I programmed 444theory.com for Miltos Manetas... When you email in your "444 moments" (4:44 pm, 11:11 am, etc.), it automatically puts them on the public calendar for everyone to see. (Programming it became a little exhausting... two more weeks until I graduate and so many things left to do!)

Searching for something else on YouTube, I ran into a billion 'Myspace intro videos' - people videotaping themselves addressing visitors to their page. It's really quite odd to see them separated from Myspace (they're on YouTube only so they can put them on their profiles, but you can still find them through searching.) I collected them into a playlist (or just use the controls above.) You'll get the idea from the first couple of videos.

I really don't want to make fun of these people, and there's really nothing shocking about them, they're incredibly normal people... But in some of them I sense this sort of awkwardness (?) that they have dealing with the Internet. These are very un-nerdy people making their own webpages, telling you to leave "picture comments," and pointing in the direction of where the "send message" button is on the page... I'm still trying to figure out what's going on here. Anyway, the videos are fun!

I wanted to post this old project before it gets too ancient. Pre-Google Maps, when online maps were small pixelly GIFs, I went exploring around on MapQuest collecting map shots here in Los Angeles that had very little info, very few street lines or words, etc., big open spaces. I like the way they look, and I like imagining what's inside these big empty fills... In a lot of cases there's semi-wilderness, I suppose (which is a strange to think of!)

Back in 1997, I was 13 and constantly hanging out on IRC with my buddies on channel #digitalplayground, always sending around GIF animations and other really horrible junk to everyone... LOL. I'd made a series of 7 crude black and white animations of stickmen getting maimed (see GIF above!), which I thought were pretty hilarious at the time. I just found these on an old hard drive (inspired by recent contact from #dp buddy foobaz .. BTW, my handle was "hello3k")

I'll spare you episodes 2-7... wellll, OK, here's #3. Man, IRC was a blast, need to get back on there...

Non-stop Icon Marathon!
(for the GIF show now up in SF)

• New!!!!, Small tiling GIFs:
  Marathon 1, 2, 3
• 5.7MB fuzzy quicktime version
• Still image
  
  
• other folks' awesome stuff!

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