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Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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Location: Where the cheese is free.

 		Email from "SAAMghosts" (saamghostsSPLATsi.edu)

My submission is catalogued (though the picture shoes it with several of the Hebrew characters flipped).

Part of the larger group of 7.

Also... Georgina has a blog. Kind of an IG/OOG mix.

ETA:
Georgina wrote:
The full Smithsonian magazine article about Ghosts of a Chance will be posted tomorrow on http://www.smithsonianmag.com/.

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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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 		FYI - new assignment is up:
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Assignment 3/6, due September 26th:
Con Artist's Replica
Create a replica of something you desire but know you cannot have.

An ordinary con man might substitute such a replica for its model, but your replica will be more real than the original object of desire; we invite you to be a con artist.


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Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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Location: Where the cheese is free.

 		Received a letter with "G. Bath" listed in the return address.

But it appears the letter is actually from Daniel;
Quote:
Dear Rogi,

Thank you for sending a necklace and a predictor in for Ghosts of a
Chance! This first stage of our project has produced some wonderful results,
and I liked your submissions very much, particularly context you provide for the
necklace and the required action with the predictor! After these artifacts, there
will be only four more archetypes assigned before everything is in place.

I cannot describe how important this project is to me, all I can say is that
the stakes feel so high. As Daisy and I looked at the necklaces yesterday
afternoon, we both got quiet as something in the room, just beyond the periphery
of our vision, changed. Have you ever looked through some pile of clutter in your
home with a friend? You come upon something unremarkable, a loose button, a
cheap keychain and you start to explain its significance; the button is from an old
favorite jacket, and the keychain is a souvenir from a family vacation that seems
impossibly distant now. But your friend can never really understand the
importance of these objects. Sometimes you can see, if only for an instant, these
artifacts as the simple objects that your friend sees, and you find yourself
astounded at how powerful and untranslatable the feelings they create in you
are. When we looked at the necklaces fresh from their packages, Daisy and I
both felt something like that; they seemed to trigger memories, of which the
sensations were clear but the details were indistinct.

There's something very disturbing about this - imagine if you felt, even if
only for a fraction of a second, like you were experiencing someone else's
memory of something? Over the last week or two, I've been having a recurring
dream in which I seem to be a servant boy fleeing from an aristocratic home long
ago, maybe 150 years or so. I fill my pockets with pawn-able items, and just as
I'm about to leave, I get confused looking for a necklace and evening becomes
confused - I posted the dream; and a bit of a creative interpretation of it on my
Myspace blog if you're interested. I based our "Necklace of the Subaltern
Betrayer'' prompt on this dream, and what's shocking is that last night - after
we'd spent the day looking through the necklaces everyone had mailed in - the
dream finally stopped, and in its place I had a new one, where I felt like the same
person - the same other person - I was in the first dream. Since I have you to
thank (or to blame!) for this, I hope you don't mind if I recount this new dream to
you, here.

At the moment I realize I will drown, it is the parsing of information that
most concerns me - something entirely prosaic. The amount of socks I have

owned, shoes, cravats, suits, handkerchiefs, luggage, brushes - boar bristle
shaving brush, steely suede brush, hair brush. Then I'm in a room in an
apartment I can no longer afford, brushing my hair back in a gilt-framed mirror
with real grapevines growing from it, from which I may take my pick. The oily
smell of lilac pomade overtakes the sweetness of grapes.

Suddenly, I raise my head, clearing the water, which I thought was much
deeper. It is nighttime and I have leaned down, Narcissus-like to stare at my
reflection in a mud puddle, into which I seem to have submerged because my
hands are slicked with liquid, black city grime as is the front of my once-
immaculate chocolate brown and apricot striped wool suit. Then she appears —
glowing, I think, magically white, dress and cape, face rendered only in dark and
light planes, features obscured by the intense light that either emanates from her
or showers down onto her. She breaks the way glass shatters when it hits a floor,
and each of the shards becomes an almond, and I am in the kitchen of the
apartment I no longer own, a room I rarely visited, now I seem to know where
every utensil is. My left hand is covered by an oven mitt and holds the handle of
a large copper pot filled with boiling water, and in the other hand is a basket of
almonds. The chef, who resembles a faded aristocrat - weak chin, too-close
eyes, thin lips — tells me to transfer the almonds into a sieve then dump the
boiling water over them, scalding them to peel them. A nimbus of steam encircles
me.

I stand on tiptoes, able to see over office walls in a Wall Street bank —
there is some amount of unreality connected with all this, the office, my
viewpoint, and I realize I am an actor and the office is a realistic stage set. My
costume is an adult-sized suit, although I have the body of a ten-year old boy. I'm
being read the riot act by a man dressed in English court robes. The actor
playing this part looks nothing like what I imagine an English judge should look
like. I'm being shipped off to a colony but not in the verdant, plangent sense of
the term. I am on my knees face down on the street — made of loaves of
steaming, burnt bread - and she appears again, undulating, pulsing toward me,
limbs slithering over bricks as if they are silk fragments blown by a breeze, closer
to me, closer and closer...

That's all I remember. While it was interesting, I hope this dream doesn't
return. In any case, thanks for sending in your necklace; I can't wait to see how
you respond to our next prompts!

Love,


Daniel Libbe


I'm SO stuck on an idea for #3.
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jono
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I'm SO stuck on an idea for #3.

I don't have enougth time to make one but I have an idea if anyone wants to steal it
How about a small model of someone of the opposite gender?

My first idea was a box with "Social Skills" written on it, but I didn't think it would work.. Smile

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Scott
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 		Yahooie!

predictors of doom are up!

Mine: I thought of a better title, actually: Misfortune cookie. Actually no, on second thought, that's an awful name.

See also, the media attachment: ultraviolet ink is fFun Smile
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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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 		Very nice! If there had been more time, I was going to do a steampunkish Magic 8-ball.

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ineffabelle
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Joined: 01 May 2008
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Location: Southern California

 		Just got this email...
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from Bath, Georgina <BathG>
to "Bath, Georgina" <BathG>
date Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:25 PM
subject I need your eyes again!
mailed-by si.edu

Hi,



I need your help. Daisy and Daniel are getting beyond my control, but the Ghosts of a Chance project has generated such wonderful creations that I want to find a way to make it work. I'm hopeful that if more people "watched" Daisy and Daniel on Facebook, then they might tone down their antics. I've been reprimanding them for their behavior, but it doesn't seem to work…



Can you help me keep an eye on them? I'd really appreciate it! They just don't seem to understand how to behave at the Smithsonian.



http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1468945035&ref=ts

http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1466664905&ref=ts



(If you don't use facebook, they can also be found on mySpace, but they don't seem to be quite as bad on there…)



Thank you,



Georgina





Georgina Bath

Interpretive Programs Manager

Luce Foundation Center for American Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum

T: (202) 633-8532

E: BathGSPLATsi.edu


I'm confused....
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Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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 		One of these days, I guess I'll be forced into getting a Facebook account.
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ETCetera
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 		Love it!
I'm so glad the art world is getting involved--I've been working on some local ARGart of my own. Totally jumping in on this one!

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MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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 		New assignment:
Quote:
Assignment 4/6, due October 3rd:
Diorama of a Travesty
Please go to the dictionary on your dashboard, type in the word "caricature" and scroll till you reach "travesty."

We love dioramas: I do, especially. I made one in a shoebox with cardboard and clay when I was in the fifth grade; "Scranton — Pennsylvania's Sixth most populous city." Thanks, Daisy Fortunis


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rick_in_boca
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Assignment 4/6, due October 3rd:
Diorama of a Travesty
Please go to the dictionary on your dashboard, type in the word "caricature" and scroll till you reach "travesty."

We love dioramas: I do, especially. I made one in a shoebox with cardboard and clay when I was in the fifth grade; "Scranton — Pennsylvania's Sixth most populous city." Thanks, Daisy Fortunis


They changed the clue. Somebody wrote a comment that they didn't have a dashboard, and now the clue has changed. It is clearer:

Quote:
He stands in the wings, waiting for his cue. He is about to recite the most famous lines an actor can utter. Staring through a peephole, he surveys his audience; they are well dressed, overstuffed from dinner, preoccupied with mundanity, in need of diversion. He will touch their souls. "To be, or not to be ..." he intones to himself. And then he steps from the wings, stage right, holding Yorick's skull outstretched in his right hand. "To be, or not to be ..." he says grandly then pauses. A pie is thrown from stage left that hits him squarely in the face, and, once again, the audience bursts into wild laughter and applause.

Would you please make a diorama of a theatrical travesty. Something meant to be especially poignant and meaningful that is aped, or caricatured, or turned on its ear. It can be a miniature, certainly no larger than a shoe box.



(First post - Late to the party here)

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Scott
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 		Daniel & Daisy's fFacebook has a slew of videos. The summary is: the two of them spend their evenings working, in the Luce fFoundation at the Smithsonian museum. The two of them dance pretty well, I should say (much to Georgina's chagrin)! Daisy has a Ghost she talks to, named Blanche. Daniel has a "secret fFriend" he talks to named McD. It turns out, the ghosts know each other.

These are probably the same Blanche and McD in the "Story" page, on ghostsofachance.com ( http://ghostsofachance.com/index.php?p=story ) Err, you have read the story, yeah? It's quite in the style of Early American Lit.

fFunny bit: Daniel gets all Macbethy.

-----

Also, I have received a package at home, which I shall most definitely scan tonight. I can tell you it has to do with Blanche and McD.
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Scott
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 		Okay, so here's what I got in the mail (return address on the shipping package is Ms. Bath, at the smithsonian, in case you were wondering). It's a three page love letter, dated April 10, 1856, fFrom Elliot "The Reverend" Asbury, to Blanche. It came in a very nice envelope addressed to simply "Blanche."

Summary: Elliot is the third in a generation of preachers, but he had just been kicked out of seminary, when he fFirst met Blanche and McD. We learn in this letter that Elliot decided to join the acting troupe of McD, (though Elliot fFeels his own acting is pretty awful). Cutting fFinally to the point, Elliot reveals that even though McD and Blanche are a couple, Elliot desperately loves Blanche.

It would seem *everyone* loves Blanche. Harmskite, Richard Beesgrove, McDoggerel, and now Elliot Asbury!

Point of interest: Blanche gave Elliot a necklace, which he wears at all times. That is to say, Elliot, a subaltern betrayer, whose acting is a travesty, wears a necklace. I know the story does say McD is the betrayer, but I can't help but notice the doubling. I'm not sure where in our story the predictor of imminent doom comes in, but we know McD becomes a con artist in New York. It would appear the fFates of all these people are somewhat tied around these objects.

Also notice, 1856, the year this letter was written, is also the year Blanche died. I wonder if she ever received her letter.


Oh, almost fForgot. Page 1 has a watermark which reads "Arches (Infinity) France" It's probably a brand name of the paper or something, but i fFigured I'd scan it, too, color enhanced so you could see it.

Enjoy !!
blanche 4.jpg
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 Description   Love letter to Blanche, page 2
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blanche 3.jpg
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Scott
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story updates
I wanted to point out: story updates are coming fFrequently. I think once a day, roughly.

http://ghostsofachance.com/?p=story

it's a riveting tale of deceit, fFrom many angles. And in the latest entry (29-SEP-0Cool we know, kinda, how Blanche and McD met.
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Scott
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 		Con artist's replicas are up!

Apparently people were kind of stumped this week. Only 4 submissions. I know I was hard pressed fFor ideas, myself. But those who did submit are very very good!

http://tinyurl.com/4sao4j

You really gotta see the big pictures to appreciate them, i think.
http://americanart.si.edu/images/2008/2008.GOAC.3.1_1a.jpg
http://americanart.si.edu/images/2008/2008.GOAC.3.2_1a.jpg
http://americanart.si.edu/images/2008/2008.GOAC.3.3_1a.jpg
http://americanart.si.edu/images/2008/2008.GOAC.3.4_1a.jpg
(but also go read the descriptions too...)

Also, in an email, Georgina Bath said we should watch the http://eyelevel.si.edu/ blog fFor an update sometime in the next day or two.


Go now and work on your dioramas!! Smile
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