Brad, feel free to post this on our Ning blog as well,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:18 AM, { brad brace } <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bbrace@eskimo.com">bbrace@eskimo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 <<<<<br>
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"A compassionate observer, { brad brace } forges a personal aesthetic in<br>
these 12hr-images infused with blank-sadness and a sense of mystery.<br>
What makes them both new and significant is the fact that he organizes<br>
its contents in sequences, applying the principles of cinematographic<br>
montage to fixed images."<br>
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You begin to sense the byshadows that stretch from the awe of global<br>
dominance. How the intersecting systems help pull us apart, leaving<br>
us vague, drained, docile, soft in our inner discourse, willing to be<br>
shaped, to be overwhelmed -- easy retreats, half beliefs. Works of art<br>
are complex formal interventions within discursive traditions and their<br>
myriad filiations. These interventions are defined precisely by their<br>
incomparable capacity to trace the dynamics of historical process in<br>
paradoxical gestures of simultaneously prognostic and mnemonic<br>
temporalities.<br>
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> > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A<br>
`round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from { brad<br>
brace }. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the<br>
recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history. This<br>
discourse, far from determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding<br>
the ground on which it could find support. It is trying to operate a<br>
decentering that leaves no privilege to any center.<br>
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The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project<br>
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began December 30, 1994<br>
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Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a spectral,<br>
trajective alignment for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in the face of<br>
catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the everyday... A poetic<br>
reversibility of exclusive events: visual haiku...<br>
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A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of imagery...<br>
genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact, collectable and compelling<br>
convergence. The vernacular voluptuousness of the grey imminence: the art of making<br>
the other disappear. Continual visual impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in<br>
duration, on the endless present of the Net.<br>
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An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically<br>
unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced<br>
over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone...<br>
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[ see <a href="http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebbrace/netcom/books.txt" target="_blank">http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/books.txt</a> ]<br>
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KEYWORDS:<br>
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>> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered,<br>
de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless,<br>
spontaneous...<br>
>> Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate...<br>
>> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative,<br>
poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless,<br>
private, peripheral, precocious, placeholders...<br>
>> Robust, real, redundant, resplendent, revolutionary, redeeming...<br>
>> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, eternal, exciting,<br>
entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring, ergodic,<br>
expansive, exhaustive, encyclopedic...<br>
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Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em,<br>
trade `em, print `em, even publish them...<br>
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Here`s how:<br>
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~ Set www-links to -> <a href="http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebbrace/12hr.html" target="_blank">http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html</a><br>
-> <a href="http://bradbrace.net/12hr.html" target="_blank">http://bradbrace.net/12hr.html</a><br>
-> <a href="http://bbrace.net/12hr.html" target="_blank">http://bbrace.net/12hr.html</a><br>
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Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files<br>
more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...<br>
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~ Download from -> <a href="http://ftp.rdrop.com" target="_blank">ftp.rdrop.com</a> /pub/users/bbrace<br>
Download from -> <a href="http://ftp.eskimo.com" target="_blank">ftp.eskimo.com</a> /u/b/bbrace<br>
Download from -> hotline://<a href="http://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au" target="_blank">artlyin.ftr.va.com.au</a><br>
Download from -> <a href="http://12hr.noemata.net/" target="_blank">http://12hr.noemata.net/</a><br>
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* Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg<br>
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~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to<br>
do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to<br>
the server address nearest you:<br>
*<br>
<a href="mailto:ftpmail@ccc.uba.ar">ftpmail@ccc.uba.ar</a> <a href="mailto:ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au">ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au</a><br>
<a href="mailto:ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de">ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de</a> <a href="mailto:ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu">ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu</a><br>
<a href="mailto:ftpmail@ieunet.ie">ftpmail@ieunet.ie</a> <a href="mailto:ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk">ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk</a><br>
<a href="mailto:ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt">ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt</a> <a href="mailto:ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za">ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za</a><br>
<a href="mailto:ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se">ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se</a> <a href="mailto:ftpmail@ftp.luth.se">ftpmail@ftp.luth.se</a><br>
<a href="mailto:ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw">ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw</a> <a href="mailto:ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu">ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu</a><br>
<a href="mailto:ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu">ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu</a> <a href="mailto:ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com">ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com</a><br>
<a href="mailto:ftpmail@census.gov">ftpmail@census.gov</a><br>
bitftp@plearn.bitnet bitftp@dearn.bitnet<br>
<a href="mailto:bitftp@vm.gmd.de">bitftp@vm.gmd.de</a> <a href="mailto:bitftp@plearn.edu.pl">bitftp@plearn.edu.pl</a><br>
<a href="mailto:bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu">bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu</a> bitftp@pucc.bitnet<br>
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~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!<br>
The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg<br>
Average size of images is only 45K.<br>
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Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:<br>
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror<br>
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~ Postings to usenet newsgroups:<br>
12hr<br>
alt.12hr<br>
alt.binaries.pictures.12hr<br>
alt.binaries.pictures.misc<br>
alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc<br>
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* * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups!<br>
(There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent,<br>
PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews)<br>
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~ This interminable, relentless (online) sequence of imagery began in<br>
earnest on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been<br>
over twenty-five years in the making. While the specific sequence of<br>
photographs has been presently orchestrated for many years` worth of<br>
12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing<br>
publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour image<br>
is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection,<br>
interruption, and assimilation.<br>
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~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural<br>
projects and sources.<br>
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~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and<br>
occasional commentary related to this project has been established at<br>
<a href="http://topica.com" target="_blank">topica.com</a> /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg<br>
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--<br>
The image was to make nothing visible but their connection with<br>
one another by space and air, yet each surrounded by the unique<br>
aura that disengages every deeply seen image from the world of<br>
irrelevant relationships and calls forth a tremor of<br>
astonishment at its fateful necessity. Thus from artworks of<br>
dead masters, over-life-size strangeness whose names we do not<br>
know and do not wish to know, look out at us enigmatically as<br>
symbols of all being.<br>
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Big Grey Bricks: This project also serves as a rehearsal for its<br>
culmination as a series of offset-printed volumes: each 800+ full-bleed<br>
pages (5x8"_300lpi), where the full integrated rhythm of<br>
greyscale-sequence can be more intricately resolved. I'd provide all<br>
design, prepress and production. The tonality of the imagery is<br>
important; these 12hr-jpegs scanned from film-prints are quick<br>
approximations for an institutionally unsupported outcome.<br>
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This project remains untainted by corrupt corporate and glib government<br>
art-subsidies. Some opportunities still exist for financially assisting the<br>
publication of editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees)<br>
inkjet duotones or extended-black quadtones with diasec on dibond mount.<br>
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Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed<br>
ISBN-Books. Contributions and requests for 12hr-email-subscriptions,<br>
can also be made at <a href="http://bradbrace.net/buy-into.html" target="_blank">http://bradbrace.net/buy-into.html</a>,<br>
or by mailed cheque/check: $5/mo $50/yr. Art-institutions must pay $12K<br>
for each image retained longer than 12 hours.<br>
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ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of<br>
image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or<br>
translate these images. [<a href="http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebbrace/netcom/pictures%0A-faq.html" target="_blank">http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/netcom/pictures<br>
-faq.html</a>]<br>
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(c) Credit appreciated. Copyleft<br>
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<<a href="mailto:bbrace@eskimo.com">bbrace@eskimo.com</a>><br>
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