her as we talk more and more everyday. Soon we decided to date. Yes, LONG DISTANCE DATING. OH MY. And it goes pretty fucking well! I get her to stop sleeping around of course. Get her to stop drinking, stop drugs except for pot...thats shit isn't harmful, and we start to fall in love, talk on the phone everyday. And it's all due to my words of encouragement. Well then shit gets real.
For one, her parents are making her move to Paris. Ya. I mean doesn't suck that much considering I never have met her, but still sucks. over 9000, she found out that she's pregnant again. What's that? She cheated? No...I didn't want to admit this Anonymous but, we have only known each other for 3 days. Yep. 3 days. So of course this child is one of her drunken fuck's kid, and she has to guess that can be with 20 different guys. So that sucks, but I'm willing to deal with it. Also she might miscarriage due to all the coke and alcohol.
Now is the part when I tell you how this is making me set for the rest of my life.
She is gonna go to Paris, yes, but soon as she turns 18 (Sadly I am not some old fucker and I'm 18), which is next year in the spring, she is coming back to the U.S.A. to buy a fancy dancy rich person house next to a lake here and let me live with her. She will let me have anything I want. Also, I get a fucking sex goddess. She is very flexible and all that stuff I mentioned earlier, she loves sex, and she loves my thick cock. Lastly, she is just the sweetest chick you ever have met.
Now before I end my gloating some of you are probably thinking “But Anonymous! She probably is lying about stopping the drugs,drinking,sleeping with other guys, all of it!”.
Nope, as I was talking to her tonight she told me “Fuck, this douche I use to fuck a lot is here. Let me tell him to leave”. I listen in and hear the guy saying shit like “oh baby give me some head” and such. She goes on a rant about how she is a changed woman and that she is in love with Anonymous, onlys wants his cock, and that he can go fuck himself. He leaves.
She gets back on phone and I tell her, “I heard that whole thing, haha.”
“You did?”
“Yes, and due to it I love you even more.”
She also told me she had a cat. It was an orange cat and she loved it. It died in a plane ride from a visit to family members. Also she has an uncle that raped her.
And when my uncle raped me my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'
I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suite case and send me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.
First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.
Is this what the people of Bel-Air living like?
Hmmmmm this might be alright.
But wait I hear they're prissy, wine all that
Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat?
I don't think so
I'll see when I get there
I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air
Well, the plane landed and when I came out
There was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out
I ain't trying to get arrested
I just got here
I sprang with the quickness like lightning, disappeared
I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said 'FRESH' and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought 'Now forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air'
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To settle my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
as you all have noticed some strange emails have been sent today to
the list. These emails were sent from the account "ghost@rhizome.org",
which was created specifically for a performative/experimental
haunting of Rhizome conducted by MTAA and as part of the FW: Re: Re:
project launched yesterday. Unfortunately, and despite this email
account being initially open to allow a collective "haunting", the
content and tone of the messages made us stop and reconsider.
Thanks for understanding.
best,
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Luis Silva
Curatorial Fellow
Rhizome
at the New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
http://www.rhizome.org
luis.silva@rhizome.org
michael
oh, he's a curatorial fe-llow, oh he's a curatorial fell-ow!