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Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on June 13, 2011 at 5:01pm

so i need to strip for you?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 13, 2011 at 4:48pm

There's a very popular play -- Google it. (I haven't seen the play, or Google). I think there was a film too.

The Calender concept -- originally involving middle-aged/elderly Women's Institutes members in the UK (think Daughters of the American Revolition, or rather don't think about them) spawned all sorts of similiar Calenders with all sorts of people and groups stripping and posing to raise money for good causes.

I am a good cause, a very good cause. Please send money in the absence of a stripped or even striped photo.

Regards, Herman's Hermit

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on June 13, 2011 at 11:46am

i'm interested now to find out more, was there a movie or play with more information?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 13, 2011 at 5:50am

Good luck with the emailings!

My latest contribution, Ms February, is the SMARTSIS project.

Regards, Herman's Hermit

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on June 12, 2011 at 11:04pm

so, i have sent out my first flood of emails with only positive responses coming back so far.

 

i've used emails in iuoma profiles as well as folks from my personal address book for now, i'll think about expanding beyond that in the future, but i need to get on top of my french for right now!!!

 

my plans are to keep it as simple as possible, one free art email sent out weekly for now, to folks who are know to be interested in art. with simple text about my call for digital and/or physical art for the free art project.

 

i'm pondering also including a small list of sister projects in the future emails, the way guido does it when he sends out his envelope art, but i'll have to consider which projects are most similar to FREE ART, and have good reason for their inclusion.

 

i am excited at incorporating/promoting digital arts, though.

quite excited!

 

i don't think one excludes the other, val,

perhaps they are more symbiotic than that,

feeding back into the loop of creativity.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 12, 2011 at 3:44pm

ok, but whatever it is i intend to spend as little time as possible in what's left of my life looking at any btime of screen -- computer, tv, movie, ipod/pid/pud/kindle etc and until anyone can ever convince me that new technology is better than old technology i'm perfectly happy to remain a technological dinosaur. as to boogle, wakypedia, etc, well give me a decent reference library any day, please.

wanna come and listen to the vinyl records i bought at a flea market this morning? on my 25 year old record player, of course.

(and i used to work for a major ict company for too many years)

regards herman's hermit

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on June 12, 2011 at 3:28pm

technology is a good thing, val.

embrace it ;-D

 

you obviously have already to some extent,

or else we'd not have met.

 

but i have to disagree strongly with you on this point.

although digital art is not a tangible form of art, it is in no way less of an art form than paper, rock, or scissors. or any other hard, tangible, concrete form of art. the fact that you are able to make far more copies in far less time using far less resources i see as untapped potential. we do this constatly when we search google, wikipedia, etc for information. why are we not, as a society at large, creating arts in the realm of the digital for mass distribution?

 

is it spam?

i think this is very highly debatable, and all depends on what constitutes spam.

but since we are not trying to sell anything, but just share our creative processes with the world, and as long as it is done in a tactful way (letting people opt out, etc.) i don't see any major problems with it.

 

i can't see how it is any different than you sending your mail to random people and corporations. i really don't. it's just a different medium, but in essence it is the same thing.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 12, 2011 at 3:01pm

bonjour superhero. nope, sorry but i don't agree on the email/real mail thing; send me a piece of real mail art and i can hold it in my hands etc. send me an on-line image, and it's, as you sy, an intangible thing.

unless you want to be bored by my whole philosophy about technologies and the digital world we live in, we'd better stop this particular discussion now.

as to the spam that's sent to very new IUOMA member, well there's an explanation. look at the recently added 'New to IUOMA' group, and you'll see a welcoming text that ruud, bifidus and i put together. it sets out a 10-point introduction for IUOMA newcomers. one important part of it is that every new member is automatically assigned a mentor who can help them ease into the swing of things. i'm the mentor for this month, bifidus for next month, and hey! if you want to be a mentor pass your name on to ruud. so, is it spam? i dunno

(i have no idea what firmware is, so can't respond to that, but there ain't no point in trying to explain it to me, cos i've managed to get through life so far in blissful ignorance of it. if you have it, perhaps it explains why you ain't got no capitals on your keyboard)

regards herman's hermit

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on June 12, 2011 at 11:37am

but seriously, i think computers and email art have HUGE potential.

it's not much different than sending real mail art to people's real mailboxes, except you'd send digital art, which is not a tangible thing, but a coded series of pixels, copyable, redistributable, and very highly fluxus in essence, IMHO. you'd send that to their virtual mailbox.

 

and as for someone who is against spam, i see an awful lot of val mark herman's spam sitting in the profiles of nearly every new iuoma member who has joined recently. i would think you'd be all for this, val the spammer! ;-D

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on June 12, 2011 at 11:33am

we need to upgrade your firmware, monsieur val.

your ideals are obviously outdated. ;-D

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