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When I installed the WP plugin Contact Form 7 on the 25th of March I did not expect to get any feedback through it very soon, but to my surprise I got a message five days later from Jossie of Zumbakamera.com (check out their videos) regarding my impossible figures!

To support and finance an animation project called Bendito Machine (which I think is awesome!) they were looking for artists to collaborate with to get illustrations for their online Giclée service named Printastic. I was very happy to become a part of this, so I quickly agreed to supply the figures they wanted :)

As both parties were plenty busy with other things the time slipped away, but now I have finally gotten a page on Printastic! They will add more of my art in the near future; currently I have supplied them with a bunch more than there are on the page right now.

On a side note, since installing the contact form I have received two more requests about using my art (more about that later) and a very nice appreciation email :) Shocking!

I did not plan to turn my blog into a political one, but lately politics has pushed its way into my head. I have followed a few political blogs, like HAX, about this law, IPRED, which today was voted into the Swedish book of laws. This law is also called the Pirate Hunter law, or the Private Police law, as it enables private organizations to hunt for file sharers.

As I have only read this off of blogs and various sites, I have not read the law itself, it might not be entirely correct but bear with me. If you know Swedish you could always check out StoppaIPRED.nu also.

This law will let private organizations acquire the name and address etc. for the one who leased an IP at a certain point in time by turning in reasonable evidence to a court, a screenshot will probably be enough, so they can decide who downloaded what, or at least which broadband owner to blame. If the police want this information, the suspect has to risk a prison sentence…

After this they will be able to…

• … send a threatening letter where they ask you to pay a huge pile of money to avoid being dragged into court. And they are allowed to request any amount of money they want, to frighten the receiver. (!)
• … force you to pay for a newspaper ad saying who you are and what piracy crimes you got convicted for. (?!?)

I have also heard these points, but they might be scheduled for the next law revision, IPRED2, I am not really sure.

• … freeze your assets, bank accounts and others. (!!)
• … raid your home and seize your computer gear. (!!!)
• … withhold the fact they have started an investigation on you for one month after it has begun. (???)

Today, a few minutes after they had approved the new law, I signed up for the Pirate Party, Piratpartiet in Swedish. This is my first time, ever, to be a member of a political party, too bad it had to be something this horrible that got me activated.

Right now I am fairly exhausted as my brain has been buzzing with a mountain of throughts the entire day, but at least I managed to get a small loopy video of one of the votings (150Y, 106N, 35X) up top before I head for bed!

Yesterday I got a very interesting email from the user Loniek of hlawka.com. He finds optical illusions and impossible figures interesting, and thus he has painted one of my figures as a perspective anamorphic image on a corner of his… studio? It seems he’s a photographer, but it might be his combined garage too as there’s a car in there.

I found it very heartwarming and tingling to see someone recreate one of my figures, especially on a wall! Very inspiring too as I’ve been fascinated by anamorphosis art for quite some time, and this sparks my imagination!

He recorded and published the process at Vimeo, and the video is available in HD if you click over to the site! I have also embedded it below :) Awesome!

Thank you very much for sharing this, Loniek! :D