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Fotamecus Update?

 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
20:25 / 19.03.02
I've been out of the game for a while... I've let myself become well... for lack of better terms, lazy, stagnant and a complete spiritual wreck over the last year or so.

So I'm refreshing myself, trying to hit some of the basics again, trying to wake up from this funk that's eaten the past few years of my life. (By the way, any advice on that front?)

In doing so, I'm getting reacquainted with some old friends (Legba, Ganesh, Ragged Robin, Fotamecus, the Morrigan) and mabye sussing out some new ones (Odin).

However my question is this: Fotamecus has been evolving and upgrading for a while now becoming something far bigger than ze was back in the day. Where's ze at these days? Is there anything new that it might help me to know while workin' with hir? Anything changed that I should know when making my reacquaintence?

And also... Dabh helped me out a while back. Is it still kosher to call on him these days?
 
 
SMS
22:31 / 19.03.02
Was Fotamecus one of ours? Wasn't xe supposed to force time into compression or something like that?

Dabh is still cool, as far as I know. Although I'm not sure it was ever kosher to use him, so much as request his assistance.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
22:46 / 19.03.02
Nope, Fotamecus was someone else's. (With the demise of the Chaos Matrix, I no longer have the relevant info.) He gets mentioned here quite a lot, but he's been around for quite a while.
 
 
Imaginary Mongoose Solutions
22:51 / 19.03.02
By "call on", I meant socially actually. He was quite the nice chap when last we met some time ago. Dead sexy smoking jacket he has there. And then later he did the leather and velvet look nicely.

Fotamecus used to be a servator cobbled up by some folks in California. Ze was rapidly evolving last time we worked together. That would have been deep in the "shadow time" of 2000.
 
 
Lothar Tuppan
23:06 / 19.03.02
Dabh always has time for a nice chat. Especially if a 12 year old single malt scotch is involved.
 
 
SMS
23:21 / 19.03.02
Huh. I don't know how I misread that, Kevin.

I have difficulty getting in touch with Dabh, or at least recognizing it when I do. I'll have to give it another go tonight or tomorrow.
 
 
EventHorizon
02:45 / 02.08.06
(bump)

Has anyone used or seen/heard from Fotamecus lately? He seems like an interesting character to have on your side, but who knows what he's up to these days. I'd be interested to hear from anybody who had been helped by him or even conversed with him.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
06:01 / 02.08.06
I did some work with Fotamecus pre-2000, starting with a drunken adaptation of the Fotamecus Empowerment Rite. I had some successes in manipulating time, but we kind of drifted apart. I sort of lost interest and anyway I got heavily involved in the study of signal analysis, which is rather mired in Chronos' take on time (the way I see it, anyhow).

The topic starter's phrase I'm getting reacquainted with some old friends (Legba, Ganesh, Ragged Robin, Fotamecus, the Morrigan) and mabye sussing out some new ones (Odin) strikes me as jarring now.

At the time I was working with Fotamecus, I had thoroughly bought into the theory behind Fotamecus' creation--to wit, that it is possible to charge a sigil such that it becomes an independant thoughtform, whichcan be strengthened through repeated chargings, and that using this method it is even possible to create a new God, and that a similar process of fortification via the energy of belief was responsible for the creation of all existing Gods; the logical conclusion of all this being that there is some kind of equivalency between newly created consciousnesses like Fotamecus, pop-culture icons, and Gods.

My ongoing magical development has taken me in such a direction that I'm forced to conclude that this is in fact a load of bollocks, but I've gone into all that elsewhere. (Which is not to say that I have a problem with Fotamecus, who always seemed like a perfectly pleasant chap.)
 
 
gale
15:34 / 02.08.06
When I get to bed too late on a weeknight I ask Fotamecus to slow down time for me while I'm asleep. Seems to work... My son uses hir as well, with good results!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:24 / 02.08.06
Oh yeah, been there done that. Always forget to add "...and can one of your xenodimensional chums please remove the alcohol from my bloodstream?"
 
 
razorsmile
10:43 / 03.08.06
for me fotamecus is doing well and the film majik project that we've been working on over here in brighton UK is nearing completion with it due to actually, finally, eventually, chaotically, release itself into the world later this year...

you can check out some more over at the fotamecus film majik website

you can also find out some more about the project by reading the section in Julian Vaynes' 'Now that's what I call chaos majik'

though I would say one of the big things we've had with working intensively with fotie for a while is that time does seem to have a wierd treacle like quality to it...where it takes time to work with time, more time than we first thought ;-)
 
  
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