{"id":42513,"date":"2020-11-09T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=42513"},"modified":"2020-11-09T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:23:57","slug":"josh-harris-mark-enger-gilligan-bbb-with-a-side-of-internet-micro-theft-of-my-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2020\/11\/09\/josh-harris-mark-enger-gilligan-bbb-with-a-side-of-internet-micro-theft-of-my-work\/","title":{"rendered":"~JOSH HARRIS & MARK ENGER . . ‘GILLIGAN’ \/ BBB . . with a side of internet micro-theft (of my work)"},"content":{"rendered":"

without consent . . !!!<\/p>\n

so, A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G . . !!!<\/p>\n

JOSH HARRIS . . of ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’,
\nand, MARK ENGER (sadly departed for several years now) . . of EXPLODING SKY \/
\ndefinite deserve a shout-out for calling out the ‘influence’ & media-power of 1960s sit-coms \/ & popular culture, but esp. of ‘GILLIGAN’S ISLAND’.
\nthey most definite narrowed it down.<\/p>\n

apparently, legendary PIMCO co-founder, billionaire BILL GROSS . . chose to repeatedly blast the theme song of ‘Gilligan’s Island’, loud enough, and long enough to disturb his warring over Gross’s large Chihuly glass installation neighbor – billionaire MARK TOWFIQ. <\/p>\n

it’s also a potent hard fact occurrence of an even<\/strong> more annoying war . . the blatant theft of original content \/ i.e. intellectual property theft, specifically photo copyright – on the web.
\nand, it’s up-close & personal !!
\nvery annoying. it’s most def micro=theft to the highest degree.
\nif I had a penny for every photo of mine that is circulated without permission, never mind basic photo credit . . I’d be a billionaire, too. or, well at least: sitting pretty. <\/p>\n

if you google Josh Harris and Gilligan . . this ‘orphaned’ photo is what pops up:<\/p>\n

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\nand, yeah: of course . . it’s mine.<\/p>\n

there’s really nothing worse; neighbor’s illuminated, over-size Chihuly glass installation aside, than doing some research and having your own<\/strong> photo pop up, without credit.<\/p>\n

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\nhere’s the full \/ original photo.
\nthe old iPhone camera ‘auto-focus’ & the angle . . are the dead give-away ‘signature’ of ownership.<\/p>\n

that’s a DAVID PERRY painting on the left \/ and the JOSH HARRIS ‘Gilligan’ on the right.<\/p>\n

JOSH HARRIS, ‘Gilligan’, 1998.
\nsilkscreen on canvas \/ 20 x 16 in. \/ signed & dated \/ unique image on canvas.
\nmade in collaboration with master silkscreen artist \/ MARK ENGER of EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE.<\/p>\n

of course, the ‘appropriation’ of the Gilligan image itself \/ is also part of the problem, & we have to thank the art world, and the people who set up the early rules on internet posting \/ for creating a vast & commonly accepted culture of intellectual theft . . as part of the price of disseminating free . . information across the globe – with a flick of a finger.
\nand, a finger in the face – to the photog, who was smart enough to catch the image in the first place, & then maybe . . not so smart to post it.<\/p>\n

see:<\/strong> the aptly named (!!) original post . . ‘Without Consent’ \/ Amy Li Gallery, Chinatown. Oct 5, 2013 on artlovers<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nJOSH HARRIS, photo by NANCY SMITH, NYC NOV 19, 2002
\nfirst published on artnet \/ in one of my very first reports for Walter Robinsn, then the artnet editor.
\nsee:<\/strong> ART LOVERS NEW YORK \/ artnet . . FEB 2003<\/a>
\nps:<\/strong> includes the absolute first<\/strong> art world \/ public mention of the GEE’S BEND QUILTERS <\/strong>!!!!!<\/p>\n

yep.
\nmy earliest posted photo of JOSH HARRIS \/ founder of Jupiter.com \/ and Pseudo.com which was a streaming, real-time web platform, the first basically & even more astounding \/ at a time when most everybody was still on . . dial-up internet !!
\nhis (rise & fall) story – is the basis for the 2009 Sundance-winning documentary . . ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’.
\nnote:<\/strong> when I first met Josh in the late 1990s, he wanted to learn about . . quilts<\/strong> !!
\nhe was then at his (financial) peak, having sold Jupiter – the first online tracking company . . for $82 million.
\nand, he wanted advice on buying an American ‘heritage’ \/ antique quilt as a wedding present.
\nafter a few tutorials, I brought him in an early $5,000 Mennonite wool \/ log cabin . . . which he was quite entranced by.
\nGilligan ? not !!
\nincluding the background culture that gave birth to quilting \/ and specifically log cabins \/ how it was made and by whom \/as well as its being an early settler American artifact, and a spiritual one at that \/ as well as, the whole over-all process of ‘sampling’ (textile piecework) & binary organizing systems \/ quilt patterns.<\/p>\n

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\nMARK ENGER, photo by NANCY SMITH, NYC. Nov 19, 2002.<\/p>\n

this: photo of Mark Enger was in the same early artnet report \/
\nsee:<\/strong> ART LOVERS NEW YORK FEB 2003 <\/a><\/p>\n

MARK ENGER \/ R.I.P. 1963 – 2011
\nwas an amazing amazing artist, and a real real cowboy. and a real real . . friend.
\nthe absolute coolest guy, ever.
\nhe was a diehard<\/em> master silk screen printer . . who seriously<\/strong>, only ate peanut butter sandwiches, cigarettes, and coca-cola.
\nhe bragged about never drinking water, and I never saw him use any filtration \/ inhalation masks, in the studio either.
\nnot surprisingly, between the potent printer ink fumes & the diet, he left this earth . . way too early.
\n48.<\/p>\n

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see:<\/strong> MARK ENGER MEMORIAL \/ artlovers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

without consent . . !!! so, A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G . . !!! JOSH HARRIS . . of ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’, and, MARK ENGER (sadly departed for several years now) . . of EXPLODING SKY \/ definite deserve a shout-out for calling out the ‘influence’ & media-power of 1960s sit-coms \/ & popular culture, but esp. of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42513"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42527,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42513\/revisions\/42527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}