I just bought my first decent camera, a Panasonic DMC-GF1. I'm really excited to use it for both photos (http://www.flickr.com/cameras/panasonic/dmc-gf1/ ) and video (http://vimeo.com/groups/gf1/ )...
its 80 degrees in LA today but i still miss yinz in PGH and NYC!! it was a great trip!
Hobbes <3s Partymode.
p.s. Happy Chinese New Year!
The site activates your webcam automatically; when you click “start” you’re suddenly staring at another human on your screen and they’re staring back at you, at which point you can either choose to chat (via text or voice) or just click “next,” instantly calling up someone else. The result is surreal on many levels. Early ChatRoulette users traded anecdotes on comment boards with the eerie intensity of shipwreck survivors, both excited and freaked out by what they’d seen. There was a man who wore a deer head and opened every conversation with “What up DOE!?”
Read more: Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past? -- New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/media/63663/#ixzz0fXiFg5Xx
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
Processing City - Sandy City (HD version) from mjchen on Vimeo.
Happy last business day of the week in which we share music!
'Nests' from Keaton Henson on Vimeo.
found and sent to me via brian (bhallbhall)
Holy shit, we are expecting as much as 30 more inches on top of what we got this past weekend. This weather is crazy!
Also, any thoughts on Google Buzz?
The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling “My Way” in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media have recorded at least half a dozen victims in the past decade and includes them in a subcategory of crime dubbed the “My Way Killings.”... Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” [nytimes]
This is actually a pretty interesting article.
This, on the other hand, is pure nonsense: