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Hey Barb Dybwad,

My name is Iras and I’m an African rap lyricist, composer & storyteller currently living in the south of France (where I’m taking a master of computer science, major : artificial intelligence) and crafting my art in American since it’s my mother tongue.

I’m a storyteller and not a typical rap artist. Indeed, instead of putting an emphasis on the regular rap topics such as “girls, guns, partying, ego trips, having or making money, the street, etc” I’d rather create a character, his psyche and thence put him/her in motion through stories.

Which brings me to my album which was released on June 25th and I’m looking for some help promoting it hence your reviews and thoughts would be a huge push in that direction.

The project I’m working on is entitled “The Pilgrimage Of Samael Angel” and it’s a story unfolding from the first song (of the first album) to the last one (of the third album) because this project is a trilogy :

It is the tale of an angel who was born an impure being because of the sins of his parents.
Those sins will be eating him alive until it reaches the critical point where it’ll be crippling his soul, turning him into a magnificent devil.
Ergo he was born in sin, he will live a sinful life and will subsequently die because of those sins……

You can download the first chapter of the trilogy (entitled “Samael Angel”) here : http://fs05n2.sendspace.com/dl/c493ce8570fd008153986df86ea7e148/4a4b34562d8b5250/05eb7e/Samael%20Angel.zip

I’m part of a generation that thinks certain kind of entertainment should be free therefore my entire discography will be utterly and completely FREE (ergo Samael Angel will be the first and certainly not the last).

It’s digitally available on different platforms (iTunes, Iras World, etc).

I’ve heard of you and I thought it was an opportunity to share my music and cosmos with y’all.
Especially since my take on music and art is “avant-garde” because I think :

“I, as an individual, do not matter only my art does”.

That’s why my art is shared for free and that’s why I’m wearing a mask keeping who I am in the shadow so that my art catches the spotlights.
People don’t need to know who I am because I only put an emphasis on my art, not myself.

Here’s the link to my world : http://www.IrasWorld.com.
I hope you’ll stick around long enough to understand me and maybe help me ameliorate my world.

Anyway if you are still reading this then I thank you deeply and hope I’ll be reading you soon…

Godspeed,
Sincerely,

Iras

Will you be at CES 2010?

Hi Barb!

I’ve read some of your posts on this blog and mashable, and I thought you would be interested in imo.im’s new lightning fast chat history feature.

Based in Palo Alto, CA, imo.im is a small startup founded (and funded) by one of the first ten employees at Google. imo.im is a web-based service that allows users to hold text, voice, and video chats on multiple instant messaging protocols. This means you can access and save past instant messaging conversations from anywhere you can log into imo.im–and on every protocol we support: AIM, Google Talk, Jabber, ICQ, MSN, MySpace, Facebook Chat, Yahoo Messenger, and Skype. There are other instant messaging applications that offer chat history, but you haven’t seen chat history like the one offered through imo. imo’s chat history is extremely fast, letting you view search results letter-by-letter as you type.

If you haven’t tried imo yet, you probably don’t have a chat history built up. If you have some time, please take a look at our blog post to get a look at some of imo’s chat history features: http://blog.imo.im/2010/02/behold-chat-history.html

Also, I would love to chat with you about any questions that you have about our chat history feature, or imo in general. If you instant message at all, I would encourage you to try imo.im. We don’t require a download, and you may find it much faster and more robust than other similar applications available.

Thanks so much for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Marissa M. Huang
https://imo.im/
marissa@imo.im
(650) 866-5571