Declaration

like is that if you search for my name under any of the search engines, this

is the first thing that comes up consistantly. Not my web page, not my

domain, but this damn order form which I find embarassing! No offense to your

company, I think you are doing some interesting stuff, but please remove that

page, and any mention to me on your web site. I am very angry that this

matter has not been attended to as I have tried to reach your company a number

of times at the address on your website (concrete@arts.ucsb.edu), and no one

has responded. Please remove that page!!!

Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:28:26 -0400

From: Ritu Sahni

To:

Subject: Please remove my name

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I recently learned than a person unknown to me has placed my full name

along wiht my wife's e-mail address on one of your "body" listings. I

learned this because a family member did a Yahoo search on my name. I

never gave anyone permission to use my name or a family member's e-mail

address for such a purpose. Please remove it.
The link was:

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/bodiesinc/concrete/html/2455.html

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:16:45 +0000

From: Henry Beecher

To: vesna

Subject: body deletion
Dear Victoria,

I was playing around on your Bodies Incorporated website several years

ago when I first got my computer. Anyway I would like to have my name

removed from your web page. Unfortunately, I don't remember my password

and I don't otherwise know how to go about deleting the body I created.

The body I created is #2346 and her name is Ashley.

Thank you,

Duke Beecher

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 18:02:38 -0500

From: James Honaker

To: vesna

Subject: Bodies Inc.

or Bodies Inc. website. First, I think it's great,

and everything looks real good.
Last year, I believe, some friends and I entered

some joke orders. Unfortunaly, now, officials at

my company are doing web searches to see how the

company name shows up. They're a bit unhappy with

the particular orders that come up with their name

on them.
The two email addresses about which they're giving

me grief are jhonaker@spaceworks.com, and

markwh@spaceworks.com. The orders in question are

# 4946 and 4947.
If you could pull these orders from your catalog,

I'd be grateful.

Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 10:03:58 -0500

From: Perrone T. Ford

To: concrete

Subject: removal of references to my name
Hello,
Some time ago, I used your services to create a virtual body. At that

time, you had some problems with your system. Since then, I changed jobs

and have had other goings -on in my life. Due to the sensitive nature of

my work, I would politely request that you remove my name from your

system (along with my order) to prevent possible problems for me. If for

some reason you cannot comply with this request, please let me know via

e-mail.
Thank you very much,

Perrone Ford

From: Edward V. Jorczyk

To: "Concrete"

Subject: Page Removal Request

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/concrete/html/892.html

actions.
Edward Jorczyk

Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:44:41 -0600

From: Lisa Byrge

To: "'vesna@arts.ucsb.edu'"

Subject: Bodies Incorporated

marvelously done... However, I was wondering if you could do me a huge favor. I

cannot remember my password (I created my body over a year ago), and thus

cannot "delete myself", but my family has a problem with my being on the page.

Is there any way you could delete it if you had the time? I'd really appreciate

it. Thank you very much.

.............................

lisa byrge

morpher@imsa.edu

Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:34:48 -0800

From: Brent

To: Victoria Vesna

Subject: Re: Virtual Concrete

Thank you for your quick reply and your assistance.

The Body Order is #127, and is a rather explicit description of "my desired

sexual partner." It was placed by some friends who thought it would be

funny; it was for a while, but now most search engines spit it out as the

first choice when using my name as search criteria. This is not exactly the

image I want to put out to the world......

Again, thank you for your help; I owe you big time!

Brent Hauseman

>Please give me your body order number and I will make sure it is deleted.

>How did it become an embarassment?

>>V

“You cannot step twice into the same river; for fresh waters forever flow in upon you.”

“You have noticed that you can replace the periods in a piece of writing with ands and it won't seem to make much difference, so you conclude that you have found out

society.”
“When humans will not radically change themselves, perform a fundamental change in themselves - not with god or prayers, all this stuff is too immature, too infantile - then we will destroy ourselves. NOW a revolution in the psyche is possible, not thousand years later. We are living for thousands of years, and we are still barbarians. So if we don't change ourselves now, we will still be barbarians tomorrow or in thousands of tomorrows. When I don't stop war today, I will go to war tomorrow. Expressed simply: The future is now.”

Carl Gustav Jung:
“The original structural components of the psyche are of no less surprising a uniformity than are those of the visible body. The archetypes are, so to speak, organs of the prerational psyche. They are eternally inherited forms and ideas which have at first no specific content. Their specific content only appears in the course of the individual's life, when personal experience is taken up in precisely these form.”
“Just as the "psychic infra-red," the biological instinctual psyche, gradually passes over into the physiology of the organism and thus merges with its chemical and physical

conditions, so the "psychic ultra-violet," the archetype, describes a field which exhibits none of the peculiarities of the physiological and yet, in the last analysis, can no longer be regarded as psychic.”

“The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.”

Karl Marx:
“The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world unite!”
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please... [t]he tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
“I am speaking of a ruthless criticism of everything existing, ruthless in two senses: The criticism must not be afraid of its own conclusions, nor of conflict with the powers that be.... Thus communism, to be specific, is a dogmatic abstraction. I do not have in mind here some imaginary, possible communism, but actually existing communism.... This communism is only a special manifestation of the humanistic principle which is still infected by its opposite -- private being.”

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchadd (Mahatma):
“Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.”
“Nonviolence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. There is no god higher than truth.”
“The term Satyagraha was coined by me... in order to distinguish it from the movement then going on... under the name of Passive Resistance. Its root meaning is "holding on to truth," hence "force of righteousness." I have also called it love force or soul force. In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did not permit violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For what appears truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of truth, not by the infliction of suffering on the opponent, but on one's self.”

Goldman, Emma:
“To me anarchism was not a mere theory for a distant future; it was a living influence to free us from inhibitions, internal no less than external, and from the destructive barriers that separate man from man.”
“And you, are you so forgetful of your past, is there no echo in your soul of your poets" songs, your dreamers" dreams, your rebels" calls?”
“As to the great mass of working girls and women, how much independence is gained if the narrowness and lack of freedom of the home is exchanged for the narrowness and lack of freedom of the factory, sweatshop, department store, or office.”
“[I]f education should mean anything at all, it must insist on the free growth and development of the innate forces and tendencies of the child. In this way alone can we hope for the free individual and eventually also for a free community, which shall make interference and coercion of human growth impossible.”
“[Anarchism is the] philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.”

Sitting Bull:
“If anyone tries to take this land, I will fight.”

VOLTAIRE a.k.a. Francois Marie Arouet:
“Optimism, said Candide, is a mania for maintaining that all is well when things are

going badly.”

“We must cultivate our garden.”
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
“In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others.”
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent man.”
“This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holly Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.”
“All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.”
“Work helps to preserve us from three great evils - weariness, vice, and want.”
“Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”

Wollstonecraft, Mary:
“Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, which they have imbibed, they can scarcely trace how, rather than to root them out.”
“For men of the greatest abilities have seldom had sufficient strength to rise above the surrounding atmosphere; and, if the pages of genius have always been blurred by the prejudices of the age, some allowance should be made for a sex, who, like kings, always see things through a false medium.”
“Public education, of every denomination, should be directed to form citizens; but if you wish tomake good citizens, you must first exercise the affections of a son and a brother. This is the only way to expand the heart; for public affections as well as public virtues must ever grow out of the private character.”
“The birthright of man, to give you, Sir [Burke], a short definition of this disputed right, is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the

liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact, and the continued existence of the compact.”

“I doubt whether pity and love are so near akin as poets feign, for I have seldom seen much compassion excited by the helplessness of females, unless they were fair; then, perhaps, pity was the soft handmaid of love, or the harbinger of lust.”

Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivich:
“All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth... All is for all!”
“In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.”
“Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.”
“Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.”
“Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.”
“The two great movements of our century --towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community--are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.”
“[U]nless Socialists are prepared openly and avowedly to profess that the satisfaction of the needs of each individual must be their very first aim; unless they have

prepared public opinion to establish itself firmly at this standpoint, the people in their next attempt to free themselves will once more suffer a defeat.”

Luxemburg, Rosa:
“We must take life as it comes, courageously, undismayed and smiling --despite everything.”
“When the party executive asserts something, I would never dare not to believe it, for as a faithful party member the old saying holds for me: Credo quia absurdum--I believe it precisely because it is absurd.”
“For the propertied bourgeois woman, her house is the world, for the proletarian woman the whole world is her house.”
“Do you believe in Christ?" "[F]rom God and woman! Man had nothing to do with Him!”
“But we are not lost, and we shall conquer if we have not unlearned how to learn.”
“The general result of the struggle between capitalism and simple commodity production is this: after substituting commodity economy for natural economy, capital takes the place of simple commodity economy.”
“Bourgeois society faces a dilemma; either a transition to Socialism, or a return to barbarism...”

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph:
“To be governed is to be at every move, at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, choked, imprisoned, shot, machine-gunned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
“Talent is a creation of society rather than a gift of Nature; it is an accumulated capital, of which the receiver is the only guardian.”
“Man may love his fellow well enough to die for him; he does not love him well enough to work for him.”
“Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development,--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.”
“I vote against the constitution not because it contains things of which I disapprove and does not contain things of which I approve: I vote against the constitution because it is a constitution.”
“Property is theft.”

King, Martin Luther ,Jr.:
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the process of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.”
“Unearned suffering is redemptive.”
“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
“I have a dream...”
“I accept this [Nobel] award with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.”
“Because I have seen the mountaintop.... I may not get to the promised land with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will.”

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques:
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.”
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
“The first person who, having fenced off a plot of ground, took it into his head to say this

is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.”

“The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.”
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
“At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake.”

Russell, Bertrand:
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
“The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue."
"It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.”
“Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.”
“The theory of probability is in a very unsatisfactory state, both logically and mathematically: and I do not believe that there is any alchemy by which it can produce regularity in large numbers out of pure caprice in each case.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“A good society is a means to a good life for those who compose it; not something having a kind of excellence on its own account.”
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

Humboldt, Wilhelm Freiherr Von:
“The dead hieroglyphic does not inspire like living nature.”
“Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true

nature.”
“Humanity and Nature cannot be grasped intellectually, as it were: one can only get somewhere near them actively.”

“The principle of the true art of social intercourse consists in a ceaseless endeavor to grasp the innermost individuality of another, to avail oneself of it, and penetrate it with the deepest respect for it as the individuality of another, to act upon it. Because of this respect one can do this only by, as it were, showing oneself, and offering the other the opportunity of comparison.”
“The grand, leading, principle, towards which every argument unfolded in these pages directly converges, is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity.”
“The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.”
“The less a man is induced to act other than according to his wishes and his powers, the more favorable his position as a member of a civil community becomes.”
“The greater a man's freedom, the more self-reliant and well disposed towards others he becomes.”
“Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being but remains alien to his true nature; he

does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.”

Descartes, Rene:
“I think, therefore I am.”
“Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.”
“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”
“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
“And if I write in French, which is the language of my country, in preference to Latin, which isthat of my preceptors, it is because I expect that those who make use of their unprejudiced natural reason will be better judges of my opinions than those who give heed to the writings of the ancients only; and as for those who unite good sense with habits of study, whom alone I desire for judges, they will not, I feel assured, be so partial to Latin as to reasonings merely because I expound them in the vulgar tongue.”
“I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life, and proceed in it with confidence.”

Foucault, Michel:
“We are doomed historically to history, to the patient construction of discourses about discourses, and to the task of hearing what has already been said.”
“I’d like to mention only two ‘pathological forms’ those two ‘diseases of power’: fascism and Stalinism. One of the numerous reasons why they are, for us, so puzzling, is that in spite of their historical uniqueness they are not quite original.”
“How does one introduce desire into thought, into discourse, into action? How can and must desire deploy its forces within the political domain and grow more intense in the process of overturning the established order?”
“[S]omething essential is taking place, something of extreme seriousness: the tracking down of all varieties of fascism, from the enormous ones that surround and crush us to the petty ones that constitute the tyrannical bitterness of our everyday lives.”
“Do you know why one writes?... To be loved.”
“I think we should have the modesty to say to ourselves that, on the one hand, the time we live in is not the unique or fundamental or irruptive point in history where everything is completed and begun again. We must also have the modesty to say, on the other hand, that even without this solemnity-the time we live in is very interesting.”

Kierkegaard:
“In the splendid Palace Chapel an imposing Court preacher, the chosen of the cultivated public, steps forward before a chosen circle of the fashionable and cultivated public and preaches emotionally on the text of the Apostle: 'God chose the mean and despised' -- and nobody laughs!”
“To my contemporaries my significance depends on my trousers; it may be that to a later era my significance will also depend a little on my writings. "Man is not conscious of guilt because he sins, but sins because he is conscious of guilt.”

Hume:
“Some people are subject to a certain delicacy of passion, which makes them extremely sensible to all the accidents of life, and gives them a lively joy upon every prosperous event, as well as a piercing grief, when they meet with misfortunes and adversity. Favours and good offices easily engage their friendship; while the smallest injury provokes their resentment.”
“Avarice, or the desire of gain, is an universal passion, which operates at all times, in all places, and upon all persons: But curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure, education, genius, and example, to make it govern any person. You will never want booksellers, while there are buyers of books: But there may frequently be readers where there are no authors.”

Emanuel Swedenborg:
“But those who so believe are ignorant of the arcana that lie hid in every particular of the Word. For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter. And this is true not only of the meaning of groups of words, it is true of each particular word”
“When we are in the spiritual world after our body dies, we have a human shape just as we did before in the material world. We can see, hear, talk, and touch things just as we did in the world. We have every ability to think, want, and do things that we did in the world. In short, every single bit of us is still a person, except that we are no longer clothed in the crude body we had in the world. We leave that behind when we die, and we never go back to it.”

Timothy Leary:
“You must know your mythic origins. Facts and news are reports from the current TV drama. They have no relevance to your 2-billion-year-old divinity. Myth is the report from the cellular memory bank. Myths humanize the recurrent themes of evolution.”
“Your mythic guide must be one who has solved the death-rebirth riddle. A TV drama hero cannot help you. Caesar, Napoleon, Kennedy are no help to your cellular orientation.Christ, Lao-tse, Hermes Trismegistus, Socrates are recurrent turn-on figures.”
“You will find it absolutely necessary to leave the city. Urban living is spiritually suicidal. The cities of America are about to crumble as did Rome and Babylon. Go to the land. Go to the sea.”
“Put it into historical context. The use of sacramental vegetables has gone back, back, back in history to shamans and the Hindu religion and Buddhist religion. They were using soma. It's an ancient human ritual that has usually been practiced in the context of religion or of worship or of tribal coming together. I didn't pioneer anything. The use of psychedelics for spiritual purposes was started in the 50s by Allen Ginsberg and

William Burroughs.”

Bodies© INCorporated - Body textures:

black rubber	DESCRIPTION: hot and dry; it will sublimate at a relatively low temperature; fashion and style element.
blue plastic	DESCRIPTION: cold and dry; a powerful emetic used in medicine, though with significant danger, for it is poisonous; diplomacy element.
bronze	DESCRIPTION: hot and cold; hard and wet; very reactive when heated with most substances; corporate leader element.
chocolate	DESCRIPTION: sweet and moist; the integrative force, interweaving and balancing; marketing element.
clay	DESCRIPTION: cold and dry; melancholy; works on subliminal levels to bring out the feminine; organizational element.
cloudy	DESCRIPTION: hot and wet; dynamic equilibrium; communicator element.
concrete	DESCRIPTION: cold and wet; a powerful desiccating agent as it reacts strongly with water; business element.
glass	DESCRIPTION: hard and fragile; bounces off projections directed towards it; psychic element.
lava	DESCRIPTION: hot and dry; light that is trapped in matter; "perpetual fire"; team leader sense.
pumice	DESCRIPTION: the contractive force in nature; crystallisation, condensation; accounting and legal element.
water	DESCRIPTION: cold and wet; dissolution, evaporation; strong relationship with gravity and heat; conceptual element.
wood	DESCRIPTION: hard and cold; warm and wet; the expansive force in nature; meditative; interior design element.

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Bodies© INCorporated - Requests to see “bodies”--

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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:50:14 -0500
From: Kathleen Seidel
To: concrete@proxy.arts.uci.edu
Subject: Re: Virtual Concrete

concrete@arts.ucsb.edu wrote:

>
> Kathleen McCallum Seidel,
>
> We at Virtual Concrete would like to thank you for your wonderful order,
> and although your body won't be ready right away, it is
> possible to view your body specifications along with other orders right now!
> Here are some HTML sites regarding your virtual concrete order:
>
> Your Order: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/concrete/html/2500.html
> Body Gallery: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/concrete/gallerylist.html
> Virtual Forum: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/concrete/html/pub_comments.html
>
> We will be mailing you again when your body is complete to inform you of
> it's location.
>
> Once again, thank you very much for your order, and we hope you are satisfied
> with the results.
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
> concrete@arts.ucsb.edu
>
> Thank you.Please cancel my order and delete my name and e-mail address from
publicly available records. It did not occur to me, and it was not
mentioned on the order form, that individual e-mail addresses would be
made available to the public. Perhaps you might consider giving
participants the option of maintaining anonymity.
This is no reflection on the value of this project -- it is a wonderful
idea, which is why I originally chose to participate.
Please respond as soon as possible. Thank you.

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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 23:27:17 -0600
From: Clay Carrington
To: concrete@arts.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: Virtual Concrete

Thanks for the kind note. Even though I don't know what the

hell this whole
thing is about, I'm guess I'm excited. Now, is this "body"

something I'll go

visit? I'm most certainly confused. How long before I can

see him? Will he be lonely out there? Good lord, you've

confused me.

Anyway, I think that my cyberbody could use a cyberdog. Any plans for that

sort of thing?
Clay Carrington
sharkboy@dcci.com

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:53:02 -0800
From: Gary Wilson
To: concrete@proxy.arts.uci.edu
Subject: Re: Virtual Concrete

This looks like a very neat idea! I'm glad I ran across it! Thank you for

writing me back. Hope to see my 'body' soon! Happy Surfing...

At 11:15 PM 3/20/96 -0800, you wrote:

>Garylon,
>
>We at Virtual Concrete would like to thank you for your wonderful order, and although your body won't be ready right away, it is >possible to view your body specifications along with other orders right now! >Here are some HTML sites regarding your virtual concrete order:
>
> Your Order: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/concrete/html/3372.html
> Body Gallery: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/concrete/gallerylist.html
> Virtual Forum: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/concrete/html/pub_comments.html
>
>We will be mailing you again when your body is complete to inform you of

it's location.

>
>Once again, thank you very much for your order, and we hope you are

satisfied with the results.

>
>If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
>concrete@arts.ucsb.edu
>
>Thank you.
>
>
************************
Greetings From Garylon!
:)
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:18:45 -0700
From: George Brolaski
To: concrete@.arts.ucsb.edu
Subject: Concrete body?

After many, many months of waiting for a response to my creative

process without a word or at least something like "we are working on
it", please let me know if this project is still in the works or
have you given up on it. Thanks.
George Brolaski

To whom it may concern,

What is your definition of "backlogged?" I have a six year old here who
bugs me every day about his body and is it done. Please advise on the
status of the body so I can get the little bugger off of my back.

thank you very much,

Mark Pearson, father of Sam

Well, we (my son Sam) has been waiting for almost two months now to hear

about his body. Is the body done yet???
Please inform us if it is ready or not...

Thank you,

--
**************************************************************
Mark + Ruth + Sam + Morgan http://www.oz.net
I wish I was what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
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Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 18:34:20 -0400
From: Ray Kinlock & Ned Irons
To: concrete@proxy.arts.uci.edu
Subject: VIEWING

How do I get to see a body.

Everyone I choose goes to a catalog page with a description,no picture.
Am I doing something wrong?????
zz
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:48:04 -0400
From: Carina Feldman
To: concrete@proxy.arts.uci.edu
Subject: Re: Virtual Concrete

hello-
i sent in an order for my cyber-self months ago and i never got it [at least in

rendered form]. you can imagine the trauma that can cause but anyway. now i
ordered a playtoy without which i won't be able to get to sleep, since i can't
get topo gigio anywhere. what am i supposed to do?? i want my toy!! when can i
have it?

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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 16:12:44 -0400
From: SMASH301@aol.com
To: concrete@proxy.arts.uci.edu
Subject: Virtual Concrete

Virtual Concrete?

Okay, this sounds strange. My body is not ready yet, but I can view it now?
Well, obviously this message was sent on accident to Jose Contes, and I'm
Geoff Yeaton, but I think I want to go to the site to check out 'my' order
anyway. If nothing else, you've got me curious.

Just thought I'd let you know that I didn't order a body. Mine's fine.

Better check Jose's e-mail address.

Text of Datamining Bodies:
Level 1: none
Level 2:

In the net as nuclear-proof communications system

The impasse between replication (immortality now)

Manuals on future psychological warfare

Level 3:

Enigma-code-cracking efforts of Turing and his machine

The first constructed and imagined automata wore mined ore

The chance that there is an outside

One in-crowd of our pop-psychology culture
Level 4:

Yongcai coal mine

In Northern Shanxi province

It stands or falls apart

A certain upward displacement or mobilization

Outer space fantasies of miraculation

The power to switch channels on evolutionary progress

The link with the missing - the haunted relation

Fine-tuned “aura” for the selection stardom of channels.
Level 5:

April, 2000, 40 Dead in Coal Mine Blast in China

Chinese authorities are investigating

Phantasmatic or software genealogies

Many interchangeable places modeled on the close quarters of mining

Surveillance, and information gathering keeps slimming down

On the way to auto-analytic breakthrough

Via the narcissistic and psychotic conditions

After Benjamin, Andy Warhol and Shirley McLain

The cure-all of perversion, inversion

Exorcism or ghost busting

Treatment for repressed memories of alien abduction

Level 6:

April 23, 2000. A gas explosion buried 44 miners

44 miners buried for two days

44 miners trapped in Yongcai coal mine

The largest air raid shelter in World War II

Inside his delusional system Daniel Paul Schreber descends

He and his wife had been unable to breed living children.

Reproduction (at once death in life and guarantor of future generation).

Transsexual replication

The production of one or three by two at a time.

The multiple personalities, and the mediums or channelers

The instant before the trauma retained in the fetish

Level 7:

Thousands of miners die in China in accidents

3,464 coal miners died in China in 1999

Underground explosions and mine collapses

Trapped for six days deep underground

Air raid shelter built beneath the city of Dortmund.

At one juncture the sun threatened to crash down the shaft

Case studies of and memoirs by psychotics

The ghosts of missing children.

The score of near-missers and non-receivers is too high to recount.

The inside view given in delusional systems

The borderline between neurosis and psychosis

Losses were control-released within a war economy

The missing, the abused, the alien abducted

The blackout of shell shock will have changed the guard.


Bibliography
“About the Human Genome Project.” Human Genome Management Information

System (HGMIS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the U.S. Department

of Energy Human Genome Program. 1 March 2000.

Directory: publications
publications -> Acm word Template for sig site
publications ->  Preparation of Papers for ieee transactions on medical imaging
publications -> Adjih, C., Georgiadis, L., Jacquet, P., & Szpankowski, W. (2006). Multicast tree structure and the power law
publications -> Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth) Zurich Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory
publications -> Quantitative skills
publications -> Multi-core cpu and gpu implementation of Discrete Periodic Radon Transform and Its Inverse
publications -> List of Publications Department of Mechanical Engineering ucek, jntu kakinada
publications -> 1. 2 Authority 1 3 Planning Area 1
publications -> Sa michelson, 2011: Impact of Sea-Spray on the Atmospheric Surface Layer. Bound. Layer Meteor., 140 ( 3 ), 361-381, doi: 10. 1007/s10546-011-9617-1, issn: Jun-14, ids: 807TW, sep 2011 Bao, jw, cw fairall, sa michelson

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