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nothlitsimon360: i find you have to change every instance (ie every size)02:22
nothlitwell, actually i'm simplifying, i'm lazy and copy the theme i'm using, delete all instances of distributor logo and plop whatever version i want into the scalable02:23
nothlitsimon360: its set like that because it can change with the icon theme02:23
nothlitand the folder structure itself has been already worked out by the guys at freedesktop.org02:24
simon360nothlit: it was the icon cache causing the problem21:03
simon360</delayed reaction>21:03
coz_hey guys22:28
troy_scoz_: hello cozzy22:29
coz_troy_s, hey guy :)22:29
coz_I have been in an out of here  and you seem to never be here :)22:29
troy_sWell I'm always 'here'22:29
coz_then I remembered that this was the best  time22:29
troy_scoz_: Just sometimes not around... busy schedule here.22:30
coz_troy_s, I understand22:30
coz_troy_s, i wanted to ask about submitting sound  for hardy22:30
coz_troy_s, I joined th e mailing list  "again"  and  asked there but no response so far22:30
troy_sphone22:31
coz_phone?? :)22:32
troy_sok back22:32
troy_syes...22:32
troy_scoz_: Between cell phones and land lines... ugh.22:33
troy_scoz_: Ken replied already, perhaps your mail is being junked from the list22:33
coz_troy_s, ah  ok  I will check again  let me see.....22:33
troy_syou can post them in an archive file to this list.22:33
troy_s--22:33
troy_sKen22:33
troy_scoz_: Don't be holding your breath.  The FOSS aesthetic and such being what it is.22:33
troy_scoz_: We are more stylistically bankrupt than the worst days of MS.22:34
coz_troy_s, yikes I never get good news here :)22:34
coz_troy_s, no I dont see any response so far but I guess I can wait  sort of :)22:35
coz_troy_s, so how are things with you ?22:36
troy_scoz_: good thanks22:37
troy_scoz_: Yourself?22:37
coz_troy_s,  not bad  ... just busy sometimes22:37
troy_scoz_: Getting a plethora of requests via email... doubt I can keep up.22:37
coz_troy_s, requests?22:37
troy_scoz_: Been generating any work?22:37
troy_scoz_: Everything from opinions on work / websites / etc. to developing various bits.22:38
coz_troy_s, well no  not really... #compiz-fusion and the compiz forums have been keeping me busy22:38
troy_scoz_: Weird considering that I am such a bloody hack, but alas...22:38
coz_:)22:38
troy_scoz_: You need to generate more work you stinker.22:53
coz_troy_s, well you know  ... you are right.. I keep telling myself if I moved to europe I would do more work :)22:54
troy_scoz_: Sounds like one of those mainstream excuses :)22:54
troy_scoz_: Although I can definitely appreciate the crippling paralysis of generating work that matters.22:54
coz_troy_s, yeah22:55
troy_scoz_: I tend to think that is more what it is about.  The idea of sitting down to generate a piece that consumes hideous amounts of time that may, in the end, be purely frivolous garbage.22:55
troy_scoz_: Finding that key thing that matters is probably a good starting point.22:56
coz_troy_s, well  i dont know if you start a piece  ..at least half way through it it should be apparent it is crap or not   dont you think?22:57
troy_scoz_: Sometimes.  Sometimes fighting through ends up with something that is decent.  Sometimes I _must_ fight through the crap to get to something decent.22:57
troy_scoz_: In the end, I'd say that I find the bulk of any effort a large pile of 'hey that's pure shit' when looking back.  lol.22:58
coz_troy_s, yeah but it builds a nice vocabulary  of crap so  you dont have to repeat it lol22:58
troy_slol22:58
troy_scoz_: To be honest, all one can hope for is to keep generating 'like' crap so that you end up with a body of work that is at least more or less consistent.22:59
coz_troy_s, right if you have the motivations and the experience behind you  thats the way to do it22:59
troy_scoz_: I have finished at least two videos for example, that were absolutely smashingly depressing when finished.  The 'this is absolute crap and we are doomed'.  Then you win an award or something stupid and somehow it feels validated.  I don't really know where to sit on it.23:00
coz_troy_s, too may times I have seen smudges of color and people say its art they have created or they copy a photograph of someone in pencil and  voila  " i am an artist'23:00
coz_that background of crap is important I think to all artists23:00
troy_scoz_: I _would_ like to see more politically motivated and message driven works coming out of our 'culture', but I fear it is still too immature.23:00
troy_scoz_: Mimisis is a strange thing.  I appreciate it when it is extremely deft and detailed, despite it being largely vacuous.23:01
coz_troy_s, political work takes a certain kind of artis23:01
troy_scoz_: Well the sad thing is that in some strange way, _everything_ is political and contextually bound.  Even the blatently backwards replication of imitation using reflective wet floors is making a statement (albeit one that disturbs me all to hell).23:01
coz_you have heard of odd nerdrum/23:03
troy_scan't say i have actually, no.23:03
coz_troy_s, I believe he is a norwegian artis23:03
coz_artist23:03
troy_si see23:03
troy_shis stuff is vaguely rococo23:03
troy_sok i take that back... it is quite ecclectic.23:04
coz_once saw a show of his work here in the us  very nice very unique he does things from bery rebrandt like to quite loud23:04
coz_i appreciate his nudes mostly23:04
troy_she seems to play on using classical genres23:05
coz_although the content of some of the pieces can be disturbing like " My wife stabs me "  or something to that effect23:05
troy_swhich is why i immediately spit out rococo23:05
coz_i see23:05
coz_he has gone through all of the painting "styles" from rembrandt to  impressioninsm23:05
troy_syes... interesting23:05
troy_sinteresting is that his work was featured in 'the cell'23:06
coz_ah really23:06
coz_He is the first painter I have seen   that i admired  for his nudes      I know several people that also do figures in their work but the compositions are truly boring23:07
coz_a friend of mine  John Delmonte   is a fine figure painter but I find most of his work to be boring23:07
coz_troy_s,   http://www.westpennart.com/images/23:08
coz_troy_s, he lives close by and on occasion we talk  because there are not many in our area interested in  good paintings :)23:08
coz_He teaches each summer in Luca23:09
troy_slol23:09
coz_He wanted me to to teach there as well but i just cant afford going there each summer23:09
coz_he was also close friends with pere max23:11
coz_peter23:11
troy_shrm...23:11
troy_sinteresting23:11
coz_i hate him23:11
troy_she has some darker sort of rubenesque looking images too... interesting.23:11
coz_yeah john trys purposly to emulate some of the styles of traditional painting23:12
coz_but he does whip them out quickly23:12
troy_scoz_: Well coz_, I need to go and snag a really cheap switch.23:14
coz_troy_s, sure guy23:15
coz_tell whats his name to send another response to my rquest :)23:15
troy_scoz_: Next time you ping me, you had better have something new to show.  ;)23:15
coz_troy_s, ok thats a challenge but ok23:15

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