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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Work Slowdown, Apocalypse, Earth Qin
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:35:14 -0500 (EST)
Work Slowdown, Apocalypse, Earth Qin http://www.alansondheim.org/nny079.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/earthqin.mp3 */- Napped this afternoon; I'd been dreaming that our car was highjacked in NY somewhere near east of SOHO by three white punks, two guys and a girl with pink hair; I was driving, Azure with me, we were terrified, the girl reached between us and grabbed a sentimental carving of several people around a table that I'd given Azure; I thought this is it, turned the car around and floored it towards a barrier across the road, in a blurred apocalyptic landscape in pastel colors; as the car approached the barrier - as the barrier approached the car at a furious speed - I woke up - /* Due to recent events, I'm thinking about slowing down my daily work posting at this point (it began in 1994). My mind's getting the better of me; I have almost no access to tools and none to real-life community. My close friends and collaborators have disappeared; I have very few actual readers or listeners on Fb, almost none on the moribund G+. I don't want to complain about this constantly. I think what I've created on a daily basis, is of interest; I've turned increasingly to the natural world as I've felt unable to access much of the technology I otherwise need. I dream of Kickstarter as a way to fuel my work but I have no specific project in mind (more of a field of investigation). In the meantime, if you're interested in my work - alone or with others - pretty much everything recent is on my website, http://www.alansondheim.org , with additional videos on YouTube. The files date back at least to 1996 and are downloadable (file by file, but there are tools available for mass retrieval). I don't know of course how long I can keep it running; I pay for it. The point is, you can take what you want from it, as long as it's up; for me, that's also a form of dissemination and archiving. The whole runs to over 20 gb, which for 24 years of work isn't that much. (I do have archives, more or less, at three universities, but they're all out of date.) I urge you to save anything that might be of interest to you. I have a few venues coming up, and I do hope to keep going, in the form of DIM, do it myself (a dim light indeed) or working with Azure. And if you're ever in town (now Providence, hopefully somewhere else in the future), please contact me of course. Thanks, Alan EOF, end of file for the dead on the other side of the barrier - +++