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Posted by dan at 11:41 PM | Permalink

Visualization... I LIKE IT!

I really really need to get into this "locative" stuff.. the research happening out there over location based services, awareness, games, the apps in development, some awesome stuff happening.  Good and BAD.

Locative Media Terms

A few terms from Nicolas Nova's Locative Media: a literature review:
Awarness: the understanding of other's person's interaction with a shared workspace.
The awarness tool: The lack of information about the geographically-dispersed partners is addressed by providing users with tools that try to "recreate the information landscape of a real-world landscape
Locative media: every information about the physical location as well as other contextual cues. It can be decomposed into three awarness components: presence, location and direction.

Physical environment refers ta all the physical variables like location (absolute or relative) as well as conditions (e.g. light, temperature) or infrastructure (surrounding resources for communication, computation, task performance).
Human factor related context is structured into: information about the user, the user's social environment and the user's tasks.
Research on collaboration suggests that this cost has an important impact on how partners build a shared understanding of a situation when they have to work together.
Synchronous awarness: information about the present
Asynchronous awarness: information about the past
IPAD (Inter-Personal Awarness Device): the devices that can support this kind of awarness.
Spatial assumptions foster multiple levels of knowledge mutuality  

---- from fab blog.

Another tasty bit, this time on Social Networks

Social Networking Deliver Irritability

In Dysfunctional relationships Jerry Michalski talks about relationship-building and -mining softwares, why they make him irritable and how to improve the situation:

• Helping groups meet and collaborate is a great cause, but why do we have to use so many different, incompatible services? (complexity)
  
• Making relationships explicit, available to any virtual passerby, creates subtle complications (explicitness)
  
• I can't really figure out what to do with the service (usability)
  

Social networks are not like clockwork mechanisms or income statements. They are full of human beings, with relationships, expectations, and prejudices, and therefore require a gentle hand from management. They do not teach enough of those skills in business schools, and they teach even fewer of them in engineering schools.

Here are three things that would improve the situation markedly:

• openness and integration among all these tools, so services interact smoothly and triple-, quadruple-, or even quintuple-entry of data vanishes.
  
• more training on how to manage social systems appropriately, so productive relationships can be enhanced, not disrupted; and >
• more emphasis on rethinking and improving the basic tools we use to express ourselves, so we cease thinking in 7-bit ASCII email, HTML, and PowerPoint, and start communicating better and building lasting resources together.

Just downloaded placelab, need to play with that.

Work, life, love, us, them, those other folks... limitations in everything we do.  The mind may be unlimited but we've yet to create something that is limitless.  Least I think so... :P 

Software is limited.  My rant for the day.  Use a software within its optimal range of achiving goodness.  Wise is the person that idenifies and understands the limit for he or she will know best how to push the limit.  Respect the limit.  You don't have to abide by its rules as much as respecting them.  Those that throw caution to the wind not because they understand the limit but because they could care less and yet expect stellar results are often bitching to the end of all ages why x didn't do y.  I'm not saying don't risk, I'm saying risk wisely. 

Same goes for hardware, often less flexibile than software.  Understand the process, the workflow involved in order to step forward. 

I say this cause I've wanted to say this for days now, but have struggled to say it wisely on the blog.  The net has ears that STRETCH!   Ahhh well uck it! 

Speakin of stretching, i must stretch! 

Posted by dan at 01:57 PM | Permalink

Lately steppin off the treadmill feels like i'm walkin on the moon. 

About two months ago I began a new quest, eat right + workout = feel better.  I started on the eat right stuff first and actually I've done a pretty good job in eating right for awhile.  The physical part was next.  I had a stress test, bloodwork, and the results were great - i'm as healthy as an ox, just need to slice off a bit of the ox and I'm good to go. 

Two weeks ago I joined McConnell a health and fitness center here in town and got my self in a good program with excersise physicians and docs to help guide me.  So far I have to say I really like it.  The work is tough and ya I can feel the pain, but afterwards I have to say its a bit of high or something.  I've used approx 1% of the centers abilities thus far.  All the machines, classes etc.. are a bit daunting.  Once I get in groove here I want to try yoga and tai chi. 

Getting fit however isn't cheap. Heh.. its gonna be costly but its all good.  I've weened myself off cola's and caffinee almost completely... dealing with those caffinee headaches at first were pretty ouchie but its good.  I miss my redbull though. 

I've eaten so healthy lately its kinda surreal.. I never thought i'd be in the grocery store reading the backs of packages as intently as I do now.  Luckily most of the real healthy stuff I love taste wise so I'm good to go there.. until of course I get sick of them maybe... Hmmmm.   I find it funny that most nutritionists, well the ones I've met so far in the program plus folks I see on tv, seem to rely heavily on the "eat as many colors as possible" line.  Its not about eating just this or that, its about experimenting it seems like.  Keeping yer body filled with variation, and colors! 

I keep a food and excersise log now too.  Two weeks into that and I'm already thinking about ways to speed up this proccess of counting, logging and documenting all this better.  Maybe barcode all my goodies.. lol.  I wish my sidekick could heart monitor, that'd be a nice feature. 

Posted by dan at 10:20 AM | Permalink

The other day I went into Borders doing what I always do, browse, find, buy.  I found the book I wanted, snagged a two dvds and strolled up to the checkout.  I was quickly promted with "don't you want a third?, its free ya know.." I had no clue what she was talking about.  "A third what? dvd?" I said to her.  "Ya didnt ya see the signs?  2 dvds gets ya a 3rd for free.." she said as I had clearly been off the beaten track. 

I got my third dvd.  But it occured to me that I too didn't shop via signs.  I could care less about promos, I wasn't thinking about where the signs were to say deal.  Am i'm curious?  Sure I guess but it didnt register.  How many other people just pulled what I did not seeing these signs. 

I saw this in the recent retail research project work had completed months ago.  Folks don't generally shop via signage, in fact its often ignored as such, since x% of signage is typically advertising as well.  In fact I'd like to see more obvious signage.  Instead of 10% off, just say BOOKS, or BOOKS ARE HERE. 

I sat back in store and just took a gander at signage.  There was a ton in there.  How is it I never saw the deals.  Just not tuned into it.  I think retail firms should experiment more with what people do look at, why they look at it and what are they looking for. 

I can't say if I was merely shopping via product, sure I was browsing but I did use some signage.  I was looking for a biz book, a food & wine book, i had to find those areas.  I always explore the music section of the store. 

more on this later...

Posted by dan at 01:14 PM | Permalink

On a scale from 1 to 7.  1 being "not so good" to 7 being "ya es good", where am I at thus far?

How do you feel? = 6

Sleeping well? = 7

Eating well? = 6

Reading more? = 7

Creating? = 7

Inspired fun? = 5

Inspired work? = 6

Work? = 3

Personal? = 7

Stress? = 6

Cleaning crap outa yer apartment? = 6

Getting the material things you need? = 6

Auditory enjoyment? = 4

Feeling funny? = 6

Visual enjoyment? = 6

Gaming? = 1

Blog? = 4

Interest level in __________? = 6!

There ya have it.  I'm interested, awake, kinda blog worthy but not, work is fair at best (in between projects), net access was down last week at the apartment which lead on to mass reading, reading good..., eating well- blame traders joes, sleepin like a rock, crave new tunes, generally feeling funny - theres lots to laugh out there, no too stressed out, no interesting in epic gaming at the moment occasionally deathmatch that is all, inspiring ideas on a netless pc good -dabbling in 3d and paint, inspired at work in the sense of new venture ideas lol.. still good.  Visual enjoyments?  A few good movies.. Spiderman 2 is coming.. etc. 

Overall rating = 6.278

Posted by dan at 09:53 AM | Permalink

A little random linkage for ya.  First up for you gmail users, a nice selection of gmail goodies.  Then we got Xfire!  Hey Bob is on, and he's playing UT2k, and he's on x.y.z server!  Yet another IM tool. 

And then theres timeplay.... hmm neat.  And Fast Company Now!

I need sushi this weekend.. tuna steaks tonight! 

I really want a cameraphone!  Or should I wait for the new hiptop?  Though.. maybe not.  I really either want one of the brand smackin new nokia camera phones or something from samsung.

Posted by dan at 05:04 PM | Permalink

Last night as road runner blinked "i'm down.. i'm down..."  I got to work on some needed 3d.  Ok Sketchup 3d is probably a stretch but it is 3d.  Sketchup is a quick drafting application for interior/exterior building enviroments.  And is really cool on the tablet, provided the pen is working nicely. 

Its funny I get into this 3d apps and feel a bit overwhelmed on what to do first, make a box, create something, anything, the cool part of Sketchup is that it excels in instant results.  Right away I went from 'make a box' to 'lets build a store and fly thru it via animation!' READY SET GO!

During the enthnographic retail gig I thought wouldnt it be cool to see a customer path thru a store in 3d?  Not everyone can grasp 2d maps with lines all over them, especially our "point to point" index maps, they are a mess I think.  But what if we could present the same data via 3d, and more so via animation. 

Sketchpep Take 3, is my first attempt and this is about 30mins into the app messing around.  I think i'm going to have to buy this program its pretty cool......well maybe not... $475! 

Yikes I go and look at the galleries there on Sketchup and.. wowza.. thats cool.  I need to mess with textures.  The problem I saw with them at first was the fact the slowed down the animation. 

In other random goodness comes from GlobFX in the form of Swiff Point Player for PowerPoint.  Now this one is FREE and is very handy.  It allows you to insert flash into your powerpoint presentations cause we all know all the worlds problems can be solved via powerpoint.  It works flawlessly and has made from some excellent demo material for the website mockups i've been working on.  Wait a sec Dan are YOU finally learning flash?  NO!  Swish to the rescue.  Besides you know I want instant protoyping, I want it goin now, like hurry and stuff.  Swish does that for me.  Being able to build the whole site via powerpoint and this plugin rocks though.  Its very cool.   

Ya know GlobFX is pretty damn spiffy.  I want this FlashChart making tool as well.  That'd be excellent.  I don't think I'd ever recall being excited about charts before.  And the composer.. ooooo what's that do.

Now the real question is am I ready for serious 3d?  Well if the net stays down for me at home all weekend we'll see.  I think I'll try the free Maya first though. 

Posted by dan at 10:28 AM | Permalink

I want flickrbar, originally uploaded by drock.

Posted by dan at 04:41 PM | Permalink

Well what's new... let's see.  I caught this video last night on MTV, which was unexpected cause MTV these days is 98% rap/hiphop bling bling network... but for one pleasant instance they played this great new song / video from Faithless.  Mass Destruction, which is going to probably go on to be a nice signature track folks will no doubtably use for ad campaigns etc, not to mention being a good track to listen to. 

Strangely in sync.  Yesterday before leaving work I got the itch to make some cds for reading downstairs, ya know good tunes to read a book too etc.  Plus I just wanted to make something.  SO I cranked out 3 cd series entitled Downstairs REHAB!  Strangely enough when I got home that night he reorg'd the living room completely different, looks great, a nice rehab indeed! 

Posted by dan at 12:51 PM | Permalink

Now playing: Fellowship - It's A Mystery

Maybe the blog is a bad idea.  I've thought about that lately.  My own journal posted to the masses, is it really a wise thing to do?  Explore my own thoughts, feelings, ideas, revelations, questions, promises, failures, successes, dreams, aspirations, apparitions.. Ok that was freebe.  I dunno.. is it really good for me to be here writing this?  I can't help but wonder, and surely at times, a big no goes HERE.  But at the same time I say yes, what the hell.  Though the older ya get it seems you maybe more relaxed inside, your innerself is fairly comfy really, u know who you are, u have the path, yet patencie still wears thin on the outside encounters.  And hell, well what is that really.  Is hell not doing what you need to do?  Want to do?  Have to do? 

Just cause I use the blog as soundingboard doesn't mean I long for communication from the outside really.  Its like a piece of art, it just is.  Accept it or not.  Questioning doesn't really apply, the moment has passed.  This sentence is done.  This one too.  Tomorrow it will be another post from another side of the flooz.  Maybe a familliar taste but still new.  Maybe that's why I like to blog.  Its new now, and in seconds later its not.  Maybe I'm a newness junkie running high on my own ramblings.  Least its cost effectivie. 

Blogjet btw does not work with WinAmp 3+, so theres one mystery solved.  The other interesting thing to note in Blogjet is that images while resized still seem to be their full res in the image directory.  Who cares?  Well it slows down yer blog a bit to have a big ass image, and then you resize it, and you think, no i resized it, well you didn't, it looks like sure, but it still big back there, deep.. in the trenches. 

Now playing: DJ deepsky - Legend

I keep putting off an iPod but maybe... I do need to get one.   And I really need to find my montana shades.  I had a cool pair of red shades i bought in montana, they were the cheap, really cheap utterly cheap kind.  But I loved looking out into the world in a deep red tint.  It was sooo nice.  I need to get some good shades.  Lately shopping for them around town has really sucked.  I can't seem to find any decent tinted shades around.

Projects are coming together this summer.  It started with many little projects like cds, I tossed all my cd cases, begone i say.  Some 800 cd cases history, banished to the recycling bin.  Thats alot cds.  And most of them were singles and mix cds.. crazy.  Next up is the continued clean presence project, that which i do not use, must go.  Clothes, things, old crap, all of it, and even the 4 additional copies of dark city on dvd, history.  I need work space.  Work space for a new pc downstairs to run the mp3 tunes and to play bit torrent files, as if I'll ever have time for that.  But another tivo doesnt make sense down there, and a slimp3 box is another 250 for the wifi, and I don't want to spend that.  That's precious massage chair money. 

Then we come to the many vhs tapes that will be tossed on the tivo/dvdr to be remasted onto dvd. 

Then even more space to be had.. then.. something incredible will occur.  Like painting, drawing, sketching, shirtmaking, poster creating, airbrushing.. who knows.  Its happening. 

Woah... just played a few hours of Painkiller there.  I'm stuck in the big star on the ceiling room.  I'm not quite sure how to get outa this room, or live for that matter theres a hulk after me.  This game has been a hilarious carnage fest so far.  Lots of exploding barrels and boxes, which are always conviently located next to groups of spawning mobs.  The baddies thus far have been beautifuly texture mapped and animated.  The axe throwing monks are particularly nice along with the big guys running with lit barrels of TNT on them.  When you see those guys from a distance i always laugh.  Someone had a great time makin this game.  I like how baddies explode from the groud and spring to life.  Very cool.

Posted by dan at 05:31 AM | Permalink

Now playing: Yulara - Om Namah Shivaya

Well I never got around to figuring out the comments, I'll dabble with that later.  Meanwhile however it was a great weekend.  I got alot done my ever increasing todo list, in fact, nearly everything was complete, just need to get some new shoes and i'll be set. 

Anything exciting? 

Hmmmmm if ya call washing polishing waxing cleaning the interior and exterior of the mini, paying bills, renewing plates, listening to new music, reading books, visiting with family, taking pictures, cooking, driving, going to church, buying clothes, buying groceries, doing laundry, shopping for recliners, running into bob & lynn, chattin with the gatordave, wrestling with nephews, organizing my room... exciting.. then yes it was.

Mainly I'm just pleased that I finally got around to buying a new matress for outdoor chair and getting some reading done.  The weather was truly gorgeous out there this weekend.

YES, I finally finished a book.  It's been awhile since i've completed a book.  I'm bad about reading multiple books at the same time.  I'm about 100 pages in on: Da Vinci Code, Bang, Low-Carb for Dummies (actually thats almost done really), and Masters of Doom.

Well Doom is done!  A good read on the rise and fall of the two johns.  Not that they've fallen really but the story of id Software and the lives it gibbed along the way is pretty compelling in some aspects.

My first PC was made exclusivily for Doom.  I remember telling the folks at Computer Success, I had one requirement, this PC must play Doom really well.

Doom was the spark of the Graves really, the Graves of Dubin that is.  In fact, even more so let's get this right, it was Doom 2 that created the Graves. 

For those of you that don't know.  The Graves of Dublin was a phrase, I dunno who coined really, either me or Steve, or maybe Clint or Troy, or Mike.. I dunno but we all played Doom 2 at Clint and Troy's apartment often.. like in the book, we deathmatched.. ALOT.  They of course lived in Dublin and the room we played in was the basement, the graves, I didn't come over just to hang, I came over to die in the graves down stairs playing Doom 2 endlessly into the night.

We all played and still do, while not as much these days, a good deathmatch breaks back memories.  Like the holiday deathmatch we had.  It was 24 then 48hrs of nonstop deathmatches.  I remember Steve taggin me out one day "get some sleep man I'll take over." Hah.  Those were the days of the  Evil Green One and his murderous rampages.

In Doom 2 everyone had a handle, like your hacker handle or your bbs handle, yer graves handle said something really, least I think so.

Troy was EGO, or Evil Green One, and he always played the green marine.  For the longest time EGO layed waste to the would be graves victims that stepped in the door.  EGO was a silent killer however, I kinda picture him much like a John Carmack really, I could hear him now saying "mmmmm" after a kill.  This non joyous moment of slaughting all to be see on the maze grid drove his opposite but equally as talented, Clint mad.  Clint was Darkmaker, a name I still don't fully understand where it is derived from.  Dark.. maker... he makes things dark!  Unlike EGO when you were killed by Darkmaker he let you knew about.  A hofty laugh broke thru the air, you were dead again.  Darkmaker yelled, he'd cried, he loved the game and crankin it up a notch was always the thing to do for him. 

I was called Hatchet, my highschool nickname.  I got that name from Steve Eblin, back when we wrote songs in POD class in highschool and nearly failed now that I think about it.  Steve and I wrote songs, screenplays ( My God They're Gesse ), and created a band called Megasnot.  We even created a themepark concept called the Amusement Park from Hell and went into great length detailing the suicide rides, the games, the toys, the food, you name it, we created it.  Steve and I we're kinda like the two john's or like EGO and Darkmaker really, we we're opposites when it came to our craft.  Steve was dirty one, sex, lude behavior.. that was Steve.  I was the destructo-matic.  He used to kid how everything I said ending in "battle-axe" or "chainsaw" or "hatchet".  Thus Hatchet was sprung. 

Steve was called YBAF, Young Black and Free, but he wasn't black.  I never really understood that name and maybe Darkmaker was just feeding me a line on that one, he was afterall the shifty one.  Darkmaker would lure you over to show some cool new effect in the game you previously had somehow missed only to greet you with a rocket at your obviously duped state. 

Mike had several names, for the longest time he was Algae.  Another name connection I didn't get.  It didn't matter really he was to be fragged, gibbed and mauled like the rest of them.  Still the dictionary tells me:

al·ga  ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (lg)
n. pl. al·gae (-j)

Any of various chiefly aquatic, eukaryotic, photosynthetic organisms, ranging in size from single-celled forms to the giant kelp. Algae were once considered to be plants but are now classified separately because they lack true roots, stems, leaves, and embryos.

Was that my friend Mike?  Mike was determined I think at this stage in his life to be "unclassifyable", my be pinned down as anything. 

That rounded out the terrible 5 really, Hatchet, YBAF, Alage, Darkmaker and EGO.  Soon new souls would spawn in the graves only to die over and over and over and over just as the two John's had intended. 

Jerry was one of them.  He and I would continually crank out the screaming and yelling as loud as we could.  It was great fun to deathmatch Jerry.  Sam was another soul who I enjoyed fragging often.  My skills increased considerbily despite the growing notion that EGO, had a secret.  To this day he balks at the notion that we knew his real talent was tied to his fastest network card.  Deathmatches are about two things really, ability and lag.  If you have ability and no lag, you are golden, if you ability and a bit of lag.. well yer lackin.  EGO's fast network connection enabled lagless like performance, allowing him to "dance on our graves" often. 

The Graves of Dublin spawned all kinds of creations that live on even today.  All because of a game and some energetic friends with an appetite for destruction and mayhem. 

Reading Masters of Doom brings back some of those glory days.  Part of me thinks about how the world has changed since the days of id Software, Doom 2, Quake, Ion Storm and its horrible illfated plan of success and where they are today, right now. 

Passion for the craft is a curse and gift.  Singlular mindsets vs them... heh really.  I just see so much potential lost in the translation of egos and rocknroll like lifestyles.  What if they didn't break up, what would the world of graphics and games be like today? 

I think about Romero and his many wives.  He's probably on his 4th marriage now, not that its any of my biz really.  Does passion for the craft do that?  Strain the realm and relationship properties of the want, the desire, the need, to.. succeed?

One thing that disturbs me about the story of id Software was how in the process of deciding what to do next and going with Doom 3.  Basically Carmark called the shots being the whiz kid and all and in return, Adrain and Kevin fired Paul Steed.  This act of terminating an employee not because of his poor work ethic or wrong doing but because of sheer "anger" at another co-owner, really puzzles me.  Partly cause I knew Paul Steed a little.  I met him via his plan file, long ago back when I was shopping the various game companies to do an anime title based off a game at ADV.  Going to Todd Hollenstead, the CEO was kinda tough, Todd was shall we say unapprochable really.  Even though I heard Carmack was a big anime fan, not much I could really do to try to get him to bite off on a Doom or Quake anime.  They were just too big for it.  We still haven't seen that famed Doom movie yet.  Still I knew Paul was an anime freak so I went that direction and we talked in email, I sent him a ton of product, and met him at Quakecon once.  He seemed really talented in 3D and to see him get the shaft in such a pitiful way is really a bad view into the inner workings at id.  He had fire sure, but id needed that I think. 

Maybe id Software did die the day Romero left.  Since then it's essentially been playing a semi, while advanced no doubt, technical game at cranking out great engines.  But as for killer games.  I dunno.  I hope doom 3 does well, but where's the torch now, what new firm has it all?  Where's the new frontier being created?  What if id Software is simply Softdisk now.. where the bright minds gellin right now?  What's to come? 

Can't wait.  :)

Posted by dan at 12:11 AM | Permalink

Now playing: Fresh Moods - Rhythmbreeze

gday!  GMornin even.  Yawn.... time to wake up me thinks.  Hey check these babies out, the source files for the iRaq propagnada campaign.  Sweet!  An excellent find I say.  I really like these posters, I think they are hilarious and compelling at the same time, the author states his feelings regarding them as well.  Passion regardless the slant is always good to see. 

Let's see also on the link hoppin this morning.  Drum Machine from tokyoplastic, a cool flash demo though a bit dated and joystiq a gadget/game blog.

Also on the side of joystiq type blogs is all these little endgadget blog breakdowns, wifi, gps, more gps, RFID.  Good stuff.  How to Make your own Pirate iPod radio station.. see now we need more fun links like this.  Am I due for an ipod?  Hmmmm we'll see. 

No more ugly emails I say!  Bring on the monkey!

So have I ever told ya how much I like Chrysler's 300C?  Have I?

I love the style lines on this car.  The front end, the wheel wells, the chopped top... it just nice.  If was ever to have 2 cars, it'd be a 300C and the mini.  :) 

I think I'll go check them out today.  Ya know if i could have some bodyjob firm make those four doors into suicide doors, i bet that'd be even better.

AutoBlog has some pretty good info here on various things all auto related.  Ya know on the research scheme of things we're makin a push in that direction soon me thinks. 

Or maybe I need a bmw series 1, ha.. I think not.  I dunno why they decided to make this but hey what the heck.

Dodge Magnum RT, how about one of those?  Some nice style lines on it..  I always liked the durango.   Nah. 

Tarrot cards anyone? 

Keep running!

The thought of figuring out typekey, the comments section etc really puts me asleep this morning.  I don't really have any urge to battle with that just now.  Also you may have noticed Mikeland is missing in the link section, I didn't come up the other day, so i dunno if he's killed off that site or moved it etc. 

Now playing: fresh moods - decisions i made

Posted by dan at 07:12 AM | Permalink

Floozy Engineers are hard at work attempting to make sense of comments in the new movabletype 3 universive.  Its a slow road to understanding so just wing it until we get it fixed.

In other news, Avid Technology had a showcase next door down in the Pierre's Annex yesterday.  Free food and drinks along with some sweet gear were on display.  However, most of it, is highly out of my realm of usefullness.  I dunno what I'd do with an HD uncompressed suite.  But I did run into many old friends, folks I knew at Industrial Video, people I sold Toasters too, and several old clients of mine.  

One guy reached across the table and shook my hand saying "you're dan rockwell, you sold me my first toaster!", another guy I used to sell avid's with said to me "aviddan we're you've been..." heh, many of them were curious if I was still editing. Of course I was!  I will always have an Avid with me somewhere ya know and that toaster?  Its in the garage!  Ha.  Speakin of the toaster, what the heck is OpenToaster all about?  Could it be?  OpenSource toaster action?

I sat in on a few of the demos.  Avid pretty much has the same old hat here nothing astounding to see really.  Its the same mixture of stream management, how many streams can i mix at once type of thing, ala realtime to boot.  I suppose if update my Xpress DV to PRO DV ($299) I get tracks o rama, 24 tracks of audio, 8 tracks of video, whats that mean?  If you use more than 8 tracks of audio or 4 tracks of video yer in the wrong solution, you might as well opt to spend 40k and go Adrenline and do it right.  But PRO supposely gives u a feel.. or taste of it.  Hardly really I didnt see the reason for it.  Its pretty simple really you either go low end or you go high end.  Nice thing is you can dabble in the high end at low end prices but to perform in high end, its a meager investment of 40k vs the once and mighty 150k. 

One tool on the highend I liked was Avid's DS Nitris system.  The Nitris came from the Softimage special effects line of performance stations.  It was geared around doing battle against Discreets Fire, Smoke, products.  When I first saw Nitris a few years back it was clunky, it couldnt decide whether it was a mac or a pc as for GUI and it was truly alien in thinking on its approach to basic editing and effects despite being utterly cool in its abilites.  Now it has an Avid Composer interface to the edit model and the effects while still alien are more understandable.  Throw in the fact that its HD serial digital uncompressed and well do the tango anyway you wanna go as far as simultanious streams both video and audio makes it for a sweet little gizmo.  Tack on the paint, compositing and 3d abilties and its yeeehaw!  What's the price Jimmy?  Well a mere 145k for all the bells and whistles.  But that is final finish production HD style.  So if ya think about it.. ok stop thinkin about it.  I'll have Grundy write up a nice break down of killer tools we can't afford but why we'd want them. 

There's aspects of the old days of production I miss.  I miss the pure simplicity of the DPS PAR card, and I miss the old toaster.  Part of me will always keep at least a pinky or two tucked in the wedge of the door for "production" gear.  Video production was my first love ya know. 

Posted by dan at 02:55 PM | Permalink

we are discovering the joys of 2.0 to 3.0 blog templates, deleting java, enabling typekey and comments.

Posted by dan at 11:33 AM | Permalink

new entry test

Posted by dan at 10:39 AM | Permalink

NECC04 blogs are up and the conference is coming.  I'm keepin my eye on this conference because I see a ton of potential research happening around emerging technology and school education. 

Tablets are hitting the scene hard and its changing the way education works.  I'm working on a new project that will fling me dead center into the fray of teens, tablets, and new approaches to education. 

So I'm really curious what all goes down at this conference.   Looks like a few other folks are too, and I've messed with BlogPulse this guy mentions on his blog.  It's very cool.  I could see using that for a number of things really.  Tech like this is really interesting to me.  Discovering trends via blogs I think is gonna be big.

Switching hats here, another thread I keep an eye on is location based services.  For the moment, games are the buzz wagon here.  Dodgeball for example.

and of course the rambling...

Hey now this sounds awesome, I just need a home.  Reading stuff like this makes me wanna go to japan now.. HURRY! 

Cool CSS tools.  I've been meaning to change floozy really, get a different look going etc. 

I really need to get blogjet to default to new window link launches. 

For those interested, I am at:

latitude: 39.975006 °

longitude: -82.997951 °

Posted by dan at 01:14 PM | Permalink

Now playing: Basement Jaxx - Good Luck (feat Lisa Kekaula)

Well apparently it does auto add the "detect" music thing.  Right when you go new entry, bingo its there.  Pretty slick little tool.  I'll have to give it a whirl a bit.  I do like the image intergration better.  And being able to add flooz speaks audio notes is bonus baby. 

And this whole music detect thing... well..

Now playing: Touch And Go - Straight To ... Number One

its cool of way of saying, hey this is whats gettin me tonight.. course right now i'm just trying to feed clint with as much dan tune goodness as possible.. he's got an ipod afterall.

I always liked this tune:

Now playing: Terry Francis - Fight Against Opression / Pure Science

And I'm sure hes got this on file...

Now playing: New Order - Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction)

Now for awhile there I was jamming to this song like everyday..

Now playing: Junkie XL - Crusher (featuring Saffron)

And then.. wow.. Gary Numan's voice is just awesome here... but its an angels song. :(  wait a sec, i can do that better...

Now playing: Junkie XL - Angels (Featuring Gary Numan)

I'd be curious to see if iTunes had an entry for this track.. a classic deathmatch romp tune, also good for angry EQ corpse runs...

another great track comes off the DJ hyper cd.. actually a few of them

Now playing: Various - Ride / Chable & Bonnici (Have A Break mix)

Junkie XL hits another home run with this track

And I LOVE this track

Now playing: Various - Mobilegazer/My House

Ahh here's a classic from last year.. still sounds sweet

Now playing: Various Artists - PMT - Deep Water

Here's a real oldie but it'd go in my six cd box set of the best dan tunes ever... it'd probably be in the top 20 easy

Now playing: Red Jerry and Jay Burnett - Miro - Paradise

This song ring a bell?  Think ADV, think anime, think DO IT NOW!  (my claim to fame) haha..

Now playing: Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats

then there's my collection of mars lasar stuff... just lifts ya up (but he brings the beat to boot)

Now playing: Mars Lasar - Cyber City

by now i realize this post has gotten completely out of hand.. but its kinda fun

another classic from the Utah Saints, this one however didn't quite rekindle their comeback, still one awesome song, especially this remix by oliver leeb

Now playing: Paul Oakenfold - Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness (Oliver Lieb Vocal Remix)

Kites is another favorite.. i'd say in the bottom range of the top 20 ( all time mind you ), so still a worthy ranking... great voice on this gal

Now playing: Sasha and John Digweed - Ultraviolet (Kites)

that was during my houston/clubg scene days... things got a bit darker

Now playing: Aphrodite - Cool Flight

Now playing: Aphrodite - Style from the Darkside

I'd be curious to see if iTunes had an entry for this track.. a classic deathmatch romp tune, also good for angry EQ corpse runs...

Now playing: Spiritual Project - Storm

Now if we in the wayback machine lets talk about some classic deathmatch tracks.

Now playing: Die Warzau - Funkapobia

now sometimes techno is too nice.. and yer killin people here right so kick up a bit..

Now playing: Revolting Cocks - Stainless Steel Providers

then i'd rip the cover off, and bring in a classic graves of dublin doom song (least to me) haha

Now playing: Tetsuo - Aquanauts - The Swimmer

then I'd hit them with The Bomb!  and make sure max carnage was on..

Now playing: Bucketheads, The - The Bomb! (Radio Edit)

then we throw on a classic, to get that heart rate up

Now playing: The Goodmen - Give it Up

now to end this freakin post lets put on a trance/dnb twister and let the rockets fly

Now playing: Mixmag Presents - John B & Libby Picken - Electr

Posted by dan at 12:05 AM | Permalink

I'm on my third pass of the new 60 Channels cd.  The first pass didn't do it for me.  Second pass was pretty good.  Third pass its coming alive. 

Well first off, auto spell check.. not too much there.  Also launch from within browser.  Thats kinda cool.

Always messin with stuff, I'm blogging this entry with BlogJet, yet another blogging tool.  Why?  Why not. 

So why the new tool? 

• i'm curious
• it can do this cool thing
• where everything has a bullet
• thats neato 

or I can do my top 5 things about painkiller i like so far

1. zombies, lots of them
2. my fist is a whirling doom thing
3. cool music
4. do i really need 5
5. i just got it

It also has "detect music" feature.. that makes this:

Now playing: Death In Vegas - Hands Around My Throat

But its in the tool bar, should that just be automatic, like post it at then end of my entry or give it a button maybe?

I think I've attached a sound bite as well.  Let's test images.

yes its brand new, its iRaq, hot off the shelves in Baghdad... sweet.  Not only can you add pics easily, you can resize them, and that I like.   Right clicking right in the BlogJet I can also send to flickr, thats kinda odd.

Last but not least we have DSC (dynamic smiley control) which must be all the rage in brazil, where this app is coded. 

I'd like a preview though the main view is kinda what ya get, it'd be nice to see a more flushed out final about to post preview. 

There's also a hardcore code view for folks like NTT. 

Posted by dan at 11:05 PM | Permalink

Synchronicity is "magical thinking" and we need more of it on the Web.

YES!

Posted by dan at 11:25 PM | Permalink

For me managing five email identies isn't that big of a deal.. course managing just one would be nice. I've been reading about idenity theft lately. How people manage their multiple identies, or open exposures on the net. Thinking off all the logins, the codes, the passwords, the emails, etc.. its a mess. Where are the holes and what can be done to fix things. Apps? Enviroments? New ways to doing things?

I feel like I need one big biometric safe. Heh.

As for color I keep running into pastels online. Ever since Sue mentioned it to me earlier today, this pastel blue, its everywhere on the net. And white, well driving home I thought about it a bit, white, why white. Its open, its clear, as far as the web goes but white is also an idenifer of spacing or safety. Safety makes me warm inside. What if the dotted lines on the road were red, what would that tell me. Then it got stranger. How come there are no white tires on cars, or red tires. Is that just a tabboo? Don't go there. Not white walls on tires, white tires.

Posted by dan at 11:08 PM | Permalink

I really hate how Internet Explorer deals with favorites. I have a ton of links. I remember ages ago it seems and how back then Netscape made dealing with favorites rather easy like really.. yet with Internet Explorer, it just seems like a massive cluster#$&%!!.

Go download something to fix it ya say? Sure i guess, take chance on another adware app or something to break something else. Or lets just get Google to fix it. I use their toolbar, now fix my favorites.

Posted by dan at 10:44 PM | Permalink

We got new gal at work recently, senior el stragety and client relations. She's on fire with biz dev lately and she's been igniting the fire storm of ideas in me as well. I don't typically venture in biz dev really, least not on any official level but since she's been on board her willingness to listen and eagerness to hear me out has resulted in a storm of ideas on my end.

Personally I love it. Maybe calling it biz dev is the wrong word. To me its ideas on possiblilities in a multitude of areas, new biz, future trends, things to come, etc. I like riding that wave really, and more often than not, we all see it coming, so lets talk about it.

Ideas come to me in different ways. Like a song writer they hit you in shower, or while driving or by realization or something a friend says. The net is also becoming a real trend sniffer of tool. What are folks bloggin about? What social network tools are buzzin? Who is hot and what is not and what does that mean? A good surfing session brings all kinds of ideas to the surface. Lately I've been much better about writing them all down, trends, product ideas, and the occasional hilarious note point to boot.

I think about those that surround me, my friends and family, out of that collective how does the pattern breakdown, what is being thought of or consumed or peaking the interest or worried about or discovered.

My father is a great gauge for what's happening in the world of 65+ senior, what's happening there, what are the factors that impact his life, his mundane activies, his energy.. he just bought a hedge trimmer, go talk to him about that. I'm not sure Black&Decker fullly realizes the growing consumer base of hedge trimmers to the 65+ spectrum.. what could be done better for them? When comes to the internet my father is curious and downright furious with how the net works at times, the way technology appears so flawed, to him as a 50 year veteran of human factors engineering.. it really comes across as if he's truly stunned at the problems with computing, how'd they get this way?!

The "normal" gang, is another source of ideas and inspiration. When I talk about "normal" or the group called normal. It refers to an email list set up by Troy one of the el superemo tech heads in the group. Created.. well I dunno how long ago.. but long ago basically and about nine of us or so collectively banter back and forth everyday on. Normal is a massive exchange of ideas, stories, links, arguements, rants, lectures, you name it, it happens on normal. And theres typically, oh about 30-200 messages a day depending on how frisky folks feel.

In normal we're all geeks basically. But theres some good harvesting happening there. Normal covers the gambit of the low fi not so techy folks like me.. heh and the extreme fi folks, troy.. and clint. And then we have the nomadic peoples like nik and mike. And our programmer types bob and todd. - They'll love this i'm sure.

On a persona level they are all very different people. I can't help but to consider them all as invaluable data sets to pull from. Each of them have different motivators, different levels of acceptance or tolerences on technology, brands, perceptions of service etc. Some are clearly early adopters and lead users while others are not but still just as valuable to the food chain.

All of this in one way or another impacts the stream of ideas. Its like connecting the dots, you cant do it all via the web, and you cant do it all via just folks ya know. That whole collective is needed, or at least helps the brief connections develop into a storm.

So factoring all of this lately I've dished up about 10 or so good product ideas or trends to take note. Looking at those 10 I know theres at least 30 more I'm not thinking about. So I dig some more.

Sometimes I go back in time, I go to the web and find perdictions for 2004, in 2003 about where its all headed, either from conference notes or papers folks wrote, or old blog entries. How close were these folks on the mark? Did this idea manifest? What killed this concept? That was a pipedream didnt happen? That other idea happened FAST!

More thoughts and ideas to come.

Posted by dan at 10:30 PM | Permalink

gah thats a messed up post.. ahh well, hey its content... well the demiurge did mention chaos..

Posted by dan at 11:30 PM | Permalink

Why the hell are you breakin this post up? w.bloggar did it for me. It kept crashing, and I had to chuck some of what i wanted to say. Ahh well...

What's up with the city of god eh dan? Well before I get to that.. i'm kinda worried about track 1 on this cd. Ok here's the general breakdown..

1. DADDY ( from the Fallen Angels movie ( the hong kong, Wong Kor Gai flick, its the bar/train/ya know song))
2. Nail - Trevor Speaks
3. You Can't Touch Duane Barry Anymore - Naked Funk (has a tasty xfile sample in it)
4. Aquarius - Waldeck ( the kruder mix )
5. Hi Scores - Boards of Canada (spooky)
6. FALLEN (another song taken from Fallen Angels, the gun scene song)
7. Virtual Mima - Masahiro Ikumi ( from the Perfect Blue soundtrack )
8. All the Good Things in Life - Trevor Speaks part 2
9. Finest Drops - Wire
10. Tomorrow Comes Today - Gorzilla
11. Hands Around My Throat - Death in Vegas ( from the animatrix sountrack )
12. Who Am I - Kruder & Dormeister ( from the animatrix soundtrack )

ok melancholy established

13. Demiurge - Trevor Speaks part 3

trevor says its ok, live on...

14. The Child - Alex Gopher ( if there was ever one song to describe me, my state of mind, my soul, my essence, it would be this song ( plus it serves as the start )
15. Bassdrum - 10Speed Guiloteen ( you won't find this in stores or on amazon, this is a super rare mp3 recording of 10speed, a local band here in columbus that has long since disappeared, and i am probaly its biggest fan heh.. i had the honor of producing video for them, particpating in jam sessons and just knowing these masterful creators of sound, Jeff and Andy man... classic piece of work, its is spacey yet sad, yet hope )
16. Blue Room - The Orb ( notice we have picked up the beat a bit... still we're coming out of the darkness )
17. Kaneda - Akira Soundtrack ( ok this one was kinda filler, i needed something chanty, and this track has japanese chanty, so that works, plus its a great song, its weird so that works)
18. Crystal Tips - Perfume Tree ( this lady has a beautiful scary voice.. when I was in any darkness of any kind.. i think of the Perfume Tree, first album mind you )
19. Late Light - Perfume Tree (another classic sad yet not so sad)
20. Haunted Dancehall - Sabres of Paradise (another all time favorite track for me, in fact the mp3 isnt labeled Haunted Dancehall any more, I renamed it after a once great place for me.. Mistmoore. This a great song)

Ok so back to DADDY, I think DADDY may offend.. anyone who has seen the movie please tell me what you think about that scene.. email me at

dan [at ]floozyspeak com

And no i dont put email addy links on here any more.. cause they are bad! Spiders everywhere.

Still no idea on City of God eh? But yer curious about alot of things aren't ya. Could C2 really deliver the goods? Could dan be in some kinda super storm of syncronicity? Who's that Ellipse girl? And what or who is Alex Gopher or Trevor Goodchild?

Actually City of God is just a dvd I bought, i heard it was good.... oh ya and when I got..that... score! More Altoids! This time liquorice.. and man are they STRONG!

That is the daily wrap.. DEMIURGE people.. and "speak my language..."

Posted by dan at 11:28 PM | Permalink

So what's up with the demiurge and what's melancholy about that?

Why must creation always be so positive really? Taking a chance while new often ushers in a sweeping wave of dooming gloom and doubt.. ok thats a bit thick but hey demiurge... I got a sample from Trevor of that... What?

The demiurge. I like it. What i like most about it, is the use of the word but the villian, though he character was more prophetic and genius then really evil in Aeon Flux. Yes my cd entry is marked with the signature of Trevor Goodchild. In the show you always seem him under a state of wonder yet gloom I think. Is he melancholy over his existance? His character is kinda twisted so ya maybe.. I dunno. But he's on the cd. Sampled in all his glory. And one of the samples speaks of the demiurge. I love his voice, played by John Lee.

Posted by dan at 11:25 PM | Permalink

demiurge
1. A powerful creative force or personality.
2. A public magistrate in some ancient Greek states.
3. Demiurge A deity in Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and other religions who creates the material world and is often viewed as the originator of evil.
4. Demiurge A Platonic deity who orders or fashions the material world out of chaos.

Posted by dan at 11:24 PM | Permalink

So there I was wielding the demiurge.

C2 arrives! Actually I first heard about Pepsi EDGE! But then at work on friday John was reading something about Coke's C2! While at Target today I spotted it.. C2.. low carb coke! Sure what the heck. I'll try it. It doesn't taste bad really, tastes alot better than diet coke thats for sure. The other bonus find at Target today we're Altoids Apple Sours, tasty.. VERY tasty. More on this later. I also broken down and bought a cheap blender.. I want smoothie now I say. And my magic bullet hasn't arrived yet. Don't let a $17 dollar blender stand between you and good smoothie I say. When the bullet arrives.. look out america!

So is Dan goin low carb?! Could this be? I'll be honest my mother gave me the book South Beach Diet some time ago. And my farther well he lays on the guilt so well.. heh. I do love them dearly though. They always mean well. Anyways iIt was on the reading list really. So anyways on Sunday I cracked it open. Let's face it though I'm really clueless in this catagory. But I ventured on and it was a decent read over really expect for the damn recipies. As Ellipse and others know, I am not the cook. Sure I cook eggs, or fajitas, or a roast now and then but the recipies in South Beach were far too... "enlightened" for me. Which lead me to LOW CARB for Dummies! HA! A much better read even.

The time is at hand, its time I take care of the body. I got plenty of soul ya know. Maybe its an early birthday present... i dunno, its just time. Not just in diet.. and even then I think diet is the wrong word for what I want. I just wanna eat right, eat well, thats all. I want that, and I want strength. Sure I have hulk sydrome, like in the movies "yer makin me angry" oh ya I've got that when i need it, but I really want that strength in general, so step on down to McConnel I go. Roughly a week and the pain begins. I'll be sore, starved and sweetless haha.. change is good. Its like chapter four in personal fullfillment. What were the first three chapters? What do you think?

So what the heck does this have to do with City of God and why are you blogging all of this? Blogging is like a time stamp. I go back in time when I read blogs, "oh i remember that..." so time stamp it baby. Talking about it like this is a backstabbin reminder dan.. if you read this and didnt do this, you suck. But if you read this and you did do this? Good Job Man! Its like my past and future selves are here together.. and its because of Hershey PA, and Altoids.

Why Hershey PA? This morning I was surfing the pages of Hershey PA, a special gal was talkin tea cup rides in the big big cites. When I think tea cup rides I think Hershey PA, what is it about that town I love so much? My folks took me when I was little, I loved the museum, I remember that. The park wasn't built yet even, least i dont remember it. Still I think old parks and tea cup rides go together, I didnt even factor in what she was really talkin about, DisneyLand, doh.. oh ya that place. Ooops.

It gets better. Ok so my hair was short, but still thick bad hair.. wasnt bad per say but with these hot humid days.. i wanted it all to go! Alright not all of it. Most, so to the hair cutters I go. Now here I am gettin a hair cut, doin the small chat thing, and the topic of vacation comes along. She asks "where you goin this summer..." I say "maybe colorado, see my brother." She nods and clips a little more. I say "and you?" She puts downt he sissors and says "Hershey, PA"... we'll I'll be darned people. Don't ya find that interesting in the least bit? And this doesn't happen just once, it happens constantly. I'd say in a given week, this kind of syncronicity occurs to me at least six to seven times. It can be the littlest things, but they all add up.

So in the end i got a hair cut. But what else? More evidence into the divine city of god that awaits me?!?!? Actually that's not it. Stream of thoughts that connect everyone together? Maybe I'm just lucky? I did get one number the other day on mega millions lottery... just one. HA! I think about that, what sequence of events led me to that store to have that conversation to reveal that connected piece of information. What if my conversation never occured this morning, what if broadband was down.. which often occurs lately. Reading too much into it? Hey happens once a month sure maybe.. six times a week? Hello are we reaching...?? I'd say YES!

Still what's that have to do with City of God or the demiurge? Well Demiurge is the name of my melancholy cd for Emily. Enjoy girl cause i cant do melancholy. Least this cd sounds more like a disconnected Aeon Flux meets Hong Kong cinema meets Back Alley Lost Hopes and Dreams.. yet its also kinda happy.

Posted by dan at 11:19 PM | Permalink

Whew what a weekend. Bars, Clubs, cd mixes and movies, photoshop cs, fireworks, and gettin all spooky moody. Lots a happening. "FRED MASSIVE" came to me about 12mins ago.. I was there, drinking my lime juice, just finished my melancholy cd ( im doing a cd/tape trade on flickr, and moody melancholy was one of the catagories..) it was hard.. I dont like being down really, dark sure but down nah..not my style.

Hot off the heels of the dark creation i stumbled onto FRED MASSIVE, I havent made a dance cd in awhile, most of my cd comp efforts have been in the lounge groove. Vann, he makes the lounge creations. Who does the club stuff I wondered. FRED MASSIVE, ya lets use that name. It came to me almost too easy so I hit google up on the name.. fred massive... no where to be found. Take, use, own, whatever.. he's the name for my club cds now. Hot on the idea of the name I created a cd cover for the mix i'm working on now, which is kinda a step back a bit into the grooves ive loved so long ago... I like the ring to it. Fred, a good family name, Massive.. in sound, in presence, in persona.

Oh ya.... and then there's this...

When ya go out every night you get the sense that weekend is actually passing by. All those other weekends did time actually pass by or did monday just arrive. Day 3 it seems, yet its just Sunday.

Last night I hit the brazenhead then the clubs. It was Staci's birthday and they would of given me hell for not going out. So what the hell. I haven't been to the dancefloor in a long time. Music wise i never left. We arrive at the club and I'm factoring all the elements key to surivial, where'd I park, how far was it, where's the club and do i have that cash to get in.

The parking guy gladly takes my four hard earned dollars and gives me a Mini Cooper flyer to stick under my windshield as proof of payment.. i jokingly say "i should park for free ya know...", granted my mini cooper isn't the red one on the flyer but still.

Tonights cast of characters included Jon (the room mate), Staci (his gal), Amanda (the friend), Mark (the chef), Shirley (the friend), Jeff (the chef part 2) and yours truly. Ya know the formula doesn't change much its always the same, go here drink a bit, go there drink some more, go clubbin. Like dancin is the celebration of a night of drinkin well done.

Ten frickin bucks to get in the door for 60mins.. this is clubbing people! Arriving at club you see the dreaded line, least I thought it was a line.. typically theres always a line. You stand in the line, you hope that ya can get in before 230am arrives, you'll gladly pay the cover for a few songs, i mean you want in. But no real line instead one of those blocker guys that determines yer worth in a few quick glances. So quickly ya have to factor "do i look club worthy".

Jon, ya he looked the part
Staci, it was her birthday - she will get in that club no matter what
Amanda, oh ya... "look at me, look at me"
Mark, he's been workin out lately so he kinda looked like a door man really, ya he was in...
Shirley, she looked fine in black dress ensamble, and she had these huge ear rings on.. yes she was going in there
Jeff, he and I shared simmilar concerns.. we were in sandals.

Sandals? Clubbing? Doesn't really go together I know. I guess I factored in a night of cantina's and margarita swaying but not so much the thump' action of a club dance floor. Typically sandals are a no no in clubs. And if I didnt get fined for that I should of gotten fined for the Hawaii 5'OH shirt I had on. Luckily I had charm and lots of it.

As soon as it was my turn to be "glanced at"... fate stepped in! Two guys on other side of the "were in here" fence leaned over "DAN!!!!!!!!! oh my god DAN!!" they told the door man "hey treat this guy right" and he looks at me, breaks out the black marker and puts two dots on my hand and simply says "show this to the people inside"... -- marked for success, this is the vann. The two guys didnt register at first... I'm really bad about that. I meet people they go "oh my god good to see ya" and for those first few moments I say to myself "oh my god.. who are these people...".

I flashed my "dots" nonchanultnly to the gal inside. "well... " i said smirking with confidence for a half second..... She just nodded. No kneeling, or bowing or remarks like "step aside people, we got royalty in the HOUSE!!" nope. Just a nod. Next time I need to bring the marker myself.. i mean this dot pattern isnt complicated, I could do this.

Inside the club it was booom'n. I quickly had to thank my "friends" who i couldnt recognize... i mean thats just right manners ya know.. ahh yes it came back to me "those guys.. ok names are bad too usually". Those guys were two guys I brainstormed marketing with, they had a little web gig goin and we shared ideas, biz ideas, etc. Ben and Mike it was, yes thats it. It was good to see them.

I returned to the bar happily realizing that "i knew those guys".. that was good. Next step at any club is to reach the bar and order multiple drinks at once. Only an hour left basically and usually the bar is packed so order well my friends.. order well. Troy tells tales of me ordering six drinks at once.. I do that because of the club experience. You can't go back. Sure you could go back to the bar and wait, and labor and pressflesh with some hairy guy or steamy gal.. sure u can squeeze in there, lean over the cooper finished bar slab and say "ya i'd like one more.." or you can get'm all in advance and not lose that time.. precious dance time.

Now heres how my nights used to break down, granted I don't do the bar/club thing all that often any more. I had my time with it in Houston. But typically it was simple, you drink at bars, you dance at clubs. I don't drink at clubs. I really dont want to be shitfaced at a club. A little blur is always good but I'm there for the dancin ya know. But ya know folks all have different agendas, and of course i'm blogging the detail outa this one.. heh.

A redbull will do. Speakin of redbull I had a jaggerbomb at Brazenhead just a few hours earlier with Shirley and Staci. Jaggermiester meets redbull... and ya know what? That was a damn good shot. Very Yummi.

Now at the club I refrained from drinkin really, I opt'd for solo redbull. "thats it?" they asked me... lookin at me like maybe I'd add something of my own.. next is the E! "yep." haha.. nah.

I could hear the forces battling it out in far end of the club. Long Street in columbus ohio's downtown area is a sellout meatmarket multiple bar concept. They string together all the genres of music into multiple connecting buildings or areas... usually u go thru the main enterance and first experience salsa, then take a turn into lounge which always gets like just enough space for six people to chill really, and then its the massive hiphop or what i call "look at me, look at me" and more on that later room, then ya got techno etc.. We didn't go in the main enterance so we had this little area where the dj's were mixing hiphop with trance progressive.. which i think would be tough.. it doesn't quite slide on the ole fader over there. While we ordered drinks at the bar I could hear the struggle at the dj booth, trance.. now hiphop..... now trance...! With 60mins left and counting it didnt matter really people needed to dance.

Club dancefloors, or floors in general are always nasty. You can't help but notice them as the lights, oh the lights shine thru. It also looked like there was money all over the floor. One of the clubs promo's was 50 dollar bill lookin thing and promos always end up on the floor ya know... so that added a different look I think. First you hear the music, then you feel the bass, see the lights, see the people see the money they dance on haha.

They had a few classics in the mix there, I love hearing sounds I own, the more rare they are the better. Especially on a thumpin sound system. Sadly I was in sandals! I can't dance in these things, i already had two people crush my toes just getting into the place. Ok I danced a bit.

As far as dances go Mark could really bust the groove and shirley liked that.. she dragged him to the center of the floor. You go girl! Jon and Staci stayed together as Jeff kinda wandered around. Amanda waited for her moment. Once the hiphop and the deep bass hit the floor she broke out into her "look at me, look at me" dance. Once she got goin, it was a sight to see.. the hiphop guys came a callin. Then SWTICH to trance she'd stop. Poor girl. Heh.

Just gettin a taste of the club scene made me wanna club more. I miss the sound, the big sound on the dancefloor. I miss the scene in general really, like ownin my club, spinnin my own tunes, makin the videos.. ya thats a good stuff. Owning a space and seeing a room packed with people dancing is a good thing. Energy.

Posted by dan at 08:18 PM | Permalink

Zone!

Use Wisdom.... yes i'm link hopin. Basically I got caught up delicous link madness.... holy cats was there some serious golden geese here baby. Like this thing, ok I don't really need it but wouldn't that be hilarious next to the mini at the park? Just chillin readin. I love artsy creative design links.. hey build yer own arcade!

My folks are thinkin ditch the hot tub and get one of these pools.. which makese sense, it'd be good for papa.

Groovetube yes! Ok u could make this I suppose. Bout time, VJ goodness. But clint's right, I should be dj'ng.

YES I found him... I miss my Bruce Lee trailer creator. Ahhh ya baby finding all the classic links tonight. RUNME! Movie mincer.... hmmm a wee bit low tech for normal and the gang i bet.

Posted by dan at 11:31 PM | Permalink

A nice piece on the Obey Giant man... as you know, I LOVE the giant. I have seven works of his, two of which in huge prints, framed, encased in glass etc. Actually four or more of those are outa print now. I love his art.

It's been awhile since i've seen the six way cross street of central Shibuya in Tokyo. I miss Japan. Does it miss me? Did I make a difference? Am I an influence?

Gameboy GPS? Hey how this would rock I bet.. I dunno I just think.. game system.. ya.... GPS... oooo neat.

I want my camera phone.

" Twenty-five million, or 60%, of DoCoMo customers have camera phones; 20 million have phones compatible with infrared data-access capability; 5 million have phones with two-dimensional bar-code readers; 41 million are using i-mode-compatible phones."

Ahh yes the are of cute, truly a japanese phenomenon.

I must install this on floozy.. TROY?!?!? And since i'm linking and all... thanks clint!

Goodbye Ray, we'll miss you man.

Posted by dan at 04:20 PM | Permalink

"Ideas rot if you don't do something with them. I used to try to hoard them, but they rotted. Now I just blog them or tell people about them. Sometimes they still rot, but sometimes someone finds them useful in one way or another" -- Edd Dumbill

True so very true. I cam across an old binder yesterday filled with Dark Kitty, Monkey Boy and yes the classic epic mini series.. wait a sec i have like dozens of mini series ideas lying around. Woah is me.

Ya know the cellphone is where its at lately. There is an explosion of development going into the cellphone. GPS, GMS, camera, video, location based services, FOAF, social networking, its massive and crazy the amount of functionality going into a phone. Do we need all of it, probably not, will we get most of it, probably not will it be there anyways probably and wheres the limit? There is none. I need to do some of this research.

Haha.. this will be the new pink!

And i want to get in on some of this research too. This was a pretty cool study.

I'm thinkin of entering the one second film festival. I mean come on.

Posted by dan at 04:21 PM | Permalink

5 days, 25 soon to be manifest ideas and 10 hopefulls, can we do it! i think so.

Oh ya and check out this excellent collection of music videos. Its got some of my favorites, fatboy slim, cassius, alex gopher, lucas with the lid off even. Grondy is good.

Hey it seems ADV is finally gettin around to gettin out SuperMilkChan. Should be an interesting release. Oh ya and check out the Japanese Fanta commericals.. I like the Bruce Lee one.

Clint, Troy, Bod, Todd.. the others.. Full Spectrum Warrior is out?! Troy's played it by now im sure.

Stompin around some old websites tonight. Hey I have a bunch of her songs, good stuff.

Basically this is what dave and I are planning on creating.. least something alot like it. Idea, script it, shoot it, edit it, produce it, flaunt it.

boards mag is one of my favorite online romps. A great site for motion freaks like myself. Owww 60 bucks... hmmm must ponder that kinda mag subscription.

Very nice work.

Hmmm old doors always reveal new things.... like more plugins! Darkness! CelShade'd goodness. And more it seems. its really come a long way. Mainframe Entertainment, theres a company i havent seen much of lately.. they still crankin along i see.

When i first used mirage i hated the interface, i mean "from hell" just didnt describe it enough. Maybe now with tutorials I can give it a go again. Must swim... no wade thru. Good extras eh? Ok Terrance i'll check it out.

Fusion.. its still kickin.

Posted by dan at 06:25 PM | Permalink

Authentic is in. I can't explain it but its in. Actually i could explain it, I dont know why my brain said I cant when i can really. I just wont. Thats the reality of it. I'm not gonna explain it. But Authentic and everything it embodies is in. Pink is the new black, but authentic is in.

In other news.. wtf is this?!? Pulled it off Boing Boing, which i miss reading daily. So good to be free again.

NYC ban on subway photos
The NYC subway system is thinking of banning photos on the platforms and trains. Photos of the NYC subways have won awards and been given their own shows -- and more importantly, photo-documentation of neglect through the subway system were critical to the re-funding and revitalization of the service. So, basically, this is a stupid idea.
The argument is that somehow, photos of trains and platforms (not switching stations, conductor compartments, or control centres) will aid terrorists, and therefore that banning photos will make New Yorkers feel safer. So, basically, this is a stupid idea with an even stupider justification.

I've found that most subway police officers think that photography is already illegal, and there's no way to convince them otherwise. So I've taken to carrying a copy of the law with me. The only people this [regulation] will affect is law-abiding citizens.
An enormous amount of great photography has come out of the subway. Look at Bruce Davidson, who powerfully documented the run-down transit system of the '70s and '80s and its weary riders. He probably wouldn't have been able to get a permit at the time (no one knows if the MTA will even issue permits this time around!). Would we be better off without his art?

TERROR!

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Oooo more betas... $199 a month? for an extranet? Yoooow not for me. Deluxe looks nice though. This is a pretty nice blog as well.

Posted by dan at 02:15 PM | Permalink

I lifted this from Ludicorp's website on its About Us biz philosophy, an area I like to read about really. What drives small biz. It's lifted from another source itself, and so the liftin continues heh. Well said words I think.

Our “corporate philosophy” has an excellent summary in the following passage from Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action and the Cultivation of Solidarity by Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores & Hubert Dreyfus (MIT Press 1997):

The game and styles of playing the game are what matter because they produce identities people care about. Likewise, a business develops an identity by providing a product or a service to people. To do that it needs capital, and it needs to make a profit, but no more than it needs to have competent employees or customers or any other thing that enables production to take place. None of this is the goal of the activity.
   
For Ludicorp it means simple to Kick Ass.

And for you that do not know, Ludicorp is the maker of Flickr.

Posted by dan at 01:04 PM | Permalink

ideas need ideas ok that last idea was more freaky japanese strangeness but.. behold i am back on the side of website design. Part of that statement really pains me. I should be writing. Oh this movie will be