[P2P-F] primer on free culture

Tue Aug 23 10:18:09 CEST 2011

Brad, feel free to post this on our Ning blog as well,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:18 AM, { brad brace } <bbrace at eskimo.com> wrote:

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> The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project       >>>> posted since 1994 <<<<
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> "A compassionate observer, { brad brace } forges a personal aesthetic in
> these 12hr-images infused with blank-sadness and a sense of mystery.
> What makes them both new and significant is the fact that he organizes
> its contents in sequences, applying the principles of cinematographic
> montage to fixed images."
>
>
>  You begin to sense the byshadows that stretch from the awe of global
>  dominance. How the intersecting systems help pull us apart, leaving
>  us vague, drained, docile, soft in our inner discourse, willing to be
>  shaped, to be overwhelmed -- easy retreats, half beliefs. Works of art
>  are complex formal interventions within discursive traditions and their
>  myriad filiations. These interventions are defined precisely by their
>  incomparable capacity to trace the dynamics of historical process in
>  paradoxical gestures of simultaneously prognostic and mnemonic
>  temporalities.
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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.
>
>
>                       The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project
>                       -----------------------------
>                          began December 30, 1994
>
>
>  Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a
> spectral,
> trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in the
> face of
> catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A
> poetic
> reversibility of exclusive events: visual haiku...
>
>        A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of
> imagery...
> genuine gritty, greyscale...  corruptable, compact, collectable and
> compelling
> convergence. The vernacular 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.
>
>  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...
>
>                   [ see http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/books.txt ]
>
> KEYWORDS:
>
> >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered,
>   de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless,
>        spontaneous...
> >> Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate...
> >> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative,
>   poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless,
>   private, peripheral, precocious, placeholders...
> >> Robust, real, redundant, resplendent, revolutionary, redeeming...
> >> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, eternal, exciting,
>   entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring, ergodic,
>   expansive, exhaustive, encyclopedic...
>
>
>        Every 12 hours, another!...  view them, re-post `em, save `em,
> trade `em, print `em, even publish them...
>
> Here`s how:
>
> ~ Set www-links to ->  http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html
>                   ->  http://bradbrace.net/12hr.html
>                   ->  http://bbrace.net/12hr.html
>
>  Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files
>  more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...
>
> ~ Download from ->  ftp.rdrop.com   /pub/users/bbrace
>  Download from ->  ftp.eskimo.com  /u/b/bbrace
>  Download from ->  hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au
>  Download from ->  http://12hr.noemata.net/
>
>  * Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg
>
> ~ 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:
>  *
>  ftpmail at ccc.uba.ar                    ftpmail at cs.uow.edu.au
>  ftpmail at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de          ftpmail at ftp.Dartmouth.edu
>  ftpmail at ieunet.ie                     ftpmail at src.doc.ic.ac.uk
>  ftpmail at archie.inesc.pt               ftpmail at ftp.sun.ac.za
>  ftpmail at ftp.sunet.se                  ftpmail at ftp.luth.se
>  ftpmail at NCTUCCCA.edu.tw               ftpmail at oak.oakland.edu
>  ftpmail at sunsite.unc.edu               ftpmail at decwrl.dec.com
>  ftpmail at census.gov
>  bitftp at plearn.bitnet                  bitftp at dearn.bitnet
>  bitftp at vm.gmd.de                      bitftp at plearn.edu.pl
>  bitftp at pucc.princeton.edu             bitftp at pucc.bitnet
>  *                                     *
>
>
> ~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!
>  The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg
>  Average size of images is only 45K.
>  *
>  Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:
>  src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror
>  *
>
> ~ Postings to usenet newsgroups:
>  12hr
>  alt.12hr
>  alt.binaries.pictures.12hr
>  alt.binaries.pictures.misc
>  alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc
>
> * * 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)
>
> ~ This interminable, relentless (online) sequence of imagery began in
> earnest on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been
> over twenty-five years in the making. While the specific sequence of
> photographs has been presently orchestrated for many years` worth of
> 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing
> publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour image
> is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection,
> interruption, and assimilation.
>
> ~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural
> projects and sources.
>
> ~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and
> occasional commentary related to this project has been established at
> topica.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg
>
>  --
>         The image was to make nothing visible but their connection with
>         one another by space and air, yet each surrounded by the unique
>         aura that disengages every deeply seen image from the world of
>         irrelevant relationships and calls forth a tremor of
>         astonishment at its fateful necessity. Thus from artworks of
>         dead masters, over-life-size strangeness whose names we do not
>         know and do not wish to know, look out at us enigmatically as
>         symbols of all being.
>
>  --
>
>  Big Grey Bricks: This project also serves as a rehearsal for its
>  culmination as a series of offset-printed volumes: each 800+ full-bleed
>  pages (5x8"_300lpi), where the full integrated rhythm of
>  greyscale-sequence can be more intricately resolved. I'd provide all
>  design, prepress and production. The tonality of the imagery is
>  important; these 12hr-jpegs scanned from film-prints are quick
>  approximations for an institutionally unsupported outcome.
>
>  --
>
> This project remains untainted by corrupt corporate and glib government
> art-subsidies. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the
> publication of editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees)
> inkjet duotones or extended-black quadtones with diasec on dibond mount.
>
> Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed
> ISBN-Books. Contributions and requests for 12hr-email-subscriptions,
> can also be made at http://bradbrace.net/buy-into.html,
> or by mailed cheque/check: $5/mo $50/yr. Art-institutions must pay $12K
> for each image retained longer than 12 hours.
>
> --
>
> 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. [http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/pictures
> -faq.html]
>
> --
>
> (c) Credit appreciated. Copyleft
>
> 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
> 2008 2009 2010 2011
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> <bbrace at eskimo.com>
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