Are you a “webmaster”, admin, blog owner or someone with access to index.html files? Are you interested in taking part in the recent global wave of revolution from the comfort of your home computer? Occupy the Internet!
Add the animated GIF army to websites you control (or can get control of) by pasting the following code into any HTML file:
UPDATE (10−20−2011): Occupy Service! Force-occupy any website with “Occupy The Internet – The Service”.
Just insert a URL and send-out the link! fffff.at/occupy
• Example: Goldmansachs.com occupied!!!
UPDATE (10−19−2011): Occupy Plugin!
Occupy any site with the Occupy The Internet browser plugin ( beta ):
• Safari: download beta plugin here | source code here. ( to install unzip and drag into safari ).
• FireFox: Coming Soon.
• Chrome: Coming Soon.
To add your occupied website to this list please post a link in the comments, send an email to or tweet us @FFFFFAT
If you would like to contribute animated GIF occupation soldiers please leave URLs in the comment thread of this post where they will be called up for duty. Note: images should have transparent backgrounds.
Stuart Geiger and I just presented some research at WikiSym on why Wikipedia articles are deleted through both the speedy deletion or “CSD” process, a unilateral process whereby administrators can deleted problematic articles without discussion, and the articles for deletions or “AfD” process whereby articles discuss whether articles should be deleted. You might imagine that the majority of CSDs are deleted because of spam or vandalism, but interestingly, we found that the majority (the blue chunk in the chart on the left here) are deleted because of they lack any ‘indication of importance’. We also found that the deletion process is heavily frequented by a relatively small number of longstanding users.
Our key findings include:
1. About half of all deleted articles from June ’07 to Jan ’11 were unilaterally deleted by administrators via the CSD process.
2. Surprisingly, spam, vandalism and patent nonsense make up only 8.00%, 5.69% and 5.36% of CSDs respectively, while the more subjective ‘No indication of importance’ makes up 38.47% of all CSD criteria.
3. With some outliers, AfD discussions have few participants, and those participants are overwhelmingly regulars to the process. 74% of all AfDs are made up entirely of users who have previously participated in an AfD, and 18% of all AfDs only have one newcomer. You can read more on the PDFs below but there’s also a lot of great research by other authors at WikiSym and on from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Summer of Research program.
Poster PDF | Participation in Wikipedia’s Article Deletion Processes (WikiSym accepted poster research) PDF
Marcel Storr (3 July 1911 – 10 November 1976) was a French Outsider artist.
At a time when it is fashionable to be a self-taught artist, there are apparently fewer and fewer cases of genuine ‘art brut’, which makes Marcel Storr’s large pencil and coloured ink drawings of churches and cities of the future all the more valuable.
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A collection of fifty or so of his works were discovered in 1971 by a Parisian couple called Mr and Mrs Kempf, after Storr’s wife introduced them to his secret world. His drawings teem with buildings whose spires, towers, domes, pinnacles, minarets reach up into the sky, but it is a world strikingly devoid of thought or feeling, whose population is reduced to ants swarming under fleecy, ominous, weird skies.
Born in Paris on July 3rd, 1911, Storr was an abandoned child, who was subsequently apprenticed in farms, entrusted to nuns at an Alsatian convent, sent down the mines, and who worked at Les Halles market, loading and unloading lorries. In 1964, he found a job sweeping leaves in the Bois de Boulogne and married. He had been drawing for some time when his wife, a caretaker at a Primary school in rue Milton, in the 9th arrondissement, took advantage of his being away one evening to invite the art-lovers, Mr and Mrs Kempf into her kitchen after a parents’ meeting. From under the oilcloth on the table, she pulled out her husband’s secret drawings, made mostly in a large spiral copy book.
Marcel Storr (3 Juillet 1911 – 10 Novembre 1976) est un peintre français d’Art Brut. Enfant abandonné, confié à l’Assistance Publique et placé dans des fermes, Marcel Storr a fini une vie de misère comme cantonnier au Bois de Boulogne, après avoir exercé divers petits métiers. Devenu presque sourd pour avoir été trop battu pendant sa jeunesse, il passait pour attardé et avait une méfiance paranoïaque de ses contemporains.
Dans sa petite cuisine, le soir, avec pour seul témoin sa femme, gardienne de l’école où ils habitaient, il se transformait en dessinateur clandestin, bâtisseur de cathédrales et de mégapoles imaginaires. Il a laissé soixante chefs-d’oeuvre bruts d’une architecture visionnaire, découverts par hasard par un couple de collectionneurs en 1971. “C’est l’oeuvre du siècle !” se serait écrié le spécialiste des naïfs, Anatole Jakovsky.
Séries des villes : 19 projets de mégalopoles futuristes (Inspirés par les Tours de la Défense à Paris) Click image to enlarge * “Quand Paris sera détruit par la bombe atomique, le Président des Etats-Unis viendra me voir et on pourra tout reconstruire avec mes dessins” *
* Laurent Danchin parle de Marcel Storr à Marie Berrurier, à l’occasion de l’exposition organisée par Bertrand et Liliane Kempf en janvier 2005 à la Mairie du 9ème arrondissement de Paris :
A few items from the past month that I wanted to bring to our readers’ attention:
First, Auntie Pixelante has created a game calledDefend the Land, which is a satire of transphobic “women-born-women” policies at music festivals like MichFest. It was created in response to a self-identified feminist posting a list of names and other identifying information of trans women who attended MichFest despite of or in protest of the policy. Auntie writes:
obviously i was fucking pissed off at having to interrupt work on my new game to have to worry about the safety of fellow transwomen at the hands of self-identified “radical feminists.” so i took a four hour break to make this game about defending the land from trans wolves in womyn’s clothing. (it took four hours because i made it in stencyl.) it’s a FINDTHEHIDDENOBJECT game. the hidden object is a penis. (there’s no violence or slurs in the game, if you have a hard time dealing with that stuff. but this is a game about transmisogyny, and we should all have a hard time dealing with that stuff.)
Border House author Denis has some in-depth analysis at GayGamer.net. This is definitely an important game to check out.
Our second item is another game Denis wrote about recently for GayGamer, Molleindustria’s Phone Story, an iPhone game that tells players about the human rights abuses that go into making the device they are holding and further shows through gameplay how the player is complicit in the process. The contrast of the cartoony style and minigames with the disturbing subject matter and horrifying actions the minigames represent makes for effective satire.
The game was only available on the iTunes App Store for a few hours, but Denis was able to grab the game, and a video is included in his post. According to this Gamasutra interview with the developer, the game was carefully designed so as to comply with Apple’s guidelines, but it was pulled anyway. However, the game is now available for Android.
In the Gamasutra interview, Molleindustria’s Paolo Pedercini explains the team’s goal in creating this game:
“We don’t want people to stop buying smartphones,” he notes, “but maybe we can make a little contribution in terms of shifting the perception of technological lust from cool to not-that-cool. This happened before with fur coats, diamonds, cigarettes and SUVs — I can’t see why it can’t happen with iPads.”
Lastly, Kill Screen has an interview with Dr. Michael Baran, creator of a game called Guess My Race, a 2011 Games For Change finalist. The game asks players to choose a person’s race based on just a photograph. It is inspired by exercises Dr. Baran did with children:
I took pictures of hundreds of people at Election Day — I just took pictures of whoever let me, and laminated them, and used them to make little games for kids, just like cards: Sort these people into groups by who looks the same and who looks different; tell me about this group; what makes this group different from that group? I did these little games that were kind of like cognitive psychology experiments, and tried to be really systematic; be inspired by academics but make the research fun to figure out what kids know about race.
The fact that the game is quite difficult shows how race is socially constructed and that you can’t necessarily tell someone’s race by how they look. The game is available for iOS devices.
Yesterday I wrote a ridiculous post about deciding on a new place to buy my coffee … a place where the prices were really low because the store relied on children to work for little money. My intention was to point out how selfish it sounds for someone to willingly turn a blind eye to social injustices just because we want to pay less for something we like, and how shallow our justifications sound. I used coffee as an example because it’s one of those indulgences that people claim they can’t live without. But it’s another indulgence that I want to talk about as Halloween approaches. It’s chocolate.
The picture below is a photo of a young child gathering pods to harvest cocoa beans. There are hundreds of thousands of children in West Africa who do this work. And they are working for most of the mainstream chocolate providers in the USA. A report from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture about cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast and other African countries estimated there were 284,000 children working on cocoa farms in hazardous conditions. Many of them have been taken from their families, or sold as servants. U.S. chocolate manufacturers have claimed they are not responsible for the conditions on cocoa plantations since they don’t own them. This includes Hershey, Mars, Nestle, and the US division of Cadbury … who collectively represent pretty much every snack-size candy bar that will be available in stores this Halloween.
The connection between most major candy bar manufacturers and child slavery is one of the world’s best kept secrets. It has been going on for years, but I only learned about it last year. The US government is currently being sued by the International Labor Rights Fund for failing to enforce laws prohibiting the import of products made with child labor, and the chocolate industry has blown by numerous deadlines set by Congress for regulating. A few major chocolate companies have done a great job in the last year with some smoke-and-mirror campaigns … either offering an obscure fair-trade chocolate bar or making a show of giving to charities that support farmers. But these actions do not change the fact that they don’t want to be accountable for human rights abuses of children.
But honestly, what concerns me even more is that we, as consumers, are not demanding that this be stopped. People continue to buy chocolate even after learning about these human rights abuses. I’ve heard excuses from people in my own life that sound pretty similar to the ones I made in the coffee post. We rationalize that we can’t afford fair-trade. We joke about how addicted we are. We justify that we can’t change everything. And I think secretly, we don’t relate because these are kids in a far-off country, and not our own. It’s okay as long as we don’t have to see it happening right in front of us.
Well, I’m here to ruin it for you. Now you know. We can’t keep looking away. If we choose willful ignorance on this one, then we are no better than the caricature I painted yesterday. I’ve embedded a BBC documentary about this issue below. Even the first ten-minute segment is eye-opening, but the whole thing will wreck you … and you will be better for it. Bookmark this and watch it later. Watch it with your kids. Jafta saw this last year and despite his love of chocolate, he is the most fervent fair trade advocate I know after seeing this. Share it with your friends. Blog about it. We’re breaking up with commercial chocolate, or buying fair trade. I hope you will, too.
*Linn at PeaceLiving has a great post about finding affordable Halloween alternatives.
Simon Reynolds’s recent piece on Ariel Pink has sent me in search of 80s and 90s Ethiopian pop videos, one of the many pieces in the Ariel Pink sonic puzzle. Totally fascinating article, which directed me among other places to DireTube, Ethiopia’s version of Youtube. Treat yourself and spend some time perusing the “Ethiopian Oldies” section. Pretty much every video is great, but here are someofmyfaves.
Speaking of Ariel Pink: I was thinking that Requiem-era Arthur Brown and basically everything on Martin Newell’s Songs for a Fallow Land would round out an Ariel Pink pre-history mixtape really well. Brown’s “Falling Up” sounds like it is straight out of Before Today. Sleazy and poppy!
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Are you a “webmaster”, admin, blog owner or someone with access to index.html files? Are you interested in taking part in the recent global wave of revolution from the comfort of your home computer? Occupy the Internet!
Add the animated GIF army to websites you control (or can get control of) by pasting the following code into any HTML file:
UPDATE (10−20−2011): Occupy Service!
Force-occupy any website with “Occupy The Internet – The Service”.
Just insert a URL and send-out the link! fffff.at/occupy
• Example: Goldmansachs.com occupied!!!
UPDATE (10−19−2011): Occupy Plugin!
Occupy any site with the Occupy The Internet browser plugin ( beta ):
• Safari: download beta plugin here | source code here.
( to install unzip and drag into safari ).
• FireFox: Coming Soon.
• Chrome: Coming Soon.
UPDATE (10−24−2011)
* stats = occupyinter.net/stats — over 5 million GIFs served!
* full list of occupied sites = occupyinter.net/sites
Websites currently being occupied:
(More coming, stay tuned for updates)
To add your occupied website to this list please post a link in the comments, send an email to or tweet us @FFFFFAT
If you would like to contribute animated GIF occupation soldiers please leave URLs in the comment thread of this post where they will be called up for duty. Note: images should have transparent backgrounds.
Source code: github.com/jamiew/occupy-internet-widget
A F.A.T. Lab Production
Concept development by Theo, Jerry, Jamie, Greg, Evan and Aram.
Code development by Jamie and Greg.
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sculptures by diana al-hadid
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Food for thought — this certainly could simplify the process of decoding legislators’ allegiances:
Our key findings include:
1. About half of all deleted articles from June ’07 to Jan ’11 were unilaterally deleted by administrators via the CSD process.
2. Surprisingly, spam, vandalism and patent nonsense make up only 8.00%, 5.69% and 5.36% of CSDs respectively, while the more subjective ‘No indication of importance’ makes up 38.47% of all CSD criteria.
3. With some outliers, AfD discussions have few participants, and those participants are overwhelmingly regulars to the process. 74% of all AfDs are made up entirely of users who have previously participated in an AfD, and 18% of all AfDs only have one newcomer. You can read more on the PDFs below but there’s also a lot of great research by other authors at WikiSym and on from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Summer of Research program.
Poster PDF | Participation in Wikipedia’s Article Deletion Processes (WikiSym accepted poster research) PDF
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Séries des villes : 19 projets de mégalopoles futuristes
(Inspirés par les Tours de la Défense à Paris)
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“Quand Paris sera détruit par la bombe atomique, le Président des Etats-Unis viendra me voir
et on pourra tout reconstruire avec mes dessins”
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“Il faut des tours, il faut des tours!“
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- Biographie -
Pour lire les 33 premières pages du livre de Françoise Cloarec, cliquez ICI
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L’Oeuvre du Cantonnier Storr
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Laurent Danchin parle de Marcel Storr à Marie Berrurier, à l’occasion de l’exposition organisée par Bertrand et Liliane Kempf en janvier 2005 à la Mairie du 9ème arrondissement de Paris :
A few items from the past month that I wanted to bring to our readers’ attention:
First, Auntie Pixelante has created a game called Defend the Land, which is a satire of transphobic “women-born-women” policies at music festivals like MichFest. It was created in response to a self-identified feminist posting a list of names and other identifying information of trans women who attended MichFest despite of or in protest of the policy. Auntie writes:
Border House author Denis has some in-depth analysis at GayGamer.net. This is definitely an important game to check out.
Our second item is another game Denis wrote about recently for GayGamer, Molleindustria’s Phone Story, an iPhone game that tells players about the human rights abuses that go into making the device they are holding and further shows through gameplay how the player is complicit in the process. The contrast of the cartoony style and minigames with the disturbing subject matter and horrifying actions the minigames represent makes for effective satire.
The game was only available on the iTunes App Store for a few hours, but Denis was able to grab the game, and a video is included in his post. According to this Gamasutra interview with the developer, the game was carefully designed so as to comply with Apple’s guidelines, but it was pulled anyway. However, the game is now available for Android.
In the Gamasutra interview, Molleindustria’s Paolo Pedercini explains the team’s goal in creating this game:
Lastly, Kill Screen has an interview with Dr. Michael Baran, creator of a game called Guess My Race, a 2011 Games For Change finalist. The game asks players to choose a person’s race based on just a photograph. It is inspired by exercises Dr. Baran did with children:
The fact that the game is quite difficult shows how race is socially constructed and that you can’t necessarily tell someone’s race by how they look. The game is available for iOS devices.
Yesterday I wrote a ridiculous post about deciding on a new place to buy my coffee … a place where the prices were really low because the store relied on children to work for little money. My intention was to point out how selfish it sounds for someone to willingly turn a blind eye to social injustices just because we want to pay less for something we like, and how shallow our justifications sound. I used coffee as an example because it’s one of those indulgences that people claim they can’t live without. But it’s another indulgence that I want to talk about as Halloween approaches. It’s chocolate.
The picture below is a photo of a young child gathering pods to harvest cocoa beans. There are hundreds of thousands of children in West Africa who do this work. And they are working for most of the mainstream chocolate providers in the USA. A report from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture about cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast and other African countries estimated there were 284,000 children working on cocoa farms in hazardous conditions. Many of them have been taken from their families, or sold as servants. U.S. chocolate manufacturers have claimed they are not responsible for the conditions on cocoa plantations since they don’t own them. This includes Hershey, Mars, Nestle, and the US division of Cadbury … who collectively represent pretty much every snack-size candy bar that will be available in stores this Halloween.
The connection between most major candy bar manufacturers and child slavery is one of the world’s best kept secrets. It has been going on for years, but I only learned about it last year. The US government is currently being sued by the International Labor Rights Fund for failing to enforce laws prohibiting the import of products made with child labor, and the chocolate industry has blown by numerous deadlines set by Congress for regulating. A few major chocolate companies have done a great job in the last year with some smoke-and-mirror campaigns … either offering an obscure fair-trade chocolate bar or making a show of giving to charities that support farmers. But these actions do not change the fact that they don’t want to be accountable for human rights abuses of children.
But honestly, what concerns me even more is that we, as consumers, are not demanding that this be stopped. People continue to buy chocolate even after learning about these human rights abuses. I’ve heard excuses from people in my own life that sound pretty similar to the ones I made in the coffee post. We rationalize that we can’t afford fair-trade. We joke about how addicted we are. We justify that we can’t change everything. And I think secretly, we don’t relate because these are kids in a far-off country, and not our own. It’s okay as long as we don’t have to see it happening right in front of us.
Well, I’m here to ruin it for you. Now you know. We can’t keep looking away. If we choose willful ignorance on this one, then we are no better than the caricature I painted yesterday. I’ve embedded a BBC documentary about this issue below. Even the first ten-minute segment is eye-opening, but the whole thing will wreck you … and you will be better for it. Bookmark this and watch it later. Watch it with your kids. Jafta saw this last year and despite his love of chocolate, he is the most fervent fair trade advocate I know after seeing this. Share it with your friends. Blog about it. We’re breaking up with commercial chocolate, or buying fair trade. I hope you will, too.
*Linn at PeaceLiving has a great post about finding affordable Halloween alternatives.
Simon Reynolds’s recent piece on Ariel Pink has sent me in search of 80s and 90s Ethiopian pop videos, one of the many pieces in the Ariel Pink sonic puzzle. Totally fascinating article, which directed me among other places to DireTube, Ethiopia’s version of Youtube. Treat yourself and spend some time perusing the “Ethiopian Oldies” section. Pretty much every video is great, but here are some of my faves.
Speaking of Ariel Pink: I was thinking that Requiem-era Arthur Brown and basically everything on Martin Newell’s Songs for a Fallow Land would round out an Ariel Pink pre-history mixtape really well. Brown’s “Falling Up” sounds like it is straight out of Before Today. Sleazy and poppy!