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ELECTRICPOETRY WEBSITE: BEST OF THE 70s-90s AND NEW 2008 POETRY 3/08

Come and Read Me Like A Book on the ElectricPoetry websiteAs of late March I've written eight poems so far this year. .As the years pass, I sometimes write a lot, as in 2004, or a scant few, like the only 14. pieces I wrote in 2007. So far, in 2008, even though the output is not great quantity wise, at least it's been consistent. When I post an "ElectricPoetry" post on my blog, WhenWordsCollide, I have attempted to include at least one new piece, and it's been working so far.

Beginning in mid 2007 I posted "10 Best Of" collections of poems on my blog from the decades of the Seventies, the Eighties, and the Nineties. I still have to collect the 10 Best of the Aughts, and before we know it, the Teens will be upon us. It's interesting for me to note that now my last decade's worth of poetry are all "internet poems" written in a computer Notepad program, and posted for the most part online instead of actually existing on a piece of paper, as most of the poems till 1999 were presented at first.

The ElectricPoetry site is constantly being upgraded, and even though I'm a little late getting the 2007 section completed and a 2008 section online, by year's end I do hope to have even better navigation, and some redesign of the older pages and sections to make navigating the site even easier.

MY OPERATIONS SERIES ON WHENWORDSCOLLIDE: JAWBREAKING IN HIGH SCHOOL 01-03/08
Read "Jawbreaking In High School" one of the Operations Series of essaysThere are now three selections in the "My Operations" series I've been posting on my blog WhenWordsCollide since August of 2005's "My Left Hip" about my hip replacement surgery back in 1993. The second selection was "My Colonoscopy" from March 2007and detailed the experience of having the "small invasive procedure." In February 2008 I began serializing "Jawbreaking In High School" about my broken jaw and the many operations it took to correct it. Part Two was added a few days later. Other selections in the series will show up on the blog and can be found on the :"tags" page for my blog under "operations".
THE CLOUDSCAPING PROJECT 01-03/08

"Cloudscaping" webshots folder added February 2008The sporadic California rainy season always provides the opportunity to get out and get some cloudscapes. One Friday evening after work, and right before a rainstorm,I was able to capture quite a selection of cloudscapes with the latest 7.2 megapixel camera, and they are online in my Webshots Gallery entitled "Cloudscaping"

Along with the Webshots Gallery, which contains over 100 photos taken that afternoon, right before sundown, I also completed an internet movie called "Cloudscaping"which is essentially a photo slideshow comprised of not only the photos in the latest Cloudscaping folder, but dozens of other cloudscaping photos taken over a four year period, and edited to the strains of traditional guitar music by fellow Xanga blogger Randy Van Otterloo (flatpick46 on Xanga) The video is 6 min. and 21 seconds long. Read the Director's Commentary on WhenWordsCollide.

BIG WEDNESDAY PROJECT 12/07

Watch "Big Wednesday Dreams"On Wednesday, the 5th of December, 2007, the biggest swells in over two years were predicted along the shoreline of California. I took a day off work to travel up the coast of California, taking photos and video of the monstrous waves and the collections of surfing aficianados who similarly took the day off work to ride the waves.

Although the conditions were less magnificent than predicted, I was able to cobble together a 12 minute video showing the swells at a number of beaches, and showcasing some interesting surfing footage.The video is located in my Xanga Video Section HERE. You can also read the Director's Commentary on my blog.

UPDATED COMPUTER COMPOSITE SECTION ON THE "YES, BUT IS IT ART? GALLERY" 12/07-01/08
A new composite called "Santa Monica Pier"Yes, But Is It Art? Gallery is over here. The year 2008 dawned with a major overhaul of the "Yes, But Is It Art? Gallery site on AllThingsMike. On December 29th and 30th,2007, I completed about a half a dozen new composites, including "Santa Monica Pier", a detail of which is onthe lef. Originally created as a "joke site" for the Komedy, Komedy, Komedy page, the Yes, But Is It Art? Gallery went legitimate in 2003, but wasn't really begun in earnest until the next year. The Art Gallery serves as an introduction to my Philosophy of Art, and also contains sections which highlight the "fine arts" in which I have dabbled, including drawing, photography, and computer composites. . Eleven new and recently found composites have been added to the Computer Art section. I have also added forward and back buttons on most of the recent works, for ease of maneuvering through the gallery. There are now 37 individual pages in the Computer Art section, dating back to 2000, when I got the Picture Publisher program and began making "composites", computer collages which first used images and clip art from the web and programs, and now mostly uses my own photography. Besides the refurbishing of the Art Gallery, there are also new USC logos composites featurd HERE on my blogsite, WhenWordsCollide. I finally received a better camera, a Sony Cybershot with 7.2 megapixels, and my first full photo expedition was to my old alma mater. The trip also gave birth to a collection of photos in my Webshots Gallery entitled "USC and Expostion Park".
THE "MIKEMORPH" AND "SKYLINE" MOVIEMORPHS 10-12/07

October 2007 brought the addition of the Morpheus software to my digital bag of tricks, and the first project, which can be seen to the left and in full size HERE, is the "MikeMorph", a series of photographs of me from the age of 5 to the present, at age 54. I have planned to have some sort of morph like this on "AllThingsMike"since I created this website, but haven't found the software I needed till now. The program outputs Flash files, animated gifs, and avi movie files that I can use in my video editing software for more varied effects. The second moviemorph is "Skyline", which clocks in at 3 minutes and 40 seconds, and presents a series of city skylines morphing from one to the other in front of a background of time lapse cloud photography culled from the internet. . Plans for more upcoming "MovieMorphs" include "DinoMorph", morphing a series of dinosaurs. I have also begun an internet movie incorporating the "MikeMorph" footage.

As I find new programs and can incorporate their use into my "electronic experiment in art", the only thing holding back my creativitiy is the time it takes to learn the programs and to execute the creations themselves. 2007 has seen a burst of moviemaking creativity, and the morphing program will ultimately be used to enhance my internet movies as well as come up with some interesting art projects on it's own.

WEBSHOTS GALLERY ADDITIONS

Part One of the new Santa Monica photo galleryThe latest folders to be added to my Webshots Gallery are "Santa Monica Part One and Part Two , joining recent additions "The Tall Ships" and "Long Beach's Ocean Blvd" Part One and Part Two . The photographic expedition to Santa Monica was taken on Dec. 1, 2007, and made because Southern California had a rare rainstorm on Nov. 30th. The next morning brought beautiful blue skies, lots of fluffy cumulus clouds, and seemed to be a great day for a photo expedition. The galleries containing photos for The Tall Ships and the trip along Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach, are companion selections of photos to the internet movies, which are featured below. These galleries contain the complete output of photography taken during the expeditions.

Santa Monica includes photos of the pedestrian walkway above Ocean Blvd and the famous Santa Monica Pier. The Tall Ships gallery contains onboard photos of the vessels. Ocean Blvd. details the architecture and ambience of Long Beach's Ocean Blvd. There are hundreds of high quality photos included in the three folders.

The Tall Ships photos have been added to my Webshots GalleryMy Webshots Gallery, featuring nearly 4000 photos, has recently had it's rating upgraded to #7 of over 13,350 member albums in the Travel: California section. That's not bad considering I only have a 1.2 Megapixel camera. I've been wanting to get a better camera, but while money is tight, I'll only be dreaming about it. I need an SLR with removable lenses. One great thing about the videocamera I'm using is the ability to attach a wide angle lens, and most of my "signature shots' are composed with the wide angle. I take mostly photos of landscapes, and architecture, and my PhotoPosts on my Xanga blog, WhenWordsCollide, like the post from Griffith Park, include "commentary" as if my readers are right with me as I travel around and take pictures. It thrills me to be featured as the #7 California photos user. I've seen this position rise from #11 to #9, before I added new folders, and now that I'm at least adding new folders every other month of so, possbily expect the rating to go higher.

"GREETINGS FROM OCEAN BLVD." PROJECT: SUMMER 2007

The Videoblog area has a place for comments on this video.Faced with monetary problems which prohibit me from taking "photo expeditions" too far from home, I spent a couple of weekends on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach this past summer, walking along photographing and videotaping my progress along the boulevard. The resulting "art projects" are the internet movie "Greetings From Ocean Blvd." and the Webshots Gallery photo folders of the same name. (Linked in the "Webshots Gallery Additions" entry below.) I've always attempted to see how steady I can hold the camera by hand without uisng a tripod, and then moving with balletic grace in order to achieve almost "steadicam" like shots in my "travelblogues" and internet movies. I think I achieved some excellent results with "Greetings From Ocean Boulevard". Plans are in the works for more "street specific" travelblogues centered on major Southern California thoroufares like Hollywood Boulevard.

Read the Director's Commentary on my blog.

 

Artistic representations of cartoon icon Betty BoopBetty has had a makeover. Fresh new content has been added to "The Betty Boop Pages", Besides new composites and images on the Home Page, the "Composites" and the "Cartoons" pages, there is also a new "MikeVideo Internet Movie" on the Home Page, , the second MikeVideo of mine featuring the risque cartoon character, called, simply "Betty Boop".

"Betty Boop" (10:00 min.) is an 36.1 megabyte windows media file with a resolution of 320 by 240pixels. It is a MikeVideo Internet Movie created Sunday, June 10, 2007. It is a compliation video showcasing selections from the original Betty Boop cartoons from the decade of the thirties. Consisting of differing scenes from roughly twenty Betty Boop catoons made from 1932 to 1934, I have included scenes which showcase the virtuosity of the Fleischer Brothers Studio product of the time, with stunning surrealistic animation, and "special effects" including the rotoscoping of dancing figures, Betty's risque sense of humor, the tendency for her to get herself in trouble, and lose her clothes, and her evocative singing voice, supplied by Mae Questel.
This marks the first major addition to "The Betty Boop Pages" website in two years, since the last internet movie, "Betty Boop Dreams", was added in 2006.

I'M TELLING MY STORY ONLINE: NOW PLAYING: JUNIOR HIGHJINKS

The Personal History of Michael F. NyiriMy ongoing autobiographical story has been updated through the eighth grade. The "Half Century" tab at the top of this page links to my "Personal History"which was begun when I turned my first half century on Earth. There are lots of assessments in life when one reaches the age of 50, and my prime assessment in 1999, at only 46, when I created this website, was to chronicle not only my various ongoing pursuits and projects, but to place my life in a historical and cultural chronology, and to chart the course of my life with my words. As I add chapters to this story, the "Half Centruy" tab will eventually link to my full autobiography. Other sections of the website deal with my "spiritual lifestory" and my "sexual lifestory". and there is some overlapping in themes and events, but "The Personal History" is the ultimate story of my long and eventful life. The first page has been updated and redesigned , and the second page, containing the years spent in junior high, has just been added.

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A Short History of AllThingsMike

I've been blessed with a charmed life, unaffected by the tragedy and mistrust which govern most lives. My life has been present during a rather turbulent time from a historical perspective, and I'm attempting to make sense of it all on this website. My electronic experiment in art is always expanding, to chart the course of this life, and the lives of my fellow humans trapped like me in a reality they never dreamed up or asked for.

My actual "life" began in 1953, but the website, while it would attempt to chart that life, would really start to chart the current, or "electronic life." It all started back in 1999, when I hit the age of 46, and developed an interest in the power of the computer to bring people together over the internet. I wanted to document my words, my art, my musings, and felt that the promise of the internet to enhance and stimulate creativity and the desire to create would eventually bring my art and musings to the masses, and in return, help my to find the muse which would stimulate all my misdirected energy into a "webpresence". I signed on to the budding GeoCities and Homestead web hositing sites (The charge was "free" in 1999) and began creating this "webpresence". My original overblown intentions were to archive my "complete works", poems and prose dating back over thirty years. In addition, I wanted to present "art" created with imaging programs and display my "video" movies.

The poetry never completely got transcribed, but the attempt is being made again. In 2004, I began the second incarnation of the ElectricPoetry website, and have transcribed a good many of my nearly 700 pieces of poetry written from 1967 to the present.

I was too far ahead of the curve with the video yearnings. The digital videocamera I purchased was in 1999. It is ancient by digital standards and does not input digitally to the computer. I got it before firewire and USB. I only recently purchased a video camera with a digital input for the computer. This has fueled my love of photography and videomaking. Photography is featured on my Webshots Gallery, and is always being updated. Lately, the "MikeVideo Internet Movies" and my latest video feature, the "Video Blog" can be found on my YouTube "channel".

The many urges I have to write are never completely satiated, and when I do write, which is seldom, the computer screen stares back at me and laughs like those blank pieces of paper staring from my typewriter so long ago. Now, thanks to a somewhat largish readership for my every-other-daily blog, WhenWordsCollide on the Xanga service, I am writing more than I have in a long time.

I keep paying for the privilege of keeping this site up and running, however, and every year there are more promises to myself to add some more content. When I began this present introduction, it was late 2003. It is now well into 2005, and another probably misdirected attempt is abrew to chronicle, to journal, to wax poetic and to philosophize. The New Year always brings promise, and I have always vowed not to break any promises. This year, as I promised last year at this time, I feel the need to wirte, to archive past writings, and to create art, in whatever form it feels it has to take.

Also, not to be forgotten, is my attempt to prophesize the Universal Truths which will sometime take root in the Universal Mind. This site grew considerably in 2004 and is slowly being added to in 2005..

The segmentation of the past forms of this website are slowly coalescing into something else, especially as I seem to use the Blogger programs like Xanga for the written word these days. If there are broken links, I vow to fix them. If there is a purpose, I vow to soon let myself know what it is. If I somehow, miraculously gain the readership I crave, and if I somehow start writing like I have vowed in the past, then perhaps I shall findl fulfillment. If you, dear reader, feel like you want to journey with me, to the past forms, the present musings, and the future of AllThingsMike, then click one of the clouds on the right, and come with me.

MFN,poet,philosopher,fool 12.27.03 (perpetually updated, most recently 7.25.06)

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