Archive for May, 2005
links for 2005-05-27
Friday, May 27th, 2005-
How they made the THX sound
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A homemade remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark
links for 2005-05-25
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005-
More of Invaders work (via boingboing)
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Neil made my day today with Usher’s new track: “I’m Going to Make You Dot Com”
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You’ve probably seen Invader’s work
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“Banana republic (or Bananaland) is a pejorative term for describing a country with a non-democratic or unstable government, especially where there is widespread political corruption and strong foreign influence.”
links for 2005-05-24
Tuesday, May 24th, 2005-
Still one of the best illustrators out there
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Some classic ansi art packs
links for 2005-05-21
Saturday, May 21st, 2005-
A short interview with DFW from ‘96 (via Chrisk)
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Surreal illustrations by this 18 year old (I gave smalls a shirt he designed)
links for 2005-05-20
Friday, May 20th, 2005-
“well, the gosh-darn funny thing about revolution is that sometimes it brings more chaos and pain than positive change.”
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Probably the best show of all time out on DVD
links for 2005-05-19
Thursday, May 19th, 2005-
Lawrence Lessig and Richard Epstein debate who owns ideas
Influence
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005Krohn just gave me a copy of his Influence zine, publication, project, whatever you want to call it. I’m a bit bothered by the fact that I didn’t submit anything to it so here is what I was rolling around in my head that I never wrote down. Basically the challenge was to write about something that changed your point of view musically or a musical epiphanic moment in your life. The subtitle was “14 narratives of creative inspiration.” The following is a 15th. You should ask him for one if you didn’t get one.
I’ve always been a big time loser who prefers basements with computers to sunshine and green grass and skipping and all that stuff. I guess prefer is not the word, but it’s where I spent most of my teenage years. I hated coaches and competition and alpha males and talking so that pretty much cut off most “normal” activities for me. One thing I really did like was porn. Somehow I, with my friends Charlie and Alex figured out how to use our computers to dial into other people’s computers or Bulletin Board Systems. Depending on the sysop, one could find either people talking about their dragon mages, or an unlimited supply of nudie pictures, instructions for building bombs and pirated warez. Pretty much the sweetest stuff ever to a 13 year old boy all coming down at 9600kbps.
After a while, I had seen all the weird pre-internet porno scans I could handle and found my way to the message boards. I’d put this at around ‘94, so from what I remember, there really wasn’t much of an internet. Maybe that Mosaic Internet in a Box thing was on the shelves but we commoner youngsters certainly weren’t hooked up yet. And there probably wasn’t much on there anyway, just some military knobs writing FAQs about their cats. But then there I was tying up the phone line redialing Compu-Hell all night and posting messages with people with names like dtmf, troll, formaldehyde, liquid paper, no9, terrorist, and you get the idea. Oh yeah, xavii too. I think it was mostly reams and reams of sexual frustration dumped out in digital form but there may have been some conversation in there. There were definitely some flame wars. I got my parents to buy another line and I put up my own board called Milk on an old 386 running DOS and renegade.
I got interested in ansi art and ascii, which is basically trying to draw with the characters on the screen which is also another story. I have all the art packs of the groups I belonged to on 3 1/2 floppys somewhere. I need to dig those up. People would call my board from Norway and shit (holy fuck this guy is from fucking norway), there were probably a bunch of swear words discussed, the quality of some art pack, drug experiences, rave locations…once, I left the monitor on by accident (when people were on the board you could watch what they were doing) and my dad saw that I was hosting all these anarchist cookbooks and how to blow up a small town with these home ingredients and other Abbie Hoffman stuff and had a little talk with me about how he works for the federal government and yeah, he was mad. I don’t think he saw the pron though, or at least he didn’t say anything about it. LMF_4212312.jpg probably didn’t mean that much to him anyway.
Plans came together for these people in the “BBS scene” to actually meet each other once, in some public place (obviously no one’s house, or they might chop us up or something) and since I couldn’t drive I had to hitch a ride with this guy Pyromaniac. This guy was 20 or so and home from college and was pretty fucking cool from what I remember and had a red mustang or something and when he pulled up to pick me up my mom was like who the hell is this old guy you’re friends with and how did you become friends with him? I think he owns a game company now or something, I’m not sure. So he picked me up and he had all these cds and shit and we drove fast to some place far away and met these weird looking people (except Bob, he wasn’t weird looking) who I had been talking to for the past year and then later we were driving down Butterfield Road I think and he was like hey you should check this out and he played the Richard D. James album and then my head exploded and I died.
If you had taken all the bullshit I was thinking about at the time, like how I’m never going to have sex ever, communicate better through a machine, I’m pissed off for no reason, am bored, confused, lonely, arrogant, dorky, hate stuff for no reason either, want to blow my eardrums out with the most obnoxious noise I can find at the local Best Buy, want to find some music that will actually annoy my dad, something that I can own that nobody else does so it can be my one thing, that I want to be cool, that my soul is boring too, that shit was all ripping through the speakers. That shit sounded like a modem and a violin.
links for 2005-05-18
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005-
This is probably the most clearly stated overview of the war with Iraq thus far (via Ken)
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Great use of technology (potentially scary though)
links for 2005-05-17
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005-
Hilarity ensues