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  • March 18, 12:50 PM

    You don’t have a driver’s license, dog! You’re just a dog!

  • March 17, 12:00 PM

    SXSW was an awesome trip. I have a few photos I’ll upload when I’m back to solid Internet (posting this from a pick-up truck parked near some spotty free wifi).

    To all the people who came up and talked to me because you read my blog: THANK YOU! It’s really fun to meet you in real life and turn this from a “semi one-sided conversation” into an ACTUAL, FOR-REAL ONE.

    A lot of you said, “sorry if it creeps you out that I know so much about your life.” It totally does not in any way. I’m glad that you care enough to tune into my nonsense and that you think I’m doing some interesting stuff.

    I work from home, and I don’t go out socializing a whole lot, so I often end up in spirals of self-doubt, and it’s really uplifting to hear that at least some other people are enjoying the various things I post online.

    CREEP ON.

  • March 12, 07:56 AM
    “A very noxious brew is being cooked up here. First, the elites, lurking in the shadows behind a neutered government, squeeze the vast majority of citizens, workers, and students, moving their jobs overseas, foreclosing on their homes, looting their savings, stealing their hopes and dreams. When they rebel, they are gassed, tased, shot with rubber bullets, and have their nervous systems attacked with high-tech non-lethal weaponry. If they persist in their protests, they will be jailed (according to a new report cited by David DeGraw on Alternet, “a new prison opens every week somewhere in America”) without habeus corpus or rights to trial. They can then be detained indefinitely in camps. They can even be disappeared.”

    Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg (via azspot)

    If you never hear from me again after this reblog, send help!

  • March 12, 07:54 AM

    Headed to SXSW right now.

    Probably easiest to reach me through Twitter.

  • March 11, 04:13 PM

    1 pixel = 1 million dollars

  • March 11, 02:27 PM

    See you there!

  • March 10, 10:59 PM

    listgenerator:

    Kumi Yamashita

  • March 10, 07:39 PM
    “When a noise signal is fed into both inputs of a vocoder the noise sound will be transformed into a sound that is immediately associated with rain or a running stream of water. Pink noise and a good quality vocoder will give a very convincing sound of a running stream, in fact the more convincing the better the quality of the vocoder. While the vocoder produces the character of running water or falling drops of water, the colour of the noise will define the association with a certain natural phenomenon. White, pink and blue noise might sound like rain, a fast running stream from a short distance, a slow running stream from a long distance, a quietly babbling stream, a high pressure jet of water, etc. Red and Brownean noise will sound more like thunder from a distance or an earthquake.”
    Noise, randomness and chaos
  • March 10, 03:05 PM

    I noticed this is on Netflix Instant now. Really incredible film. You should be required to see the scene of villagers picking through e-waste if you want to own any kind of technology. Puts things in perspective.

  • March 10, 03:01 AM
    “Cameron’s conception of technology a hundred years from now was incredibly unimaginative, even by Hollywood standards. For example, the munitions that were supposed to blow up the tree of life looked like they were used in World War II (maybe even World War I). Most of the technology looked primitive, even by today’s standards. The wearable exoskeleton robotic devices were supposed to be futuristic, but these already exist, and are beginning to be deployed. The one advanced technology was the avatar technology itself. But in that sense, Avatar is like the world of the movie A.I., where they had human-level cyborgs, but nothing else had changed: A.I. featured 1980’s cars and coffee makers. As for Avatar, are people still going to use computer screens in a hundred years? Are they going to drive vehicles?”

    Kurzweil on Avatar (via azspot)

    RIGHT??

  • March 09, 07:54 PM

    Behind the scenes of Raul's "Everything" short

    listgenerator:

    Raul is awesome.

    Wow, another case where something that seemed like an incredible feat of digital effects turns out to be an intensely physical practical process (with a little editing). Watch Everything 5 to see the finished product.

  • March 09, 03:13 PM

    How do I get them tracks off yer Muxtape?

    sangennaro:

    WireTapPro

    More artists should help their fans pirate.

  • March 09, 02:54 PM
    “Focus groups are still the best way to discover what people who don’t value their time value.”
    badbanana
  • March 09, 03:01 AM

    sharingtime:

    joshruben:

    operationfailure:

    Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

    “Lead female’s name!!!”

    I love this

    Wow.

    Needs more views! Watch it!

  • March 09, 02:29 AM
    “Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial page has one of those sentences that make the Wall Street Journal editorial page such a daily delight: “Last week President Obama sanctioned ‘reconciliation,’ a complex tactic that would jam ObamaCare into law on sheer power politics.” The beautiful thing about this sentence is that it has no argument (nor is there any support for the argument in the sentences that surround it.) It’s sheer hand-waving, an attempt to muster every adjective in the writer’s power to make the process of voting sound frightening and sinister. Likewise, I could write, “This morning, controversial foreign billionaire media boss Rupert Murdoch gave his cronies the go-ahead to chop down and mutilate hundreds of trees, pulverize the carcasses until they were rendered unrecognizable, and then order their underlings to fill the pages with propaganda for the business class, with any refusal to comply punished by the forfeiture of wages and access to health care.” But that would be a fairly slanted way to describe the process of publishing a newspaper.”
    Sentence Of The Day (via azspot)
  • March 08, 05:30 PM
    “BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably out of court. But there have been all these events around the Oscars, and I wasn’t invited to any of them. And he’s not speaking to me. So we weren’t even able to discuss ahead of the time who would be the one person allowed to speak if we won. And then, as I’m sure you saw, when we won, he raced up there to accept the award. And his mother took her cane and blocked me. So I couldn’t get up there very fast.”

    The story behind Oscar’s “Kanye moment” - Oscar Nominations, Academy Awards 2010 - Salon.com

    Glad to see some backstory. That was such a weird moment.

  • March 08, 01:10 PM
    “If I had a show, I’d tweet about which Oscar winner is coming on tonight. Instead, here’s my favorite frozen vegetable: Peas!”

    ConanOBrien

    I kind of think none of you guys told me that CoCo is on Twitter now. FOR SHAME.

  • March 08, 12:01 PM

    Many Metropolitan Museum of Art Guards Are Aspiring Artists - NYTimes.com

    Being a guard at The Met was the worst job of my entire life, but there were definitely a lot of interesting people that I worked with.

    Thanks to Kara for the link.

  • March 08, 03:29 AM

    Hey sandy, how is mine?

  • March 08, 02:42 AM

    poortaste:

    Rickyisms

    from Trailer Park Boys

    This reminds me, there’s a new TPB movie playing at the Clinton St Theater.

  • March 07, 01:51 PM

    andreaallen:

    johncarney:

    This is a weird and beautiful picture. I wonder if anyone can guess what it is.

    I would say it looks like Kansas, but Kansas fields are laid out on a perfect grid.

    This is how it looks flying over a lot of Pacific Northwest farmland. The circles are due to the irrigation method they use.

  • March 07, 01:49 PM

    azspot:

    Mr. Fish

  • March 07, 05:02 AM

    ksouth:

    OP Vistars Current Beam Status

    Oh, sweet beam,

  • March 07, 04:53 AM

    via juliaheffernan

  • March 06, 06:20 PM

    Portlanders: Namaste Indian buffet is now open on NE Sandy, just East of 82nd Ave. I was kind of apprehensive about it, because the building it is housed in is not very attractive, but the food was the best!

    Lots of veggie dishes for the non-meat-eaters. I eat vegetarian about 80% of my meals, but I had to break down when I saw they had chicken pakoras, which I haven’t had in years. THEY WERE SO GOOD!

    Soft serve mango ice cream for dessert.

  • March 06, 02:42 PM
    “While the internet is a physical body of wires and chips, the web is a shared non-physical realm of experience that requires many aspects of spiritual faith to interact with. We post and commune on a plane of information that we cannot touch or see. We tend to wander the web in private, confronting the massive database alone each day. We are inclined to use the web for the satisfaction of our emotional and intellectual needs rather than for our physical needs. We make pilgrimage to the same web sites at regular and repeated intervals, paying homage to them by contributing or partaking, and then we move on to our other daily needs like eating and sleeping. But all the while, we have faith that this plane of information we have become so dependent on is tangible enough to provide a worthwhile connectedness. For many of us, the web has become almost sacred, its ritual use is the embodiment of our spiritual needs. So I suppose that my conclusion is this: surfing the web can be a fulfilling spiritual experience and a direct interaction with a transcendent reality.”
    Rhizome | Interview with Kevin Bewersdorf (via internetsnorkelwithzachrose)
  • March 06, 04:22 AM
    “The biological mechanism(s) of action of general anesthetics are not well understood.”

    General anaesthetic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    What is science?

  • March 06, 02:42 AM

    Just watched some great DVD extra interviews with Stewart Brand. He’s definitely one of the coolest guys ever to exist.

  • March 05, 07:04 PM
    “Grandma got me in the Admiral’s Club @ JFK. They have one room with Fox News and one with MSNBC so the rich don’t fight!”
    Adrianchen
  • March 05, 03:16 PM
    “We had a client who needed a site done for her champion horse riding ranch. In the initial client meeting, she stated that she wanted each of the horses to have their own blog because they had ‘Such unique personality’.”

    (via clientsfromhell)

    This doesn’t surprise me. My mother told me that her horse could be a stand-up comedian “if he wanted to.”

  • March 04, 08:41 PM

    rickyv:

    Loved this SNL sketch from over the weekend.

    As a big fan of hypothetical questions, one that I would frequently ask last summer was “If you could have Smashmouth play at your birthday party for free, would you do it?” The responses were interesting as the band fits somewhere in between “novelty act” and “good band.”

    I was bummed to see that this got cut from the Hulu version of the show for some reason (music licensing?). Glad to see it was posted elsewhere.

  • March 04, 06:45 PM

    Family Values GOPer Was At Gay Club Before Drunk Driving Arrest

    azspot:

    A California Republican family values legislator who was arrested early Wednesday morning for drunk driving had recently left a gay club, sources tell a local news channel.

    State senator Roy Ashburn was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol on Wednesday at 2am in Sacramento, after police saw the car he was driving swerving erratically. An unidentified male passenger was in the car with Ashburn.

    The sources told CBS13 that Ashburn, a father of four, had that night been at Faces, which touts itself as “Sacramento’s premier GLBTI Nightclub since 1985.”

    Society needs to cure its schizophrenia.

  • March 03, 08:48 PM

    optimisto:

    (via rediggit)

  • March 03, 07:48 PM

    worldoftoday:

    Me, dalas and Anja. Oregon Coast, about this time last year.

  • March 03, 04:26 AM

    whiterainbow:

    ROB WALMART TV EPISODE 1 !!!!!
    3-1-10

    FIRST IN A REGULAR SERIES OF NEW VIDEOS FROM ROB TO YOU (via Vimeo)

    special night for rob tonight. following through with its promise of band-created viral marketing videos towards the release of EVERYBODY HURTS 3xLP + free 4th LP download with the goal of penetrating new indie market streams, saturating the demographic, and solidifying its indie buzz momentum in multiple market arenas. this is rob’s most focused and accessible video to date.

    Two loves in my life: Selassie I and Rob.

  • March 03, 03:43 AM

    USAFPatches.com Gallery - Last additions/Class 2010-06 Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training

    Military industrial complexity.

  • March 03, 03:41 AM

    archivefever:

    “Every city has its own gang history, part of Chicago’s are Gang cards, most prominent in the 70’s and early 80’s, back in the day when a gang was more of a neighborhood crew then what it is today. Fists, bats, and bottles days, before guns became the norm in the gang. Most of the gangs were just about the neighborhood and hanging out together. Stock art from the printer as well as some hand drawn illustrations were the back bone of many of the cards.” (via WE ARE SUPERVISION: CHICAGO’S LESSER KNOWN ARTS HISTORY LESSON or OG ART GALLERY)

    This also reminds me of the iconography of military groups. Like Airforce squadrons.

  • March 03, 03:09 AM
    “With many local businesses involved in the event; Open Dome Productions, Spaced Invaders and Ice Box Bartending Services, This Is Charleston brings newer genres of music to Charleston and creates a more dynamic atmosphere of entertainment. You can’t go wrong with an enormous blow-up Planetarium incorporated with digital video projections and live music from Electric Friends; well done and superb.”

    Big Gigantic & Two Fresh storm Charleston’s music scene | TheDigitel Charleston

    Going back to Charleston in a couple weeks for  a wedding. HOPE THERE IS A BLOW-UP PLANETARIUM INVOLVED.

  • March 03, 02:59 AM

    poortaste:

    Daedelus - DJ set (Live on KEXP)

    http://www.myspace.com/daedelusdarling

    Pretty cool dude.

  • March 03, 02:00 AM

    Guys, I’m definitely going to move dalasverdugo.com over to flavors.me. It just makes sense. I’m telling you this, because I know inevitably there will be some DNS weirdness when I do it. It probably won’t affect anyone following the blog on Tumblr, but I guess some people just come straight to dalasverdugo.com?

    Anyways, if that URL gets weird any time in the next week or so, now you know why.

    Flavors.me is the best frontend, hands down, for anyone who wants a great personal website that’s easy to design (beautifully) and pulls in your content from all these websites we’re always using.

    Index yourself.

  • March 02, 09:52 PM

    pile:

    ksheurs:

    Today at Vimeo we launch Statistics! This has been one of the biggest and coolest projects I have ever worked on. I am very happy with what we all accomplished and I am sure that the Vimeo community will agree. Big thanks to Sox, Cory, Joe, Ryan, Blake, Andrew, Andrea, Jack, and Casey.

    Check out http://www.vimeo.com/stats now for the video and demo!!!

    This is the longest thing we’ve ever worked on. The stats system is a monster from front to back, it records something like ~200M data points a day (and designed to scale much much larger) and spits it out in what I think is the prettiest and most intuitive analytics interface out there. Massive congrats to everyone involved but a special shout out to Kevin and Cory, who have been refining this for literally a year.

    So glad this is finally released. I know it was hard for everyone to wait so long for it, but I think it’s really an incredible addition to the site, and fits right in with our desire to deliver THE BEST.

  • March 02, 07:40 PM

    Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” vs. Alan Parsons Project’s “Eye In The Sky”

    As previously mentioned, I’ve been listening to pop radio in the car to see what’s happening these days. It’s always weird to hear a new song that sounds very similar to an old jam.

    First “Need You Now” plays, then “Eye In The Sky,” then I kind of beat matched them, bumped “Eye” up two semitones to match the keys, and overlaid them.

  • March 02, 03:29 PM

    Craig Cunningham Has a Simple Solution for Getting Bill Collectors Off His Back. He Sues Them.

    (via nickdouglas)

    Punk as fuck.

    “I don’t have to do anything but stay black and die,” he says.

  • March 02, 02:43 PM

    Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of “primordial ooze.” The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within. (via Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primodial Ooze - GOOD Blog - GOOD)

  • March 02, 01:28 PM

    anjalouise:

    Fort Stevens on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

    If you are quiet and have your volume up during the night shot, you will hear an owl talking to a friend!

    anja makes our vidblogs

  • March 02, 01:22 PM
    “Proverbs 22:7 instructs us: “The borrower is servant to the lender.” But the lesson requires some exegesis to fit smoothly into context. The burden of the U.S. foreign debt may be better explained by the oft-repeated Wall Street wisecrack, which we repeat: When you owe the bank $1 million, the bank has got you; when you owe the bank $1 billion, you’ve got the bank.”
    The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have America’s Money (via azspot)
  • March 01, 04:24 PM

    I can’t even figure out what to say about this video. Definitely check out some other ones on her account, too. She could probably join Die Antwoord if she wanted to.

  • March 01, 02:05 PM

    Whiskerino 2009 : Profile : dalasv

    Final Whiskerino photo. 120 days of beard. Going to trim it back soon.

  • March 01, 01:45 AM
    “

    Very creative people get atemporal early on. Are relatively unimpressed by the “now” factor, by latest things. Access the whole continuum. #

    Less creative people believe in “originality” and “innovation”, two basically misleading but culturally very powerful concepts. #

    Your bleeding-edge Now is always someone else’s past. Someone else’s ’70s bellbottoms. Grasp that and start to attain atemporality. #

    The most intelligent 21st-century fashion strives for a radical atemporality. Probably because the digital is radically atemporal. #

    That week’s new Mac obsoleting as you drove it home from the dealer. Like melting ice cream. Like any imagined future. #

    ”
    William Gibson (via internetsnorkelwithzachrose)
  • February 27, 03:41 PM
    “Liberty and freedom are negative concepts. They imply merely the absence of formal restraint (usually by the state). However autonomy is a richer and more complete concept. It is akin to the distinction Martin Luther King Jr. once drew between peace that was merely the absence of violence, and peace which contained the presence of justice. Thus it is not merely enough to remove the chains that bind humanity, if they are left destitute in the street to wander aimlessly and hungry. Autonomy requires the capacity to pursue goals. It is still individualistic, but allows for the real support all of us need from without to make any of those goals a reality.”
    Open Left:: One liberalism through the ages (via variation)
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