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Buy a book… make me happy

A book of pretty picturess.... What more could you want?I guess I should really say “Buy THIS book… make me happy.”

I decided to try Blurb out to see what their hardcover books were like, so back in April, I gathered all of my CD covers and put them together into the book “The Art of 2657 Productions…”. Axle sent the book to me and I just got it and I’m pretty happy with the output.

Now for the shameless promotion: You should all buy copies too! I figure I can use any money from it to pay for my web-hosting. Each book sold would be good enough for almost one month of hosting. (I can see you all whipping out your credit cards now….)

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2008 07 15 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
2657 Productions
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The Gita in Pictures

Here’s something that some random portion of my readers might be interested in. And don’t worry. I haven’t turned all religious. I have just always liked the pictures—they’re part of my childhood days… That… and I wanted to try out the gallery feature in WordPress to see what it is all about…

The quality here isn’t the best. I took photos of the illustrations in PS Mehra’s illustrated “Shrimad Bhagavad Gita in Pictures” which is printed on somewhat waxy textured paper. Scanning would have probably been a better solution, but it was my last day in Santa Barbara and I didn’t have the time to tackle this properly. I also didn’t really do a great job checking for the quality of the photos, and some of them have lens distortion or are a little blury; I’ve removed a couple of photos which were too blury. Maybe I’ll make up for my sloppiness later (like the next time I’m in the US). [Read on for the image gallery....]
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2008 07 10 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
India
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Suckerpunch (10″ and split flexi with Born Against)

10\" LP coverSuckerpunch was one of my favorite bands who I never got to see live because I got into the scene just a little bit too late (or rather, I made friends with people with cars a little too late).

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2008 07 08 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
Music
So sue me already
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More websites…. I’m on a roll….

The Student Driven Tata-Dhan Academy WebsiteLike I said in my last post, I’ve been trying to keep myself busy.

This time, it is a website to highlight student life and student work at the Tata-Dhan Academy. What can I say? When the students don’t try to test my skills at detecting plagiarism, I actually enjoy a lot of the work and activities that go on at work….

Originally, this was going to be something intgrated with the regular DHAN Foundation website, but the students and I decided we needed something that we could update more frequently and more quickly, so we decided to go with my favorite—Wordpress.

So, head on over to the website and check it out!

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2008 07 06 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
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2657 Productions is going to get a facelift

2657 Productions: Teaching myself WordPress theme design....
I’ve been trying to keep myself busy recently.

As I mentioned in my earlier post about the DAMN It! website, one of the reasons I did it was to experiment with some layout stuff. This then translated into me exploring WordPress Themes, using the Sandbox theme as my foundation.

There is still a bit of tweaking that needs to be done before I redirect the home domain to the new folder, but you can check out the new site while I start transfering the information and fiddling with the theme’s files….

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2008 06 23 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
2657 Productions
CSS
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DAMN It!

The Disaster Awareness and Mitigation Network, International!I was just having some fun at work a couple of weeks ago, trying to put some positive and creative pressure on a co-worker, so I created this fake center to compete with the center she is heading (the Advanced Centre for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction [at the Tata-Dhan Academy where I work]). The result? Amy and I settled on Disaster Awareness and Mitigation Network, International. We even have a website!
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2008 06 20 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
CSS
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DWAB: Kudli Song

Sulu inspects my rooftop kudil just after construction.
DWAB: Kudil Song

I haven’t recorded anything in a long time, so I decided to take my digital camera onto my rooftop hut and record one of the songs I’ve been working on. Knowing how lazy I am, this might be the only version you’ll ever get to hear! If you listen closely, you can hear all the random noises I hear from my rooftop, like the chanting from the nearby mosque and so on. In fact, you don’t even need to listen closely to hear my cell-phone notifying me that I received a text-message while recording the song…. Fun times!

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2008 06 20 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
2657 Productions
DWAB
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Song Sketches: Coloring Outside the Lines

Front cover for Coloring Outside the LinesAfter years and years and years, I’ve finally gotten around to getting the existing Song Sketches stuff together and compile a somewhat coherent collection of what we were about. To get an idea, you could start by reading the description of the band at the main part of the 2657 Productions site, but there’s always more to a story, right?
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2008 06 20 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
2657 Productions
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iPower Kills Me….

Seriously! My relationship with this web-host has been seriously a love/hate one.

In the past couple of months, it has been more of a hate one, especially with all the problems I had while they were moving my account to their new hosting system. In the process, a lot of my subdomains got totally screwed up, and everything was redirecting automatically to the root of the site. A few back and forts later with online tech-support and my “ticket tracker”, and I decided to just take down all of the stuff, reset all the subdomains, and re-upload. Not a huge problem, but still pretty inconvenient.

So, anyway, it seems like things are back where they should be, and working how they should.

On a positive note, it seems like they’ve finally given unlimited subdomains, meaning I might be able to try out the multi-user version of WordPress and actually have each “site” as a subdomain instead of a /something. We’ll see. I’m being cautious for a little while.

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I still like hardcore…

Give Me Back… even though some time ago, I wrote about “selling” my hardcore “soul.”

Although, I guess that by posting this here for free, maybe I’m now giving away my hardcore soul. Hmm. Not sure.

Anyway, here are two cool hardcore comps: Give Me Back and Toxic Waste on Yer Plate. The first is from an LP put out by Ebullition, and was one of the first records that got me into the hardcore scene way back when. The second is from some tape I got from (I think) Green Earth Tapes or something like that and had lots of cool crusty/pogo stuff to listen to. (Read on for the downloads….) Continue reading ›

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2008 04 20 Ananda Mahto (all categories)
Cassette-to-mp3
Compilations
Music
So sue me already
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