Comments on: Mashin of The Christ

Mashin of The Christ

bob sarabia — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:35:16 -0800

The Mashin of The Christ "Earlier this month a hacker broke through Negativland's UMN mainframe firewall and stole the final version of Negativland's top-sacred for-internal-use-only "Mashin' of the Christ" video project. Negativland prayed that their in-house project would not make it into the hands of the unsuspecting public, but we all know how hard it can be to stop those "peer to peer" criminals from illegally sharing the property of others."

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:36:18 -0800

This is the latest project from Negativland, and until now it hasn't gone live. An official download site hasn't been set up yet, but you can download all the torrents here in mpeg, avi, and mp4 format

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:37:16 -0800

hmm i left the main page, here.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:40:51 -0800

Bizarre. Is this some kind of attempt to save themselves from legal liability? Or just to save bandwidth? Or, then again, maybe it's just a stunt.

By: 40 Watt

40 Watt — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:42:52 -0800

well, this IS Negativland we're talking about here. :)

By: togdon

togdon — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:53:52 -0800

If you run linux, you probably know what to do. So true...

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:56:28 -0800

getting it now--thanks! I bet it's great.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Wed, 05 May 2004 17:59:19 -0800

i found it a little strange really. negativland and all. as for those torrents, i'm the only one seeding them right now so they're going to be pretty slow. also, if anyone can seed once you get it, that would kick ass

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 05 May 2004 18:05:09 -0800

i'll keep it up for at least a day or two.

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Wed, 05 May 2004 18:36:11 -0800

Glad to see Negativeland doing their thing still.

By: substrate

substrate — Wed, 05 May 2004 19:58:02 -0800

If it finishes downloading before I get to work I'll sftp it over there and seed from work. Mmm... insane bandwidth we can't really afford!

By: rks404

rks404 — Wed, 05 May 2004 20:35:36 -0800

Is this negativland's way of making an unlicensed illegal video based on the "Passion of the Christ" and they saying, "Crap! Some evil doer stole it from us - we can't be held legally responsible" ?? What the heck is a mainframe firewall anyway? Cool.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:05:20 -0800

I thought torrents were supposed to be fast? My experience proves otherwise.

By: sfenders

sfenders — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:14:25 -0800

Is this some kind of attempt to save themselves from legal liability? Or just to save bandwidth? Or, then again, maybe it's just a stunt. Lest there be any further doubt expressed on this point -- for I don't think I could bear to read it -- yes, it is all the above. I don't think it's meant to be difficult to guess that. It's a legal barrier whether it's obvious or not.

By: fatbobsmith

fatbobsmith — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:15:23 -0800

After watching this, I quickly came to the realization that Christianity is stupid, that I should give up and that Communism is good. That is all.

By: leaveok

leaveok — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:16:08 -0800

I love negativland. Thanks for posting this, I'll seed for a couple days after I get it.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:34:51 -0800

I thought torrents were supposed to be fast? see above. the more people you have with completed files and the more people sharing, the faster it is. My burst client says that 29 people are sharing and only 1 is complete, thus slowness.

By: bob sarabia

bob sarabia — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:38:19 -0800

godamnit. that link should go here

By: ashbury

ashbury — Wed, 05 May 2004 21:55:47 -0800

Thanks bob. It's not just this torrent (actually, this is the fastest one I've ever had which was cruising along at 45 kb/s) but most of the others that crawled so slowly that I had to put them out of their misery. I realize that the more people there are sharing, the faster it goes - I guess because it's still relatively new few people have the programs. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing this.

By: antimony

antimony — Wed, 05 May 2004 22:00:02 -0800

By: Down10

Down10 — Wed, 05 May 2004 22:05:40 -0800

Plausible deniability... I love it! Keep on truckin', Negativland!

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 06 May 2004 00:18:20 -0800

From 5 o'clock in the morning, 'till 10 o'clock at night! Give up! Give up! Michael Jackson! Look what you've done! Oh! I feel better already. Gonna have to break out the 409 on that one.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 06 May 2004 00:22:44 -0800

And yeah, it's a stunt. Just like the one they did that went something like "Our music has nothing to do with this!" Was that Columbine? Can't remember. Just play the record. Play the fuckin' record already. Fuck snuggles.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Thu, 06 May 2004 00:29:14 -0800

Right here on the station you grew up with, Music Radio 1-3-8 -- oh, fuck.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Thu, 06 May 2004 00:57:29 -0800

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 06 May 2004 02:03:27 -0800

I regularly get over 300kb/s on the torrents I download. Me too. I'll grab a copy and start to seed as soon as I get home.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 06 May 2004 09:33:45 -0800

Pulling more than 300K/s right now. Torrent is teh rock.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Thu, 06 May 2004 10:47:53 -0800

i'll keep it up for at least a day or two. Wow. Do you need a prescription for what you're taking?

By: Hlewagast

Hlewagast — Thu, 06 May 2004 11:33:08 -0800

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 06 May 2004 12:41:13 -0800

Wow. Do you need a prescription for what you're taking? Sure...like that ad about the guy with a "new confidence and outlook" and "a spring in his step" ; >

By: mosch

mosch — Thu, 06 May 2004 13:08:09 -0800

I feel a bit daft here. I got the torrent, but I can't break past the "Couldn't open the file because it is not a file that QuickTime understands" firewall. Is this one of those newfangled divx things?

By: mosch

mosch — Thu, 06 May 2004 13:14:07 -0800

previous post no longer neccessary. local geek hooked me up with vlc.

By: leaveok

leaveok — Thu, 06 May 2004 14:18:09 -0800

i'll keep it up for at least a day or two. Wow. Do you need a prescription for what you're taking? I think it's called Cialis and yes you need a prescription

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 06 May 2004 15:32:44 -0800

Is this one of those newfangled divx things? it's avi....try mplayer if you're on a mac.

By: britain

britain — Thu, 06 May 2004 15:38:21 -0800

To get your DivX on in QuickTime, install this little sucker raht here. You might have to run your movies through DivX Doctor to get sound... ah, f-it. Local geek was right about VLC. But MPlayer would probably work too. I can't believe I found out about a new Negativland item through MeFi. For the record, that means [this is good].

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Thu, 06 May 2004 15:55:19 -0800

Sigh. I was expecting something a little more pointed than this - instead, it's a rehash of "Christianity Is Stupid" mated with a jumble of Jesus movie scenes and communist newsreels with no discernable purpose in mind. This is a real case of been there, done that for them. It doesn't even manage to be offensive visually. Sorry, but I think this is just so-so.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 06 May 2004 15:59:27 -0800

I don't know--i think it made some good visual parallels.

By: kavasa

kavasa — Thu, 06 May 2004 16:57:17 -0800

Yeah I thought it was pretty lame too. But then, not everything can be dispepsi. Well, and the braceheart clip at the end was hilarious, other than that though: meh.