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First Ladies Of Rap: Queen Latifah
KC Orcutt
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The First Ladies of Rap and Hip Hop culture are all forward-thinking pioneers whose legacies, both individual and collective, are undeniable. While these women don't technically require a proper introduction at this stage in their careers as veterans, there's no better time than Women's History Month to celebrate the achievements, challenges overcome and contributions each have made over the past three decades.
The relationship women have with Hip Hop is a complicated one, as listeners, as creators and in how they are represented. While overcoming being subjected to misogyny, adversity, economic hardship, incarceration, sexual abuse/objectification, violence, and so on, these particular women have long worked to get their voices heard, consequently paving the way for other women to blaze their own paths as well. Despite securing a rightful place and identity within the culture not coming easy, the First Ladies of Hip Hop have pushed all sorts of boundaries over the years, creating some of the most seminal works helping to define and refine the genre as we know and love it today as a result.
Celebrating: Queen Latifah
Introduction: Born Dana Elaine Owens, on March 18, 1970, Queen Latifah has worn many, many hats both literally and figuratively. Her official titles range from songwriter, rapper, actress, plus-size model, television producer, fashionista, comedienne, talk show host and singer. Name it, she's likely done it, and with her own signature blend of unmatched confidence, sass and poise.
All Hail The Queen: Despite her extremely successful career in entertainment, one cannot forget Latifah's roots as a rapper. She signed her first recording contract at 17, sharing that the first thing she did afterwards was buy a gold tooth—which she then says she lost within one week.
Her debut album, All Hail The Queen, featured the hit single and feminist anthem "Ladies First," and was released in 1989 via Tommy Boy Records. Four years later, and Latifah would go on to win a Grammy Award for her single "U.N.I.T.Y." for Best Rap Solo Performance. Latifah has since recorded seven studio albums, selling nearly 2 million records worldwide. She would later also become the first female Hip Hop recording artist to be nominated for an Oscar.
List Of Achievements: How much time we got? From being a CoverGirl spokesmodel to having hosted her own syndicated daytime television show to running her own management company to her successful music career to starring and later producing major feature films, Latifah's list of accomplishments is more than a mile long. Also notable is her feminist spirit and fearless leadership, countlessly speaking out on issues in order to uplift others, especially women of color and minorities.
Noteworthy: Queen Latifah is a contralto, which means her voice ranks classically as being the lowest voice type for a female. She possesses a two-octave vocal range, and can effortlessly rap and sing, often dubbed the "Queen of Jazz-Rap."
Fun fact from the vault: At one point in time, Queen Latifah managed the careers of OutKast, LL Cool J and Naughty By Nature.
Wise words: "Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before."
Where she is now: Queen Latifah most recently took home a 2016 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for her role in Bessie. 2016 will see her as the voice of the character Ellie in Ice Age: Collision Course.
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Brooklyn resident KC Orcutt aims to capture moments found in music. Her freelance writing career has brought her to many places over the years, including London, Croatia, Prague, all over the US and on tour with her favorite hometown rappers. Happiest when working with words and people, KC is first and foremost an enthusiast of her craft and supporter of all things dope.
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Healthy Attitudes: Goodbye Grudge, Hello Good Health
Dr. Frank Boehm has never forgotten the seminal event that convinced him forgiveness is the best medicine. During a work-up for abdominal pain, headaches, and high blood pressure, a patient revealed she was estranged from her siblings because years earlier they had abandoned her in a time of need.
"My patient lived daily with anger, frustration, resentment, and non-forgiveness," says Boehm, director of obstetrics at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. "I attributed her ailments to that estrangement and urged her to consider forgiving her family." Years later, he received a letter saying she had indeed taken his advice and — soon after — her physical troubles abated. "She had found forgiveness and from this, good health," says Boehm.
Once the privileged domain of theology and philosophy, forgiveness as a lay psychotherapeutic tool is becoming mainstream. Researchers, physicians, and mental health counselors alike are discovering that just as unforgiving emotions like anger and hostility can cause harmful physiological effects, forgiveness may give rise to exceptional wellness. Not only can it save your soul, they say; it may also save your life.
Forgiveness and Health
"Chronic anger, resentment, hostility, shame, and guilt affect our physical well-being," says Boston counselor and educator Robin Casarjian, director of the Lionheart Foundation, which teaches forgiveness in prisons and schools. "If inner conflicts aren't resolved, the body suffers. In the last ten years more medical research has shown that these unforgiving emotions correlate significantly with physical breakdown."
In fact, a study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published in May [2000] in the journal Circulation found that angry people are almost three times more likely to have a heart attack or sudden cardiac death than those without this propensity. The reason may be that the stresses of hard emotions damage the arteries and cause irregular heartbeats.
According to Howard Miller, co-founder of the HeartMath Institute, a mind/body think tank in Boulder Creek, Calif., studies show that chronic negativity causes physiological reactions that suppress the immune system. This can lead to more frequent colds and flu, impaired circulation, arrhythmia, irritable bowel, fatigue, anxiety, premenstrual tension, hypertension, sleep disorders, fibromyalgia, asthma, and migraine. By contrast, Miller and other experts say, appreciation, love, and other positive feelings create a state of inner balance, which promotes health.
Although the forgiveness process is complex, it generally encompasses guidelines like those from health researchers at Harvard Medical School. These include acknowledging anger; considering that the offender may have redeeming qualities; focusing on freeing yourself of resentment; and persisting over time.
The first step is understanding both what forgiveness is and what it is not.
Dr. Robert Enright, professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and founder of the International Forgiveness Institute, explains that "forgiveness does not mean excusing, forgetting, denying, condoning, condemning, seeking justice, or blindly reconciling at all costs." It is, rather, a voluntary gift of mercy that may or may not end in reconciliation.
A pioneer in forgiveness research for 15 years, Enright says scientific data show a clear connection between prolonged resentment and being depressed and anxious. His early studies were with incest survivors, one of the unkindest of wounds. Yet those who forgave experienced marked reductions in anxiety and depression and real increases in self-esteem and hope. "We've been surprised at how strong forgiveness can be as a healing agent," he says. "You can actually change a person's well-being by helping them to forgive."
Whether coping with the murder of a child or the infidelity of marriage, studies indicate a broader perspective can lead to empathy, compassion, and acceptance — even to seeing the experience as transformative. In Enright's training, "reframing" is a pivotal step. This means learning to see the offender as a human being, considering what he might have gone through in the past as well as at the time of the hurt. From here, he suggests, forgiveness as a key to health takes on momentum.
In this emerging field of forgiveness studies, 28 programs are being funded by the John Templeton Foundation. At Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Dr. Everett Worthington spearheads the Campaign for Forgiveness Research. Believing that we are witnessing "an age of reconciliation," he suggests these five steps to forgiveness:
Recall objectively the hurt or blame, without wallowing in victimization. This may take some time.
Empathize with the person who hurt you. Think through what might have been going on in that person's mind
Recall a time when you hurt or offended someone else, and how it free it felt to be forgiven. Ask yourself if you would be willing to give that gift to this person who hurt you.
Commit aloud to forgive.
Hold on to forgiveness when doubt creeps in. It is normal to remember the pain, but that doesn't mean you haven't truly forgiven.
It is especially the quality of forgiveness that improves a person's health and well-being, vows psychologist Frederic Luskin, director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project in Palo Alto, Calif. His popular six-week classes, called of "The Art and Science of Forgiveness," incorporate behavioral as well as psycho-emotional changes. Tools include stress-management techniques like meditation, imaging, and breath awareness to frame the actual work of forgiveness.
"You don't have to be a saint to make peace in your life," Luskin says. "It's a way of looking at the world, and it builds on itself: The more people forgive, the more they are capable of forgiving. It is a manifestation of personal control over our lives."
Phyllis Mayberg, editorial assistant at the Department of Genetics at Stanford, has taken Luskin's course twice to deal with a messy divorce and subsequent depression. "I felt stuck in resentment," she says of 20 years imprisoned in lost hopes. "Now I can accept who he is and the way things are. It's not easy to change, and it is impossible to forget what happened. But I'm more in control of how I react to things — I feel less anxious, more self-reliant. I don't concentrate so much on what went wrong. I can forgive myself as well as others, and that's healing."
Making Forgiveness Real
Lasting forgiveness is more than going through the motions, however: It must be a conscious choice. For 40 years, psychiatrist Gerald Jampolsky has witnessed the profound relationship between forgiveness and health. "It releases us from so much," says the founder of the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, Calif., where health is defined as inner peace. "When we make peace of mind our goal, we take responsibility for our own happiness. That's what heals us — knowledge that we have the choice to change our thoughts."
"People are finally waking up to the great importance that forgiving plays in the human condition," UW's Enright says. "It's one of the more vital aspects to the good life. It's about knitting broken relationships, and it is also a way to make sure that the brokenness of this world becomes more whole.
"Forgiveness can give you back your life."
Beth Witrogen McLeod
All rights reserved. This article originally appeared in Cooking Light, November 2000
Beth Witrogen McLeod is an author, journalist, speaker and consultant on caregiving, end-of-life issues and renewal at midlife, especially for women. She is a double Pulitzer Prize nominee, and has won many national and regional awards for her work. She has written for Good Housekeeping, SELF, Family Circle, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Her latest book is Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal
Her expertise grew out of personal experience caring for her parents who were simultaneously terminally ill 1,200 miles away. With a father dying of a rare form of cancer and a mother with Lou Gehrig's disease and dementia, McLeod learned firsthand about the traumas and blessings of this mid-life rite of passage. She turned her experiences into a passion for public service, first writing and producing an award-winning newspaper series, "The Caregivers," for The San Francisco Examiner in 1995. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She developed a weekly column for The Examiner that often appeared on the New York Times Syndicate Web site. Honors for the series included National Hospice Organization, Pew Charitable Trusts, American Legion Auxiliary, Society of Professional Journalists, and many regional and local social service organizations.
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There's not much in the way of footage in this teaser for The Venture Bros. Season Six, but this message from the Guild of Calamitous Intent is still great fun. Giggle as two Guild members try to warn us about the fellow who is out killing costumed villains.
Hmm, so our masked villain killer has Rusty's beard, but that mask looks an awful lot like a butterfly. Has Doctor Venture gone on a killing spree? Could there be another clone about? Why isn't this show back already?


Dave tries out the new DS1054Z firmware from Rigol that is supposed to fix the 5us delay jitter issue, and the AC Trigger Coupling jitter issues.
Have they fixed it, or is there still a problem?
What caused the 5us jitter issues to begin with, Dave also investigates the ADC PLL based sample clock with an e-Field probe and the Rigol DSA815 spectrum analyser.
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Q: change priority (nice value) of a program permanently i am trying to change nice value to (-20) permanently for uget-gtk by using gnome-system-monitor. But when i end process and restart it  again, nice value by default got (0). Is there a way to set nice value to (-20) permanently for uget-gtk.

A: You will probably want to create a simple bash script along the lines of:
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Plan now to join us next spring in Denver!
The field of health education and health promotion continues to face new challenges. We're pushed to explore and develop innovative strategies to better understand and address the needs of all populations. With new challenges brings the opportunity for health educators to reach new heights to effectively achieve 'health for all!
We have to engage and understand more diverse populations and address disparities including age, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
Providing health education that covers growing needs, from preventive care to managing chronic disease to injury prevention, requires building teams and coalitions of health educators across communities and disciplines that can join together to develop multi-faceted approaches and advocate for policies that make health more accessible for all.


In an interesting and a deceptively low-tech move, Google is putting aside the use of gas-powered lawn mowers and renting goats to mow lawns of its headquarters at Mountain View in California.
The search engine giant has decided to go for employing 200 goats from an innovative start-up firm California Grazing to clear off the excessive grass on the grounds of its headquarter complex at California.
This step would not only help the company to opt for an eco-friendly way, but would also increase the fertility of its land with fresh goat droppings.
"This spring we decided to take a low-carbon approach: Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we've rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us", said Dan Hoffman, director of real estate and workplace services at Google. "It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers", he added.
The company would hire around 200 goats for the task, and they would roughly spend a week in the company's complex. However, this intriguing move from the search engine bellwether could even set up a trend of using traditional environment friendly techniques for a range of maintenance tasks.
This might have been something out of Google's secret list of April's fools. But as weird as it seems, it might just work for the company but others have pointed out that "goat-cutters" were already popular before Google's publicity.


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Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
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George Washington Black, or "Wash," an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning–and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Christopher and Wash must abandon everything. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic. What brings Christopher and Wash together will tear them apart, propelling Wash even further across the globe in search of his true self. From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, Washington Black tells a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again, and asks the question, What is true freedom?
Esi Edugyan is author of the novels The Second Life of Samuel Tyne and Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Orange Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Borrowed from Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), representing an earlier *rodond, from Latin rotundus or a Vulgar Latin form retundus ( compare Italian rotondo, Provençal redon, Spanish redondo, etc.) The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Compare the doublet rotund and rotunda.
Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
(of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
One hundred is a nice round number.
(linguistics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them.
(authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.
A circular or repetitious route.
A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.
A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.
There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
(art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
(sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
(sports) A stage in a competition.
(sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
(engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
(butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine.
(dated) A rung, as of a ladder.
A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
Women to cards may be compared: we play / A round or two; which used, we throw away.
The feast was served; the bowl was crowned; / To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round.
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / In a light fantastic round.
An assembly; a group; a circle.
(archaic) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.
(transitive) To shape something into a curve.
(intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.
(with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out.
(intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
(transitive) To turn past a boundary.
(intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
(transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
(transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
So rounds he to a separate mind, / From whence clear memory may begin.
(medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
(obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
They […] nightly rounding walk.
(obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
From Middle English rounen, from Old English rūnian ("to whisper, talk low, talk secrets, consipre, talk secretly"), from Proto-Germanic *rūnōną ("to talk secrets, whisper, decide"), *raunijaną ("to investigate, examine, prove"), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- ("to trace, find out, look out"). Cognate with Scots roun ("to converse with in whispers, speak privately"), Middle Low German rūnen ("to whisper"), Middle Dutch ruinen ("to whisper"), German raunen ("to whisper, murmur"), Old English rūn ("whisper, secret, mystery"), Swedish röna ("to meet with, experience"). More at rune.
(intransitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To speak in a low tone; whisper; speak secretly; take counsel.
(transitive, archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To address or speak to in a whisper, utter in a whisper.
The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," […] he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here?"
From Middle English roun, from Old English rūn ("whisper, secret, mystery"), from Proto-Germanic *rūnō, *raunō ("a whisper, secret, secret sign"), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewə-, *(e)rwō- ("to trace, find out, look out"). Cognate with Scots roun, round ("a whisper, secret story"), German Rune ("rune"), Swedish rön ("findings, observations, experience").
(archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A whisper; whispering.
(archaic or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Discourse; song.


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Man accused in Des Moines triple homicide returned to US twice after deportation, ICE says
Tyler J Davis
DES MOINES, Iowa – A man accused of killing a mother and her two children was in the U.S. illegally and had twice previously been deported, federal authorities say.
Marvin Oswaldo Esquivel-Lopez, 31, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder for Tuesday night's triple homicide.
His victims have been identified as a small family he was living with: Rossibeth Flores-Rodriguez, 29; Grecia Daniela Alvarado-Flores, 11; and Ever Jose Mejia-Flores, 5. Officers, responding to a 911 call, found the three bodies at the home Tuesday night, according to police.
A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday that the accused's name is actually Marvin Oswaldo Escobar-Orellana and he returned to the U.S. after being deported to Guatemala.
Marvin Oswaldo Esquivel-Lopez, 31, has been charged with three counts of murder for allegedly shooting a young mother and her two children.
"Escobar-Orellana, aka, Marvin O. Esquivel-Lopez, was previously (deported) from the United States in 2010 and again in 2011," ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer said. "He has a prior federal conviction for illegal entry into the United States in 2010. He is not currently in ICE custody."
Court records show his 2011 deportation stemmed from illegal entry to the U.S. near Laredo, Texas. He was sentenced to 15 days "confinement" and ordered not to return to the country illegally.
An undocumented immigrant who re-enters the country without authorization after having been previously deported can be charged with a felony, which — depending on the person's record — is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison, if convicted.
Des Moines police have said that the man known as Marvin Esquivel-Lopez is not believed to have had a romantic relationship with Flores-Rodriguez.
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Sgt. Paul Parizek, a Des Moines police spokesman, said Esquivel-Lopez's wife and children lived at the address, too, but were not home during the shooting. Court records show he married a woman unrelated to the shooting in 2008, but she eventually filed for divorce.
"We may never know what the motive was," Parizek said Wednesday afternoon. "All we know is there was some sort of dispute between this man and the victim and he ended up, allegedly, shooting three people because of it."
Iowa court records show a handful of traffic tickets for Esquivel-Lopez. He had appeared in court Monday, a day before the shootings, and agreed to pay more than $1,400 in fines and fees related to a May traffic incident in which he was cited for failure to maintain control and driving without a license or proof of insurance.
Grecia Daniela Alvarado-Flores had just finished fifth grade, according to Des Moines Public Schools spokesman Phil Roeder. Her younger brother, Ever, was going to be a kindergarten student at Moulton Elementary School in Des Moines, Roeder said.
Moulton's principal released a statement about the the children's deaths and said grief counselors would be available for students:
"It goes without saying how horrible this tragedy is and we are all devastated by this news. Please keep Daniela's extended family in your heart and prayers plus all the people here at Moulton that got to know and love Daniela," Eddie McCulley wrote.
Contributing: Dani Gehr, Lucas Grundmeier and Ian Richardson, Des Moines Register. Follow Tyler Davis on Twitter: @TDavisDMR
This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Des Moines triple homicide suspect had been deported twice, ICE says
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: Cheap Imitations
by Matt Sussman
"Nothing That Meets the Eye" is a series of essays in which I think through the aesthetic and affective fallout of some of the odder, ubiquitous, and more stubborn byproducts of our culture of copies, reproductions, and fakes.
Chris Johanson. My Funny Hat, 2011. Gouache on paper, 18 x 16.5″.
In my last post, I discussed how artist biopics ironically rely on painstakingly crafted stunt doubles of their subject's most famous pieces in order to consolidate the romantic image of the artist as lone genius. Despite the suspension of disbelief that lets us overlook, say, the fake Vermeers in Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003), I wondered how the host of effects employed by such films — from "painterly" cinematography to the replicas manufactured by the scenic department — contours the affective experience of how we recognize what we are seeing, whether in a movie theater or a museum gallery.
In some ways, the bait-and-switch performed by artist biopics mirrors the more mundane experience of looking at one artist's work and being reminded of another's. As a kind of shorthand for jotting down initial impressions such comparisons can be useful. At the same time, drawing in another work can make it harder to consider a piece on its own terms, which can subsequently invite clichéd evaluations of the "X is like Y on acid" variety (I've been guilty on both counts).
Resemblance, of course, is a matter of both kin and kind, something underscored by the remark, apocryphally attributed to film director Samuel Fuller, that, "homage is just French for rip-off." Offering a catty rejoinder to the chestnut that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Fuller calls a spade a spade twice over. In skewering the Gallic-edged cloak of pretension that would allow a sub-par copy to be passed off as something else, by either critic or artist, Fuller's barb also points to the souring effect that resemblance can produce. Even if the conceptual frame is enlarged — as with Sturtevant's art — to allow "likeness" to become the engine of the work a piece still needs to hold its own, whether as copy, tribute or response. However, an inadvertent resemblance that is too strong or, conversely, that is not strong enough, consigns a work of art to a unique sort of unfavorable limbo (and also can invite legal action, if commerce is involved).
A locally relevant example comes to mind: the ongoing proliferation of not-so-great art that mines the aesthetics of the Mission School and, in particular, the work of Chris Johanson. Like an uncanny double spotted out of the corner of one's eye amidst the crush of the crowd, I feel like I see likenesses of Johanson's work almost everywhere I go. His sunburst-shaped rainbows and clusters of brightly colored triangles hang on the wall next to me as I wait in line at my local ice cream shop. His distinctive slanted lettering in all caps is now seemingly scrawled on a million beige tote bags. His everyday people, painted in uniform profile, can be counted on to make perennial appearances in select canvases at group art shows. And it doesn't take but a few shuffled keywords for Google to turn up instructions on how to create your own Johanson-esque pinwheel painting.
The final result of Elise Blaha Cripe's pinwheel painting project. Photo: Elise Blaha Cripe
These sort of ersatz pieces appear often enough to register as what I would call a tendency, though their aesthetic disparity prevents their recurrence from gelling into anything as coherent as a trend (however much triangles or certain color combinations now scan as trendy). Superficially, it's easy to see why Johanson's art is so immediately appealing. From a purely visual standpoint, his choice of colors comes off as warm, uplifting even. There is also, frequently, not a lot of information to process. His simple compositions and clean lines can be taken in (although certainly not fully appreciated) at a glance, giving odder or more melancholy subject matter an innate charm. His work practically beams at you, and it's often hard not to crack a smile in return.
Johanson's art, like that of his peers, also speaks a particular vernacular. As a spate of recent local exhibitions has made clear — and here I'm thinking of the Oakland Museum of California's recently closed Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Energy That is All Around at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2013, and the Berkeley Art Museum's Barry McGee survey from the year prior — Johanson's art is very much tied to the community of fellow artists he was a part of, working in the particular place and time of San Francisco's Mission District in the '90s. Their work is as much a testament to the politics of collaboration fostered by that place and time — one without $4 slices of toast, social media, or a relentlessly punitive rental market — as it is a record of encounters with the brilliant accidents, junked artifacts, and daily grit of urban life.
Seeing the Mission School's re-visioning of color and line, figure and sign, diffused across so many lesser iterations is both fascinating and irritating. Perhaps what I've described is another ripple in the larger shift in market forces Jerry Saltz bemoaned as the primary culprit behind why so many recent abstract paintings being made by younger artists are indistinguishable from one another. That doesn't make the slight felt by encountering an almost-Johanson or almost-Alicia McCarthy feel somehow less personal, even though, like many Bay Area natives, I became aware of the Mission School after the fact. Maybe it's that the cheap imitations are reminders that the conditions of possibility have shifted in this city: the prospect of artists living and working together, especially in the Mission, has become even more precarious, while (thanks largely to the Internet) the stakes of siting art to a particular location have become both looser and more niche.
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Even Starbucks has gotten into the act with their posters that have a very clear predecessor in Johanson's work on them.
frank lostaunau says:
i prefer the work that's perceived as "cheap imitations" to anything that involves body mutiliation (Chris Burden).
Who isn't delighted that Chris Johanson is enjoying success at present? It may or may not last but it most likely matters to Chris at this time.
Imitators have been have been hanging around the fort for hundreds and hundreds and hundeds of years. Maybe in 50 years Johanson's work will appear as if was made by another hang around fort artist. I don't care.
If he's healthy enuf to enjoy his success at present, then go for it Chris!
eye c whatchu meen: http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/laplaca/laplaca5-14-8.asp