Now: current uploads
I'm adding deviantART pasties (when it gets a much needed enhancement) to change something on my website I think needs to change: keeping current with uploads.
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Besides deviantART, which I and many others chose to upload art, I have a hi5 account and a swurl account that integrates various user-generated websites content (I use it now just for youtube and digg)
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2551.07.08 tags[community, free, art, networks]

10,000 views. thanks
wow... counting my 3 deviantart accounts (anagami, zensui, elvenmuse), I've a bit over 10,000 views. Which is pretty decent. I will like more comments, but still, there are some gems in prior comments.
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deviantART is a great community, my knowledge of contemporary art is mostly because of this website. And because of the objective apreciation of artists around the world, I've concluded that I'm not a genius in art. Which is fine, my priority in life is meditation to understand Nirvana... and I'm doing quite good in this spiritual aspect of my life.
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I now do less art, but it's better... this is because I'm less inspired to do art... usually I'm studying, reading, listening to music, and specially meditating. I guess what I never got with art, I know get from meditation.
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It has being a great journey, being part of this networked art community. Thanks all. ^_^
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2551.05.13 tags[community, free, art, buddhism]

Wikipedia and virtual communities
I've being part of many virtual communities of various types; from Buddhism to general talk, from design to tech talk. When I first started participating it was basically for the fun of it, much later (well some months later) I discovered participating communities. This communities are Open and Free ones. You made something either from scratch or as a derivate and upload it, others can modify it freely. The ideals in which this is based are truly honorable. But let me tell you a little secret of so called free virtual communities; they're not really communities and what is important is information not the humans that made them.
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First you can be banned for pretty much any subjective “reason” for any random period of time or, which may be worst, you will basically leave because you have had enough. I have being banned, restricted or have quited bitterly in at least 6 “communities” (2 Buddhism, 1 design, 1 wiki, 2 technology) by people that have never talked to me face to face. This people don't really know me or have a clue of what I may be going trough in my REAL life. I can be posting by the influence of “mushrooms” (...altough I have never consumed drugs some things I say or write may give that impression), they can be dogmatic in their approach of either the topic or there internal (sometimes TOO extensive) rules and ban “dangerous rebels” or they can behave in whatever way causes you to feel uncomfortable or not really part of that community.
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I'm currently banned 1 week from editing in Wikipedia. The only 2 other virtual communities that I really care are deviantart and peak oil. By posting this I may or may not be banned for more time in Wikipedia; but I wanted to post this as an ADVICE or WARNING. Dear reader, be very careful when you aproach this communities. Don't expect ideal honrable networked communities and think twice before posting something that you don't have the power to delete. Also, remember real life. The communities that are based on complete communication have the potential to be much better.
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2551.03.22 tags[community, free]

deviantART; a community of artists
deviantART.com is one of the few websites I visit almost daily. It is a community of artists, where each artist has its own gallery and homepage. This is a huge community; and the quality of art varies from proffessional to newbie.
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There I've an account which lately I've updated more often. The majority of art in my deviantART gallery are fractals, which you can also download from here... as usual, my art uses a Creative Commons by-nc license.
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2551.02.18 tags[art, community]

The Joy of Music
“Happy Contemplation” is a song I'm currently working on. Right now it's quite raw, but already I do like some of its melodies. There are some verses that I will keep, but the composition still needs edition.
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It has 2 tracks: piano and drums. Both are software instruments. I play also the electric guitar, but currently it's in need of some repair. It's a long song (12 minutes), of the type “experimental electronic” (... I guess).
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It uses a Creative Commons Attributtion-NonCommercial license. Basically this means that it can be distributed and modifyied free of charge, but you must say the name of the original author (saying just anagami.net counts as attribution) and not use this derivate works for comercial use.
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For now, I will upload only the GarageBand file (Mac only). Once finished (or maybe before), I will also upload an AAC/mp4 file.
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2551.02.09 tags[music, art, free]

What is Anāgāmin? What is anagami.net?
Anāgāmin is a sanskrit word meaning "one who does not return". Its etymology is "not (an) returner (agami)" and in Pāli it's Anāgāmī. Since it uses characters with macrons (long vowels) that may not be in some typographies; a simplified (web) version is simply "anagami".
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Since first reading this word I found the musicality, sound and tone of this word comforting. It may even be used as a one-word-mantra. However, anagami is a word (now) used basically only in Buddhism; or at least it's in a Buddhist context where it has meaning.
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Being Buddhist, I understand this concept, briefly I will explain it. One of the buddhist basic concepts is that a life of someone that is not a Buddha has suffering. Anagami is the middle of the path towards becoming Buddha, but this is an egoless journey, this are not wordling's titles to be used to inflate a confused ego. It implies being free of the first five (of ten) fetters that cause suffering.
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This is a website that is focused on technology, why use a buddhist word for it? This has a simple and direct answer: because that meaning does fit on a technological, specifically computing and informatics, context. Someone that "does not return" is a description in third person of someone that is ahead of the curve (state-of-the-art) of the (technological) path. In short an innovating and new individual, group, organization, corporation or project.
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This is a great goal of quality in technology. And because in Buddhism there's no egocentrism, it doesn't sound arrogant, it's simply a fact of being ahead. It also implies that the chosen path is actually worthy of effort, that it improves the human condition with an harmonious relationship with the rest of life.
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More specifically, anagami.net is a network of my own efforts that I want to share to someone else, and that have anagami-class quality. The first and, for now only, effort that shares the anagami branding is dAnagami {Darwin+Anagami; a software project to make a Darwin-based fully Open Source distro that is actually useful} and a companion tAnagami (Typography Anagami).
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2551.02.13 tags[design, buddhism, software, Open Source]

The Present and Future of this Website; anagami.net
I've not uploaded much content on this website in the past months. I've also considered to keep using both English and Spanish, or focus on just one.
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My content was mostly empty because so was my mind. Meditation has real changes on one's life; because of the way mind's perception of reality changes. For the better. If mind changes, so those the content one creates. But to make this changes almost permanent, the time dedicated to meditation increases... and the time dedicated to create content decreases. But why am I talking about this?
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Well, because this website's frontpage is my new blog. If this website's purpose is to share my content to all netizens that visit it, as was original intended, I should update the frontpage so that the newest content is visible in some way. And do it in a more personal way than the machine-like: updated-date.
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This can be done with a preview image, a concise text explanation, or both. The content of this website falls basically in 4 categories: art, design, literature or software. This, I tought, can be grouped in image (art & design) and text (literature & software). But, this are more accurately grouped in code (design & software) and free (anything I do in my free time, and share for free). But why design and software are grouped in code?
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Code is an elegant and simple solution to some problem. The only work I have done in design is code websites. Software is the next step. I know Java and this semester I will re-start seriously my learning of coding with C++.
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Today I grouped art with literature and design with software, instead of grouping it in the too-simple "image" and "text" or in the too-complex "everything that I do". This takes a sharp, clean, balanced and flexible mind. Seriously, for me it's a great advance. For visitors, the consequence of this grouping is that the navigation is changing to a more simple one.
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2551.02.07 tags[art, design, literature, software]