Kitchen Sink Omelet

After reading so many of the hate emails sent to Daily KoS, they (no surprise) seem to read the same after a while: like 10-12 year-old children writing nasty things while their parents--or keepers--aren't looking. And none of them really have anything significant to say. But amidst the noise, certain loaded terms ('trigger words") kept popping out. So I used an online word-cloud service to illustrate this. No editing was done. I simply copy and pasted the text of each quoted email into the word-cloud generator and clicked "Go." Once the image was generated, I copied it into Irfanview and saved it as a JPG. Then I used the Page feature of Photoscape to assemble the collage. There was no selection process; I added each image as it's turn came up in the list. I chose the collage as it makes the loaded words pop out, more noticeable. The word-cloud was set to show the most used words in large type. IMO this shows what each hate-mail was really about, what ...

Oldest rock art in Egypt discovered. 15,000 years old.

See previous blog posts here and here . Ashley's untitled installation is complete. It's located in the Flex Room of the UMF Community Arts Center in Farmington, Maine. The full installation is best appreciated by actually experiencing it at the site. Ashley explained it's meant to be interactive. "It'll have a door, an opening, at one end and you go through a tunnel to sit in a chair inside." Once the installation is taken down, I'll post more images of the completed installation (including a video walk-through of the interior).

The Farmington Maine Historical Society held their annual wreath-making workshop. Located in the basement of the old North Church, members and volunteers from the city of Farmington and UMF students twisted together wreaths onto metal forms. Images by Willena Jennings The wreaths will be sold for $20USD each next Saturday for Chester Greenwood Day in downtown Farmington. The FHS would appreciate it anyone who purchases the wreaths returns the metal forms when they're done with them. The metal forms are the major expense of making the wreaths. Recycling them would help the FHS do this again next year.

While walking to UMF Mantor Library I spotted this protest taking place--in the middle of an empty commons? Turns out, that's the whole idea. An art installation by Ben, assisted by his classmates, on the theme of apathy, both public and private. Ben was faced with a creative block where he couldn't really find something to care about. His instructor suggested Ben use apathy as a theme. Ben took the idea and ran with it. "It's about the hypocrisy," Ben explained. "People don't care, I don't care. People don't care because they're isolated."

A very clever form of art protest: all OWS protesters are allowed to occupy is a piece of blue sky. These are tents carried aloft by balloons.

In Section A, Row 2 began with a broken marble headstone. Lifting up the stone to view it was on my list of things to do in the near future. But then three days ago I noticed someone had beat me to it. So I've updated the maps and Treepad file on my Center Cemetery webpage .