chiefing

[Benjamin Zimmer]

>From Gawker.com...

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http://www.gawker.com/news/mtv/

MTV Networks ... just announced the newest recipients of its Labs Seed
Money - "tax-free grants awarded to MTV Networks employees to further
their private creative work" - and one of the lucky winners happens to
be Ryan Kitson of Nickelodeon Creative Resources, who was given five
grand to

"construct three huge pieces for his "Chief Sculpture" exhibit this
Spring in a Chelsea gallery. Ryan has long been struck by how acts of
"chiefing" -- decorating and balancing furniture on top of drunken
students passed out in a college dorm (the practice is also known as
Drunk Jenga) -- share many formal qualities of abstract expressionist
sculpture of the 50s and 60s. Actually Ryan has made quite a name for
himself in sculpting circles for works as imaginative and strange as
this one."
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>From the video evidence on break.com, "chiefing" usually involves
scribbling graffiti on the victim with a Sharpie...

http://my.break.com/Media/Search.aspx?s=chiefing
http://my.break.com/Media/Search.aspx?s=chiefed


--Ben Zimmer

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