{"id":1763,"date":"2007-09-07T04:45:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T09:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2007-09-07T04:48:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T09:48:44","slug":"flores-upload-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Flores: Upload, Download"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/beerPeople.jpg\" title=\"Image of Art Work\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1765\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/beerPeople.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Art Work\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\"\/><\/a>While in Berlin I took some pictures in a gallery of an art installation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip-info.com\/k2dolores\/dolores_flores.htm\">upload download overload<\/a> by Dolores Flores. I took pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca\/~dictwordwild\/show\/2083\">Upload<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca\/~dictwordwild\/show\/2082\">Over<\/a>load and <a href=\"http:\/\/tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca\/~dictwordwild\/show\/2081\">Download<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca\/~dictwordwild\/\">Dictionary of Words in the Wild<\/a>. What I didn&#8217;t realize until I checked the web about the installation, was that the little paper figures were significant. They are &#8220;beer people&#8221; and, as the web site explains,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u201a\u00c4\u00fabeer people\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 were created in the year 1993, in an old Berliner beer \u201a\u00c4\u00faKneipe\u201a\u00c4\u00f9.<\/p>\n<p>Made out of the paper ring that is attached to the bottom of a fresh tapped pilsner beer glass, to absorb the foam drippings. This paper ring was the inspiration behind the making of the \u201a\u00c4\u00fabeer people\u201a\u00c4\u00f9. Each figure is a unikat, torn, ripped and folded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they say, <a href=\"http:\/\/ccat.sas.upenn.edu\/slubar\/fsm.html\">&#8220;Do not fold, spindle or mutilate&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Berlin I took some pictures in a gallery of an art installation upload download overload by Dolores Flores. I took pictures of Upload, Overload and Download for the Dictionary of Words in the Wild. What I didn&#8217;t realize until I checked the web about the installation, was that the little paper figures were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flores: Upload, Download<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words-in-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}