I’m looking at pig-shaped jewelry in a shop in Monterey when I realize that it’s the end of the semester and I need to take my finals. Somehow I magically appear back on campus in time, but there are no more seats in the room so I sit outside on the cement. I try to find a comfortable sitting position. It occurs to me that everything I write will have that squiggly bumpy property from using the sidewalk as a table. I worry about legibility as I flip through the test — computability & complexity and it is taught by Paul Hilfinger. I blink, time’s up; I’ve finished one of eight problems.
I wake up in a panic for the 4th night in the past 7 days. Needless to say, life has been a little stressful lately.
Coming up again this Thurs (today). Check out the list of restaurants. 25% of the food bill goes to the STOP Aids Project. I’ll be at Home eating buttery mashed potatoes and other buttery goodness.
Places on the list I would recommend: Maverick’s (mission) Circolo (mission/potrero) AsiaSF (soma, hot dancing, singing, asian trannies & food) Fringale(soma) Live Sushi Bar(potrero) Moose’s (north beach, then stop by a strip club afterwards)
This video was made by changing the tempo of the song, recording the video while lip dubbing the modified version, and then syncing it in post. We’ve branded it “speed dubbing”. We’ve been talking about this concept for a while, and we finally had the opportunity and motivation to test it out. In this first run we doubled the length of the song. Plans are in the works for slowing a song even more, and speeding up a song.
Flickr now has video. YAY!! I love the play in place thumbnails. Click the bottom left play button on a thumbnail to see the video play without going to the view page. This puppet video they flickr peeps made is adorable.
Most cameras these days come with a video feature. I use Divx converter to compress all my videos before posting. My canon sd700 creates giant motion jpeg files and they would take forever to upload if I didn’t compress them.
There is a 90 second time limit on flickr videos, which isn’t a lot of time. I’m a big fan of short format content (looooove commercials) so the restriction is just an opportunity do a lot in a little chunk of time. Sometimes the good stuff is a few seconds into the video. For quick and easy trimming I use quicktime pro. I’ve also tried mpeg streamclip and it’s also quick and easy to use.
Here’s a little video I made today so I wouldn’t esploder.
And more chicken dancing at the Pownce brunch.
The royalty free music is by Kevin MacLeod. Pretty much all the music I use is from that site.
Eating in New York is dangerous. There are tourist traps everywhere — good food that is really expensive, pretty food that is no good, or food that is just plain bad. My latest trip to New York (pics) was foodgasmic.
I feel like a NY sandwich could eat me. When we went to Katz, I ordered a turkey sandwich since I figured it would be lighter than the red meat ones. It was two slices of bread with a mound of giant chunks of real turkey pieces. No lettuce, tomato, onions, sprouts, arugula or anything I would expect in a California sandwich. Just meat and bread. The sandwich was decent, but I liked Dennis’ Ruben much better. I’d never had a Ruben before so I don’t have anything to compare it with, but it tasted really good. There is absolutely no way a person could/should eat an entire sandwich in one sitting from this deli.
Blue Smoke was mouth watering bbq goodness. Authentic bbq was also a first (what we Californians do in our backyards & parks is what bbq snobs call ‘grilling’). The ribs were tangy, sweet, saucy, and tender. I also experienced the best mac & cheese ever.
With so much animal consumed, I needed meat decompression when I returned. I can’t imagine eating meat every day.
Thoughts on vegetarianism & ginger smash drink recipe
Colorwar is of those silly memes that caught & spread on twitter like syphilis in the old world. People were dashing to join teams without even knowing what the war holds. (hmmm sounds familiar…)
The first challenge involved taking a picture of one of the ro-sham-bo moves. I made a movie in addition to taking the photo. Anyway, I’m on plaidteam so join if you want to ‘play’.
Audio is by NIN. I’ve been looking forward to using their music on a video ever since Ghosts came out. Hell ya creative commons.
I loooooove peeps — I have a book on them. My first movie on jumpcut was about peeps. I buy peeps every year just to look at them. They’re so bright and festive and I’m completely obsessed.
Imagine my absolute joy when I found out Leah brought a box to the LA Pownce brunch. The only thing that could be more peep-tastic was Cal demonstrating how to properly eat them.
