_______ _ __ ___ _
|__ __| | /_ |__ \| |
|_| |_| |_|\___| |_|____|_| |_|_|
| | | '_ \ / _ \ | | / /| '_ \| '__|
_| |_ ____) | |_) | |\ | | |__| | | | |___| |__| |
| | | | | | __/ | |/ /_| | | | |
|_ _|/ ____| _ \| \ | | | | __ \| ____/ ____|
_____ _____ ____ _ _ _ _____ ______ _____
| | | (___ | |_) | \| |______ | | |__) | |__ | | __
|_____|_____/|____/|_| \_| \____/|_| |______\_____|
| |__) | __ ___ _ ___ ___| |_

|_| |_| |_|\___| |_|____|_| |_|_|
_| |_ ____) | |_) | |\ | | |__| | | | |___| |__| |
|_| |_| |_|\___| |_|____|_| |_|_|
| | | | | (_) | | __/ (__| |_
|_| |_| \___/| |\___|\___|\__|
_/ |
|__/

Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A

`round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad Brace.
The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it
suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from
determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which
it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves
no privilege to any center.


The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project
-----------------------------
began December 30, 1994


Classic Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... perfect
trans-avant-garde memes for the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in
the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the
everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events.

A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of
imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact,
collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey
imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact;
an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the
Net.

An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically
unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced
over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone...

[ see ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/netcom/books.txt
bbrace.laughingsquid.net/books.html ]

KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered,
de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless...

Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate...
Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative,

poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless...

Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, exciting,

entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring,
expansive...

Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em,
trade `em, print `em, even publish them...

Here`s how:

~ Set www-links to -> http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html (Who's computer is this?)
-> http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html (Who's computer is this?)

Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files
more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...

~ Download from -> ftp.pacifier.com /pub/users/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.idiom.com /users/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.eskimo.com /u/b/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.mashica.com /12hr
Download from -> hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au

* Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg


~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to
do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the
server address nearest you:
*
ftpmail@ccc.uba.arftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au
ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuggart.deftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu
ftpmail@ieunet.ieftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpmail@archie.inesc.ptftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za
ftpmail@ftp.sunet.seftpmail@ftp.luth.se
ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.twftpmail@oak.oakland.edu
ftpmail@sunsite.unc.eduftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
ftpmail@census.gov
bitftp@plearn.bitnetbitftp@dearn.bitnet
bitftp@vm.gmd.debitftp@plearn.edu.pl
bitftp@pucc.princeton.edubitftp@pucc.bitnet
**

~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!
The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg
Average size of images is only 45K.
*
Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror
*

~ Postings to usenet newsgroups:
alt.12hr
alt.binaries.pictures.12hr
alt.binaries.pictures.misc
alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc

* * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups!
(There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent,
Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant)

~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began in earnest on
December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over
twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence of
photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 12 years` worth
of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing
publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting
is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection,
interruption, and assimilation.

~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural
projects and sources.

~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and
occasional commentary related to this project has been established at
topica.com

--
This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some
opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of
editions of large (33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet duotones
or extended-black quadtones. Other supporters receive rare copies of the
first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books. Contributions and email
subscriptions are also accepted at
http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html (Who's computer is this?)

--
ISBN is International Standard Book Number. Jpeg and gif are types of
image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or
translate these images. [ftp://ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/netcom/ (Who's computer is this?) ]

--
(c) Credit appreciated. Copyleft
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