A Manifesto to Save Leonardo
By ArtWatch On November 7, 2005
SALVIAMO LEONARDO!
MANIFESTO ETICOADARTE, 2005

Salvatemi per mirabile necessità (Leonardo, Codice Atlantico)
Save me out of admirable necessity (Leonardo, Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dai barattieri e dai pomposi trombetti (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from tricksters and pompous trumpeteers (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dalle sette di ipocriti (Trattato della pittura)
Save me from the clans of hypocrites (Treatise on painting)
Salvatemi dalle umane pazzie in aumentazione (Trattato della pittura)
Save me from human madnesses which are always increasing (Treatise on Painting)
Salvatemi dalla bava di cane rabbioso (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from the mad dog’s slaver (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dalle frecce lingue dell’invidia e dei malpensieri (Oxford)
Save me from the tongues lashes of nasty-minded people (Oxford)
Salvatemi dall’assedio della calunnia e dall’ingratitudine (Oxford, Ash I, BM)
Save me from a siege of false accusations and ingratitude (Oxford, Ash I, BM)
Salvatemi dalla fitta infamia (Ms H)
Save me from serious public dishonor (Ms H)
Salvatemi dalla sozza fama (Ms H)
Save me from filthy reports (Ms H)
Salvatemi dalle barerie dei parlari (Codice sul volo)
Save me from the gossipers (Codex on the Flight of Birds)
Salvatemi dalle bugiarde dimostrazioni (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from false proofs (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dalla mucillagine (Forster I)
Save me from gummy secretions (Forster I)
Salvatemi dai matti e giuntatori (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from lunatics and cheaters (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dalla ruggine dell’ignoranza e dai vani e instolti desideri (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from rusty ignorance and vain, foolish desires (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dalla smisurata superbia dei presuntuosi (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from the conceited people’s unbounded arrogance (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dagli ambiziosi tiranni (Ash. II)
Save me from ambitious tyrants (Ash. II)
Salvatemi dagli ambiziosi che non intendono la bellezza del mondo (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from the ambitious who do not understand the beauty of the world (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi da chi non difende la libertà, dono principale di natura (Ash. II)
Save me from those who do not defend freedom, which is nature’s greatest gift (Ash. II)
Salvatemi da chi nega la ragion delle cose (Madrid I)
Save me from those who deny the cause of things (Madrid I)
Salvatemi da chi vende il Paradiso (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from those who sell Heaven (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi da chi è generato senza amore (Weimar)
Save me from those generated without love (Weimar)
Salvatemi dai fratelli avari (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from avarous monks (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dai figli nemici (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from hostile sons (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dagli allievi infidi (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from treacherous disciples (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dagli homini grossolani e di tristi costumi (Windsor)
Save me from rude and unrefined men (Windsor)
Salvatemi dai capricci della moda (Trattato della pittura)
Save me from the quirks of fashion (Treatise on Painting)
Salvatemi dalla decadenza dell’arte nell’imitazione (Trattato della pittura)
Save me from the decay of the art when it comes to imitation (Treatise on Painting)
Salvatemi dai pittori che non sono universali (Trattato della pittura)
Save me from painters who are not universal (Treatise on Painting)
Salvatemi dalla pittura che fa sbadigliare (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from painting that makes people yawn (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dai bugiardi interpreti di natura (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from nature’s false interpreters (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dai negromanti e dai cercatori d’oro (Windsor, Forster II)
Save me from alchimists and gold diggers (Windsor, Forster II)
Salvatemi dall’impazienza, madre della stoltizia (Windsor)
Save me from impatience, the mother of foolishness (Windsor)
Salvatemi dal pericolo della ruina (Trivulziano)
Save me from the danger of ruination (Trivulziano Codex)
Salvatemi dalla discordanza di elementi che ruina e disfa (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from the discordance of elements that spoils and destroys (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dalle armi sleali dei traditori e assassini (Codice Atlantico)
Save me from the dishonest weapons of betrayers and assassins (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi dalla discordia e dalle battaglie, pazzia bestialissima (Trattato della pittura)
Save me from strife and battle, a most beastly madness (Treatise on Painting)
Salvatemi con hostinato rigore (Windsor)
Save me with obstinate determination (Windsor)
Salvatemi con destinato rigore (Windsor)
Save me with predetermined determination (Windsor)
Salvatemi con l’eccellenzia della verità (Codice sul volo)
Save me with the excellence of truth (Codex On the Flight of Birds)
Salvatemi con la giustizia, che vuol intelligenza e volontà (Ms H)
Save me with justice, which requires intelligence and will (Ms H)
Salvatemi con l’esperienza e la ragione (Ms E)
Save me with experience and reason (Ms E)
Salvatemi con le infinite ragioni della natura che non furono mai in esperienza (Ms I)
Save me with the infinite explanations of nature which have never occured in experience (Ms I)
Salvatemi con la sapienza, figlia dell’esperienza (Forster III)
Save me with wisdom, which is the daughter of experience (Forster III)
Salvatemi con l’occhio dei sogni (Arundel)
Save me with the eye of dreams (Arundel)
Salvatemi con i rebus della felicità (Windsor)
Save me with the puzzles of happiness (Windsor)
Salvatemi con i semplici (Windsor)
Save me with the simple people (Windsor)
Salvatemi con le armonie di numeri, proporzioni, suoni, tempi, siti (Ms K)
Save me with the harmonies of numbers, proportions, sounds, times, sites (Ms K)
Salvatemi con la pittura che è invenzione, scienza e filosofia (Ash. I)
Save me with painting, which is invention, science and philosophy (Ash. I)
Salvatemi con quell’arte che avanza tutte l’opere umane (Ms A1)
Save me with the art that puts forward all human works (Ms A1)
Salvatemi con la pittura che accende ad amare (Trattato della pittura)
Save me with painting that kindles love (Treatise on Painting)
Salvatemi con la città che si fa bellezza (Codice Atlantico)
Save me with the city that turns into beauty (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi con i ponti salvatici (Madrid I)
Save me with saving bridges (Madrid I)
Salvatemi con i ponti in core (Forster I)
Save me with bridges in the heart (Forster I)
Salvatemi con la concordanza (Codice Atlantico)
Save me with harmony (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi con la forza, virtù spirituale, potenza invisibile (Ms A)
Save me with strength, which is a spiritual virtue, an invisible power (Ms A)
Salvatemi con la potenza dell’immaginazione (Madrid I)
Save me with the power of imagination (Madrid I)
Salvatemi con la figurazione al di là del visibile (Trattato della pittura)
Save me with representations which are beyond the visible (Treatise on Painting)
Salvatemi con i pensieri che si voltano alla speranza (Codice Atlantico)
Save me with thoughts which bring us hope (Codex Atlanticus)
Salvatemi perché intenderansi e abbracceransi li omini di remotissimi paesi… (Codice Atlantico)
Save me so that men from very far away countries will understand and embrace each other (Codex Atlanticus)

SALVIAMO LEONARDO!
MANIFESTO ETICOADARTE, 2005

Salviamo Leonardo dalle interpretazioni anestetiche
Let’s save Leonardo from ugly interpretations
Salviamo Leonardo dalle iperboli della retorica
Let’s save Leonardo from the hyperboles of rhetoric
Salviamo Leonardo dai restauri lifting
Let’s save Leonardo’s paintings from cosmetic cleanings
Salviamo Leonardo dalle attribuzioni vaganti nel tempo
Let’s save Leonardo from willy nilly attributions
Salviamo Leonardo dagli equivoci leonardeschi
Let’s save Leonardo from leonardesque misunderstandings
Salviamo Leonardo dalle inflazioni
Let’s save Leonardo from exaggerations
Salviamo Leonardo dalle infiltrazioni
Let’s save Leonardo from infiltrations
Salviamo Leonardo dalle inibizioni della burocrazia egocentrica
Let’s save Leonardo from the inhibitions of the egocentric bureacracy
Salviamo Leonardo dalle devianze della politica S.p.A.
Let’s save Leonardo from the deviance of official politics
Salviamo Leonardo dal barattar consenso
Let’s save Leonardo from tricking into having consensus
Salviamo Leonardo dai gerarchetti di tutte le mafie
Let’s save Leonardo from all the different Mafias
Salviamo Leonardo dagli avventurieri
Let’s save Leonardo from adventurers
Salviamo Leonardo dalle scorrerie mercenarie
Let’s save Leonardo from mercenary raids
Salviamo Leonardo dal sonno della ragione che genera mostre
Let’s save Leonardo from the sleep of reason, which produces exhibitions
Salviamo Leonardo dalle grandi mostre a grande rischio
Let’s save Leonardo from risky block buster exhibitions
Salviamo Leonardo dai modellacci e modellini
Let’s save Leonardo from ugly and ridiculous models
Salviamo Leonardo dai modellastri funzionanti
Let’s save Leonardo from improperly functioning reconstructions
Salviamo Leonardo dai “musei” dell’orrido banale e dell’atroce virtuale
Let’s save Leonardo from dreadful and horrid virtual shows
Salviamo Leonardo dal museo fast food e dal circo dei cloni
Let’s save Leonardo from fast food like museums and the circus of clones
Salviamo Leonardo dall’egemonia del marketing
Let’s save Leonardo from the hegemony of marketing
Salviamo Leonardo dal kitsch senza humor
Let’s save Leonardo from kitsch without humor
Salviamo Leonardo dalla credulità per misere leggende
Let’s save Leonardo from credulity for wretched legends
Salviamo Leonardo dalla pagina 62 del Codice da Vinci
Let’s save Leonardo from the Da Vinci Code, page 62
Salviamo Leonardo dagli epigoni di Dan Brown
Let’s save Leonardo from Dan Brown’s imitators
Salviamo Leonardo dalla censura
Let’s save Leonardo from cuts and censors
Salviamo Leonardo dall’ignavia
Let’s save Leonardo from indolence
Salviamo Leonardo dall’arroganza
Let’s save Leonardo from arrogance
Salviamo Leonardo dalla falsa bicicletta
Let’s save Leonardo from the fake bicycle
Salviamo Leonardo dalla falsa cucina
Let’s save Leonardo from false kitchens
Salviamo Leonardo dalle false tradizioni
Let’s save Leonardo from false traditions
Salviamo Leonardo dai misteri idioti
Let’s save Leonardo from idiotic mysteries
Salviamo Leonardo con i suoi pensieri attivi
Let’s save Leonardo with his active thoughts
Salviamo Leonardo con coraggio
Let’s save Leonardo with courage
Salviamo Leonardo con ironia “salvatica”
Let’s save Leonardo with saving irony
Salviamo Leonardo con impegno civile estremo
Let’s save Leonardo with strong civil engagement
Salviamo Leonardo con musei etici
Let’s save Leonardo with ethical museums
Salviamo Leonardo con l’etica-estetica della città ideale
Let’s save Leonardo with the ethic-aesthetics of the ideal city
Salviamo Leonardo con la coscienza dell’identità e dell’alterità
Let’s save Leonardo with a conscience of identity and otherness
Salviamo Leonardo con il divenire della ricerca nel molteplice
Let’s save Leonardo with flowing, multiform research
Salviamo Leonardo con la riscoperta del disperso, del dimenticato e dell’inaccessibile
Let’s save Leonardo with the rediscovery of lost, forgotten and inaccessible things
Salviamo Leonardo con la sintesi della complessità
Let’s save Leonardo with the synthesis of complexity
Salviamo Leonardo con la fertilità del dubbio e dell’autocritica
Let’s save Leonardo with the richness of doubt and self-criticism
Salviamo Leonardo con il respiro della memoria
Let’s save Leonardo with the breath of memory
Salviamo Leonardo con le provocazioni alla sensibilità
Let’s save Leonardo by challenging sensibility
Salviamo Leonardo con la voce del silenzio in antitesi ai frastuoni pervasivi
Let’s save Leonardo against pervading noises with the voice of silence
Salviamo Leonardo con la creatività mercuriale
Let’s save Leonardo with mercurial creativity
Salviamo Leonardo con nuovi alfabeti
Let’s save Leonardo with new alphabets
Salviamo Leonardo con tecnologie sostenibili
Let’s save Leonardo with sustainable technologies
Salviamo Leonardo con l’arte libera e l’umanità della scienza
Let’s save Leonardo with free art and the humanity of science
Salviamo Leonardo con originalità e filologia
Let’s save Leonardo with originality and philology
Salviamo Leonardo con gli ingegni palindromi
Let’s save Leonardo with ingegni (ingenious) palindromics
Salviamo Leonardo con i nodi vinciani
Let’s save Leonardo with da Vinci knots
Salviamo Leonardo nel Labirinto dei Vinci
Let’s save Leonardo in the Vinci Labyrinth
Salviamo Leonardo fino agli antipodi
Let’s save Leonardo up to the opposite ends of the earth
Salviamo Leonardo per realizzare frammenti di utopia
Let’s save Leonardo by creating fragments of utopia
Savage he is who saves himself
Salvatico è quel che si salva (Leonardo, Codice Trivulziano)
© MILDV 2005

i am a seventeen year old boy on his way back to my father's girlfriend's house
returning from the shop where i bought skittles and an iced tea..
i notice i am being followed by a guy talking into his phone
i evade him... call my girlfriend and say there's a creep following me
the creep shows up again... this time calling me a *ukking *oon and
drawing a gun... i try to repel him but he fells me and my phone drops
he shoots me in the chest
i call for help
i die

witnesses see the shooter straddling over my body before he gets up.. then an ambulance is turned away assessing that the shooter is not hurt badly

after being held up for a day my body is sent to funeral home where it is noticed that there are no marks on my body to show that i had been in a fight

the shooter is not charged with any crime as day after day goes by with no arrest... the shooter had the gun but i am judged to have used deadly force... or even the intent to use deadly force...stand your ground is a "judgement call" so if you're a paranoid racist whackjob with a licensed gun... it is legal to shoot a young black man

stand your ground? if you're a young black man in sanford florida you HAVE no ground to stand.

Watch Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World on PBS. See more from American Experience.

Watch Personal DNA Testing, Art Authentication, Carpturing Carbon, Pardis Sabeti on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW.

If fortune has granted you a soapbox, use it responsibly.

Because Cynthia Nixon, bisexual, does not like the word "bisexual," she fatuously stated in a New York Times interview that she "chooses to be gay," and that no one gets to decide what gay means for her.

Well, we all get to write our own dictionaries... and to rewrite history too.  How is this helping?  Who won her the rights to marry her partner?  Those rights are not yet secured, you nitwit!!  You stupid, stupid woman!!

Press Conference Bulletin Atomic Scientists
Doomsday Clock Reset Five Minutes to Midnight
January 10, 2012

On the 14th of December, 2011, the House of Representatives of these United States voted in favor of indefinite military detention, without charges, of any American, anywhere, anytime, without due process of law, at the discretion of the government alone.


Final Vote 283-136 Lets start with those members of Congress who voted NO:  (Democrats in italic)




The Senate voted Tuesday, December 13.  The vote was 86-13. Here are the Senators who voted NO:
Cardin (D-MD)
Coburn (R-OK)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Durbin (D-IL)
Franken (D-MN)
Harkin (D-IA)
Lee (R-UT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Sanders (I-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

 The rest of the blackguards can be found here and here.


How did this happen? 
"this appears to be one of those issues that escapes the kind of public attention (read: outrage) it deserves because of a dismaying lack of information and discussion in the mainstream media, as well as some spin on the part of supportive legislators and a sneaky timeline for the voting process: just in time for the holidays!" truthdig.com

The bill was drafted in secret:

The US Senate Armed Forces Committee, led by Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ), held a secret closed door session to insert ominous new Federal powers into the Defense Authorization Bill. This is the annual bill to fund the US military. These new powers were requested by the Obama administration.

Because people couldnt be bothered to read about what was happening and make their voices be heard.  Because the media failed to inform them:  That as US troops were leaving Iraq, the battleground was moving to the United States.

“The homeland is part of the battlefield and people can be held without trial whether an American citizen or not,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, one of the key backers of the new authority.

Section 1031 of the NDAA bill, describes the U.S. as a "battlefield" and would give the military a green light to arrest and detain American citizens without any charges or trial.

How did this happen?

The most popular headline is false:























The true story is in the extended coverage, behind the false story:


But digging a layer deeper into the news is for someone who is genuinely interested in Obama's complete reversal on "enemy combatants" and "infinite detention" and "without trial," suspension of habeas corpus and Bush's AUMF.  I don't know who writes headlines... but my impression is these writers are given an article and told by editors to "sex this up."  Like when Liz Taylor passed away the headline was, "Paul Newman says Liz was one helluva gal," when Newman had been dead for more than a year.

So the lead headline is the one hit on most often, the false one.

Is Google evil?  Or have the humanoids at Google been taken over by their own algorithms?


Kevin Slavin How Algorithms Shape Our World

EMERAC begins to smoke and spew

Ordinarily on boot up my Dell hard disk sounds the first two notes of the Dennis the Menace theme. 

Yesterday it was groaning and heaving loudly,




















but still working long enough so I could find this solution.  Diagnosis: bad clusters.  And then I watched as my computer performed surgery on itself.  Now it is eerily silent, but cured.  This diagnosis and repair took a coupla hours.



How to run Chkdsk from Windows Explorer

1. Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.
2. Click Properties, and then click Tools.
3. Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,
4. • To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.
   Note If one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:
   The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?
   Click Yes to schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.

I'm sure there is some sci fi story about this...??

The curator Francesco Bonami, who has written a partly fictional, and biting, unauthorized account of Cattelan’s career, was more circumspect. “At the Guggenheim, the art always has to compete with the building,” he said. “Does the museum win or does the art? We’ll see.”  nytblog nov 4 2011
(you'll notice in this installation all the art-defying walls are empty)

A show whose principle emotion is spite also has the the gee-wiz fun of a giant Calder mobile. Cattelan manages the brilliant, paradoxical trick of making “institutional critique,” as such museum-prodding work is known, into a blockbusting crowd pleaser.  the daily beast nov 4 2011

"I think in the Guggenheim Frank Lloyd Wright was saying 'Screw you, New York.'" Crap Mariner
 

Has anybody noticed how the United States has been creeping towards and celebrating barbarism?

How it's now official: assasination squads are a good thing.  They serve democracy.*

"Brought to justice," means, in the vernacular of the President, shot at home along with members of one's family.

Brought to justice used to mean, even recently, captured and tried before a tribunal.  But today it can mean caught like a dog in a sewer, shot in the head and dragged through the streets before being displayed in a meat locker.

It's not just "brought to" that has been changed... "brought to" meaning delivered to 'meet one's maker,' but Justice... the first four definitions are now EXTINCT!

1. the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause.
The Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on the death of Gaddafi:


"Another ruthless dictator being brought to justice should serve as a message to tyrants everywhere: Government must be accountable to its people," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., in a statement.

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* "Assassination is a good thing.  It's cheaper than war,"  Pat Robertson

Afterword:
There are dozens of videos-by-phone of the killing of Gaddafi.. and hundreds of reports of the voice on these videos saying, "Keep him alive!"  That was the voice of civilization, preserved for history.
And today, four days after the killing there is this:

Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, head of the ruling national transitional council (NTC), said a committee had been set up to look into the circumstances of the deaths of Gaddafi and his son Mutassim in Sirte, the scene of the regime's last defiant stand. He said Libyans would have preferred to see the deposed leader stand trial and be held accountable for his crimes.