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!

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!

Hi Shopify Team,

I like the new way of products listing and inventory. I think it is more elegant than it was before.

From a usability perspective there is one bug, or so it seems to me. I also have a UI idea or two.

The bug seems to be, if you have more than 50 items, select, inventory view, then sort by inventory number and then go to page two of the list, the second page is no longer in order by inventory number.

Also some logic for inventory number sorting would be nice. My clients gave me inventory numbers D1, D2, D3…D10,D11…

So when I sort by Inv. # currently I get the D1, then D11, then D12, …D2, D20, D21… I know that’s a lot to ask, but it’s an idea for a future upgrade, the image that I attach, in my opinion could provide the most helpfuly user interface upgrades and from a programming perspective shouldn’t be that difficult to incorporate, please look at and forward, thanks so much.

Best regards,

Travis

P.S. Here’s a text summary of what I put with graphics and suggested UI element additions for easier and more powerful viewing of inventory and products:

1. To the uninitiated, it is not obvious that if you click one of the buttons a list of commands are going to pop up and allow you to create actions. Therefore, in my opinion, from a UI perspective you should put the directions here essentially similar to what I have typed. There is also a bug in I.E. 8 on Vista SP2 where the Pop Up CSS is misaligned. I recommend that on the top left corner you put the following text above the Check Box All:

Make a selection to publish, hide, or delete item(s).
Or you can add your item(s) to a collection. The top box selects all.

2. It would be very convenient to have a column here that showed what collections your items are already in. Especially considering that one of the main functionalities of this page is that you can add your titems to collections (as well as publish, delete and hide).

Collections Column to the right of inventory and to the left of Total

3. Instead of mouseover for SKU # perhaps you should put the sku number where everyone can see it in one glance, much more useful and there seems to be room for this in the inventory column under the inventory amount listed.

4. Currently if you have more than 50 items, it goes to a new page. Having the option to have all items on one page is very desirable. Also, there is a bug if you are in inventory view and then sort by SKU and then hit “Page 2″ the items on the second page are no longer in order by SKU number. This would be solved by having this list. It would also be convenient for clients that just want to print their inventory list to check physical inv. manually and reorder. Most people track by inventory number, even under list view an inventory number available would help Shopify clients manage and run their stores.

I recommend putting the following to the right of the list view: Items Per Page: 50 100 200 300 500 with 50 as the default but options for more.

That’s all for now, but please take a look at the attachment to see a graphical representation including added graphics showing exactly what would go where.

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.

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

http://thereallacc.blogspot.com/

ICE Finally giving High Speed Upload

As anyone who has seen my internet 3G woes, today is a happy day. I bought a new chip the other day in the hope that the APN kolbi3g would help me get faster upload speeds, but this sort of voo-doo networking has come to an end now that they have kicked off all of the freeloaders getting the high speed for cheap and people like me who recently signed up for the high one finally are getting 340kbs upload as opposed to the 120kbs throttle I had been experiencing, I am so happy, just in time, too, since I am finishing up a website and it is great for me as I need to get some stuff done!

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