FISH or FOUL: The World Cup 2010

This blog entry updates my 1994 interactive web art project Smell Your Destiny,1 a parody on the ever-changing values of society. In the past, attributes such as sensitivity and shyness were coveted, but in the 21st century, they may be considered handicaps to achieving success.

Sixteen years ago when I created Smell Your Destiny, I suggested that the aspiring participant replace their so-called negative traits through the use of aromatherapy. The participants were to inhale fish smells from fish that had positive aggressive personality traits,2 thus leading to the participants’s transformation. While following the World Cup on television, I heard about the French soccer team’s insurgency. I recognized that many of the aspired-to positive traits that I had postulated in Smell Your Destiny were ingrained in these outstanding World Cup soccer players.

View their fish and mammalian “pairings”3 below in FISH or FOUL.

BULLY

VISIBLE / INVISIBLE

ROUGH

BEAUTIFUL 1

MAGNETIC

FLYING SPEED

POMPOUS

FLAMBOYANT

SEXY

OVERCONFIDENT

EXPIRED

SUMMER SALT




POWERFUL









1. SMELL YOUR DESTINY: Web Interaction with a Fifth Sense, LEONARDO. Vol. 37. No 3, pp.182-186, 2004.

2. Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World, (United States Government Printing Office, 1965 Vol. I,II,II).

3. Pairing of Polarities, the Art and Life of Sonya Rapoport, edited by Terry Cohn to be published in 2011.