"Svetlana Khorkina Slandered by Xinhuanet" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: web

08/25/04 10:17 - ID#31175

Svetlana Khorkina Slandered by Xinhuanet

Once again I was reading the Chinese News at xinhuanet.com and found an article on the now famous gymnast Svetlana Khorkina from the olympics. The have this whole gallery

of her life. Check out the above link for the full-sized pics, there are about 100. At first it looks so innocent. Pictures of this little gymnast, followed by pics of her childhood. Then you keep scrolling and find what looks to be trashy porn. I guess it shows you never know when stuff will catch up with you. It is a shame that on this tribute to her achievements, they have this smut.

The first one and maybe even the second picture "could" have been for some artistic purpose.

This third one was clearly porn. I airbrushed it a little to make it appropriate for my journal. Look at the scruffy man behind her in the shadow with his hand on her shoulder. He looks about 50 and she was born in 1979.! She must have been in some really desparate time. Here

in the actual text of the article, they don't mention those pictures at all.

What a shame that a women who has made it so far is reduced to a man toy with this picture. I guess it's her own fault. It even kind of even shames the olympics a little. Why do you think she would do it. I mean she could have posed naked in some much less skanky way and definately without the man in the shadows.

Here is an exmaple of what would have been better. These two Olympians posed for studiomagazines

(I found this through Xinhuanet too ) Click on Athens Dream. These pictures are so much better. They are showing off the prowess of the olympians bodies without compromising them in a sexual nature or degrading them as Svetlana's pictures did.

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Category: estrip

08/24/04 06:30 - ID#31174

Action Needed

In reference to my previous articles [inlink]paul,1835[/inlink] and [inlink]paul,1823[/inlink], I would just like to reiterate the fact that while I am reliable for the technical side of stuff, I am notoriously bad at social networking. I can't even talk about the site in public because I can't overcome the angry feeling I get when people assume I am trying to sell something. I am definately not a salesman. That is my achilles heel. Seriously, I have a hard enough time ordering pizza.

Most people wouldn't guess this because if you know me personally, I am very social and talkative. It's just strangers.

I think that's why the site grew so slowly last year. I can't imagine how much different it would have been if I had really promoted it to people on the street and at festivals, etc. My goal for the summer was 300 people and we are at 115 now on Auguest 28th. I could barely deal with holding the microphone for the video interviews.

So, do we have anyone who can offer those kind of skills. There has to be a PR person out there, who can interface with the public.

It is very important right now because the last important summer event is coming this weekend. I would like us to have a big presence at the elmwood art festival. It is a hige chance to recruit people to write about their elmwood experience and make this historical record much bigger. We are at 4494 journals and about 6,000,000 letter typed.

Our house, as most of you know, is right on the street at the festival. Usually the stage is locate dright outside our window. Anyways, I need ideas and helpers? Anything? Anyone?

We will definately do more interviews. Anyone want to participate? ANyone have ideas that can really be implemented in one week?

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Category: design

08/24/04 05:36 - ID#31173

Low Poly Renders

I was working on some really low poly heads with hair to demonstrate how few polygons can still confer an idea of the subject. It's kind of like line drawing with few lines.

Here I made the hair bigger than the head, so that it looks like a hood.

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08/23/04 01:39 - ID#31171

What's up with Paul

Well, as the summer winds down, I find myself overwhelmed with little projects I have created for myself. There is only one week left and I have about 1000 things to do for the site, 3D modeling, planning syllabi, etc.

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08/22/04 02:02 - ID#31170

Democracy Building in the Dry Desert

This is the democracy- building, miracle piss that America promised Iraq before the war. It helps the democracy plant grow out of the dry desert ground.

This image would have never made it into the history books of the past, which have now been replaced by the internet. Thank you google for sewing our historical quilt even if you do support terrorists [inlink]paul,1820[/inlink] (just kidding)

Maybe this is a common democracy-building technique. It is hard to know without having had digital cameras and an internet back in 1776. Perhaps, if we had the internet back then, we would have a picture of George Washington pissing on King George's portrait.

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08/21/04 01:30 - ID#31169

Microsoft Translation Mess

A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.

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Category: events

08/21/04 01:09 - ID#31168

The party Was Crazy

Everyone is still recovering from the party last night. It was nuts. Lots of people recorded the event, so I hope to see some good pics of the actual event here. I only took pics afterwards. We had at least 104 people at the party according to (e:jill) 's list, which I think is quite accurate.

I believe the last people left around 7. It was such a diverse crowd of people, many of whom did not know each other, but everyone got along great.

(e:lilho) worked the bar most of the night. She actually made $16 in tips.

Somewhere, there is a whole video of that, which I will post as soon as it is edited and compressed. Thank you (e:soyeon) for bringing your camera dn the delicious ham sushi.

Everything got really dirty. This is a picture of t he kitchen floor to give you an idea. The whole apartment is pretty nasty though, we will have a full day of cleaning ahead but I am the only person up so far.

(e:terry) took a Claritan D and past out in the living. His alergies must have been really bad.

(e:mike) went to bed early, first on top of (e:jill) 's car and then with a little work getting him back into the house, he fell asleep on the floor. Basically, how any 21st birthday party should be celebrated.

(e:matthew) 's friend's Christine and Tony came out. They brought a giant high heel pinata which complimented our parrot pinata for a dual pinata party. There was so much candy, I think that is why so many people satyed so long. Pinata's are a bad idea in the long run, they made a giant mess and now there are 3000 peices of candy to pick up.

Here is the kitchen sink, like any surface in the house it is covered in bottles. You can see the parrot pinata's head above the sink.

The Kitchen table is the same way. It will be so fun cleaning.

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Category: design

08/19/04 04:43 - ID#31167

New Character

Well, I am still working on this VR world for Josephine. My version of the cat monkey doesn't look like how she wants it probably but I fell in love with it now after 8 hours and its not going to change much.

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Category: pets

08/18/04 07:26 - ID#31166

Some Picture of The Garden

These are pictures from the garden, paul style.

This is my boot. I love this boot, it has been all over the world. Basra loves to eat my boot.

He also like to eat flowers and started trying to walk on two legs in order to reach them today. It was a small step for a tortoise and a giant step for tortoisekind.

In celebration of his acheivment I made a little leg art, to show off his tough legs.

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Category: opinion

08/18/04 04:44 - ID#31165

Misunderstanding

Holly - [inlink]holly,87[/inlink]
Ajay - [inlink]ajay,89[/inlink]

You all could not have read my whole journal because it never says that I want google to take stuff down or censor it. It states multiple times that I am against internet censorship. It was just mentioning that the issue brings up lots of questions about ethics and responsibility.

I did, however, say the people hosting the information on their server are a bit responsible for the information. It is on their computers after all. They are not just cataloging as google is! They are actively distributing this type of information.

If you are refering to this :
"Do you think America should declare war on Google(just before their Stock Market launch), as well as, on the country that is serving this document to google? "

I was simply being sarcastic and saying that it was in line with current government policies and last two wars that we fought. I don't even know how you could take it seriously as it mentions America starting a war with an American corporations. Sorry if you misunderstood what I was saying. The osama picture was part of the joke.

[size=m]What is this about?[/size]
Holly, what is this part supposed to mean, " . . on what Paul considers unsavory or even dangerous information on the internet." You make it sound like I have this weird fringe opinion that the Terroist Handbook is both dangerous and unsavory. Or are you trying to say you find the Terrorist Handbook both savory and harmless?

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