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[Brad Brace] wrote:
> 
>                     _______ _            __ ___  _
>                    |__   __| |          /_ |__ \| |
>                       | |  | |__   ___   | |  ) | |__  _ __
>                       | |  | '_ \ / _ \  | | / /| '_ \| '__|
>                       | |  | | | |  __/  | |/ /_| | | | |
>                       |_|  |_| |_|\___|  |_|____|_| |_|_|
>            _____  _____ ____  _   _            _ _____  ______ _____
>           |_   _|/ ____|  _ \| \ | |          | |  __ \|  ____/ ____|
>             | | | (___ | |_) |  \| |______    | | |__) | |__ | |  __
>             | |  \___ \|  _ <| . ` |______|   | |  ___/|  __|| | |_ |
>            _| |_ ____) | |_) | |\  |     | |__| | |    | |___| |__| |
>           |_____|_____/|____/|_| \_|      \____/|_|    |______\_____|
> 
>                        |  __ \         (_)         | |
>                        | |__) | __ ___  _  ___  ___| |_
>                        |  ___/ '__/ _ \| |/ _ \/ __| __|
>                        | |   | | | (_) | |  __/ (__| |_
>                        |_|   |_|  \___/| |\___|\___|\__|
>                                       _/ |
>                                      |__/
> 
> > > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A
> `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery by Brad Brace.
> The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it
> suspends identity, relations and history.
> 
>                        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 90`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in
> the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the
> everyday...
> 
>         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.
> 
>   An extension of the printed ISBN-Book series... critically acclaimed...
> imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced over time...
> ineluctable, vertiginous connections.
> 
>                               [ see ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/books ]
> 
> KEYWORDS: >> Promulgated, de-centered, ambiguous, homogeneous,
> de-composed...  >> Multi-faceted, excentric, oblique, obsessive, obscure,
> opaque...  >> Personal, permeable, reckless, provocative, poetic, plural,
> perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological...  >> Evolving, eclectic,
> egregious, exciting, entertaining, entropic, erotic, indigenous,
> entrancing, enduring...
> 
>         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.teleport.com/~bbrace/12hr.html
>   Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files
>   more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...
>   Or -> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/bbrace.html
> 
> ~ Download from ->  ftp.pacifier.com  /pub/users/bbrace
>   Download from ->  ftp.netcom.com  /pub/bb/bbrace
>   Download from ->  ftp.teleport.com  /users/bbrace
>   Download from ->  ftp.rdrop.com   /pub/users/bbrace
>   * 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.ar                    ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au
>   ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuggart.de           ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu
>   ftpmail@ieunet.ie                     ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk
>   ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt               ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za
>   ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se                  ftpmail@ftp.luth.se
>   ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw               ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu
>   ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu               ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
>   ftpmail@census.gov                    ftp-request@netcom.com
>   bitftp@plearn.bitnet                  bitftp@dearn.bitnet
>   bitftp@vm.gmd.de                      bitftp@plearn.edu.pl
>   bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu             bitftp@pucc.bitnet
>   *                                     *
> 
>   WWW by email: agora@www.undp.org  w3mail@gmd.de  webmail@www.ucc.ie
>                 agora@dna.affrc.go.jp  agora@info.lanic.utexas.edu
> 
> ~ 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 groups:
>   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-three years in the making. While the specific sequence of
> photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 10 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. Send
> e-mail to:  listserv@netcom.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg
> 
> --
> This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some
> opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of a
> CD-ROM archive of sequenced 12hr-ISBN-JPEG imagery. Other supporters
> receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books.
> 
> --
> 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.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace]
> 
> --
> (c) No copyright 1995,1996,1997  <bbrace@netcom.com>
> 
> --
> __
 

Could be something in all this with text - chuck a 
heap of words together and get a program to toss 
them out as poetry/prose every so many hours..