Bilal's video begins at about six o'clock in the evening, with him expressing a certain enjoyment in the silence due to another server crash. As he mentioned in previous posts, large volumes of visitors to the site overloaded it. In this case, the increased traffic was due to a large number of people finding the project via DIGG. He describes his mood as upbeat, despite the current obstacles he discusses.
He said that the previous day, the volume of fire expended almost twenty thousand paint balls in less than 24hrs. This qoute is interesting as he says elsewhere that about 60 000 paint balls were expended in total over the thirty one days of the performance. This caused two obstacles which Bilal describes as essentially a physical pool of paint. The second obstacle he describes as financial- he had maxed out his credit card and had to borrow money from friends to continue buying paint balls and gas cylinders. A quick check of prices suggest that one day cost between 1700 and 2500 USD.
He said there were conflicting reports as to why the server was down. On one hand, he said the increased strain of increased traffic was attributed to the systems failure. on the other hand, he heard that members of the DIGG community were actively trying to crash the server to prevent people shooting at Bilal. He describes this second hypothesis as "heart warming". He thanks those watching as it "fills him with hope".
He ends by saying he is now counting down to the end of the project and looks forward to completing it, although he is concerned about the psychological and financial costs of pursuing it. He observes the frequency of shots, up to or 5 a second" gives him no rest. Despite this he said he "looks forward to reporting more good news".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ6XbZZIyVk
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