As disciplined as I'm trying to be about negative emotions and not saying things that imply judgement of others, some people just suck and deserve a brick to the head. While on an otherwise excellent day of rediscovering a long ignored friendship with Leo Genet (Asst. Scoutmaster Troop 302 Santa Paula) we ran into evidence of fresh vandalism to the pictographs at Piedra Blanca Camp. The upper image needs no explanation. The bottom image shows markings that indicate to me that this person or persons stood back and threw rocks at the art. I have a loose connection to the Site Monitor and sent him these images yesterday so he can report them to the appropriate authorities.
Arcata Ridge Trail
3 days ago
A brick to the head for posting the exact location!
ReplyDeletePrecisely. You are a certified nutcase, 'Crash'.
DeleteThanks for the love. These particular pictos are among the most widely known and easily accessible pictographs in the Tri-Counties that aren't behind a fence. It's amazing they're even there. That camp probably hosts more than 1,000 visitors per year and is, perhaps, an ideal place to raise awareness of the problem of rock art destruction, a problem that seems rampant in the Santa Monicas but less so here. It's food for thought and you are certainly welcome to your opinion. -DS
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to add that nothing lasts forever, certainly not pictographs, but in the case of rock art it would certainly be nice if everyone were appropriately respectful so the next generation or two could have something to enjoy.
ReplyDelete-DS
That really sucks that someone would deface rock art like that.
ReplyDeleteHJ
Sorry about your abuse as a child. As a result, creating dysfunction is comforting to you. If you stopped posting about the Chumash art, you would lose out big time huh? You understand that you imperil the art by publicizing it, but you just can't stand to lose out on all the attention, even the negative. Maybe you should ask an expert in your life if this is a good or bad thing for you. Perhaps also, posting grandiose expeditions on the internet is also a part of the weirdness.
ReplyDeleteVery brave of you to post anonymous criticisms. Gotta put down others to get an erection these days, jerk?
DeleteTry not to let the dirtbags get you down David. Plenty of people are enjoying your material. I share your outrage about the vandalism.
It's great that David posts the pictographs... you think just a select few of the in-crowd should have access to see these Indian paintings? Fool
DeleteCreating Dysfunction???
ReplyDeleteLike David said everyone's entitled to an opinion, but it seems to me the real dysfunction is with the imbeciles who trash the art and those that think no one should ever be allowed to see pictures of them.
Here's some of my opinion...
1) Piedra Blanca is one of the most public sites out there; lying right in the middle of an extremely popular campground. David has used plenty of discretion with the more obscure sites by using fictitious names and/or generic wilderness locations.
2) Rock art sites will soon be a thing of the past; wind, water seepage, sand, wildlife, exfoliation, and other natural causes are the primary cause of degradation. Yes, human related degradation does play a factor, but it is a much rarer occurrence. I've been to a multitude of rock art sites and it doesn't take a rock scientist to figure out how quick they are fading.
3) So here's the debate: keep them 100% locked down until they fade into obliteration and cut the majority of all from enjoying and appreciating them or share them (in a prudent way) while they're still around as David has done?
4) The damage has been done at PB, let's make the best of what we can at this point and try to raise awareness and appreciation.
Michael
So we have some bloke named "Anonymous" who, after seeing the posting of some very personal life information, sees fit to make a clumsy online attempt to psychoanalyze Stillman, but yet wants us to believe that it is Stillman, not "Anonymous," that supposedly suffers from some "weirdness."
ReplyDeleteThen we have the whiner, "Danny Hillman," who is so obsessed with Stillman, that he wasted his life thinking up a fake name and creating a fake blog and actually writing a series of fake posts accompanied with bogus photos he scrounged up off Internet back alleys; all of circling around Stillman like a planet does the sun. And this guy then, hilariously, wants us to believe that it is Stillman that is the "certified nutcase."
Anti Wilderness vandalism laws in Utah.....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/wilderness-vandalism-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-plus-new-legislation-in-utah