Comments on: not your ordinary sand-art

By: RE

RE — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:28:37 +0000

Oh and there is also this amazing display of music from a French guy:

By: RE

RE — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:26:37 +0000

Indeed it is a amazing video both for how the music is incorprated into the art. The art itself is simply amazing alone, along with his other works

Here is another link for the video
http://mail.colocation.hinet.net/~happyman/funny/sand.wmv

In addition his site which has pictures and other short videos of his.

http://www.cakostudio.hu/

By: Dossy

Dossy — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:43:56 +0000

You’re right. Never actually looked at the header that Windows Media Player sends. I do notice however that it sends cookies. My hunch is only sends cookies that were set in Microsoft Internet Explorer, though … would have to experiment some more.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:22:37 +0000

referrer checking doesn’t work on wmv files thanks to windows media player

By: Dossy

Dossy — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:10:27 +0000

Sadly, I currently have no real bandwidth (sigh) so I wasn’t going to host sand.wmv on my own box … but if I did, I definitely was going to put HTTP referer checking in place to keep others from just linking to it, that’s for sure.

Cool, and thanks, from one “coder geek” to another.

By: Temporal

Temporal — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:34:36 +0000

Fortunately no real harm was done. Somehow, through a series of freak events a few years ago, our hosts gave us a service plan that doesn’t officially exist, in which we get 100GB/mo. at an insanely low rate. sand.wmv only used up, like, 27GB of that, so we’re in the clear. It was a bit frustrating, though. We hit 10GB/day for three days in a row before we pulled the movie! But, yeah, in the end it didn’t hurt anyone.

One other member wanted to replace the video with actual porn, but I convinced him otherwise, knowing there were a lot of sites (like yours) that didn’t deserve that. Wouldn’t want a fellow coder geek to unknowingly be linking his/her/its readers to porn, along with a quote like “I’m pretty speechless. Okay, that’s a lie, I can say lots of things about how cool this performance art is.”

By: Dossy

Dossy — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 05:47:15 +0000

Temporal! Thanks for checking your referer logs. I actually never visited the link of theposse.org until you mentioned replacing it, so I had to go look. I’m still laughing … I was totally expecting animal porn or some slideshow starting with tubgirl.com or goatse.cx — but the “informational video” was much more tasteful and funny.

I know bandwidth costs money — that’s why I linked to you instead of putting it up on my own link. I know, sorry, that was uncool. Still trying to find some “free web hosting” space out there that’s giving away 30 MB of space.

Sorry for any grief my link caused you … from my click-through logs, there’s been a happy amount of folks we’ve gotten from Google that clicked through to theposse.org.

By: Temporal

Temporal — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:31:23 +0000

“Mirrored”. Har har. We mirrored it for our own readers, not everyone else in the god damned world. Bandwidth costs money. Movie has been replaced with a short informational video. (Not that I think this blog did any significant damage. There were literally sites all over the world leeching that thing.)

By: Dossy

Dossy — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:12:26 +0000

Looks like they took the link down. Google shows that someone mirrored it here:

http://www.theposse.org/downloads/sand.wmv

Thanks for pointing this out …

By: maceman

maceman — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:48:38 +0000

hey, i had the chance to watch this over the weekend. come tuesday the link no longer is working. where could i find this again?