THIS IS NOT A JOKE: SA Artists & Wikipedia
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Hugh Upsher is a recent Michaelis Graduate who lives in the suburbs with his parents. He has terrible social etiquette.
I wanted to see how South African Artists were represented on Wikipedia. I started by just winging it with random names until I came across ‘List of South African artists’, which is interesting in itself. Check out who cracked the nod, or add yourself as an elaborate joke. Here are a few irregularities I picked up on.
In the absolutely useless category (page wise) we have Brett Murray getting a total of 141 words for his page. Not enough text to fill half the screen of the tiniest of monitors, let alone be used for plagiarizing in a high school project. Willem Boshoff only has a measly 92 words to his name.
Matthew Hindley’s page on the other hand is pimped out in a way that suggests the artist did it himself (fantastic marketing). It includes a huge image of one of his recent paintings sitting in the middle of the page.
“Peet Pienaar (born 29 August 1971 near Potchefstroom, South Africa) is a South African performance artist, most famous for having himself videotaped while undergoing circumcision in 2000.” What a legacy. You know that page isn’t getting updated any time soon.
Jane Alexander doesn’t get any Wiki love and neither does Sue Williamson, Penny Siopis, Nicholas Hlobo or anyone who isn’t white and male (generalization).
There are 12 Stephen Cohen’s with Wikipeia articles, including a South African wrestler better known as Steve Simpson and the disputed owner of sex.com. The performance artist is not one the 12 people featured.
Pieter Hugo doesn’t have his own page but does get referenced on the albinism page, which is hilarious.
What a turn out, Who writes this shit?
posted by Hugh Upsher at 3:14 PM
9 Comments:
what about the fugitive hotlinks on artheat to Lloyd Pollock's hilariously polarised view of the michaelstevenson.mart SummerArt.
Actually thought the diss reveiw better than the other, which was just too goo too boo troo.
But what has happened to them? Is this the new censorship that Zapiro has been warning us against.
imagine a dog crapping on a small baby
5:48 - are you refering to Hugh Upsher vs Wiki, or Unknown Control vs Hot Links?
Now imagine that baby helping rescue efforts in Haiti, all covered in poo, giving mouth to mouth to a old granny trapped under a collapsed sex shop,glass dildos scattered everywhere.
Jesus H, anon 12, you're sicker than a scat enthusiast with SARS!! Mutha...
what's Nathaniel Stern up to these days?
Now imagine that granny been revived by the baby covered in poo surrounded by the glass dildos,the baby covered in poo is hailed as a true international humaitarian, however unknown to the baby the old granny was infact a voodoo witch doctor and now with ample corpses at her disposal creates a vicious zombie horde, not the slow lazy zombies but the the more hyper active children type.
This is Zander Blom, isn't it?
It was the zombie horde and voodoo witch doctor references that gave it away...
No way, good guessing
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