Schaber, Caleb

Schaber, Caleb –

Caleb David Schaber (March 23, 1973 – April 17, 2009) was an American artist and journalist best known for his participation in the Seattle Monolith project at the beginning of 2001 and his run for mayor of Seattle later that same year.[1]

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On New Year’s Day 2001, a replica of the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey appeared on Kite Hill in Seattle‘s Magnuson Park. The Seattle Monolith was a guerrilla art installation by a group of Seattle artists calling themselves “Some People.”

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  • Secrets Forged in Steel – The Seattle Monolith—and its theft—is still a mystery, 10 years later. By Matthew Halverson, December 13, 2010, Published in the January 2011 issue of Seattle Met

 

  • Trouble in hipster paradise: How the ‘toxic work environment’ behind the scenes of Burning Man is being blamed for the suicides of seven workers at the annual counter culture festival – By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER PUBLISHED: 23:59 EDT, 25 August 2018
    • Between 2009 and 2015 seven Burning Man employees have committed suicide
    • Current and former workers said the toxic work environment might be a cause
    • The workers detailed alleged mistreatment by management, dangerous work conditions and unfair pay
    • One employee who committed suicide is Caleb Schaber, who worked for Burning Man in 2003
    • Friends and former co-workers said they believe Schaber committed suicide in part because he was ‘ostracized’ by the company for speaking out
    • Another worker, Ryan Brown, killed himself days after he was fired by Burning Man
    • One woman said she was left permanently blind in her left eye during an incident at a Burning Man festival in 2014
    • Several women spoke out against unfair pay saying they male less than their male counterparts

 

 

 

UFOlogy 101

“I’m sure the Universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just too intelligent to come here” – Arthur C. Clarke

Presented by Michael R. DeGroff and Steven Miles Lewis

The meeting was opened by Don Switlick with a welcome to everybody, followed by several announcements by Roberta Shoemaker-Beal about the IONS-Austin Christmas party and other upcoming events. Soon after several newcomers introduced themselves the meeting was interrupted with the announcement that the meeting room was needed urgently for a meeting of the History Center. Fortunately the IONS meeting could continue in the Austin Library next door.

The speakers introduced each other: Michael as Section Director for Texas of Austin MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) and Steven (Smiles) as past leader of Austin MUFON, the Austin Experience Support and Study Group, and founder of the Scientific Anomaly Institute’s lending library, the Anomaly Archives.

Mike started with giving an overview of Ufology: work done to study UFO’s. MUFON has been active since 1969 as an international scientific organization with annual UFO Symposia and a monthly magazine; the Travis/Williamson Counties Section in Austin organizes monthly meetings on Sundays and maintains the website AUSTINMUFON.org.

The presentation covered three segments: cave drawings, classic paintings and photographs. Several pre-historic drawings in caves shown by Mike suggested extra-terrestrial and/or UFO phenomena as experienced by early mankind.  Some of the classic paintings shown were even more stunning and therefore very convincing.  The photographs about UFO’s that were taken since 1929 were also very interesting. It appeared that five people in the audience had personally experienced UFO’s in one form or another.  The sightings at 45th Street and Mopac, as seen by two people not long ago, were described as a black triangle with lights on the corners.

Smiles, planed to discuss the hidden or secret side of UFO’s but there was not much time left as a result of the move to another meeting room and technical difficulties with the projecting equipment.  Consequently we could not discuss the fact that much of the UFO information obtained by government workers has been kept secret or has been discredited.

Caleb Schaber