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| 2008-07-03 19:36 |
| 2008 Media List to date |
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| 2008, list, media |
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Well, the year's half-done, so here's where my Discrete Media Consumption list stacks up so far for 2008:
( list be here )
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| 2008-07-01 17:28 |
| “The Gun Seller” |
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The once was a man who went to see a psychiatrist, crippled by a fear of flying. His phobia was based on the belief that there would be a bomb on any plane he boarded. The psychiatrist tried to shift the phobia but couldn’t, so he sent his patient to a statistician. The statistician prodded a calculator and informed the man that the odds against there being a bomb on board the next flight he took were half a million to one. The man still wasn’t happy, and sat there convinced that he’d be on that one plane out of half a million. So the statistician prodded the calculator again and said ‘all right, would you feel safer if the odds were ten million to one against?’ The man said, yes, of course he would. So the statistician said ‘the odds against there being two, separate, unrelated bombs on board your next flight are exactly ten million to one against.’ The man looked puzzled, and said ‘that’s all well and good, but how does it help me?’ The statistician replied: ‘It’s very simple. You take a bomb on board with you.’
—The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie Pretty good book. Definitely British humor. The plot wandered a bit and reading it over the course of a week, it was easy to lose track of a few minor character names. Still, enjoyable.
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| 2008-06-29 22:29 |
| Today's Tweets |
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Automatically snipped by LoudTwitter
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| 2008-06-29 08:16 |
| Tweetus Interruptus |
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On of yesterday's Tweets should have read...
18:19 Ah, truck stop bootleg DVDs. Charlie Chan & the Curse of the Dragon Queen for $4. How could I resist? (I couldn't)
Guess the "&" threw-off LoudTwitter?
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| 2008-06-28 22:25 |
| Today's Tweets |
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Automatically snipped by LoudTwitter
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A New York Times wine critic has surveyed 25 rootbeers and named IBC his #2 pick.
I got turned onto IBC around 1985 by some of my lunch-mates at PVA... Jodi Moore & Carol LaRoque were the early adopters that fed my habit, I believe. Got to the point where, when I realized I couldn't find it for sale in Cleveland, OH, I took cases with me when I went off to college.
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| 2008-06-24 16:33 |
| Video Inspirations du jour |
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| art, video |
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For a few months I've been subscribing to the RSS feed for Create Digital Motion. Peter Kirn and company seem to be tracking various interesting developments in real-time video processing, usually in the context of VJs and video art.
Here are two notable examples:( vids )
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LOL Feeds makes LOLcat pics using the headlines from RSS feeds with random cat pics from Flickr. 
The results can be amusing...( Read more... )
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| 2008-06-23 00:54 |
| Twelve in One-twenty |
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| Fright of the Night - Carolyn Wonderland & the Imperial Monkeys |
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On a twelvish theme, here's Tim Curry describing the first dozen Lemony Snicket books as an advert for the 13th and final.
Beautiful illustrations. I still need to re-read the first 9 and give first-time reads to the remainder.
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| 2008-06-22 23:50 |
| Twelve Twelves |
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| Shoot High Aim Low - Yes |
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Decided to make a new meme tonight. Original, exclusive, you're seeing it here first! - Create an iTunes Smart Playlist where Play Count is 12.
- Sort by Last Played.
- List your most recent 12.
( +12 )Just curious...
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Last night ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bibulb and omorka were suggesting that I start a wiki where we could list local restaurants and tag them by such things as hours open, how they match the dietary restrictions of some of our social group members, etc. Since I'm the guy who generally spearheads these sorts of web-server folly, I'm game. But I need to come up with a name, and I'd like your input...
Poll #1208155 Food Wiki
Open to: All, results viewable to: All If I were to make a wiki for cataloging Houston area restaurants, and have it as a subdomain of PHUI.com, what should I call it?
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| 2008-06-16 00:32 |
| New Old Gabriel |
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| Burn You Up, Burn You Down - Peter Gabriel |
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From a forthcoming compilation of recordings from the early 90's at Real World, a new/different take on Burn You Up, Burn You Down featuring Billy Cobham, Peter Gabriel, The Holmes Brothers, Wendy Melvoin, Arona N'diaye, Jah Wobble.
Enjoy.
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The experience of doing the 48 Hr Film Project last weekend reminded me that this type of thing is something I've been interested in doing for quite some time. When I was in L.A., my friends' theatre company used to do it pretty regularly with plays; I've had assorted ideas of my own (including "12-hr Trailers").
Ultimately, I decided what I, and many of my friends, needed was a framework and a kick in the pants to do something creatively from time to time.
So I'm creating Phinal Phridays. The last Friday of the month I'll issue a challenge, or come up with a random determination by which a person can challenge themselves. (random wikipedia article, Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, or whathaveyou.)
People get the challenge at some point on Friday and post what they come up with to a blog at phinalphriday.phui.com by some point on Sunday. No hard rules. No penalties for not turning in work. But a chance and excuse to play.
I'm further encouraging participants to release their submissions under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license so that other members can build off each other, perhaps leading to some collaborative worldbuilding or storytelling or musicmaking or any combination thereof.
Please let me know if you'd be interested in participating. I can add up to 100 users to the blog over at PHUI. (Guessing we'll be lucky to have 6 people really participating, but hey...)
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| 2008-06-15 23:02 |
| Free, so I'm gonna spend some money... |
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| Stay (Wasting Time) - Dave Matthews Band |
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Lewis Shiner has put his latest novel Black & White online as a free download. So of course I went immediately to Subterranean Press and bought the most expensive edition they've printed. 'cause I'm like that for Lew. Also strongly considering getting the new Australian reprint of Love in Vein. The lettered edition is only US $65. Somewhere I've got a galley xerox of Glimpses from my old days at Kinko's. I started my relationship with Shiner getting his stuff for free, realizing it was amazing, and then buying everything I could get my hands on. The trend, and even the cycle, seems to be continuing.
Good on you, mate.
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| 2008-06-13 19:30 |
| Huh. |
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Spotted on the Only in Houston RSS feed: Jeff Walton is a Houston-based composer for film and television. Jeff has scored over 20 feature films and has provided music for television including America's Next Top Model and TV Land, as well as video games, documentaries, commercials, animation, radio, and corporate / city projects. He is also a founding member of The Judy's.
Jeff Walton
jeff@jeffwalton.net
4801 Milwee Suite 4
Houston, TX 77092
(713) 683-0822
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| 2008-06-09 00:03 |
| The Sound of Muzak |
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| Truenorth - No-Man |
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As much as I'm a fan of Steven Wilson's most famous band, Porcupine Tree, I'm becoming very fond of one of his side projects, No-Man. As P-Tree has tended to grow a bit more edgy and metal in recent albums, the latest No-Man still shows some of Wilson's mellow sensibilities. The track "Truenorth" from Schoolyard Ghosts is right up there with "Photographs in Black and White" from Together We're Stranger in my book.
Haunting.
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| 2008-06-08 18:07 |
| The Ballad of Frank Gilroy |
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| contest, movies |
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bibulb & I were part of dangertim's team for The 48 Hour Film Project: Houston this weekend (though we didn't work on the same days, so I'm hoping he'll do a post on his experiences at some point...)
I was brought on to do soundtrack and editing, but when they pulled "Western or Musical" as their genre, it became pretty clear that I wouldn't be able to come up with an original song in time, so Tim wrote one that was used throughout the piece, a cappella, and I borrowed the melody for two instrumental stingers earning me a credit for "orchestrations". (My GarageBand-fu is pitiful, but adequate, it seems...)
Editing went better than I'd expected. There were problems with the source footage (outdoor shooting with wind in the mic, and inconsistent lighting from the clouds blowing overhead) but knowing this wasn't going to be "high art", I'm fairly pleased with the results. Not likely to win any awards, but a fun way to spend a weekend with a driven team and a focused goal.
Our film will screen this Wednesday at the River Oaks Theatre, at 9pm. I'll probably go, just to see it in context. I got the impression that not too many people from our team planned on attending, besides Tim and his wife. *shrug*
Thanks to quantumduck for answering my semi-frantic occasional Final Cut Pro questions. When all is said and done, I think I did everything right...
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| 2008-06-07 13:17 |
| You want a lozange? |
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God, I love KCRW.
A Tuvan throat-singing cover of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
Brilliant.
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| 2008-06-02 15:19 |
| Droppin like flies... |
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RIP Mr. Diddley.
September 1, 2000, Long Beach Blues FestivalGuitarist George Thorogood, a Diddley disciple, put it more bluntly.
“[Chuck Berry’s] ‘Maybellene’ is a country song sped up,” Thorogood told Rolling Stone in 2005. “‘Johnny B. Goode’ is blues sped up. But you listen to ‘Bo Diddley,’ and you say, ‘What in the Jesus is that?’ It's the beat of the swamp. Bump ba-bump ba-bump... ba-bump-bump.
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