Jaya Prime

Dreams, thoughts, feelings, memories, moments...

[jayaprime]

"The Sky is Broken (Remix) by Moby" Remixed by Jaya Prime

./notes: A fan dropped by and left comments on one of my more rare remixes, a mix others have been enjoying off my "Blood of the Moon" trip-hop set (Mixcloud) since 2003.

Sadly, the fan created a temporary YouTube account to leave the comments, so they've already disappeared. I really like what he said, however, so I'm posting them permanently here:

Reinhard Kary: What an excellent version of a stunning and sad song. Thanks for uploading!

Reinhard Kary: Best version out there, as it seems. Thx for sharing :)

Watch the original video here on YouTube

[jayaprime]

You are needed for The Fractal Museum

You. Yes, you right there. The Fractal Museum has launched it's official fundraiser here on Fundly. Spread the word, post and reblog, donate if you can. Help change the future and be a part of a new understanding for the world all around us, the stars above us, and even the cells within the body.

https://fundly.com/the-fractal-museum-and-the-heroes-of-the-future

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Kill Order Received

I got the kill order today to terminate DharmaMix and end all public ties to its existence. Fitting. On June 30th in the year 2000, I left the world of humans to head out as a hitchhiker. Fitting, also, as I was the one who engineered and actualized DharmaMix. The call was made by the one who actually envisioned and created DharmaMix. I held the knife that took her life. It was a good run.

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(Untitled Fragment)

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

~Mark Z Danielewski, “House of Leaves”

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It's that time of year again. It started days ago, the hauntings, the obsessions, the desire for a thing that is... painful.

The desire didn't come last year. In fact, last year I did not have a spring. I wintered in France, in the cold, and then traveled in other cold places, and I did not feel the embrace of warmth until it was already July.

Something about this year is different. I feel a spring in the air. I am sick, the fourth time I've been sick in a year and with far too much exposure to cold, and yet the desire rises inside of me and I feel spring. Spring. And on the horizon? Summer.

Obsessive desires return, and even at this moment I am listening to "Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell [YouTube] and I know soon I will need to watch "Requiem for a Dream" .. . and, had I a copy of "House of Leaves" nearby, it would already be in my clutches.

I do not know where these desires come from. Desires for pain, for something darker than dark, for something that burns so painfully that it can only be passed through, a thing so painful and haunting that it gives strength to my entire being. I do not know... but it is here inside of me.

Soon I will return to the house. I will wander its hallways. I will walk again into that darkness. Soon.

I am coming.

[jayaprime]

Team Jaya Prime, 2016 Summary

The Year of the Reaper has come to a close. Welcome to 2017!

It is time to tally up where team Jaya Prime stands, here at the start of the new year, because a lot is changing.

Instagram: My main professional Instagram account @fractals_by_jaya is at 2,834 followers with a mere 210 posts. That is more than twice where it was at the start of 2016. My 2017 goal for that account is 10,000 followers. My Lili will be helping me with posts and account management, and I also have a marketing team working with me. For the last nine posts of the year, the average likes are at 453 and the average comments are at 52. In 2016, for the first time ever, some of my posts started trending in primary tags such as "hypnotic" and "surreal". If I can see one of my posts trend even once in the tag "beautiful" before the end of 2017, then the case will be closed on Instagram.

Twitter: This one is more difficult. I used Twitter primarily for my music career, but the loss of my hearing left that account gathering dust. I pushed it forward a little in 2016, but 2017 is the year that I really take the account up a notch. It's currently at 360 followers.

Pinterest: Pinterest is a mystery to me. I post to it, but get no traction. The marketing team has, in a single month, already proven more effective at Pinterest than I have ever been. My account is currently at 395 followers. I have no current goals for it, but its power of linking and advertising will be put to the test in 2017.

Tumblr: I have had mixed successes with Tumblr. The changes that have come with Yahoo have only made it worse, and slowed progress, but I'll at least maintain an ongoing presence here. It has the most flexibility of all the platforms that I am posting my art to. Multiple links, SEO, galleries, and so much more. 362 followers on my secondary account, 756 on my primary account.

Facebook: The marketing team agrees with me that Facebook has fallen by the wayside in terms of exposing art and converting fans to sales. They are re-posting my content from Instagram to Facebook, but it has the lowest priority.

DeviantArt: To my own surprise, I'm back on DeviantArt and semi-active. It is filled with "raw fractal" racists, and that nauseates me, but it is excellent for consolidating my stores into one place, for exposure, and it is centered directly on the art more than any other place. I have my friend Martina to thank for gifting me a three month core subscription. I've extended that for the first six months of 2017, and I have begun running features and doing more networking on the platform. My Lili will be helping on comms with DeviantArt and helping with notifications. My goals for DeviantArt are to see how much the admins still support fractal art, and my art in particular (again, racism), and if any of the links convert to sales. My account is at 184 watchers right now.

Redbubble: Redbubble has quickly become my primary store. They have no minimum to hit before they pay you. Their packaging and products are exceptional. They allow you to customize the margins. Product customization is fast. They do not have errors like the other sites. They have so many positives that it is absurd. I currently have 35 followers. "Deep Space Dreamer" is easily my top-selling design. I've started a spreadsheet to track sales by art, product, and type.

Society6: I do not get why people like this site. I keep pushing art to the site, but no sales. I am not giving up yet. I see a lot of success coming out of this site, so I have a lot to learn here. I have started a trend of spending at least an hour out of two or three days each week simply finding new artists to follow. I find they often follow back, and there is increased activity on my art. There are currently 53 followers on this account, and almost all of those came from starting this pattern in the past two weeks.

Advertising: I experimented with some advertising in 2016. Direct to a person, by name, via email, was easily the most successful. While I ran an add on Instagram with my "Bloom of Fire" fractal flower, and while it raked in quite a few likes, it did not convert to any sales. I did later manage to convert some of those likes into followers, but very little. Targeting really seemed to help with the advertising. It was also an annoyance that the ad did not build on the original post in my gallery, but instead created a new and separate piece of art. I ran a Twitter advertising campaign for my book, and while there was some exposure, it led to no conversions. Even though Twitter used the original post to create the ad, the amount of exposure was extremely marginal. In fact, it is likely I will never run another Twitter ad. Instagram, however, will see more of my attention. Outside of email, the most successul promotions were when I posted three ads artistically on my primary Instagram account. I will do the same in 2017.

Exclusive Limited Edition: I got an invitation to the New York based gallery Curioos, and while I am running a few prints thru them, I am also running a limited edition exclusive set of printings for "Origami Autumn" as well as acryllic block casts of the collage. It is an experiment I will look into more in 2017. While I maintain a presence on many other stores, it is possible that I'll actually try to push this one up to a level with Redbubble.

Wikimedia: I got onto Wikipedia's media site Wikimedia in 2016. I found out that links coming in from Wikipedia are about 100 times more powerful than normal links. I also discovered that dot Org links are increasingly powerful. I'm increasing organic SEO while giving back to the community, and using fractal stock that I already put into the commons for others to use -- including my award-winning "Chaos Clock" fractal. After having a fight with one of the moderators, I finally got it worked out, and now the art is on Wikimedia and linked into article. I want at least two more high quality fractals of mine on Wikimedia before the end of 2017.

Overall: I need to spend more time on promotions and less time creating. The art that already exists needs to have more exposure, and I need to give the art that time and respect to grow... not drown it out in new art. So while I will keep creating, I am slowing down my product cycle and increasing my promotions.

Other Stores

Curioos

Art of Where

Visual Troop

DynoMighty

Threadless

Fine Art America

RageOn!

Imagekind

Design By Humans

CafePress

Zazzle

ArtsAdd

Planned Expansion

Extended Stores: In 2017, I'm planning on expanding my stores to include Snapmade, ArtsCow, and the ArtsCow browsing store CowCow. This expansion is primarily to create fractal cigarette cases. Cigarette branding and packs are being banned, and have already been banned in countries such as France. Because of my connections to the pro-tobacco community, I have potential exposure to more than 10,000 artists and consumers who would love these designs. That potential needs to be tapped.

Patreon: I kicked off my Patreon with the December launch of the deluxe edition of my book. It is currently empty, just a few things, but this is going to be a major player in 2017. If I can hit $1000 USD every month by the end of 2017, then I will consider it a success. I am still working out the plans at this very moment.

Sites Axed: Ghost dot IO, as well as Evermore. Considering axing Dribbble in 2017.

Secondary Sites

http://fractals.webs.com/

http://fractalist.weebly.com/

https://jayaprime.carbonmade.com/

http://720302.wixsite.com/jayaprime

Behance

Need a DeviantArt Portfolio in 2017

http://thecreativefinder.com/jayaprime

https://jayaprimeblog.wordpress.com/

http://jayaprime.livejournal.com/

https://beautiful-fractals.blogspot.com/

https://medium.com/@jayaprime

Renderosity (some traction)

http://www.artrift.com/jayaprime/

http://plovist.com/user/jayaprime

http://pixiv.me/jayaprime

https://theartstack.com/jaya-prime

https://dribbble.com/jayaprime

Flickr

Google+

https://ello.co/jaya-prime

http://www.hi5.com/jayaprime

Upwork (new Elance)

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“Spectral Iteration: A Prismatic Journey thru the Beautiful Art of Fractals and Abstracts”

Mass Market Paperback by San Jaya Prime

Beautiful and vivid fractal designs, hypnotic Mandelbrot spirals, and mysterious and inspiration abstracts. Every page is taking another step forward in the spectrum. The journey is yours to take. This 7" x 7" art book comes from the internationally acclaimed and award-winning fractalist San Jaya Prime. His designs appear on book covers, album art, video games, and as large murals featuring vivid colors that envelop lines formed from sacred geometry. This is where math and nature meet on the shores of the infinite. I walk in dreams and dream waking. Who am I?

Purchase Spectral Recursion

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Details on the Book

Publisher: Blurb (September 7, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1367260833

ISBN-13: 978-1367260832

Pages: 20 full-color pages

Dimensions: 7 in x 7 in x 0.2 in

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Self-Coding and Pavlov: Rising

I've spent the past few years using a form of "Pavlov's Dog" on myself, using a few different forms of stimulus conditioning for various states that I want to be able to trigger in myself. While I've been a little lax with it over the past few months, basically since losing my only remaining iPod, the effects have been rather incredible.

While I've set up multiple triggers and conditioning patterns, the only one I will be talking about is my wake-up routine. The others would actually give other people power over me, as they could hit the triggers, or the power of the conditioning could be removed by over-exposure. With my wake-up routine, however, the only thing a person could do would be to keep me awake... and I always want to be awake. So it's all peachy.

It's grown over time, but here is the wake-up routine that I've conditioned myself to trigger the burst of waking energy inside myself:

- The First Waking Moment: Within the first few seconds, I click play on the first song in my waking playlist (listed below), I light a smoke and inhale, and I take a drink of coffee or energy drink. It is all near the same time so that it compounds the effect.

- The Waking Hour: I'm not allowed to eat anything for the first hour (avoiding other stimulus). I'm not allowed to sit down for the first hour, mostly to promote activity, and the activity can be exercise, cleaning, dancing, or other boosting activities. I usually do dancing, but the activity is very freeform. I am not allowed to check emails or other forms of communication/input.

- The Waking Playlist: This playlist is played every day upon waking, either on loud speakers, or using my headphones. The order is specific, and the waking ritual is not complete until the playlist finishes.

Fink - Warm Shadow

Major Lazer - Where I Come From (Get Free Rhythm)

Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera

Blakroc - What You Do To Me

Gossip - Are You That Somebody? (Cover of Aaliyah)

Royal Sapien - Just the Same (Mix 1)

Placebo - Every You, Every Me

Sixteen Sisters - The Kleptones

Nico Vega - Beast (Bioshock Infinite Extended Version)

Various - The Walking Dead (Cryptex Reglitch)

Pretty Lights vs Avicii vs Flo Rida - Sometimes (Cryptex Reglitch)

Blackburner - In Love With The City (Feat. Geri X)

Elliphant - Revolusion (Bottle Service Remix)

Skrillex - Kyoto (Ft. Sirah)

Talvekoidik - Such A Perfect Day

PS: The playlist was constructed using songs that: A. Always make me feel good; B. Have an energy that raises me up; C. Can be repeated over and over and I'll not tire of them; and, D. Do not appear on most my other playlists, although favs are allowed if they're not already obsessively on all my other playlists. The current list (above) has been [Here on my YouTube] for quite some time. After I set up the list, I organized them in curve that starts with lowest energy and rises more and more.

The results have been incredible. At this point, even though I've laxed a bit, just hearing the first song and taking a drag off my cigarette will trigger a sudden boost in energy.

There is room for improvement.

Now that I know it works, and I have hard-coded a lot of the conditioning, I am planning for future upgrades. One song that is going on the list, just after "Where I Come From", is the song "Get Free" by Major Lazer. The melodies go together, and I want to increase the time of the ritual.

Most of the other changes are chemical. I have been reading studies and articles on the effects of drinking only water for the first hour or two of the day, and drinking most of it within the first moments of waking. This article [Here on Lifehack] is just one of those, and it specifically is talking about warm water. Others: Livestrong, HealthyTell (640ml, very specific).

Another chemical change is holding off on caffeine and all other non-nicotine stimulants until one to two hours after waking. I'm going to set it at about two hours. I'll also need to de-couple the conditioning with liquid stimulants.

Another chemical change is to have one very large meal two hours after waking, which will mark the end of the ritual. It will also be my only meal of the day. I'm still considering what to include, but two bananas a day will be a part of it. Article Source. This part is the least-formed of all the upgrades and still under heavy research.

Finally, I am going to add visual stimulus. This is not that important, because with all my movement during the ritual, and changing even where I am standing or moving, the visuals will likely not even get tied into the conditioning. Nonetheless... I'm adding them.

Once I have the foundation of all the changes, I will begin the conditioning changes with all of them and at the same time to "jolt" the previous conditioning and to set down new neural maps. It's been one of the most rewarding experiments that I've performed on myself.

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I saw this article on a "Golden Ratio Coloring Book" and I lost it. Mad thanks to Squeaks for the find. This is only one of many incredible designs that will be included in the book. Just wow! [Original Article].

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I saw a video of Giger that had been recorded shortly before his death. At the mention of Li Tobler, the pain immediately crossed his features, and his voice retracted inward... and in seconds he was walking away. To see him so affected, even three decades later, was a harsh reminder of the ghosts that haunted the man who made "biomechanical" an artform unto itself. Li ended her own life in May of 1975, but Giger etched her face in stone and paint, and carried her ghost with him until his own death in 2014.

Some ghosts are never forgotten.

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Creativity collapse

As of this morning, my laptop won't turn on. It's the end of a very long spiral of losing computers and devices. I'm down to a cracked tablet. I had to download the tumblr app just to post this, because it's important. This moment, right here, is important. It's not the bottom. I've been homeless and a hitchhiker for years, I know the bottom is a long ways down. A long ways. You wouldn't believe how far down. I have a cracked tablet, a few spare bucks, and I'm sick as hell in spring, which is something new and completely unwelcome. It all comes at a time when demand is highest, and my art is on the rise. Burning Man is looking for someone to envision the map this year, an artist and to work with me on creating a steampunk compass for the playa, and design by humans is having a watercolor contest that I would be perfect for. Opportunity is exploding, and my ability to express and create is collapsing. I don't know what tomorrow brings. I know it will take painful choices, and that is why this moment is important. It is a landmark and a reminder on why these choices must be made, and to make a measurement of where the future follows on this moment. No matter how painful, this is not the end.

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That fractal in the top-left, in the #1 position, is my design called "Stardreamer". I'll get into that in a moment, and why it's important, but it needs a little bit of history.

Eleven months ago, I had finally faced the fact that I was losing my hearing, and I was not going to be able to continue producing music. It's about as much "not cool" as not cool gets. It sucks. I have my arts of writing, of graphic design, and my art of coding. Despite the book covers and awards for all my designs, it was always secondary to my music. That had to change.

I launched an Instagram account for my design on May 29 of 1015. I didn't even know if it would go anywhere. I just needed an outlet to express the things inside of me. A year later, and I have more than 1500 followers, an average of 350 likes per piece of art, many comments, and I've discovered a community of incredibly talented artists.

This screenshot is actually a milestone. This is the tag #hypnotic on Instagram. It is a primary tag, a big one, much like #Beautiful or #Fractal. Secondary tags are those like #FractalArt. But Hypnotic? This was the first time one of my designs pushed into the top of the primary tags, and into the number one position. As it stands, "Stardreamer" was also my first design to pass 500 likes. Another milestone.

I don't know where this is going. I only know that I love to create, and it feels good to be here with my creations as they grow and travel around the world. I only have a few dollars to my name. I've always been undergunned and against the odds. My only choice is to keep going. The only direction is forward. The way out is within.

Update [2016-07-20]: This is easily my top-ranking fractal ever on Instagram, and it was my first to enter the "500 Club" of likes. It's inspired the thought in me to make a whole series of chocolate fractals, at least once I can afford a computer that can render them at large sizes for merchandise.

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It's not midnight yet... and I thought, maybe today, maybe today is the day I don't post this song. No. It's not today.

[3am-atx]

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I took a step back and watched how I make my enchiladas. A friend had asked "how", and I actually didn't know. Now I do.

Sauce up these two together over medium heat for about 5min, it'll get a little tanned, and that's good.

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup corn flour

  Then, spice time! Change 'em up to taste, but these are about what I'm using right now. Mix them in and cook for a few minutes.

2 tbsp Chili Powder

2 tsp Cumin

1 tsp Paprika

1 tsp Sea Salt

1 tsp Black Pepper

1/2 tsp Cayenne Powder

  I mix in an 8oz can of tomato puree, then simmer for another five or more minutes. You could stop there. Just cook on low heat for another 5min, then remove it from the heat. It usually thickens overnight and is best on the second day.

Sometimes it's actually too thick, so I'll add about 8oz of veggie stock to it when cooking, just using the tomato sauce can to measure it out.

You can mix it up, also, like I usually chop up onions and cook them in the oil in the first step before adding any corn flour. Sometimes (rare), I throw in a little minced garlic with the other spices.

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YOU ARE HERE: The pungent taste of Mexican spices lingers in my mouth and makes me smile. Do you know what it tastes like? Victory. It tastes like the crushing destruction of a respectable enemy who fought well and fell hard. This very tasty meal was paid for directly from the hands of a competitor and an enemy. When we first heard about them, we made the estimate that they would self-destruct, and so decided to not even dedicate time competing against them. We were right, and as they fall into ruin, one of their representatives came to Austin and bought took us out to dinner before he, himself, will be leaving the dying company. Times change.

The screenshot above tells a thousand stories. See that nice large green patch just north-east of the truck? When I first hitchhiked into Austin, that is the park I was sleeping in -- Walnut Creek Park. I would sleep there and work at the 7-Eleven just up the street. Things have changed.

That truck marks where I’m working tonight, and after drawing so many maps while hitchhiking for years and years, one of my jobs now is actually to make apps that plot maps. It affords me the time to actually write about all those maps and travels. With spring hitting Austin at full blast, I’m missing hitchhiking and traveling a lot, but I’ll soon be heading right back into the horizon.

From my apartment just a few miles south, I can actually walk across the street to the gas station where I used to cash checks from temporary labor jobs. I would sleep under three trees just a few blocks up the street from the station. I drive by it once a week and I smile.

The walls of an apartment are a cage to me. I don’t know how humans ever became addicted to this idea. My response has been to turn my apartment into a temporary camp sight filled with scents, art, and lights that pull me right back into the horizon. I can never be too far from the horizon... or I’ll go out of my frakking mind.

The map says “you are here”, and from where I am, I can see so many of all the places that I have ever been along the path that has brought me here -- to this moment, to this place -- and that, even now, carries me on this path into the horizon I have drawn out for myself on the map of my heart.

Before me and in all directions lies the Horizon of the Infinite.. .. and every step brings me nearer and deeper into the pull of its event horizon.

I am coming. Wait for me.

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48-Hours (ish)

So I threatened Google today. It's not everyday that I go around threatening superpowers, but the guy was looking into my neighbor's window. When I got the shake of the head from my neighbor saying that he didn't know what was going on, I started heading towards the peep and saying that windows were like one-way doors... you know, your standard evil monologue.

He must have run up against one-way windows before, because he just smiled and said, "I'm from Google Fiber."

Hold the fucking phone, Ms. Jackson, I got the goddamned president on the line.

For those that don't know, we're talking an Internet system 100 times faster than the average Internet in America. If that's too fast, then you can have a slower service from Google... for free. It is an entirely new level of insanity that is going to wipe out most current Internet providers. I've been writing them for months.

I told the guy, "Wait? Fiber? I'm on the way to a biz meeting but I will cancel the hell out of it if you are installing."

No, he was just surveying and preparing, saying only "this year" when I asked him about the date. I tried switching back to death threats. He reminded me that he had a drill. My neighbor came out, and I explained what had really been going on, and we all laughed as our apartment manager pulled up in her car, to a scene where a man from Google was holding a drill in the general direction of yours truly. We laughed even harder.

BMFD pulled up to take me to the meeting, with me smiling and pointing at the guy, saying, "Him! That is fiber RIGHT THERE." BMFD said out loud, "We WILL move our corporate headquarters right here to this neighborhood if you're installing fiber."

The guy wasn't buying. Threats? Neg. Bribes? Neg. We'll just have to wait.

In the meantime, I've been off and on Skype across five countries in the past 48-hours, I've been in every 'hood of the ATX and in downtown twice, I've mastered half an album to send across seas and into the future, I've uploaded more than five gigs of unique content, I've gotten everything taken care of for two months at the same time, I've hung out and had way too much to drink, saw the sun rise, saw a storm in a sunny sky, and actually snuck in almost three-hours of sleep somewhere in there. Oh yeah, and talked about music with a tech-support rep, then a banker, and also a bus driver... all while getting things done.

The best?

My gypsy opens her wings and flies into my arms in just over a week.

And I wrapped up work on five different applications.

I'm at that point where I'm too tired to sleep, so it's time to kick back, have a smoke, and pull up SoundCloud and relax. It's been one hell of a weekend.

And I threatened a superpower. So there's that.

PS: No drills were actually included nor harmed in the making of this day, nor the day before, as verified by the Save-The-Drills Association of America.

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Activation by TimeL0rd

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In passing

Even though she won't eat the food I set next to her, she still has the strength to raise her head and catch my hand under it. I get the message. Work will wait. I lay down and pet the little black and white cat, Oken, a friend for many years now. It touches me to hear her begin to purr softly. She's only half the size she was months ago. I'm tempted to curl up and sleep on the floor with her. In the distance, the wind blows gently and with a touch of warmth.