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Wow, you made it to the netherworlds of the Internet -- I salute you. You don't even realize how far out you are. Welcome. Say hi to Johnny, that's right, John LENNON -- what's the big deal? He plays with himself most of the time, get over it. Oh yah, that's Bobby. He's a'ight -- can sing like a muthafugga. Anyway, so almost nothing goes on here. I mean, aside from everything being outrageously sweet, basically there are a lot of bugs, the weather is inclimate, and nobody will talk to you. Our leader, fearless King Nitram, is sort of unpopular these days. So he has been forced to accept a nom de plume so as to stay out of trouble with Woman. From what I hear it's working out really good. He even started an internet development/design company, got a bigger apartment, and apparently is doing great. We keep hoping he'll come back to us. Save us from this Game of Love we play here, but it doesn't look like it'll happen any time soon. Last I heard he was building some site to help people play with their addictions. You have to understand, he's just like that. So, uhm, enjoy the pictures, I guess. If I were you, I'd smoke a bowl and check out the artwork. Read 1+0=2 Forever. It really is some trippy shit that never ever got noticed, except by Chris. In the meantime, funding to support such development is being acquired. Thanks for reading. More soon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Internet is the most incredible, untapped artistic medium ever created! It is a machine driven by humanity, ultimately capable of anything! So naturally, any art made with this new medium must, in its essence, be massively functional! But so far, many supposedly artistic sites only offer very beautiful works of imagery, still or otherwise, which don't do anything other than show themselves off--no functionality what-so-ever other than emailing the artist praise! At the other extreme is the template website which is equiped with all the bells and whistles...but, despite some color, content, and layout changes, is predictably the same from site to site. As for the few really groovy sites that do it all? Well, those cost boo-coo money, and the only people who generally can afford the team of engineers and designers necessary to execute the will of another in a really fancy and workable way like that is a large, profitable company. Those situations do not produce art, they produce commodity! Their goal is not your experience, unless your experience makes them cash. Bottom line. So where does King Nitram fit? I'm not really sure! But then, that's the greatest thing about art...you really don't know what will become of it, or where it's going, but still you believe in it because you just can feel the difference. So there it is. Give me a chance. Give yourself a chance to believe in something different. Join our community and for the first time in history, see that you, the audience, are truly the art. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definition: A community-based, chat- and forum-oriented interaction mechanism that stratefies and organizes acquaintances, friendships, and relationships based on how much and what color Love is given and received with each interaction. And suppose you are fantastically loved, and you end up with more than anybody...you may wonder, what on earth is Love good for?? Ah, no worries, that's where the whole thing just got really fun. Stay posted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When you register, you will be given 300 Smacks of Love. The more Love you have, well, the better off you are. Smacks are your currency for the features of the site. Better than money, a portion of whatever you spend comes back to you, based on the current percentage underneath the Kingdom button. This recovering process is called Healing.  To participate, you will choose amounts of your Love to spend on your friends or strangers in hopes that your involvement with them may prove to be beneficial. Even though a fraction of all spent Love will be healed based on the strength of the Kingdom's economy, to see your Love actually grow, you need to have friends that will spend their Love on you. When you spend Love, you will also have to choose a Color of Love. This color will determine how much of what you spent actually reaches your friend.
The main mechanism (at this time) for playing the game is a regular old forum of conversations. Subjects can be whatever; as our populations grows, I will build more infrastructure to handle the volume of topics. Click Kindom and you will see the most active conversations currently. Are you Royalty? Players with the most Love are listed here, although the lists can be sorted by any criteria, including who has lost the most, who has given the most of what color, etc. The crazy-looking cloud thingee on the left is a tool for quickly overviewing any player's Love connections--meaning the people that this person is most involved with sharing Love. Click who loves you? and (if you have registered) you will go to your own infomation page. Prominent features include a Love History chart which details and provides links to all of the Love you have spent in conversations, a list of all the people with whom you have exchanged Love, and a number of sort functions to help you understand who is loving who. Kinky. Ok, that's it. You are ready to play. If this is your first time, you need to register here. After that, you can send love to a friend here, or you can check out the recent conversations here and get involved that way. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Once you have begun to feel comfortable spending colors of Love, you may wonder what is the point? After all, since it claims to be a game, there should be some sort of an objective, right? There are two pathes: On one hand, you may want to play the game as a game and work your way to the top. There are infinite potential combinations of Love-Giving and -Taking strategies that can accomplish it. And who succeeds is really the crux of the game. Use your noggin, this part is totally up to you! Invite friends, chat it up, make deals, steal it from strangers, or whatever!--there are no limits! The only thing illegal is hacking my site, but otherwise, do your worst, you naughty banditos. On the other hand, you may just find that the Game of Love has an interesting moderating effect on conversation and interaction. People on this path may enjoy using it privately with select people, almost as a tool to help recognize interaction dynamics. Others may use it to test virtual relationships to see what patterns of emotion strangers tend towards. Still, others may play just for the curiousity of finding out who among their friend group is claimed to "love" them the most. The worth of the whole thing is up to you; after all, it's just another Internet Thingie. Basically, it has been designed to be open-ended. I would feel the greatest success if some sub-culture of users adapted the technology to their own idiom and expression. I can even promise that if you manage such a majority, I would accept your culture and continue to develop the site to better suit you. That's just the way it is. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes, the graphics are fancy but that's the way we like it. Unless you've gotten funky with your browser settings, frequent visits will be faster since all of the images will get temporarily cached. Otherwise, I've done all I know to make the back-end efficient, our server is wide-open, but even so, dial-up probably just ain't gonna cut it...unless...you...are...very...patient. All the major browsers are supported: Internet Explorer, Safari, Netscape, Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera. Things start getting shakey in any of the older versions. Sorry to the Linux crowd and my peeps behind company firewalls-- I ain't saying it won't work, but I haven't had the means to do much testing in these arenas, so.... Please email me bugs with a decent description of how the problem occured, what operating system you have, and what browser you use. More importantly, you MUST have Flash Player 7 installed! If you use Windows Internet Explorer and do much surfing, most likely Flash 7 is already installed. If you are prompted to install or update a Flash or Shockwave plugin, you should do so. If you're not sure what version you have and whatnot, you can try the site. However, if things aren't working for you, remember this, come back, and install the plugin. If you just want to be positive that the malfunctioning parts are my fault, then IT IS TOTALLY SIMPLE! Go here and get the plugin: Flash Player 7. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ok, I'm getting tired of typing, so that is good. I'll keep this part concise: The world looks to be a very complex place. Science and education reiterate this message, as there are libraries full of knowledge you and I will never read or even be told. All of that stuff is there because humans desire to understand themselves as very complex subjects. Lord forbid we ever get bored with ourselves. But if I were to tell you, no, the world is perfectly simple...you might have issues with me. For, if it is all so simple, you might say, wouldn't we all be happy, contented, and is a state of perpetual bliss? A-hem. Yes. Actually. Yes! Ahh, but man, woman, child...we all took that bite of knowledge in the garden of Eden in order to be here...so, we are COMING AT THE SIMPLICITY from a very complex place. Our minds. Ironically, all of this knowledge and experience IS the very KEY to the whole dilemma! Read the right books, talk to the right people, have the right relationships, fight the right wars, badda-bip, badda-bang--it's right there all along--and one day you WAKE UP and something essential about the whole cycle is realized. They put funny words on that moment to describe it: Attainment, Enlightenment, etc. That's all sort of silly, though, in a way...like labeling the experience of adolescence...and yet it's no joke. There is a paradox in it that tends to drive the mortal mind in circles. It's all part of the process. They say without help we would be hopelessly lost in it all. And I agree. It is the duty of those who have transcended the duality to assist and teach those left behind. The wheel turns. But how to help those who can only help themselves? The Game of Love has been conceived as just such a tool. Using it for any length of time, with friends or with strangers, you will begin to see choice patterns. Advanced observers will begin to recognize the emotional-intellectual process that the colors inspire, in themselves, and perceptually in others. As this awareness grows, it is the hope of this humble internet enterprenuer that they may begin to recognize these simple relational strategies in their real life interactions. Consciousness. There is no way out of complexity except to fully grasp all of it, and BREAK THROUGH IT. And eventually, each person must recognize that we each create this entire drama, for ourselves...by the colors we choose. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Before all of this Love business, I was just a country kid with no TV. I discovered comic books. Then I messed up with teenage love, so I went after my dreams instead. I came to the big city to learn the skills that would make me a famous super-hero artist. But things never go quite as planned, and here I am, pseudonym and all, master of my own domain. These links will show you some of my most recent works. 1976 Graphics is the name of my new company! I just finished my first skate board and the shit is COOL. It looks bitchin, like, man, this shit will SELL. In fact, an auction on this first board is coming up in October for the Missoula Skate Park. More info later. Had a show at a great hang-out in Hollywood early in 2005. These images are exquisitely finished lightboxes, ideal for restaurants and bars, but who cares? Shit before that, I even had my own gallery in Echo Park at 1163 Logan Street, in the old Jenson Recreation building. Here are some of the best pieces. 1+0=2 Forever is my undiscovered masterpiece. Everyone except my good buddy Chris Chanuad has totally slept on this one. But here it is, in all it's glory. It's pointless but poetic. So, you can see, I've been hitting the Los Angeles streets with all this crap, but I tell you, the art scene here is a broken monolith. It consumes itself in wanna-be glamour and has no interest in work that shines with originality and purpose. I have shown with artists whose work is beyond Beyond. Profound, beautiful work...ignored like a blockbuster movie poster! Hence, I am online, amidst ca-jillions of other really lovely portfolios. yawn. My feeling on it is this: Art is always NEW. Duh. So what is this fucking obsession with pretty-image-making? Yo, it is the age of INTERACTIVITY YA'LL, art must be clickable, and USEFUL! Didn't those European Modernists all say it a hundred years ago in the face of the unstoppable industrial revolution?? "Form follows FUNCTION!" So, check it: An artist in this day and age that isn't subscribing to that philosophy is following a hobby. Sleep on it. Yo, if you gots beef with what I say, play the Game of Love, shugga, I gots nothing but respect for craftsmen and women. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Look man, if you are serious about this crazy self-improvement stuff, you need to hear what I have to say. I have been from the top to the bottom of it, at least a hundred times--I don't even know shit about nothing and I still know more than you. So. It's all here, not too many people have the guts to stand it: Truth or Tantrum. Forget trying to post anything there, all that crap I gave up on months ago. I generally try to be patient and polite, if not profoundly insightful into the human condition, but if you would rather have some advice that is more mystical and abstract (if not more specifically truthful for YOU), I invite you to use the most powerful psychic tool I have ever come across. Based on the magic eight ball game, meet Teller. These beautiful sculptures are brought to our world by the talents of Rhonda Walker. Ask Teller a serious question about yourself or a relationship problem you are having. If his answer does not make sense, perhaps you are asking too complex of a question. More likely, however, he is so close to the sweet spot that you may not even want to draw the obvious connections. Check it out, it's fun and light-hearted if nothing else: The Ancestors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I am Nitram. I represent a personality...an array of ideals and delusions that accompanied Greg Connell for 29 years. On Sunday, September 11th, 2005, I passed away at sunset quite peacefully on a nice hill in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. ( A tip: Fast for at least a day to cleanse your insides before you die... otherwise your guts will rot quickly and make a disgusting mess of you. ) There are a few things I would like to say before I pass into memory: My father was (and continues to be) an inspiration to me; though I could not make his methods work successfully for me, I see that in his older age, his methods were true, for they have brought him salvation. I should like to say to my mothers, Leticia, my Love, and her mothers: I apologize for the awkwardness in my expressions of true, un-ending, un-divided LOVE LOVE LOVE of YOU. Greg will do far better. And for the little boy who allowed my tyranny to prevail? He did so not for weakness on his part, but for the humble realization that I might be set free...Greg--you and your angels, Thomas, Rhonda, Damon, Chris... too many to mention--I love you more than any website could say. You were my companions when I was lonely, and my saviors when I was foolish. For you, every moment, every thought, and every emotion of my spirit is hereby dedicated. Didja luv it?! What will become of www.kingnitram.com? Nothing! I invite you to enjoy it for what it is: Just a dream. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hi! I go by the name of Nitram cause if you flipped me on my head, I'd be as good as my Number One, Greg. Like I mentioned earlier, I grew up in the mountains of Montana and Idaho, really loving nothing more than just to play in the creeks and forests. But ahh, the price is that we must grow up someday, so here I am. Wanted to be a comic-book artist, so I went to school in the upper peninsula of Michigan, not yet ready to throw it all down in Manhattan. Still couldn't afford the Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, so I kept working on a portfolio that would get me a scholarship. I got one to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. That was cool. Fell in love. Went to jail. Came back to school. Dropped out. To get by, I did portraits on the 3rd Street promenade in Santa Monica. One way or another, I ended up doing movie special effects in the early days of 3D graphics. My claims to fame include South Park the Movie, Kung Pow Enter the Fist (yes, I built the Kung Fu Cow!), Scooby Doo 2, and Garfield. But I dunno. I was only in my mid-twenties, I had all this cash, and there were too many undabbled-in girls and drugs and such things to dabble in. So I took the money and ran. Paid off all my debt, went to China. Went to Mexico. Tried to go out with a bang. I did my best to "step-out". As you can see, I didn't make it! I just ended up right here again, except all washed-up! When I finally came out of that, I decided, aw hell with it, it doesn't look like there is any way out of this mess except to go through with it. So that's when I started to get back up and look for a way to do my thang successfully, happily, and peacefully. The rest is unknown. I can sure say I'm excited though, since the present is my indication that dreams certainly DO COME TRUE!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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