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This is not really a river, but a lake, a quiet place where usually lovers go at night. What reminds me the C. Eastwood movie is that many years ago two youngs were found murdered just here. The case has never been solved.....
In realtà si tratta della riva di un lago, non di un fiume. Un posto frequentato da coppie sul far della notte. Ciò che mi ha ricordato il film di C. Eastwood in questa immagine è il fatto che molti anni fà proprio qui due giovani vennero trovati morti, uccisi da qualcuno in un caso che non ha mai trovato soluzione.
"Bratanesque" Pic of the Day 11/16/08
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Photo of the day Dec 3, 08 "Rare Treasures (1000+ views and more than 10% Faves/Views ratio)"
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FRONT PAGE contest winner in "Elite WORLD Peace Hall of Fame" group
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Is it just me or is 50 Cent eyeing Riffy?? Must be Bling Theory in motion.
BLING THEORY:
Scientific theory based on the idea that all matter in the universe is interrelated and governed through a massive network of invisible bling.
If you listen to this music you will probably solve some theories yourself:
"Diner" is the landmark 1982 movie that launched numerous careers (including those of Kevin Bacon, Mickey Rourke, and Ellen Barkin). Seen in 114 pictures in 2014 #83 - TV Show or Movie Title
Mail Art Postcard no. 4533.
For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/mail-art-postcard-no-4...
Ah! Philadelphia….You will always be the city that I love the most!
Officially named JFK Plaza, the park receives its nickname “LOVE Park” for Robert Indiana’s sculpture. LOVE Park was conceived of by former Philadelphia City Planner Edmund Bacon (the father of actor Kevin Bacon).
Because of its curved steps and granite surfaces, the plaza at LOVE Park became an international Mecca for skateboarding because of the success of some of the park’s most famous frequent users, professional skateboarders Bam Margera, Stevie Williams and Kerry Getz.
In 2002, the city of Philadelphia started a campaign to stop skateboarding in LOVE Park.
Eventually the park was remolded to add planters that blocked ledges and replaced stone benches with wooden ones, which resulted in ending LOVE Park’s status as a world renowned skate-spot.
FREE LOVE PARK:
This photo was featured in EXPLORE on September 20, 2011. It was #343 when I learned about it....
Dancing is a slippery slope...
♪ Somebody's eyes are watching
Somebody's eyes are following every move ♫
♬ Somebody's waiting to show they don't approve
Films
1. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
2. Kelly's Heroes (1970)
3. Dirty Harry (1971)
4. Magnum Force (1973)
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
6. The Gauntlet (1977)
7. Pale Rider (1985)
8. Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
9. Unforgiven (1992)
10. A Perfect World (1993)
11. Space Cowboys (2000)
12. Mystic River (2003)
13. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
14. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
15. Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
16. Gran Torino (2008)
17. Invictus (2009)
18. Hereafter (2010)
19. J. Edgar (2011)
20. Trouble with the Curve (2012)
Documentaries
1. The Eastwood Factor (Extended Version) Documentary (2010)
2. Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story Documentary (2013)
......this small present is dedicated to my friend, Nancy...Happy Birthday, my friend. Thank you for your friendship and kindness, and I pray this day is so very special for you. Super T is helping you blow out your candle. :~}
...Nancy, I know you're a HUGE Kevin Bacon fan, so I just had to post this song:
~~~ Footloose ~~~
...please click here to see Nancy's photos ~~~ turtlemom4bacon's Photostream ~~~
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for twenty years, dippin dots has been billing itself as "the ice cream of the future".
either the future is now, or we are all living in the past.
The center of the entertainment business is lost in da woods ( bag ... probably discarded from the last comic con ;-) )
Stopped at a crosswalk this weekend, looked over and saw my nemesis, Kevin Bacon. He's in Boston filming RIPD.
Nikon FE
Kodak Ektar 100
50mm f/1.4 D
This authentically hand done calligraphy piece was done using a pilot parallel calligraphy pen, and post processed using open source GIMP and Inkscape software.
This is one of my favourite calligraphy pieces of all time. I love the bold, aggressive look, classic colours, and the mood that the gothic typeface creates. Learn more about this piece and how to help crowd fund the completion of the entire poem at gimpmagazine.org/theraven
This piece was actually inspired by the ultra cool TV show titled "The Following" with Kevin Bacon. If you haven't seen it, it is worth watching and I can't wait for season two. More to follow...
Title: Footloose 500 Piece Puzzle
Artist: unknown
Number of pieces: 500 pcs
Material: card board
Size: 18" x 24"
Brand: Cardinal Blockbuster Series (Made in China)
Number: 94 (2022/006).
This authentically hand done calligraphy piece was done using a pilot parallel calligraphy pen, and post processed using open source GIMP and Inkscape software.
This is one of my favourite calligraphy pieces of all time. I love the bold, aggressive look, classic colours, and the mood that the gothic typeface creates. Learn more about this piece and how to help crowd fund the completion of the entire poem at gimpmagazine.org/theraven
Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Jane Seymour, Lorne Greene, Herb Jefferson Jr., Maren Jensen, Tony Swartz, Noah Hathaway, Terry Carter, Ray Milland, Wilfred Hyde-White, Lew Ayres, Laurette Spang, John Colicos, Dick Duroc, and more!
Includes the artwork of Ralph McQuarry.
This is an edited talk I presented at Trampoline 2 [0] in Melbourne [1], Australia, Saturday 24th of October, 2009 entitled: "Hacking People, Hacking Bullies".
Several months later
It has now been several months since I presented the talk at Trampoline. The idea, a simple hypothesis, "is there a better way to identify and disrupt Cyber Bullies?".
I know for example the current best detection and prevention systems we have, the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) [2] by Dan Olweus [3], manually identify bullies by peer association in their social networks. [4] Could this technique be extended to on-line social networks? I wanted to explore the idea of using network science techniques using maths and computers to identify hidden bully clusters in social networks.
The talk was divided into three parts: a) "Know your Enemy, Hacking humans"; b) "In the field: real life examples" and c) "Hacking Bullies". [5] I tend to write about these ideas to look for new insights into problems I see. [6] Bullying is a problem. I've experienced it first hand. It is the prime motivation for exploring these ideas. Bullying on-line is an even bigger problem and in an age of "social software" worth exploring further.
Preamble
My name is Peter. I'm a programmer. One of those gen-X slackers you hear about. My second computer was an Apple 2e clone shipped from Singapore in parts and hand assembled.
I'll be as lo-tech as you can get and read from sheets of paper. Occasionally I'll digress from the script. I tried to Kevin Bacon to stand in but he was busy and suggested Derek Zoolander and as soon as I mentioned to Derek there would be lots of big words and no cat-walk - Derek bailed, so you're stuck with me.
My talk is on bullies and what happens when they discover computers. If you want to use twitter and hash tags try #hackbully [7] I'll probably read the comments later. I'm not a psychologist, I'm a technologist with crap social skills. I'm interested in how bullies are adapting to computers and network, how to identify and neutralise them.
Hacking Bullies
The Internet is a big network. Bullies now have a much bigger playground and audience to choose from. So lets look at some real world examples. Some people collect stamps, others prefer spore, moulds and fungus mine is on-line behaviour.
Here's a few examples of cyber-bullying I've found. Gretel was on live national television and Will Anderson (ATTACKER) decided that Gretel Kileen was good TARGET and posted live insults on twitter taunting OUTSIDERS to join in on the fun. Gordon Ramsey, a known ATTACKER gets lots of attention these day when OUTSIDERs look for images of "fat Gordon Ramsey", for fun. Is this a case of OUTSIDERs fighting back? Erin Andrews, a news sports reporter in the US was ATTACKED by having video footage of her walking around after coming out of a shower posted on Youtube. Then had trouble convincing police she was TARGET.
Bullies have discovered computers and networks. Even Mika uses the power of song writing to asymmetrically attack bullies from his childhood. I think it's time to use our powers for good. What can we do?
Network science 101
Now we are almost up to the fun bit, where we use out knowledge of network science to hack bullies. But first a short diversion into Network science theory. Understanding networks allows us to understand markets, societies, species, corporations. Networks can be biological man made or social.
If we understand the rules of networks it give us the theory to create tools to hack bullies. There are four ideas that make hacking bullies possible: Small world networks, hubs, how information spreads and mapping networks.
1) Small world networks
Steven Strogatz and Duncan Watts are both mathematicians who succeeded in understanding the properties and structures of small worlds. Strogatz/Watts started asking basic questions about connections and relatedness of nodes in networks and realised understanding the "relatedness" of nodes and how each node is connected to another node is an important problem.
Strogatz/Watts, first tested their ideas on a network model of Hollywood actors and their relationship to "Kevin Bacon". They had a theory but no confirmation. The problem to solve? If an actor plays a part in a film, what is the chain of actors to reach Kevin Bacon. How many links is there in the chain? Lets try an example. How is Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) related to Kevin Bacon?
"Ben Stiller" was in "Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny" (2006) with "John C. Reilly" who was in "The Wild River" (1994) with "Kevin Bacon"
Strogatz/Watts discovered two structural properties of what we now call "small world systems". The first, there are relatively few related nodes in a small world. The second, small world systems tend to cluster together closely. The cluster close enough to find another node in a distant small world via minimal hops.
2) Hubs
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi looked over the results of Watts/Strogartz data and made an interesting discovery, networks are not connected randomly. Barabasi found the mechanism that lets small world link together. The idea he observed is that some nodes in a network have many more links to them than other nodes. We call these super nodes, hubs. The two most important insights Barabasi has made: a) Networks are robust. If individual nodes are knocked out, the network survives. b) The hub is the weak spot. Knock a hub out, the network is severely interrupted.
3) Spread of information
Alessandro Vespignani is a physicist who specialised in understanding how disease spreads in biological systems. By reading Barabasi work on networks, Vespignani observed transmission of disease in a network is not random. Diseases moves quickly and spreads far via hubs. Conclusions: Small changes in the network have an effect on the whole system because the network is inter-related. But a virus, disease or information will not be eradicated in a network unless you take into account hubs. Understanding Hubs is the key.
4) Marc Vidal and genetic maps
Marc Vidal is a geneticist interested in looking at the inter-connectedness of cells. After reading the research by Barabasi decided to look at disease as a network. Instead of looking at the connected cells one by one Barabasi suggested to Vidal to look at the connections of disease and genes to create a map. A map of related diseases and genes. This idea is significant. It means you can now see how diseases are related. An idea made possible because it was redefined as a network science problem.
Now we come to our ultimate aim. Can we hack bullies who inhabit our electronic networks? Can we use network science for example in the same way terrorist cells are identified and disrupted?
Predicting behaviour
Could we use network science to predict where bullies might be operating? If so, how might we go about this? Lets think about what we know about bullies.
- bullies inhabit small world social networks online and offline
- bullies have identifiable negative behavioural characteristics
- bullies attract followers who attack,defend or remain neutral
- bullies exhibit hub like behaviour
- bullies have victims
What would happen if on a social network service we looked at reported behaviour and people at the same time. Just like Marc Vidal and genetic maps. What if we mapped the behaviour of social networks to look for related behaviour and hubs? What we would be looking for is the hubs of bad behaviour. Could we identify bullies by their associations to HENCHMEN, OUTSIDERs who observe an ATTACK? We know from Barabasi that if we ignore the hubs the problem remains.
A network of bad behaviour is stable because the hub remains intact. Can we knock out hubs and interrupt bad behaviour? There is nothing to stop any of the big social software site doing this. We now have enough theory to create the tools to disrupt bullies in networks. We know from Vespignani that small changes in the network make a difference and that if we redefine the problem and think of bullying and bad behaviour as a network science problem, we can tackle it successfully with maths instead of ignoring it.
Reference
[0] Trampoline 2, "my images of Trampoline 2 taken on the day on flickr"
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/collections/72157622546767...
[1] Melbourne, "my flickr set of Melbourne"
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157608350016296/
[2] olweus.org, "Olweus Bullying Prevention Program"
www.olweus.org/public/bullying_prevention_program.page?me...
[3] Dan Olweus, "History of Dan Olweus"
www.clemson.edu/olweus/history.htm
[4] Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, "The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program Overview: (Research_OBPP_Effective.pdf) Black, S. A., & Jackson, E. (2007). Using bullying incident density to evaluate the Olweus Bullying Prevention Programme. School Psychology International, 28, 623-638."
www.olweus.org/public/document/obpp_effective_research
[5] Paul Graham, "What you can't say"
[6] seldomlogical.com, "Don't read this: Don't think I write for anything, other than for my own selfish reasons. So stop reading, right now. Stop!"
seldomlogical.com/2009/08/27/don-t-read-this
[7] #hackbully, "a twitter hashtag for responses on the talk. I was interested to see what kinds of responses I would get on the back channel"
twitter.com/#search?q=#hackbully
Credit: Thanks to Trace and the attendees at Trampoline 2 for corrections and listening.
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Great old theater on Western Ave that no longer exists. Still pulled from 4X Kodak Reversal 16mm - Circa 1983.
Welcome to The Raven. This is authentically hand done calligraphy. Help yourself to 1920 x 1080 wallpaper or order a printed version at gimpmagazine.org/theraven
he HATES that Lamb man! Anyone with a meat tainted name ~ Kevin Bacon, Robert Ham, Lenny Beef, Bruce Sausage, Bob Veal, Tam Mince & Trevor McPorkchop.
The meaty swines.
This authentically hand done calligraphy piece was done using a pilot parallel calligraphy pen, and post processed using open source GIMP and Inkscape software.
This is one of my favourite calligraphy pieces of all time. I love the bold, aggressive look, classic colours, and the mood that the gothic typeface creates. Learn more about this piece and how to help crowd fund the completion of the entire poem at gimpmagazine.org/theraven
This authentically hand done calligraphy piece was done using a pilot parallel calligraphy pen, and post processed using open source GIMP and Inkscape software.
This is one of my favourite calligraphy pieces of all time. I love the bold, aggressive look, classic colours, and the mood that the gothic typeface creates. Learn more about this piece and how to help crowd fund the completion of the entire poem at gimpmagazine.org/theraven
Garrett Hedlund and Desiree Markella
(Disclaimer: The pictures here are photos from Desiree's personal collection and are in no way the official stills released by Twentieth Century Fox; and should not be used as such.)
This authentically hand done calligraphy piece was done using a pilot parallel calligraphy pen, and post processed using open source GIMP and Inkscape software.
This is one of my favourite calligraphy pieces of all time. I love the bold, aggressive look, classic colours, and the mood that the gothic typeface creates. Learn more about this piece and how to help crowd fund the completion of the entire poem at gimpmagazine.org/theraven
I'm not one for tattoos anymore. That’s not to say there isn't some appeal to them on mysterious strangers at coffee shops, the ones behind the counter taking your order, making your espresso. Or the ones sitting at the window, reading a book you've read before, but probably didn't look half as good buried in. But on myself, that’s another story. I do remember telling her about the swallow tattoo when I was younger. Wanting it for one reason or another. For grandpa maybe, his legendary bomber jacket, the patch that depicted the winning of World War II. The swallows dancing around the dragon that ripped the Japanese flag-- he flew planes, and earned more respect than I had words for. Or maybe it was for the Swifts that crowded our elementary school chimney. The memory of them spinning and diving in as the sun set, the memory of cold school days with the furnace off, just to keep them safe. Maybe it was for my childhood, of that innocence, watching the birds whirl as we played Snow White in the grass. Or maybe it was just for me, a first grown up decision made after buying cigarettes, just because I could, and filling out a voter’s registration card just because Yes We Can.
I wanted it where most girls wanted tattoos, at least where I imagine timid girls pointing as the tattoo artist waited: above my shoulder blade and below the freckles that stain its surface.
This isn't just about the swallow that found its way to my sister's shoulder sometime after her 18th birthday. The swallow that represents all of the above and more than I know. This is also about the swallows that dart overhead. The ones that chirp and twist through the air on their way home, as I read about the winter in Wyoming, the birch trees refusing to turn, their leaves heavy with snow.
It's also about a river that has touched just about every moment in our lives, whether we know it or not. A river that has sent out ships to fight wars and guided birds across the country to nest in our backyards.
I once wrote a college admissions essay about the Mississippi River, though it didn't get me into that college, its message is still clear to me: it was about how much I hated the Mississippi the first time I saw it. How it was big and ugly and smelled like the countries garbage. The second time I saw it I didn't really care either way, but the third time, I felt I understood it more. I knew it could fill the Superdome in seven seconds flat. I guess this may be how I feel about school, is how the essay went--which may be the reason it didn't get me in. I guess this may be how I feel about life sometimes too, the power, the resentment and how it all intertwines and touches each of us in similarly different ways. The love and even more power that it pushes and churns through us, even when it smells like the countries trash.
At this moment I loved the Mississippi and felt its strength. Watching it roil and propel fallen branches down stream, the ducks that paddled quicker and harder than I will ever know but in a way I could recognize. At this moment I loved everything. Thinking of my sister's tattoo, the one I told her about, the one I pointed to as if it were already resting on my shoulder.
This authentically hand done calligraphy piece was done using a pilot parallel calligraphy pen, and post processed using open source GIMP and Inkscape software.
This is one of my favourite calligraphy pieces of all time. I love the bold, aggressive look, classic colours, and the mood that the gothic typeface creates. Learn more about this piece and how to help crowd fund the completion of the entire poem at gimpmagazine.org/theraven