Tonight: <a href="http://fray.org/6/dc/">{ fray day 6 } Washington DC</a> Update: Well, it was incredible. They video'd the whole thing so if yer curious I bet u won't have to wait long. Miriam and I went with a really amazing friend of ours, Ryan. Both Ryan and I participated in the open mic, so that (I guess) will be on the site as well. I cursed a lot during my story--too much for my own taste if u can believe it! But besides that, we were really, really amazed at the quality of all the stories and the storytelling. The open mic was really incredible. It was a great night, indeed personifying my mission (s :: s :: b :: m). 81608339daniel millerSaturday, September 14, 2002publishUpdate: also realized the perfect name for this shot is "busking". <img src="images/dwm_azshoot2.jpg"> i've always liked this shot of me. never scanned it before 4 sum reason. mt. lemon, arizona, 1997. 81538012daniel millerThursday, September 12, 2002publish<a href="http://www.johnheronproject.btinternet.co.uk/">john heron project</a> ...the only thing that's half drinkable in the coffee machine is the hot chocolate. So he's drinking cup after cup of the stuff, having about the equivalent of seven or eight bars a day. Which leads to the problem. To wit: it's playing havoc with his libido... i'm not just saying this: JHP is getting better and better, and we know him when... Update: The woman at the agency says that they have a new opening: he can have a job as a fictional character. AHA! Art imitates life! 81536980daniel millerpublish<a href="tt.gif"><img src="tt.gif" height="213" width="150" align="left" border="1"></a>Yesterday's piece was truly postmodern: neither element was original. The image was a complete take on <a href="http://www.newyorker.com">New Yorker's</a> <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/covers/?011008on_onlineonly01">Sept 24, 2001 cover</a> by Art Spiegelman. I never saw the original magazine, but I heard about it during (I think) <a href="http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020904.me.06.ram">this NPR piece</a> (no HTML, link can <a href="http://www.npr.org/news/specials/091102reflections/year_since.html">found here</a>). The words, in case you live in a pop culture bubble, are from <a href="http://www.u2.com/">U2's</a> song, <a href="http://www.u2.com/lyrics/lyrics_p/lyrics.html">Peace on Earth</a>. Update: There are <a href="http://www.popexpo.net/eMain.html">a lot of people in the world today</a>. 4 of them visited my site yesterday. No, 2 or 3. 1 or 2 of those were me. And I know who one of the other 2 was. I can guess the last one. This is why I never had a site meter, dammit! And while I wanted to say FU to everyone else, and leave yesterday's install a gift to 2, I realized today that I didn't go to anyone else's site yesterday either. So I shall cast no stone, post this link, and then go wallow in my deepening depression. <a href="index.html.sep">Here's yesterday's version of the site, danielsjourney.</a> Update2: I forgot to mention, for non-tech types, if you have 800x600 screen resolution, hit F11 (fullscreen) to see the entire image. F11 again brings u back to normal. Update3: Thanks to all who emailed to tell me they visited the site 9/11! It seems my counter was a bit off! Cul. I'm not depressed anymore, either (but for other reasons!)... 81500417daniel millerpublish<a href="http://digitalfilmmaker.net/RSarajevo/sarajevo.html"><img src="http://digitalfilmmaker.net/RSarajevo/images/image7KC.JPG" border="1"></a> 81420083daniel millerTuesday, September 10, 2002publish<img src="http://www.irex.org/images/sarajevo.jpg" align="left" hspace="7">Just spent some QT at the <a href="http://www.javashack.com/">local coffee shop</a>, did my Bosnian homework and read this amazing article on Sarajevo that my teacher had given me on the first day of class last week. It was written by a local, and I'm going to keep the English mistakes in there for authenticity; in fact it makes it more poetic. I don't have a source reference at all... ...Here in Bosnia and Sarajevo, they are present in good deeds (and also in bad deeds) two and even three simultanious, of the same gender and alike, by partly faintly coordinated glances directed towards the same Sky, giving different prayers to another, but actually the same and only God. The various roads towards common goal and end. Various civilizations code, two or more hypotheses or dogmas on the one Truth unknown to everyone. It is here that those differences have been entering each other, which at any other point of their crossing would raise walls of separation between themselves... <a href="http://digitalfilmmaker.net/SarajevoRoses/Sarajevo_Roses_main.html"><img src="http://digitalfilmmaker.net/SarajevoRoses/images/Big%20Sarajevo%20Rose.jpg" align="right" border="1" hspace="7"></a>...Because of that quite unique and unrepeatable essence, because of that exclusive formula after which the being of Sarajevo has been created and its spirit normed, also other people always come here....They come so that each of them in their own way, after their own requirements, should look at themselves in reflection of the spirit and the being of Sarajevo, that is present here in anything visible and invisible, in something that you cannot touch and also something that you cannot reach or grasp, in everything that makes the life and duration of Sarajevo. All these people come here as though on pilgrimage to some kind of sanctuary that is indestructibly and divinely human.... They all come to leave a part of themselves behind, to build into the sense and symbolic of Sarajevo at least one sincere look, one real word of their own, one smile, one sigh...And also to take from here something of the treasures and gifts of Sarajevo...even multiplying Sarajevo that way... It came at the perfect time, as I struggle daily to get myself to my language training (I don't say Bosnian, because it wouldn't matter what language it was, I would struggle with it). A reminder as to why we have felt this pull towards this town of amazing circumstance and spirit... 81419493daniel millerpublish<a href="http://integration.danielsjourney.com/">http://integration.danielsjourney.com/</a> ...it's a start of something...just what remains to be seen...had a particularly late night last night (5am), and this was one of the results... 81419082daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.veronikalukasova.com/">http://www.veronikalukasova.com/</a> ...another person showing this month at Common Grounds 81400678daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org/index.php?archive=092002_header">September Seven Mag</a> is up and I've contrib'd the final <a href="http://www.sevenmagazine.org/index.php?archive=092002_04">My New Church</a> art. 81390116daniel millerpublishGB // artifacts <div style="background-color: black;"> <map name="FPMap0"> <area href="http://www.vaux.net" shape="rect" coords="170, 159, 199, 182"></map><img border="0" src="images/gb02/vaux_text.gif" usemap="#FPMap0" width="200" height="183"> </div> 81376225daniel millerMonday, September 09, 2002publishmy new biz card, for those that haven't seen it yet, anyway: <center>Daniel W. Miller human being www.danielsjourney.com</center> 81375923daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.felbers.net/blogger.html">Fanatical Apathy</a> The dinner-party question that most people have no problem with is always a real trauma for me: "So, what do you do?" Inevitably, a difficult negotiation process follows. Most people who ask that question want a nice, simple answer. That is why most careers have handy names like "architect," "corporate vice president," or "Supreme Overlord of the Xynok Nebula." But mine doesn't. So I hedge my bets, trying to feel out the interest level of my inquisitor... "Uh, lots of things, um, you know, acting, writing, sort of..." I always feel really lame at this point. If they nod and smile and change the subject, I want to yell, "How can you leave it at that? You don't have the foggiest idea of what I do, you smug, self-important architect/ vice president/ Overlord!" But if they're actually interested, it's even worse. I have to try to tell them... 81375713daniel millerpublish<a href="http://sonewmedia.com/catalog/index.pl/productDetail?product=2002_sfstories">So New Media: Books By Web Writers</a> San Francisco Stories by Derek M. Powazek 81374638daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/ir/micha/"><img src="images/blockedi.jpg" border="1"></a> <a href="http://www.we-blocker.com/demo/demo3.html">....</a> 81333572daniel millerSunday, September 08, 2002publish<a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/smallfire/Dgracepage14.html"><img src="images/gb02/identity11i.jpg" align="left" border="1"></a>GB02 <a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/smallfire/Dgracepage14.html">Small Fire - Grace</a> 81333278daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.btinternet.com/~smallritual/smallfire/Dsancpage3.html">Small Fire - Sanctuary</a> 81332201daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/miriam/">Miriam's Journal</a> and once again, bargaining made my day 81332165daniel millerpublish