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Today I created some Propaganda Poster Art for Blizzard's StarCraft 2 Propaganda Poster Art Contest. I've always been a bit fascinated with propaganda poster art despite the sinister reality of it. UPDATE: It seems that my entry did not make it into the contest for some reason. I don't know why it was rejected but come the day voting was to start, it simply didn't appear in the gallery with all the other entires. What a disappointment. :(

Many things about this contest smelled fishy. From the contest getting a late start to several submitters saying that their poster didn't make it into the gallery. I'm incline to believe that the contest was either rigged or run by incompetent sponsors. Another issue that some people are pointing out involves how votes are cast. The gallery is divided into forty three pages with twelve entries per page. As was pointed out prior to the contest's voting phase, most votes are only occurring on the first four pages, given those entries that appear at the start of the list an unfair advantage to those listed in the pages following. Not exactly a fair system as it guarantees that entries listed on the first four or so pages get the most attention, and therefore the most votes.

While I enjoyed creating the poster, the contest has left a bad taste in my mouth. Ultimately, I should just stick to keeping my creativity focused on my own enjoyment of it rather then looking for some kind of acknowledgment from the world at large. Oh well.

To make a long story short, I responded to a comment on an article about how ASCAP was soliciting funds [twitter.com] to fight against what it states are the enemies of it's membership, namely the Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both of which support a "copy-left" philosophy in regards to "intellectual property", or more specifically, the choice of artists to freely distribute music recordings. To a comment made by Sarah Baird Knight to the article, I wrote a lengthy reply. The full article and comments can be found here [artsjournal.com]. Read on for my reply...

I've release a new track @ Zenapolæ today. It's called esion.2, a sequel of sorts to the first esion track I created a few years ago, in collaboration with Todd Christopher (aka Instruction Shuttle). Back then we both contributed a 15 minute track that was included in a 30 minute tape cassette release at a now defunct label called IFTWAKT. As with the original esion, I crafted a 15 minute track of mostly improvisational noodling in Abelton Live. The wandering melody you will hear in esion.2 was originally crafted by Guinevere Campbell (aka Datadrift) and through various effects processes morphed into something slightly different (as with all the sounds and noises you may hear). Click through to the Zenapolæ website to download the mp3. Enjoy! :D

I've uploaded a new zenCast Podcast to the Zenapolæ site tonight. zenCast 10 is an hour (or so) long mix of some of my favorite Zenapolæ tracks. You can download the podcast directly from the Zenapolæ site, subscribe to the feed via iTunes, the Feedburner feed, or you could use the direct feed link for whatever podcast application you may wish use.

Enjoy! :D

I've been coming across some great quotes which pretty much sum up my political idology. Without any commentary or fanfare...

A collection of my experimentations into a mix of dub and acid techno. I'll be updating this page with new files as I create them. Enjoy

I keep entertaining the debate on Apple's reign of tyranny over iPhone and iPad applications. Here is my recent outburst comment I made at gawker.com.

Here's a quick Tribal Ambient mix that I put together tonight to test out some new software called DJay. Read more for the track list and links to additional file formats. Enjoy!

I've gone and crafted a discography page for myself. Until I put this together, I hadn't realized how many "releases" I've generated over the years. You can find the Discography by clicking the "Sounds" menu item or this link http://zenasprime.net/?q=node/90. Enjoy! :D

A few weeks ago I traveled to San Francisco for the Game Developer's Conference 2010. This was my second year attending the conference and I had a great time. I posted a "brief" write up about my adventures at the conference, along with some photos, at 5h0cktr00px0rz.org. Check it out! :D Read more for some photos from my trip.