Due to my terrible habit of not noticing posts in Press, I missed this terrible news all day yesterday and only realized something was amiss from COMM posts.

This is truly terrible news. I never met ita or even emailed her about anything personal, but my on-board interactions with her were always wonderful and her love for the board was so clear. When I joined the board I was intimidated (wrongly) by so many of the "main" posters,but despite the fact that she could kill me with her little finger I never felt anything but welcomed and embraced by ita. She grew and changed as the board grew and changed, and was a constant. I am not sure I see how the board will continue without her,though I know, of course, that it will. And the amazing thing is that I don't think she really knew how important she was not only to the technical functioning of the board but to the personal functioning of it. I will miss her and for those that knew her better I am so sorry.

I am pretty amazed, to be honest, how much this news has saddened me; I doubt I'd had any contact with ita this decade as I drifted away from here not long after Angel finished. But I have so many memories of her back on TT and during the exodus here; like someone said upthread or on Natter, "trying to get a laugh from ita" always drove me, and I think a lot of us, to be funny. She was just the cool, you know? Anyway, I've spent a lot of the day thinking about her, and you all, and hoping everyone's as OK as can be expected. I should maybe drop in here more often - I watched ita build this town, it's bad enough to know I hadn't spoken to her in so long, I don't want to feel the same about the other pioneers.

Teppy, there's also the Enforcers photo from before this board existed. It came from the F2F in October 2000, taken in our San Francisco garden: Betsy on one side, me in the middle, ita on the other side. There's a crossbow being pointed at the camera and ita is in leather and leg brace.

A few years later, when I was thinking of doing a book based Daymond John's pre-FUBU stories, he sent me down to experience a Hollywood club from behind the velvet rope. ita, in torn tights, her Docs, and a schoolgirl uniform plaid microskirt, came along as my muscle. The eight foot tall bouncer took one look at her, bowed, and let her scope out anything she wanted. Ironically, I ended up not doing the book with Daymond and used the nightclub experience in Kinkaid #7, Dead Flowers, in which Domitra features.

Christ. I miss her. She was one of my two "internet daughters", along with Vortex, who is coming down to see me today. There is going to be some serious weeping going on.

I want to delurk l to say how very sad I am for Buffistas' loss, the world's loss. Your posts are deeply moving and healing. ita you are missed, painfully and emphatically missed. I will support you forever in email.

Unrelatedly to this, a facebook friend posted

Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

and it seemed to go here.

A classic from the BRQG:

Betsy: One of the best feelings in the world is having a human being utterly limp on your shoulder.

ita: Especially when it was you that made them unconscious.

Re creating and printing the book, you've got Plus One Press at your disposal. It'd be an honor.

^^^what JZ said.

ugh. Feeling wiped out and wondering what we can do for the LAistas who have been handling things. LAistas, anything you need from remote?

So, question. Remember back in the day when Flickr had a heyday -- lots of people started using it, and so a lot of us friended each other there, like on other social media?

I'm friends with 2 of ita's Flickr accounts; it looks like one is public (because I logged out of Flickr and went to that page and I could see all the pictures): [link] and one is friends-only: [link]

The friends-only one doesn't have NSFW pictures or anything; I'm sure it's friends-only because she was particular about her privacy. The public one has 80 pictures, which are mostly (but not entirely) family. The friends-only one has over 1,400 pictures, which have family pictures, old (as in scanned) family pictures, friends, krav people (including pictures of her fighting, or at least doing a demo), and a LOT of pictures of her from when she was doing a 365 picture thing.

I want her family to be able to see the pictures from her friends-only account, and I don't know if anyone (like her sister) has access to that account. But if you can see this list: [link] many of us do.

It feels intrusive to be asking this, since it's a friends-only account, but OTOH, I feel like her family should be able to see these photos, especially all the family pictures that are on there -- can we get those photos from her account and make them available to her family?

I mean, what I'm asking is -- yes, anyone with access to her account can download her photos. But there are 1,400 photos, and AFAIK, Flickr doesn't let you do a mass download of photos from an account. I think you have to go to each photo's page to download. (And if you want the highest-res versions, once you're on a photo's page, you have to go to the page that has all the sizes of that photo. It's a LOT of work.)

So what I'm asking is: (1) *IS* it intrusive for those of us with access to the friends-only account to download her photos if it's with the intent of giving them to her family? and (2) If this is something that we decide we should do, does anyone know if there's a tool/app/whatever that allows bulk downloads from Flickr? Because downloading 1,400 pictures one by one would be insane.

t edit I went too fast when I looked at the page of contacts for her friends-only account. There's a "savannah" listed: that's her sister, right? Which would mean she could see that Flickr account. In which case, we wouldn't need to download all those photos.

So...maybe ignore my post. Good intent, but I skimmed too fast.