New York & Brooklyn (2007 + 2008)

Plagiarism Website

Check out a website I made about plagiarism by using plagiarized XHTML, CSS and Javascript!
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~joh03146/


 












Tips for viewing:--Works best on a 2008 (or newer) Mac using Firefox.
-Sorry, but if you have an old computer it might crash--or just not work very well.
-Change Preferences to allow pop-ups if needed.
--Move the curser around and around to see different, bright flashing colors!
--Don’t be fooled by the "File Not Found" that comes up when you first get to the site...it's fake.
--Click on the “Click me and wait!” buttons for bizarre instructions.
-Each of the four “Click me and wait!” buttons within the same quadrant contains a different message.
-The time in seconds that you have to wait for the pop-up message varies with each button.
--Click on pages and press the spacebar to auto-scroll.
-This includes the four pages that comprise the homepage.
-This also includes the four pages that come up when you click on most links.
-Each page can scroll or auto-scroll independently of each other.
--Scroll or auto-scroll down to see rollovers--and the message that the roll-overs create. If you’re auto-scrolling, go back and forth between hovering and not hovering for fun.
-You can have all four quadrants auto-scrolling at once if you’d like.
--Click the link “Link that goes nowhere (Click here if you’re bored.)” to start at the beginning again.
--Check out the source code for secret messages! (about the plagiarizer’s process of plagiarism!)
--Don’t email me via the website because I don’t check my hotmail account very often.

--On the “Ice Ice Baby” link:
-Click “Click me and wait for an instruction!” or “Vanilla Ice Hell Yes!” to get the pop-up message”: “Now, press SPACEBAR in each quadrant if you wish!”
-You can stop and start YouTube videos manually.
-Some of the YouTube videos will play automatically; others you have to press play. (For example, if you want Justin Timberlake’s version of ‘Ice Ice Baby’ to play.) Some pages have a lot of videos and I like the idea of them playing all together conceptually, but I like the sound of a select few playing—say 4 instead of 10 videos at a time.

Coming soon:
I have over one hundred sentences I highlighted in two critical essays I read on plagiarism that I'm going to make into roll-overs linked to invisible jpgs I've made in different sizes! The essays are “The Ecstasy of Influence,” by Jonathan Lethem, and “Dispersion,” by Seth Price. So, someone would have to accidentally come across the message since it'd be invisible and the user would have to hover over, say, 16 pixels. If/when I finish this, I'll tell you were to find the random sentences though.Plagiarism Website Still Dimensions Variable, 2008

Artist's Statement
Screenshot of a website about plagiarism in music using solely plagiarized code. Four web pages with YouTube videos feed into one screen. Four music videos auto-start to play Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” at the same time Queen’s “Under Pressure” plays at the same time a comedian impersonates “Ice Ice Baby” at the same time an older Vanilla Ice tries to make a come-back performing his 20-year-old hit live. (more in-depth statement coming soon!)

Plagiarism website (text), 2008

NJ/NYC Train

LYRICS - An Emo Emu Song

By Emma Johnson

January 19, 2008

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This is an emo emu song. / 1,2,3 … Here it goes:

I live in New York City. / The most populated city.

And it is such a pity/ because I live alone.

I wanted to get a cat—but—I / didn’t want to be stereotyped. So—I—

went to Australia (I got a good deal on airfare/ on Expedia).

While I was there—I—saw—a bird.

If you haven’t—guessed—yet—it was an emu.

An emu, I tell you.

An emu, I tell you.

The bird was an emu.

An emu, I tell you.

An emu, I tell you.

This bird was an emu.

Dro—ma—ious.

Dro—ma—ious.

Dro—ma—ious-------------------.

I flew to Australia—but—you are the only bird that cannot fly.

I bought—a ticket—for you on the plane

I even claimed that I was blind for you.

I brought you to my apartment. / Which is really small.

You were fine for a day. / But the next day you didn’t appreciate confinement at all!

So, I took you for a walk, but it was Black Friday.

There were so many people outside,

but I thought that we could find a way.

Oh oh emu

What to do?

Oh oh emu, what to do with you!

Then I made a terrible mistake. / I made a wrong turn.

We walked by a petting zoo /And for another emu you did yearn.

She was six feet tall, / Running at 50 kilometers an hour

Her brown, feathered skin / Fluffing up in the wind.

Small wings.

Long neck.

Is this really love at first site?

“Oh, what the heck?” I said.

I bought us two tickets / to the zoo.

That was the day that the petting-zoo-emu fell in love with you (fell in love with you).

Oh oh, emu. / Now I know what to do with you!

I called the zookeeper over

And asked if you could live with her.

The—finite details—of this story

Have—now—become a blur.

I remember the worker was happy,

That now their emu had a little friend.

Your lady-emu-friend laid some eggs

And incubated them for fifty-six days.

And during that time

You got used to each others’ ways.

Instead of mating for a standard five months

You wanted to be partners for life.

So, I enlisted a tailor to make a wedding dress/ for your wife.

It turned out a perfect fit,

Just like your bride and you.

And then, I realized there was only one thing to do.

I would have to let go of you.

I would have to let go of you.

Oh oh, emu.

Oh oh, emu. / You break my heart in two.

I walked the streets around St. Mark’s Place

Because I thought you needed some space.

But I went back to the zoo to see your babies being born.

And I could have sworn

I saw a smile.

I hugged you and your wife and your little baby emus.

and got so carried away that I fell into a guy.

“What are you doing?” He said

“I’m talking to my emus.”

“Why did you fall into me?/ Are you clumsy?”

“No! I get carried away when I hug my emus.

Emu, emu, I love you.”

“That’s a very good reason,” he said.

“Since you ran into me I thought you were a jerk, but you seem really sensitive instead.”

“I am.

I am---------------!”

“Do you want to go for a walk?” he said.

“Yes!” I said. “Yes!” I said.

The emu smiled at me, but it was bittersweet.

We both loved each other, but other species we had to meet.

It’s just our nature. / To mate with our own kind.

But anytime the emu has trouble, he calls me up in a bind.

Oh oh, emu. / I miss you.

Oh oh, emu. / you were right:

It was either Australia or the petting zoo for you.

Emu, emu. / The sacrifices that I make for you.

And now that I am married

I’m happy but a little sad.

I love my husband and my kids,

But sometimes I think about the good times we had.

Oh oh, emu

Oh oh, emu

I loved you from the start.

Oh oh emu.

Oh oh emu.

You will always have a special place in my heart.

I LOVE animals:)

Becky's bunny & me

John Cage 33 1/3 at the White Box gallery

MaryBeth Edelson's performance of John Cage 33 1/3 at the White Box gallery in Chelsea (nyc). I am in the fourth picture participating:
http://www.whiteboxny.org/program/newcomposers/marybeth/marybeth.html