dragonize.muxtape.com

I made a muxtape: dragonize.muxtape.com

Listen to it before they realize I’m a total fucking pirate.

Mixergy frees us from Evite

Evite sucks. Mixergy is a new website for managing event invitations online. Try it. Rejoice.

OMFG, ‘geek’ is not ‘cool’ (aka, l337 != k3wl)

And, yes, by extension, neither am I.

What a bunch of tools these kids are… (The girl spells her name with an ‘X,’ and need I comment on the eyeglass frame-age?!?) This should prove that coolness and geekiness have no business together. Read more about the clusterfuck that is the ETech Yearbook 2008 (which could only be brought to you by Wired Magazine) here:
ETech Yearbook 2008: Meet the Faces of Innovation

The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR 1955) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Wow, thought crimes are truly becoming punishable crimes…

The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR 1955) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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FissionMailed updates

Made some more adjustments to my personal photography site, FissionMailed:

1. Added a few new galleries: Fogography, Objects, and One Last Snow
2. Cleaned up the thumbnail image gallery navigation.
3. Weeded out more of the weaker photos.

‘Wanderlust,’ Björk’s New 3-D Video

Wired.com has exclusive access to Björk’s new 3-D music video Wanderlust. [CAREFUL!!! The download is huge and begins once you load the page!] It is your classic style of 3-D filmmaking, so red and blue glasses are required. If you don’t have 3-D glasses lying around your place (I didn’t either, but I had blue and red Sharpies and piece of clear plastic) them you ain’t missing much because the 2-D version has more color and is pretty damn cool. The video itself is a spiritual, sci-fi odyssey and reminds me of the way I pictured Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea when I read it in 8th grade…probably because the book’s cover suggested a similar aesthetic. The video also has its own website at which only the 2-D version is available.

The similarity with A Wizard of Earthsea goes far beyond that aesthetic, however: Bjork is on a quest for an unknowable thing and along the way is pursued by, and does battle with, what seems to be her own shadow. This is precisely what Duny/Ged/Sparrowhawk went through in that classic fantasy novel from 1968.

Looking back (and brushing up with Wikipedia’s help) I realize that Le Guin’s imagination gave her an insight into the future of computing. From Wikipedia’s plot summary of A Wizard of Earthsea:

In this world, a magician who knows someone else’s true name can control that person, so one’s true name is revealed only to those whom one trusts implicitly. Normally, a person is referred to by his or her “use name”. Ged’s use name is Sparrowhawk.

“Use name” is so close to “username”, “Sparrowhawk” totally sounds like something a pre-teen named Duny or Ged would rather call himself, passwords protect and unlock secrets just like magic spells do! Wow!!

Bomb It! at Facets

Bomb It!, a brand spanking new documentary about the global graffiti culture will begin a limited run at Facets Multi Media this Friday. I haven’t seen it yet, and expectations are high, but the director (Jon Reiss) is responsible for the much-loved doc on electronic music culture, Better Living Through Circuitry. The director will be on hand to chat with the audience on Saturday (April 26) after the 7 & 9 p.m. screenings.

Vote for Mama-San…

…or die!!!

Please cast a vote for this pic of my kitty in JPG Magazine’s “Creature” theme contest. Thanks!!

Spilling coffee on this keyboard will hurt you…a lot

The design trend of incorporating electronics into clothing has been with us for a while now, but today it has gone too far. I’ve seen shirts that incorporate wrist protectors, jackets with MP3 player controls on the sleeves, hats with headphones built in, and all kinds of watches and jewelry with secondary and tertiary functionality. Those only slightly streamline the number of gadgets you have to stuff into your pockets or Timbuk2 messenger bag, and none even attempt to address the major suckage of laptop keyboards! Carrying around a robust input device for a laptop just got a little easier thanks to a pair of jeans with a built-in “laptop” keyboard: Stupid: Bring Out Your Inner Tool With Peripherals Pants. The cut of the jean is fashionably baggy in that willowy hipster sort of way, and the material is a dark grey-ish blue with orange stitch-work that mimics cicuitry. A mouse and speakers are also built-in.

水銀/Darkness - a set on Flickr (NSFW)

This is a fantastic set of nudes shot at an outdoor shower in broad daylight by a really good photographer in Singapore. Each shot is composed so tightly and artistically that they are nearly abstract. The water rivulets, splashes and beads on her skin is nice too. Enjoy!

水銀/Darkness - a set on Flickr by Tetanus