TheOther99 and TIm Pool; apparent creative fracture

Just when you think it is safe to doze off . . .
by Ogrmi 2:30 am January 5, 2012

Let me open by saying this will be written in narrative as I was actually a marginal participant in part of this story. Last night a little before midnight, I had been dozing, something woke me up, so I reached over to restart my movie and hit my twitter client instead. The first message was posted from TheOther99 twitter account stating that Tim Pool was no longer a part of TheOther99. Great, what fresh nonsense is this?

I had a Facebook tab up as well where I found a confirming message from Tim Pool; however not much else at that time. I decided to check the Timcast.tv Ustream archive, nothing there more recent than the New Years Eve broadcasts. Then I checked WeAreTheOther99 Ustream page and the last broadcast there was 18 days ago by Tim.

So back to the Timcast.tv twitter stream which by now was flooded with comments.
This is a sample of the twitter comments from last night in the Ustream channel:

ogrmi I find this so disheartening but I would like to hear both before I form opinion


anon2world Henry James Ferry, aka @theother99 has blocked @Timcast (the creator of the site and live stream) from streaming/accessing site. #teamTim

[some comments flew by]

thejusticefiles its time to organize against @TheOther99 for booting @TimCast. spread the word. unfollow @TheOther99


HatchBill Honestly. Have never viewed @TheOther99 saw henry once on @Timcast 's stream

[more comments flew by]

 
 While I was watching twitter and trying as diplomatically as I could to fish out some sort of coherent information, I was also researching. Greg Mitchell of The Nation was the first to post;

Greg Mitchell also reported for The Nation the following:
12:30 Trouble in paradise:  Ace livestreamer Tim Pool (featured in Time magazine and elsewhere) has suddenly been denied access to his home TheOther99 Ustream site, which he helped set up.  Tweets late Wednesday from his partner Henry at @theother99 and @Timcast confirm it, but no explanation given.   Pool says he discovered it when the log-in was changed and he was denedi "access" to recorded streams.  Pool will now stream exclusivley at his own Timcast.tv.  Stay tuned.

Between Facebook, Mitchell and the occasional friendly source on my main Twitter feed, I was beginning to tease out that allegedly Henry Ferry had locked Tim Pool's access to not only TheOther99 Ustream channel but was also refusing Tim Pool access to his own intellectual property.


However, little did I know, I was about to get my a$$ handed to me by a newer [to me and whom I follow] twitter user;

ogrmi @thejusticefiles: Really? You have not given Henry or Tim a chance to explain

 thejusticefiles@ogrmi how do you know what i know? that was an ignorant statement.



  OccupyForTruth According to source at #OWS @TheOther99 FIRED Tim Pool @TimCast after threats to transfer all donated money to himself as he is "the star."

[ubiquitous comments flying by]

ogrmi @thejusticefiles You are entitled to your opinion; My Question is why you would campaign against anyone in the movement without hearing BOTH 

DBCOOPA Watch timcast.tv or I will punch you in the shirt. @timcast #ows

thejusticefiles its time to organize against @TheOther99 for booting @TimCast. spread the word. unfollow @TheOther99

I'll spare the reader the bot-style repetition of thejusticefiles call to action against Henry Ferry, which by the way I believe is abusive. They had the familiar ring of the old BBS style actions syntax. One in particular; thejusticefiles is marching around the room with a sign that reads: [user fills in the blank]

The comments ran 90% along the lines of public condemnation of Henry and TheOther99 crew. I quickly gave up trying to get information from what I considered to be an angry mob in every sense of the word. I did finally get information that Tim Pool had streamed live and that is where some in the twitter feed had received their "inside" information. So perhaps thejusticefiles was right on one very tiny point; I was not privy, as hundreds of others, to the content of that stream. 

I was as surprised at the Tweeple I had respected, immediately suspending following TheOther99and worse in the rhetoric department. This is one reason why so-called citizen journalists are not taken seriously. A J-school graduate worth his/her salt would never quit a relationship in the publishing business based upon rumor and innuendo. And what of process? If the allegation is true, the process is to enter into mediated negotiation with the other party, resolve the conflict or resolve to part ways. In which case it would have been reasonable to do a press release delivering the facts. Citizen journalists who do not follow guidelines are still accountable for the consequences of their actions.

Moreover, I stick to my original position. How can you condemn anyone publicly without hearing their side of the story? Is this not one of the founding planks of the unofficial Occupy platform; something about returning to the original spirit of constitutional rights and so forth?

There is allegedly some mysterious source at OWS supplying information, there were the tweets from TheOther99 account allegedly by Henry, althought Tim later tweeted from that same account to show he still retained access to it. There were Tim Pools statements on Facebook and on the Twitter timeline after the stream he did live. That's it. 

As of this writing, the full story is not known to anyone other than Henry James Ferry and Tim Pool.

Editor's Update: the author did receive notice from Tim Pool that he had written his own narrative and it can be found in the frame below.

01.05.2012: Henry Ferry released a statement at about 8:30 pm this evening, you can access it from this link

Don't forget the bottom of the page! Video feed, google friend connect, popular post links and recommended reading.

Occupy!con; Icons of the movement 2011

Dori Rainey via the Guardian January 13, 2012

Christmas 2010 seems like a decade ago, yet it was just one year. In this article we will highlight those who have contributed to the Occupy movement in interesting ways over the past year.

Wikipedia.org

The first highlight is tragic, only the aftereffects can be characterized as interesting. An article by CBSNews entitled How a slap sparked Tunisia's revolution published February 20, 2011, recounts the plight of a Tunisian fruit vendor who had had enough. On December 17, 2010, 26-yr.-old Mohammed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in the square where he sold fruit. The act of despair, over police confiscating a scale Bouzizi would need ten days wages to replace, evoked sympathy in his village and sparked events that led to the Arab Spring. Mohammed Bouazizi died from his injuries on January 4th of this year. Ten days later the city of Tunis was brought to a halt by mass protests.

We will leave the civil unrest overseas and turn to our own home for the remainder of our Icons. However, if you are interested in the development of the Arabic uprisings, the Guardian UK has produced a timeline with a dizzying resemblance to a roller-coaster; perhaps not an inappropriate comparison.

Adbusters

Based in Vancouver British Columbia, Adbusters published a blog post on February 2, 2011 entitled A Million Man March on Wall Street. The culture-jamming association of artists, writers,  educators and students is credited with sparking demonstrations in North America. In another post on July 13, 2011 entitled #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, A shift in revolutionary tactics we first see the now iconic bull-dancer. It appeared on the web as the icon for that days blog post.

Photo: Joshua Trujillo

From here on the images multiply exponentially. We chose Dori Rainey, the 84 year old who was pepper sprayed during the Tuesday, November 15, 2011 OccupySeattle protest. Occupy Seattle was marching in support of Occupy WallSt. In an interview with Seattle Times she is quoted,

"I don't want to be the 'hero' of this thing. I want to be able to be a person that speaks to the issues," Rainey said to the Times. "It's easy for people to see the picture and say, 'Cops stink.' There's a reason why we
are where we are right now, and that needs to be discussed."

Even if Mrs. Rainey does not wish to be a hero, she exemplifies courage at a time in her life when she could be lunching with friends and bouncing grandchildren on her knee, which we suspect she does anyway.

Photo credit: Tim Pool, TheOther99

We also chose the independent journalist, specifically Tim Pool and Henry Ferry of TheOther99; they are simply the best of the best. To date we have seen them broadcast 19 hours straight and Tim has been shoved around by police at least twice.

Two different styles; Tim looks like what he is, a skater. Henry looks like well a reporter, actually. One overriding ethic, good journalism. Tim is sympathetic to the angst that motivates the Occupy movement, however he is clear about his role, he reports what he sees. To quote Tim, "If you are making a decision that will effect someone else's life, prepare for public scrutiny."

Finally, we chose the Veterans. Those who having done a tour, two, some three overseas and then come home to renew their oaths again by protecting their fellow citizens. Sgt Thomas became the face of the Occupy movement on the east coast, when he put himself between protesters and thirty New York police officers.

Scott Olsen became the face of the Occupy movement on the west coast after being hit in the head with a projectile during an OccupyOakland march gone very wrong. It is good to see him up and around. It is difficult to hear him speak; brain damage has affected his speech for now; however, a full recovery seems to be possible.

• Scale photo credit: affordablescales.com

Better Farm: Artist-in-Residence Sends in the Drones

Interested in Tim Pools new toy the Occto-copter? Read about the benefactors involved in this awesome new technology. From the blog:

The Occupy Wall Street movement gained an unbelievable amount of ground since its inception; spreading worldwide, gaining international attention, and drawing thousands upon thousands of people into the streets to acknowledge a corrupt system and demand a change. Of course, no movement—especially one with so many far-reaching ideas and, at times, unclear focus, is without its skirmishes. The Occupy movement's relationship with police departments has often seemed strained at best; an "urban guerilla war" at worst.

Read the rest here: Better Farm: Artist-in-Residence Sends in the Drones. Contributor: mikedelic

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