OK so whats this all about then?
Many regards
Noel F Toonl
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, { brad brace } wrote:
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> > > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A
> `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad Brace.
> The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it
> suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from
> determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which
> it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves
> no privilege to any center.
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> The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project
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> began December 30, 1994
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> Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a
> spectral, trajective alignment for the 90`s! A continuum of minimalist
> masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors
> for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events...
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> A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of
> imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact,
> collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey
> imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact;
> an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the
> Net.
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> An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically
> unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced
> over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone...
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> [ see ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/books ]
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> KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered,
> de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless...
> >> Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate...
> >> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative,
> poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless...
> >> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, exciting,
> entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring,
> expansive...
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> Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em,
> trade `em, print `em, even publish them...
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> Here`s how:
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> ~ Set www-links to -> http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/12hr.html
> Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files
> more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...
> Or -> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/bbrace.html
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> ~ Download from -> ftp.pacifier.com /pub/users/bbrace
> Download from -> ftp.netcom.com /pub/bb/bbrace
> Download from -> ftp.teleport.com /users/bbrace
> Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace
> Download from -> ftp.wco.com /pub/users/bbrace
> * Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg
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> ~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to
> do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the
> server address nearest you:
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> ~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!
> The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg
> Average size of images is only 45K.
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> Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:
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> ~ Postings to usenet newsgroups:
> alt.12hr
> alt.binaries.pictures.12hr
> alt.binaries.pictures.misc
> alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc
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> * * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups!
> (There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent,
> PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews)
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> ~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began in earnest on
> December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over
> twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence of
> photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 12 years` worth
> of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing
> publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting
> is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection,
> interruption, and assimilation.
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> ~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural
> projects and sources.
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> ~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and
> occasional commentary related to this project has been established. Send
> e-mail to: [log in to unmask] /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg
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> This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some opportunities
> still exist for financially assisting the publication of editions of large
> (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet duotones on newsprint!
> Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed
> ISBN-Books.
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> ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of
> image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or
> translate these images. [ftp ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace]
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