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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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	gusty 2008-01-13 01:57 pm UTC (link)
	There are other talented scrapbookers, who are in fact more EDGY, who are MORE creative, who think outside the box, who use MANY colors Oh snap, someone got pwned! ... I think. I... I really can't tell. I don't speak scrapbooker. Using fewer colors is some kind of major sin? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	dragonfangirl 2008-01-13 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	But the real question is, can you scrapbook with all the colors of the wind? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	princessjessia 2008-01-14 04:16 am UTC (link)
	Ginger ale meet monitor. Would you like your internet in Christmas wrapping paper or would you prefer the snowflakes? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	miss_padfoot 2008-01-15 04:53 am UTC (link)
	splorf I love you. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jigofspite 2008-01-15 07:03 am UTC (link)
	The is totally my favorite comment in this wank. WIN! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mistressrenet 2008-01-13 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	It's probably like that whole monochrome icons thing that happened a while back on LJ-- someone used a simple palette, and then everyone started doing it, and now it's tired and kind of lame even though some of the simple things still look awesome. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	electricwitch 2008-01-13 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	The MANY colours thing is making me lol like a bitch. OH god I will die. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	deliciouschaos 2008-01-14 01:50 am UTC (link)
	I will never stop wondering why 'outside' was undeserving of capslock. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vzg 2008-01-14 08:06 am UTC (link)
	I'm boggling still at "EDGY." How does one scrapbook in an edgy way? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sparkysrevenge 2008-01-14 09:58 am UTC (link)
	You know, the scrapbooking community is really starting to sound like the LJ icon community. Just wait till they have scrap_rants on LJ. Will there be selective color wank there, too? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2008-01-14 10:42 am UTC (link)
	Just wait till they have scrap_rants on LJ. To be honest, looking at all this, I'm kind of surprised they don't have scrap_rants on LJ already. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mydemand 2008-01-14 10:49 am UTC (link)
	Isn't that what ScrapSmack is for? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sparkysrevenge 2008-01-14 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	That's mainly one person maintaining a blog, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mydemand 2008-01-15 05:52 am UTC (link)
	The fun's in the comments. The Two Peas forums seem to be a hub for this too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sparkysrevenge 2008-01-14 05:35 pm UTC (link)
	I searched scrapbooking as an interest on LJ, and the closest I came to any sort of "negative" community was craftgrrl_snark, and there weren't any public entries (if any at all). I don't know. Maybe they air their grievances at their various comms, but you'd think a craft that huge would have something. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mydemand 2008-01-15 11:31 am UTC (link)
	They're all snarking at Two Peas. (Reply to this)(Parent)

julian_black
2008-01-14 02:05 pm UTC (link)

Using fewer colors is some kind of major sin?

After seeing snippy comments about how Kristina Contes always used green, and then looking at the work in question, I can see how they're getting their bitch on. Contes uses the same lime green over and over and over again. Which is apparently a no-no in the scrapbooking world, even if it's your favorite color and you can't get enough of it.

I'm still laughing at what passes for "edgy" and "thinking outside the box" among scrapbookers. It's like hearing people rant about what a pervert someone is, only to discover that their definition of a "pervert" is someone who likes oral sex...

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	miss_padfoot 2008-01-15 04:55 am UTC (link)
	I'm still laughing at what passes for "edgy" and "thinking outside the box" among scrapbookers. You are? Because I can't figure out what's "edgy". (Reply to this)(Parent)

amaltheia
2008-01-15 09:24 am UTC (link)

I had, until a couple of months ago, a book called Female Sex Perversions (the Sexually Aberrated Woman as She Really Is) by Maurice Chideckel. A book - published in the early thirties, but the copy I had a foreword for the sixties - about how to use psychiatric treatment to cure women of any dirty perversions they might. Such as lesbianism, kleptomania, nyphomania and fellatio. (Yes kleptomania was listed as a sexual perversion). I found it funny and tragic in equal measure.

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