Scandal in the scrapbooking world *gasp* - say it isn't so
Sun, 2008-01-13 10:27
#1
rural - Francesca
Scandal in the scrapbooking world *gasp* - say it isn't so
Sun, 2008-01-13 10:27
#2
rural - Francesca
[url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scrapper12jan12,0,2... Story[/url]
"Rising star in the world of scrapbooking" has entry removed from scrapbooking Hall of Fame,
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Disgruntled scrapbookers besieged the Creating Keepsakes chat room threatening to cancel subscriptions, boycott and sue. Scrapbooking bloggers called it "Hall of Fame-Gate," naming it the top scrapbooking scandal of 2007. They compared it to the performance-enhancing-drug controversies involving major league baseball player Barry Bonds and Olympic track star Marion Jones. Someone wrote that Contes was as polarizing a figure as Martha Stewart.
Sun, 2008-01-13 12:06
#3
Sandy47
Dear gawd, no... say it ain't so.
Sun, 2008-01-13 12:14
#4
It's as if women's identity was something to be assembled from scrap, mawkish materials, then torn down in hatred against the "whore" if ever one becomes perceived as "too big for her britches."
Scary...
Sun, 2008-01-13 12:28
#5
rural - Francesca
aaahhhh yes
but when you are relegated to achieving in irrelevancy, then those that violate the self determined codes of conduct, are whores who are no better then the men who have relegated women to the 'scrap' heap
Sun, 2008-01-13 15:45
#6
The "top" scrapbooking scandal? You mean, there were other scrapbooking scandals!?
Sun, 2008-01-13 15:52
#7
Francesca, your link doesn't work for me, [url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scrapper12jan12,1,6... this one does, I think.[/url]
This explains how she supposedly "cheated" - but it sounds more like the people running the contest made the mistake, not her, since she was totally up front and honest about someone else taking the pictures - she called the people running the contest and asked that her photographer get the credit! And they agreed and published her designs using the credit.
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The trouble in the land of foam stickers and glossy glitter glue all started in February, after Contes won a contest sponsored by one of the industry's most popular magazines, Creating Keepsakes. Her winning pages featured photos of her feet and her hairless terrier, Chloe. Her name went into the magazine's Hall of Fame and her work was published in a book of the top 2007 entries.But Contes -- inadvertently -- had cheated.
Someone else had taken pictures that ended up in her portfolio. When Contes called Creating Keepsakes to request that her friend receive a photo credit, the staff member approved it without realizing she had broken an entry rule: Submissions had to be solely the contestant's work. The book came out in October with both names published -- to the dismay of thousands.
Mon, 2008-01-14 03:33
#8
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Originally posted by martin dufresne:
[b]It's as if women's identity was something to be assembled from scrap, mawkish materials, then torn down in hatred against the "whore" if ever one becomes perceived as "too big for her britches."
Scary...[/b]
I call bullshit. Her critics' hyperbole aside, she played the game, she broke the rules, her competitors don't like it.
This isn't an issue of "women's identity (being) something assembled from scrap", it's a simple playground issue of fairness under an agreed to set of rules. The Man didn't make her scrapbook, any more than The Patriarchy made her break the established rules of the game. Unless of course we're blaming The Patriarchy for every oversight and intentional deviance.
She cheated, she got caught, her playmates want her out of the game. I suspect the phenomenon would repeat itself in [i]tabula rasa[/i] conditions of an all female human community living on a distant planet with nary a testicle in sight. (as impossible as such a scenario is...)
[ 14 January 2008: Message edited by: B.L. Zeebub LLD ]
Mon, 2008-01-14 05:49
#9
Say what, let's give it a try... Meanwhile, any clue as to why there are so few men "scrapbooking"?
Mon, 2008-01-14 05:56
#10
rural - Francesca
quote:
Originally posted by martin dufresne:
[b]Say what, let's give it a try... Meanwhile, any clue as to why there are so few men "scrapbooking"?[/b]
because nothing in scrapbooking explodes...mind you that gives me an idea for performance art...
Mon, 2008-01-14 07:40
#11
True, but what about glue [b]guns[/b]? Spurt, Spurt! Aaaaah...
Mon, 2008-01-14 08:17
#12
rural - Francesca
glue guns don't kill people - people with old glue guns that are super hot (there should be a registry) and end up burning themselves and then getting infections and going into septic shock...kill people [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]
(Ok I once got 2nd and 3rd degree burns from my glue gun when I worked at a Day Care - didn't get an infection - but I worried about it)
Tue, 2008-01-15 08:45
#13
quote:
Originally posted by martin dufresne:
[b]Say what, let's give it a try... Meanwhile, any clue as to why there are so few men "scrapbooking"?[/b]
Beats me. I haven't a clue whey there are any people at all 'scrapbooking'. Personally, I 'scrapfilecabinet', it is less work.
Tue, 2008-01-15 11:54
#14
Polly B
I don't have the time or the patience. My bits and pieces generally reside in boxes waiting for someone with more talent and creativity to make something out of them. Or till I accidentally throw them out.
My sister scrapbooks..or at least she goes every Tuesday night and says she's scrapbooking. She calls it her night out and says that because everyone else in her family thinks it's lame she never gets bothered to take them with her. Gives her a chance to catch up with her friends without the work/home thing going on.
Wed, 2008-01-16 07:01
#15
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Originally posted by arborman:
[b]Beats me. I haven't a clue whey there are any people at all 'scrapbooking'. Personally, I 'scrapfilecabinet', it is less work.[/b]
I think one would call what I do 'scrapbasementing'.
Wed, 2008-01-16 14:10
#16
remind
My partner both 'scrapfilecabinets', and 'scrapbasements' and given the fact he hates throwing anything away, and take pictures , multiple ones of some very non-descript things, to my mind, I am sure if he knew what scrapbooking was, he would be right into it.
I let him use my table display stand/winged board, which I used for project displays etc, to display pictures of his rock and masonary work, as he is trying to get out of the forest industry.
Thought he would used poster gum, as I do, to set up his display. Nope, he had to go out an buy picture corners to display them properly. Well, that's all very good I suppose, but it is no longer my display board, but it is his permanent 'scrapboard'. [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]