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The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the Pacific Ocean during Valiant Shield 2014 Sept. 18, 2014. Valiant Shield is a biennial U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps exercise held in Guam, focusing on real-world proficiency in sustaining joint forces at sea, in the air, on land and in cyberspace. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Philip Wagner Jr., U.S. Navy/Released)
Well, here's another character from Greenflame24's story, cyberSPACE.
The latest chapter (chapter 11, as of writing this) had a scene that was just too inspiring to not make a render of. XD
~Operator011
As part of MOD’s full-spectrum military capability, the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, has announced that the department is set to recruit hundreds of computer experts as cyber reservists to help defend the UK’s national security, working at the cutting-edge of the nation’s cyber defences.
Mr Hammond confirmed the creation of a new Joint Cyber Reserve which will see reservists working alongside regular forces to protect critical computer networks and safeguard vital data.
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Small Dutch collectors card.
New series alert!
We invite you to join a quiz at Truus, Bob & Jan too! From tomorrow on, we promise you one of the most difficult and engaging film quizzes in cyberspace! For the second time, La Collectionneuse a.k.a. Marlene Pilaete lets us guess: Who's that lady? For this daily quiz, Marlene spent many nights going through her albums with film star postcards. Finally, she selected 16 rare and amazing postcards of female vedettes for us. So join the fun and try to guess who they are. On 27 November we will make a special La Collectionneuse post with all the cards at European Film Star Postcards, and the next day Marlene will finally reveal who the 16 ladies are.
Today we share four more Dutch collectors cards of unidentified women that we recently acquired. I guess they date from the early 1960s. Pictured are some of the sexiest ladies on the screen. According to the seller, all the photos had been published in the Dutch Oh-la-la magazine De Lach, in English 'The Smile'. As young kids, Truus and I read De Lach at home (these were the liberated 1970s), while my family received the magazines from my grandma. My grandma never read them, but out of pity for the man who delivered the magazines, she refused to cancel the subscription and gave the copies to my father. So smile and please comment who you think this lady is.
Bob
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AI creation on Nightcafe
EVOLVED from DreamShaper v8 with RealVisXL v4 Lightning
Originally, the seed image came from a creation over a year ago, February 2023 on Deep Dream Text2Dream, where I used a different prompt:
**Purple heart outside the body - Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy"? highly detailed imperial colors cinematic postprocessing Hieronymus Bosch H.R. Giger Giger Alien Cthulhu**
I ran into this by chance again and thought I try it out with one of my more recent prompts about 'Ayahuasca', the basics of which originated with my good friend Paulo Cunha - but in this case I added a 'lecture' about Cyberspace quoting Timothy Leary.
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PURPLE HEART IN CYBER SPACE - A Surreal Fantasy Painting by the Mystic Otto Rapp under the Influence of funny bone extract with ayahuasca, inspired by Ernst Fuchs, H.R. Giger and Beksinski, oilpaint on canvas, detailed strokes, psychedelic collage, cryptid taxidermy in Bogomils Universe, imperia colors. Applying different models, prompt weights and noise to a image from our perceived reality, using AI, moves it into alternate dimensions that are subjected to quantum physics. And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit. Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture
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another one of those bot auto mods - this is labelled NSFW - but I don't care, can't use it in challenges anyway because of a supplied seed image - probably can't use a anti-war statement in the text, I assume. Bravo Nightcafe - we are all supposed to cheer for WAR!
I went back to the same spot as my last good star trails shot and did a much longer exposure. It was supposed to be a relatively short exposure, but then I kept adding more and more time to it until it became a half-hour exposure.
Dr. Marco Buschmann, Bundesminister der Justiz und Dr. Valesca Molinari, General Counsel des Cleantech Unternehmens Sunfire, diskutierten beim UdL Digital Talk am 24.11.2022 mit Moderator Cherno Jobatey über das Thema “Aktendeckel zum Cyberspace – wie digitalisieren wir den Rechtsstaat?“.
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Fotos: Henrik Andree
This is a Punk-Cyber, who walks throu the cyberspace and does cyberpunk.
Because Rogue Bantha didn\'t rename his Punkbot I had to build my own Cyber.
the fotos was taken by my friend Carlo
A user in the modern cyberspace, the knowledge can be overwhelming if chaos prevails. Don't get trapped!
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
William Gibson, Neuromancer
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obligatory oblique star trek reference :p
Taken at TORLEY ISLAND =^_^= OMG! CYBERSPACE! DIGITAL FRONTIER! lulz, Torley (131, 134, 3001)
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Ian Wallace, Co-Director of the Cybersecurity Initiative, New America; Senior Fellow, International Security Program;
Paul Triolo, Geo-technology Practice Head, Eurasia Group;
Graham Webster, Lecturer and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School;
Samm Sacks, Senior Fellow in the Technology Policy Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies;
John Costello, Cybersecurity Fellow, New America
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Burn2 rose up from the dust in 2007, became a virtual Regional in 2010 and is the oldest of the recognized universes in the Multiverse of Burning Man in Real Life. The annual main event, Burn2 2020: The Multiverse, runs October 9-18, 2020. Participate in radical self-expression with fire, art, camps, performances, workshops and music. Or you can volunteer, there are year round events. More at www.burn2.org
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Model: Sophia Noir & Samuel Nox
Cyberpunk Shooting
Location: Regensburg
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Please note this was posted for Facebook audience lol
These are the same Adidas keds gifted by my only daughter Samiya ...earlier she gifted my wife and me and even her brothers each a pair of Puma .
She lives in Delhi self independent ..she lives on her own terms ..I could not be a great father to her because of my lustful attachment to alcohol ...and when I did renounce the bottle took sanyas from yacht and other iconic drinking holes of Bandra I could not salvage any good memory with my kids .
So in a way my grandchildren are my penance I am a grandfather to my sons kids ...my daughter has decided she won't give me the opportunity of every being a grandfather to her child and I don't blame her...on second thoughts I should have not married ..but that is merely far fetched wishful thinking .
I have just come back from the tennis court and a few rounds at the park that was once known as Rizvi garden .
I walked through the bylanes bought a DNA I subscribe to HTA and Midday .
The jambul lady the tadgola guy was surprised why I did not buy anything today ...my wife is in Lucknow tending to her father who is critically unwell ...I don't know when she will return .
I stopped shooting pictures I also humbly stopped calling myself a blogger too many bloggers on cyberspace ..I am a storyteller and I tell original stories amusingly shot on my mobile phone each time I leave home I try to add a new story and in Bandra there is no mental block , stories grow on trees but you need to pick them up before they become over ripe ...but not being very gifted with words or grammar I need a picture to tell my story ..sometimes my story becomes your story as you once stayed in Bandra ..
And these keds about 3 month old have walked rigorously with me twice to Juhu and once to Versova from Bandra back to Khar ...
I only wear them for my walks ..normally I wear bathroom slippers and nobody has ever stolen them though they are branded in a way because they belong to me I am a beggar garbage Fucked brand of Bandra.
The most important part of storytelling you should no when to begin and when to Stop .
So Fuck stop tagging me ...I am sick and tired of the borrowed posts of religion that you tag me ...desist please .
Amen ..
That is why I don't want shithead as friends ..I want less for me less is more I don't want 5000 friends. .
I am happy with the few ...and I have just a handful on my feed ..my oldest friends and my Filmy contacts my gifted siblings and most of my photographer friends very very dear to me ...
I post religion as a picture gallery no pushing prosyletizing my faith up your reluctant gullet or political posts up your reticent ass.
There is much I want to say shall keep it for my next picture .
Happy Morning from Bandra .
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TOP SECRET/NOFORN
II. Purpose and Scope (U)
The United States has an abiding interest in developing and
maintaining use of cyberspace as an integral part of U.S.
national capabilities to collect intelligence and to deter,
deny, or defeat any adversary that seeks to harm U.S. national
interests in peace, crisis, or war. Given the evolution in U.S.
experience, policy, capabilities, and understanding of the cyber
threat, and in information and communications technology, this
directive establishes updated principles and processes as part
of an overarching national cyber policy framework.
The United States Government shall conduct all cyber
operations consistent with the U.S. Constitution and other
applicable laws and policies of the United States, including
Presidential orders and directives.
The United States Government shall conduct DCEO and OCEO under
this directive consistent with its obligations under
international law, including with regard to matters of
sovereignty and neutrality, and, as applicable, the law of
armed conflict.
This directive pertains to cyber operations, including those
that support or enable kinetic, information, or other types of
operations.
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"Once humans develop the capacity to build boats, we build navies. Once you build airplanes, we build air forces."
- a senior US administration official
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Glenn Greenwald - Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks and presedential policy directive/PPD-20
The Ministry of Defence badge on a computer chip.
Britain will build a dedicated capability to counter-attack in cyberspace and, if necessary, to strike in cyberspace.
As part of MOD’s full-spectrum military capability, the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, has announced that the department is set to recruit hundreds of computer experts as cyber reservists to help defend the UK’s national security, working at the cutting-edge of the nation’s cyber defences.
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Model: Sophia Noir & Samuel Nox
Cyberpunk Shooting
Location: Regensburg
Bearbeitung: Jürgen Krall Photography
Bavarian International Curciut 2013: 2 Annahmen
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This author had such an influence on my life and the way I 'feel' about technology. A great moment for me to talk, shake his hand and snap this picture. 'Neuromancer' is really a milestone in sci-fi as well as 'Pattern recognition' (even though he refutes the sc-fi label for its later novels).
Spook Country promotional tour, San Francisco, CA 08/08/2007
Used on Wikipedia! See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson
As a cyberpsychologist, I'm beginning to wonder whether the hype about social media has gone too far, whether all that online multitasking and all the time and energy we put into managing our online presences are really that productive or healthy.
Books L to R
Cyberspace edited by Michael L. Benedikt.
Inside I found a clipping from Viilage Voice withthis story: Phiber Optik Goes Directly to Jail by Julian Dibbel. Dibell, the author of A Rape in Cyberspace an oft-cited article on Lambdamoo which was expanded in My Tiny Life and, most recently Play Money, has been writing interestingly and entertainingly about virtual communities since the early 90's.
Basics of Left-Handed Calligraphy by Margaret Shepherd
Presidents Birthplaces, Homes and Burial Sites by Rachel M. Kochmann
Tales of Times Square by Josh Alan Friedman
The Celts by Nora Chadwick
Queen Victoria's Little Wars by Byron Farwell
Bye Bye Baby: My Tragic Love Affair with The Bay City Rollers by Caroline Sullivan
Even music critics were young once
The Kingdom in the Country by James Conaway
The History of England by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain: 1870-1914 (Social Hist of Britain) by Jose Harris
Paper Moon by Joe David Brown
Originally titled Addie Pray the book from which Movie (and then, apparently, the TV series) was made
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand
Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places by John R. Stilgoe
The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840 (Everyday Life in America) . by Jack Larkin
George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945 : The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters (Collected Essays Journalism and Letters of George Orwell) by George Orwell
Spiked Boots: Sketches of the North Country by Robert E. Pike
He's a lumberjack
Just the One: The Wives and Times of Jeffrey Bernard by Graham Lord
A life of Jeffrey Bernard a frequently unwell journalist who liked a drink. Or, probably, a drinker who liked to write. His autobiography, Low Life is most entertaining, if also frightening.
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Best Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling
All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook
Children of the City: At Work and At Play by David Nasaw
Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus by Augustus
The Hard Life: An Exegesis of Squalor by Flann O'Brien
Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott
Medieval Village by G. G. Coulton
One Night Stands by Rosa Liksom
Front Row (mugs):
The mug of the book by Françoise Sagan
Model: Saphir Noir & Samuel Nox
Cyberpunk Shooting
Location: Regensburg
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In this shot, santa_sangre seems to be floating around outrun cyberspace
Lightpainting details: I had my gen3basic board with the new and improved 144 LED/M staff and one pattern. I also had my lightpainting feather with the old 60 LED/M staff showing a bitmap using CircuitPython. So, grab one, wave it around, then grab the other.
WPC 2010, Marrakesh, October 17 – Ulysse Gosset, Journalist, France Televisions; Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Minister of State for Forward Planning and Development of the Digital Economy
From an article in The Hollywood Reporter
This is from a hardhat tour I took of the Experience Music Project in Seattle as it was nearing completion April, 2000.
Note the Guitar World Special Issue Sept. 1985, edited by yours truly, Noë the G.
I wrote about it in this article, which was syndicated by the BPI Newswire but has somehow disappeared from cyberspace. Now it's back.
Experience This / A first look at Paul Allen's ambitious rock'n' roll temple
The Hollywood Reporter
June 13, 2000
By Noë Gold
All photos by Noë Gold
The high walls of the Sky Church are rumbling, literally shaking with a presence that is not of this Earth.
On the physical plane, the cavernous exhibition hall sits in Seattle, a few yards from the terminus of the monorail that links the city's downtown to its monolithic Space Needle.
On the spiritual plane, Jimi Hendrix, the avatar of guitar-driven rock 'n' roll who first asked "Are You Experienced?" is very much in the house -- a gleaming, new house that media mogul Paul G. Allen has built to honor popular American music.
The Sky Church is the spiritual centerpiece of the soon-to-open Experience Music Project, a massive museum designed by famed architect Frank O. Gehry to enclose 140,000 square feet of free-flowing, music-related exhibits on a 35,000 square-foot plot of land carved out of the city's once-grand Seattle Center.
The references to the Seattle-born Hendrix are intentional. The museum's mission, its founders say, is to have people experience the music. Come June 23, the first paying guests will find out what's going on inside the twisted, sky blue and magenta-hued piece of architecture that has been under construction since 1997.
The Sky Church concept is taken from one of Hendrix's dreams, in which he described a place where all diverse people could come together to appreciate music. The space fulfills Hendrix's prophecy by doubling as a grand exhibition hall by day and a performance space at night.
The EMP itself can be described as a museum with aspects of a theme park, through which people will take a "ride" amid the cultural artifacts that celebrate the blues-based, soul-inflected, rockabilly roots of American music.
More than 800,000 are expected to visit the nonprofit facility each year, with top ticket prices set at $19.95.
The museum opens with a party that will include musical performances by James Brown, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eminem and Snoop Dogg, Alanis Morissette, Eurythmics and Bo Diddley. MTV and VH1 will televise much of the hoopla.
Jody Patton, the EMP's co-founder and executive director and Allen's sister, dates the museum's genesis to 1992, when she and her brother attended a Sotheby's auction of rock 'n' roll memorabilia.
"Paul was intrigued by the artifacts," she says, "and we did the bidding. When the pieces arrived, we gingerly unpacked these things and we were in awe of how the spirit of the person who used them becomes imbued in the personal article. Paul said, 'If I think this stuff is really neat, then other people will be moved as well.'"
In Allen's longhair days, he played a Fender guitar. The obsession continues, except today Allen owns the Stratocaster that Hendrix played at Woodstock in 1969. And a whole lot of other stuff -- 80,000 artifacts, in fact, now reside here. More than 1,200 of them will be on display at at any given time.
The EMP's Hendrix Gallery enshrines the contract signed by the musician for Woodstock, revered objects of Hendrix's outrageous clothing and Allen's version of pieces of the cross: fragments of a guitar Hendrix smashed and burned at 1967's Monterey International Pop Festival.
The Guitar Gallery gives museum-style prominence to artifacts of rock like an early electric lap steel guitar, a Gibson Flying V prototype and axes played by the likes of the Byrds' Roger McGuinn and bluesman Tampa Red. There is a trumpet from Quincy Jones' early days in Seattle and song lyrics by another Seattlite, the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain. Bob Dylan's harmonica and Janis Joplin's pants are there, too.
A recent hard-hat tour reveals EMP is no mere memorabilia collection. Flat-screen monitors and interactive displays are everywhere. A snaking corridor leads to the "Crossroads" exhibit, the main exhibition area, where disparate musicians like Hendrix, hip-hop and Bing Crosby meet via multimedia.
Patrons can also wander into hands-on personal studios, where they can try their hands at keyboards, drums and guitars.
The facility is truly wired, with organizers especially proud of the flooring itself, a raised platform made of modular concrete slabs that can be removed and bolted down to give technicians access to miles of high-definition optical cable and ISDN lines.
Via a modular data processing unit called a MEG, visitors can zoom in on various exhibits and receive data about what they are seeing. They can then download bookmarks that may be accessed later.
In researching his designs for the building, Gehry visited a music store and looked at guitars, bringing some home and deconstructing them. "It's not supposed to be a smashed-up guitar," says EMP's design and construction project manager, Paul Zumwalt, who created the Portland Trail Blazers' Rose Garden basketball arena, another Paul Allen edifice. "It's about the spirit of the music, with its flow and movement."
Originally, the monorail was supposed to stop short of the building. But when Gehry saw that the monorail bisected the site, he began to play.
Allen and his sister wanted an architectural design that "could literally express the way we respond to the music." And the music she was describing is anything but conventional. Allen used the word "swoopy."
Swoopy is what they got. There is not a right angle in the place. Neighbors who watched the building come together were mystified by what looked like a jumble of curved metallic sections reaching up into the sky.
"What appealed to me about Frank," Patton says of the architect," was his commitment to exploring the process. ... His designs go to a new place aesthetically -- the curves. It is a living, moving, organic thing."
Kind of like Electric Ladyland.
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Graham Webster, Lecturer and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School;
Samm Sacks, Senior Fellow in the Technology Policy Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
The fireplace is casting a blanket of warmth through our cottage home but I still feel chilled. The small lake is as clear as a mirror today, leaves reflected in and floating on the surface burn with rich colours but I can’t really enjoy them today.
It was October 2002 and the cottage was on Bell Lake in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec. I had just spent three weeks in Iqaluit, Nunavut getting the academic year's courses underway. Within a few days of my return to the Ottawa area the youth suicide epidemic struck again. I wrote this letter to cyberspace but I really did not expect any response.
Yesterday my urban Inuit students in their course on Inuit art, spoke of death --- too many deaths, too many funerals and fresh graves in small communities where almost no one is left untouched. Another youth, Jimmy took his life last weekend in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The suicide rate in North America’s far north has no equal anywhere on our globe. We couldn't just talk about sculpture, prints and drawings. I strained to hear not just to listen . . . to force time to slow down. I was out of sync with the cadence of their voices. These are supposed to be the learners but I am learning from them. They were grappling with the loss of someone who was a real embodied presence throughout their youth and childhood. I needed them to help me understand. I speak too fast with too many words.
Seventeen hours later after trying to watch brain candy or tranquilize my mind with the hues and saturations of the lake leaves, I am still unable to settle in to my real world obligations. So I am writing letters to cyberspace addressing them to journalists. We are connected. NYT journalists do not simply produce our news stories, they construct our communal archives. The political philosophies that appear in the Times columns inform conversations internationally. Decisions made, policies enacted, interventions, transactions and agreements undertaken in New York, California, Washington, Kyoto, Rio Janeiro, The Hague, Tel Aviv, Baghdad, Beijing, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Toronto have as much --- if not more --- impact than conversations and consultations held in Nunavut. Assumptions and debates about the market, big or small government, direct democracy, policing, racial profiling, drugs, welfare, poverty, taxes that are covered in the pages of the New York Times impact far beyond the space on the grid of a New York mile and the time contained in a New York minute.
This is not Jimmy’s story. Inuit have tried hard to teach me that I cannot tell their stories. I can only tell my story through my eyes and my experience. Jimmy used to live in Iqaluit, Nunavut. He had a good construction job and his friends knew him as a young man who had a lot to live for.
Construction in Nunavut is booming. Entrepreneurs come north for several years or decades and legally amass fortunes as they rush ahead to improve southern Canada’s GNP by building, renting and leasing northern dwellings at prices several times the cost of a similar dwelling in the south. This is a boon to government workers and the upper middle class both Inuit and non-Inuit. According to the logic of the marketplace, this will eventually trickle down to the Inuit who are the most disadvantaged in the North in regards to underemployment, access to education, health and housing. But the youth are dying so quickly I don’t know how many will be there to benefit when help finally does arrive. In the midst of this construction boom many Inuit are still living in overcrowding conditions shockingly comparable to the Third World. Nunavut is a conflicted region of great promise after negotiating a more equitable relationship to the rest of Canada but it is also a region of ever-deepening despair. Extremes of wealth and poverty co-exist with intimacy that is too close for comfort.
Last week Jimmy was part of the boom. He was one of the fortunate Inuit who had found a job. The friends who introduced me to Jimmy through their memories of him, described a young man full of promise. The cadence of the conversations yesterday, like many kitchen table conversations with First Nations, Inuit and Metis friends resonates with the dialogue and silences that narrate the ‘long take’ vistas of a Zach Kunuk video. One of the students from the Igloolik area --- where Atanarjuat was filmed --- spent yesterday afternoon tracing intricate trails in red on a university photocopy of a 1-125,000 map of the islands, waterways and mainland that he knew intimately from his years of traveling with his grandfather. As he traced the pathways, he meticulously wrote the names of familiar places in red syllabics. From time to time he would explain the meaning of these coded words. Each place name described the physical space so accurately it was as though he succeeded in breaking the code that unlocked Borges’ ‘Art of Cartography.’ As he spoke, Julia whispered warnings about imposed flag post place names like Fury Strait. He created a virtual image for me --- and anyone else in the room who strained to listen. The images, sounds and smells he evoked were themselves Hauntings. As he traced and retraced these red pathways that barely covered inches on the photocopied map --- I, the cyborg collector of digital archives, could take a Janet Cardiff’s Wanås Walk… three-hour hikes… seven-hour hikes to his favourite places… seeing panoramas vicariously through his eyes… hearing silence and the wind, tasting… smelling. The place names acknowledged the super natural market of food supplies available to travelers who had local knowledge. He indicated and word painted the tiny island called Tern Island where his father was born.
He fingered the miniscule unmarked place on the map haunted by the toxicity of the abandoned Dew Line site that is socially, historically, politically, emotionally and physically charged. These stories of these sites, like the stories of the many suicide martyrs, have been erased from communal memory. But the threat of their toxins is a constant reminder of the fragility of the micro ecosystem of this unique place.
The island of Igloolik --- the place of many dwellings --- is where the family of my guide on my vicarious journey, returned for generations. Centuries of overlapping circular trails could be traced on this map in sharp contrast to the grid-like pattern of modernity cut into a New York mile of urban architectural spaces. The layered trails would represent countless seasonal journeys from hunting camp to fishing camp traveling on foot, by dogsled, kayak, Peterhead, snow machine or by foot. Like so many isolated places in the North --- Igloolik --- has been inhabited by the semi-nomadic Inuit for centuries if not millennia. Travelers walking on the land still come across centuries-old natural museums, archives and caches that should have been forgotten. Because the archives are not written, there is an assumption that they do not exist. But the tundra itself has written the story of the early travelers in vivid colours on ancient abandoned sites. Tiny resistant plants that flourished on organic accumulative remains unlock the entrance to the site of ancient bones and tusks. Discarded objects and ancient bones tell stories of those who traveled before.
How far can you go in a New York minute? How many miles are encompassed in the Wall Street grid? How much widescreen and close-up geography can be covered in the longue duree, the ‘long take’, the extended view that echoes natural time. Jimmy’s identity was a personal geography he inhabited, composed of endlessly repeated everyday habits haunted by a communal history that resists the forced act of forgetting.
This week Jimmy’s life and story is beginning a process of being wiped out, completely erased, deleted from communal memory. In an everyday life process his image is beginning already to move from opacity to transparency in the painful but unspoken process of total erasure from a community’s memory. Once the local memory is completely gone, the tiny byte of time and place that he once occupied will be irretrievable from the meta files of data being processed in this the age of the great flood of the archives. If he had children they will never know their father’s story. His image will not be found in photo albums nor will laughter at his exploits be shared around kitchen tables. His name --- if it ever does come up again --- will be spoken only in whispers. Jimmy is not being cruelly punished for dying young. His memory, his life is doubly and triply erased in a desperate attempt to save the youth around him. In Iqaluit, Nunavut there is still nowhere for those youth-at-risk to go for help. They are living and dying through the worst epidemic of suicide on the planet.
When my granddaughters are reading the socio-economic, cultural and political histories of North America several decades from now, how will the story be told? How can and will the bones of this entire generation of our youth be explained and justified? These are our youth. They are not Canadian or American. They are North American.
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
October, 2003
Bell Lake, Quebec, Canada
I had just returned from Iqaluit, Nunavut where I had set up two courses. I had developed a northern-centred course on Human Rights that was I was teaching along with the Introduction to Sociology I had taught from January to June in 2002. I didn't really want to return to Nunavut but the Director and administrators of the Centre for Initiatives in Education really wanted me to go again. Last term was such a success they had signed an agreement with Nunavut Arctic College President, McClenning. But the Inuit Art Foundation in Ottawa wanted me to teach their courses again as well. So I was commuting between Iqaluit and Ottawa. My own PhD was moving too slowly.
Email correspondence in response to letter
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:01:08 -0400
Subject: Re: An Epidemic of Youth Suicide
To: Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
From a friend and mother who works in education in Iqaluit, Nunavut
Thank you for your for sensitive insights and for taking action. Your letter is very eloquent and persuasive. I am at my wits end with the number of deaths as it impacts so terribly on the youth left behind. I had to get my x out of town once again at the end of August after a friend died in a wasteful and tragic car accident. x stayed out visiting family and friends, then joined x and I for Thanksgiving in our x house. It was so peaceful and sane. We all returned on Sunday. The very first phone call to x was from a friend informing x of Jimmy's suicide. x had worked with Jimmy last summer at x. x just collapsed and all the healing seems for nought. Yet x went to the funeral yesterday, but today x hasn't really risen from bed. And at lunch today, I heard that x's step son (really her grand son) died last night, a possible suicide, but we won't know until the autopsy is completed. He was only 19. I think we may have to move away, just in order to keep our x healthy and optimistic about life and youth. Again, though you letter so beautifully articulated the problem. I hope they respond.
From a friend, an anthropologist in Israel working with an off-campus Social Work program for Bedouin women:
Your letter arrived just in the right time to strengthen my belief that, after all, we are connected by some sort of a great path leading us to the same places, meeting us at some crossroads. In two days I am about to start a new course named "Inter-cultural Training in Human Services". Your letter will certainly be shared with the students at the beginning of the course, used as a starting point. I thank you so much for letting me be part of your healing -I consider it as our mutual need for healing. I know from very close the feelings of self-devastation, just from hearing about the silent violence in their lives. But we need to heal ourselves so we can continue hearing the stories and expand the message as far as we can, to as many ears we can, especially to those who can make changes. The act of hearing itself is, I believe, a direct healing process, a humanizing process, we experience with the direct victims of the community, all hurt by the violence. Be strong and courageous to go on in this painful task and remember to take care of yourself. I am always here for you (despite the distance) very close to you in my thoughts and feelings. wish you all the best and warm hugs to x, x
From a university student
Your story was emotionally moving. It is truly unfortunate how there are not enough articles that try and explain the truth, that will attempt to reveal an alternate side to what is actually going on. The newspaper is a valuable source of information, however if we cannot rely on it to report factual accounts than how are we to remain informed? I find that in today’s society it is getting harder and harder to experience true reality. Organizations that are supposed to relay news to us (the individuals) such as CNN, The New York Times, The Ottawa Sun, etc… seem to always have an incredibly bias view on things. It is unfortunate that instances like these occur yet; it seems that if they were to print the truth they would have too much to lose thus, resulting in uninformed patrons, such as yourself and others like me. The account you heard about Jimmy, appears to be a common story in native life these days, and it makes me sore inside. This summer on my way to Vancouver I had the pleasure of being seated next to a lovely young girl named Suzie. She was a young lady from Coral harbor – a small island off the coast of Hudson Bay in Nunavut. As we flew I found out many interesting things about the life she lived. The way hers differed from mine was substantially significant. She told me about her life up north, how she witness first hand a good friend of hers commit suicide, she experienced her brother take his own life, and even her local high school, it seemed like there was another case of suicide every other week. She was flying back to Victoria where she attended a fashion design school. Talking to her really opened my eyes up as I am sure your students opened yours. It was wonderful to see how far she had come along; taking into account the experiences she had gone through.
I believe part of the problem these youth face is the way in which society “has” regarded them. In the past native people have always been looked down upon and have been pushed around physically and mentally. There have been many repercussions created to alleviate the Native community, however many of these things have come a little too late. Obviously the argument can be made stating that these repercussions are better than nothing, yet it still doesn’t account for the losses native youth will suffer.
In order to understand what is actually going on in places such as Iqaluit there needs to be a proper healing process. Having stories printed in newspapers about those who have suffered are only the beginning of the healing process. Marilyn Manson, a famous musician was asked what he would have done to prevent the shooting that occurred at Columbine High School. He said “I wouldn’t have said anything to them; I would have listened to them, and what they had to say.” This is an attitude that should be adopted by many more school officials that deal with students and stressful environments. The youth of Iqaulit not only deserve someone to direct them in correct directions they NEED someone who is willing to listen and to understand their problems. Peter Tenute
Labels: benign colonialism, inuit social history, RCAP, youth suicide
Finally, the inside of the sleeve advertises Sam's Club's digital photo services. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can get any more early computing-era than that graphic on the left, lol! “We're in cyberspace,” clunky old computer, floppy disk, rainbow trails... love it XD
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By uploading these 1990s photo sleeves, I'm meaning to showcase the past - nothing else. No copyright infringement, however old, is intended, nor am I responsible for any repercussions (humiliating or otherwise) you receive for attempting use of any expired coupons photographed. And as always, if you share or use my photos, I'd appreciate if you gave me credit. :)
I took this shot when I was leaving Wilderness Park. By then my toes were really cold even though I was wearing boots.
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No doubt there are many advantages to in-person photography groups, but let’s face it: the Internet has opened a whole new world for sharing and discussing photography. In many respects cyberspace is the perfect media for images. In fact, it was the evolution of the Internet from text-only communication to text PLUS images that catapulted it from a place inhabited mostly by academics and techy people to a world that encompasses the whole world.
The current success of one photo-sharing community in particular has proven that photographers from many countries, with all sorts of backgrounds, with all skill levels, love communicating via images. Let’s see, what’s the name of that community?…. Oh yeah, FLICKR.
Why do people love such photo sharing communities? Although there’s always a technical learning curve when entering a new online environment, the software infrastructure, when well designed, makes it easy to upload, label, organize, comment on, and search for images. Good technical design also includes many of the features that make any online community successful: the ability for group discussion as well as private communication, profile pages for presenting your background information and establishing your online identity, interesting places for people to gather, social networking features, and, most importantly, your own personal “space” within the community that you can shape to reflect your personality and interests.
People also love these communities because of the PEOPLE. Research in the new field known as psychology of cyberspace or “cyberpsychology” clearly shows that online relationships and groups can be very meaningful additions to a person’s life. I first discovered this years ago when I was a member of the Palace avatar community. This research taught me that an online lifestyle, in some ways, is very similar to your in-person lifestyle - and in some ways it is very different, especially in communities that emphasize images. Cyberpsychology has uncovered some fascinating questions that inhabitants of Flickr encounter every day:
- What do people’s photos and images say about them?
- Do they express their “real” identity in their images?
-What should I reveal and not reveal about myself in the images and comments I post?
- What are the ambiguities and miscommunications that tend to happen when people express themselves with images, and with typed comments?
- How do I react when people reply to me and my photos with positive or negative comments? What does it mean if I get no response at all?
- Why am I drawn to some people, photos, and groups, and not others?
- What does it take to feel like I BELONG to this community?
- Is it possible to get “addicted?”
Participating in a photo sharing communities can help you evaluate yourself as a photographer. As you observe a wide range of photographic styles, techniques, and skill levels, you’ll get a better sense of your own strengths and weaknesses. You’ll get a better sense of where you want to go with your work. When communities like Flickr provide features that enable people to comment on and rate images, you can gather tangible information about how “good” your photography might be – although it’s often wise to take view counts and rating systems with a big grain of salt. Online communities can be complex, confusing places, with many different subgroups and subcultures, and no simple way to predict how and why they react to each other the way they do. To benefit the most from photo sharing communities, take what makes sense, seems useful, and feels good - and leave the rest.
* This image and essay are part of a book on Photographic Psychology that I’m writing within Flickr. Please see the set description.