I haven’t done much remixing yet starting out with original stuff, I look forward to my first remix, have three weeks left, should be fun.
Here’s the stems for the contest if anyone else wants to know about it. I discovered, downloaded and then was like, huh, where are these stems from again???
So, I thought I would post in order to remember! Have a Logic lesson in Seattle here tomorrow (with me teaching). So, it gave me a good reason to try to do a remix.
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.
Here’s a new track in progress inspired by the amazing poetry and voice of Destiny White. We met while I was DJing for some performances at the incredible Anamaya resort in Montezuma, Costa Rica in December, 2010. This is a first installment of some upcoming tracks and collaboration.
NIO (aka nothing is original) has been doing public multimedia art since the mid-90s and to celebrate his binary birthday released his new album Origins on 11.10.10 or if you live in Europe and other parts of the world 10.11.10. This new release has many dance inspired tunes. Check the link today for hearing previews and or buying the new release.
I love Costa Rica. It’s an amazing place. There’s a lot of beauty here. Unfortunately, if you are into trees, you quickly discover there’s not too much beauty in the cities and towns here. Perhaps it is the farming mentality, but in San Jose, Cartago, and many other cities, there are hardly any city trees at all. As a result many of the towns are extremely hot and barren concrete somewhat ugly places (at least from my aesthetic sensibilities).
So what can be done? Education of the importance of city trees is key.
Here’s an inspiring story from South Africa that I hope people will share with Ticos in power. I have to say that I am impressed lately with a lot of the small trees I see planted all of the time lately in San Jose and think their mayor is doing a lot but as the following story illustrates, people need to be educated in the importance of trees and letting them grow.
What I find disturbing is the amount of 30 to 80 year old trees I see chopped down all of the time. These are the big trees that give more shade, more oxygen. It’s a cumulative effect that will take decades to recover. For example, in the shopping mall between San Jose and Cartago they recently chopped some big trees that were in front of it. You don’t have to be super smart to figure out why they did it. The manager of the mall thinks, “Not enough people are coming here. If I chop the trees, more people will come because they will see it.” No, that’s not the reason. It’s because it’s on a curve and everyone is going really fast. It’s a pain to drive in there and get out. If you are heading towards Cartago, you need to remember in advance and get across the highway. Yes, it’s only two big trees that are gone (yet another two, I see it almost daily). And it seems like there’s some newly planted trees right nearby. It will only take 30 or 40 years until they get the size the old ones killed last week are. I will be 80 years old (I am 43 now). There will be a new manager at the mall (will most likely be gone by then anyway, location, location, location). If they are educated, hopefully they will not chop down the new trees.
