Spotified and Painless
I’ve been spoiled for a little while and have had a Spotify account for the past year. I didn’t realize how great it was until about 6 months ago and started using it pretty regularly. Mostly I lean on it for music that I want to listen to but don’t really want to buy. For [...]
Le sacre du printemps
I haven’t been blogging much lately and that’s a shame. With Memorial day today, I thought I’d write about something that is very close to me. One of my absolute favorite pieces of music, La Sacre Du Printemps, or The Rite of Spring. Igor Stravinsky wrote this ballet to be the soundtrack to a sacred pagen ritual [...]
The Church of Baseball
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I’ve tried all the major religions, and most of the minor ones. I’ve worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard [...]
Flying Trapeze!
Last week we did this: It’s really fun and not terrifying (the second time). If you’re in Seattle, this place is great.
the decade from my lens
I wrote this around New Years Day and never got around to publishing … This is what the last decade looked like from my lens: On the mind: college, hanging chad, hijacking, war, protest war, graduation, media bar, house, wedding, twitter, HOPE Presidents: b. clinton, gore, bush, h. clinton, obama Love: love, heartbreak, love, marriage, love, love [...]
Favorite Music of 2009
We’re in a culture that is obsessed with making lists and calling things the ‘best’. It’s all subjective. Here’s my list. If I re-did this tomorrow, it’d probably be different. Please argue with me. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest :: Gets better with every listen. Mos Def – The Estatic :: Really glad he’s back, the [...]
The Fire Hose
What do you do drink from the firehose? It’s really hard to keep up on what you’re reading on Twitter and RSS readers without pulling out your phone at every waking opportunity. I’m pretty certain that I don’t want to live my life that way. These days, when things get busy at work, I have [...]
WTO, 10 years later
I got my first taste and only taste of tear gas ten years ago today. I was an 18 year old college freshman at the University of Washington. It was a typical November day in Seattle, about 50 degrees and drizzling. Around 10 in the morning I was walking to my calculus class through red [...]
The Muppets do “Bohemian Rhapsody”
This makes me so happy. The muppets and rock ‘n roll will save us all.
Retweets 2.0 (aka, Your Tweets, retweeted) (Please RT this)
This week I’ve been happily exploring the new retweet feature on Twitter.com. I can’t wait for this same functionality to spread to my favorite twitter clients. It’s accomplishing a better user experience for many reasons. The integrity of the original tweet is saved (if you want to add comments, just send your own tweet) You [...]
All media will be social, the term ‘Social Media’ will be irrelevant …
FEED: The 2009 Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report They took a sample set of ‘connected customers’ who are often leading indicators of how people interact digitally. There are a lot of great snippets of data that are worth reading through. Highly recommend. Buzz Canuck: The Blindsiding and Bubble of Social Media Key quote: But in a very [...]
Crowd-Sourced Virtual Reality
Last Month when I was in New York, my wife Andrea and I took a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. I had my Canon Rebel xti and was snapping a bunch of photographs. About halfway through the walk, I realized just how many cameras were on the bridge at that time. Everyone had a camera, [...]
My Social media thoughts, November.
Just wanted to give my $.02 on where we are with Social Media at the beginning of November, 2009. About six months ago, I was pretty excited about two trends in social media; location based social networks and video. The 3gs iPhone had just arrived, this meant two things to me: Video on the best [...]
Twitter Lists, why you should care
Lists on Twitter launched to everyone this week. A lot of people are very excited this, for very good reason. Some are even saying that it might be the biggest thing to hit Twitter in a while. I’m cautiously optimistic. It’s not going to matter to me until the my favorite twitter clients (cotweet, tweetie) [...]
I have swine flu.
Yes, I have swine flu. I went to bed at Sunday night with a temperature of 99.6 and woke up with a temperature of 101.1, six hours later it was 102.3. I hurried to the grocery store to get Tylenol to control my fever. My anxiety was recalling thoughts of listening to NPR last spring. [...]