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■ CLAYTON Continued from page 11 I | Powell and lead singer/guitarist Justin Eason. “All of us had been playing since we were 13, and most of us had already been in bands, so it seemed to fit,” Young said. Clayton Ravine’s first show on Valentine’s Day 2002 drew a crowd of almost 200 people. In 2003, the band released its first album “Pacify.” Named after a song on the album, Young said the album name “Pacify” was meant to “pacify people until we could put on a much stronger, well financed album.” Clayton Ravine’s first song “Runaway” is a personal favorite of the band and its fans. “It’s always been so fun to play live ... and our fans tend to go a little crazy during that song,” Young, who wrote the song, said. Trey Horres of Seventh Wave Music manages Clayton Ravine. With the assistance of its manager, the band booked its first tour last summer. “(Trey) has gotten us into a lot of the harder clubs,” Young said. This summer the band plans to not only release its second album, but also continue to tour and expand its fanbase, and maybe even get a record deal. Clayton Ravine will play at 9 p.m. Saturday at New Brookland Tavern. New Music for the wee^ °fFeb-15 “LCD Sounds ystem” LCD Soundsystem "Take Fountain" The Wedding Present t Blue Merle ! '‘Disconnection Notice” Goldfinger ■ TEXT Continued from page 11 the millions of phrases the public uses when text messaging or instant messaging. With its dictionary, almost any shorthand can be looked up and translated into what it really means, and suggestions for other words, or shorthand, are offered below the description. “Using acronyms will have an impact on people because it forces people to condense,” Bezuidenhout said. “It may make people more impatient in life because they are use to conveying a message in a few key strokes, and then they have to listen to people chatter on.” The form of short communication is indicative of current lifestyle and shorter attention spans, Bezuidenhout said. “If I’m in class and my roommate needs to get a hold of me, [text messaging] is convenient,” Mungo said. Bezuidenhout points out that text messaging could become trite when a conversation becomes more involved. “I’m sure there are sometimes when messages become too complex and text messaging becomes unsatisfactory,” Bezuidenhout said. She said that even in chat rooms, a shared knowledge of who you are might not be dear, and the conversation will not be like one shared with a dorm mate ot mom because people in chat rooms do not have a sense of how you talk or communicate in person. “Text messaging is set up as an efficiency thing. It becomes too cumbersome” Bezuidenhout said. Eventually text messaging will become unsatisfactory to sustain relationships, Bezuidenhout said. So even in the end, a face-to-face conversation will beat the technology. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gum.sc. edu ■ GATES Continued from page 11 be sold to defray the $20-million-plus cost of the project, all of it financed by the couple. No grants. No Medici-style patronage. No city funds. “The Gates,” which will be unfurled at 8 a.m. Saturday and be up only through Feb. 27, is expected to attract millions of visitors to New York. The project has been a long time coming. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who have been doing public projects since 1961, first proposed “The Gates” in 1979. They also dreamed of wrapping the Museum of Modern Art or a Times Square building in fabric. But the city and building owners weren’t biting. At the time, Central Park was in ruins. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s original proposal for “The Gates” called for digging holes, raising fears of damage to grass and tree roots. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, however, are paragons of patience. They pestered city officials. “The Christos have a wonderful racket, but we don’t need them here,” Henry J. Stern, then parks and recreation commissioner, told the New York Times in 1999. “If they want public attention, why not try wrapping Trump Tower.” Christo and Jeanne-Claude persisted with other projects that gained worldwide attention, including Running Fence, a 24.5-mile fence of nylon fabric erected in Northern California in 1976. The 1995 wrapping of the Reichstag brought more than five million people to Berlin and transformed the seat of the German parliament into a shimmering evening gown of a building. “The Gates” became a reality after Michael Bloomberg was elected New York’s mayor in 2001. Bloomberg had collected the couple’s work and promoted the project. Christo and Jeanne-Claude also figured out how to avoid the holes. A deal was struck. “Impressive and imaginative works of art have enhanced New York City’s public spaces throughout history and have gready contributed to the city’s status as the cultural capital of the world,” Bloomberg said in a letter introducing “The Gates.” “It is in this grand tradition of public art in New York City that the internationally acclaimed artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will present “The Gates.’” This week, Central Park is beginning to look like a giant slalom course. On Monday, about 600 paid volunteers began erecting the 16-foot vinyl poles, topped with a horizontal pole that holds the fabric, which is currendy rolled up. The artists’ chief engineer, Vince Davenport, conducted tests to make sure the project would withstand strong winds, Jeanne-Claude said. In 1991, the artists constructed 3,100 28 foot-wide umbrellas in Japan and the United States. A freak storm caused one umbrella to break loose and hit a viewer, who fell and died after hitting her head on a rock. The couple’s Web site (http://christojeanneclaude.net/) describes “The Gates” as “a golden river appearing and disappearing through the bare branches of the trees and will highlight the shape of the footpaths.” Jeanne-Claude (both she and her husband are first-name-only) said she and Christo chose saffron for its “tremendous richness of hues and tonalities.” “It’s February,” Jeanne-Claude said. “The sun is very low in the sky, and when the sun will be in the back, that portion of the fabric will become golden yellow, but the part of the fabric in t hd shade will become a different red, so it will be a multitude ofhues.” The couple attracts as much attention for their quirky ways as for their work. Stories often mention how he eats only raw garlic for lunch. They emphasize their oneness. The interview is with both, not one. They were born on the same day in the same hour — he in Bulgaria, she in French Morocco. Both are 69- He chose the color of her Lucille Ball-orange mane. There are only three things they do not both do: They never fly together. She doesn’t draw. He doesn’t talk to the accountant. The size and unusual nature of their projects prompt people to ask: “Is it art?” Such questions arise from a stodgy view of what art is, said Arthur Danto, the art critic for The Nation and a friend of the couple. “There is sometimes beauty in astonishment,” he said. “We think of the wrapping of the Reichstag. That was so audacious. It made me think of the Reichstag in a way I wouldn’t have thought of it before.” The temporary nature of their work adds to its beauty, Danto said. “It’s like an aesthetic party of some kind,” he said, “and parties don’t just go on. 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