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December 21, 2005
Hotlinking....
Wikipedia defines hotlinking as:
Inline linking, also known as hotlinking, is the placing of a linked object, often an image, from one site in a page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the one where the object is located. It is used for such activities as linking images from personal home page storage into the online diary of the person controlling the personal home page.
This has sometimes been controversial because it is possible that the site where the object is stored and from which it is retrieved will not like the new placement or will consider it to be bandwidth theft. This term refers to the unauthorized use of someone else's bandwidth. Inline linking to an image stored on another site increases the bandwidth use of that site, even though their site is not being viewed in its intended form. Since bandwidth is a commodity, unauthorized use can increase the maintenance costs of the website hosting the image, hence the term bandwidth theft.
So I've been doing some of this lately for a project I am working on, and sometimes the image they change it to is better than what I was stealing in the first place! So what happens when you hotlink an anti-hotlink image?.... track the progress of the image above to find out.
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December 19, 2005
#1 BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER!....
Read it and weep Internet! It took Google only 323 hours to recognize that I am the biggest BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER in the world. Thanks to everyone who took part, there are too many for me to link, but especially to my consultants Paul M, Ben, and GARB.
Phase #2........ BAD ASS (current position #5).
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December 18, 2005
blog shout outs....
I'd like to give a few quick blog shout outs to friends who are entering the blog-o-sphere... put them all in your RSS-ASAP.
Minus the bullshit, Life's great!!! is a blog that brings you nuggets of wisdom gathered from a used car lot in Atlanta. The Quotes from the Car Lot series is classic. (NC-17)
Friend, collaborator, and NYC graffiti legend JESUS SAVES is going to be posting some photos here on the ni9e sever. Check him out at http://jesussaves.ni9e.com
Chris (of Re-Gaze, and dialPods fame) is finally back in the game after an extended hiatus from the Rusted Forest Blog. Great to have you back.
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December 15, 2005
Google's Dirty Harry impersonation
Google's Dirty Harry impersonation.
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December 11, 2005
FireFTP....
FireFTP allows you to open an FTP client in a tab in FireFox. You need to be running the most recent version of FireFox, but it is worth the upgrade. This thing rules.
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December 07, 2005
BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER update....
The ni9e blog is already the current the number one return for BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER in yahoo! Thanks everyone that has been helping.
Keep clicking!
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***UPDATE***
In Google I'm up to #3!
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WIRED article online...
WIRED's Graffiti Hackers article is now on their website.
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December 06, 2005
BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER
I started a new art project today, it's called:
How long will it take for me to have the number one Google ranked site for the search phrase BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER?
I changed the Title and meta tags of the index.html file at ni9e.com, and in the source code noted todays date. If you perform this search in google you will see that my main competition is Paul Sexton's poem titled, you guessed it, BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER. Paul, however, has neglected to include the phrase in his meta tags, so he is going to go down fast.
In part I am interested to see how long this will take, and if it is even possible at all. But mainly, I look forward to the day when asked what my website is and I can respond, "It's the one that says BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER". When this day comes I will have a party.
(If anyone else has ideas on how to speed this process up please leave comments).
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Living In Leuven....
I recently lived in Leuven, Belgium (25 minutes outside of Brussles) for a few months. People often ask me what it was like there, and now, thanks to jtown1978, I have an answer. I have posted his poem below:
Leuven You're A Lady
Leuven I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
Leuven one euro fifty euro cents September 29, 2005.
I can't stand my own mind.
Leuven when will you work overtime?
Go fuck yourself with your Sunday hours.
When will the answer not be "it's impossible"?
I don't feel well anymore.
I won't update my blog until I know I'm right.
Leuven when will you be a lover?
When will you let down your hair and get off your ass?
Cashiers shouldn't have seats, they should stand upright.
I shouldn't have to pay to take a piss.
Leuven why are your libraries gaurded like fortresses?
Open your doors to the world, but don't let them near your books.
They can't be trusted, they MUST be watched.
Put your bags in a locker, where's your id card?
Leuven is nothing possible anymore?
When can I get money without standing in line?
Charge fees if you have to but bring us more money.
Your beaurocracy is too much for me.
I yearn for a cup full of ice.
Leuven stop restraining yourself I know what I'm doing.
Believe it or not I know how to pick up after myself.
I don't steal books.
I read.
Sometimes I may like to go to a different library, why can't I?
Do you have change for a two euro coin?
Why do you answer before I have asked?
I knew you'd say no.
Does everything come with fries here?
I think that mayonaise is spoiled, don't eat it.
It costs so much to wash but so little to dry.
Fifteen Belgians were arrested for terror.
Will they be lined up and "tucka, tucka, tucka, tucka."
I'm trying to finish my post.
Why are you always twenty minutes late?
Why do you leave early?
Leave the beautiful sister alone, and stop calling everyone lady.
Lady, control, mister, control.
Why do the Belgian students go home every weekend?
I hate suitcases on wheels.
Why do you always ask me "you douche, you douche?"
I'm uncomfortable talking about this.
Leuven are you home?
Can't anyone count in this country?
It's nearing the end.
No direction home.
Leuven you're alone.
This town is making me mad.
Leuven you're a lady.
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HTML Revenge...
Garb strikes back at design thief by altering the background image of his website. Check Our Mediated World for the full scoop.
Bravo.
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December 05, 2005
DIGIT-HOL
DIGIT-HOL animated .gif's for your desktop. Just save to your HD and set as desktop image.
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December 04, 2005
M_PLUS_N....
I would like to make a ni9e blog extra super special shout out to my all time new favorite media artists Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi. According to their web site, M_PLUS_N, the duo lives and works in Berlin. I've pasted below some highlights from their site.
" I completed the knitting of a super large life-sized sweater for a giraffe.
My love was accumulated without a purpose or an expectation of return."
"We bought bottles of German mineral water "Tonissteiner" from a package store in Japan and carried them to Eifel region in Germany and released them."
"This work began on the day when we had made a extra big candy like a bowling ball by ourselves.
Since that day, we had been licking the candy day after day for about six months.
While we were licking, a lot of episodes happened. (change of the seasons, move to Berlin...).
We kept licking with the aim of only creating an ordinary candy, which seems just a candy on the market."
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Audio Graf...
London based Troika creates audio based graffiti with their TOOL FOR ARMCHAIR ACTIVISTS.
"The machine is able to receive your sms messages, then read them aloud, allowing you to send your rants and protests without leaving your sitting room."
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EU train bombing videos...
geelblauw.nl has some great video footage of European train bombings. INF crew has footage here.
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December 01, 2005
Holiday Hack Shop (stencils and lasers)....
If you are in NYC this weekend and are interested in creating stencils on a laser cutter, please come to the Holiday Hackshop. The event is run by Eyebeam, and I will be assisting with the Laser Cut Stencils workshop hosted by Robot Clothes. Info is as follows:
Design and laser cut your own stencils for holiday turf tagging and t-shirts.
Come work with Robot Clothes to create tools for street art and activism. Bring concepts and images, design vector graphics and laser cut them into acetate to create your own stencils. Share techniques and practice using your new stencils on t-shirts and walls with fabric paint, chalk spray paint and clay pens.
Session 1: 12-1:30
Session 2: 2-3:30
Session 3: 4-5:30
1.5 hour workshop, 10 participants per session - $15
Saturday, December 3, 2005
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
540 W. 21st St.
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Diary of a Star....
Thanks to rhizome.org for posting a link to the new I BLOGGED ANDY WHARHOL project I have been working on and pointing out a very similar project by Eduardo Navas called Diary of a Star. I hadn't seen this project before, and the news comes as somewhat of a disappointment because it is very similar to my own. He explains his project as follows:
"Diary of a Star is a critical take on blogging that appropriates selections from the Andy Warhol Diaries. The online project Diary of a Star consists of two blogs that are juxtaposed, showing selections of Warhol’s diary and my comments on his selections. The way the project works is I select an entry from Warhol's diary and type it verbatim on the blog to the right called "diary." I create links of people and places that Warhol mentions. I then comment on the people and/or the entry itself on the blog to the left called "meta diary." In Diary of a Star I re-evaluate Warhol’s thoughts and create my own narrative alongside his, which functions as a critical extension of his own aesthetic of constant exposure."
The goal for my project was simply to allow people a platform for reading the text in real time. By converting the text into an RSS feed the entries can be read on the same day that they were originally written (minus 29 years). I've become some what obsessed with his work and life, and felt that this individual who photographed everyone around him, tape recorded social interactions, and dictated diary entires every morning really needed a blog. A side benefit would be creating an online archive of the complete text as a set of data for use by other media artists.
The main differences between the two projects is that Navas's version contains his own voice as a narrative element, and edits the diary down to 10 months. My version is un-edited (besides the deletion of comments made by the editor) and contains only Warhol's words and will take just over 10 years to complete if I stay true to the text. Admittedly, the two are very similar, and had I seen Diary of a Star before I started I probably would have dropped the idea. Now that I am into it, however, I really want to complete the project. Check them both out for yourself and let me know if you think there is enough difference to warrant the effort. In the meantime, I will continue to deliver up your daily dose of Warhol.
Diary of a Star vs I Blogged Andy Warhol
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