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

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 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”.

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 baby at home 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.

I saw this video that devastated this man and his family’s life after reading the following article and am just saddened that the police in the US can get away with things like this. In Costa Rica, you can sue the police if they do something like this. I hope that the macho perpetrator pays personally for this crime. So sad for him, his wife and family, read on here.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011882857_harris17m.html

Pantech Duo C810 For Sale

Needless to say this was sucking big time: I had been paying $10/mo for a better service and then I paid $27/mo and got worse service for the past month. (I use my Pantech Windows Mobile Phone as my main modem to get online here in Costa Rica, so it’s kind of a big deal.) On Friday, I went and got another 3G chip and phone/modem line (much to the chagrin of my wife whose name it is in), and signed up for the cheap unlimited 3G dataplan (128kbs down/64kbs up) with the assurance we could easily upgrade to the more expensive service. Well, I was hoping it would be open and free on upload/download like my first card/chip. No such luck. They have it throttled, too.

However, as the weekend progressed, my service on my full $27 upgraded GSM to 3G line was consistently high even at times when it would normally really slow down (6:30pm, or when the kids get out of school in the afternoon.) So it seems that they have throttled all of the cheap plans and this is freeing up space for people like me with the higher speed plan. This is great, but they still have it throttled on the upload if you use the icecellular APN, but I found on Saturday I was able to Skype pretty well even with the low upload speed, I imagine this is because there’s less bandwidth being used and it is more consistent for the upload, and the download was pretty stellar. I am going to change my new 3G card on Tuesday or Wednesday for the higher speed plan, to see how it goes on the upload. Their advertised rate on the high speed $27/mo. is 1mb/384kbs download/upload. So, I am hoping that I can get it. When you go in in Turrialba, they know less about it then me (for the most part, the average person), and they say no assurances or we called about this issue on the upload and they said something crazy about battery being low… ha ha that’s a good one!!!!

Anyways, I have two of these phones and want to sell one for $225 if anyone is interested in having one because they can’t find the Datacard. It’s both a phone and a modem and actually has been running really great as a modem, just using internet sharing on Windows Vista. I can get it to work on a Mac as a Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network), but it’s dog slow. I couldn’t figure out how to get it to work on USB on the Mac which sucks, and the phone only has Bluetooth, no Wi-Fi, so I couldn’t go that route, which I did on the iPhone (both USB and WiFi). Instead I have set up an Ad Hoc network and use a Proxy server on my PC to get my Mac online. Costa Rica really makes you work if you want to get your technology to work. That’s for sure.

Let me know if you are interested in buying one of these phones. I can send a PDF and here’s an image, too.

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!

http://biznik.com/articles/hourly-rates-you-could-be-making-so-much-more?utm_source=articles&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2010-05-12

Then one day I remembered that I had MS send me a copy of Vista for free because my computer was purchased around then, I thought, okay, I will give it a shot. I managed to use it with Vista but I hated it. At least I had a computer. By then, about two years ago, the battery was dead really quick, and then the sound card was starting to go. I was getting into music at the time. Everyone was you need a Mac, you need a Mac, I was in L.A. and they love their Mac’s there, I loved agonizing everyone there saying the PC was better… However, i was finding all I was doing was technical stuff to get the thing to work. I finally got a Mac and then three months later, of course, put a duo boot Boot Camp and Parallels. Tired of carrying around two laptops. Well, as soon as I did that the problems began on my Mac. I had a 100 programs PC or so and lots of fonts and keyboard commands. But then last year I dropped it. Hard drive dead. Luckily I had a clean and easy copy of my Mac side of the computer made from Carbon Copy Clone. The PC side is so hard (some linux guy tried to help me for like 8 hours a couple months ago making a 80 mb .img file I know I will never use for an old Compaq, no thanks!) The moral is HP isn’t going to win, Palm blew it with their buggy 650 or whatever it was that I loved but that broke and screwed all the early adoptors. My $1300 HP printer is a beast, too, and bad support the one time I made the mistake of calling (the guy was pretty smart and informed. The iPhone and iTouch are brilliant and are the only game in town. He’s a maniac (Jobs) and I hate the closed nature of it, but as my music teacher told me about a Mac vs. PC. It works. That’s the main thing. And one of the guys above is right, the virus thing and all that bloatware is killing it. Bloatware is currently killing Adobe, too, and all of the nag screens to reinstall. My Mac never bugs me to install stuff or update. Everytime I turn on that Piece of Crap, it tells me it’s an emergency and I have to download this, do that, or tells me this or that. You know what? Just leave me alone to do what I want to do today, the distractions on the internet are already enough!

I love how they are saying Jobs hates Flash, if you read what he wrote, it’s very interesting and accurate. H.264 is great but reading that Microsoft is only going to ship I.E. 9 with ONE CODEC is frightening. However, if it works. I was waiting to buy my new Canon camera based on it’s codec (the old one sucked!)

Apple is going to kill it (until they get to greedy, too, already kind of are, but it’s worth the price for their products!).