Aug 232010



Travis Winn and Gerard Butler in Beverly Hills

I love Hollywood, by chance I found this video where I was caught by the paparazzi with a “star” I have never heard of with Marcia, how funny! Strange coincidence I just found it.  How funny!

Aug 192010


Amazing video by Electro Pop Duo, Good Song, too.  Really Love it.

Pollyn “Still Love” from Pollyn on Vimeo.

Jul 292010
DJ NIO Playing Music and Curating Art Show at Plump in Los Angeles

DJ NIO Playing Music and Curating Art Show at Plump in Los Angeles

Plump presents Monarchy

Time
Saturday at 9:30pm – Sunday at 5:00am

Location
Wilshire Mansion
627 S. Carondelet St.
Los Angeles, CA

Created By
Project Alma

More Info
Plump presents Monarchy
*Ripe*Juicy*Electro*House* Breaks*Techno*

July 31st, 2010
9:30pm – 4:30am

Are you secretly a little princess? Maybe a dashing knight in the closet? Or have you always been nothing more than a miserable serf in life’s bitter fifedom? And what have you become today? Show your regal side as Plump takes a crack at Monarchy! Have fun with this one…lots of ways to approach it. Meantime, we stack the decks with some heavy hitting Plump favorites: Saynt, Hooni, Pumpkin and FatFinger to finesse the main room. As Plump explores deeper tones, we’re lucky to have royal talent in the lounge, some plump virgins for you to explore and adore. More surprises still to come in the gallery… Last Plump of summer!

DJ Line Up: Big Room
Saynt (ninjaskillz.net)
FatFinger (projectalma.org)
Hooni (transmorphagon)
Pumpkin (pocket, wandering marionettes)
–extended opening set–

Ultra Lounge
mr.caparro (16bit&beyond, family affair)
Phillip Evans (motionplussound.com)
Iree (projectalma.org)

In the Gallery: Art & Live Music
Lantz Lazwell of Wahnderlust (reverbnation.com/wahnderl

ust)
Music and Curating by: Travis Winn

(DJ Set by NIO (aka Travis Winn) in art room.

VJ: Disco Stu (sdscanlon.com)

Featuring:
Regal decor, Royal madness
Imperial AlmaSound
Two Majestic Patios
Sublime Lounge area with sexy house and midtempo beats.
Kingy Full Bar, cash only.
Noblest Parking in garage next door on Carondelet, $6, open 24/7.

Cover:
$15 before 10:30, $20 after
21+ only!

At our beautiful new residence, a century-old mansion!
627 S. Carondelet St.
Los Angeles, CA 90057

www.projectalma.org

Jul 282010

Today was a funny day. Yesterday was an amazing day. The contrast was in what happened. The amazing day felt amazing because of all of the external going everywhere events: Meeting in the valley with a director for composing music on a small film (first time for me) getting Final Cut Pro installed (not working, then later debugged by me (removing the guilty Guitar Rig 2 by Native Instruments FX plug-in), meeting with my friend Janelle and playing the piano, swimming and eating with Didier, and then helping my friend Carly with three errands in the evening. There was so much going on that it just felt great. I also got a phone call and found out that I was going to be curating some art show next weekend and DJing at my friend’s monthly party called Plump put on by Alma Project.

Today was mellower and was just with computers all day long, and it felt strange not as motivating, but less expensive and yet still powerful. Actually made some really easy Craigslist money. Both the internal with the internet and the external with reality have their pros and cons.

I have found it far more fun to post on craigslist then to reply but the two responses that I have received thus far have been interesting as well. It’s amazing what one man with a great idea and a general lack of greed can do to change the advertising landscape in America (though I wish the mobsters at Ebay didn’t own 25% of Craigslist, so tricky, tricky, tricky!).

Posting for the Art exhibit was fun, too, get to see some cool stuff.

Los Angeles is an amazing city for open creative individuals.

Jul 212010

Los Angeles is an amazing city. So many contrasts, so many stories. Today I am staying in Highland Park with some friends.

I just finished my “portal” page for the music and art of Travis Winn, aka, NIO.

I will be releasing to the public my new album “Origins” soon, available for purchase. Some songs are already up.

Enjoy!

Go to NIO.COM to see the new “portal”.

May 232010

I want to vote for this guy and support this new law!


May 232010

Shopify User Interface Suggestions

Travis Winn Analyzes/Makes Suggestions For UI Improvements at Shopfiy

Working with my friends in France on their website, it’s a lot of fun, what is also fun is trying to give interface ideas to the Shopify team in Canada. I am looking forward to getting back into software/UI/web/design so I thought I’d share ideas that I posted for them.

Technology is so crazy sometimes I have been coming to realize that we always do so much then forget how we did it, that’s why I have been blogging things like how to network a Mac and PC or hack an iPhone without WiFi or things like that because usually after you do it once, you forget!

May 212010

See, I don’t always stay in front of the computer, went out dancing with Marcia last Saturday night, short, but sweet!

May 192010

Didier Rosa's Raw Food Site, Los Angeles, California

Didier Rosa's Raw Food Site, Los Angeles, California

My friend didier is back in Los Angeles from Paris. It was great seeing him while I was there in December and may see him again in a month in Los Angeles. While talking today he showed me a link to his new site, so I send out a sneak preview here.z

Keep it up Didier!

Didier Rosa’s new website for fine cuisine.

May 192010

My friend Mary showed me a link to her LACC blog today. It’s pretty cool. I was really saddened to hear about the LAPD killing yet another mentally disabled/autistic person from her blog.

So sad. I love the way the world is getting so connected though! Keep up the great work Mary Eng.

http://thereallacc.blogspot.com/