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scrapbooking wank, in LAT form.
Kristina Contes, once beloved by the avant-garde scrapbooking community, is now despised like crazy. Comments about her include "I guess her response is 'dignified' if you live in the same trailer park as she does." and "doesn't have a moral bone in her body."

Her crime? Inadvertently breaking a competition rule by including a photo she didn't take herself.

edit: Kristina's blog is invite-only, but here's some context:

Newsweek
Kristina's response, resposted
Responses to Kristina on the CK forum
"Creating Keepsakes will never again get my support!"
ScrapSmack archives (where the "trailer park" comment comes from); includes bonus wank about photography styles
ScrapSmack's response to the LA Times article
CK's disqualification
Scrapbooking Obsession's posts (with losts of backstory): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

edit 2: Kristina's new blog, which doesn't mention anything about the scandal (I think).

edit 3: Lee Golberg's sisters weighs in:

I do find it interesting that some people seemed really irked that Kristina was using- hold on to your hats people- pictures of HERSELF, things she LIKED (fashion!), and non-archival quality items in her scrapbook pages. I am also really surprised that in a hobby/lifestyle/whatever you want to call it all about preserving memories and all the little good moments in life, some people are so judgmental about how other people do things. Why does it matter that she used pictures of herself in her OWN SCRAP BOOK PAGES? WHO CARES?

ScrapSmack commenters are "Disappointed" - "oh, they seemed like very smart ladies, what a shame!". Also, Kristina Contes is not a persecuted artist. It's FAVOURITISM AND JUDGE FIXING OMG.

edit 3.5: Winningest comment, from the Journal Revolution blog:

Okay, a question. If all materials in the scrapbook had to be produced by the artist, as the article and apparently the rules state, where does this leave collages, magazine clippings and pics, special paper. . .or any paper for that matter? If rubber stamps were used, did they have to make their own? Did they have to use beet juice for paint, and if so who grew the beet?

edit 4: Man, this wank just keeps on giving:

Finial thoughts on previous subject... it's old news, people that don't scrap aren't aware of the importance of HOF or the influence it can have on a designer's career and will never understand why there was so much stink about it at the time. They don't realize the effect this had on the whole industry and the ethics involved. To them it will always look like a bunch of women fighting over the paper and glue. They don't know the background of the story, and really don't care to learn it. It's easier to just form quick opinions of the whole affair based on the words of those who were caught. They like to poke fun at it and dismiss all of the people who were upset by it as crazy women banishing deco-edge scissors at the poor girl who made a mistake.

Methinks someone found this post.

edit 5: a little bit of poetry (scroll down):

Jewelery Making School dropout,
No graduation day for you.
Jewelery Making Schhool dropout,
Missed your midterms and flunked clasping
Well at least you could have taken time, to wash and clean
your label whore clothes up,
After spending all that dough to have the doctor fix your nose
up!

And of course, The LA Times is a pinko commie newspaper.

edit 6: After a whole bunch of "scrapbooking is for gay ugly lusers" spam, as well as a lot of "if you are not against KC you are ~~with~~ her!", someone else claims that we are behind this mess:

FYI - we are being spammed and monitored by the wanker people...I have told our leader..

wank to all of you here's the link:

http://www.journalfen.net/community/otf_wank/587727.html

You are all actually sadder than us, because you have to borrow wank from others for your amusement.

Oh my, watch me make a scrap page of me quivering in my ~~non-existent~~ boots.

edit 7: Jezebel gets into the action, labels it "Careful With That Exacto".

edit 8: Metafilter picks up the story, and Scrapbook Obsession neatly gives us all the backstory through links. For the record, she doesn't hate Kristina.

From the MeFi post: Kristina's Flickr page (mostly layouts); her group Effer Dares, which is on a hiatus right now from the "madness". maybe I should take a hiatus too, considering JUST HOW MASSIVE this wank is growing and growing and growing; The KC Hate Thread on Two Peas.

edit 9: The moment you all have been waiting for: Livejournal Scrapbooking Wank.

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	hallidae 2008-01-13 09:59 am UTC (link)
	See, this shit is why I tell my mother to stick to redecorating the house every few months and keeping her Barbie collection dusted instead of taking up scrapbooking. (Reply to this)(Thread)

julian_black
2008-01-13 12:15 pm UTC (link)

My mom redecorates constantly, and I never know what sort of insane new project she's going to be in the middle of when I visit next. She's kind of cranky and anti-social toward everyone except the people who work at Home Depot (because she sees them like, three times a week). The only pictures she has of my siblings and I are stuck in the frame of her bathroom mirror (which means they're grotty and curled from years of hair spray and lint and damp).

That said, I am so, so happy she's not a scrapbooker.

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hallidae
2008-01-13 12:21 pm UTC (link)

Mama does her redecorating as a way of venting stress (and with her job, she's got plenty of it) so that she won't be taking it out on Dad when I'm away at school and the both of us when I'm visiting home. It means a few days of her being locked away in a room with paint and a thousand other things, but she's pretty laid back and loving the rest of the time, so it's a good trade off. I can't even imagine what she'd be like if she was into scrapbooking instead.

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	hollywdliz 2008-01-14 06:28 am UTC (link)
	My mom kept trying to convert me to the scrapbooking cause. After a few years she got distracted and started trying to convert me to Longaberger basket fandom instead. I just hope she never takes up ... I don't know ... hamster breeding. She is the type who would mail me a hamster and forget to poke holes in the box. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	littlest_lurker 2008-01-14 02:15 pm UTC (link)
	Oh god, those damn baskets. My mom was really into those things for a while and a couple of them even managed to find their way into my room, after they'd taken over just about every other room in the house. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	queencallipygos 2008-01-14 03:35 pm UTC (link)
	Googles "Longaberger basket" ...There's a fandom for...baskets? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nekoneko 2008-01-15 01:55 am UTC (link)
	There's a tour bus that goes to their factory that, if I remember correctly, is shaped like a basket. I know several people that want to go on this tour. To watch baskets being made. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	magic_lilybean 2008-01-14 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. It finally occurred to me to Google Image that after years of wondering WTF those are. Almost everything I saw had these big giant - slats isn't the right word - but it was all really big weaving. Are there fancier ones? I don't see why anyone would pay much for such basic baskets. Am I missing something, or are people just nuts??? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

hollywdliz
2008-01-15 12:13 am UTC (link)

No. You're missing nothing. They are just nuts. I've never figured it out either. For several years my mother gave me those fucking baskets for Christmas and my birthday. They are all in my closet and have been since she gave them to me. They're stacked up on top of the scrapbooking stuff she gave me for holidays before she got into baskets.

People make pilgrimages to the basket factory. Given that I've done some fandom-related travel myself, I can't point and laugh as much as I might otherwise, but ... pilgrimages to the basket factory. What?

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magic_lilybean
2008-01-15 06:22 pm UTC (link)

on top of the scrapbooking stuff she gave me

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I spent a lot of time on several different wank reports yesterday, and lost track of where this thread was momentarily. I *nearly* said, "scrapbooking stuff? Did you see the scrapbooking wank?!?"

Thankfully I thought to look up. Pfft.

But really. That's really, really weird about the baskets. I mean really. I made a basket with my daughter once (someone bought her a kit) - it's not hard. It's kind of funny-looking because it leans to one side, but the basket we made is more elaborate than those Longeberger bad boys. Weirdos!

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