So I’ve got my trusty handicam, my tapes and my mini mic (I’m a lowfi type of a gal at heart).  Thus it begins - I’m ment to get 80 pieces of footage nd my hook or by crook I’ll do my best to do so.  Even if I have to do it one by one I’ll do it.  Sometimes if you want something done it is simply a matter of going it on foot if you will. 

ALRIGHT ALOT of fucken AWESOME shit has been going on in the wiked world of Looksy!! We have firstly been offered an hour slot on Alt T.V, which means our grand and glorious plan of getting NZ it’s own generation C community is well and truely FUCKEN underway!! We have three hosts (somehow I got my arm twisted even know I have horrific stage fright! I KNOW kinda stupid what with the neon madness which is me). We have a shit load of content but if you have any ideas of what YOU would like to see message back! IN FACT if you’d like to see yourself on Looksy T.V tell us WHY you would rock the cock on this show.

Secondly YOU MAY have seen bright prange postcards about Krd and Ponsony which say ‘Tell us what your world is like’, then on the back ‘Tell us your hopes, your dreams, your everything’. We have begun to get some of these back with the wonderful words of individuals in Aucks, thanks to NZposts for funding the project - RE-SPECTA!! In two months there will be a show curated by the ever glittering MEEEEE… SO WATCH THIS SPACE.

AND LASTLY BUT most importantly pencil in the 15 of March into your caladers. Because if you like free booze, palm readers, weird ass art projects and being on camera… YOUR going to want to be WHERE we are on THAT date. MORE TO come in a few days……….

 

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Our Meeting with Graham from Marketing Magazine

At 10am I (Chloe) and Franky made our way to 3media to meet Graham Medcalf, Editor of NZ Marketing Magazine, feeling rather hungover from our first meeting with Looksy in a month, who ever suggested the black Russian shots has a lot to answer for *cough* Franky *cough*. So we meet, we soared, we impressed (well we like to think so anyway).

We started off by discussing how I and Franky joined the glory which is Looksy.org and more interestingly why we believe we where picked; what made us stand apart from the other 4o candidates? I and Franky almost came to a consensus of, we had what was needed; a passion which already existed for people and inspiring them to speak – sometimes life is as simple as that (well, it is, perhaps a little more complicated than this but life’s a bit short really).

We firstly discussed our many ambitious projects we had developed and created such as our Launch Party and Art project/prank which is, at the moment a little bit ‘secret squirrel’ so I am for once going to stay silent on the matter. We outlined our Postcard project, which was developed out of the need to create many ways, not just one, for people to have their say and discussed our installation of the project on a wall so people where able to see the project grow and take off.

Graham asked us why we wanted to be apart of creating a voice for Generation C, and although I will not speak for Franky and I cannot remember exactly what I said (I blame the hungover for this lapse) this is near as damn it:

There are many things worth fighting for but I’ve always felt to me, one of the most important things in life is a persons right to freedom of speech and a persons right to feel safe to say what they want or at least if they can not feel safe they feel brave enough.

In my own art practice I make art about the importance of being fearless, of storytelling and of having a voice. This project offers people regardless of their race, their religion or gender a chance to tell the world what it is like to be them; a chance to tell people their dreams and how they would improve this world if they had a magic wand.

I cannot truly think of anything else I would rather be doing with my life than creating channels, spaces, reasons and a chance for people to have a voice and be heard. So thus, I ended up working with Looksy on a project of ever growing epic proportions whose grand design centers around giving Generation C a way another way to express who they are.

We then moved on to discussing the importance of creating a sense of community for Generation C; a way to activate an ever growing global posse of internet bloggers, myspace self promoters, amateur youtube film makers, armchair critics, internet communities… the list goes on and just how we intended to do this. We outlined we had set up a facebook, website and of course the before mentioned projects directed at creating a sense of community and collaboration.

We also outlined this project is yet to completely grow wings but we had set up stable foundations for these ideas to turn into actions and results – it is simply a matter of time. We lastly discussed future endeavors, ideas and sponsorship (admin isn’t overly that interesting to write about so I doubt it would be that interesting to read about!) so I will leave this part out. Overall we managed to cover a great deal of the work I and Franky had produced and the ideas and projects we had implemented. It was an absolute pleasure to meet Mr. Medcalf and I look forward to telling him on our next meeting how our launch party went. Peace and vodka kisses from your ever glowing friend and GEN C partner in crime… Chloe (AKA Phunkin Phuturistik)

Our Meeting with Graham from Marketing Magazine At 10am I (Chloe) and Franky made our way to 3media to meet Graham Medcalf, Editor of NZ Marketing Magazine, feeling rather hungover from our first meeting with Looksy in a month, who ever suggested the black Russian shots has a lot to answer for *cough* Franky *cough*.  So we meet, we soared, we impressed (well we like to think so anyway).  We started off by discussing how I and Franky joined the glory which is Looksy.org and more interestingly why we believe we where picked; what made us stand apart from the other 4o candidates? I and Franky almost came to a  consensus of, we had what was needed; a passion which already existed for people and inspiring them to speak – sometimes life is as simple as that (well, it is, perhaps a little more complicated than this but life’s a bit short really). We firstly discussed our many ambitious projects we had developed and created such as our Launch Party and Art project/prank which is, at the moment a little bit ‘secret squirrel’ so I am for once going to stay silent on the matter.  We outlined our Postcard project, which was developed out of the need to create many ways, not just one, for people to have their say and discussed our installation of the project on a wall so people where able to see the project grow and take off.     Graham asked us why we wanted to be apart of creating a voice for Generation C, and although I will not speak for Franky and I cannot remember exactly what I said (I blame the hungover for this lapse) this is near as damn it: There are many things worth fighting for but I’ve always felt to me, one of the most important things in life is a persons right to freedom of speech and a persons right to feel safe to say what they want or at least if they can not feel safe they feel brave enough.   In my own art practice I make art about the importance of being fearless, of storytelling and of having a voice.  This project offers people regardless of their race, their religion or gender a chance to tell the world what it is like to be them; a chance to tell people their dreams and how they would improve this world if they had a magic wand.  I cannot truly think of anything else I would rather be doing with my life than creating channels, spaces, reasons and a chance for people to have a voice and be heard. So thus, I ended up working with Looksy on a project of ever growing epic proportions whose grand design centers around giving Generation C a way another way to express who they are.  We then moved on to discussing the importance of creating a sense of community for Generation C; a way to activate an ever growing global posse of  internet bloggers, myspace self promoters, amateur youtube film makers, armchair critics, internet communities… the list goes on and just how we intended to do this. We outlined we had set up a facebook, website and of course the before mentioned projects directed at creating a sense of community and collaboration. We also outlined this project is yet to completely grow wings but we had set up stable foundations for these ideas to turn into actions and results – it is simply a matter of time.   We lastly discussed future endeavors, ideas and sponsorship (admin isn’t overly that interesting to write about so I doubt it would be that interesting to read about!) so I will leave this part out. Overall we managed to cover a great deal of the work I and Franky had produced and the ideas and projects we had implemented.  It was an absolute pleasure to meet Mr. Medcalf and I look forward to telling him on our next meeting how our launch party went.  Peace and vodka kisses from your ever glowing friend and GEN C partner in crime… Chloe (AKA Phunkin Phuturistik)

I (Chloe) and Francis (Franky) have been putting together a project of epic proportions.  As if a documentary wasn’t enough we have expanded our projects, to printing a 1000 postcards of which we want YOU to tell us your HOPES, your DREAM… in fact just tell us what your world is like!  SO keep an eye out for the bright orange postcards in the inner city.  Thanks to New Zealand post all you need to do is write on the back of the postcard and pop it into the a mailbox and your done!  Once we start receiving postcards back we shall start putting them up in a public area so Auckland can read what you had to say!

I am currently working on an article for a website about the importance of being fearless (I will post the article I write, up here when I am done).  I’ve always been inspired by people who have amazing amounts of courage  and when told to shutup they just get louder.  I thought I’d share an artwork which took my breath away (the best kind of art is art which literally knocks the breath right out of you) or at least I’d post up an annotation I wrote so I could remember this artwork in the years to come and these are my thoughts on Lynette Wallworths ‘Evolution of Fearlessness’, 2006.

Annotated Bibliography:
Lynette Wallworth, Evolution of Fearlessness, 2006,
One artwork from my research

‘Hell is the absence of Hope’
- Biblical reference

‘Being brave takes fucking balls’
- Libby King

I first walk into a small, black dark room and are confronted with a rectangular long-screen which is the height of a tall person. There is an outline of a standing body in black mist. A white round light appears in the right near the top of the screen of which you have been asked to place your hand, palm down. A woman emerges from the dark mist and puts her hand against yours, then, speechlessly she mouths the ordeals she has been through. It is in her eyes and the lines of her face you can feel and see the pain and suffering she has endured but also the hope inside her eyes which, miraculously, still burns. A white book sits to the corner of the room of which the stories of each individual woman are documented and can be read and most importantly heard and remembered.

Lynette Wallworth who installation artist working predominantly in new media, in her 2006 work ‘Evolution of Fearlessness’ which is discussed in the above discrption, located ten women from many different ethnicities and countries who had been through horrific ordeals of abduction and rape, concentration camps, inhumane beatings and gang violence. Ordeals, which, would cripple most people. But suffering is not the main focus in Wallworth’s installation; it is each woman’s remarkable ability to hope through their endurance of hell and to use the hell they have lived as a way to understand and have compassion for the suffering of others.

It is in these women’s ability to hope that they become fearless; it is the unification of a universal fearlessness to hope when others would despair; to talk when others would become silent. ‘Suffering has no voice anymore although its reality remains lived and intact’, (Marandi, Harry). Although each woman’s suffering is symbolically speechless it no longer remains silent. As a culture if we cannot undo the silence we have done perhaps it is time we recognize a new language, a language which is fearless to fight against it. Perhaps it is these ten women who are speaking this new language of fearlessness who will begin to show us how, not only to speak this language but to use it to fight against this silence which creates such fear. ‘Silence is not just a product, but also a major source, of fear. To overcome fear we therefore need to discuss the undiscussbles that help produce the fear in the first place.’ (Zerubavel, Eviatar).

The ten women in ‘The Evolution of Fearlessness’, 2006, are the mother Teresa’s of everyday life. Who, regardless of the hell they have lived and seen, heal themselves through the hope they have in humanity. It is in their ability to speak out about their suffering and the hope they have discovered through their ordeals which makes them not only fearless but free. Their ability to help a humanity which hurt them reminds me that, victim does not only always become the bully and forgiveness is more powerful than hate. ‘The right words can change the word.’ (Charlotte [in] Charlotte’s Web).

It is said in the bible ‘hell is the absence of hope’ but I believe, after much thought, hell, is not only the absence of hope but of memory too. Martin Luther King once said, in a letter from his cell in Birmingham jail ‘We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people’, April 16, 1963. Ten women in the ‘Evolution of Fearlessness’, 2006 remind us of the power of speech and most importantly the power of ‘fearless speech’. Ten women, who refuse to let fear make them become afraid or to stop them from fighting and speaking in this age of fear which has created so much deafening silence. ‘Much Unhappiness has come into this world because of… things left unsaid.’ (Attributed to Fydor Dostoyevsky)

 here are some links to some photos:

http://www.aucklandtriennial.com/artists/wallworth.asp 

Here’s a whirlwind update of what we’ve been up to in the last while.

1. We met our Marketing Magazine Award sponsors, Malcove. Great guys, and we’re not just saying that because they’re giving us $10,000. (But thanks for that as well!)
2. We’ve started looking for a happenator and a flash developer to help make a NZ pilot happen in January 2008. We’ve had a flood of applications for happenator (around 30) but none for Flash Develop. Anyone got any advice for us?

Here’s the job description:

This summer people from all over New Zealand will be filming themselves and each other, showing what their generation is all about. At Looksy.org we want to make it easy as for them to upload their video, and play it back straight away.

That’s why we’re looking for someone to help us set up a flash video media system on our server which will enable us to handle video uploads and flash encoding automatically on the server side – an instrumental piece of the process of facilitating a worldwide co-created documentary (a world first!) We need someone with extensive knowledge of configuring and maintaining apache web servers.

Skills in the following areas will be useful:

• Apache web servers
• (not necessarily setting them up – but working with a host who provides them – configuring etc)

• Installing server based software

• Flash and Flash Video

• Good knowledge of the open source concept and the ability to follow a project’s documentation and pick up what is needed to make the software work for us

Looksy.org - the voice of Generation C - is the world’s first consumer-generated documentary, made by and about Generation C.

The post starts immediately and will continue until the start of March.

Email us at discover@looksy.org with your CV and any Flash projects you’ve worked on.

I just got an email from Andrew at TOUCHCAST/Next, one of the interactive marketing outfits that seem to really understand Gen C.

The email’s all about the latest idea from Weta Collectibles. In a nutshell, players of Hellgate:London are able to get a player figuring with their own face on it, handcrafted by the folks at Weta Collectibles!

That is cool on so many levels, and I don’t even play Hellgate:London!

• It makes the virtual real (as in physically real - see my thoughts on virtuality vs fakeness)
• It is uniquely individual - no-one else in the world will have a figurine like yours
• It says something about the owner. (Whether that’s “cool” or “sad” is in the eye of the beholder!)

Why is this Gen C? It’s another example of life lived on your terms, which is what Generation C is all about. In a way it’s a return to a time when everything was handmade, customised to one person’s needs. For some products, like this figurine, handmade is still the only way to do it. For others, this is the age of mass customisation.

http://brendanhart.com/?p=22

Interesting blog post that’s kind of asking the question, do Gen C people have different personas for different environments?

“Tom says that we live in Generation-C, Generation Communication. He says that these days alot of communication happens over text messages, msn, and myspace. He said to me that people flirt over text messages even though it may not be what they will say in person its just showing you that they like you.”

Is what Tom says true? Do Gen C’ers act differently by TXT or IM than they would in person? And if so, is that dishonest, or just different?

I reckon we all act differently in writing than in person, and I don’t think it’s dishonest, any more than acting is dishonest. Some actors act to escape, and for them it’s dishonest because they’re not being themselves. Others act to develop their full potential. Now everyone gets to act - it’s up to us how we do it.

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