BELIEVE
Kittens Inspired by Kittens
Spring 2011
Art School Pokemon Tournament
Calarts community members young and old came together to appreciate the most important international movement since communism: Pokemon! With music by God Equals Genocide, Nasa Space Universe as well as DJing by DJ Cory and VJing by VJ Mikey. But more importantly, who were the competing trainers?
1. Jon
PKMN: Porygon Z, Dodrio, Hitmontop, Exeggutor
2. Diego
PKMN: Infernape, Staraptor, Luxray, Golduck
3. Robocop
PKMN: Weezing, Gyrados, Fearow, Luxray, Infernape
4. Johnnie JungleGuts
signature PKMN: Abomasnow, Arcanine, Poliwrath, Luxray
5. Masked Battler X
signature PKMN: Shaymin, Lugia, Slowking, Dragonite
And let’s not forget, there was all the pizza anyone could possibly want! People dressed accordingly- I definitely saw a BUG CATCHER and Misty was there. There’s so much great fashion associated with Pokemon and art school students kind of dress like pokemon trainers anyway (cut off jeans, caps, vests, hiking/military gear, colorful shirts, fingerless gloves and the like.)
Calarts Queers of Both Sexes are Turned On by About the Same Kinds of Voices as Heteros
Human Mate Choice Experiment
So here I am again in Mike Bryant’s Animal behavior Class, trying to learn a little bit more about the birds and the bees, our bodies, ourselves. This year, the class was dying to know how voice affected human mate choice as well as how the relationship status of humans across various genders affected their interest in procreating with a new partner. And what do we turn to to answer these important questions, Ladies and Gentlemen? That’s right. The internet. For this experiment we recorded the voices of a number of young class members (half male, half female) and in an online survey asked the survey participants several questions about their sexual orientation, gender, and relationship status. We then asked survey takers to rate the attractiveness of their voices as well as if they would choose to have a monogamous relationship, one night stand, be friends, or the ominous “no opinion.” Male, female, and transgender survey takers were asked to rate both male and female voices regardless of their (the survey takers) own sexuality. About 150 people took the survey. My specific question about this survey was, “Is a particular pitch in the voice of a mate as important to queer participants as it is to heterosexual participants?”
There must be more than this provincial life…
