What is the Singing Sword?

Singingsword.com is the all-purpose personal website of Christopher Joseph Culter. The domain name itself originates from a fictitious company, Singing Sword Software, which as far as I can tell dates back to September of 1997 with the creation of the terrible entity which is called Maze. I called it "Singing Sword" for two very good reasons:

1) Swords are cool.
2) Swords that sing can only be cooler.

In fact, the majority of my earliest forays into pixel-by-pixel computer art had much to do with swords, as did my very first creation with that magickal 3-D raytracer, POV-Ray. I probably got into swords because fighter jets really can't be drawn. (Have you tried?) Western mythology has singing swords floating all over the place, most notably in the legends of Beowulf and Arthur. The idea is quite unoriginal, but it has a long and glorious tradition. Oh, and I would like to emphasize that I conceived Singing Sword Software long before I became aware of the novel by Jack Whyte.

I bought "singingsword.com" long ago, but the site first became available to the masses on the eve of July 5, 2001. And it's only been improving, albeit slowly and without any sort of plan. The internal links at the top are quite archaic, and I suppose I'll have to overhaul everything, some day...

Singingsword.com, indeed the very HTML file which you are presently reading, is physically located on the hard drive of a server in Eric Rosenberry's basement in Beaverton, Oregon. I owe him much thanks for this.

Contact Info

© 2003 Christopher J. Culter.
To contact me, please send email to "chris" at this domain name.