CONTENT POLICY I’ve seen a number of peeps doing a “photo a day,” sometimes for years running, on flickr. For 2 weeks now I’ve done this myself on DailyBooth. Since I use flickr to “dump” images from performances, I thought the “photo a day” might get sort of buried there, and I kind of liked the idea of “DailyBooth” or a “Daily Photo Booth Picture.” I thought that today I might take a non-pornographic, naked photo of myself. I’m disappointed to read DailyBooth’s Community Guidlines, and learn that, Always wear appropriate clothing. Don’t post nude, partially nude or sexually suggestive pictures. By contrast, the only restriction in tumblr’s content policy is Accounts that use Tumblr’s Video Upload feature to regularly upload and host sexually explicit or pornographic material will be suspended. So, for example, this sublime Francesca Woodman self-portrait easily fits INSIDE tumblr’s policy, but, sadly, is clearly OUTSIDE DailyBooth’s policy. I do like DailyBooth, but now the question is whether I should be starting a looooong series in such a restricted space. To think how many works by Pablo PIcasso or Edward Weston wouldn’t be allowed on DB is remarkable. Then again, who said all photo communities have to be “Mature,” there should be “child” or “family” or “work” friendly sites too, right? Maybe you just shouldn’t post “art” there, That seems very reasonable, still, the promise of Web2.0, in my eyes was the free speech we always go on about, but never really had in the world of old media. Why Francesca Woodman’s body, or mine, is inappropriate, yet the graphic violence that sells toys to children every day on television is appropriate, I’ll never know. http://dailybooth.com/vaneeesa

CONTENT POLICY

I’ve seen a number of peeps doing a “photo a day,” sometimes for years running, on flickr. For 2 weeks now I’ve done this myself on DailyBooth. Since I use flickr to “dump” images from performances, I thought the “photo a day” might get sort of buried there, and I kind of liked the idea of “DailyBooth” or a “Daily Photo Booth Picture.”

I thought that today I might take a non-pornographic, naked photo of myself. I’m disappointed to read DailyBooth’s Community Guidlines, and learn that,

Always wear appropriate clothing. Don’t post nude, partially nude or sexually suggestive pictures.

By contrast, the only restriction in tumblr’s content policy is

Accounts that use Tumblr’s Video Upload feature to regularly upload and host sexually explicit or pornographic material will be suspended.

So, for example, this sublime Francesca Woodman self-portrait easily fits INSIDE tumblr’s policy, but, sadly, is clearly OUTSIDE DailyBooth’s policy.

I do like DailyBooth, but now the question is whether I should be starting a looooong series in such a restricted space. To think how many works by Pablo PIcasso or Edward Weston wouldn’t be allowed on DB is remarkable. Then again, who said all photo communities have to be “Mature,” there should be “child” or “family” or “work” friendly sites too, right? Maybe you just shouldn’t post “art” there, That seems very reasonable, still, the promise of Web2.0, in my eyes was the free speech we always go on about, but never really had in the world of old media.

Why Francesca Woodman’s body, or mine, is inappropriate, yet the graphic violence that sells toys to children every day on television is appropriate, I’ll never know.

http://dailybooth.com/vaneeesa

CROSSING AMERICA — the late Francesca Woodman is crossing a nation to meet herself in the future. ATM she has a retrospective at MOMA San Francsico, while Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective continues at the Guggenheim New York. This 1977 self-portrait by Woodman was the inspiration for 2 untitled 2007 installations by Cattelan, the first is essentially an exact sculptural installation of this photograph:http://www.stefanseiz.com/archives/2008/03/kunsthaus_bregenz_-_maurizio_cattelan.html In the second, and now more widely exhibited, Untitled, 2007 Cattelan presented Woodman’s polychrome figure in a large shipping crate as an installation object in the gallery. Finally, in 2012, after Cattelan moves out of the Guggenheim, Woodman’s show will travel from SF-MOMA to the Guggenheim, where her past self will inhabit the space her future-self-recreation hangs in today. And finally finally, in 2010 I recreated Cattelan’s crate for Woodman, installing myself as a living sculpture in it:http://vaneeesa.com/2010/11/07/maurizio-cattelan/ You can obtain a free, 3D, virtual copy of my Cattelan Crate here:https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/42642jeffdtaylor: Francesca Woodman, a photographer who committed suicide at age 22 in 1981, opens a show at the Guggenheim in March 2012. It is one not to miss. High-res
CROSSING AMERICA — the late Francesca Woodman is crossing a nation to meet herself in the future. ATM she has a retrospective at MOMA San Francsico, while Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective continues at the Guggenheim New York. This 1977 self-portrait by Woodman was the inspiration for 2 untitled 2007 installations by Cattelan, the first is essentially an exact sculptural installation of this photograph:
http://www.stefanseiz.com/archives/2008/03/kunsthaus_bregenz_-_maurizio_cattelan.html

In the second, and now more widely exhibited, Untitled, 2007 Cattelan presented Woodman’s polychrome figure in a large shipping crate as an installation object in the gallery.

Finally, in 2012, after Cattelan moves out of the Guggenheim, Woodman’s show will travel from SF-MOMA to the Guggenheim, where her past self will inhabit the space her future-self-recreation hangs in today. And finally finally, in 2010 I recreated Cattelan’s crate for Woodman, installing myself as a living sculpture in it:
http://vaneeesa.com/2010/11/07/maurizio-cattelan/

You can obtain a free, 3D, virtual copy of my Cattelan Crate here:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/42642

jeffdtaylor:

Francesca Woodman, a photographer who committed suicide at age 22 in 1981, opens a show at the Guggenheim in March 2012. It is one not to miss.

(via jeffdtaylor)