ENTROPY [CINCINNATI, OH]
“THE FUTURE IS BUT THE OBSOLETE IN REVERSE” VLADMIR NABAKOV
1829 – RIOTS BREAK OUT AS WHITES ATTACK BLACKS IN THE CITY. 1,200 BLACKS LEAVE THE CITY AND RESETTLE IN CANADA. 1836 – JAMES BURNEY, WHO PUBLISHED THE ANTI-SLAVERY WEEKLY”THE PHILANTHROPIST,” IS ATTACKED BY A MOB OF 700. THEY MOVE ON, SPREADING THROUGH THE BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS WITH VIOLENCE AND HATE.
APRIL 2001 - TIMOTHY THOMAS IS FATALLY SHOT WHILE RUNNING FROM POLICE OFFICERS. HE IS UNARMED. HE IS REACHING TO PULL UP HIS PANTS. HE HAD 49 WARRANTS FOR HIS ARREST. HE WAS THE FIFTEENTH BLACK MALE SHOT IN PURSUIT IN SIX YEARS. THREE DAYS OF RIOTS ENSUE. BUSINESSES ARE DESTROYED. HOMES ARE LOOTED. NON VIOLENT PROTESTERS AT THOMAS’ FUNERAL ARE GUNNED DOWN WITH BEAN BAGS AND TEAR GAS. OUTRAGE ROARS THROUGH THE STREETS OF CINCINNATI AND THE HEARTS OF THE COUNTRY. RACIAL VIOLENCE IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE AND IT IS THE SEXIEST THING TO HAPPEN TO THE NATIONAL MEDIA IN YEARS.
THIS IS A PICTURE OF POLICE ARRESTING A PROTESTER.
THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE CINCINNATI ROLLERGIRLS
I GUESS VIOLENCE IS RELATIVE
THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE POLICE BLOCKADE SET UP TO STOP PROTESTERS AT TIMOTHY THOMAS’ FUNERAL.
THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE CINCINNATI REDS.
THERE IS NO “I” IN TEAM!
THIS IS A PICTURE OF PEOPLE PROTESTING IN THE RIOTS OF 2001. THIS SIGN READS TIRED OF TALKING!! (STOP KILLING (US) OR ELSE!!!!)
THIS IS A PICTURE OF A WOMAN NAMED DEBBIE WITH A HOMELESS MAN IN CINCINNATI. SHE POSTED IT ON FLICKR SO OTHERS COULD SHARE IN HER EXPERIENCE. THANKS, DEBBIE!
[HIS SIGN READSI NEED YOUR HELP. WILL YOU HELP ME AND THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS FOR CAREING FOR ME.]
THIS IS A PICTURE OF “THE BIG HAND OUT HOBO CONVENTION” IN 1910. IT TOOK PLACE IN CINCINNATI.
THIS IS THE ROEBLING SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
THIS IS THE HOMELESS TENT COMMUNITY UNDER THE BRIDGE. IT IS CALLED QUEEN CITY
I GUESS THE HOBOS LIKED CINCINNATI IN 1910 AND DECIDED TO STAY.
THE AMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM IS IN CINCINNATI. THIS IS WHAT SIGNS LOOK LIKE.
THERE ARE 1323 REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS IN CINCINNATI. THIS IS WHAT SEX OFFENDERS LOOK LIKE.
THIS IS WHERE THEY LIVE.
[RED = OFFENSE AGAINST CHILDREN YELLOW = RAPE BLUE = SEXUAL OFFENSE GREEN = OTHER OFFENSE]
THIS IS A MAP OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN CINCINNATI.
[RED = DISCHARGES TO WATER ORANGE = SUPERFUND SITES BLUE = AIR RELEASES GREEN = HAZARDOUS WASTE]
THE TWO MAY OR MAY NOT BE RELATED
IN CASE YOU DON’T MAKE IT TO THE SIGN MUSEUM, CINCINNATI HAS ENDOWED ITS CITIZENS WITH A SWEEPING ARRAY OF CENTERS FOR CULTURAL GROWTH. FOR EXAMPLE: THE CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM, THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, THE AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM, THE CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST AND HUMANITY EDUCATION, THE CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM, HERITAGE VILLAGE MUSEUM, CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER AT UNION TERMINAL
THE PEOPLE OF CINCINNATI LOVE ART.
[MOST OF IT]
ON THE NEXT SLIDE YOU WILL MEET CARL LINDNER. CARL IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST MEN. HE IS FROM CINCINNATI. HE WAS IN THE DAIRY BUSINESS. THEN HE OWNED THE CINCINNATI REDS. HE WAS THE CHEIF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL WHEN THE COMPANY BEGAN MAKING PAYMENTS TO COLOMBIAN TERRORIST GROUPS. BESIDES THAT, THOUGH, HE’S A GREAT GUY. HE DONATES MONEY TO CHRISTIAN CHURCH FUNDS, CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FUNDS, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND ONCE TO A FUND THAT HELPED PROSECUTE THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER OF CINCINNATI AND ITS DIRECTOR, DENNIS BARRIE, ON CHARGES OF “PANDERING OBSCENITY” FOR SHOWING AN EXHIBIT OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE’S PHOTOGRAPHY. IT WAS THE FIRST EVER PROSECUTION OF ITS KIND, AND SET A GREAT PRECEDENT FOR CENSORSHIP IN THE FUTURE!
CARL LINDNER
(CARL LINDNER IS THE GENTLEMAN ON THE LEFT. THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GENTLEMAN ON THE RIGHT WAS PART OF THE CENSORED EXHIBIT. )
THIS IS CONTEMPORARY CINCINNATI STREET ART AND ANOTHER ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. I GUESS EVEN IF CARL LINDNER AND THE CINCINNATI “CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY VALUES” DIDN’T SAVE THEIR TOWN FROM OBSCENITY AT LEAST THEY CAN BLAME ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE!
THIS IS THE LIST OF THE SEVEN MOST OFFENSIVE PHOTGRAPHS IN THE BANNED EXHIBIT. * “JESSE MCBRIDE, 1976” - A NUDE BOY * “HONEY, 1976” - A GIRL WITH HER GENITALS EXPOSED * FIVE PHOTOS DEPICTING TYPICAL LATE 1970S HOMOEROTIC OR SADOMASOCHISTIC IMAGES. - “SELF PORTRAIT, 1978)” - THE SIGNATURE SELF PORTRAIT OF MAPPLETHORPE WITH A WHIP INSERTED INTO HIS ANUS. - “JIM AND TOM, SAUSALITO, 1978” -A DUO OF A MAN URINATING IN ANOTHER MAN’S MOUTH - A FISTING SHOT OF A MAN INSERTED IN ANOTHER MAN’S RECTUM. - A CLOSE UP OF A MAN WITH A FINGER INSERTED INTO THE HEAD OF HIS PENIS - A SHOT OF A MAN WITH A CYLINDER INSERTED IN HIS RECTUM
THIS IS A LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM CINCINNATI William Howard Taft – President of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Henry Harrison – President of the United States Carmen Electra – entertainer Bootsy Collins – musician Jerry Springer – talk show host Roger Staubach – football player Barry Larkin – baseball player Ken Griffey, Jr. – baseball player (born in Pennsylvania, raised in Cincinnati) Pete Rose – baseball player Frank Duveneck – painter
Ulysses S. Grant – President of the United States, General Powel Crosley Jr. – inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur Steven Spielberg – producer/director Ted Turner – Media Mogul Roy Rogers – The Singing Cowboy Andy Williams – singer Doris Day – actress William McGuffey – 19th century writer of the McGuffey Readers Daniel Carter Beard – founder of the Boy Scouts of America Harriet Beecher Stowe – author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Thomas Worthington Whittredge – painter
THE MOST COMMON OCUPATION FOR MALES IN CINCINNATI, 2007 - MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION IN PRODUCTION OCCUPATIONS.
THE MOST COMMON OCCUPATION FOR FEMALES IN CINCINNATI, 2007- CASHIER
OF THESE 18 MEN, THREE WERE PRESIDENTS. THE ULTIMATE SUPERVISOR.
INCIDENTALLY, NONE OF THE THREE WOMEN INCLUDED WERE CASHIERS.
THIS IS A CHILI CUPCAKE. THE CITY OF CINCINNATI IS FAMOUS FOR ITS CHILI.
THIS IS MARTHA. SHE WAS THE LAST PASSENGER PIGEON TO LIVE. ALSO THE LAST TO DIE. SHE DIED IN THE CINCINNATI ZOO, MARKING THE END OF THE PASSENGER PIGEON. FOR SOME REASON CINCINNATI IS NOT FAMOUS FOR THIS. A REAL LIVE SPECIES WENT EXTINCT HERE! THAT IS A BETTER BRAGGING POINT THAN CHILI CUPCAKES I THINK.
CINCINNATI ALSO BOASTS AN ANATOMICALLY CORRECT STALLION ON TOP OF A SIGN FOR A FLEA MARKET, A MAN MADE OF DUCT WORK, AND THIS REALLY NEAT SLIDE.
[THAT WAS A PUN]
ENTROPY IS THE NATURAL TENDENCY OF ANY SYSTEM TOWARDS CHAOS. ORDER WILL BECOME DISORDERED. ORGANIZATION WILL DECAY. ALL ENERGY PUT INTO CREATING ORDER WILL BE LOST TO NATURE’S DISORDER. THE REST OF THE NATURAL WORLD ACCEPTS THIS FATE BUT HUMANS EXIST IN CONSTANT CONTRADICTION TO THEIR MOST BASIC STATE. WE ALWAYS SEEK ORDER – POLICE FORCES, ORGANIZED PROTESTS, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRIES, MAPS, COMMUNITY MORALITY ENFORCERS, SPORTS TEAMS, SIGNS, LISTS, RANKINGS, AND SLIDE SHOWS. ALL IMPOSE A SYSTEM, A NETWORK BASED ON AN IDEA OF RIGHT AND WRONG THAT DISREGARDS ONE NATURAL FACT: HUMANS ARE VOLATILE. WE WILL, LIKE ANY OTHER MOLECULES, LOSE THE ENERGY PUT INTO ANY SOCIAL SYSTEM OF WHICH WE TAKE PART. WE WILL ALWAYS DEVOLVE INTO RANDOM PATTERNS. WE WILL LOOT DURING FUNERALS, RAPE CHILDREN, MAKE LIGHT OF POVERTY AND PUT CHILI ON CUPCAKES. GOOD AND EVIL AREN’T RELATIVE, THEY’RE JUST THERE. THERE IS NO TRUE ORDER. I MADE A PRESENTATION OF RANDOM FACTS, FACTS THAT I HAVE LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF OR CONTEXT FOR, AND PRESENTED THEM TO YOU IN A STRUCTURE THAT MADE A BIASED, HEAVY HANDED POINT. THIS ENERGY WILL BE LOST. YOU ALL MADE PRESENTATIONS RESEARCHING THE GOVERNMENT, ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, AND HISTORY OF A CITY. THIS ENERGY WILL BE LOST. THIS WEEK WE WILL MEASURE A SITE, ANALYZE OUR SURROUNDINGS, AND MAKE ASSUMPTIONS THAT WILL LEAD US TO A DESIGN THAT WE SEE AS THE ANSWER TO A PRESENTED PROBLEM. ALL ENERGY IS WASTED ENERGY. NO SYSTEM IS PERMANENT. THE QUESTION IS – WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE, HOW DO WE REACT? DO WE ACCEPT OUR DEVOLUTION OR FIGHT TO KEEP A PREDICTABLE PATTERN? DO WE EMBRACE CHAOS OR DESIGN A STRUCTURE TO PROTECT US FROM OUR BASEST TENDENCIES? AND ULTIMATELY –
DOES IT MATTER?