July 7, 2009
Google Wave
holy cow.
May 28, 2009
Who owns one’s face.
Shepard's work of art
The hope poster, shepard fairey. The iconic sell out artist, not in a bad way of course. A few months back “they” found out where Shepard got the famous Obama hope picture. If you aren’t aware, Shepard made a poster in support of Obama which went on to become one of the most popular depictions of the now president. The so called controversy revolves around the fact that Shepard created the image from a photograph. This photograph was captured by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia for the AP. I don’t much care for the resulting legal battle that must have played out. I’m simply questioning the entire idea that after over a year of this poster being an iconic symbol of a candidate someone would figure out where the photo came from and then start this litigation. How many pictures has Mannie taken of Obama? How many pictures of Obama are there? At what point does the photograph stop having any kind of relevant “ownership”. The original picture that Shepard used wasn’t some kind of master stroke of photography. It was a digital capture of a moment in time, I’ll guess 1/600th of a second, give or take. Within that moment a number of other people were capturing that same man from slightly different angles at other fractions of seconds. I don’t have issue with all those photographers owning each of those practically indistinguishable photographs, they should sell them to media outlets because they are relevant and if they don’t get paid then some events don’t get seen. Read the rest of this entry »
May 26, 2009
Has anything ever happend.
May 26, 2009
Three day weekend
Had a great weekend. You just can’t beat eating BBQ everyday. I’ve been over coming a case of Pneumonia for the past week and I’m just not starting to feel much better. I think that sitting around all weekend and eating till I nearly burst must of helped. The weather here in Brooklyn was perfect. Warm to hot in the day, cool at night. Never too much on either end.
Saturday was 4th state metal’s Gill. 4th state is a metal fabrication studio where my room mate works. Nice group of people, clients and friends all down in Williamsburg. Quite an exciting day, first of all, the food was amazing. I’d say the best meat I’ve ever imbibed. Expertly prepared by a man wearing a shirt that said
“bacon, the gateway meat”
Obviously the food was too good because by mid afternoon about 20 cops show up and start handing out tickets and citations. I sat back and watched the scene unfold. Some woman got put in cuffs and I over hear talk of a non-drinker getting an open container ticket for trying to clean up some bottles. An over all bad performance by the NYPD, left a bad taste in my mouth. Though that was quickly fixed with some steak from the grill master, who also was given a ticket for kicking too much ass.
Later we go to Evan’s house warming party in “Bushwick”. Fun was had by all, Evan and Mel have a very nice place and are doing well with just a single giant room. We leave around three for the not-SO-long bike ride back home. Four of us riding in the night down Dekalb.
The night ends with a sun rise game of darts in our kitchen.
Sunday started with a trip to Red Bamboo, a vegan/veggy restaurant in Clinton. No-meat chicken wings and jerk chicken. What I’ve always though strange is that when making fake meat, why do people want boring meat like chicken? I’d rather eat Pterodactyl or Griffin meat! I’m sure it all tastes like chicken anyways so you don’t even need to change anything apart from the name. Go ahead and steal that idea vegan restaurant entrepreneur.
That night was BBQ number two. Kyle’s house. Corn and hot dogs. Plus a little treat that Kyle and Audrey have been cooking up for the past two days. A watermelon infused with vodka. Very, well, dangerous treat as it was so delicious I quickly ate five or six slices with in a few minutes. It was like candy that made you drunk, what a concept. To end the evening we made S’mores with these giant marshmallows, like big as a bottle of extra strength Tylenol. That night I struggled home on a full stomach.
The next day was spent on Rachel’s roof, from about the time I woke up (at one) till the sun set over the city we grilled hamburgers and hot dogs with good company on a hot roof in Brooklyn. I was able to get away with only minor sun burn on my chest (it looks like a red dickey) and a bit on my back where my hands and sunscreen didn’t quite reach. So that is pretty good for me as I normally burn like a victim.
All and all a very good memorial day weekend.
May 20, 2009
QR code business card
So I extrapolated the QR code elements into a business card. I haven’t much need for business cards, only once have I really gotten in trouble because I didn’t have one. I like this design so I might get it printed.
The large code gives extra info about me, while the small one calls me.
May 19, 2009
How I almost lost $800
I may be too quick to help. I almost fell for a fairly dumb scam this morning.
1am: I’m on facebook for a moment when Mike G. pops-up in chat. He quickly tells me that he is in London, and has been held up at gun point. He goes on to say that he needs to settle the hotel bill of $800. Naturally my always wanting to help and be a hero kicks in and I offer to send him the money. Long story short Western Union Online denies my transfer, basically setting in motion me NOT getting scammed.
May 14, 2009
QR code
I recently got the new G1 phone from T-mobile. Though I’d rather not give t-mobile any credit for the phone, due to the phone’s high quality. I digress, the phone came with a cool little app that can scan bar codes with the built in camera. Though I have yet to use it for anything useful, it does impress my friends. Now I find that the the app supports QR codes which are like bar codes, as in they display information on a 2D surface which is machine readable. But QR codes have much more depth. You can encode text, URLs, phone numbers, and SMS (text messages). All you need to read them is a device with a camera and a decoder.
translation: This is an example of some text that you can see because you have a QR code reader.
I find this cool for a number of reasons. First off, it is kind of like a geek secret code. These QR codes can be but on an surface and only those among us with the right tools can decode them. Furthermore I’ll bet they could be hidden inside of designs, hidden from everyone except the electronic eye. From what I’ve read on QR codes, they are fairly big over in Japan where the cellular technology is able to thrive. Products can literally communicate with consumers, giving them extra information, web sites, phone numbers, even text messages.
Naturally I wanted to get in on this. So I found a QR-Code Generator from kaywa.com. I’ve been making random codes for the past few hours and pulling them right off my screen onto my phone. I’ll be back with more doodles later, I’d like to incorporate this into my business card.
May 7, 2009
Well Hello world!
Well I’ve finally joined the blogging elite. I hope to use this as a platform to keep my family and friends in my loop, as well as anyother people out there who give a damn. The design of the site is still under some construction and my portfolio still needs some work.
Just moments ago I launched my good friend Max’s web site maxrose.com I’m very excited about this site, not only because Max is a swell guy who needs to get his work out there, but also because this is the pilot test of what I hope to be a light weight frame work that I can translate into more portfolio sites for other artists.
Well I’m off now, I have to bike around Brooklyn until I find someone I know because I left my phone and bag at Sarah’s apartment the other day. So now I am stranded like 1992 style, I might just have to find a payphone!
The title bit of Max's site, I hope he likes it.