Author: Mateusz

1000 DJs. Performative entertainment galore

1000 DJs is a group of people at my old school that are throwing parties. Last Saturday there was an exhibition, then there was a party, and then there was an exhibition about the party (“1000 DJs, the fuckup”).

In order of appearance:

* Rainbow. The leprechaun was mugged & his gold spend on crack.
* Lovisa from STHLM doing a move.
* Making this curl took Miranda 40 minutes. Well worth it i say.
* Making this body-tag took less than 1 minute. Inflated sense of “party” might be worth it.
* Now you see it, now you don’t!
* After the destruction derby, there are words exchanged regarding the artistic value of said derby, vis-a-vi the planned two-day duration of the show
* Privacy is hard to come by, but some people are not even trying. Ah, the decadence of frolicking art students.

If there are any concerns regarding the quality of the images and so forth, I’m doing this on a windows machine for the first time, and even though Picasa has some neat features, I’m not as used to it as i am to iPhoto. Plus I’m hung over from the fuckup-party yesterday.

Oh, and later today i’m going co-carting with work and a rival company. Free food, although I suspect that they will feed me pasta and taunt me and slap me with meat.

Absconding, ascending, aloneliness, aenerisms

I’d like to apologise for not posting much the past week.

And this isn’t much in the way of making amends, but anyway:

* My back was hurting. Then it stopped. Now it’s hurting ever so slightly again.
* I cough something awful. There’s something charming about that.
* Nice party past weekend, even though I’m slightly under the weather.
* Someone crashed the party and the alcohol dried up. I have video!
* Yes yes, I’ll post the video later tonight
* Looked at my bank account and almost cried last Sunday.
* I’ve spend fifteen hours looking and calling for work. I need work. Moniez. If you prick me, do I not bleed? If I’m hungry, shouldn’t you give me food? That fucking computer I’ve been saving coins for looks further and further away…

As far as the studies go:
* The poster is done. Need to print it. Will post gif later.
* The “Appropriate christmas” soundproject is halfway done. Need to mix it and put up a homepage
* Haven’t done shit about the lockpicking project past week. Will do s’more tonite.
* Essay has a deadline for Friday? Friday? Moly mackarel Batman! That’s no way close to funny! Golly!
* I’m skipping a trip with the class because I’m too broke. How fucking depressing is that? On the other hand, I’m pretty good at convincing myself that I don’t like to travel, so I’ll be fine.

Ok. Now I need to go back degrading myself by whoring my time and effort in exchange for currency that is not made out of “good will” or “chocolate”.

…

Yesterday, a guy in Chicago burned himself to death in protest against US foreign and domestic policy. He wrote his own obituary and posted it online ahead of time. That next to last paragraph reads “He had many acquaintances, but few friends; And wrote his own obituary, because no one else really knew him”.

Regardless his suicide, his letters are worth reading. If nothing else I see myself in much that he wrote, and he didn’t take himself too seriously even when writing his last letters.

Read the obitiuary here: http://www.savagesound.com/gallery100.htm
Read him expaling why:http://www.savagesound.com/gallery99.htm
Infoshop has a short article here: http://www.infoshop.org/inews

I got the story from boingboing.net and it feels odd. Shouldn’t this be on the front page of papers and such? This is quite an extreme thing to do, and considering all the text he posted about both his planned suicide and his political stance it wouldn’t be too hard to do a background check.

And if you want to distance yourself from his very personal letters and despair, you can always check out the list of others who have set themselves on fire in protest.

Unless he was mentally ill and planning on killing himself regardless, do you realise what level of despair is required to do something like this? How furious you have to be at the willfull ignorance of people in general? My head is spinning slightly, because I get a sensation of vertigo reading through his texts.

note to self:

* there is a good reason why you hate windows: there are no standards, no accountibillity, you get pushed between vendors who point the finger at the other one, your browser plugin might interefere with the copy-past function in a sound application that doesn’t install properly anyway.

* the main reason why you hate windows is because you don’t know how it works and it makes you feel like a stupid child.

* if you’ve lost the 9$ you had invested in online poker, the first impulse should not be to transfer more money unless you plan on learning from your mistakes and not go all-in with two pairs against an obvious flush. fuck.

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i got some comments on the “what i’ve learned…” poster, and they mostly boil down to two things:
1: too many sex jokes.
2: the chronology isn’t all that chronological.

obviously, most people don’t know anything about the chronology, but have inferred that from what appears to be my lack of learning anything. and although it’s partially true that i have a hard time learning from experience, it’s not as bad as the list might give an impression of.

and although i didn’t receive any comments regarding the big “LOVE” in the background, i gotta replace it. it does frame the whole poster quite nicely though…

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a link to an article on fragging at wikipedia.org.
i’ve always known the term as meaning killing in a computer game. how the times change, eh?

from the article:
Frag is a term from the Vietnam War, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular member of one’s own fighting unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade into the victim’s tent at night.

nowdays, in online games, killing your own is called tk or tk-ing, as in team kill(ing).

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and for those of you who are not up to speed on your internet abbreviations, there’s a brief list available here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang.
(some folk still don’t know what “afk” or “brb” means. get with the program, people)

and there’s a really extensive computer jargon file available here, with common syntax rules and all: www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html
it’s a good and long read even if you’re not into computer history, mostly because you can trace the development of the modern geek. if you like dorky and extremely internal humour you’ll appreciate it as well. the frustration of all these people with management and stupidity seeps through the screen.

a href=”bork bork”

i got some comments on the “what i’ve learned…” poster, and they mostly boil down to two things:
1: too many sex jokes.
2: the chronology isn’t all that chronological.

obviously, most people don’t know anything about the chronology, but have inferred that from what appears to be my lack of learning anything. and although it’s partially true that i have a hard time learning from experience, it’s not as bad as the list might give an impression of.

and although i didn’t receive any comments regarding the big “LOVE” in the background, i gotta replace it. it does frame the whole poster quite nicely though…

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

a link to an article on fragging at wikipedia.org.
i’ve always known the term as meaning killing in a computer game. how the times change, eh?

from the article:
Frag is a term from the Vietnam War, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular member of one’s own fighting unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade into the victim’s tent at night.

nowdays, in online games, killing your own is called tk or tk-ing, as in team kill(ing).

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

and for those of you who are not up to speed on your internet abbreviations, there’s a brief list available here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang.
(some folk still don’t know what “afk” or “brb” means. get with the program, people)

and there’s a really extensive computer jargon file available here, with common syntax rules and all: www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html
it’s a good and long read even if you’re not into computer history, mostly because you can trace the development of the modern geek. if you like dorky and extremely internal humour you’ll appreciate it as well. the frustration of all these people with management and stupidity seeps through the screen.

a href=”bork bork”

i got some comments on the “what i’ve learned…” poster, and they mostly boil down to two things:
1: too many sex jokes.
2: the chronology isn’t all that chronological.

obviously, most people don’t know anything about the chronology, but have inferred that from what appears to be my lack of learning anything. and although it’s partially true that i have a hard time learning from experience, it’s not as bad as the list might give an impression of.

and although i didn’t receive any comments regarding the big “LOVE” in the background, i gotta replace it. it does frame the whole poster quite nicely though…

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

a link to an article on fragging at wikipedia.org.
i’ve always known the term as meaning killing in a computer game. how the times change, eh?

from the article:
Frag is a term from the Vietnam War, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular member of one’s own fighting unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade into the victim’s tent at night.

nowdays, in online games, killing your own is called tk or tk-ing, as in team kill(ing).

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

and for those of you who are not up to speed on your internet abbreviations, there’s a brief list available here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang.
(some folk still don’t know what “afk” or “brb” means. get with the program, people)

and there’s a really extensive computer jargon file available here, with common syntax rules and all: www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html
it’s a good and long read even if you’re not into computer history, mostly because you can trace the development of the modern geek. if you like dorky and extremely internal humour you’ll appreciate it as well. the frustration of all these people with management and stupidity seeps through the screen.