Stick With It!

Our game is called: Stick With It

A game of finding lost things! Hope you enjoy!

Our Game is Called Ghost Writers

Natalie Jeremijenko

Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist of interest when it comes to the broken, especially in regards to communities, and she is also an artist that uses technology in novel ways.

The Artist Who Talks With the Fishes

Environmental Health Clinic

Natalie Jeremijenko

things that are broken… maintenance, repair

I mentioned "maintenance art" during our discussion of things that are broken, yesterday. Thought I would list some links on the subject. The most recent have to do with the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who has a show at the Queens Museum (ending this Sunday 19 February).

See this lovely short notice by Blake Gopnik — Mierle Laderman Ukeles Made Trash Collectors Feel Like the Muses; and

this overview by Ben Davis, What Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s ‘Maintenance Art’ Can Still Teach Us Today (artnet, September 20, 2016).

See her Manifesto for Maintenance Art (1969)

more on maintenance

The Maintainers organized a conference on that topic in 2016 (schedule here) and has a fascinating CFP (call for papers) for a second Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders, to happen April 6-9, 2017

Andrew Russell and Lee Vissell, Hail the maintainers : Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more
Aeon, 7 April 2016, and

Christopher Mele. "At Repair Cafes, ‘Beloved but Broken’ Possessions Find New Life." The New York Times (January 18, 2017

Things that are broken as a theme relates to ruins (when is a building at its ripest? some architects have designed structures with their ruination, a thousand years hence, in mind). What gets broken? connections. relationships. hearts —

Sheila Marikar, "What Becomes of the Brokenhearteds’ Stuff" (The New York Times, 6-7 July 2016), on the Museum of Broken Relationships in Los Angeles.

And then there's the vast literature on and of failure. and ruins. and more on failure (all in our library!)

These are the kinds of detours — and concepts — that might animate and drive our Location Notation Relation inquiries.
 

Wenonah Stevens Abbott

I am a frequent user of the Google Books Advanced Search tool in my own work, and did a quick search for Wenonah Stevens Abbott, not as author but as an "exact phrase" in books and journals published before December 1923.

That search turned up quite a few hits, e.g., —

"United : An occult sketch," Mind 1:6 (March 1898) : 351-354
(don't miss title page of this issue)

"What our sisters are doing : Work of the Women's National Socialist Union," The National Magazine : An Illustrated Monthly 17:1 (October 1902) : 39-40

I would only add that much of the pre-1923 material that is visible to users in the United States, is not visible elsewhere (including Canada and Europe). Where it is important that the source be accessible outside the U.S., it's good to try to find it via archive.org.

Hope this is helpful.
 

Francis Ellingwood Abbot, diary begin; Wenonah's soliloquy, end

Francis Ellingwood Abbot Research
[information condensed]

In his student journal, nine days after meeting the pale, hazel-eyed Katie Loring, he wrote, ''Katie is in my head the whole while, and I cannot bear to think of never seeing her again. ''

Courting at the house in Concord, Mass., where Katie's family were lodgers, the young lovers sat by the fire reading Milton and Byron aloud to each other. On Jan. 25, 1857, three weeks after they met, they became engaged, and on Aug. 3, 1859, shortly after Frank graduated from Harvard, they were secretly married by a minister in Nashua, N.H.

By the fall of 1893, Katie was dying. ''Tonight after tea, kneeling before her in her own arm-chair, I asked Katie if she loved me as well as she did in our first days of engagement,'' Frank wrote in his journal on Oct. 21, ''and, throwing her arms around my back, she kissed me and said, 'Yes, better, far better.'''

''So I love you; and you have been just the best wife that ever was.''

''And you,'' she replied with tears in her eyes, ''have been as good and true as any mortal could be.''

Two days later, Frank wrote: ''My darling dies.''

This is a love story with a tragic ending: on Oct. 22, 1903, 10 years to the day after Katie died, at 54, Frank Abbot, still heartbroken, committed suicide by swallowing poison on her grave, in Beverly, Mass.

A compulsive diarist to the end, he left his suicide note pasted in his final journal. ''I do not fall out of this world by accident as a lunatic,'' he wrote. ''I do not sneak out of it as a coward. I go out of it as a free and proud soul, with open eyes, at the command of honor and love.''

grave location @ : 42.5508881,-70.8710251
SOURCE

for ARIS

Wenonah Stevens Abbott, the end point

A Souls Soliloquy 

Snow Day Update

So, over the snow day break, I made a little flower icon for our game, and I chose which image of the grave marker I wanted to use (if we end up using one). I was also thinking about how our game would end up incorporating all of the ghost's information, and I started to think up a design for turning the poem I chose into a .pdf. (Note: Jax's flower looks way nicer than mine).
findagrave.com

The flower:

The image of the headstone:

The preliminary poem .pdf:

Things to do:

-figure out how the player is going to go about finding the flowers/items

-figure out how the player is going to learn about the ghosts

-create dialogue to find objects

-create/decide on the order of ghosts/objects found

-create game on the group account

-assemble the game

-meet up with cemetery worker

-put everything on the map