Tell me why I shouldn't just instaban you out of hand?
>> ^Chinspinigcra:

Upvote for not being radical-left-wing-GWIZ-lie-machine-democrat-payola-shitt. This video is a proud one percent of it's kind on VS.

I tend to agree with you. It is an oddly dated piece. But I still think she is a fascinating figure in the 'art world'. Ugh. Hate that word.

From the NYT review:
" The museum estimates that, if she can stick to the plan, she will sit for 716 hours and 30 minutes, earning her a record for endurance in the performance art sweepstakes.

In a sense the whole business is another act of self-enshrinement in the art world’s ego Olympics, and that’s not interesting. Divas are a dime a dozen, and I don’t trust charisma anyway. More interesting, because it ties in with her impulse to conserve a possibly unconservable art form, is the way “The Artist Is Present” attempts to control time, hers and ours.

I have no idea what her experience of sitting in that atrium for all those hours will be; there has to be some serious agony involved, which is where she hooks up with her implacably daredevil younger self. But my guess is that her presence will have a demonstrable effect on visitors to the museum; that it will slow them down, get them out of drive-by looking mode.

And every now and then someone will slip into that chair across from her — that’s what it’s there for — and spend some time exchanging stares, or energy, or going blank, or thinking, maybe for the first time, about that hard, high-flown, funny word “endure.”

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^Chinspinigcra:
Upvote for not being radical-left-wing-GWIZ-lie-machine-democrat-payola-shitt. This video is a proud one percent of it's kind on VS.

First off.... what?

second, this does nothing for me unfortunately. I appreciate the time that went into this, but it's not beautiful, it doesn't show anything deep about the people she sat with, its just.. sitting.

>> ^Chinspinigcra:

Upvote for not being radical-left-wing-GWIZ-lie-machine-democrat-payola-shitt. This video is a proud one percent of it's kind on VS.


First off.... what?


second, this does nothing for me unfortunately. I appreciate the time that went into this, but it's not beautiful, it doesn't show anything deep about the people she sat with, its just.. sitting.

I understand the need to keep people from the work areas and allowing the work to continue unhindered. I even understand preventing the guy from approaching the rest area to some degree. But there are ways to deal with it that don't involve what is being shown in this video. They could simply barricade the area, post signs to keep the unauthorized out, and have their guards escort anyone off who enters the area without authorization.

But that is implying that they have the right to do that, which a lot of these areas are public locations. If they had the power it would be announced on the news and radio, and posted to keep away from these areas until announced otherwise. And that would be the best way to deal with the problem of camera men and the public at large, and made it a crime at the same time giving more deterrent. Except that I don't think they want to keep all the public from within speaking range of the workers, they just want to keep the people with cameras away. If it were truly dangerous to the public at large, it would be done by now. And we all know the public at large can't keep from driving through construction sites without barricades, avoiding uncovered man hole covers without barricades, and dealing with much of anything out of the normal where they can stick their nose to find out what's going on (don't those rubberneckers just piss you off? Especially when they drift all over the place.)

And this isn't just actual work sites they are preventing people from going to and filming. There are plenty of videos of the COAST GUARD stopping people from filming and exploring the coast line from sea because BP said so with no other reason than that. No booms were in place, there was absolutely nothing but oil coated coastline and dead/dying birds, sea life, etc.

And Im rather curious that there isn't a lot of personal footage being shot from people's own land of the mess and sent to these news networks to be aired, but I suspect that is being discouraged in another unknown manner as of yet.

As a sidenote: BP has been putting out low ball estimated reports for the leak, that webcam is underwater with no real frame of reference for the public. Without scale, that thing could be a pin prick in a garden hose or the size of that sink hole in Chile. They've since repositioned the camera a little to give better footage, but scale is still pretty hard to judge if you don't know how big the items being shown are. It's kinda like the realtors who like to shoot everything with that fish eye lens that warps everything out of shape to make it appear bigger...wasting your time looking at that shit since it could have been taken in a barbie house for all you know.


Coast Guard with BP guys stop reporters trying to check out oil covered location..they say it's not their rules by BP's rules "under threat of arrest".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/bp-coast-guard-officers-b_n_581779.html

Hadn't seen this one myself yet...it's even more apparent that they are blocking media exclusively...even from flying over:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/us/10access.html


Common sense and critical thinking tell me that they don't want the public at large getting pissed off and pressuring Congress to actually punish the company. The longer they can keep the illusion alive that the problem isn't horrifically bad, the more time they have to let the oil sink under the surface of the water and clean up those beaches...so it won't look as bad as it truly is. Oh and the illusion helps keep their stock prices up, if the clean up outlook is grim...their stock prices will tank. Can't have that happening. If they can keep the stock up, and Congress off their back...they'll only be out up to 75 mil in damages when the lawsuits start coming in...pretty nifty deal with the government contracts already having paid them 800+ million this year.

And upon watching it again, the supervisor gave the media permission to approach the rest areas (after the guards denied it, didn't ask the supervisor at any point as well) to see if the workers would speak to them. The security guards told them not to and continued to do so until they spoke for themselves. At which point the reporter thanked them for cleaning up the beaches and left. And as for the "deadness" of the shots, they didn't shoot much beyond the guards blocking access and their attempt to ask workers to speak to them. We don't know how many people the guards have chased off with or without the authority to do so under the law.

>> ^BrknPhoenix:

Please do re-read your hippie comments and reflect for a bit. These things are why you are throwing fire on an Internet website and not making actual decisions.
Let's think about it a minute. If BP/the gov't gives carte blanche for all reporters, what's going to happen? The next day they're going to have thousands of reporters standing in the way of the actual work being done. All of the workers will be talking to reporters instead of working. They will create a disruption.
I'm not defending BP for the oil spill at all, but having a little fucking common sense, people. The media does have access. There's a web cam on the spill itself for Christs' sake. That does NOT mean any random person can just walk right up to it and get in the way. It's no difference than me going to the White House, and after being denied access, claiming that because of that, they have something to hide.
Also, take a look at that shot. It's dead. There's not a ton of reporters there. Everyone knows the rules. These douchebags know the rules too. They're deliberately trying to stir shit up by asking questions to "Rent-a-cops" about what the CEO of the company says, and making unreasonable demands about going onto a work-site.
Do keep this in mind one day when you finally go over the edge, and after mowing down half a school's worth of kids in your Prius after a hella cocaine bender, the media can't follow you right into your place of work because you too enjoy protections like the workers of BP! Isn't America wonderful.
The steps go like this. Step 1) Think critically. Step 2) Lynch. Not the other way around.

I think the webcam was a laptop cam, because it shook every time he put his hands down. A guess, but not 100%

Brilliant.

But he does need to get himself a better webcam, seriously, what piece of shit does he use?

>> ^raverman:

Cool technology. just... can we use a primary color palette that doesn't look like it was vomited up from the early 90's?


That's what Apple will do, then claim that they're innovative.

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CAN'T STOP POUNDING KEYBOARD!!!!

The laptop was one of those from that school that sent home spyware with the kids. That explains the webcam being on. Will you silly tinfoil-hat-wearing-conspiracy-nuts please stop overlooking the most obvious explanations? Good lord.

http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-valahnjuk
Here is a live webcam of the volcano on Iceland, is spewing serious amounts of ash right now...

Do you know anything about the one that is happening right now and grounding air traffic in Europe?

A link to a webcam would be great unless it is the same as before... seems to be a big eruption...

*edit
and here is a link to the bbc with short flyby video of the eruption
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8578576.stm

Yep, there are eruptions every 3 or 4 years. It's parked on the mid-atlantic ridge AND a hot-spot so there's a lot going on in the subsurface. It's still neat though, especially when they have a live webcam on it

In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
Iceland is a volcanic island. This is normal, I thought.

>> ^eric3579:

Live webcam of Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Thanks, @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/residue" title="member since July 22nd, 2007" class="profilelink">residue for your sift talk post.


no problem nice vid.

Live webcam of Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Thanks, @residue for your sift talk post.