I bet you keep saying to yourselves that you want to get in on that whole new Kickstarter trend where artists and makers of all types crowdsource the funding of their projects. Sometimes they’re projects that would never otherwise be made, but other times this becomes an investment/lending strategy that alleviates a lot of the pain for smaller and independent artists (like Matt the Electrician).
(1) : effective operation as measured by a comparison of production with cost (as in energy, time, and money)
(2) : the ratio of the useful energy delivered by a dynamic system to the energy supplied to it
(from Mirriam-Webster’s)
Has modern efficiency created the capability to attain levels of perfectionism such that their attainment leads to more hours working than had we not been enabled by the efficiencies to begin with? And is attention to detail in a world of intricacies a new form of artisanship or just the new tediousness of production line work? Continue reading →
Walking around the fish market in Santa Caterina Market, Barcelona, Spain. The variety and availability of such fruits from the sea is impressive. It made me wish I had the time and the kitchen in town to buy some of these things to prepare, but such was not the case for this journey.
Go full screen and 720 HD for any amount of detail. The lighting is better after turning the first corner.
Just back from a couple of weeks in Spain, and here’s a Flickr set of some foodie shots that I took during my travels. More info on them to come, but here are the shots…
Just back from a couple of weeks in Spain, and here’s a Flickr set of some icons and icon-type thingies that I found during my travels. Some of them strike me as awesome, others as interesting, and still others as just weird. More info on them to come, but here are the pics…
I realized that with Google TV a great thing to do for the ambiance at parties is to create a YouTube Playlist to play in the background with the sound off. Sometimes it was fun to have old movies playing or something else, but this is something new and fun I’m going to try soon. I hope there aren’t too many banner ads…
You can feel free to use this too – I think you have to embed it somewhere to make sure that it plays in full screen all the way through. I tried playing straight from within the YouTube interface, but it kept kicking me out of full screen between each video, so if you make one you may have to post your somewhere like this.
Literally translated “Anander Mol, Anander Veig” means Another Time, Another Way, and it’s an awesome Hanukah remix album that you can download free, but my point is…
Jay Baer (Twitter) just posted a new article predicting the emergence of social media losers. The idea that social media right now is like pee wee soccer where everyone gets a trophy just for showing up and trying to kick the ball. However, as the space and the audiences mature some of the companies engaging and investing in social media will emerge as winners and some will emerge as losers.
In general he makes a good point, but I think that something is missed. Baer says: Continue reading →
The blogosphere is abuzz with the idea of the Social Graph versus the Interest Graph. The idea comes from observations of the growth of Facebook and Twitter over the last few years. Facebook is said to represent a person’s Social Graph while Twitter represents his or her Interest Graph. Continue reading →
I couldn’t resist. I just had to see what my logo would look like if I’d paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (at minimum) to some big branding agency to remake me…
Wow. That’s just great. You can go here to crap up your own logo if you want! >> Craplogo.me
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