text: Crystal Morey Chats with Japanese Tattoo Master Horiren (VIDEO) By Crystal Morey Additional Photos By Hiro Hata I recently had the opportunity to go out to Horiren's studio in Saitama. Self-taught tebori (hand-poke) artist and student of legendary Ozuma Kaname. Horiren discusses the disappearing art of Shamisen Bori. I love going out to Horiren's, her studio is standard for a traditional Japanese tebori artist, a secluded house with no street signs, traditional tatami mats and a low kotatsu table. Her client today was an older gentleman with an amazing black and grey koi backpiece, laid out on the mats in fundoshi, the diaper-like attire seen in photos... Crystal Morey: Let's kickstart this by talking about your personal experiences. How long have you been tattooing? Who did you study with? When compelled you to get into, what is here in Japan, a very male dominated business? Horiren: I've been tattooing for 13 years. My father is a motorcycle mechanic and owns a repair shop and I was doing a motorcycle tour in Australia when I got my first tattoo... [She starts laughing and shaking her head.] It's a dragon, and I got a grim reaper on that same trip. Ha-ha I keep trying to get them covered but they're still there... I've been drawn to tattoos for a while and after working as an artist in several different capacities. [She helped design the graphics in many of the earlier 8-bit video games and also worked as a muralist.] I gravitated into tattooing and found my center. I came across a book of Ozuma Kaname and fell in love with his illustrations. I met one of his students, Ryushi, at his gallery show in Ginza and he introduced me to Ozuma Sensei (Master). I asked and was accepted as one of his art students and was recently paid a great honored by Ozuma when he did a portrait of one of my clients. (Ozuma Kaname does amazing portraits of tattooed Japanese Women and works primarily with Horiyoshi III's clients as his models). My studio is in Saitama, about 20 minutes from Tokyo and I recently opened another studio in Osaka and am currently splitting my time between the two. My client base grows predominately through introductions from previous clients. I haven't noticed the tattoo community here being male exclusive, I'm friends with many tattooers in Japan and work to promote positive ties with them. CM: Wow, Ozuma Kaname, that's impressive... What exactly is he showing you? How does that integrate into your tattoo work? Horiren: He's showing me how to create balance within my illustrations, how he gives his paintings flow and movement. His works have an amazing vitality I would like to infuse into my tattoos. Studying with him, listening to him talk about art has been such an honor. CM: I bet. So I've known you a while and I know that as a tebori artist you tend to tattoo predominately wabori, (Japanese traditional motifs) although I've seen a Star Wars' samurai and a siberian husky backpiece with your name on them, ha-ha. What is your favorite imagery to tattoo and who do you reference? Horiren: I love doing yokai (Japanese monsters and goblins). They are so much fun. I like dragons and the Suikoden heroes as well. I reference Kyosai for yokai and demons and use Kuniyoshi for the Suikoden samurai. I'm definitely attracted to the darker motifs! CM: And you've recently started studying (what is now) an almost extinct style of Japanese hand-poke tattooing, can you elaborate on that? Horiren: Its called Shamisen Bori and I've been flying down to Kyushu, with my friend and fellow tattooer Horimyo, to study with Nakamura Sensei, one of three people left in Japan that work using this method, the other two being students of his. With Shamisen Bori, the needles are attached to a Shamisen pick. [Shamisen are a very traditional Japanese musical instrument much like a banjo, the bamboo pick used to strike the strings is lacquered bamboo, very strong.] Do you remember that Shamisen master we saw? Remember what the leather stretched across it was made from? CM: Yeah, cat skin. Nasty! Will you show us the tool and how it's used? It's held differently, correct? It almost looks like your sewing... [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-sE-WI9tMQ&w=425&h=349] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX-KixTSiE&w=425&h=349] CM: Very cool. You do seem to have quite a few foreign clients, what is the best way for them to get in touch with you and how would a person go about booking an appointment? Horiren: It's best if they e-mail me through the website (http://horiren.com/) at least a month in advance. I need to know what they want and where, how big. For larger projects I require a consultation beforehand as well. CM: Of course. Well I won't take up any more of your time, thank you for the Shamisen Bori demonstration, amazing. Horiren: My pleasure!


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An upcoming biography of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange isn't even in stores yet, and it's already been optioned into a feature film.
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That the OECD's Development Assistance Committee is a miracle of diplomacy was abundantly clear at an early-December gathering of bilateral aid leaders in London's sumptuous Marlborough House.
There, in a back room deep inside a warren of corridors, as negotiations continued in the grand rooms just feet away, OECD staff frantically tried to decipher updates and type amendments as representatives haggled over not just substance but also phrasing. The path to agreement for this club of 24 mostly Western donor nations is anything but smooth.
At the center of it all was Brian Atwood, the even-tempered U.S. foreign aid veteran who cast a wide shadow in his post as chair of the OECD-DAC over the last two years – a post he stepped down from at the end of 2012. Atwood, who has referred to the DAC as the "intellectual center of the development mission," led tough negotiations on everything from aid effectiveness to climate change to aid cuts during the financial crisis.
Emblematic of his tenure as DAC chair, Atwood provided "sharp arguments on many development issues" during the London gathering, recalled Erik Solheim, the Norwegian aid chief who assumed the DAC chairmanship on Jan. 1.
"No one was in doubt concerning his views on major issues," Solheim told Devex. "Still, he managed to keep an extremely positive atmosphere due to the respect people have for him, his humor and his integrity."
Other DAC members we spoke to agree. Christian Bach, Denmark's minister for development cooperation, called Atwood a "close partner" and "very inclusive" leader "with a clear agenda, clear objectives and thus a clear determination to reach the objectives." He praised Atwood for involving new actors such as China in development cooperation – especially through the late-2011 High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea – and for "lifting the aid effectiveness agenda to a truly international agenda and thus not just an OECD exercise."
AusAID Director General Peter Baxter called Atwood a "consensus builder" who "also takes a no-nonsense approach to issues to ensure that the focus of the DAC is on core issues rather than tangential ones."
Atwood, who also chairs Devex's board of advisors, honed his powers of persuasion as a diplomat in Côte d'Ivoire and Spain, an official in both the Carter and Clinton administrations – ultimately as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and chairman of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. during both Clinton terms – and, more recently, the dean of a prominent U.S. university.
In a position typically held by senior development officials, he was without question the heaviest political hitter to ever get the job. With the 50th anniversary of the DAC looming, traditional aid architecture seeming out-dated and growing pressure from non-DAC members like China, India and Brazil, he was anointed by the Obama administration with the hope that someone with political muscle could bring together the biggest donors around a common agenda. (Emphasizing the importance of the DAC to American foreign aid diplomacy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself gave a major speech in Busan about a new era in global development cooperation.)
When Atwood was elected DAC leader in January 2011, it was clear that he was setting the direction for an institution grasping for relevance into its sixth decade. In a statement on the future of the DAC, he flatly stated that the panel risked losing influence unless it managed to find a way to define its place in a rapidly changing world in which emerging donors, international corporations and other investors hold increasing sway.
Since then, aid officials we interviewed say he's put the DAC on a new path.
"Under Brian's stewardship, the DAC has reaffirmed its place as a thought-leader for the donor community and worked with partner countries, emerging donors, international organizations and civil society to reshape the international architecture for development," USAID Deputy Administrator Don Steinberg told Devex.
Looking back, Atwood cited as his greatest obstacle opposition from people who wanted the DAC to remain "a sort of donors club, who didn't really want to look more broadly."
He told Devex: "If we had followed their lead, we would've been irrelevant in no time and we might never have achieved the global partnership [which includes non-DAC members such as the BRICS nations]. So I think the biggest challenge was simply conservative governments who wanted to keep the club together and not expand its horizons."
The growing confidence of emerging donors, still largely untapped power of remittances and ever-growing private investment in the developing world have prompted much soul-searching within the global aid community. For DAC members, the very definition of official development assistance is at question.
The international community needed agreement on the way forward in this new environment.
Preparations for Busan dominated Atwood's attention throughout his first year. The summit, he said, represented a "global learning moment," a milestone for the international development community in search of answers in a global context that had changed markedly since the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action.
In its capacity to enhance country ownership and deliver much-needed coordination among all of the providers of development cooperation, Atwood likens the agreement to the Millennium Declaration in its scope to be a game-changer for developing countries.
"It will hopefully put us on a path so that this irrational aid architecture that exists in the world today will be reduced," he said.
Finland's international development minister, Heidi Hautala, told Devex: "There is absolutely no doubt of Brian's greatest achievement as the DAC chair, and that is the visionary, determined way in which he widened the discussion on development cooperation to involve all the development actors who actually are present in developing countries as their partners."
In truth, a year after the summit, there is little consensus on the extent to which Busan's legacy will be a lasting one. It may have acknowledged more clearly than ever the new power dynamics in development cooperation – but will it drive real change?
In a recent conversation with Devex, Atwood was quick to admit that there is much work to be done to ensure that progress made at Busan is built upon – not in the least by engaging and creating trust among the likes of China, Brazil, India and other emerging donors, some of which now hold an OECD-DAC observer status.
"We have to get beyond people's suspicion that this is somehow a Trojan horse to get people to join the DAC," he said. "We're not interested in that, we simply want to have a dialogue."
But dialogue on development cooperation during Atwood's tenure was taking place against the backdrop of fiscal crisis, particularly in the eurozone. With deep cuts to aid budgets threatening to make development coordination irrelevant, he sought to raise the DAC's profile on global finance issues and make the case to finance ministers – not just aid ministers – that foreign assistance is essential.
"There was a good deal more focus being put on development as an important mission," Atwood recalled, "and that brought in finance ministers who really don't know a lot about development, frankly."
Still, in today's era of austerity, bilateral aid in many cases is falling; it was down by 2.7 percent last year and could fall again. Atwood, like many of his peers, has been pushing for new, innovative financing for development. After all, ODA represents just 13 percent of all capital flows to the developing world. But, as a lifelong proponent of foreign assistance well-known for his bruising budget fights with former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms in the 1990s, Atwood stresses that a focus on leveraging private sector investments for development should not come at the expense of ODA.
A case in point is Canada, whose bilateral merchandise trade with Nigeria has risen by 44 percent since 2010 while net ODA fell by 5.3 percent from 2010 to 2011. The OECD has warned that this approach "may undermine the support it has given in recent years to poor countries with weak capacity, especially in sub-Saharan Africa." A 2012 peer review published by the DAC suggested Canada ensure that development objectives and partner country ownership were paramount in the activities and programs it supported with no confusion between development objectives and the promotion of commercial interests.
All indications are that Solheim, the new DAC chairman, will continue down the path Atwood paved – broadening the international development tent, mainstreaming development cooperation on the world stage, and perhaps even reevaluating the very definition of ODA.
Having served as both an environment and international development minister in Norway, Solheim is poised to advocate for a sustainable development agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals come 2015. Indeed, upon his selection, Solheim released a statement highlighting the need for ODA to address wider sustainable development concerns and for development finance to "promote the uptake of green growth policies using innovative channels."
Solheim says his greatest challenge will be to continue the work Atwood has started. He wants to focus on the environment, yes, but Solheim's also a self-confessed advocate of cash-on-delivery payment schemes; he appears to have little time for aid projects "which are well-intended but with limited results."
And, like Atwood and an increasing number of aid officials, Solheim emphasizes the importance of putting developing countries in the driver's seat of cooperation.
"True, it might be easier with the most-organized developing nations, with strong states," he said, "and not so easy in fragile states for instance. But that's no argument not to do it."
Ultimately, the DAC's power rests on the degree to which it can make themes like country ownership the global standard, something Atwood's boosters insist he did and his successor clearly understands.
"A very important role for DAC, and for myself as DAC chair, will be to do my utmost to encourage global leaders to show political will," Solheim told Devex, "to show leadership because unless they do that, nothing will happen."
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Whether for reasons related to the collapse of the Amazon EC2 or otherwise, the FamilySearch Forums site has now been down for three days. Here is a screen shot showing the status with a link to the Amazon site:
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You can see the two arrows indicate that the hosting site for the Forums is still down as of April 23, 2011. Although there are reports that the outage was only hours long, it is apparent that after three days the problem persists.
What would I do if my computer were down for three days? Well, the last time my laptop crashed, by that afternoon I had purchased a new laptop. My time and data are way too valuable to me to put up with simple hardware issues. Of course, the issue with Amazon is much more complex than simply replacing a laptop computer but the principle is the same.
I see the problem all of the time. Genealogists with all of their data on one flash drive or only on one computer's hard drive. This might be understandable in terms of economics if either computers or flash drives constituted major purchases in today's market. I didn't spend a couple of hundred dollars buying a new laptop but I could have. The purchase may have made a dent in my Social Security retirement income, if that were the only thing keeping me going. But even for lower income individuals, a new flash drive is the equivalent of meal at a fast food restaurant or less than a month of Netflix. A new computer may take a little more planning but if you cannot afford a $300 laptop then your problems are not confined to backups of your data.
I do not intend to berate or even make light of the fact that many genealogists (and in our society, people in general) find themselves in desperate economic conditions. That is not the point, the point is that for the average person in the U.S. backing up your data is not a major expense, no matter what your economic condition.
Now, back to the issue. Do I want to rely on storing my data online? Not if that is the only thing I am relying on. Storing your data online may give you an illusion of backing up your data, just like using a flash drive or a single hard drive can give the same illusion. As a responsible genealogist and technologist, I cannot recommend any ONE method of backup. I can only recommend using every possible and reasonable method available, ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Do I use flash drives as backup? Yes
Do I use multiple hard drives as backup? Yes
Do I use multiple computers as backup? Yes
Do I use the Internet as backup? Yes
Do I use CDs and DVDs for backup? Not any more.
Do I still worry about losing thirty years of research? Yes
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GRAHAM � Sheriff Terry Johnson will get 19 new vehicles later this year to begin the process of replacing his department�s aging vehicle fleet.
The Alamance County Board of Commissioners agreed on Monday to allow Johnson to move forward with purchasing 2013 Dodge Chargers from the Ilderton Dodge dealership in High Point. Johnson said he planned to call the dealership today to begin the process.
The vehicles will cost about $30,000 each or $570,000 total provided through a state contract made available through Ilderton Dodge.
County Manager Craig Honeycutt presented the board with several options on how the vehicles could be attained through leasing, direct purchase or a conventional loan. Honeycutt also proposed a plan on how the aging fleet could be replaced from year to year.
Honeycutt suggested 20 new vehicles could be added to the fleet this year with 10 new vehicles added each year over the next two years with another 20 new vehicles added in the fourth year and to repeat this cycle until all 140 vehicles were replaced.
Commissioner David Smith said he could support adding new vehicles to the fleet this budget year but couldn�t support committing future boards to adding new vehicles to the fleet.
�This board cannot tell the board in three or four years what to do,� Smith said. �We can�t obligate that.�
Smith suggested the board allow Johnson to lease 20 new vehicles this fiscal year which would cost $150,000 instead of purchasing the vehicles upfront. Smith said the county could transfer the $150,000 needed for the lease from the County Health Department�s fund balance to the sheriff�s capital expenditure account.
Commissioner Linda Massey said she was opposed to using savings from the County Health Department to pay for a lease agreement and preferred instead to use available contingency, fund balance or budget surplus funds to cover the cost.
According to County Finance Officer Amy Weaver, the county has $946,000 in contingency funds and $596,000 in budget surplus that could be used toward funding the vehicle purchases. Leasing the vehicles would have included a 5.6 percent interest rate and a conventional loan would have included a 1.6 percent interest rate.
Honeycutt said leasing 20 vehicles would cost $734,000 over the life of the lease terms, while it would cost $638,000 to purchase the vehicles through a conventional loan. Using a conventional loan would have required the county to ask for bids to purchase the vehicles.
The commissioners ultimately decided to allow Johnson to purchase 19 new vehicles upfront and not move forward with leasing or loan options.
Massey made a motion for the county to allow Johnson to purchase the new vehicles in the current fiscal year using funds from either the contingency fund or budget surplus fund. Commissioners Bill Lashley and Tim Sutton were not present at the meeting on Monday. Lashley was at Duke Medical Center successfully recovering from his heart surgery performed earlier in the day while Sutton was in Greensboro attending a driver�s education class he was teaching.
The motion was unanimously approved by the board. Honeycutt said the county will transfer county contingency funds to the sheriff�s capital expenditure fund to pay for the 19 vehicles.
Johnson said it would cost about $700 to up fit each vehicle with necessary emergency equipment used by patrol deputies. It will take a few weeks to install the equipment needed with three vehicles up fitted per week. Johnson said the new vehicles will be delivered by Ilderton Dodge to his department and be in use by November or December.


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So you heard someone say something was a part of health insurance reform, and you're wondering if it's true. Where do you turn? Here are some honest efforts to bring facts to the table and set rumors and speculations aside. The list is quoted from a post of Nate Van Duzer.
Start with this regularly-updated site from the Kaiser Family Foundation that compares the different reform proposals on the table.
Factcheck.org is a trusted source of nonpartisan myth-busting and truth-telling. For the latest information about whether new advertisements, speeches, or e-mails tell the truth, visit this site.
A summary of factcheck.org's research into several arguments surrounding health-care reform, published July 14, 2009.
"A Primer on the Details of Health Care Reform" from The New York Times, published August 9, 2009.
"10 Health Care Reform Myths" from CBS News, published August 6, 2009.
"Fact or Fiction? The Truth About Four Health Care Fears" from ABC News, published August 13, 2009.
8 Myths about Health Care Reform from the AARP Magazine, published July/August 2009.
A good source of current news, background information, and analysis all in one place.
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All of baseball remembers the day – Cardinals fans, especially. It was December 8th, 2011 – the day that it was announced that Albert Pujols was leaving St. Louis for the Los Angeles Angels.
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The SEC announced Monday the appointment of Julie Riewe and Marshall Sprung as co-chiefs of the Division of Enforcement's asset management unit, succeeding Bruce Karpati, who led the unit as a co-chief since its January 2010 inception but who left the commission in May.
Since May 2012, both Riewe and Sprung had been serving as deputy chiefs of the unit, whose charter, according to the SEC, is to focus "on misconduct by investment advisers, investment companies and private funds."
Riewe (right), who joined the SEC in 2005, and Sprung, who joined the SEC in 2003, became deputy chiefs following the departure of the Asset Management Unit's original co-chief, Robert Kaplan.
In an interview with AdvisorOne after he joined the law firm Devevoise & Plimpton on June 1, 2012, Kaplan argued that "the single most significant trend in securities enforcement today is the increased allocation of resources to misconduct by investment advisors." At that time, the unit comprised 75 lawyers and industry experts who focused on investigations related to potential violations of securities laws by advisors to hedge funds, private equity funds, mutual funds and separately managed accounts.
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According to the SEC's release announcing the new appointments, both Riewe and Sprung have already contributed significantly to the Asset Management Unit's actions.
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These rainbow angels created by Guangci are fusions of Eastern and Western culture. They wear the wings of Western angels but have the faces of people from the orient. The artist also gives the angel different looks of man and woman, and names them based on the old Chinese wisdom: "Rainbow comes in two shades, the bright one as the male called Hong, and the gentle one as the female called Ni." Hence, he named the male angels Hong, bringing hope and vitality with their strong and bright colours. Correspondingly, the female angels are named Ni, with their soft and sweet colours originating from the artist's memory of the ice creams during his trip to Italy. They are angels of loveliness, bringing comforts and joys.
Famous contemporary Chinese sculptor Qu Guangci was born in Shanghai in 1969, and received his MFA from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Department. Since 1999, Qu has been invited to exhibit his works around the world, including China, Germany, France, the United States and throughout Southeast Asia. To date, he has held nine solo exhibitions. He resigned from his university teaching position in 2007 to found X+Q Sculpture Studio, together with his wife, Xiang Jing. Read More
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Playing in Heaven, Aura Gallery, Hong Kong
Twittering — Guangci' Work, PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing
Angel with A Missioni", The Pao Galleries at Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Rumination, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
The Power, Aura Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2007
Collectivism — Guangci's Work
Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Last Supper, Aura Gallery, Hong Kong
Sculpture by Guangci, Hallway Gallery, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Group Exhibitions
Love and Hope: The Art World Assisting Children Affected by the Disasters in Japan, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
The Way is Not Merely Between Two Points, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei
Latent Reality – Yang Mao-Lin, Cao Hui, Qu Guangci, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei
Twittering – Guangci's Works, CIGE 2011 Special Exhibition, Beijing
What is Art?, Times Art Museum, Beijing
Mind > Touch?, Times Art Museum, Beijing
Reshaping History, China National Convention Center, Beijing
The Ten Faces of Modernity, D-PARK, Beijing
Animamix Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Time Lag, Linda Gallery, Beijing
Tribute to the Motherland — 60 Years of Chinese Fine Arts, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
60 Years of New Chinese Art, Beijing, National Art Museum of China
The 1st Chongqing Biennale for The Youth Artists, Chongqing 2008
Art and China's Revolution, Asia Society, New York, USA - Art Beijing
Couples in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
Hypallage — The Post-Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art, The OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen
The World of Others, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
The 1st Annual Moon River Sculpture Festival — The Origin, Moon River Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
The Core of Us, The First Sound Gallery, Beijing
The Romantic Moving Socialism, The First Sound Gallery, Beijing
Bang! , Aura Gallery, Beijing - Happy Together, Aura Gallery, Beijing 2007
She & I – Xiang Jing and Guangci's Sculpture Works, China Square, New York, USA
Calling a Stag a Horse: Guangci, Xiang Jing, Chen Wenling, Cao Hui Four-Person Sculpture Show, San Shang Art, Beijing
Escape by Crafty Scheme: Salvation from Traditional and Revolutionary Language, Nanjing Square Gallery Of Contemporary Art, Nanjing
Tanah Air: Seni Patung dan Lingkungan, Pakuwon City Complex – Surabaya, Indonesia
Soliloquy: China-Indonesia Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, National Art Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
Fiction @ Love, Museum of Contemporary Art / Bund 18 Creative Center, Shanghai
Sculpture of a Century, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai
Witness — Sculpture of Xiang Jing And Guangci, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
China · Imagination: Chinese Contemporary Sculpture. Jardin de Tuileries, Paris, France
MMAC Art College / Performance Festival 2004, Aizu-Mishima / Tokyo, Japan 2003
XII Inner Spaces, Multimedia Festival, CCA Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland
The 1st Beijing Art Biennale, Chinese National Art Gallery, Beijing
Sculpture by Xiang Jing And Guangci, Casas-Museu da Taipa, Macau
Rotate 180∘, Oriental Arts Gallery, Shanghai
Guangci Xiang Jing 2002 — Mirror Image, Invisible Gallery, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai
2001 Salon d'Automne, Espace Auteuil, Paris, France
The 32nd Grosse Kunst Ausstellung Dusseldorf, Eingang Nord, Dusseldorf, Germany
People's Gala – Venice Biennial Exhibition, Invisible Gallery, Shanghai
The 50th Anniversary of Shanghai Art, Guangci's work Sound Amidst Thunder and Clouds won the 3rd prize, Shanghai
Sea Level - Paintings & Sculpture Invitation Exhibition 2000, Liu-Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
The 2nd Young Sculptors Invitation Exhibition, Hangzhou, West Lake Art Museum - Conversations with Henry Moore
Sculptures Invitation Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Other Accomplishments
Invited by Shanghai Art Museum, organized and curated The Standard of Chinese Contemporary Sculpture, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Invited by Liu-Haisu Art Museum, organized and curated the sculpture section of The Platter of Pearls on Jade Plate, Shanghai Young Artists Biennale, Shanghai
Host of Sino-German New Media Arts Week, organized by Peking University and The Goethe Institute Peking
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A few days ago, Brett Gaylor posted a Popcorn presentation with some proposed use cases to inform the technical roadmap for Mozilla Webmaker. I'm actually jumping up and down right now because I've literally had this blog post (the one you're reading at this very moment) ready to go for two weeks and the timing couldn't possibly be better!
(I'd like to thank Jonathan Wilde and Daniel Buchner for looking this post over! I may be technical, but I'm not a developer by any stretch..)
The Web is advancing rapidly, and Mozilla is one of the major organizations driving it. In many ways, the web has been moving haphazardly from being document based toward being app based. For this and many other reasons, Mozilla is pushing hard in making sure the Web Platform is mature enough to support a web of apps. So much is happening at once it's hard to keep track of it all! Nevertheless, I try and do just that. Once a futurist, the trendspotting never ceases!
There are some potential technical converges coming down Mozilla's pipeline that I think need to happen much much sooner than later. These convergent opportunities lie between Mozilla Webmaker and the forthcoming Web Components model.
The Web Components model is one of the more exciting advancements coming to HTML5. Using this model, web developers will be able to create their own HTML tags thus making the web more extensible. Among its many benefits, Web Components will make it easier to develop Apps because Widgets will be more modular and have greater reusability. This essentially gives everyone the means to prototype extensions to HTML5.
By enabling the kinds of encapsulation of code currently managed by cutting edge javascript frameworks, Web Components is clearly going to enhance web developer ecosystems in ways impossible to foresee.
My intent here is not to explain Web Components, but to explore the potential implications for Mozilla Webmaker applications. If you'd like some additional background, are some good resources I've found.
The best video I could find!
The shortest video I could find!
The official WC3 introduction to Web Components.
WC3 documentation on Web Component use cases.
News on Web Components via Google+
Time for Popcorn!
As I've written before, Popcorn.js is a javascript library that brings a temporal dimension to the web. So far, the web has been a predominantly 2d medium. While WebGL brings the possibility for 3d graphics to the web, Popcornjs makes me think time itself could become the web's natural third dimension. What does this mean in practical terms?
The way Popcorn Maker (a Mozilla product that lets you remix video with web content) currently works is by giving you a library of web content widgets called Events. The app lets you attach Popcorn Events directly to specific points of time in a video file. This is great for when you are doing post-process work on a video, but what if you want to start working on your web content before video editing has been finished? What if you wanted to start working on your web content before you've even begun shooting video?
Web Components would give us the ability to define more descriptive anchor points for Popcorn Events than is provided by the single static timeline of a video file. HTML gives us all sorts of <h> tags, <p> tags, <divs>, etc etc that describe spatially rendered relationships within a document. Perhaps it's time we prototyped some markup for temporal layout.
I don't know what kind of vocabulary would be best for describing temporal markup, but it strikes me that video production and stage play conventions provide some great inspiration. Imagine tags for segmenting time into sections such as <act></act>, <chapter></chapter>, <scene></scene>, and <commercial>. We could also have tags to describe the <transitions> between <scenes>.
Note that our markup vocabulary might go in a completely different direction if we used musical notation as our inspiration. These are artistic and technical questions for a future date.
If we were to create this kind of markup, how might we utilize it? Temporal markup would open up new avenues for development of Popcorn Maker toward professional application across the life-cycle of a production. It would allow us to segment media into discrete temporal segments so that we could manipulate groupings of events relative to one <scene> or another rather than relative to the beginning of a video. I think this could be a powerful way to develop the ideas Brett Gaylor proposes such as creating indexes (dvd style or otherwise), sequencing, and keyframing.
Furthermore, Web Components could help us create tools to for the flexible organization of Popcorn Events before even entering the Popcorn Maker editing interface.
Use case: Air Mozilla
Here's a use case I really really really want to see happen: Popcorn for live video!
Mozilla has a weekly all-hands meeting that is streamed and archived by the Air Mozilla team. Each meeting has an agenda accessible via the Mozilla Wiki. Imagine if each meeting's agenda was compiled with temporal markup. Let's call this hypothetical app 'Popcorn Agenda'.
Every item added to the Popcorn Agenda would be transformed into a Popcorn Event. People who are scheduled to speak could have a Popcorn Event linking to their appropriate online profile, while projects they are discussing could have relevant links prepped to pop up throughout the live video stream. If a speaker has a slide deck, these slides could also be added as Popcorn Events. When a meeting is set to begin, the live video feed would start streaming through an app we'll call 'Popcorn Streamer'.
Popcorn Streamer takes the content from Popcorn Agenda and layers it on top of the live video stream. Because meetings never run according to schedule, the Air Mozilla team could use Popcorn Streamer to manually step through Popcorn Events to make sure they align with what's actually happening during the meeting. Once the meeting has ended, the video can be archived online with all the Popcorn annotation work having been done up front.
Mozilla Thimble
One of the questions in my mind regarding Mozilla Webmaker is how to bridge the gap between learning the web, and advancing the web. We don't want to just make learning the web stack more accessible, we also want to make the deliberative processes by which the web evolves more accessible. When combined with Mozilla Thimble and MIT Media Lab's Scratch, I believe Web Components could play an important role in making this happen.
Right now, Thimble is a simple tool for creating and hacking away at simple Web pages. What if we were to throw Scratch into the mix? Looks like we're already exploring this direction! Awesome! Now, what if Thimble were to take a page from Popcorn Maker and generate embeddable content? What if this embeddable content was structured through Web Components?
Suddenly, not only would new Webmakers be learning how to make web content and javascript widgets they can share, they'd suddenly be learning how to create their own web markup! What was once the domain of standards bodies is now accessible to anyone and everyone.
Of course, this implies a fourth content type I'd like to propose for Webmaker: discrete and embeddable javascript widgets.
Use Case: a Thimble Widget Directory
Imagine a directory of the best reusable web elements created by and for Webmakers everywhere. Actually, there's no need for imagination here because just a few hours ago Mozilla's X-tags team launched a new version of their project site which includes an X-tags Web Components Registry. You might consider this a prototype for a Thimble Widget Directory. I propose the scope of the X-tags project should be expanded beyond the scope of infrastructure for FirefoxOS development to really turbocharge Webmaker programming.
X-Ray Goggles
For the bonus round, here's an idea for X-Ray Goggles: A tool for content collection. Beyond mere poking and prodding web pages to see what makes them tick, X-Ray Goggles could become a mechanism for collecting Web Component powered widgets for reuse in Mozilla Thimble and Popcorn. This could turn learning web development into, well.. a collecting game experience not unlike Pokemon or LittleBigPlanet! There are some potential content ownership issues here, but perhaps this would be an opportunity to start discussing how infrastructure for attribution might fit into the Webmaker mix.
I'll be exploring this collection of ideas (teaching javascript, asset inventories, showcasing galleries of widgets, buttons, and badges, etc) in more detail in another post.
If I had to offer some advice to the lizard, it would be to throw more resources at the X-tag project team so that they can collaborate closely with the various Webmaker software development teams. Web Components may not yet have landed on the web proper, but I think it's imminent enough that Webmaker roadmapping efforts will be made much stronger by starting to take them into account now.
As an aside, I think exploring the synergies between Webmaker and Web Components at this early point could help create some strategic clarity in the longterm (2014+) relationship between Mozilla Webmaker and the Mozilla Developer Network. Webmaker should evolve into a platform that gives learners pathways toward many forms of creativity on the Web. One of these pathways clearly leads deep into app-land.


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The sources that I came across are very poor. I had to select them from the archives, leaf through the pages of the Hamelitz, Hatzefira and other newspapers, and speak with elders who still are with us efforts that required a great deal of time and an indescribable amount of effort.
Despite my efforts, I did not succeed in recording all of the details that were fit to be recorded. Some are not described completely, and there were important activists whose names and activities have been removed. I consciously skipped over disagreements in communal life, whether the cause was political or personal, despite the fact that it is possible to assume that each person was in his own camp and believed in the purity of his motives and the righteousness of his struggle, which was only for the benefit of the public.
My prayer is that the reader will find the material presented interesting, and will gain an idea of the prominence of the community and its institutions whose ways were not fenced with roses and that my words will explain what is obscure, and that there will be a salvation of some memory of our destroyed community. This will be my reward.
In Hamelitz, 5726 (1866), Issue 33, we read about the native of our town Yosef Rabinovitz:
The terrible illness cholera, that brings pestilence and death in its wake, came also to our town. It affected a neighborhood of the houses of the poor. They were the first to be affected.
Goodhearted people from our community arose and decided to put a stop to it. These include Reb Shlomo Volovsky, Reb Baruch Nisenboim, Reb Menashe Feinsilver, Reb Leib Rozenfeld, and finally Reb Avraham Davidovitz. They did not rest day and night. They gathered money from all generous people, and helped the doctors distribute medicine to those who were sick at home and in the hospital.
It is worthwhile to praise the wonderful doctor, Dr. Waltuch, a dear man, who took it upon himself to visit the ill in the hospital and at home without any payment until he himself became ill.
From here it is clear that already at that time, almost a century ago, there was a hospital.
To our dismay, we did not find any other information about communal matters in our city in general and about the hospital in particular, until about 20 years later, in an article that was published in Hamelitz on June 8, 1887. The writer Segev tells us the following: The house that was built in the yard of the hospital on the accounts of the generous philanthropist Mr. Zelig Klister, for which he paid about 3,000 rubles, has four large rooms, and is separated into two sections, one for men and one for women. Great benefit will come from it. Instead of 12 beds, there will now be 24. Now the doctor can examine the sick people in the old house, and not in the room of the beds. The office and pharmacy will be there as well. Dr Shachnovitz, who is well loved by the community, has been invited to be the director. (He came to our city from Lithuania in 1865.)
The merciful nurses were faithful assistants to the doctors. These included the young woman Raisel the daughter of Reb Moshe Lezer Sharf, Reveka Grigoriovana Rabinovitz, Ina Kornblit-Yagolnitzer, and Chaika the daughter of Chayim Davidovitz. All of these served with purity and awe for their task.
At the end of the first decade of the 20th century, a new hospital building was erected in the north of the city, at the edge of Bessarabkaya Street. It was headed by Dr. Warshavsky, who was assisted by nurses.
The period of time between the outbreak of the First World War (1914) until the end of the 1920s was a time of difficult national and social revolutions, which strongly influenced life. Despite the many efforts expended by the communal workers, they did not succeed in providing sufficient medical assistance to the poor residents of the city.
To the credit of the aforementioned hospital committee, we should point out that their efforts and abilities to bring in large groups of the residents of the city and region to work to this endeavor, and their personal dedication to every member of the committee, stood well for them, and they succeeded in raising more money than was expected. The members Meir Goldberg of blessed memory and Yaakov Volovsky did important work. They left their affairs and went out to the villages of Kipercheny, Biyeshty, Tsareni, Kapreshty, and others. They raised large sums. A general campaign was conducted among the residents of the city, who responded generously. Several rooms were sold to the pharmacist and communal worker Mr. Rubinstein, Yaakov Volovsky and others who expressed their desire to perpetuate the names of their beloved.
This era (1931-1939) can be considered as the brightest of the 75 years of existence (1866-1939) of the medical assistance institution in our city.
The set of obstacles and disruptions in the existence of the hospital is very long. A large number of the communal workers continued the constant struggle with great dedication and without getting tired. Of the previous era (until 1929), we recall the pharmacist Avraham Rubinstein, Aharon Gluzgold and his son Liuba, Leib Ziserman, David Marinyansky, David Brandeis, Shual Dyukman (the watchmaker), Motel Chulsky, Shabtai Shapira and others.
However the great merit fell to the hands of Volovsky and his friends. They brought the hospital to great medical heights, and it became a splendid hospital. The name of the hospital became famous in the region and outside of its borders. Many, both Jews and Christians, were assisted, and benefit from the faithful service of the staff of doctors as well as the administrative staff. It is worthwhile to mention here the name of the director of the institution Mendel Beyder, a man upright in his ways, faithful to his task, and appreciated by all with whom he came in contact. He perished in the Holocaust along with his entire family.
The activists worked for many years, and gave of the best of their time and energy for the benefit of this dear enterprise. However, to our despair, the destructive sword of Hitler and his comrades, may their names be blotted out, fell upon the enterprise and its patients together. The only survivor of the group of activists mentioned above whom escaped and arrived in the Land was Meir Goldberg and his family. However, to our dismay, this dear man perished from our midst. He died in the winter of 1954 from a malignant disease. Our hearts mourn for those who are no longer. May they always be remembered for good.
Seated from right to left: 1. M. Reznik 2. [feh]. Vurgaft 3. [alef]. Moshkovitz 4. [ayin]. Zislis 5. L. Lidid 6. [alef]. Rapoport 7. L. Kruglyak 8. [feh]. Mazlover
Seated from right to left: 1. Bursuker 2. Gorodishtyan 3. [alef]. Slepoy 4. [feh]. Chaimovitz 5. C. M. Stiklyar 6. M. Gutman 7. Kislyuk 8. D. D. Taran 9. [alef]. Gelman
In Hamelitz number 83 from July 30, 1886, David Leib Fikhman writes:
Mr. Zelik Klister, who wished to do a good thing in memory of his three daughters who perished one after another in their youth, donated 2,000 rubles to the building of an institution for the poor elderly.
Today, many honorable people of the city - including the physician of the region, and one of the justices of the peace in our city who are kindly disposed to the Jewish people, Dr. Rabinovitz the doctor of the hospital, and many of the residents - have gathered together to lay the cornerstone and to bless Mr. Klister for his act of great generosity to the elderly and poor in our city, who until this point wandered through the streets as shadows, without finding a place to rest.
Dr. Rabinovitz and others explained to the community the good that would come from such a place.
This woman of our town had a sensitive heart. She knew how to dance a Poilish. The community loved this dance. Mirel danced enthusiastically and warmly. She volunteered to dance this dance at weddings. She enthusiastically included the in-laws, who, with good spirits, emptied their pockets to the benefit of the coffers of the institution.
A different group of women whose hearts were concerned about the situation of the abandoned elderly, also dedicated themselves to assisting the old age home.
Mrs. Shachnovitz the wife of the doctor, Mrs. Alte Rozenfeld (the wife of Reb Hirsh the grain merchant) and Mrs. Brandeis the wife of David took upon themselves the responsibility of strengthening and broadening the capabilities of the institution. Through their efforts rooms and beds were added, a well was dug in the courtyard of the hospital, and the scope of activities was broadened. The circle of families who donated meals and food provisions was expanded. Thus, they succeeded in strengthening the institution until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. At that time, a decline began. The difficult economic situation had a bad effect on the institution, and the efforts to preserve what was were for naught.
With time, significant sums were collected. These served to strengthen the hospital, as well as for other communal matters. A house was put up with a large 'tahara' room (ed. note: for the ritual washing of the dead body before placing it in the coffin) and a mikva of water, as well as a waiting room for the community and sextons. The area was enlarged and a stone fence was put up around the cemetery. We remember the dedication of those who occupied themselves with matters of burial. Reb Itzikel (the matchmaker), his son Akiva Simes, and finally Reb Shmuel Roitman. We recall as well the activists who were chosen by the community, Moshe Kalmanovitz, David Mimis, Mordechai Man, Yisrael Hirsh Soroker, Motel Chulsky and others, who did a great deal to strengthen the cemetery in a fitting manner.
In the latter period (1945-1955), the elderly Reb Ben-Zion Chaimovitz did a great deal for the cemetery, including the fixing of the fence, until he made aliya to the Land in 1955.
According to him, the sign on the fence still exists, upon which the names of the activists who erected the new fence in the 1920s are engraved.
With the change of the protocols of the running of communal matters in the 1920s, a new committee was appointed, headed by the communal worker Itzik David Cheriyan (Chait). From then on, there was order in the distribution of support. The person in need would present a request to the committee, who would then determine for what purpose the requestor intends to use the loan. At times, they would offer advice. This policy guaranteed to some degree that the recipient of aid would use it in a constructive fashion. The Ezrat Aniyim society received support from the city council, from the meat tax, and primarily from Maos Chittin (ed. note: charity given for distribution to the poor before Passover)..
The administrators of the community invested a great deal of energy and effort in order to remove the baking of matzos from the veteran bakers. Then, Ezrat Aniyim took the baking of matzos upon itself, and thereby succeeded in collecting the tax, in accordance with the economic status of every individual. This policy led to a great increase in income, and the committee was able to broaden its support of the needy. The most active in this endeavor was the member of the evaluation committee, the communal worker Yisrael Hirsh Soroker of blessed memory. This man worked day and night in the matzo warehouse, and requested Maos Chittin from everyone who came through. Many answered his request in a generous fashion. From that time, the communal workers were able to provide the necessities of the Passover holiday to those in need.
In 1917, with the breakup of Czarism in Russia, the problems of organizing national life in an autonomous fashion arose in a democratic fashion with due seriousness.
Through the urging of Zionist activists - Yosef the son of Yoel Pagis, the Rabbi Mitaam, Moshe Kalmanovitz, Yitzchak Shapirin, Moshe Hoichman, Simcha Kestlicher, Dr. Berkovitz, Yehudah Yagolnitzer, Avraham Lipshin, Akiva Simes, David Duchovny, Leib Ziserman, Moshe Chalyk, as well as the activists from the left leaning circles Moshe Ravich, Yitzchak Sherman and others, joined by circles of workers and small scale merchants such as David Muchnik, Moshe Shochet, Zelik Kleiner, David Belfer a provisional committee was established that took upon itself the responsibility of preparing a charter that would set out appropriate conditions of operation for each institution, and would require them to give an accounting of their activities. Dr. Nirenberg of blessed memory, a man acceptable to the community, headed this committee. Rabbi Y. Pagis and Dr. Berkovitz were chosen as assistants. They rented a six room dwelling in the house of Hirshel Mashkautsan on Torgovia Street, and collected all of the ledgers of the institutions. They hired Gedalya Chokla as bookkeeper and Nissel Pagis as secretary. However, before the community managed to centralize all communal matters, the terrible tragedy took place to the Ukrainian Jews, and massive streams of refugees came into Bessarabia.
Our city, which was close to the Dniester, served as a refuge and point of transit for the refugees. The provisional communal council turned overnight into a committee to aid the refugees, and the vital communal matters were pushed to the side.
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