Since years and years, the AFNIC (the association that rules the .fr domain names) restricted the ".fr" domain names to companies and associations, "moral beeings", and strictly forbid individual people to buy those names.
They must have thought we, french citizens, physical beeings, were just useless pieces of $!&='?, with no idea and no need for a domain name.
I guess they thought the web was just a marketplace. Somewhere to sell and buy things. Another marketting tool. They may have been scared to have too much work handling random ppl requests, it's so much easyer to work with companies and associations. They are in CHARGE of the .fr, and as usual in france when handling the "public property", their goal was to make this charge as light as possible ;)
But maybe i'm wrong there, and maybe .fr shouldn't be considered something every french citizen should be able to own. A public property.

Anyway, the result is that .fr names were just forgotten. It was just too long and painfull to get them. Not even talking about the prices which were nothing like decent and justified. The french communities and ppl just switched to ".com", ".net" or the other domain names in other countries we could get easyer. Time after time, it became clear that ".fr" domains were no place to find anything interesting, creative, artistic or FREE (except products to buy and localised companies websites).

Looking at the massive adoption, use and spread of german ".de" domain names, the gap with ".fr" names became obvious.

Suddainly, last week, the AFNIC decided to wake up from a long long sleep. They must have realised we are the very last bunch of people refusing to recognise the right of physical beeings to acquire french domain names. Maybe they had a look at the german statistics and the "80% of the .de domains owned by physical beeings" stat made them face the truth, they are years LATE ! Yes, once again, france is years late!
All in all, now that the grateful companies have been well served, we, simple people, can now lick the bones and fight for the remaining pieces of rotten meat.

My friends,
I'm sad to see the way we were treated.
Lets show them what they can do with their ".fr" domains.
Lets not give them a second chance, they may look victorious and claim how right they were and how smooth it all went.

My french friends,
may you BOYCOTT the ".fr" for all your creative activities ! Do not offer it the light it doesnt deserves. Do not help this supermarket to shine. May ".fr" domains forever be a sad place, for sad people. A place with no freedom, as it's always been !

Today is a good day!

The Kewlers gang just released the secret Variform musicdisk.



Variform musicdisk / KEWLERS


Links:
::: Direct Download (kwl_vmdk.zip)
::: Comment the production (pouet.net)

All the tracks are remixes of the original tune by "Mel Funktion & Little Bitchard"

Here is the tracklisting:
01 - LB - Vocoder Rap remix
02 - Alkama - MultiForm remix
03 - Frequent - Frequentform remix
04 - Odex - Odex remix
05 - Takomo - Takomo remix
06 - Dixan - Varifoam remix
07 - Frequent - Sorryform remix
08 - Pinza - Horn-y House remix
09 - Fred Funk - Scientyst remiks
10 - Gargaj - Surface mix
11 - Wonder - Wonder remix
12 - Optimize & Lug00ber - Optimize & Lug00ber remix
13 - Jari Pitkänen - Sinus
14 - Mel Funktion & Little Bitchard - Variform Beta (Bonus Track)
15 - Mel Funktion & Little Bitchard - Variform Instrumental (Bonus Track)

You'll need a PC to launch it (maybe osx ports will surface soon).
BUT a playlist is joined, and the mp3 files are to be found in the "./music/" directory , so you can still play the tracks on you favorite player from any OS, or put them on your pods.

It's quite large (100mb), but i think you wont be disapointed.

Hoye hoye brothers and sisters !!!!

Tpolm lazy sunday radio worldwide this sunday!
Streaming LIVE sets, good times, samosa and chutney all day from all around the world!
To listen you will need one of iTunes, Winamp or VLC.

The reference url is www.tpolm.com, it'll soon be updated with informations.

Spread the word and send this to everyone you think would like to listen!


BARCELONA
1400 tpolm dj's
1500 crankshaft (katastro.fi / Merck)
1600 bauri (Neo Ouija / New Speak)
1700 eedl (Spa.RK)

MADRID
1800 rec_overflow (Spa.RK / Plataforma LTW)

HELSINKI
1900 3L rekcrods

LEIPZIG
2000 Pause 20

TURKU
2100 Lunaire

PARIS
2200 It sounds sensual

OSLO
2300 xhale (Merck/Miasmah)

MIAMI
0000 DJ Merck (Merck)



PS: now, the game is to guess when i'm gonna play ;)

(I was 5 or 6 years old)

I hear a squeaking, cracking noise, as if a toast the size of a whole city was slowly crushed.

I awake with a soggy head, but I feel waked up. The shutters are closed and feverish nets of light cross them while beaming up towards the wall. Looking closer, they waver slightly. The hardly perceptible spots of light seem to be in motion.

Suddenly I got the feeling that a tension invested the room, the street, the city, the whole world. I sensed like if the sky was getting closer and closer. I'm trying to understand the squeaking noise that awoke me. I'm focusing the outside, behind the shutters, till the walls are made transparent. I "see" the deep-ocean blue sky. It's drowned under a thick sea of clouds. Some weak gleams seem to move inside the mass, as if a spotlight was running across.

Then falls a large exploding flash. I quit exploring. I fear to witness something which I wasn't to see.

A few seconds later, a huge noise, like a tearing. The walls of my room seems to shake, so does my bed. I imagine a torn sky from which crack a million small vague things are output. I can feel them blowing and falling, ready to invade the world!

Here they are, striking the ground. At first they are very few. "They must be soft, the percussion noise is mute". But their crowd is getting denser. I hear some bursting on my window. My belly hurts like if I'd eaten a ball.

"God, they are really numerous", I cant count them anymore. "What if I looked outside?" Nah! I don't want to get up. Moreover, if I see them they may see me too. It can be they're just "passing by" when everyone's asleep. But then why am I not asleep too? "Why did it had to be me!"

Even stronger lights intermittently crush the beamy nets of my shutters. I can hear, afar in the night, new tears appearing in the sky.

"Some more are coming?" No, it's impossible, there will be no air left. Moreover I wont bear it! I'm dead afraid, terrified. I'm trying to concentrate on the sounds. I have to know if they come towards me. I try to mute my sounds, to control my breathing.

A flash falls very close to my house, the howl of the thunder is instantaneous.

"Thunder? Water noises? It is raining? It was raining from the start?!"

It's clear now I'm all awoken. Outside stands the storm, unchained.
It frightens me, but it feels so much better.

The world will keep on turning...

..."and they did not see me".

Tonight it's all decided ! I'll write here about those terrors I had when I was a child. First to have them somewhere, and because maybe it may be interesting for you too. It's said that nightmares tell a lot about ppl doing them.

Such an amount of decency being unnecessary, I finally decided to show you a little bit more the whole extent of my madness.

I remember back when I was a child I was prone to many night-time terrors.
Prone to strange but tough nightmares.
Not to those which are meaningless but to those which seem plausible and mix with a faded reality.
Those which one does while believing it's all for real.
Most of the time, those nightmares were closely related to sounds, noises or musics which terrified me.

At that particular time I was traumatised by an album called "Onyx" produced by a duet called "Space Art" (electronic music made in the late 70's, with tortuous and violent sounds, full of complex harmonies and mind-blowing melodies).

Just to put the things into perspective, lets describe where I lived back then:

I spent all my childhood in a city of the south of France. In a house made of 4 floors, bordering a broad boulevard. It was a tad oversized for my small family.
- The ground floor: the kitchen and an almost unused living room.
- First floor: my room, the one of my brother.
- Third floor: the room of my parents, the bathroom, and a TV/HiFi corner with a tiny wooden staircase which climbed toward the
- Fourth and last floor: a terrace.
A house all in height, with a central staircase which separates the different rooms.
As a significant detail, note that the (unused) living room had a chimney whose neck passes by my room, the room of my parents and outs at the terrace. It's important because of the noise that can be heard through it.

Now that the description's completed, let us come in to the facts, those nightmares.
I'm gonna try to describe you some of those which I still recall in the upcoming posts.

Somehow I'm finally back to coding my engine.
Dunno what made me back to serious code but the fact is that I find it fun again and I feel it's time to empty all those remaining ideas that bounce violently in my head.

I started porting Djinns3D to DirectX, using high dynamic range surfaces.
Here is a shot of an effect I ported and used as a testscene.



directx 9, hlsl, hdr surfaces, homemade 3ds mesh, one single texture for metal bump


Hum, I remember I spent too much time modeling this poor shit, trying to look like one of the room of "cube, the movie"...
I take it as an absolute confirmation I got NO talent as a 3d artist...
Not that I ever had any talent as a graphician.
Sometimes I dream Santa Claus would bring me some female 3d artist for christmas (but 2005 was relatively disappointing on this topic)

Yesterday, I felt the creamy fulbogs were interfakting the brenovitzian patterns of disctinct biometry;
and thus discriminated the factor of dismerssion of every clapturial liquids, which is dangerous!

By the way, i've been told that brownian closures were bigger than the spin number.
That's very unsatisfying, i'll have to recalc all the ++- at time 0 in the verbatim field of vectorised factors...

I hope the power rangers will help...

Rhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Oh joy!!! a mp3 official shop, with huge encodings (up to 320kbps) for electronic music, including labels that do RULEZ!

I am happy, but my credit card isnt.



kompakt-mp3.net, the dream shop that do respect you (and your ears)

And a happy birthday to dakito !

Yeaaaaaaaah!!!

Yesterday I learnt Halcyon (the best demogroup ever) released a DVD with all of their major productions!
You cant imagine my joy!
All their old good demos now easy to watch.
especially the incredible hplus and chimera, the holy prods that touched and still touch me every single time I watch them.


When you'll reach this logo for the first time, you'll understand you just lived something extraordinary

This is a must download guys! You cant live without it!

• Scene.org link to download "Halcyon dvd"


• Halcyon's website

Sometimes it just seems to work.

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Ce matin est bien triste.
Pour me réveiller je voulais un peu de musique. La sélection aléatoire m'a joué un bien mauvais tour.
Dés les premières secondes je savais que j'allais frissonner tout le long.
Et ce fut le cas.
J'en ai même pleuré...

"Claude Nougaro - Déjeuner sur l'herbe" (album: Embarquement immédiat - EMI)

As usual, brothers and sisters, and since I'm so predictible, I know you already guessed it's time for another preview song.
More candy for your ears? I dont think so! It's still as stupid. But this time maybe more moody and detailed.
The mixing is horrible, for sure.

Alkama - Everlasting Winter [preview] (4:22)
Sweet and moody this time.

PS: some of you may ask what happen to all those preview tunes I push here and there on this blog.
Well, the answer is simple: nothing. I first thought I left them mature in a corner to come back later and finish them. But it's just wrong.
Some of them can be considered as final, de facto.
The ones I like (or you liked) may be re-mixed and end on Djinns.org someday.

Il vaudra toujours mieux faire ce que l'on aime qu'aimer ce que l'on fait.
Vouloir les deux est utopique.

deux peaux qui se touchent
doux mélange des bouches
dans les vapeurs d'alcool.

deux peaux qui se frôlent
rêvent d'un monopole
qui ne durera qu'une nuit.

deux peaux qui s'effleurent
bruissent d'un bonheur
qui jamais ne plisse.

deux peaux qui se lissent,
vision des délices
qui jamais ne meurent.

Good!
it's all over!!! i'm back to the web... with a 23000kbps line!

From 8000k to 54k...

I feel like I live in the middle of the 90's, except I dont use an amiga anymore.

Damn!

My home internet connection is down...

A month ago my phone line was cut. Once reopened, I was told I couldnt keep my previous number.
I contacted my provider: when renumbered you have to unsubscribe then subscribe a new internet connection! It's considered as a flat change.
Stuck...

I had to wait a month to get a telephone bill, necessary to suscribe the new net connection. This was last week.
Now I'm waiting for the subscription to be taken into account, then I'll have to wait for a new modem to be sent, and finally for the ADSL connection to be established.
Should take two weeks... That's what they said... Lets expect it to last another month.

Be back in march so, or maybe not...