videoblogging

surprise! you’re in print

Posted by 22 Sep 2009

Long story in four sentences:
I did an internship as part of my Master’s with Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell using MyLifeBits and the Sensecam, back in 2004. It didn’t go as far as I would have liked because I was hospitalized for half the semester and simply wasn’t able to give it my all. The work I did with them combined with my thesis led to me presenting a paper at CARPE 2005 in Singapore. Their new book came out this week, called Total Recall: How the e-memory revolution will change everything.

I just got the book in the mail today; imagine my great delight to see my name in the acknowledgments! I’m on the shortlist (16 people) for MyLifeBits/CARPE people that also includes one of my thesis advisors, Steve Drucker. Big ups to them for the book and for the shoutout. I can’t wait to read this; I’ve been looking forward to it for weeks.

I’m seeing them speak tomorrow night in Mountain View, if anyone else will be there or is interested. And the book looks interesting from my glances through it, though a little basic if you’ve spent a good amount of time with the subject of recording everything you see.

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state of music, video and the internet

Posted by 20 Jul 2007

i don’t read pitchfork, but this article, and more importantly to me, this quote says a lot about another perspective. of course, this isn’t new, but the ideas bubbling up — taping, recording, bite-sized media and the mindset of ‘the single’ (vs ‘the album’) get summed up quite nicely:

So I’m sitting there– now they’re really interested in this one song– and they still won’t make eye contact, looking through their little lenses, taping this one song for their blogs or for their fucking YouTube [accounts] or whatever, and it was just so annoying. It’s like, this show is already going south, and these people that seem disinterested are only here to further their YouTube accounts or their blogs or whatever, and it just pissed me off.

It was really annoying. It was just scratching at the surface of what’s happening to shows lately. Everybody’s got a camera in their pocket, and they turn it on to just, I don’t know, exploit us in some way or further their own projects or whatever the fuck they’re doing with their websites and shit. It’s become a little bit ridiculous, and it was just a bit unnerving, and [with] the situation with the show and everything, all the stars lined up and I got pissed off.

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research

Posted by 11 Oct 2006

a looking glass book

so i used to have a blog over on the usc site; set up mainly to help with my thesis. then i floundered for a bit and wasnt doing a lot of video work.

but im back in the fold, as many of you know. i’m doing a lot of video work now, along with web application development and social networking stuff.

so i moved the content over here, where i can keep a more firm grasp on it and have started throwing up development related things on the research subdomain.

you’re more than welcome over there, but it will certainly be more nerdy in a computer/media way that mog is for me. least this way you wont have to listen to thoughts on the internet, video online and php. well, anymore than you already do.

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Solving the Korean Stalemate, One Step at a Time – New York Times

as an aside, a really good opinion piece about north korea by jimmy carter. worth reading, via kottke

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‘i love it when a plan comes together’

Posted by 2 Aug 2006

yeah, thats pretty much it for now. more later.

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said plan is still in the waiting phase…in the meantime, how about a restuarant where you are served by ninjas? this might be the most awesome thing ever.

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so i have accepted a position at click.tv. im really excited by the work they have done and will do and how it overlaps with the video work i have done. they are the first company i have seen that seems to be thinking about video at its core, instead of just rushing to make a basic clip sharing site.

thats taken up a fair amount of my free time.

i just opened my mail for the day and found that ticketmaster has sent my peter greenaway tickets in the mail. he is vj-ing his tulse luper films into a 50 minute live piece. at isea, which happens to be in san jose this year.

oh but wait. his show has been cancelled. so im not seeing it afterall. im heartbroken. insult to injury — ticketmaster is keeping 3 bucks per ticket. how about that convience fee?

ill be back in san diego in a couple of weeks, spending time relaxing with rachael’s family. that will be uber-excellente.

and theres more, there always is. but ill save some stories for tomorrow.

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back in the ussssssa

Posted by 17 Jul 2006

back in the states now. have been for actually 2 weeks, but have not posted. i actually posted 2x while in turkey, but have not yet posted them either. i shall do that in my next post. meanwhile, i am sorting through video and still photos which i will be posting online also. trying to figure out the whole video podcast thing and how to do it/where to sign up. anyway, back to work for now.

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getting ready

Posted by 23 Jun 2006

i finally broke down today and bought a wireless card for my ibook. viva le revoluccion! or something like that. i am posting now sitting in my living room rather than sitting at my desk as i usually do. this is good. we leave tomorrow afternoon for istanbul. a 10 hour flight i believe. hopefully i will be doing a video podcast upon our return and will be posting it on itunes.

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‘chirp’

Posted by 25 Apr 2006

should josh wolf turn over his tape?
again, only a matter of time until this happened. and with concepts like my thesis (24/7 pov video), this type of issue becomes even more serious and frightening.

stories about real dolls
man, so awesome. someone actually wanted a ‘real dog’. thats fried.

nyc pics from the 80s
is it any wonder that we got the movies we did when nyc looked liike this? now and then, its night and day.

history of interactive fiction
still one of my favorite genres of games…so many fond memories, back when i started computing.

wes anderson american express ad
amazing awesome. [via kottke]

pirate baby’s cabana battle street fight 2006
yes, i missed this a bit ago. but im making up for it now. please do yourself a favor and download this. and watch it.

more paul robertson files
yes, more. though not as good as pirate baby, still immensely entertaining.

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so i changed the front page of the site today to a couple of listings of posts on the site. i wanted to see how that changed traffic flowing through everything. turns out it doesnt. so the way to move through the site is going to be the tags. so get tagging kids.

i promised more pictures, so today, lets do meeting with bridget in sf and the long oversue birdies. (who have turned out to be oregon juncos. big props to my mom for helping me figure this out over the phone on sunday. and i forgot my camera today, but ill try for more bird pics tomorrow. they are getting big.

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i think my favorite part of this pic is kurt’s hair. he looks so suave. how do you do it kurt?

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and one of roxy in our kitchen, for good luck.

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