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8/29/2008
8bit goodness I'm diggin'...
Tasty retro themed 8bit vizcandy featured on the brilliant Tokyo Mango.
My favorite line in the description -
I love the beautiful trajectory of that Engrish phrase!
Enjoy.
My favorite line in the description -
"It will knock over your existing
image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory."
I love the beautiful trajectory of that Engrish phrase!
Enjoy.
8/26/2008
Like sands through the hourglass...
Eye candy isn't the only thing I'm about.
I really enjoyed this lecture given by the astrophysicist Martin Rees at the TED conference in 2005.
Makes you wonder if we can turn this boat around before we go over the cosmic falls.
I really enjoyed this lecture given by the astrophysicist Martin Rees at the TED conference in 2005.
Makes you wonder if we can turn this boat around before we go over the cosmic falls.
8/21/2008
Rainy day claymation zombie goodness
There's something about well done claymation that makes me feel all squiggly inside.
Like comfort food for the brain.
Especially when I'm trapped in the house with my family, trying not to get smooshed by God's giant spitwad.
It really taps into my memory of being snow bound in rural PA, with only a Rankin and Bass reindeer to entertain me.
But in this case you have to replace an even-toed arctic ungulate with flesh eating zombies.
Bob bless us, every one!
Like comfort food for the brain.
Especially when I'm trapped in the house with my family, trying not to get smooshed by God's giant spitwad.
It really taps into my memory of being snow bound in rural PA, with only a Rankin and Bass reindeer to entertain me.
But in this case you have to replace an even-toed arctic ungulate with flesh eating zombies.
Bob bless us, every one!
4/24/2008
Family Media Archive Project Part 2
Some more of my grandad's stories.
See previous post for background and disclaimers.
Original files hosted at ourmedia.org under a Creative Commons license
This episode:
-Feet in the path
-Dugout canoe
-Career in sailing
See previous post for background and disclaimers.
Original files hosted at ourmedia.org under a Creative Commons license
This episode:
-Feet in the path
-Dugout canoe
-Career in sailing
Family Media Archive Project
I lost my grandfather last year and I wanted to find some way to remember him.
I'm in the process digitizing some of his stories and posting them to ourmedia/archive.org.
Eventually I'd like to clean these up and turn them into a multimedia project.
As I upload I'll post links to audio streams here.
Audio quality and PCness may sometimes be questionable so be warned.
This is the raw and unedited remembrance of a man who lived an amazing life.
'Nuff said.
Original files hosted at ourmedia.org under a Creative Commons license
In this episode:
-The Tale of the Great Cabbage Wreck
-Grandad hops a train
I'm in the process digitizing some of his stories and posting them to ourmedia/archive.org.
Eventually I'd like to clean these up and turn them into a multimedia project.
As I upload I'll post links to audio streams here.
Audio quality and PCness may sometimes be questionable so be warned.
This is the raw and unedited remembrance of a man who lived an amazing life.
'Nuff said.
Original files hosted at ourmedia.org under a Creative Commons license
In this episode:
-The Tale of the Great Cabbage Wreck
-Grandad hops a train
1/19/2008
My tribute to the lolcats...
The only way to fight the meme is to embrace the meme.Graphic goofiness by daydreamthief
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
11/22/2007
11/13/2007
Interweb - Lint trap of the 21st century
Should we start prepping ourselves for fuzzy culture?
Bruce Sterling featured David Armano's presentation in his blog.
Dig it.
Not sure how much of a send up this is on Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory, but it fits in so well to the way that I've been thinking about indie media production and my extremely fuzzy role in that process.
Like a lot of people who get into media production, I had this very well defined idea of what I was going to be.
"I'm going to be a film director."
Simple.
Nice little well defined box that I could carry all my dreams/ambitions in to show off to my family and friends.
Which would be fine if I wanted to interface with the old system.
But as you stroll further down the tail to the fuzzier (and much more interesting) end, you find that the box melts in your hands, and all your preconceived notions of what you will be starts mixing with all these niche roles.
Suddenly you realize that if you want to produce media (films/books/music/games/etc.) in a completely new way, you are going to have to become a walking profession cloud.
Writer, director, producer, photographer, web designer, marketer...
I have the feeling that my business card will be one giant blur.
Bruce Sterling featured David Armano's presentation in his blog.
Dig it.
Not sure how much of a send up this is on Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory, but it fits in so well to the way that I've been thinking about indie media production and my extremely fuzzy role in that process.
Like a lot of people who get into media production, I had this very well defined idea of what I was going to be.
"I'm going to be a film director."
Simple.
Nice little well defined box that I could carry all my dreams/ambitions in to show off to my family and friends.
Which would be fine if I wanted to interface with the old system.
But as you stroll further down the tail to the fuzzier (and much more interesting) end, you find that the box melts in your hands, and all your preconceived notions of what you will be starts mixing with all these niche roles.
Suddenly you realize that if you want to produce media (films/books/music/games/etc.) in a completely new way, you are going to have to become a walking profession cloud.
Writer, director, producer, photographer, web designer, marketer...
I have the feeling that my business card will be one giant blur.
10/31/2007
Delicious AV sweets...
What sweet little ghouls and goblins.
Here are some public domain goodies to put in your bags.
Vincent Price in an Italian adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend.
Mind the fish hooks and razor blades...
Spook Country...
I'll do myself a favor by poking some holes in my high-falutin' Halloween rant.
I also like dressing up like a fool, scaring the crap out of the neighborhood kids, and eating candy till I'm sick.
So there.
Boo!!!
Ghost pic courtesy of Salendron under a CC license.
All hail the Great Pumpkin!
Why is Halloween is such a psychic touchstone for me?
At least for me, this holiday seems to be the most genuine expression of the human condition.
While other holidays try to gloss over the horror that most people deal with on a daily basis, Halloween seems to be a slight tip of the hat to the universal equalizer.
In a world filled with genocide, cancer, environmental meltdown, etc., it's nice to have one day where we can publicly acknowledge the one thing that all humans share. For a day we can give in to the deeper/darker side of ourselves. For a day we can surrender to our existential "war on terror".
Pumpkin pic courtesy of Fabbio under a Creative Commons license.
10/14/2007
Who watches the watchmen?
Just found this interesting documentary by Henry Porter on the use of CCTV in Britain and the rise of a surveillance state in response to the "war on some terror".
As a film maker, 21st century video voyeur, and armchair civil libertarian this subject fascinates me.
The idea that we'll be safer if we allow governments, corporations, and now individuals to monitor everyone else certainly sets off alarms in people concerned with personal privacy.
Is there a balance to this Orwellian idea of a creepy Big Brother?
Can it work in the opposite direction?
Do citizens have the power to turn their own electronic eyes and ears back on those "guardians of our best interests"?
I'll try to find some answers to these questions in the near future and post them here.
Brian De Palma bites back
Amazing to see a major Hollywood player like De Palma butting heads with his studio heads in public over his film "Redacted".
This one clip raises issues of censorship, free speech, and the problems of applying fair use in film making.
This debate is long over due. Maybe having some heavy hitters weighing in on the subject will shake things up.
Cross your fingers.
10/11/2007
Fear and Loathing in the Heart of Darkness
I just finished this horrific article in the NYT about the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Congo.
It's hard enough for me to understand what motivates an individual to commit acts of sexual violence.
How do you come up with an answer for what would motivate groups to do something like this? 130+ years of conflict, exploitation, environmental destruction, and political conflict certainly have contributed to this social pathology. But is this there something else?
Unfortunately it seems that humans have used rape as a weapon of war for as long as we have been human.
This is one of those things that makes me wish for the giant meteorite.
Time for someone to hit the universal reset button.
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