MIT Media Lab: Personas

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. Here’s…

Everyone Forever Now

Everyone Forever Now – “Stoop Sitting” from Daniel Mercadante on Vimeo. Watch more = c

Remembering the contributions of Phil Dodds

Mark Oehlert, an acquaintance of mine via Twitter, turned me onto his friend Phil Dodds, who turns out was not only in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but contributed a great deal to our culture in his short life, including, but not limited to, SCORM: From Wikipedia: He was the chief architect…

Mad as Hell

Mad As Hell! Kinetic Typography from Aaron Leming on Vimeo. = c

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

I just cannot seem to get enough of this band lately: I’ve been sleeping for forty days and Yeah, I know that I’m sleeping cause this dream’s too amazing She got gold doorknobs where her eyes used to be, yeah One turn and I learned what it really means to see, yeah It’s the magical…

DavenSarah’s pad de la rad

Welp, our dear pals DavenSarah [yes, it’s usually pronounced as one word] have at last found, bid on and acquired the perfect home back in our old neighborhood of Seattle. Congratulations!!! The place is suhweeeeet to say the very least. Once you two get your hands on it and in it, no doubt the rad-factor…

Cranies (sic)

I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today. Is that how we say SMS in the plural? Doesn’t really matter. Case in point: “I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today.” It was from my father, who’s never cared much about his spelling, only about the message: Cheers, Pop. Happy Birthday,…

Murmur

[Showing at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota now through August 23th, 2009] Murmur Study is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook’s status update. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and…

My Body is a Cage : revisited

Win’s voice is nearly shot in this footage taken from Glastonbury in 2007, but the song doesn’t lose any of its momentous meaning: “My Body Is A Cage” My body is a cage that keeps me From dancing with the one I love But my mind holds the key My body is a cage that…

Time-lapse

Seems I spend a lot of time shooting, watching and seeking out good examples of time-lapse photography. It moves me. It puts me in a mindset somewhat more aware of the passing of time. I like the way it makes me feel small. That perspective is something I crave. Naturally, I like learning more about…

Do YOU Drink Wilkins?

If only commercials were still as cool as these for Wilkins Coffee – thanks to Pierre for the tip – made my day : )

Fleet Foxes : Live

Can’t get enough of these fellas lately: From Wikipedia: Robin Pecknold and Skye Skjelset both attended Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, a suburb of Seattle, and soon became close friends. Pecknold and Skjelset bonded over a mutual appreciation of Bob Dylan and Neil Young and began making music together. Their parents influenced their musical…

The Conversation

I had a brief chat *conversation* with a pal this morning about The Conversation: colin 10:39 i never realized hackman could do THAT c 10:39 his best film – period he was great as lex luthor, too, tho ; ) colin 10:39 the final shot of him in the room all alone c 10:39 seriously…

Sorry I’m Late

Stop-motion never gets boring, especially since people keep finding new ways to make it even more compelling. Take, for example, a short I found today on Laughing Squid made by Tomas Mankovsky that was shot from above using a still camera on the ceiling: click here to see how it was made. = c

Danny Wilcox Frazier

I give thanks to the gods for Danny Wilcox Frazier. Responsible for chronicling the Midwestern way of life in multiple mediums, he is true to the cause of his homeland and to the powers that live here, unknown to those on the coasts who dare not venture out of their safely *cool* havens for parts…