Connecting to Spiritual Aspects in 3 Easy Steps

If you would like a free online reading of your tarot, please visit http://www.trustedtarot.com/free-reading/
This online interface allows you to pick 10 cards and it reveals different aspects about you.

Apparently I am Justice.
The Querant (you)
This card reveals your negative feelings, and provides additional information about how you feel in your present environment.
Justice is a very good card to find in your spread if you have acted with kindness and fairness towards other and, especially, if you have been a victim. It is a significant indicator of a positive resolution, although how and what sort will depend on your own experiences. If you have been unfair, abusive, or otherwise shady and immoral in your dealings, though, pay heed. For the unjust, this card is, at best, a dire warning to change your ways before retribution falls upon you, and, at worst, a simple statement that it is already too late. In neutral cases, it may simply be telling you to seek out balance in your life. In this position, the card reveals: You may be too inclined to judge others by appearance. Learn to look beneath.

Things We Learned From New Jersey and Elsewhere

This a .mov of a combination of Scott's and my PowerPoint Presentations.

Scott, Shannon, and I found a lot of helpful instructions from Ann Reynolds' "Robert Smithson: From New Jersey and Elsewhere" in the form of the Analogy part of the CATTt. The overarching theme was "Subvert expectations by changing perception of reality." What is great about Reynolds' book on Robert Smithson is that rather than covering his biggest works, it covers the archives which have quite a bit of his process documented. Smithson took copious notes, was constantly churning ideas for art projects that were never realized, and marked up everything he could get his hands on: magazines, travel pamphlets, etc. Some notes I would like to share:

“Cubism’s ultimate goal is the same: ‘to stamp out ambiguity and to enforce one reading of the picture—that of a man-made construction, a colored canvas.’” (34) As Analogy, how can we use Cubism’s tactics to reveal ambiguity of danger of Cabot Koppers? I guess the idea of ubiquitous imaging where the image looks like it’s straight from a phone camera, unaltered in any way, might enforce the reading of the photograph. Maybe we need to include GPS/Time Stamp Information of our Photographs. Focal Length, Exposure Time, F number all saved data. Perhaps we need to find a way to invent way for people to locate their experiences. You are 1.2 miles from where this photograph was taken, etc. Relate to EPS as well. Mood input when taking image. Existential Positioning System, all must be in hindsight. Looking back at this image that you took, how do you perceive you were existing at that time?

“According to [Clement] Greenberg, the illusionistic depiction of space, figures, or narratives was one of the primary concerns of pre-modern artists, whereas modernist artists, following cubism’s lead, rejected illusionism for varying degrees of abstraction or ‘anti-illusionism.’” (37). Discusses audiences’ discomfort with modern art, because it requires a new visual language that we don’t understand. Analogy- make sure the viewer is not uncomfortable unless it’s intentional. Subject matter should make people uncomfortable, but not shut down and ignore it. We want it to leave a long-lasting impression and perhaps a sense of creating change.

  “Greenberg implies that kitsch offers effortless ‘unreflective enjoyment’ and that mass spectators seek such passive relaxation, the opposite of work, or more specifically in this case, ‘cultural work’ at the end of a long work day or work week.” (38) Analogy- we must consider “that mass spectators seek such passive relaxation”. How do artists look at leisure, travel, etc as antithetical to work, or is art something you should also have to work at? I think we need to find some way to make people care about CK Site. Thinking about I _______ Local Campaign. How can we do a I Care Local. Simplistic, poster like, requires community involvement. http://www.facebook.com/localiam

“Perception is shaped by education and by the establishment and elaboration of expectations, yet the assumed limits of perception itself set the parameters of these expectations and determine everything that follows. And the conventions used to define these limits are, at times, seen as coterminous with perception itself.” (42). We have to remember our local Gainesville Audience has a vast array of education levels. What cultures are ubiquitous? Internet, Cell Phone pictures, and Television. We must follow the tropes standardized in order to achieve a more universal perception. 


http://division-vision.blogspot.com/ - Current UF undergraduate work

http://www.alachuacounty.us/Depts/EPD/Pollution/Pages/CabotKoppersSuperfund.aspx  -Superfund Location

“I decided to use the Pine Barrens site as a piece of paper and draw a crystalline structure over the landmass rather than on a 20 x 30 sheet of paper. In this way I was applying my conceptual thinking directly to the disruption of the site over an area of several miles. So you might say that my non-site was a three dimensional map of the site.” (157) How can Smithson’s practice influence ours? We could take aerial map and write or draw on it through technology.

 

Colonialism, Spices, and 4chan

As I was taking notes in class, a lot of exercises popped into my head so I typed them into my notes and will try to do as many as possible. First and foremost, we discussed that the internet is the institution of electracy, as the school was for literacy and the church was for orality. Religion was the group that made decisions in the first period, science for the second, and I believe that the internet group decision makers is going to be some kind of 4chan or Reddit community. How can we appeal to the electrate generation? Memes. Why? Merriam Webster Dictionary defines meme as "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." We need to reach the community. We need to infotain them. If electracy is all about pleasure/pain, why should the electrate generation care about what's right or wrong (polluting is wrong and we're responsible for it), or what's true or false (the City of Gainesville water will be poisoned in a matter of years and make the area unlivable due to the Cabot Koppers Superfund site). We're not here to school people or preach to people. We have to reach them through the institution of the internet and use infotainment. A humorous meme could provide the pleasure and the public responsibility epiphany if done properly. Moreover, what do we want to do about it? Why do we want people to know about Cabot Koppers site? Do we want them to donate to the well-being project? Perhaps we need to organize a civics flashmob and initiate the invitation online.

Pine Tar Poison

When I went home for spring break my dad got us tickets to see life-size re-creations of the pinta and the Nina. The boats go on tour and are mostly run by volunteers. The volunteers educate the visitors who come on board of how the boats were reconstructed in South America and give the history of the original boats. When you're on board with about fifty others and they tell you the hundreds of people that were actually on board the ship in historic times, you get a really good sense of how cramped and how little personal space was afforded to any of them. Most interesting was this little treasure on the second boat: