Contact Info and “About” page

Hi, my name is Sebastian Biot and viralata.net is my home on the Internet. Or at least it was since it has now been replaced by a combination of Twitter (viralata), Blogger (“mus in pice”), Google Reader “Shared Items”, Facebook and other “social” websites.

“vira-lata” is a Brazilian Portuguese word meaning “mutt (dog).” Literally, the word means “one who turns (trash) bins.”

You can reach me at seb.biot@gmail.com.

Timeline’ography

1512 (?): Titian paints a portrait of a man wrongly identified as Ludovico Ariosto.
1957: Max Miedinger designs Helvetica.
February 14, 1963: Federico Fellini releases “8½” starring Marcello Mastroianni.
June 6, 1972: David Bowie releases “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.”

July 23, 1972, 9:00 AM-ish: Born in Mâcon, France.
Location was an accident; time wasn’t: I was born in time for (a late) breakfast.
…: Many things happen, most of which I don’t remember well. High points include watching “Chapi Chapo” and “UFO ロボグレンダイザー”—which I knew as “Goldorak”—on TV after school, playing Lego, and, years later, reading Baudelaire and Mishima, and listening to Prince.
July 1990: Moved to Tbilissi, Georgia, for a year.
Georgian isn’t an easy language. This is what I remember:; მზეო ამოდი, ამოდი!
ნუ ეფარები გორასა!
სიცივეს კაცი მოუკლავს;
საწყალი აგერ გორავსა.; Also visited Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Kazakhstan that year.
September 1991: Started college; studied art history.
Underwhelmed, until I started taking archaeology and Akkadian classes.
August 1995: Moved to Baltimore, MD.
Three years of graduate school studying assyriology.
August 1998: Moved to Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Taught English.
August 1999: Moved back to Baltimore.
Web design and net geekery.

October 15, 2000: HBO airs the first episode of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

January 1, 2003: Moved back to Belo Horizonte.
More net geekery.
March 5, 2005: Moved to Athens, OH.
More web design; less net geekery; more art.
September, 2005: Etching class with Art Werger and Dawn Gettler.
Ink, paper, metal, water, acid, grounds, rosin, fire, … chemistry
September 2009: Grad school again; graphic design MFA this time.

“Asa nisi masa”