Two years ago I embarked on a journey. I decided that I wanted a media presence. I was frustrated by the lack of technical and artistic information on the web. No one was talking about MP3s or Napster yet. There was little help with computers. You were on your own. After a long walked that ended in Daemon Immortalis’s apartment I founded DigitalFl00d Studios. I declared (with him as my witness) that I would decimate our art to the world and provide a place where our viewpoints could be displayed. The next day I bought digitalflood.com and with the help of Rock we set up an account on Jeph.net.
I have had a web page before. Infact, I’ve been on the web for five years. My previous iterations were simply lots of links and poor HTML. I was learning. What do you expect? With digitalflood.com my main intention was a simple yet effective layout with interactive features. V1.0 was very ruff and probably deserved beta status. V2.0 incorporated layer and DHTML, which works horribly under Netscape. V2.1 switched back to tables and standard HTML4. V3.0 (the current version) added DHTML that was Netscape compatible, but still had some Internet Explorer goodies. V3.5 is in the works. I’m mum on that subject still though.
We started by simply ranting. Then we would fight with the locals. Then we started fighting with other web pages. More ranting. Finally I started covering the News since things slowed down on the art front. Since then we have two main outputs: News and Computer/Internet Troubleshooting. Who would have thunk it? 🙂
The day of rant and E/N may have passed. Today I try to focus on art and world issues. Our recent CVS vs. Warwick page is an example of local activism in action. When we aren’t causing trouble we are making art. Music and art are still regularly produced works. We have a large network of supporters and friends who help us out (You guys rule).
We have over 80,000 hits since our inception. We average 400 hits a day. It is the you the viewer who really deserves the most credit. You keep me working and producing. Without viewers I would have no reason to create. I thank you for your time and your persistance. In reality this is not just digitalflood.com’s birthday– It is the day we celebrate art and technology as one.
As a special treat digitalflood.com would like to present to you our animated short All Your MP3 Belong to US! Based on the short video intro for the Nintendo video game Zero Wing the animated short brings you to a place where the evil RIAA rules. Lars of Metallica fame finds himself thrust into the role of an evil overload for the RIAA. His rule is being threatened by a small band of infidel haX0rs called Digitalflood. Their MP3 might has grown too strong. Lars grows weary of their lies and attacks our heroes at Digitalflood. Can they survive? Find out now.
