December 2009
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GPOYW: 2009 MSG edition
Instead of taking a picture of myself today I decided to compile a bunch of pictures that were taken of me in 2009 and drop them in imovie. song: click, click, click by bishop allen
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bonus: If you really wanna see what I look like today you still can
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Last night I attempted my 2nd video. This time from my builtin webcam using screenflow upon recommendation from Sam Lessin but I didnt bother researching how to create full screen videos while hiding your screen. I really like the lazy accident. I raise the issue of making predictions and what happens when you are wrong & how you react to ppl thinking you are wrong. I dont think I mentioned...
My video of the day inspired by Gary V,instigated by Kortina. introducing my standards project inspired by Jake Lodwick. Don’t get too excited bc as y’all know everyone’s first time is kinda awkward.
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Top 10 Albums of 2009
1. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Miike Snow
4. XX
5. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
6. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
7. The Antlers - Hospice
8. The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
9. Blakroc
10. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day
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Honorable Mentioned:
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Dark Was The...
My Top 10 Concerts of 2009
1. Cale Parks @ My Roof
Burning Dan & Alien John spun fire on my roof while Cale, Eric, & Drew performed & PosterBoy worked his magic. Definition: Epic
2. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros @ Bowery Ballroom
The crowd sang along to almost every song
3. The Antlers @ Bowery Ballroom
Pete sang beautifully and won me over on Hospice
4. Freelance Whales @ The Delancey
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Merging the digital and physical world through cameras and the Internet.
via nnglass
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I cant effin wait to live in this world
Isn’t it interesting that Tumblr and FourSquare are NYC’s major contributions to...
– Rex Sorgatz - Mediaite Interview
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NONPROFIT is the worst possible term. the word “profit” comes from Latin for...
– sam lessin
what is more effective for survey completion?
1 random person has the chance to win $100 or 4 random people have the chance at $25
There has to be research on this. Anyone know where to find it?
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walking around the LES after first snow fall of 2009 I captured the snowed in bicycles with my new camera
I have to give credit to Nate Westheimer for inspiring me to take pictures of the bikes of the les. Specifically his flickr set of the dead ones:
Feeling challenged is linked to greater satisfaction, so challenge yourself.
– How Adults Achieve Happiness - BusinessWeek via hiten : mikehudack
The solution to pollution
the like button wasn’t enough for this idea <3
siminoff:
I was watching a show on HD Theater tonight called Future Car. One of the concepts companies that they were showing was a new hydrogen powered go-cart racing league called Formula Zero. The idea behind Formula Zero is that racing has a inherent competition to push innovation to win and in this case that push furthers technology...
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Bike Riders Will Get Naked To Save The Bedford... →
OY
An Old-School Board Game Goes Viral Among Silicon... →
Settlers was a front page WSJ story today
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Nasty Panda = Lovely Music Blog in Hebrew →
found via xgetsthesquare
[האייפוד רעב] (…aka BEST MP3 BLOG EVZ)
Although the blog is in hebrew I use the Yahoo media player to listen to it.
Really enjoyed Peter Broderick + Machinefabriek and bought their album
Aside: I got excited that now I know how to say panda in hebrew but google translate taught me otherwise. האייפוד רעב translates to Ipod Hunger. Nasty Panda = פנדה נבזי
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first-time entrepreneurs are just as friggin’ dangerous as drunk teenagers...
– Dave McClure - Master of 500 Hats: Great Entrepreneurs are PASSIONATE about Customers & Products, NOT about being Great Entrepreneurs. (via hiten)
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Remix Delphic using Aviary
Manchester-based band Delphic are pretty hot at the moment. With recent appearances on Jools Holland and making the BBC Sound 2010 shortlist they’re getting ready to release their debut Ewan Pearson produced album Acolyte on 11th January. Meanwhile they’re making all the stems from lead single ‘Doubt’ available for you to remix. Take a listen below and then read on…
There’s a bit of twist...
Generations of Sunday school teachers have turned Hanukkah into the story of...
– Read full article: The Hanukkah Story (via The New York Times) (via joshmohrer)
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the combination of what we demand and what we are willing to sacrifice says a...
– Merlin Mann
kung fu grippe: Epilogue
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BNE WAS NOT HERE →
Not sure why BNE irritates me so much. maybe bc he is everywhere promoting his presence. I guess it’s the same reason I don’t follow ppl on 4sq who checkin at subway stops.
It’s not the act of stickering everything around me that bothers me it’s the lack of message/art that just seems wasteful. At least spicen it up i.e. BNE drank/ate/smoked/shat here.
I guess...