http://sina.com.cn/

"Natural mineral pigments (yellow ocher, red ocher, manganese, and iron oxide and charcoal) are used. The colors are ground and mixed with animal fat, blood, vegetable juices, or water."

"The WWW continues to evolve. The number of servers world-wide declines to 206,741,990 in Jan 2010 (Netcraft 2010)."

"The WWW continues to evolve. The number of servers world-wide grows to 255,287,546 in Dec 2010 (Netcraft 2010)."

http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/
http://www.ciolek.com/GLOBAL/milestones.html

Untitled
A GUEST
NEVER

Ability: Thick Fat
Ability: Clear Body
Ability: Own Tempo
Ability: Pixilate
Ability: Technician

[12:22:50] Paul: if you look deeper you can see everyone is
[12:22:53] Paul: alwaysalone

The internet can become an addiction
It can control your life

namespace Coffee
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Coffee coffee = new Coffee();
            If (coffee.empty)
            {
                coffee.Refill();
            }
            else
            {
                coffee.Drink();
            }
            // comment
        }
    }
}

TEST IMAGE dreamstime

03/08/2016, Tuesday, 12 AM, EST

The first day I left my Internet comfort zone, I coincidentally participated in a research study involving the effects of galantamine and nicotine on attention. I don't smoke, so I was profoundly nauseous this morning.

I lay on a couch staring at a poster of David Hockney's Day Pool with Three Blues and deleted Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook from my phone and installed Bing, a Craigslist browser and Naked Browser.

Bing wasn't terrible (I found the images above), surfing Craiglist hard could get interesting, and Naked Browser doesn't seem that funtionally different from Chrome, but I tried it. The icon is an Earth drawn in Paint.

I'll be on a desktop tomorrow, so I plan to go much deeper: The Noun Project, clipart, stock photos, etc. Today, instead of spending all my time trying to browse my entire Twitter or Tumblr feed (in Tumbletail), I spent more time organizing my phone and studying Japanese characters in Obenkyo.

A disillusioned netizen sets out on a walk across Internet.

03/07/2016, Monday, 12 AM, EST

After spending most of the past 17 years online, I now rarely go anywhere other than eight sites: Google, Wikipedia, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinboard, Facebook, Youtube and Netflix.

Most of the art I make now is collaged Tumblr thumbnails and text collected on Twitter and Pinboard. It's a slow process without much impact, and I've lost touch with the wider Internet. I often wonder what I'm missing and would be making otherwise.

For the web residency, I'll block those sites in my browser for a month and blog here about where I go, what I see and who I meet. I'll start accounts where I've never been, make whatever art is possible and link extensively. I'll push myself to go as far and wide as possible and not obsess over any one place. At the end of the month, I'll compile everything as a finished work, a map of the Internet as I will then know it.

(I'll keep my Tumblrs somewhat active through auto-posts from my queue, and I'll check my email once a day to not miss any urgent messages.)