http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:0x1&section=today deviantART RSS for by:0x1 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:14:23 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/17163500/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/17163500/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:52:16 PST
Nine Inch Nails has just released new material online, independent of any record label. On the website you have several options for acquiring the new music. You can directly download high quality MP3, FLAC or Apple Lossless files for free of purchase:

0$ gets you Ghosts I - the first nine tracks of the album.

5$ allows you to download the entire album (36 tracks), along with many extras including: wallpapers, web promotional images and a 40-page PDF.

$10 will get you a 2-CD set in a six-panel digipak package and a 16-page booklet.

$75 gets you the deluxe edition package which comes with even more goodies.

$300 gets you the real deal: everything in the 75$ pack, plus 4 180-gram LP’s, two prints and other stuff - limited to 2,500 units and each is signed by Trent Reznor.

I opted for the $5 download myself. But the website is experiencing extremely high volume traffic, so it’s running slow and the file I downloaded became corrupted. I ended up downloading the album from a BitTorrent tracker, but later on I will try my 5$ download again, because I want the Apple Lossless files, and not MP3.

I think this is truly a breakthrough in the way the music industry will work: artists directly marketing their materials instead of working through major labels. Also, this is different from all previous NIN work because the entire thing is instrumental. At times it’s quite ambient, sometimes very heavy, very Mogwai or Godspeed-ish, but always uniquely NIN. They’ve also taken advantage of new tagging technology: instead of a single album image, every song has its own image associated with it, which you can view in your music player, or in the included PDF. I’m so impressed, I’m essentially speechless.

“What we thought could be a five song EP became much more. I invited some friends over to join in and we all enjoyed the process of collaborating on this.The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we’re able to present to the world in ways the confines of a major record label would never have allowed.”

Genius. Truly break-through. This is a new milestone in music.

Peace, I'm out. ]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/11611261/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/11611261/ Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:42:08 PST
So that's why I haven't done anything. I'm not going to force myself to be creative just for the sake of having material. It comes when it comes, and it almost never comes during the cold months.

I'm praying for an early thaw, sometime in march like last spring. And hopefully it doesn't rain for the first half of this summer, as was the case last year.

If all goes according to plan, I'll be doing a lot of traveling this summer.

Well that's that. Just wanted everyone to know I'm still alive.

Peace, I'm out. ]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/10517391/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/10517391/ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:28:17 PDT
I'm happy to say that the painting is even more beautiful in real life, than it was online. I'll be framing it as soon as possible so I can proudly display it on my wall.

Once again, a big thank you for Peter, for creating such a beautiful painting, and allowing me to purchase it. I hope this isn't the last time we do business!

And now, pictures:



Peace, I'm out. ]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/10411211/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/10411211/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:04:38 PDT
Every day, for a whole year, I'm going to take at least one picture to sum up the day. Which should encourage me to get out with my camera, try new things and meet new people, and I think it's just plain interesting. In one year, I'll look back at my accomplishments (or lack thereof) of the year past.

I thought I had other things to say... But I don't remember. I gotta get back to my philosophy homework anyway.

If you'd like to see the blog the address is http://bluepolaski.photoblog.com

Peace, I'm out. ]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/9735690/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/9735690/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:46:17 PDT Ceasefire!




]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/9428056/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/9428056/ Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:06:45 PDT
I understand that Hesbollah started it all, but there must have been a better way Isreal could have handled the situation. Right? I've read many a Tom Clancy novel, couldn't Isreal send in some special ops and slice their throats at night? Instead of launching missles into cities full of civillians?

Just a suggestion.

What makes me really sad, is that after so many years of civil war Lebanon spent the last decade become a very beautiful country, and was attracting many tourists, even I planned on going one day, but now I fear the Isreal might toss it into chaos again.

The world makes me sad at times. ]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/7028914/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/7028914/ Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:42:09 PST
Yes, yes, it's true. Mainly, I'm broke, but I have also been lazy about bringing my camera anywhere since I have no money to develop my film later. I do have a digital but it's not exactly high-quality. 4 megapixels, and the manual controls are kinda cruddy.

I used to make some random photoshop art every now and then. But I really don't enjoy that much. I have more fun editing pictures, and I love lies in photography, not design.

Another reason I don't submit a lot, is because I don't want to submit simply mediocre pictures, fancied up in photoshop. I want to submit only the greats. Which I haven't have much of lately.

Tonight I'm going to see a Pink Floyd laser show at the Museum of Science. They say no "flash photography" is allowed. No problem - I can turn the flash off for ya. So, with luck, I should have some great abstract shots from the show tonight. ]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/5373398/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/5373398/ Mon, 16 May 2005 12:45:46 PDT (How would you be punished for financing terrorism?)
From The I Hate Corporate America Reader
Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004

Citigroup stands judged of financing terrorism. The penalty: $2,925. ChevronTexaco violated sanctions against Iraq. The Penalty: $9,000. The north Carolina-based International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry broke U.S. laws that prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It was fined $500, the same as the penalty for littering in Kentucky.

Sometimes a light rebuke is appropriate. Perhaps, despite the weighty topics of terrorism and mass destruction, these were misdemeanors at heart, and it was totally proper for lawyers on both sides to quietly settle on the gentlest of punishments. But it’s hard to say for sure, because in each of the 59 cases of trading with the enemy tersely reported by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC], no details are provided beyond the country involved and the penalty assessed – no dates, no specifics, no nothing. Even that miserly data we have only because Public Citizen and the Corporate Crime Reporter newsletter teamed up to pry it free.

Should we give the Bush Administration the benefit of the doubt, and assume the judgments are appropriately restrained? Fine. There’s still a glaring contrast with the harsh treatment meted out to individuals accused of similar crimes. Six Yemeni-Americans in their 20’s were arrested in September outside Buffalo, New York, and described by George Bush as an “al-Qaeda cell” in his State of the Union address. But even the attorney prosecuting the case has said there’s no evidence they were involved in any violent plot (!), and the prosecution strategy to paper over that gaping hole in their case seems to be to terrify the young men into plea bargains. Or consider the U.S. citizen who was never accused of any crime, never tried in a court – but one day was incinerated by the CIA and then, post-mortem, declared an “enemy combatant.”

“When individual Americans are accused of helping terrorists, they’re thrown in jail and their names are dragged through the mud,” sums up an observer on CBS’s Market Watch business news. “But when multinational corporations like Wal-Mart, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil and Amazon.com agree with government prosecutors that they have violated laws that prohibit doing business with enemy states, they news is buried on an obscure government website.”

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FIGHT THE REAL PROBLEM. Have Human Rights gone on vacation? People should come first. We all know there is a great deal of human suffering. What many people don't know as that much of it is due to giant corporations. Like ExxonMobil, who provided buildings used by Indonesian military to torture local activists (fighting to separate, and kick ExxonMobil out), and its bulldozers dug the mass graves used to bury the victims.

"The guilty don't feel gulity - they learned not to." - NoFX
Corporations are heartless. They price human lives according to their revenue. ]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/5373379/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/5373379/ Mon, 16 May 2005 12:33:53 PDT TAKE A STAND
SpeakOut - Gay Rights

Boston Independent Media Center

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Alliance

Axis of Justice

Women Alive

Refuse and Resist

Z Magazine

Food Not Bombs

United Students Against Sweatshops

United for Peace & Justice

Not In Our Name














]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/3919297/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/3919297/ Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:43:26 PST
Basically, it's a multi-user blog that is for amateur photojournalists. All posts consist of a photo and an article.

For more information and / or to sign up visit:

[link] ]]> ~0x1 http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/2282050/ http://0x1.deviantart.com/journal/2282050/ Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:57:22 PDT [link] And I'm trying to make a vector out of it. It's my first time trying something like that - and its really hard. ]]> ~0x1