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This is the personal webhub of Michael F.Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool, since 1999 032508. This is the Index 2 page collects all the updates I've posted on the main page of AllThingsMike since 2003, the last major redesign of the website. NEW UPDATES are still located on the main page HERE.

MAIN SECTIONS IN THE CLOUDS TO THE RIGHT, INDIVIDUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE LEFT FOR THAT SECTION

The entries below are "archival" announcements which have appeared on the main page of AllThingsMike over the years, starting in 2003, when I switched from designing the pages on Microsoft Word and switched to Macromedia Dreamweaver. Some of these entries are duplicated on the main page, but as I make further updates along the way toward the TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the site, in May of 2009, the duplicate entries which are already on this page will fall off the front page.

THE INTERNET ISLAND COMMUNITY

Click to see the current Topic Post for the "Islanders" to blog about.

When AllThingsMike first went online in 1999, one of the first 'features' was a message board, which was a complete and utter failure. Since it was hosted by a separate company than the Homestead service on which I had created the website, people would have to "sign up" for the service, which proved to be a hassle. I always knew that eventually I would establish some kind of internet community. And with the Internet Island Blogring on Xanga, the website on which my blog, WhenWordsCollide, is located, I have almost succeeded in doing exactly that.

I created the blogring in November 2005 and the membership grew pretty quickly to over 125 members. While most blogrings, like webrings, are groups of sites with similar themes, my idea was for a "society" where everyone is different, and the only thing we all share is our humanity. I write a"Topic Post" every month on which the Islanders write blog entries, and the purpose of the ring is for the members to "travel the Island" regularly and get to know their neighbors, and "talk to them" through the comments feature on their blogs.

LITERATURE ON WHENWORDSCOLLIDE: MY DAILY BLOG

When Words Collide is my daily blog, updated at least three times a week. The service which has hosted my "blog" since Memorial Day 2004 is Xanga, and it has been around for about as long as this website, but I didn't know of it's existence till mid 2004, when a correspondent who maintains a personal blog there showed me her site, and I immediately fell in love with the concept of the "Xanga Community". I have created 10 blogs on the Blogger service, but I had no idea how to develop a readership. The Blogger website is sort of like Homestead, which hosted AllThingsMike in 1999-2001. There are a lot of blogs, but no navigation system. The Xanga community is just that: a community. Although Blogger now has a "comments" feature on each post, communities like Xanga invented the concept, and the comments allow bloggers to search each other out and get to know one another. The "internet community" I had always dreamed about it here, today, on Xanga..

The blog contains some of the best pages in the AllThingsMike Universe. One of the articles I created for the "Internet Island" blogring, a collection of over 115 blogs for which I create "themes" for the bloggers to post entires, was constructed for a topic post about "fantasy vacations". My "vacation" entailed staying at a mythical resort in Las Vegas modeled after Vegas in the 1960s. The resort would be called the Viva Las Vegas Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. Read about this totally imaginary resort here on the blog.

My Left Hip: Read about the pain and wait, the administration of morphine, the ultimate in biological technology .

An assessment of limb replacement: from the WhenWordsCollide blog

Mike becomes the "Bionic Man" when he complains about pain, and then is diagnosed with uncurable bone placement, and is granted a hip replacement in the essay ; MY LEFT HIP One of the "blog entries on "WhenWordsCollide", always interesting, always imbued with the spirit of "the personal to the universal."

"My Sexual History" is an online novel which is serialized on the blog. I am attempting to write a "sexual history" that is honest, realistic, and somewhat erotic without being titillating or perverse. The "reviews" so far have been very positive.

The blog, "WhenWordsCollide" has regular features, which include "PhotoPosts", "ElectricPoetry" posts, Philosophical articles for the "Socrates Cafe", reminiscences, observations, and opinions. I once wrote that AllThingsMike could possibly be the only website you will ever need. Some of my Xanga blog readers get a lot of their "news" from my daily articles, so perhaps this is slowly becoming true for some people.

VIDEO BLOGS ON WHENWORDSCOLLIDE

Iwrote that someday "We would all have our own television stations on the internet." and the time arrived in late 2005. I still have some of my "television shows" on Beta from the 80s although I don't have a player on which to watch them. .I always had my idea for a television show and thanks to the state of streaming video and up to date video editing software, I am able to create "Mike's Video Blog" a sporadic feature on WhenWordsCollide. The first Video Blogs streamed from YouTube, but most of the later Video Blogs are stored on my blog server. A lot of folks VideoBlog now. Most of them are the garden variety "turn the camera on yourself and talk" gabfests, but I'm creating MikeVideo "internet movies" with the same quality as all other MikeVideo product. Each edition will have a theme, and take the viewer somewhere else in the crazy universe of MikeVideo.

"GREETINGS FROM OCEAN BLVD." PROJECT: SUMMER 2007

Faced with monetary problems which prohibit me from taking "photo expeditions" too far from home, I spent a couple of weekends on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach this past summer, walking along photographing and videotaping my progress along the boulevard. The resulting "art projects" are the internet movie "Greetings From Ocean Blvd." and the Webshots Gallery photo folders of the same name. (Linked in the "Webshots Gallery Additions" entry below.) I've always attempted to see how steady I can hold the camera by hand without uisng a tripod, and then moving with balletic grace in order to achieve almost "steadicam" like shots in my "travelblogues" and internet movies. I think I achieved some excellent results with "Greetings From Ocean Boulevard". Plans are in the works for more "street specific" travelblogues centered on major Southern California thoroufares like Hollywood Boulevard.

Read the Director's Commentary on my blog.

"THE TALL SHIPS" PROJECT: SUMMER 2007

In November 2007. the "20th anniversary year" of MikeVideo is over. I have completed and posted 20 new "internet movies" on either my YouTube Channel, the MikeVideo section of this website, or the "Videoblog" section of my blog, since November of 2006, when the anniversary year began. The latest MikeVideo Internet Movie is "The Tall Ships", posted in late September 2007. A tribute to the sailing vessels of old and the three masted schooners of today. MikeVideo combines footage shot aboard four full size sailing ships at the Dana Pt. Tall Ships Festival on Sept. 8th, 2007, with photos and paintings acquired through websearches, and scored to a music file that contains lots of traditional sea shanties.

Read the "Director's Commentary"on my blog.

"Artviews"is a nine minute MikeVideo Internet Movie streaming from my YouTube Channel. It's the 25th video on the channel and is also featured on the new Xanga Video section."ArtViews" is composed of footage shot in 2001 at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in Pasadena, and in 2006 at the Getty Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Both museums allow photography, and I assembled this footage in hopefully 'aritsitic' ways. The soundtrack is called "Classical Mash" and has been cobbled together from about a dozen classical symphonic pieces, the majority well known passages from Beethoven. I'm pretty excited by the completion of this latest video, which took nearly two weeks of evenings after work and two complete weekends to finish. It's chock full of my photography, and familiar MikeVideo special effects such as chroma key and cutting to the music track, with an eye and ear for composition. There is no "story" here, just pure "art for art's sake".

In November of 2006, the twentieth anniversary of my MikeVideo brand quietly and quickly passed. It wasn't until mid December that I realized this benchmark anniversary had almost gotten away from me, and I hadn't even mentioned it during the whole of 2006, which, owing to the existence of YouTube, where I constructed my YouTube Channel in December of 2005, has seen the uploading of far more videos than I ever streamed here from the AllThingsMike server. As mentioned in the History Section of the MikeVideo website, a lot of my early videos were on VHS, and some are unwatchable since they were recorded on Beta. Most of the "internet movies" which have been my media of choice since 2003, were streamed here first. Now everything, including archival material, and the first episode of the multi part "The MikeVideo Story" which utilizes some VHS footage, are on the YouTube site.On the MikeVideo Website. the vids are also showcased, and include essays about their history and construction. Some of the more detailed videos, like the recent "Nantucket Holiday" series, which has three episodes online, have their own webpages.

"SELLING SEX AT THE CES", WHAT THEY COULDN'T SHOW ON YOUTUBE. STREAMING FROM MIKEVIDEO: 11/06

Sex Sells. And at the "Pornothon" in Las Vegas every year, they sell sex. AllThingsMike has had a histoy of presenting my complete creative output as it happens, so I am not the least bit hesitant about trumpeting the completion of one of my "five year projects", the MikeVideo internet movie, "Selling Sex at the CES", shot in 2000 and finally finished in 2006. Not for everyone, perhaps, but bound to please the palate of the porn fan, "Selling Sex" is a "documentary" look at the Adult Software Dealers Exposition. The video is downloadable in three parts, each about 10 minutes long. When I posted Part 1 and Part 2 on my YouTube Channel this past summer, I received almost 20,000 viewings combined, and the videos were only online for three weeks. YouTube considered them full of "inappropriate content." I will admit, this is a show about pornography. It features nudity. It's RATED R. Nobody under 18 should even be watching it. Right now all three parts are online, and available for download for a limited time. Each file is rather large, and the download time is considerable. It always feels good to complete a project, and this one is finally "in the can."

PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY PROJECT 03/0

March of 2006 was when I began the MikeVideo and photographic project "Pacific Coast Highway." I've been shooting video and the project takes center stage in my first Video Blog. I have two Webshots Galleries online. Gallery One and Gallery Two contain over 270 new photos between them.There is also a MikeVideo Internet Movie online, a photo slideshow set to the music of Andreas Braunlich. I took photos in my own backyard of Lomita, CA, and around Torrance, Harbor City, Wilmington, Long Beach, Hermosa and Redondo Beaches. Plans are still afoot for an eventual drive up the coast with the top down with both still and video camera and plenty of memory sticks

MIKEVIDEO INTERNET MOVIES: DOO DAH NOVEMBER 2005

Doo Dah is a MikeVideo shot in November 2005 at the "DooDah" parade in Pasadena. The video lasts a little more than nine minutes and shows a lot of highlights I shot as the parade passed me. Imaginatively edited, and with an original music track by Andreas Baunlich, the video is the next best thing to being there.

Thanks to a website community called "YouTube", I now can present all of my MikeVideo "Internet Movies" online in a streaming format that uses Flash. All the viewer needs is a flash plugin on his computer, and he can see all the Internet Movies I have made over the years. The MikeVideo pages, recreated in early 2005, contains descriptions and links to more MikeVideo Internet Movies. Truly, I'm developing my own Television Station on the web. MikeVideo Productions turned 20 years old in November of 2006, so what better time for a renaissance in home grown video projects.

MIKEVIDEO INTERNET MOVIES: ARBITRIMAGE DREAMS OCTOBER 2005

"Arbitrimage Dreams is one of a long line of MikeVideo Internet Movies, created with "arbitrary images" on two different videocameras over a five year period, and edited in the computer. The 9-1/2 minute video is available online as of October of 2005.. Combining disparate imagery, and haunting music, this is a one of a kind video experience, and is yours to watch for free by clicking here.

I always said that someday "We would all have our own television stations on the internet." I thought I'd have to wait longer than now, however. Thanks to a website community called "YouTube", I now can present all of my MikeVideo "Internet Movies" online in a streaming format that uses Flash. All the viewer needs is a flash plugin on his computer, and he can see all the Internet Movies I have made over the years.have also begun filming and presenting "video blog entries", produced like professional television shows, and because of this development, my productivity is rising . Check out the first "Video Blog: Pacific Coast Highway", announcing my latest Webshots gallery offering. The link is to the YouTube page, and right now I'm featuring a player on this page above for "instant viewing". I also have a later "movie" than "Arbitrimage Dreams" on YouTube, the presentation of the "DooDah" parade in Pasadena in November 2005. The MikeVideo pages, recreated in early 2005, contains descriptions and links to more MikeVideo Internet Movies.


		From the webmaster The Universal Blog Blog Diary: WhenWordsCollide Realizations Financial Advice
This is the personal webhub of Michael F.Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool, since 1999 032508. This is the Index 2 page collects all the updates I've posted on the main page of AllThingsMike since 2003, the last major redesign of the website. NEW UPDATES are still located on the main page HERE.

MAIN SECTIONS IN THE CLOUDS TO THE RIGHT, INDIVIDUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE LEFT FOR THAT SECTION
The entries below are "archival" announcements which have appeared on the main page of AllThingsMike over the years, starting in 2003, when I switched from designing the pages on Microsoft Word and switched to Macromedia Dreamweaver. Some of these entries are duplicated on the main page, but as I make further updates along the way toward the TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the site, in May of 2009, the duplicate entries which are already on this page will fall off the front page.
THE INTERNET ISLAND COMMUNITY
When AllThingsMike first went online in 1999, one of the first 'features' was a message board, which was a complete and utter failure. Since it was hosted by a separate company than the Homestead service on which I had created the website, people would have to "sign up" for the service, which proved to be a hassle. I always knew that eventually I would establish some kind of internet community. And with the Internet Island Blogring on Xanga, the website on which my blog, WhenWordsCollide, is located, I have almost succeeded in doing exactly that. I created the blogring in November 2005 and the membership grew pretty quickly to over 125 members. While most blogrings, like webrings, are groups of sites with similar themes, my idea was for a "society" where everyone is different, and the only thing we all share is our humanity. I write a"Topic Post" every month on which the Islanders write blog entries, and the purpose of the ring is for the members to "travel the Island" regularly and get to know their neighbors, and "talk to them" through the comments feature on their blogs.
LITERATURE ON WHENWORDSCOLLIDE: MY DAILY BLOG
When Words Collide is my daily blog, updated at least three times a week. The service which has hosted my "blog" since Memorial Day 2004 is Xanga, and it has been around for about as long as this website, but I didn't know of it's existence till mid 2004, when a correspondent who maintains a personal blog there showed me her site, and I immediately fell in love with the concept of the "Xanga Community". I have created 10 blogs on the Blogger service, but I had no idea how to develop a readership. The Blogger website is sort of like Homestead, which hosted AllThingsMike in 1999-2001. There are a lot of blogs, but no navigation system. The Xanga community is just that: a community. Although Blogger now has a "comments" feature on each post, communities like Xanga invented the concept, and the comments allow bloggers to search each other out and get to know one another. The "internet community" I had always dreamed about it here, today, on Xanga.. The blog contains some of the best pages in the AllThingsMike Universe. One of the articles I created for the "Internet Island" blogring, a collection of over 115 blogs for which I create "themes" for the bloggers to post entires, was constructed for a topic post about "fantasy vacations". My "vacation" entailed staying at a mythical resort in Las Vegas modeled after Vegas in the 1960s. The resort would be called the Viva Las Vegas Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. Read about this totally imaginary resort here on the blog. My Left Hip: Read about the pain and wait, the administration of morphine, the ultimate in biological technology . Mike becomes the "Bionic Man" when he complains about pain, and then is diagnosed with uncurable bone placement, and is granted a hip replacement in the essay ; MY LEFT HIP One of the "blog entries on "WhenWordsCollide", always interesting, always imbued with the spirit of "the personal to the universal." "My Sexual History" is an online novel which is serialized on the blog. I am attempting to write a "sexual history" that is honest, realistic, and somewhat erotic without being titillating or perverse. The "reviews" so far have been very positive. The blog, "WhenWordsCollide" has regular features, which include "PhotoPosts", "ElectricPoetry" posts, Philosophical articles for the "Socrates Cafe", reminiscences, observations, and opinions. I once wrote that AllThingsMike could possibly be the only website you will ever need. Some of my Xanga blog readers get a lot of their "news" from my daily articles, so perhaps this is slowly becoming true for some people.
VIDEO BLOGS ON WHENWORDSCOLLIDE
Iwrote that someday "We would all have our own television stations on the internet." and the time arrived in late 2005. I still have some of my "television shows" on Beta from the 80s although I don't have a player on which to watch them. .I always had my idea for a television show and thanks to the state of streaming video and up to date video editing software, I am able to create "Mike's Video Blog" a sporadic feature on WhenWordsCollide. The first Video Blogs streamed from YouTube, but most of the later Video Blogs are stored on my blog server. A lot of folks VideoBlog now. Most of them are the garden variety "turn the camera on yourself and talk" gabfests, but I'm creating MikeVideo "internet movies" with the same quality as all other MikeVideo product. Each edition will have a theme, and take the viewer somewhere else in the crazy universe of MikeVideo.
"GREETINGS FROM OCEAN BLVD." PROJECT: SUMMER 2007
Faced with monetary problems which prohibit me from taking "photo expeditions" too far from home, I spent a couple of weekends on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach this past summer, walking along photographing and videotaping my progress along the boulevard. The resulting "art projects" are the internet movie "Greetings From Ocean Blvd." and the Webshots Gallery photo folders of the same name. (Linked in the "Webshots Gallery Additions" entry below.) I've always attempted to see how steady I can hold the camera by hand without uisng a tripod, and then moving with balletic grace in order to achieve almost "steadicam" like shots in my "travelblogues" and internet movies. I think I achieved some excellent results with "Greetings From Ocean Boulevard". Plans are in the works for more "street specific" travelblogues centered on major Southern California thoroufares like Hollywood Boulevard. Read the Director's Commentary on my blog.
"THE TALL SHIPS" PROJECT: SUMMER 2007
In November 2007. the "20th anniversary year" of MikeVideo is over. I have completed and posted 20 new "internet movies" on either my YouTube Channel, the MikeVideo section of this website, or the "Videoblog" section of my blog, since November of 2006, when the anniversary year began. The latest MikeVideo Internet Movie is "The Tall Ships", posted in late September 2007. A tribute to the sailing vessels of old and the three masted schooners of today. MikeVideo combines footage shot aboard four full size sailing ships at the Dana Pt. Tall Ships Festival on Sept. 8th, 2007, with photos and paintings acquired through websearches, and scored to a music file that contains lots of traditional sea shanties. Read the "Director's Commentary"on my blog.

"Artviews"is a nine minute MikeVideo Internet Movie streaming from my YouTube Channel. It's the 25th video on the channel and is also featured on the new Xanga Video section."ArtViews" is composed of footage shot in 2001 at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in Pasadena, and in 2006 at the Getty Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Both museums allow photography, and I assembled this footage in hopefully 'aritsitic' ways. The soundtrack is called "Classical Mash" and has been cobbled together from about a dozen classical symphonic pieces, the majority well known passages from Beethoven. I'm pretty excited by the completion of this latest video, which took nearly two weeks of evenings after work and two complete weekends to finish. It's chock full of my photography, and familiar MikeVideo special effects such as chroma key and cutting to the music track, with an eye and ear for composition. There is no "story" here, just pure "art for art's sake". In November of 2006, the twentieth anniversary of my MikeVideo brand quietly and quickly passed. It wasn't until mid December that I realized this benchmark anniversary had almost gotten away from me, and I hadn't even mentioned it during the whole of 2006, which, owing to the existence of YouTube, where I constructed my YouTube Channel in December of 2005, has seen the uploading of far more videos than I ever streamed here from the AllThingsMike server. As mentioned in the History Section of the MikeVideo website, a lot of my early videos were on VHS, and some are unwatchable since they were recorded on Beta. Most of the "internet movies" which have been my media of choice since 2003, were streamed here first. Now everything, including archival material, and the first episode of the multi part "The MikeVideo Story" which utilizes some VHS footage, are on the YouTube site.On the MikeVideo Website. the vids are also showcased, and include essays about their history and construction. Some of the more detailed videos, like the recent "Nantucket Holiday" series, which has three episodes online, have their own webpages.
"SELLING SEX AT THE CES", WHAT THEY COULDN'T SHOW ON YOUTUBE. STREAMING FROM MIKEVIDEO: 11/06
Sex Sells. And at the "Pornothon" in Las Vegas every year, they sell sex. AllThingsMike has had a histoy of presenting my complete creative output as it happens, so I am not the least bit hesitant about trumpeting the completion of one of my "five year projects", the MikeVideo internet movie, "Selling Sex at the CES", shot in 2000 and finally finished in 2006. Not for everyone, perhaps, but bound to please the palate of the porn fan, "Selling Sex" is a "documentary" look at the Adult Software Dealers Exposition. The video is downloadable in three parts, each about 10 minutes long. When I posted Part 1 and Part 2 on my YouTube Channel this past summer, I received almost 20,000 viewings combined, and the videos were only online for three weeks. YouTube considered them full of "inappropriate content." I will admit, this is a show about pornography. It features nudity. It's RATED R. Nobody under 18 should even be watching it. Right now all three parts are online, and available for download for a limited time. Each file is rather large, and the download time is considerable. It always feels good to complete a project, and this one is finally "in the can."
PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY PROJECT 03/0
March of 2006 was when I began the MikeVideo and photographic project "Pacific Coast Highway." I've been shooting video and the project takes center stage in my first Video Blog. I have two Webshots Galleries online. Gallery One and Gallery Two contain over 270 new photos between them.There is also a MikeVideo Internet Movie online, a photo slideshow set to the music of Andreas Braunlich. I took photos in my own backyard of Lomita, CA, and around Torrance, Harbor City, Wilmington, Long Beach, Hermosa and Redondo Beaches. Plans are still afoot for an eventual drive up the coast with the top down with both still and video camera and plenty of memory sticks MIKEVIDEO INTERNET MOVIES: DOO DAH NOVEMBER 2005 Doo Dah is a MikeVideo shot in November 2005 at the "DooDah" parade in Pasadena. The video lasts a little more than nine minutes and shows a lot of highlights I shot as the parade passed me. Imaginatively edited, and with an original music track by Andreas Baunlich, the video is the next best thing to being there. Thanks to a website community called "YouTube", I now can present all of my MikeVideo "Internet Movies" online in a streaming format that uses Flash. All the viewer needs is a flash plugin on his computer, and he can see all the Internet Movies I have made over the years. The MikeVideo pages, recreated in early 2005, contains descriptions and links to more MikeVideo Internet Movies. Truly, I'm developing my own Television Station on the web. MikeVideo Productions turned 20 years old in November of 2006, so what better time for a renaissance in home grown video projects. MIKEVIDEO INTERNET MOVIES: ARBITRIMAGE DREAMS OCTOBER 2005 "Arbitrimage Dreams is one of a long line of MikeVideo Internet Movies, created with "arbitrary images" on two different videocameras over a five year period, and edited in the computer. The 9-1/2 minute video is available online as of October of 2005.. Combining disparate imagery, and haunting music, this is a one of a kind video experience, and is yours to watch for free by clicking here. I always said that someday "We would all have our own television stations on the internet." I thought I'd have to wait longer than now, however. Thanks to a website community called "YouTube", I now can present all of my MikeVideo "Internet Movies" online in a streaming format that uses Flash. All the viewer needs is a flash plugin on his computer, and he can see all the Internet Movies I have made over the years.have also begun filming and presenting "video blog entries", produced like professional television shows, and because of this development, my productivity is rising . Check out the first "Video Blog: Pacific Coast Highway", announcing my latest Webshots gallery offering. The link is to the YouTube page, and right now I'm featuring a player on this page above for "instant viewing". I also have a later "movie" than "Arbitrimage Dreams" on YouTube, the presentation of the "DooDah" parade in Pasadena in November 2005. The MikeVideo pages, recreated in early 2005, contains descriptions and links to more MikeVideo Internet Movies.