Category: Design
I had a great time jamming out with the following musicians and people starting 2012 off on the right foot! See the live video/audio jam above.
Monster Planet 22
Monday, January 9, 2012
9pm – 1am
The Can Can
94 Pike ST (Below Left Bank Books)
Seattle
FREE!
21+ only
Monster Planet is a live improvisational, experimental, ambient night featuring local musicians, visual artists, and rotating guests with a random Sci-Fi / Horror B-Movie.
Featuring improvised music by:
PEZZNER
NIO
GEL-SOL
WILLIAM MEMPA
BLAKE PETERSON
B-movie montage by:
KILLING FRENZY
So come down and enjoy a nice cocktail or two while having your brain fried with sonic bliss and movies so shockingly bad that they have to exist in order to keep balance in the universe.
Happy Hour Absinthe specials all night with a Happy Hour from 10-12am
Facebook event post:
http://www.facebook.com/events/291015444284415/
Movies provided by the monstrously awesome Scarecrow Video.
Loving jQuery and WordPress lately. This post from Nate Armagost shows a great new trend in jQuery and solutions for WordPress Problems.
Sometimes I post these things to give kudos to the people who post so generously their information, sometimes just to remember where I go and what I have seen, this is more than the age of information, it is the age of information overload!
This great tutorial at net.tutsplus.com is an adventure I am going to try this week as I pursue technology just to figure things out. I had heard about how cool HTML 5 is but nobody is really using it yet full on and with complete support in browsers.
I was on Scobelizer today and discovered this really cool company and application called Slideshare. I saw this presentation:
and decided to try it out, it seemed super cool. In fact, I had been trying to figure out a good way to get my Adobe PDF portfolio to go fullscreen and be viewable the way I wanted and their service made it possible and the speed with which their WebApp navigated made me want to learn more about it. You can see the result in an earlier blog from today or here below:
I really like it being viewed in full mode though I discovered that it takes a while for the whole thing to download while embedded.
A bit of a wandering day, but as I continued in my search for technology, I ended up on a website called MiroCommunity.org. This was a really cool site. They have a connected software called Miro Video Player which is sort of Vuze meets the iPod but for video. It’s super cool. What I like best is that you can download videos playing from YouTube locally to your HD without having to deal with in Safari for example Window->Activity and then find the .flv file downloading and then click on it and then use Perian to open it and make the .flv into a .mov or .mp4 or whatever h.264 file format is called. It’s super handy. Especially if you are in the middle of nowhere like in Costa Rica or other places with no internet (Costa Rica is a lot better on the net two years later though I look at my old post with a SpeedTest upload of .34 and download of .64mb/s and laugh being back in the States again).
So, it was a fun day. I decided to create yet another website and created a community video website called nio.mirocommunity.org It’s a really web building application for video. It really leverages other services like YouTube and Vimeo and is quite easy to use.
I also upgraded my WordPress theme as I am going to dive into it big time this week. It totally killed my custom design on the website, but c’est la vie, it’s going to challenge me and I am looking forward to it.
I recommend that you view this slideshow in FULLSCREEN MODE using the arrow key to scroll through it.
“An anecdotal story: A friend of mine was at meetings at Apple and Microsoft on the same day. And this was in the last year, so this was recently. He went into the Apple meeting (he’s a vendor for Apple), and as soon as the designers walked in the room, everyone stopped talking, because the designers are the most respected people in the organization. Everyone knows the designers speak for Steve because they have direct reporting to him. It is only at Apple where design reports directly to the CEO. Later in the day he was at Microsoft. When he went into the Microsoft meeting, everybody was talking and then the meeting starts and no designers ever walk into the room. All the technical people are sitting there trying to add their ideas of what ought to be in the design. That’s a recipe for disaster.” John Scully on Apple and Steve Jobs in Business Week.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201096309840_page_4.htm
This is why Apple is so up and coming in the world. Why their products are so amazing and functional.
Travis Winn Analyzes/Makes Suggestions For UI Improvements at Shopfiy
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!
TravisWinn.com is dead. Long Live Travis Winn!