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Blogger Lindsay Beyerstein went to Austin, Texas with her camera and took these photos of Tom Delay's "perp walk." Obviously this alleged money launderer and still active former U.S. House Majority leader was advised by his attorney, shyster Dick DeGuerin, to keep a shit-eating grin plastered on his face at all times. Believe it or not, all of the supposedly sophisticated government honchos and media DC personages have been genuflecting to this redneck for years. Common criminal trash--sorry, alleged common criminal trash--and he's still running things in the House. Enjoy his humiliation, but it's not like it's had any effect on his career.
Pulsating optical disc internet sketchbook!
I have to pick one of these [to burn to DVD, as described in the previous post], and soon:
Number 1 (previously posted)Then I have to redo this one so it's less crunchy:
Number 2 (more oval 1)
Number 3 (more oval 2)
Number 4 (crunchy enlargement of gif posted over a year ago)
Number 5 (similar to Number 1 but more regular)
Number 5A (even more regular--smaller center hole--think this one's the keeper)
Enlarged Black and White (Crunchy)More will probably be posted as I continue to obsess and procrastinate.
I've been working on scaled-up versions of my animated GIFs for some upcoming gallery shows. Here's one called OptiDisc, which is a bit too large to put on the blog. Some interesting, and some aggravating, issues arise when you start thinking about converting Net Art type product to Video Art type product. Aggravating as in you have to redraw stuff you thought you''d finished. Another alternative is to convert the small files to vector files, which can then be safely enlarged without turning to pixely mush. That seems fetishistic to me, going to that length to preserve the character of something everyday and ephemeral--the cult of MacPaint. But I could (shudder) end up doing it. Big ups to Paul, Matthew, joester, Sally, and others who have helped as I lurch through this process.