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IMPORTANT... Endore.com, the people who hosted xenius' files, have gone out of business. Instead of telling the hundreds of people who used their services to come and get their files, or giving them even 10 minutes of notice, they simply shut down their servers. Searching on "Endore.com" will turn up dozens of complaints. What this means, and I'm really terribly sorry, is that unless you have back-ups of your files, they are lost. This is the type of thing one couldn't imagine any web hosting business would do. This is the absolute worst offense. My contention is that they're in the process of filing for bankruptcy, so I may, like I imagine hundreds of other people are going to do, just see them in court. I was always hesitant to back up people's files on Xenius, because I felt it was a violation of privacy. While I had access to the entire site, unless someone asked me to do something for them, I just did not involve myself with them in any way. This may have been a mistake, actually. I became unbearably sad this morning as I tried to get my email from xenius and instead a Yahoo search page loaded. On it were dozens of entries from people at xenius, or other sites who had pictures or text hosted at xenius. Aquarium-tips.com, 80sexchange, Daisy's photogallery. This is so horrible, and we're not the only ones it happened to. There are hundreds of people and businesses out there unrelated to xenius.org who suffered the same issue. This is just catastrophic. If there is any good news to come out of this, it is that I learned a hell of a lot developing Xenius and dealing with the problems, even if they were few and far between. It's certainly not over. "We have the technology. We can rebuild it." Actually, with what I've learned, xenius.org on the surface will be entirely different. Endore started becoming really weird in the end, perhaps I should have seen this coming, but really, not many people did. Today I am reassigning getting the DNS servers to point at 1and1's servers when someone types xenius.org into their browsers. And, if anyone cares to come by xenius again, I will make hard copies of people's sites at their request, so that I can be of service in the event that something like this happens. Please contact me at xyz_theory@yahoo.com with any questions. Hell, yahooo.com, that looks so ugly to me. The new xenius is already hosted, and the dns servers have been updated. Xenius will be back up in a few days, and almost totally empty. I will work my ass off to fix it and make it work right...but...better. I'd never done anything like that before. I was a baby. It's been two years, so now I'm a toddler. Watch out.
jimmy "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez has just become the most recent recipient of Oprah's book club award. I smell a t.v. movie!!! Starring Oprah as Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, Úrsula, Amaranta, or Remedios, or Úrsula, Amaranta, or...
jimmy Jimmy, haha. Drug companies not publishing all the studies on their own stuff? I am shocked. From Harpers, an interview with Israeli soldiers that appeared in Kol Ha'Ir, a Jerusalem weekly Do it yourself Absinthe. Fun for the whole family. Taste the numbers. Good ole Prince George.
chiefwagonburner That'll teach me... Yesterday I used my tutoring money to buy Frank Zappa's debut album and a shitload of Chinese food. Schzechaun (or however you spell it) to be specific...and I ordered "salt and pepper" tofu with vegetable fried rice. They make special amends for me now and provide a meal not on the menu. So I bring it home, finish half...work on the website a bit. I put it in the refrigerator among other boxes of food and planned to eat it as breakfast. I bring it in to work, walk to the microwave, open it up to discover that my salt and pepper tofu has become a month and a half old moldy quiche and a bag of ruffles, and my vegetable fried rice is moldy steamed rice from no one knows when. I had brought the wrong plain white styrofoam container, and the wrong box of rice. The good stuff is still at home, lonely. That'll teach me to clean out my fridge. I guess it's a pesto, brie and spinach sandwich for breakfast. I've been living off of this for a few days now.
jimmy And now, for something completely different. Eep. Not his 'good foot'. I Am VADIM - Russian urban spelunkers Best pictures of 2003 - Good, but best? I dunna.
chiefwagonburner I hear students complain of similar things with other types of disciplines. UCSD and their Political Science students for one. On the one hand, and I notice this about the dozens of schools I work with on any given day, schools are pretty self-concious about being that myopic or about producing clones. They go to relatively great lengths to stop it from happening, but I guess it doesn't always work. Art Center seemed like a very affluent and small school. I wonder if the size of a school helps or hinders the clone effect? XW says she saw Chomsky speak at MIT the other day. He made a complaint about the school that follows a similar problem for different reasons; the school is basically a tool of the military/industrial complex.
jimmy Pretty much...I mean, there are some variations on a theme, but the biggest tipoff was one of the images that looked like a concept car prototype sketch. Art Center is guilty of inbred knowledge of the most severe kind. They pump out people who can work in a style, who then become teachers at Art Center of that style, creating more students of the same, who then teach there...so on and so forth. Sorry to sound so harsh. There's absolutely nothing inherently wrong with this kind of work, and I'll stand by my motto that there's room in this world for a multiplicity of types of art, even the types I'm not too thrilled with. I just have a personal irritation from having Art Center flooding my mind and body for three years. Maybe it's like working in a pizza shop and eventually getting to the point where the very smell of pizza makes you sick. Heck, even my own work makes me sick sometimes.
Anna How is that Anna? Does all the work coming out of there look the same?
chiefwagonburner Holy shit, just by looking at the thumbnails I knew the dude went to Art Center. :-/
Anna Day 19 photography Interesting project, some cool entries - Thrift Store Art. Photography by location.
chiefwagonburner Chris, those guys are amazing. If I ever write the great american science fiction novel, *snark snark*, I'll know who to go to. Science fiction art has always fascinated me. It has a lot demanded of it, if only by art lay people such as myself. They have a way though, of making things look larger than life, mysterious, fascinating, completely new, or strangely weathered. I dunno. I kind of think of them as artisans, because it's rarely about stylization. It seems to be about presenting these fantastic products of the imagination in a photo-realistic fashion, or at least in a way that you would expect of a realist. It's not saying specifically "this is a product of my imagination", but hints at "this probably exists somewhere" or "there is no reason why this couldn't be". Cyclopean architecture, alien engineering, fantastic planetary systems, billion year old cities, fore runner races, none of that seems to be presented in the same manner by sci-fi artists as their earthly counterparts would be presented by realist painters. Science fiction painters are not likely to paint their bodies and have sex on a giant canvas. They're job is predefined. They're like engineers. Hey...anyone know how they make things feel so F U C K I N G B I G? Is it all about perspective? What's the secret? (I bet you're wondering how I'm so good at making my fonts so big. "Oh, that jimmy, he sure has big fonts." "Wow, did you see the size of his-oh my GOD!" Or-"It's headed straight for us!" I'll bet your wondering. Well, as I sit here coyly twirling the stray strand of hair at the tip of my thinning area that always falls in my eyes, I'm whispering softly "I'll never tell". Because I'm a bad, bad big font boy that ain't got no self-respect and that gets me OFF. ) Whoah. Blacked out for a second.
jimmy Nerdy art post: Ryan Church - sci fi paintings Istvan Pely - Some amazing 3d/digital work
chiefwagonburner Hopefully just the first of many decisions: Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional.
chiefwagonburner Here is video clip in honor of David Kay resigning from his post as Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq. It is from the Uncovered documentary. This is a good writeup on the hundreds of military bases the US has spread all over the globe. A bit mind blowing when you consider the reaction if say, China, tried the same thing. "We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire." -George W. Bush, Jan. 20, 2004 State of the Union Address I need to brush up on my doublespeak. PS, all you guys have armies, come help us - Dick Cheney
chiefwagonburner I bought and am listening to the Neutral Milk Hotel album, "Aeroplane Over the Sea". I actually get a lot of stuff people talk about on this forum, but it's so rare that anyone mentions music. I say we do a great snail mail trade, where everyone burns their mp3 music collections to a disk and sends them to others. Or, if the RIAA is reading this, then nothing I say is for serious. Cause I'm like, missing a huge chunk of my brain, as it's been devoted and rewired for the purposes of shouting inanities in public forums. Like this: "I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS!" There is a bed sheet which has been in my tub for days. I shower with it, and think, "wow, that would look so nice if I'd actually washed it like I said I was." But I didn't. No, I put it in the tub, hand washed it for 30 minutes, left it to dry, then took a shower an hour later when it had yet to dry completely. Then it got wet. Then I left it to dry again, and got up to take a shower the next morning, but it got wet again. So I left it to dry and went to work. Came home, took a shower. Set it to dry again. I imagine I'll be throwing it away at the end of the week for the mold. I'm sleeping on bare matress. I just can't think of anything else right now. I'm excited. So far, Neutral Milk Hotel sounds to me like a cross between Iron & Wine and Sid Barret. And maybe Billy Bragg in a strange way. The deadline for the Re-Record project is today, and mine is mostly finished. Most all the other contributors are late though...so I have a little extra time. Adam, Rachel and Eric recorded their parts, and everything was great. When the project is finished, I will upload a zipped file to xenius which when unpacked will basically unpack a website onto your computer, and if you're so inclined you can see the whole of what I've been working on these past few weeks with a little help from my friends. Noise collages, music, prose and web design, all wrapped up in about 25 megs. (The download should be not somewhat smaller.) I'm not wearing any pants.
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