{"id":642,"date":"2009-12-18T13:25:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=642"},"modified":"2010-01-08T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T17:49:21","slug":"e-hell-enough-guido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"E-hell – enough, Guido!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, and welcome to This Week In Opera<\/em>.\u00a0 Tonight’s special offering comes from the world of fractal art, an email list<\/a> for the fractal program, Ultra Fractal.\u00a0 What makes this opera so avante garde is that the performers believe they are actually participating in a online discussion, while only the audience knows they are in fact starring in an opera.\u00a0\u00a0 Even I was not so quick as to realize what was happening and before I realized it, had deleted half of the libretto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, I salvaged a few of the highlights from this opera verite, and can only hope, gentle viewers, that they will please you as much as the other great operas we have shared, here on This Week In Opera<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As always;\u00a0 my apologies to Verde.<\/p>\n

\"You
You have mail. And thus the curtain rises...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Listen!
Listen! Woman are raped to make cellphones!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Now
Now I have a good reason not to buy a cellphone. Thank-you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scoundrel!
Scoundrel! Will you expose your mind like this before the la-dies!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"There's
There's more! Children harvest the organs of our computers and toil amidst the graves of our machines. Look!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Enough!
Enough! Guido! E-hell! Stop it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Yes!
Yes! Oh Yes! Yes, YES!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brothers!
Brothers! Listen to what he says. I also see the Earth is melting and the moon has now been defiled; besides we can always use the label "OT" for filtering purposes. Figaro!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Enough!
Spam! Spamming the list! Spam! Spam! Stop the SPAM!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"you
I suggest maybe join Facebook and join (or create) a group there specifically to highlight your concerns. Oh, what a beautiful mornin', Oh, what a beautiful day! I got a beautiful feelin' Everything's goin' my way!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Listen!
You see, all these complaints about nothing are giving an extraordinary value to things that balanced people never would argue. From time to time somebody show up with a new orientation as if the aesthetical choices would break the peaceful order of the list. In the very examples of today\u00b4s messages you can see that some are fractalizing, others are presenting questions about hardware, looking for the benchmarking address... So life continues like every other day. Go ahead and make a good fractal instead to play as a corner policeman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Was
Was there a vote? Did I miss it? WHen did this group stop being about Ultrafractal?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ciao,
Ciao, ciao, CIAO! Don't misunderstand me. Ciao! The leucocytes! The heart! Ciao! The Fora! The Fora! The fora for-a you! Figaro! Bully! Netiquette! Ciao, ciao. But then you must also accept the consequences. Ciao! Ciao! C-I-A-O --Ciao!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Enough!
There seem to be no consequences! Just like in the Jos Boogen Era! I fear that the same is happening again now! Where are you, Damien, when you are needed?? Where? Where! WHERE!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Figaro!
Figaro! Script-aro! Why are you all, ta-alking so? I don't run the list, but I wil fix it -yo! Who's Guid-o???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"beting\"
Hi, all friends of the list! Stop the problems! Every thing has its time! In this festive season forget your problems and your difficulties for a short while: Enjoy, have a merry christmas and a h e a l t h New Year. "Today is my day!" I have posted the follow image last year. A friendly gentlemann, Erhard Waschke, member of this list, has told me, how to put my own name and othergood things (helps). I say "thanks" to all, who had help me! With heartly greetings!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"How
How long shall The Consequences wait! Am I nothing more than a phantom of the UF List? Ha! My head is burning. Always burning!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The End! This thread is now closed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bravo!
Bravo! Bravo! All is opera\/ nothing is opera. Master, is this not the way of The List?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good evening, and welcome to This Week In Opera.\u00a0 Tonight’s special offering comes from the world of fractal art, an email list for the fractal program, Ultra Fractal.\u00a0 What makes this opera so avante garde is that the performers believe they are actually participating in a online discussion, while only the audience knows they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":362,"url":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=362","url_meta":{"origin":642,"position":0},"title":"Fractal Woodburning","author":"Tim","date":"28 January, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not making this up.\u00a0 I went surfing about to see what I could find in the fractal world and lo and behold at Flickr, a couple of pages into a search on the term \"fractal\", I saw wires, boards and strange, curly burn patterns.photo by AetherPhoto caption from Aether's\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5625,"url":"https:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=5625","url_meta":{"origin":642,"position":1},"title":"Place: Where Art and Fractals Overlap","author":"Tim","date":"23 June, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"As I concluded in my previous posting, there are only two art genres which fractals are capable of contributing to: Abstract Expressionism and Landscape\/Place. 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