Re: [-empyre-] Re: empyre digest, Vol 1 #40 - 6 msgs

[Auriea Harvey <a@e8z.org>]

Tim:
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> i'm not sure what the thinning the herd comments meant (nietzsche 
> back from the grave or..?), but i would hope that you can do 
> whatever you want to do!

i can not.

>  i don't want to feel pressured into learning the latest program or 
> having the next killer app.

you are not.

> you don't have to learn flash, or C++, or any of the latest programs 
> to be making interesting, digital art,

of course one has to _want to use those things. one does make 
choices. i just say that if one uses them it is not a bad idea to.... 
use them AND think about the choice to use them AND think about them 
(abstractly, poeticlly, materially, ob/sub/jectively) as well.

>  in fact you don't have to demand anything from macromedia..

i do if i use their tools and want to see them be made better. or if 
i want to see them die (bangbang)

> .there are other possibilities like you said.

always

> the prozac-as-network analogy was just to suggest that there are 
> other ways to hard-wire immersive, baroque environments. the band 
> Fischerspooner have some ideas on this as well! you can "be the 
> network" and be offline. like le tigre says, "get off the internet!"

ahhhhh so you want to SHOOT THE MESSENGER too.

>  reach new people through your network or don't. be sovereign media 
> in other ways. the internet is a paper tiger.
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
> offline for a bit_
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
bye for now....  you'll be back....

> tim jaeger

Auriea.

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ps.
sorry for all the violence in this email. i guess it is the inherent 
aggression built into Eudora seeping out over the edges.......

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