angelo asked me to model for his photo over a webcam for his silver couch series.

angelo always wants me to take my shirt off, whatever it is we do he is always saying: please be half naked.

sometimes i think he just wants me to get half naked and invents these projects. i mean he is gay and i am not, but of course i do not mind it, i spend most of the time half naked as i do sports and sleep and all that. i have spent last 5 years in constant summer so i am more into half naked than full clothed.

i like the screenshot i made while he spoke. i always like to record angelo when he does not know. i have collection of chats with him from like 5 years ago. i will keep them forever.

here’s the result.

nicolas roope made hulger and hulger made pappa*phone. nicolas is a strange but cool friend. we have done somethingnew.info project in london and last year he drove all the way to sherbourne to meet me for indian dinner after i have finished an ironman.

anyway, hulger phones are nice. i did get one for my dad and was too lazy to use it, but i just love the idea. you can plug them in skype or your cell phone. you have to buy one to be cool.

anyway hulger is how businesses should be. super designed and relaxed. i can not describe it but i like how nicolas manages this business (he is not alone but i see his influence).

nicolas is also founder and creative director of poke london and was founder of oven digital (for those who remember the late 90s era of web development). nic is also brother of tom roope who worked as “chief” or whatever digital guy in tomato. we paid tom few years ago to do a lecture for one of my non profit initiatives – festival called njumedija_ (website is off, only thing that survived time is a poster on my wall made by anselmo tumpic, now into ads in milano).

nic and tom were part of antirom but thats another story.

blah blah blah… lots of history…

cool guy, cool company, cool product…

buy it!

nikola:
i dont know
its expensive to go to peru

blakey:
yeah but when u get here, everythings cheap

nikola:
thats what they said of south africa but its not like that :)

blakey:
you can stay at our house and not have to pay for hotel

nikola:
yeah but ill be bored after few days, than ill rent some hookers and that will cost me, than they will rob me, than i will chase them and their pimp will beat me up, than i would end up in a hospital and i would pay a fortune for that, my mom would be histerical and would fly over and thats a huge cost etc

you see

its expensive

mai ueda:

hey

nikola tosic:

hey

mai ueda:

what u doin?

nikola tosic:

just checking the news

mai ueda:

i am in thailand
i am looking 4 a designer
4 my business card
,aybe u can design for me?
i already have an idea and is urgent…

nikola tosic:

do u have money?
u want it for free or for money?

mai ueda:

is exp?
i have no money
only ideas

nikola tosic:

ill deisgn it for free actualy for u
i forgot u r neen

mai ueda:

i can do u favor in return

nikola tosic:

but i u have an idea why do yo need me
no no its fine
sorry i forgot
but i design cards with my ideas

mai ueda:

cause i need somebody with good taste who can get the idea

nikola tosic:

i do not work with your ideas

mai ueda:

sja;; i show u my idea?

nikola tosic:

nope

mai ueda:

ok

nikola tosic:

i can do a business card for you if u trust me 100% to do what i want
otherwise u can make it yourself in any software, you do not need me

mai ueda:

i have very good idea thogh

nikola tosic:

thats the point
u dont need me than

mai ueda:

i dont have any software at the moment
i have no computer
i am at internet cafe
and is urgent

nikola tosic:

how urgent

mai ueda:

in 2 or 2 days
1 or 2

nikola tosic:

and whats your idea?

mai ueda:

nikola tosic:

u want your business card to be like a gold buion

mai ueda:

yea!

nikola tosic:

sorry can not do that

mai ueda:

u like?
why?

nikola tosic:

if u check my work u will see i never work with such image heavy stuff

mai ueda:

true

nikola tosic:

i do not know how ot edit images like that, it would take me like few days of non stop work to figure it out for it to be done properly

mai ueda:

is more rafael u think?

nikola tosic:

u need someone skilled with photoshop, someone from advertising
rafael does not do this stuff either
if u want the idea to work it has to be realistic

mai ueda:

or it can be redesigned in black and gold

nikola tosic:

rafael does vector stuff well, not image manipulation

mai ueda:

it can be cartoony i think

nikola tosic:

than rafael can do it

mai ueda:

inspired by gold bar

nikola tosic:

what i mostly do is use text and content as my strength
not visuals

mai ueda:

or shall it be realistic?

nikola tosic:

if u want this to be really as a gold buion u need one of those guys from advertising image editing and manipulation
or 3d
probably an expert with hotoshop
i dont know what ur idea is
u can do a gold color with basic text and no one will get that its gold buion
but it will be gold etc

mai ueda:

true

nikola tosic:

but for it to look like gold it needs to be very good photoshop work and good print
basically a very expensive business cards
heavy paper, super quality print

mai ueda:

yea
true

nikola tosic:

i do not do this, even if i had the will and time i do not have the skills

mai ueda:

i see

nikola tosic:

i do not think anyone in neen does this kind of things

mai ueda:

is cheap and quick here to do cards

nikola tosic:

not like this
if u want it done right

mai ueda:

yea
i tried to look for photoshopper here but did not find

nikola tosic:

what would be cool is to actually do a gold buion with you rname and take a photo of it
that would be cool

mai ueda:

i have a firend i may ask her
is it better?

nikola tosic:

i u can afford it it is better, u would need few thousand dollars to buy the gold though :)
sorry its spelled gold bullion

mai ueda:

yea

nikola tosic:

u need 20561 euros to get a kilogram of gold
that would be a cool business card
to buy gold, carve it in your own style (rough) and than take a photo of it

mai ueda:

u checked?
it can be cool actually

nikola tosic:

and you just give polaroid photos of it
well i would not do business cards, i would do polaroids

mai ueda:

cool

nikola tosic:

u need to buy some gold, make it into a plate, carve your contacts and website and take a polaroid
take some 100 polaroids
and you give polaroids around

mai ueda:

good idea

nikola tosic:

if u do that than i have the credits for your business card idea

mai ueda:

u are cool

nikola tosic:

because polaroids can not be copied so its like an original

mai ueda:

true

nikola tosic:

u can try to get a sponsor – someone in a gold shop
i think u might need very little gold, maybe a kg

mai ueda:

maybe…

nikola tosic:

and u can resell it after its done, or u keep it
and sell it as art

mai ueda:

yea
maybe sell as art

nikola tosic:

yeah
ok

mai ueda:

how much is 1 kiro?

nikola tosic:

one kilo?

mai ueda:

yea

nikola tosic:

1000 grams – 2050 euros i think
like 3000 usd

mai ueda:

waa kind of a lot but maybe it worth

nikola tosic:

thats 24 karat gold
can i publish this chat on my blog, i like it

mai ueda:

yea
nice
yea do it

nikola tosic:

cool
i found your music on seeqpod.com

mai ueda:

what is it?

nikola tosic:

website music player
u play music online
no need to carry musyc

mai ueda:

cool send me link by mail

nikola tosic:

send me a nice photo of you, naked preferably
for the chat

mai ueda:

raf had onother idea
to buy a small gold
that looks like 1kg
so i take macro photo of it
that i can afford tmrw

nikola tosic:

thtas what i said as well – to buy smaller
but also this is cheating

mai ueda:

ah cool
yea
is just vertual

nikola tosic:

than its not a kilo of gold but fake kilo of gold

mai ueda:

cool
yea
thats cute

nikola tosic:

gold is boring anyway

mai ueda:

fake kilo of gold
yea
i can try to buy fake kilo of gold in bangkok

nikola tosic:

do you have a naked photo?

mai ueda:

no
why?
so inspireing to talk with neen boys
different level of conversation
i am happy i came on skype now
inspiration is so important to be motivated in life

nikola tosic:

i wanted to have it for the skype chat, naked females attract attention always so any chance i have to use a photo of a naked female i use it, do you have any other photo of you which you would like me to use to illustrate the chat

mai ueda:

no
find from internet

your post about my poster is the first result, so its good not to have full text there

its a long story to explain, just trust me when it comes to seo, ive been doing it for a while and some bad moves can cause you problems in pr and some good moves can make it very easy for people to understand you

we want to be seen and understood, but we depend upon stupid machines for other people to find us (google is a machine), so you need to speak machine language and act the way machines understand you so other people can communicate with you

its very matrix, who controls who?

actually its not matrix because machines in matrix want but in reality only we want, but machine does not want anything, we can only imagine it wants something

if machine wanted something it would not be a machine but it would be something else, a new word

=====

angelo skyped me this in response: iwanttobeamachine.com

nate hitchcock sent me some photos from the interstitial festival few of us neen people took part in on 29th february. check them out here.

i woke up for that show at 3:45am so i could be online and ready to do my skype performance at 4:00am. however my testacle was in huge pain and my adsl did not work. i did not want to drink coffee cause it would wake me up too much. i wore rafael‘s tagbanger t-shirt – the finger one – but it did not show on the video. my mistake not to organize the webcam a bit better.

i connected over my girlfriend’s mobile phone card (mine was zeroed) and i read some poetry. i heard people laughing and clapping but with a pause. first they would get confused by poems and than react. on one side i wish i was there to be amongst the people (i enjoy attention so very much) but than i am happy that i had even a little bit of that experience through skype.

i am very interested in poetry readings over skype.

one of my dreams is to get a poetry reading tour – just to travel from a town to town and do poetry readings for few weeks. i wish that would happen at some point in my life. it seems like a super cool way to spend some time.

poetry readings should in general attract people who like my work and these people are always fun to be around. other kind of people that show up are the ones who expect something else and get super pissed by me. these kind of people i also meet at shows and lectures and it is also fun to be around them because they are stimulating. i just do not like when they are passive aggressive, like when they just turn their backs on me and leave or something like that. but that is rare and not fun.

anyway interstitial festival seemed like a cool place i would enjoy.

thanks to sarah weis for putting the show up, mai ueda for suggesting me (someone always has to suggest you, that’s the main thing) and nate hitchcock (great last name: to hitch a cock) for sending me the photos. i also want to thank my parents for supporting me and my psychology teacher in high school for staying after school to organize the extra psychology lessons which i requested and she was forced by law to do with me (instead of going home to chill out). thank you all the fans and everybody else who is online. thanks to the people in estonia for making skype.

thank you thank you thank you…

Nikola Tosic

hey whats up

Blakey

hey ‘kola

Nikola Tosic

whats up

Blakey

im looking on google image for images of “unfolding”, for a painting i’m doing

Nikola Tosic

what the fuck dude
im working on my blogs

Blakey

sometimes i really feel a word, today its “unfolding”

Nikola Tosic

fold unfold

Blakey

what do u think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B37wW9CGWyY

Nikola Tosic

im on mobile phone internet, super expensive
cant watch videos

Blakey

ok

Nikola Tosic

do you read my blog at www.tosic.com

Blakey

its a video about how facebook is so that the government can spy on people

Nikola Tosic

yeah right
they get so much imortant info from facebook
like that some guy i did not speak for 15 years just poked me and we exchanged two meaningless messages

Blakey

:D

Nikola Tosic

conspiracy theories are boring
its good for selling books and cheap hollywood thrillers
but i think in reality there is maybe 0,0001 percent of it hapening
people are not so motivated to skim
unfortunately politics etc is mostly chaos
or fortunatelly
hows the baby

Blakey

hysterical as usual

Nikola Tosic

give it some valium, it calms babies down
i just give valium to everyone who is too loud for me

Blakey

im reading ur bogus nonsense blog

Nikola Tosic

its quite relate to the idea of government spying facebook

Blakey

yep
but if u think about it, why did they create facebook? its free to join and has no advertising.

Nikola Tosic

it has avertising
also they o sell analytical data
but it still preserves privacy
they sell basic statistical stuff
how many users in which city, how active they are
government does not need facebook, they have carnivore

Blakey

whats that
jerry is OBSESSED with cospiracy theries. he loves them

Nikola Tosic

software that listens to all phonecalls emails everything and looks for keywords

Blakey

shit.

Nikola Tosic

why shit
who cares
i have othing to hide anyway

Blakey

u know, whenever we talk with my uncle on the phone about the web site, they cut the call.

Nikola Tosic

haha
use codes
they are really bored over there
maybe i will not get usa visa for this
but who cares
but thats not conspiracy
its some idiot warden and saddistic guard
also its john who keeps trying to make the blog into some kind of revolution
i think the blog should be george‘s writing, emotions that will stimulate people

Blakey

but nik, theres something about you that makes people want to talk about conspiracy theories with u

Nikola Tosic

not johns
lets kick ass to the usa government
hehe
i destroy the myths? :)

Blakey

its like, im not gonna talk about these things with my grandmother who watches stupid tv shows.

Nikola Tosic

is this a compliment?

Blakey

sure

Nikola Tosic

awesome
there is still chance we mght have sex one day

Blakey

r u drunk

Nikola Tosic

nope
im jokey tonight

Blakey

so hows it going there

Nikola Tosic

my left testacle still hurts

Blakey

u shashed it while biking?

Nikola Tosic

an infection

Blakey

yikes

Nikola Tosic

happens every few years, immune system goes down
running in the rain etc

Blakey

do u eat meat

Nikola Tosic

yeah
great for recovery
i would like to eat raw beef liver if i can find it, its hard to find though
boost my red blood cell count

Blakey

were u breastfed?

Nikola Tosic

i dont remember that far back
you should ask my mom
why do you ask?

Blakey

i always read about the lifelong heath benefits of breastfeeding

Nikola Tosic

whats the source?
popular mass media is not very reliable when it comes to medical information
you should rely on doctor advice / several opinions
expert advice

Blakey

all the books, internet, doctors, etc…

Nikola Tosic

media is full of bogus bullshit
i wrote a poem

good morning email to rafael

good morning
you are so boring
if you ask why
you did not die
it is because
it would not be a loss

Blakey

thats sweet

Nikola Tosic

do you get it
is english good?

Blakey

perfect

Nikola Tosic

rythm good?

Blakey

amazing

Nikola Tosic

really? you are not convincing or am i paranoid

Blakey

no, its good! in a simple, mean, funny way

Nikola Tosic

can i save our conversation and publish it on my blog?

Blakey

hhhh. did u have that idea since the beginning?

Nikola Tosic

i just checked what we spoke about and it seems like a very good skype chat, lots of changes, funny, interesting, gives a hint of how we think of each other etc
no
i did not plan it
i just scrolled up and liked it
when i enjoy a conversation i wish to share it
on my blog
it is one of wonderful benefits of text chatting
documentation of the conversation
and i am very much into good conversations, it is hard to have them these days, or any days

Blakey

(handshake) lets publish this.

Nikola Tosic

okay
i saved it
im off to bed now
ill email you when i publish it
tomorrow or so
ciao ciao

Blakey

ok. nitey nite

my 29th february poster is actually made for a neen show which will happen tonight as part of interstitial festival by i cubed hypermedia in chicago. check out the website here.

my poster is printed and is on sale on spot for, i think, us$ 20. that is obviously cheaper than what i am selling it for online. i am not sure if that is a good or bad thing, only time will tell.

besides me, mai ueda, rafael rozendaal and angelo plessas will take part in the show. we will all be on skype online tonight at 2am GMT. i will try to read some poetry and converse a bit with the audience. this is the first time i am doing something like this – live presentation over skype to a bunch of people sitting in a room somewhere else. i am not sure if i would like to hear and see their reactions – maybe it is nice if i just imagine they laugh at my jokes.

anyway, today i woke up with a super annoying pain in my left testicle. it seams i have an infection of some sort again. my immune system is quite low and i keep getting sick again and again. i do not know what’s going on, i am not over-trained, i am not eating badly, i sleep well…

so my testicle is hurting me all day non stop. the feeling is same as if someone kicks you in the balls only that it lasts for 24 hours now. i do not know how much effect this will have on my presentation at this event. basically i will wake up at 3:30am, with a piercing pain in my groin, and try to be interesting to a bunch of people that i have never seen or met.

i will let you know how it works out.