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The shiny, colorful, grasslike appliqué known as porcupine quillwork is easily recognizable as a superb art form that has been invented and perfected by the North American Indians. Indeed, if you were to look at a finished example of it and to consider that the intricately beautiful piece of work in front of you had, at one time, been merely a handful of stark and colorless porcupine prickles, you couldn't help but be in awe of the incredible ingenuity of the Native American artisans who first developed the techniques involved in quillworking.
Unfortunately, today there is very little easily accessible (and accurate!) information to be found about this ancient skill in libraries, bookstores, craft shops, or museums. Hence, we at MOTHER are especially pleased to be able—thanks to all the help we've received—to introduce you to a seldom seen and rarely written-about part of our North American cultural heritage.
Quillworking Origins
Perfecting the fine techniques required for wrapping and tying animal quills must have been an awesome task, one which undoubtedly required a great deal of trial and error over the centuries. The Indian people experimented with various natural materials and invented, borrowed, or adapted ideas, until they finally discovered both the beauty and versatility of dyed porcupine quills (bird quills were also used for a time) and the best methods of working with them.
Before the white people came to America, there was a vast, friendly sharing of ideas among various Indian families and communities. There was also a less-amicably-rooted sharing that occurred among women (the main artisans) who were captured and adopted into different tribes. As a result of such "trade networks," art styles and concepts flowed freely among the many families, tribes, and nations of Native Americans. It was probably during this era of "open communication" and cultural exchange that quillwork reached the height of its artistic perfection.
When the Europeans arrived on the continent, the American Indians—for many reasons—quickly gave up many of their old ways, in the process switching from quillwork to beadwork (using glass trading beads imported mostly from Venice). It was an understandable if partly regrettable switch. After all, beads were suddenly easy to procure, came in a wide range of vivid colors (quills could be dyed only a few soft shades), were both ready and simple to use (whereas quills had to be plucked, cleaned, dyed, and flattened), and fit easily into the old tribal quillwork designs.
Consequently, from about 1750 to 1800, beads began to take the place of quills in American Indian appliqué work. By around 1900, quillwork had just about disappeared (as had a good number of the American Indian people themselves). Only a few groups—notably the Hidatsas and a couple of Sioux families in the Dakotas—continued to practice the skill in their reservation homes. Even after the turn of the twentieth century, there was a long period of cultural inactivity on the part of most Indian peoples, who—with diminished resources and spirits—had to struggle just to stay alive.
It wasn't until the Indian Awareness Movement started in the latter part of the 1960's that quillwork began to reemerge on a popular scale. During this period, there was a resurgence of interest in Native American heritage, and many of the old art styles were brought back. Today, largely as a result of this cultural reassertion and the efforts of the Blue Legs and New Holy families in South Dakota, many of the traditional quillworking methods are again being practiced.
Quillwork Techniques
Although there are any number of different ways to use dyed porcupine quills in appliqué work, the three main techniques are sewing, weaving, and wrapping. The most common one, sewing, consists of attaching the porcupine quills to the surface of leather clothing by means of entwining them between two parallel rows of sinew (or thread) that have been stitched onto the top layer of hide. Weaving, perhaps the most complicated of the three methods, is basically a process of creating bands (about 3" wide) that can be used as they are or sewn onto clothing or other articles by interspersing the quills with a threaded warp and weft as a cloth strip is being made. (Another type of quill weaving is used in basketry.)
The third and simplest of these processes, wrapping, involves winding the prickles around thin strips of rawhide (or other material) to come up with small pieces of quillwork that can be used in crafts such as jewelry-making.
Now these brief definitions can in no way fully depict all that goes into each one of these methods. But, to judge by the lack of useful literature on the subject, copiously written instructions can hardly teach quillworking, either! According to the experts, to get the real lowdown on quillworking, you either have to go to a Native American museum or trading post and carefully study examples of it firsthand (as did Christy Ann Hensler, the woman featured in the accompanying sidebar), or you need to find a quillworker who'd be willing to teach you how to do it.
However, don't be overly discouraged if neither of these options is open to you, because MOTHER's staffers have tracked down detailed instructions for the basic wrap technique. And while this method is by no means the fanciest, showiest quillworking skill, it is accessible and easy to do! You can use wrapping to make a couple of small decorative strips that, for instance, could be stitched onto a plain leather watchband to add pizazz and color to a favorite timekeeper. Or you could use the knowledge of this rudimentary style as a jumping off point from which to go out and explore other, more intricate, quillworking procedures on your own.
Just carefully study the following drawings and directions, gather up the proper materials, and start "quilling." Then, with enough time and stick-to-itiveness, you'll find yourself in touch with an esteemed, yet little known, American Indian tradition!
How to Get Porcupine Quills
Naturally, you'll first need the raw materials, namely, porcupine quills! But how do you get them? Well, if you happen to live in "porky country"—which covers most of the forested regions of Canada and the western United States, and includes parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin—you can obtain them right from the many-pointed source itself! It's not necessary to kill one of these slow-waddling critters, either. Just take a wet gunnysack or blanket out into the woods, and when you come upon a porcupine (be careful to stay out of range of its fast moving tail) gently whop the animal with it. The quills will come off readily onto the damp material, and later—in the safety of your back yard—you can pluck them off your perforated "hide."
Aside from this idea, many folks who live around these nocturnal bristle-bearers get their supplies of stickers from road kills. (Caution! If you plan to do this, first check with the local authorities to make sure that using the hide of such dead animals is legal in your area.) When you find one of these "highway statistics," haul it home and either skin it, or—neighbors willing—hang the carcass outdoors for a few days to let it ripen before you pluck it.
If you take a moment to examine such a hide, you'll notice that quills come in a variety of sizes—from the short, delicate ones behind the head to the long, fat ones on the tail—and that there's a brambling network of tiny, soft guard hairs surrounding all the stickers. If you grab a handful of these greasy little hair tangles when you're plucking, you'll be able to pull out several of the stiff' prickles at one time. So once the porky skin is soft and its quills are loose, take as many quills as you'll need (or at least pluck for as long as your nose can stand it!). Basically, for the wrap technique, you want the longest and thinnest ones you can gather so that you can get more wraps per inch.
Of course, all this information is useful only for folks who have access to live or dead porcupines. If you don't (or would rather not fool with the real thing), then you can order quills from trading posts or online. They are sold by the ounce, in a natural or dyed state, and come in either assorted or graded sizes (the latter are more expensive).
Quill Preparation
Once you've obtained your stickers, take a very close look at their structure. If you cut one open, you'll see, for instance, that porcupine quills aren't hollow (as they seem to the touch): They're more like a pithy plant stem (which accounts for some of their strength). You'll also notice that these prickles have two very distinct ends: the follicle (which had been next to the animal) and the spear (the part that's wound up in many a poor puppy dog's nose!) Now, take a quill between your forefinger and your thumb and gently rub outward from the follicle end toward the black tip. You'll feel a roughness around the spear. That's because there are tiny barbs surrounding the tip that all point back toward the center of the sticker. It's these "hooks" that help give a quill binding power in a victim's flesh. So be very careful when you handle these potentially harmful needles. (Some folks snip the spear ends off quills before they start working with them, but if you're respectful of the tips, you don't need to do this.)
Now that you have a good idea of the makeup of a porcupine quill, here's how to prepare for use prickles that are fresh from the hide. (Of course, you might not need to follow all of these procedures if you've purchased rather than plucked your quills. In that case, simply employ whatever steps you need and skip the rest.)
[1] Clean: Place your quills in a large pot of soapy water. Heat (but don't boil) the stickers for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring them around with a wooden utensil. Then remove them from the water, drain them, and set them out to dry. Repeat this process two or three times to wash off as much of the lanolin as possible.
[2] Etch: Put the cleaned quills in a pot or pan and cover them with a mild solution of citric acid (such as the concentrated lemon juice available at grocery stores). Stir the quills around a bit and allow the acidic liquid to break up the waxy surface of the prickles (so they can be dyed more easily). Once this is done, rinse the quills off and let them dry again.
[3] Dye: Figure out how many quills you want of a certain color. (Dye them all at once because no two batches "color up" exactly the same.) Next, take out some ordinary Rit dye, a dye pot, and something to stir the quills with. After doubling the usual dosage of dye, add the water and coloring, pour in the quills, heat (but, again, try not to boil) the mixture, and stir the stickers around until they're about one shade darker than the tint you're after. Then carefully remove them from the coloring "broth" and set them someplace to cool for 15 to 20 minutes. When the quills are hard again, run cold water over them until they're colorfast, set them out to dry, and, finally, store the prickles in envelopes until you're ready to use them.
Do keep in mind while you work that there is no set way to do any part of quillwork, so don't be afraid to experiment with these steps to find the methods that work best for you. You might, for example, want to use natural colorants such as blackberry or blueberry.
Quillworking Materials
Along with your quills, you'll have to assemble a few other raw materials and tools. First, you'll need a small strip of rawhide that's about 1/4" wide and 3" to 5" long. If you can't find any locally, rawhide is sold by the sheet from any trading post. But a word about cutting it: Since this leather is practically as tough as tin, sometimes even a sharp knife or razor blade won't slice it. In that case, you may want to cut it with a pair of shears. (And don't try to make the material more pliable by wetting it, or it'll quickly become the consistency of mush!) Next, take out enough quills, in the shades you want, to cover the leather (one quill yields about one 1/4"-long section of wrapped surface), a pencil, a long, sturdy needle and some thread, and perhaps a small dish of warm water.
Make yourself a work area so that you can lay all these materials out. Now, place four or five quills either in the water bowl or, as the Native Americans do, in your mouth (spear end out!) to soften them up so they'll be pliable enough to work with. While they're soaking, sketch a rough diagram of where you want each band of color to go on your piece of rawhide. After that's done, check your quills. If they still crack when you gently crunch them between your teeth, they're not quite ready. Wait till they give freely, and then flatten the quills either by pulling them through your clenched teeth (don't worry, they won't break) or by laying them on a tabletop and squashing them with your thumbnail or with a spoon handle.
Whew! Finally, you're ready to wrap! Pay close attention to each drawing and set of directions. And if at any time you find you're having trouble, put aside your rawhide and quills for a moment, and practice with a 3"-wide piece of cardboard and 2"-wide (or so) ribbons until you master the steps. Then go back to your original materials. Good luck and happy quilling!
Step 1: Begin with the first quill about 1/4 inch from the bottom of your rawhide. Wrap the sticker to the right as shown, making sure each wrap is tight and completely flush with the previous one. Rawhide should never show through your quills on the back or front of your piece.
Step 2: When the first quill is nearly "wound out" (leave a little of the tip to work with!), lay a second quill—follicle end up—on top of it. Then bend the remaining tip of the first spear over the new follicle end to hold it in place.
Step 3: Now, wind the spear end of the second quill over the "wrapped back" quill number one, holding the splice in place with your thumb as needed.
Step 4: Continue to wrap the new quill on around the leather, just as you did the first quill, until it's almost used up. Then go back to Step 2 and add a third quill just as you did the second. Simply repeat this process for every new quill—changing colors where noted—until you're about 1/4 inch from the top of your rawhide. Try to make sure that by the time you reach this spot you have at least 1/8" of the final quill left to work with. You're nearly done!
Step 5: Take out your needle and thread, and insert the needle about three wraps down from the top, moving the needle between the quills and the leather, and slightly to one side of the splices, and bringing it up and out from the final completed wrap. This should position the needle on top of the last quill tip.
Step 6: Make a stitch up and over the final spear. Then navigate the needle back under the lower prickles until it comes out from the place that it originally went in.
Step 7: When the needle is all the way out, slide it off the thread. Now, take both ends of thread and gently tug them until the last quill end disappears beneath the final wraps. Let go of one end of the thread, and lightly pull the other to remove all of it from your quillwork, and you're done!
Wrapped Quillwork Crafts
Once you've finally completed your short section of quillwork, the next question is what to do with it. Well, you could make a mate for the strip and stitch both pieces onto a watchband. You could—now that you know how—wrap another (longer) strip of rawhide for a necklace or a bracelet to give to a friend. Or you could just sit back, take a look at your work, and say, "Finished, at last!"
But, whatever you do with your own quillworked band, the chances are that because you've allowed yourself this hands-on experience (no matter how insignificant the end product may seem to be)—the next time you see an intricate, more complete example of quillwork, you'll have a lot of respect for the vast amount of ingenuity, skill, and time that went into creating that piece. And with this sense of appreciation will come a better understanding of what quillwork is and the heritage it represents. As George Horse Capture has so aptly put it, "If a piece [of quillwork] is truly superb, then it's too expensive and too special to sell for money. So you give it away. Give it to a friend, or to a relative, or to a visitor. And that's an Indian custom. For you see, quillwork is, has been, and always will be Indian."
From One Culture to Another: A Self-Taught Quillwork Artist
By John Fisher
Several years ago, Christy Ann Hensler, an artist of German-Polish descent (who lives in Spokane, Washington) was working on a painting she'd entitled "The Quillworker." Because she was unable to locate a whole lot of research material on her subject, though, Christy was having a great deal of trouble getting the right feel for her work.
Finally, she decided that the only way she was ever going to understand quillworking was to do it herself. So she located several authentic examples of the American Indian skill in museums near where she lived, and spent several months studying these works and trying to copy them as best she could.
Well, not only was Christy able at last to capture the effect she was after in her painting, but she fell in love with her subject and has been quillworking ever since! Always working with respect for the Native American tradition she was learning, Christy taught herself how to do nine established techniques and even originated a couple of her own. In addition, her completed quillwork pieces have been so well received that she now displays them in the same museums that handle her paintings.
This is truly a case of how one culture can share with another to the benefit of both!
Although this article is a result of the combined efforts of several different people, we're especially indebted to two. George Horse Capture—who is a member of the Gros Vente tribe of Montana, Curator of the Plains Indian Museum of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and a quillworking instructor himself—provided MOTHER's staffers with a vast amount of firsthand insight into what this skill is, where it came from, and how to do one basic quillwork technique. In addition, John Fisher supplied us with a report about a non-American Indian quillworker, Christy Ann Hensler, and also provided us with photographs of her stunning work.


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Unique products such as these are the reason Etsy Chief Executive Chad Dickerson calls the online marketplace "a personal shopping experience — really — in a sea of impersonal retail."
Founded in 2005, the Brooklyn company is housed in the former home of Robert Gair Co., named after the 19th century inventor of corrugated cardboard.
The 500-employee start-up has been profitable since 2009. Etsy doesn't disclose its revenue figures, but Dickerson says the company is growing. Its vendors sold $1.35 billion worth of goods in 2013, up 51% from a year earlier.
The company recently announced a pricing policy for its wholesale market, which allows its artists and craft makers to sell directly to retailers including Nordstrom, West Elm and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Etsy takes a 3.5% fee for wholesale purchase orders, the same as its regular transaction rates.
Dickerson recently talked about Etsy, comparisons to EBay and its prospects for an initial public offering.
The conversation has been edited and condensed.
Question: Is there a typical Etsy seller, and has that changed over time?
Answer: There's no one-size-fits-all for Etsy sellers. There are sellers in 200 countries around the world, so it's very geographically diverse. We have everyone from college students to retirees. The one thing that we do hear is that Etsy sellers really enjoy Etsy because it gives them flexibility to work in their own terms.
There's a woman who sells in Rockford, Ill., named Amy Michalek. Amy was like many, starting a family. She started doing this as a way to make money while she was taking care of her daughter. One of the things they make are neckties for babies — they're really cute. She started doing so well that she needed help. So she taught her husband how to sew. And her husband quit his job and now he makes more money than he made working at Auto Zone and they're both at home.
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Got a Minute: Walter Arnold
Age: 32
Occupation: Professional photographer
In 2009, you stumbled on an abandoned airplane graveyard in St. Augustine, Fla. and started shooting photos as an amateur photographer. Talk about that experience.
I was out with my best friend, Casey, looking for unique locations to do some portraits for him. Since he grew up in St. Augustine, he had known of the airplane graveyard right off the side of U.S. Highway 1. We stopped there and ended up shooting there for over four hours.
I climbed inside each and every plane and went home with a large amount of images to edit. I returned several times over the following year. I instantly fell in love with the old planes and enjoyed this new challenge of trying to create beauty in a place where others might have only seen junk. After photographing the planes, I became fascinated with the concept and thus was born my current series, "The Art of Abandonment."
You were a banker at the time, right?
Yes. While my passion for photography grew, I was working a full-time job at SunTrust Bank in Hendersonville as a branch manager. From 2009 to 2012, I was steadily growing my photography business and began showcasing my work in local galleries and exhibiting at regional arts festivals.
In July of 2012 I was at a crossroads with my banking and photography careers and had the opportunity to part ways with the bank and pursue my dream of being a full-time professional photographer.
How was the transition to professional photographer?
Considering leaving the security and familiarity of banking and stepping out into photography full-time was a terrifying and exciting decision to make. In retrospect the decision was easy. If I had not attempted to follow my dream I would have regretted it the rest of my life and constantly wondered "What if?"
So in July of 2012 I left SunTrust and began my new life as a photographer. I told myself I would give it one year to see if I could be successful making a living and providing for my family. It's been over a year and a half now and I have no plans to stop or slow down.
Tell me about how your project with Ron Howard and Imagin8tion came about.
In 2011, Canon began a contest called Project Imagin8ion. The idea was to use photographs to help inspire a Hollywood film produced by Ron Howard. Over 96,000 people submitted images in eight categories such as time, setting, character, obstacle, goal, mood, relationship, and the unknown.
After a national vote narrowed the images to 10 in each category, Ron Howard selected one from each category. My image of one of the cockpits from the airplane graveyard in St. Augustine was selected to inspire the setting for the film.
What happened after Howard picked your photo for that honor?
After the images were selected, Ron and his daughter, Bryce, sat down with screenwriter Dane Charbeneau and wrote out the screenplay for a film called "When You Find Me." The challenge for them was to truly integrate the images into the story and tie them together in a deep and meaningful way. They truly succeeded in every way. Not only did the images inspire key elements of the film and storytelling process, but the depth of the story and bonds formed with the characters were stunning.
What was it like to be in Hollywood for the premier of the movie that was based on your photograph?
In November of 2011, Canon flew me and my wife up to New York City to attend a red carpet premiere and watch the final film with Ron Howard and his daughter. The event was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Getting to meet Ron, Bryce and so many other celebrities and walk the red carpet with them was incredible! The final film was a 25-minute short film and can be viewed in its entirety online at http://bit.ly/10cjzC8.
Tell me about Imagina10n. Two of your photos were chosen for that project?
Project Imaginat10n was the second iteration of Canon's contest and began in 2012. The idea was that instead of one film being inspired by photographs, that 10 films would be created. Five would be directed by celebrities Eva Longoria; Jamie Foxx; Biz Stone, the founder of Twitter; James Murphy, of rock band LCD Soundsystem; and Georgina Chapman, a fashion designer.
The other five films would be produced by independent filmmakers. Canon encouraged everyone, even past winners, to submit images to the new contest. By some stroke of luck, one of my images of an abandoned telephone switchboard was selected by the blind jury and made the finals of the contest.
Longoria and Murphy both selected my image and used it as inspiration for their own films, which can be viewed online at www.longliveimagination.com.
You've won a lot of awards for your photography. Does any particular award stand out to you?
I have been very honored and blessed to receive numerous awards while touring my work across the country. My images have been featured in art galleries, museums, television shows and magazines. I have won five best-in-show awards over the last year at art festivals across the Southeast. It's always an honor to receive such a distinction and equally unexpected for me as well.
What do you enjoy about photographing abandoned spaces and items?
Creating the "Art of Abandonment" series has been an extremely rewarding experience for me. Basically I travel the country seeking out old, historic, forgotten locations and try to create beauty in these unexpected places. I look at this series as a sort of historic preservation through art.
I go beyond just taking a photograph, and attempt to bring these places back to life in my images. Working with the owners and preservation groups, I am able to uncover the history and stories of these places and share them with the world so that people can remember the history and the significance of these modern ruins.
What types of feelings are you experiencing when you're photographing abandoned spaces and items?
When I visit and explore these old locations, I can't help but imagine what they once were in their prime. Many of these places hold untold stories and significance, and I can't help but weave together these stories in my mind as I explore. People often ask if I get creeped out while inside some of these places and the answer is usually no. Even in a decaying state, I still get a sense of life in these places and I try to communicate that through my images.
I don't create creepy scary scenes; I strive to show the warmth and life that still shines ever so faintly through the dust and decay.
It seems amazing that stumbling on an abandoned airplane graveyard in Florida years ago has led to an entirely new career for you. Does that give you pause sometimes?
The airplane graveyard holds a very special place in my heart, as it was a strong inspiration for my artistic career. After years of looking at the images of the planes I began to picture them as old war heroes sitting around, sharing their stories and battle scars. Being personified as such, it was heart-wrenching for me to discover that in May of 2011, all of the planes there were demolished and sold for scrap.
However, the act of destroying the planes just serves as a constant reminder that these historic places are constantly in danger of disappearing forever. That is why I feel it is important for me to be out there documenting and telling the stories of these places before they are gone. They are a part of our history and they were meaningful and important at one time, and their stories deserve to be told and remembered.
In addition to my website where I sell my photography, www.TheDigitalMirage.com, I run a blog, www.ArtofAbandonment.com, where people can read the stories and history of these abandoned locations. I tell not only our experiences there, but also provide historic background and images of these locations when they were in their prime. I am constantly updating both sites with new images and stories. Readers can reach me via email at email@example.com or at 828-335-3503.
Got A Minute? with Walter Arnold
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Intentional Man of Mystery
Matt Damon has a lot to say, actually. About Jason Bourne versus James Bond, about why he likes Barack more than Hillary, about his cheapshot critics. He will gladly hold forth on all these things. Just don't ask him about his wife
Our first meeting, in Madrid, was a bust. You could say it was a test of wills and Matt Damon won.
Perhaps we should have taken it as an omen when the very first thing he did, after showing up two hours late, was walk straight into the little bathroom in his prefabbed trailer and take an excruciatingly long and loud—like, racehorse long-and-loud—piss. We are telling you this not just because it's precisely the kind of thing that ticks Matt Damon off ("editorializing" is on his list, and it's a very long list, of peeves), or because it was the most interesting thing he did over the course of the three hours that followed. We are telling you this because it pretty much sums up how Matt Damon feels about doing interviews, particularly if the subject is his personal life.
But here's the thing. The man has a point. (It's tough to argue with this: "I'm not going to pimp out my infant daughter to sell The Bourne Ultimatum.") He always has a point, which is one reason that even though we wanted to stab him when we left Madrid—we'll get to that—we did in fact come to understand him a little bit. Admire him, actually. Like him, for sure. There's a ton he'll never give away. But there is little he says that doesn't, on some level, make sense. Even if it's not exactly what we came to hear.
He is in Madrid to wrap up the third installment of the wildly successful Bourne series, in which he plays Jason Bourne, the mysterious-but-endearing-and-slightly-damaged CIA assassin turned fugitive-with-amnesia. He has just returned from shooting an all-morning filler piece, sitting in the back of a taxi. "One of those interstitial things," he explains. (He went to Harvard.) "Like, at this point, we can look at most of the film and go, 'All right, we need a piece of him in a taxi. In Madrid.' I've done this same shot in all of the Bourne movies, in every European capital. Like, there's a moment where Bourne's in a cab and he's on his way somewhere. And they always do it the same. So there's not even the originality, you know, of a new shot.…"
So it's not that Matt Damon doesn't want to talk. Matt Damon talks. And talks and talks. It's that he has perfected the art—his buddy Clooney does this, too—of talking away for hours on end, amiably and intelligently, without ever revealing squat about Matt Damon.
And that is his goal.
We first discover this ten minutes into our first rendezvous in Madrid, when we ask what we think is a fairly innocuous question—how'd you meet your wife —and he responds as though we've asked him to donate a kidney. "Oh no. No." He means no. "Not gonna answer that." We try on fatherhood and husbandry in general. No and no. We get desperate; he seems to enjoy that. He explains that his objective today is to be as boring as possible, because being boring and elusive "has served me really well." (This is true: No one has ever trashed Matt Damon, nor has he ever done anything stupid enough to turn himself into a tabloid joke.) "You see the dilemma I'm trying to set boundaries." He elaborates: "If this interview is totally bland Nobody who gives me a job is ever gonna give a shit. The only thing that can happen to my career in this situation is that I can get hurt. And the only way I can get hurt is if I talk too much. In my experience, the more you say, the dirtier you feel later when you look at it. Because it's personal. Like, if the tape recorder weren't here If you turned that thing off I'd be very open about my life and who I am. It's not like I'm trying to create some mysterious image, which is all bullshit. Like, 'What are you, mysterious' Gimme a fucking break. But the reality is, from a creative standpoint, it hurts. Because the more I say, the harder it is for you to accept me as anything other than the person you know, and now you know things about me, you know" He thinks if we learn too much about Matt Damon, we will not be able to see him as Jason Bourne.
The movie poster for Ultimatum shows the back of Matt Damon's head. There seems to be a theme here.
"I genuinely believe we're at cross-purposes," he says. He smiles. "Would you like a soda or something"
And so it goes for three hours: Matt explaining why he'd really rather not be here.… Matt saying that no matter what he ever says, he wishes he never said it…. The studio makes him do this stuff. … Oh, and he wants to be "like Bobby De Niro."
De Niro "never talks about his personal life," Matt explains, but he's brilliant. He's a Real Actor. And Matt Damon has a theory: The better the actor, the less you know about his life. "I mean, nobody's better than De Niro, and you don't know anything about him, right" Look at Meryl. We don't know shit about Meryl. Look at Clint. And Jack. And Brando. "Marlon Brando—who fucking knows, right I mean, the best actors—if I asked you right now who you thought were the best actors, your favorite ten actors at work, men and women, my guess is that the list you would give me would probably be pretty close to my list. And you wouldn't know much of anything about any of their personal lives." He dials back. "Monty Clift. Monty Clift! Gay Yes, no, maybe Probably. Everyone says yeah. I don't know for sure. Never saw the pictures. I don't know. Mystery, right"
It is important to mention that while Matt Damon spends the majority of the interview explaining why he doesn't want to do the interview, he manages to do so in the most polite way. The still-boyish smiles. The gee-gosh-sorry you flew all the way over here for this. The: Hey, I'm happy to talk about politics if you want; I have plenty of opinions about '08.
Sure. Okay.
He says he plans to support Obama, because "if he was the face of America, it would mitigate a lot of problems in the world." He doesn't totally trust Hillary: "She's so fucking smart, isn't she I always liked her. But I'm just not interested in a leader who can't admit that they even made a mistake in the first place. That's what we've been dealing with for seven years now." He likes Edwards: "I would not be disappointed if he was the president. What a bunch of bullshit to call him the Breck girl for getting a haircut. How much did Bush pay for the fucking flight suit" Like everyone else in Hollywood, he hopes Gore gets into the race. "I mean, Gore's a special guy," he says. He tells a story about a conversation he had recently with Scott Burns, one of the people who produced An Inconvenient Truth. "Scott told me he sat in a room with Gore, and Gore was talking about the state of the world and actually started crying. Like, literally. Because to him, there were all these catastrophic failures, and he knew the human toll, right And it just caught up with him in this moment, and the tears started coming down."
He has something nice to say about Bush, too: "There's a lot of good things he's done. PEPFAR is a terrific program. I met a lot of people who are alive because of that. I've been working abroad basically throughout the Bush presidency, and that was the first time I ever got to really feel proud to be an American again, because I was meeting people whose lives have been saved by our tax dollars. And that's nothing to turn your nose up at. There are thousands and thousands of people who this president has directly saved through PEPFAR." He also gives Bush credit for calling Darfur a genocide early on. Which takes him back to his original point. "This is genocide we're talking about," he says. Isn't genocide more important than why he loves his wife
JD, his traveling chef, puts out lunch for us. Today is a holiday in Madrid—some uprising from 200 years ago—and all the supermarkets are closed, so JD had to improvise with take-out chicken from a local restaurant. "This is a fucking good lunch," Damon notes. "Healthy and all that."
He no longer has the vices he had when he exploded as a 27-year-old ten years ago. He doesn't go out much. He travels with his family. He even gave up smoking, and he was a pretty committed two-pack-a-day-er. (To quit, he went to a hypnotist.) Damon admits that he is now "the kind of asshole" who turns people in for smoking on nonsmoking floors in hotels. "I wouldn't have done that ten years ago. But that's not a by-product of fame; it's a by-product of fatherhood."
Clearly, he would much rather talk about the hypnotist and Al Gore and Barack Obama and Darfur and Clooney and Bobby D. and Monty Clift than Matt Damon.
In fact, he declares, this might just be his Last Cover Story. Because really, fuck this!
He is still smiling.
He is even smiling when he tells me he "feels sorry" for me. That he assumes interviewing Matt Damon isn't my "goal in life," either.
"It's funny," he says. "Every six months, I meet someone who has to try and do this." He laughs. "And it's like, I feel so bad for you."
Gee, thanks.
"I'm sorry."
"I didn't expect to see you again," he says, ten days later, as he slips into a booth at Asiate, the restaurant on the thirty-fifth floor of the Time Warner Center in New York City. He's wearing jeans, a T-shirt, a platinum wedding band, a necklace that his wife gave him (it bears the initials of the three important women in his life—his wife, his infant daughter, and his wife's daughter), and the Tag Heuer watch that Jason Bourne wears.
Because you knew I wanted to stab you when I left Spain
"I know." Long pause. Beautiful smile. "I didn't think you were coming back. I'm sure whatever angle you have, it's not good for me."
But you're here.
"I came to take my medicine."
At the risk of editorializing, it's safe to say that so far, our second meeting is going better than the first. For starters, we got him out of his trailer—although the place he picked happens to be probably the most discreet, most private, least obnoxious (in terms of paparazzi) restaurant in Manhattan. "You don't think this is _obnoxious _" he says, pointing to the staggering views of Central Park from our precious table.
He has a point. Matt Damon always has a point.
Three rounds of Chardonnay later, here's what happens with Matt Damon. We begin to understand a few things, starting with this: He's not a jerk. He is trying to walk that fine line between being a movie star who obviously (and by definition) craves approval and being a regular guy who just doesn't want to give his life away to the media.
But it's not just his general loathing of the process that has him doing this little dance. The dude has some, shall we say, thin-skin issues. He goes on, at length, about how he doesn't think his reviews have ever been any good. Is he joking He is not.
Even Good Will Hunting
"I remember feeling like they were very guarded and very 'Yeah, it's good but…' I always felt that was a reflection of the fact that we had done something that a lot of the people who were reviewing the movie wanted to do and hadn't."
And since then All bad
"The best review I ever got from The New York Times was for The Rainmaker, when nobody knew who I was. They didn't mention me in Courage Under Fire until later, when suddenly they go, retroactively, 'Oh, that was a good performance.' And you go, 'Well, you know what I could have used a shout-out back then, you know' I would have carried the article around to auditions and said, 'Hey, look what The New York Times said about me.' But fuck you, you're gonna say it now While you're slamming my performance in this other thing You're gonna say, 'Oh, he was great back then' So no, I never feel like my reviews are any good."
The smile.
"Maybe I am thin-skinned."
If you need more proof, Matt Damon is still mad at the guy who wrote the very first magazine profile of Matt Damon—ten years ago—because in an otherwise positively glowing cover story, an article that anointed Damon the Next Big Star even before he'd won an Oscar for Good Will Hunting, the writer called Matt's boots "dorky."
And worse: "He didn't have the fucking stones to say it to my face."
That's what Matt Damon took away from the story.
"The only thing I remember about it is he said I had dorky boots. Right" His nicest-guy-in-Hollywood smile ceases. "I was wearing Caterpillar boots. And I really liked them. And he said, 'His shoes are dorky, and he doesn't have any style yet, and I'm sure his style will come, because now he's gonna be a big movie star.' And I remember thinking, you know, 'Fuck you, man! You sat in a room with me, and you didn't have the fucking stones to say it to my face!' Say it to my face! You know what I mean This editorializing, it's why a lot of actors only do Q&A's, because it's like, let me be in charge of what I say. I don't want to hear what you say about what I say. You don't fucking know me! And I like my boots." He points to his feet under the table. "They're the same boots."
Well, then. Lest we be accused of having "no fucking stones," we mention right now, to his face: Yo, Matt, we like your boots, but the most interesting thing you did in Madrid was take a long, loud piss, and we are compelled to tell you this before we put it in the article.
"Really" Slight whine. "I got stuck on the set!"
The backstory on Matt Damon is a somewhat unusual twist on the typical overnight sensation thing. Kid who grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, superlefty mom and stockbroker dad (they divorced when he was 2), went to Harvard but dropped out a few credits short of graduating to be an actor. He went from doing T.J. Maxx commercials (and one line in Mystic Pizza) to winning an Oscar for his first screenplay, which he and his longtime BFF, Ben Affleck (who did not go to Harvard but whose father was a janitor there), wrote over the course of several years while crashing on each other's couches.
The drama of getting Good Will Hunting produced—and making sure they also starred in it—was almost as riveting as the movie itself. Damon and Affleck refused to give up their project—even when they could have sold it for fifty grand (huge bucks to two kids scrambling for work) and watched somebody else star in it. "The names that always came up were Brad and Leo," Damon says. "You know, people like that—established stars. But we were like, 'No, this is our thing.' "
He says they were inspired by two words, two words that became a mantra: Sylvester and _Stallone. _ "He's what gave us the guts to say, 'We're attached to the movie.' What he did with Rocky set a precedent. It's a great movie. But what he did—I mean, all those stories about him having $103 in his bank account and the pregnant wife, and them offering him thirty grand if they can blow him out and put Ryan O'Neal in. And he says, 'No, I'm not gonna do that, this is my movie.' That's what gave us the courage."
They ended up selling their script, after a now famous bidding war, for $600,000—and the starring roles.
"It was beyond anything," he says. "It was beyond any excitement I'd ever felt and ever felt since. It changed everything."
What's the first thing you bought with the money
He laughs. "We both bought Jeep Grand Cherokees. It was funny, because Ben and I, we both always wanted a Jeep Grand Cherokee for some reason. That was the car. We always talked about it but never could afford one. So when we suddenly had the money, we each instantly started trying to convince each other to get a different car. We'd say, 'Hey, have you seen the Explorer The Ford Explorer is really cool.' Because we knew it would just be so gay to get the same car. And our friends were making fun of us. Like, 'You fags, what are you doing, you're gonna drive around in the same car Are they gonna say His and His on them' We both wanted hunter green. So eventually we decided that one had to get black and one had to get green. We flipped a coin."
Ten years later, Matt Damon is reportedly earning $20 million a picture. Which is due in no small part to the phenomenal success of the Bourne franchise. That, more than anything, has made him a star. (The rst two made over $500 million combined.) Guys love these movies, and Damon turned out to be totally believable (and bankable) as the thinking man's James Bond.
Bourne is so much cooler and more evolved than Bond, isn't he
"The characters are so different," he says. "Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things. In fact, I bumped into Pierce Brosnan, and he made a comment like that. He said, 'Yeah, they're trying to update them, but it's fundamentally kind of an impossible thing to do, if you look at the values behind James Bond.' It kind of can't ever be what Bourne is, you know"
It's been ten years since Damon and Affleck took the screenwriting Oscar for Good Will Hunting. Who will ever forget that moment They were adorable, they were giddy, they were young, they were real, they gushed, they thanked everyone they'd ever met. And it seemed certain they'd find a way to fuck it all up. Damon's still not sure he's in the clear. "Clooney once said, 'If you can last ten years, if you could get a ten-year run, that's a great career as an actor.' Because it's such a hard, such an insecure profession," he says. "I'm trying to figure out where to start the ten years from. Is it from when Good Will Hunting came out 'Cause then I have about six months left."
He laughs. He downplays the fact that he has beaten the odds. But he did, and it's because he made the right choices, from Rainmaker to Ripley to All the Pretty Horses to Bourne to The Departed—all good roles, all fine performances. He didn't crash and burn, didn't overreach. But if anyone was supposed to be the superstar today, it was Affleck, his (still) best friend. And yet, it's not Affleck. It's Damon. (Though he would never put it that way.)
And so when Matt Damon looks us in the eye and says he is so not going to talk about his wife or his children, or how he feels about his wife and his children, or any "personal shit" that is none of our business, you really can't help but respect the guy. The truth is, we understand that Matt Damon talking about why he loves his wife—"the former Argentine bartender" from Miami he met while he was filming a movie—is probably not all that scintillating, anyway. Do we really need to hear about how difficult it is to take his infant daughter and his wife's daughter from a previous relationship to all those foreign countries with him
"It's never gonna be that interesting," says Damon. "It's only going to make me feel like shit when I read it and go, 'Oh, my God, I'm pimping out my infant daughter now For what To sell The Bourne Ultimatum"
Again: The man has a point.
He even demurs when asked how he met his wife—the subject of much conjecture in the blogosphere. (She's not an actress! She's a bartender or an interior decorator! Who is she) Except to say that "I'm really happy. It is good. But I don't feel the need to climb to the top of a building and sing it out to everybody. If I did, then it would feel like I've somehow corrupted it in a way, you know"
Okay, but for the record: What was she, a bartender or an interior decorator
He laughs. "An interior decorator We saw that and we laughed. That just appeared in a magazine. We had absolutely no idea how that ever happened. And now it's everywhere. But it's not true at all."
Thank you.
In December 2005, Damon accomplished what, in celebrity circles, is the ultimate coup. He managed to marry Luciana, whom he calls Lucy and who at the time was pregnant with their child—without anyone knowing about it. No helicopters, no Us Weekly cover, no paparazzi. How did he pull it off
He tells a long story about how they almost got married over Christmas at their home in Miami, but word leaked out, and at first they actually considered not getting married at all that year—that's how bad it is: "We just didn't want the moment to be hijacked by anybody" —but then they figured, "Even if these people think we're getting married, they're gonna be there and the helicopters are gonna be flying over our house." So they bolted to New York, where Damon has an apartment, and got married in secret. In Mike Bloomberg's office.
How does that work You just call Bloomberg and say you need to have a wedding and he hooks you up
"Yeah, basically."
He's pretty proud of himself for pulling this off. But he doesn't want to harp on it. "It's weird, because you walk a fine line. You don't want to sound like you're complaining about attention or publicity. And, um, I'm not complaining. But I have identified the parts of fame that I don't like. And one of them is being chased around."
Damon believes that the more tabloid attention an actor gets—the more Us Weekly/People/Star/In Touch splashes—the worse his career will be. "If you end up in their crosshairs, you're really fucked. Because there is an absolute relationship between how fucked you are, if you're on the cover of their magazines, and what happens to you as an actor. I mean, nobody knows that more than Ben." It is Damon's belief that the tabloid frenzy over Ben and Jennifer Lopez crushed Affleck's reputation and career. Really Not Gigli (Actually, Damon encouraged Affleck to do Gigli—they both loved the director, Martin Brest—and considered taking the costarring role.) In any event, he thinks how Ben soldiered through the media hoo-ha was "proof that he stayed in that relationship for the right reasons. Because he knew it was killing his career. He knew it. And people would say, 'Oh, you're courting the press!' Why the fuck would he want to court that kind of press"
You really think that's what hurt him
"Yeah!" He gives me a what-are-you-brain-dead look. "Why would you go see the movie of somebody who you see _ [slips into a mocking_ Us Weekly tone]: 'Monday, buying a Starbucks. Tuesday, there he is buying a book. Wednesday, yeah, he's just like me! He's shopping at the mall. Thursday, he's…' On Friday night, are you gonna go see the guy's movie _Absolutely not. _ There's too much familiarity. You're not gonna pay $10 when you can go out and there are magazines all over the place with pictures of him scratching his ass."
Several times he brings up his pal Brad Pitt, in reverential man-crush tones. It amazes him how Brad and "Angie" handle the daily onslaught of their fame. "Brad is incredible, because he's so normal for what he deals with. So normal. Try and name somebody who has remained normal under that kind of pressure and scrutiny. He's the only person I know who can do it. Like, George [Clooney] said that to me; he said, 'I couldn't do it. That's why he's Brad Pitt.' Brad rides a motorcycle now, because he can be anonymous. He's got a helmet, and he can get through crowds quicker. And so now all the paparazzi have these motorcycles that they follow Brad on."
And he thinks it has hurt Brad's career. "He's the biggest star in the world, and he's easily one of the most underrated actors. He should have won an Oscar for Snatch. But there's nothing you can do about it. Clooney's the same way. I mean, I realize he won an Oscar last year, but he's still underrated, and it's very hard for him to disappear into a role."
Still, he says, "If I could trade careers with anybody right now, it might be George Clooney. He's directing, he's writing, he's acting—and he's doing it all on his own terms. Plus, he's doing a lot of really great work in the world."
It was Clooney—and Bono and Don Cheadle—who first got Damon involved in the relief efforts in Darfur. "I think it's incumbent on us to do as much good as you can within the sphere of influence that you have," he says. "Otherwise, it's a waste of resources." He recently took a trip to Africa to try to learn more about it. He doesn't want to be just another celebrity spouting off about genocide without the facts. He wanted to see for himself why "a kid dies every fifteen seconds." He admits that he felt guilt-ridden when he came back to his cushy life. "I mean, I have, like, the middle-class guilt of my childhood, anyway."
Now he has the guilt of having more money than he knows what to do with. "I really don't spend a lot," he says. His father, the former stockbroker, hooked him up with some of his investment friends, and they handle his money. "They tell me, you know, put it in really conservative, you know… I'm not sticking my neck out or anything." But he allows that having all this—the fame, the money, the attention—is still "weird."
"I was just talking to Cheadle about this," he says. "We were playing golf. It was just the two of us. And he said, 'Did you ever imagine what your life would feel like Did you ever dream that' And I said, 'Did you' And we kind of sat there and thought about it, and the conclusion we came to was that our dreams never made it past the first big success. It's like, what you dream about is that one big thing that puts you over the hump."
And you don't really ever anticipate the rest.
"You know what I mean"
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Hospital Tech Declines To Patent His Invention, As Saving Lives Is 'More Important Than Money'
from the not-everyone-rushes-to-patent dept
Jarschke didn't bother to patent his invention. There are other things more important than money.Of course, watch now as someone else tries to get a patent on it. Either way, this actually reminds me of some research we pointed to a few years ago, showing that the vast majority of inventions occur not because of the direct profit motive of selling a product on the market, but rather because someone is trying to solve a need for themselves. We see this over and over again, and it seems odd to have a patent system that covers those cases. It goes against every reasonable defense of the patent system. After all, the patent system is really only supposed to be an incentive to create a product that wouldn't exist but for the patent system being there to prop it up. And yet, patents are still granted on those kinds of inventions all the time. It's nice to see that at least some people don't see the need to go that far.
"When we get safety for this hospital, that's going to be way better than money for me," he said.


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I think the reason Amber was picked is because she had done well on All Stars... but she really isnt the hottest girl in my opinion.
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[br]You agree that the purpose of the US is to spread democracy? (You answered: "Fair enough"). But you have a problem with someone who thinks that the people to whom we are spreading this democracy are going to turn on us because they are not loyal?

I agree that the spread of democracy is a very noble goal. But when it becomes a central dogma, then things can get out of hand. When all means are justified by such a noble end, then problems can arise.
What I have a problem with, is when Nav portrays all Muslims as evil people that are not trustworthy and are deserving extermination. So my question to Nav is why does he seem to think we can liberate Iraq and spread freedom there? If they are going to turn on us anyway, then why bother?


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Why Any Woman Looks Hot in a 'Jackie O'
It's the dress that looks good on women of all ages, sizes, and means. WSJ "On Style" columnist Christina Binkley takes Lunch Break inside the making of the blockbuster Black Halo "Jackie O" dress. Photo: Noah Webb for The Wall Street Journal.
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... I ... it suggests that everyone was ... high and Lang can't beat that dot the Jackie O why Hollywood and retell so enthralled with this garment joined us right now ... is Wall Street Journal on South Pentecost Christina Binkley Chris ... Mr. s first and foremost falls a problem for women what what is that problem ... although flattering problem ... you know at the holy grail for fashion designers to create a dress that fits well and everybody this one fits well on most everybody there said fuel tricks as stretchy fabric in ... and said listen this way you need the business and so curves which are very helpful ... and so it gets a hit that magic spot ... a lot of people I can find Hollywood celebrities even wearing it but let let's let the name job for men who we seen it ... Apple ... I spent some time searching for celebrities I finally decided that everybody's warn about Scarlett Johansen wearing it Kelly repo where's that ... I I I didn't know it it it ... runs the gamut of of most of the celebrities that you see that walk catwalk saying in this era fact they found a number of them that aborted two and three times in different colors ... and he notes that this is the secret of Hollywood that people wanna look fashionable when they're walking the red carpet that they actually don't wanna look ... too outlandish and this dress ... as a citizen of tweaks of fashion that looks good in a red carpet unflattering but not too scary there's not to be of your ... spawn moment with this for us ... in Philly and seventy five dollars for a moderately priced time is Jackie addresses from a company called out black Hilo ... retailer is just that ... in stock though which is pretty interesting Chris because often because only looking for the next ... big thing so ... I kept the product like this it serves a mission year after year that will give the brand longevity what are some other ... examples of brands that have been lucky enough to land on something like this ... well you know the first informers think the thing that Diane Furstenberg and a wrap dress write a mean that dress came out in the nineteen seventies ... it had I paid a then disappeared for a few years it has been going strong for the past ten years ... most of us have had or have one or more of them in our closets it's just ... a dress that has come out in every fabric every pattern every color ... tweaks on the style that it's always that rapper us knows all so we we live by the level seen imagine Levi's about five oh one there I inside without that the events of collards t shirt there ... they're the staples that many brands have that are really responsible ... for that the ad this or that the basis that the event the ad the foundation of the brand that branches off and other things always the risk that an appetite will wane in a company make Ina Fried it suited me even one as big as this one could be seen as a kind of a one hit wonder how is the designer ... on how are they making sure that this remains in people's closets season after season is a matter of little tweaks to the same garment half the workers ... well with the kickers in the fall collections isn't the only garment that Black Halo makes but ... um they come out with a steady year on the tyre service of churning through fabrics and colors so it comes out ... every few weeks in a new color it might be a slightly different green in the last blow last season's greeting lot of different patterns they also do different patterns for retailers I found a really pretty floral version of it that Neiman Marcus it didn't seem to be available anywhere else there is color block versions that Nordstrom for instance others the constantly playing with differ ways of putting together a slightly different fabrics ... so anything that I now feel it is my guess is my best friend I would recognize that anywhere because it spent so long looking at photographs of it ... but if you were really familiar with it and all the way the neck line breaks for instance you might not realize you are seeing the same dress ... on calorie I'm three different occasions well one size fits most is a pretty good recipe for success I Chris Binkley ... more on


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Always good to see some creative customs that springs from the mind of customizers and this is a truely great one.
Colours and detail are so well executed and in balans with eachother, almost makes me want to collect MOTUC!
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Looks great! But it's got more of a Latin American Indian /Aztec vibe to me..
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I'm not a fan of "earth-styled" characters on Eternia (like Rio Blast) but your execution is fantastic as usual. I like those double axes even better in his hands than in Grizzlor's. So what's his story? Does he team up with Rio Blast?
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Nice! the sculpting is great the parts are pretty sweet too I want him to have a humanoid face under the hawk head ( ala sorceress ) but sucks to be me I guess I can do that to mine great work as usual.
I thought the Idea was great, And The custom is Awsome! I had Always felt that the Mythical and Religious aspects of Earth, could tie into the whole MOTU Mythos with the proper tweeks, and so far you are doing a good job with it here!
EXCELLENTLY done! Very, very cool character!
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this is great man!
I remember you telling me about this over a year ago!
He turned out perfectly!
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I really like this character. The custom has great paint, its a good use of parts. The wings are particularly awesome. I love his totem head, however, I wonder what the character might look like with a human head/eagle helm of some sort. Perhaps he could transform between 2 states?
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 18:30
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Subject description: I need to create a pupplet AV Linux or Dream Studio
Hi ladies and gents.
I'm new to the forums but not really new to puppy. I've been playing with it off and on for the last 4 yrs. I keep distro hopping between debian/Ubuntu based distros and puppy.
I just started reading about Woof and am wondering how it works. ie Does it just pull packages from a distro's report or does it pull the entire distro (kernel, desktop, window manager, etc)?
If you do this with Ubuntu do you end up with a puppy using unity and need to remove it?
Or does Woof automatically replace the distros desktop with jwm?
I'm asking because I need a "studio" puppy with a low latency or real time kernel and have found that ones that already exist are either dead or packed full of outdated apps.
I need current versions of Ardour3, Jammin, jackrack, cinelerra, rackarrack, hydrogen, gimp, etc.
AV Linux is by far the best studio distro for my needs followed by Dream Studio and I would like to make a puppy from them.
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27 views and not one single reply.
I must have posted in the wrong section.
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Posted: Fri 28 Jun 2013, 11:37
Post subject: ask l0wtech or announcer
Announcer, also known here as l0wtech, etc. here sells similar puppies like your idea.
Maybe you should contact him .... or his other avatars ?
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Thank you for the suggestion but I'm not interested in purchasing anything. I'm interested in learning how to do things not just getting something and moving on.
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Posted: Fri 28 Jun 2013, 15:52
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RyanRide wrote:
Thank you for the suggestion but I'm not interested in purchasing anything. I'm interested in learning how to do things not just getting something and moving on.
It is not about purchasing, and hopefully not about selling puppies either.
I wanted to say that l0wtech also known as Announcer and maybe some more avatars, could be of some help to you because he made similar puppies you want to.
You might get into touch with him.
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Posted: Fri 28 Jun 2013, 19:37
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Some Woof basics...
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Studio 4 is free
My upload
Also this post...review
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RyanRide wrote:
27 views and not one single reply.
I must have posted in the wrong section.
Consider building on the work began using Arch linux,
as the basis for a puppy. The user who began the effort
moved on, but produced a nice pup, where you could access
the arch repos, and build packages.
lowtechs Studio1337 is wonderful. The wheel is already invented
AvLinux is huge, so it might not fit in the traditional puppy doghouse,
which is handy for small, focussed productions, that only
require a cd, usbstick, and a box with a little ram to run it in.
If you're great at compiling, recompiling, and starting from scratch,
over and over, and over, as code revelations appear, you'll do well.
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Posted: Sat 29 Jun 2013, 08:37
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RyanRide, you might have posted in the wrong section .
But that is common in this forum . You're not the first and not the last .
The Project Sub-Forum would fit best , I think , since it is the start of a Project to probably build a Derivate .
If you search for "woof" in the Howto-Section by Topic , you would probably find threads like
"[HowTo] Build a Custom Puppy with Woof" by Iguleder
"How to Use Woof to Build Lucid Puppy 5.2" by playdayz
"How to build a Puppy with woof2" by oldyeller
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another useful project, would be producing pets and sfs setups,
for disciplines, print graphics, video editing, audio production,
online collaboration etc
There are quite a few apps being created, or getting updates,
and that keeps interest high.
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Posted: Sat 29 Jun 2013, 23:57
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Thanks cthisbear and ciento.
I uploaded a custom Ardour 3 .sfs (should work on all versions of Puppy) back in April:
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have a short look for the Swiss NuTyx at
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» (build) at the bottom, right, you will discover a way to really compile from Scratch
(downloading sources, not binaries, from the original sites like LFS, or X.org, KDE etc.) all what you want without stress
. NuTyx has also an own git.
good luck!
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Post subject: Try jejy69's lxpup-aptget-test.iso
Before you try to build your own Pup, try jejy69's lxpup-aptget-test.iso. It can be downloaded from here:
It's based on Ubuntu precise, uses Lxde as its window manager, and as the name says includes aptget, actually synaptic. In addition to "install," It will id and offer to download the desire app and dependencies. I've had reasonable success installing Ubuntu applications into it, and running them compared to just downloading the files and dependencies (the option I mentioned) and then trying to run the same apps in Precise.
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I have a monster problem:
I tried to make a Puppy build with Woof, but when trying to build one of certain bases, (based on X, Y or Z) it fails to download tons of files and some packages are impossible to get, even if I Google until I'm blue in the face, arms and legs!
IIRC, /.1download failed to download so many files that unless tons of hosters deleted stuff, ./1download is majorly broken!
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Talk about a massive tax on innovation -- that all of us are paying for.
And, of course, many of these fees are going to pure trolls, who have contributed nothing to making actual smartphones. The paper highlights the explosion of troll lawsuits in the past few years:
Either way, this should be seen as a massive problem. Rather than going towards innovation and better, more affordable products for the pubic, money is going to lawyers and patent trolls who have contributed nothing to society. It's a massive dead weight loss to the economy.


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I was wondering, what's the consensus on Widener. I have no clue which schools are good. How do I get a list of school rankings? And how do you know which schools are in which tier? And one more thing, do the tier divisions really mean anything? In other words, is there a major difference between a good tier 2 and a bad tier 1? Thanks.


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Honorees must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2010 spring semester, achieved a second year academic status at his or her institution, and been a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
Winter sports sponsored by the NEWMAC are men's and women's swimming and diving and men's and women's basketball. The Engineers had ten student-athletes from each of their swimming and diving squads honored. Four men's basketball players were also eligible for Academic All-Conference, as were six members of the women's basketball team.
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MIT's 30 honorees were far and away the most of any school in the conference. WPI had 17 students named to NEWMAC's Academic All Conference, followed by Clark with 15 and Springfield with 13. Smith and Mount Holyoke each saw 9 students receive the honor, while 7 student-athletes from Babson were also recognized. Wellesley and Coast Guard each had eight student-athletes eligible for Academic All-Conference recognition.
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Men's Basketball
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Marissa Good 2012 MIT
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Kristen Whaley 2011 MIT
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Brendan Deveney 2013 MIT
Michael Dobson 2011 MIT
Kevin Lang 2013 MIT
David Parell 2012 MIT
Max Pruner 2013 MIT
Ron Rosenberg 2013 MIT
Toomas Sepp 2011 MIT
Ryan TerBush 2012 MIT
Wyatt Ubellacker 2013 MIT
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Caroline De Boer 2011 MIT
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