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Crystal Sanchez Tattoo Outline pencil Project #4

"Evidence of Explosives" Travis Marks Cut out printed images, paint, magnets, metal slab, printed quotes and evidence with sources cited. The text reads: The National Institute for Standards and Technology(NIST) received $20 million of tax payer money on August 21, 2002 to: “Determine why and how WTC 1 and WTC 2 collapsed following the initial impacts of the aircraft and why and how WTC 7 collapsed” - From the NIST website home page: http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/wtc/ NIST claimed that the Twin Towers experienced structural failure due solely to the heat of the burning jet fuel and the resulting office fires. It explained the free-fall speed collapse of the Twin Towers on its website by saying: “Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy released by the falling building mass, the building section above came down essentially in free fall, as seen in videos.”- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION # 1http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/wtc/faqs_wtctowers.cfm John Gross, NIST’s lead engineer explained that NIST, in fact, did not actually calculate why and how the buildings were able to collapse at an average of ten seconds (roughly free-fall speed). Gross reported to a press conference that, “Once the collapse initiated, the video evidence was rather clear. It was not stopped by the floors below, so there was no calculation that we did to demonstrate what is clear from the videos”-Massimo Mazzucco, The New Pearl Harbor: DVD#2(1 hr and 16 minutes in) William Rice, a structural engineer who worked extensively on steel buildings during the era when the Twin Towers were constructed claimed that NIST’s explanation defied the laws of physics: “Each of these 110 story Twin Towers fell upon itself in about ten seconds. This violates Newton’s law of conservation of momentum that would require that as the stationary inertia of each floor is overcome by being hit...the free fall speed decreases. The prevailing theory (NIST’S theory) would have us believe that each of the Twin Towers inexplicably collapsed on itself crushing all 287 massive (steel) columns on each floor while maintaining free fall speed as if the 100,000 or more tons of supporting structural steel framework underneath didn’t exist” -David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited. (page 60) Steven Jones, a Physicist and former professor emeritus at BYU also challenged NIST’s analysis. He claimed that NIST’s explanation of how the Twin Towers collapsed without the use of explosives defied the laws of physics: “NIST evidently neglects a fundamental law of physics in glibly treating the remarkable “free-fall” collapse of each tower, namely the conservation of momentum. This law of physics means that the hundreds of thousands of tons of material in the way must slow the upper part of the building because of its mass... NIST ignores the possibility of controlled demolition, which achieves complete building collapse in free-fall times by moving the material out of the way using explosives. So there is an alternative explanation that fits the data without violating basic laws of physics”- Steven Jones, “Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the WTC Destruction” The Civil Engineering Journal. 2008, 2/1. (35-40) NIST claims to have, “found no corroborating evidence for alternative hypotheses suggesting that the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolition using explosives. ” NIST also stated that: “there was no evidence (collected by NIST or by the New York City Police Department, the Port Authority Police Department, or the Fire Department of New York) of any blast or explosions in the region below the impact and fire floors as the top building sections” It is important to note that NIST claimed that the FDNY collected no evidence of explosions below the impact and fire floors of the towers- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION # 8 http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/wtc/faqs_wtctowers.cfm Shortly after 9/11, The Fire Department of New York recorded 503 oral histories from firefighters and medical workers who were present during the attack on the Twin Towers. Dr. Graeme MacQueen illustrated that 118 of the 503 witness accounts, without being asked about explosions, reported that there were in fact explosions coming from the Twin Towers before their collapse.- David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited. (page 66) Assistant Fire Commissioner, Stephen Gregory said: “I saw a flash flash flash and then... the building came down... It was at the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? Thats what I thought I saw ” Firefighter Kenneth Rogers said: “There was an explosion in the South Tower. Floor after floor after floor. One floor under another after another, and when it hit about the 5th floor I figured it was a bomb because it looked like a synchronized deliberate kind of thing.” Firefighter Timothy Burke said: “Then the building popped. Lower than the fire. I was like oh, my god, there is a secondary device because the way the building popped I thought it was an explosion” Captain Kerin Deshore said, “There was this orange and red flash coming out...Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode... With each popping sound it was initially an orange and then a red flash that came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then around the building” William Rodriguez was a janitor working on the first sub-floor of the basement in the North Tower on September 11, 2001. He reported feeling explosions in the sub basements of the buildings at 8:46, before any planes had struck the towers. In fact, right after those explosions, his co worker Felipe David, ran into the room with severe burns on his body screaming, “explosion! explosion! explosion!” Rodriguez gave his testimony to the 9/11 Commission but it was eliminated from their final report. He claims that NIST also ignored his testimony. “I contacted NIST... four times without a response. Finally [at a public hearing] I asked them.. if they ever considered my statements or the statements of any of the other survivors who heard the explosions. They just stared at me with black faces.” -David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited. (page 66) Jennifer Abel of the Hartford Advocate asked Michael Newman, the spokesperson for NIST’s Department of Public and Business Affairs, why NIST never tested for chemical evidence of explosives such as thermite in the steel remains of the Twin Towers. Abel: “What about the letter where NIST said it didn’t look for evidence of explosives?” Newman: “Right, because there was no evidence of that” Abel: “But how can you know there’s no evidence when you don’t look for it first?” Newman: “If you’re looking for something that isn’t there, your wasting your time” THUS, DESPITE EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS AND SCIENTIFIC THEORY WHICH OVERWHELMINGLY INDICATE THE USE OF EXPLOSIVES IN BRINGING DOWN THE TWIN TOWERS, NIST HAS NOT EVEN BOTHERED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS. THIS IS IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND CONFIRMS THE SUSPICION THAT THE NIST INVESTIGATION IS A GOVERNMENT COVER-UP AND A GROSS WASTE OF THE TAX PAYERS’ MONEY. IT’S TIME TO DEMAND A NEW INVESTIGATION AND DEMAND THAT NIST’S SCIENTISTS SUPPORT THEIR EVIDENCE IN A PUBLIC DEBATE WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY!!!!

"The New Pearl Harbor" Travis Marks 3 X 4.5 X 1 feet Cut outs, paint, magnets, shadow boxes, metal slab, tin foil #project4

My copy of Angels in America, Ink Pens, Sharpie 

Think of Sudoku: 1 number(color) per row, column, and 3x3 section. It’s a puzzle because you only start off with the 2 green corners as your hint. Put the pieces together to find their matching sides and sooner or later you will start realizing which color goes where.

Crystal Sanchez "Ignorance" Sharpies, Pencils Project#5

As I Sleep 16x20 2014 Mixed Media acrylic paint, newspaper, pen This piece is confronting the environmental degradation the city of Detroit residents encounter in their sleep. An unknown consumption of burning trash happening nightly regardless of the endless local calls the incinerator recieves. This piece exists to call attention to the exploitation of the people of Detroit who endure the unknowing pollution by the local incinerator of its pollutants in hopes to stop the pollution of the city,

Mikayla Afuola “Never born” 20x16 Acryclic paint, sharpie This piece is based off of Ernest Hemmingways 6 word novel For Sale:Baby Shoes, Never Worn. I chose this because it shows the power of ones words. Hemmingway made a novel using only those 6 words. His novel was based off of miscarriage and abortion. the idea that one thing about life is some do not get the chance to experience it. The idea of baby shoes never being worn expresses the emotion of loss, void and that a parent wants to sell them so that they be used to benefit another child and to help make the process of mourning and forgetting easier.

With this project a took 3 pop culture icons such as Mario, Batman and Spider-Man and re imagined their likeness in the form of words which describes them. these words made created their likeness. These pictures were made with an online software and i printed them on construction paper. I wanted to show how these words and ideas have shaped these characters and in my project, there likeness is literally shaped with the ideas and words that we as a culture have related to these icons.

Materials: Driftwood, wool.

Mikayla Afuola 4401 Sorry its a repost accidently deleted the other one

In this project i wanted to document how negative words can leave their marks on their victims. Bullying is now the third leading cause of death in the world right now. We go through constantly confronted by people who put either you or someone else down, unaware of the effects these words have on that person in the long run. Bullying is known to have killed on 4400 people on average each year, which explains the number on her head. And although the words disappear they are now apart of her.

Celtic Design Ballet Process artist statement by Sophie Restall My first inspiration for my piece was a circular celtic art therapy plate that comes with a stylus for tracing. The complex design has no beginning and no end; it can be traced forever without stopping. Each celtic design has a different energy to it, and I find the process very therapeutic. I chose two simple, intertwining celtic designs to trace with my foot- a sort of ballet dance, drawing, therapy. After tracing the designs many times with the charcoal tied to my toe, I decided to contrast that repetitive, controlled drawing and motion with a more random act of movement and mark. I painted the bottoms of my feet with paint- my right foot with warm colors, left with cold- and ballet danced across the celtic design. This more free action left a very different mark on the piece, but I think that both processes were equally therapeutic- and their mark equally as visually appealing.

            In this project, I wished to trace time through the paths we make everyday, moving around. I stimulated this by tracing my own path around my dorm on a regular Saturday. Using clocks, I marked where I am at specific times of the day at each point in the path. The background is of space, pulling together the concept of time and space. It is amazing how much distance one can cover within a day, and the different shapes we make with our paths. Even though my project only covered a small area, imagine the map that would result if we each marked the paths we took from the beginning of our lives until the present, stretched across the whole world.

Celtic Design Ballet Process Sophie Restall Approx 3x4 ft

I have a print of a previous digital painting/photo manipulation work and I realized that distinctive mark or traces are not entirely present or conclusive in most of my digital work. My style and personal representation are noticeable but physical marks such as brush strokes or techniques are indistinguishable in a flat, digitized print. I had originally planned to repaint this self-portrait exactly as it is in order to show actual physical activity and mark, however, I started to wonder about how other people would express themselves, their personality, and their ideas on my piece that was originally meant to only represent me. I set up a space in Porter quad with various paints and invited passerby's to express themselves however they wish onto my piece. People were hesitant to "destroy" or "mess-up" my work, but I encouraged them to freedom of expression. I put up a sign that read, "PUT SHIT ON MY SHIT" as an invitation. Slowly, my self-portrait that presented only my being began to evolve as it accumulated different personalities, tastes, styles, and representation. Someone wrote a latin phrase that translated to "Therefore, there will be king", another was "Jesus walked the world alone", some worked together to construct a water pipe, and to my surprise the piece started collecting objects such as cigarette butts, pieces of banana, orange peels, and grass. Soon, my self-portrait has become unrecognizable and received a new identity from the Porter community. My once personal work has been marked by dozens and became not my own, but my community as a collective.