LMFAO’s Kid’s Version, woo hoo!
Category: Personal
“There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore… and who always will. So, don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it to your future.” Not sure who the quote is from, but I like it!!!
Lady Gaga is the real deal, I hope she doesn’t end up like Cobain, sometimes those who give so much implode. So much talent and awareness and vulnerability.
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.
I want to vote for this guy and support this new law!
See, I don’t always stay in front of the computer, went out dancing with Marcia last Saturday night, short, but sweet!
Didier Rosa's Raw Food Site, Los Angeles, California
Keep it up Didier!
Didier Rosa’s new website for fine cuisine.
A friend of mine, Sidney Genette, put this link up about value vs. hourly. I have been basically freelance for 15 years, including a long run in the middle that was freelance, but in-house, hourly.
The client basically paid me hourly, but the reality was it was value based. This was great for both of us, except I had to show up to get the check, check out the article. Hourly is a hard paradigm to break out of this much is certain!
As someone who is pretty much self-taught for all I do, I am fascinated with the learning process. I met a man named K.B. Jinan in the World Social Forum in 2004 in Mumbai, India (it seems the world knows the new name now, no longer necessary to use the old name of Bombay).
I spent about an hour interviewing him and he had some amazing things to say, I think I could really do something with those tapes in addition to what I already did which you can see here:
Anyways, what I find totally fascinating is watching my child Maya learning. She’s almost 11 months and she just is non-stop with trying to figure things out. I feel like I am the same way and would love to stay that way, but know that the way in which she approaches it is so much more amazing than I do. I suppose I was similar, but her non stop curiosity is what is really mind blowing. I feel like watching her learn is going to allow for me to learn more.
I have an iPhone and an iTouch and watching my daughter play around with it at 10 months and do drawings and then try to use the touch screen interface on a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone which doesn’t have the feature is cool. Watching a five year old cousin of my daughter use the same iPhone’s music program which is essentially a step-sequencer with tonal modalities that make it hard to sound bad program it visually with a little squares as opposed to how it sounds which is how I always did it was cool. Watching a 65 year old client interact with an iPhone I had procured and her long nails and not so agile fingers try to navigate it is and was a contrast. In the end the iPhone was a business application for her and it ended up working great (after 30 hours of looking for the right application on the internet to share business docs from a PC server to her iPhone).
For me, I use the iPhone/iTouch to study user interfaces and to study in general. I am taking courses at Stanford and MIT basic programming on iTunes University as well as graduate level UI Design stuff. I got started wanting to take the iPhone application development course at Stanford, but three courses in I realized that a web designer an Objective-C programmer does not make! It’s pretty cool to be back in college again.
Filesharing my 3G WM 6.1 phone is what has got my new fascination with networking going on. For someone who got on the Internet in 1994 and wrote his main paper in International Relations in 1990 entitled Computopia I really don’t know that much about networking, but that is beginning to change. I tried to teach myself a bit on the web, but that was like no way impossible tooo many ads. Google will be bit in the butt for what they have created on the web, this much is certain.
Well, I got here to WordPress today because I was trying to integrate this Blog into my Shopify website at http://electroliquid.myshopify.com This is just a Dev site right now as I develop for my clients/friends in France.
Wordreference.com is an amazing resourse for translation quickly, accurately and on the fly.
I have been working on a website for someone in France lately in my free time. I know how to flirt with women and ask for directions among other things in French, but since I began learning French when I was a dishwasher in Switzerland in a cafe and never took an official course, I don’t know it that well.
Doing translations for a website with words like “Section” or “Category” or “About Us” among many, many other words is tricky. I found that av.com and Babelfish had been my way to go since like 95 or 96. Just habit I guess. But it’s gotten a bit rusty and hard to use. I tried out Google’s translation service and it wasn’t that great either. So somehow I happened upon WordReference.com and it is awesome.
It tells you so many varieties and exactly what you need to know. It also seems to have a convenient cookie feature that remembers what your last radio button selected was so you don’t have to do the DropMenu thing which is so time consuming and bad for carpal tunnel.
Just my thought for the day back to the Creations Ethniques website.