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Trent

22 years old

Male

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I am Trent. I like to make art; but rarely find the time to sit down and really create. I have a long way to go in really becoming a good artist but I think I'll always have that urge to create something that speaks what I have to say.

I am unofficially half owner of a clothing company... Almost Heroes. That's where the majority of my art time goes. You could say I'm obsessed with it, I think I just have abnormal levels of passion for it. See what I do. Maybe you could buy something while you're at it.

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S T A T I C, Mar 19, 2007:

Yes I call it poetry. It really really intrigues me, how unwanted spam can be changed into something worthy of considering or admiring. Now, not all of it is beautiful or even worthy of a second glance. But some of it provides some really great stuff... stuff you'd never think of writing, but sounds somehow fitting. And that's even cooler when you think that all of this is semi-randomly generated using mathematical algorithms. See, spammers try to get past email inbox filters that detect words or phrases common to spam. The Bayesian filter is most commonly used and it assesses the percentage of spam words to non-spam words and blocks it if the ratio is too high. The spammers tag on the block of text at the end to throw off the filter. They find a large body of text, like a novel or news archive or instruction manual and run a Dissociated Press algorithm on it that basically picks a random phrases, analyzes it, and finds a second phrase with similar structure and tacks it on to the end of the first. Then it starts over by assesing the second phrase and looking for a third. That's why most of the time the phrases or words have some strange connection and flow. I dunno, fascinating stuff. And you don't have to say it. I know I'm weird. Hehehe, I love it.

S T A T I C, Mar 19, 2007:

Well, first off, they're not complete sentences. Secondly, I don't come up with them. They are given to me.
Hehehe, cryptic enough for ya? Ok, so they're actually small chunks of strung-together words found in email spam that happened upon my inbox. One day I just started reading the junk at the end of some spam message (you know all those random words grouped at the bottom) and was surprised to see that they had this weird meaning and flow to them. Thus started my growing collection of spam phrases and pseudo-sentences. All of my VIRB taglines are taken from that first spam email. If you want, you can read my reformatted version of that email here. I also found out how all these words are made and why. But that's a different story.

melissa, Mar 18, 2007:

.backpack, backpack!.

bob roman, Mar 17, 2007:

yayuh---

looking forward to how you rock this thing.

love

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