What we have here is, potentially, the finest art ever to grace the puke-stained armpits of YouTube with its presence.
I present Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann's stop-motion masterpiece for Zombie Zombie - not to be confused with the also excellent Zombi.
Now drive that road til death sets you free!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
February Ritual
February for me means my third time around participating in the Roll of 28 project, a photography community on LiveJournal. I haven't actually been on LiveJournal except for this group since June 2007, and since October I've been channeling my friends list through GoogleReader on my homepage ... so this is the only reason I have to visit LJ these days (I heard they were taken over by the Russian Mafia anyway ...?)
The basic idea here is to submit one picture every day throughout the month of February - so in reality last year became a roll of 29. Although I try not to dictate any kind of theme or pattern I do find myself straining for a variety of shots, composition, colours and subjects; this, I suppose, is the point, to get one out of their photographic comfort zone. And basically, to motivate regular snapping.
I think that projects like this have become increasingly common in the age of Flickr, with concepts like Project 365, or numerous individual works - for example my friend Euvie has been doing self-portraits for almost a year in her Euvie-A-Day series. I suppose this is my own little take on it, and look forward to the future and having a little snapshot of each year of my life, where I was, who I knew, etc ...
Speaking of Flickr, I keep all my Roll of 28 shots grouped under one set on my own page. Check it out in the month to come.
The basic idea here is to submit one picture every day throughout the month of February - so in reality last year became a roll of 29. Although I try not to dictate any kind of theme or pattern I do find myself straining for a variety of shots, composition, colours and subjects; this, I suppose, is the point, to get one out of their photographic comfort zone. And basically, to motivate regular snapping.
I think that projects like this have become increasingly common in the age of Flickr, with concepts like Project 365, or numerous individual works - for example my friend Euvie has been doing self-portraits for almost a year in her Euvie-A-Day series. I suppose this is my own little take on it, and look forward to the future and having a little snapshot of each year of my life, where I was, who I knew, etc ...
Speaking of Flickr, I keep all my Roll of 28 shots grouped under one set on my own page. Check it out in the month to come.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
"It's all that T.V. - oh, and I got addicted to oxycodone"
Last summer I burned through all four seasons of Lost and have been waiting patiently for #5 to begin, which happened last night. Living in the future and relying on the internet, I'm just about to sit down to the first episode now.
But first I came across this rather funny (to show geeks like myself) YouTube clip, Previously On Lost:
But first I came across this rather funny (to show geeks like myself) YouTube clip, Previously On Lost:
Thursday, January 15, 2009
last.fm
Over a year after I signed up at the encouragement of my roommate Allison, I'm just now starting to appreciate the pull of last.fm
I've got Amarok set up to auto-update the music I listen to on my computer, which I'm sure can be done from most popular media players - hell, if Songbird can do it, iTunes or WinAmp must be able to.
My profile there : kiisu_killen
I've got Amarok set up to auto-update the music I listen to on my computer, which I'm sure can be done from most popular media players - hell, if Songbird can do it, iTunes or WinAmp must be able to.
My profile there : kiisu_killen
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
2009, and onwards
SO! ... Happy New Years, says the man on the 14th.
After a low-key Christmas with a group of Americans and Colombians, I spent New Years playing three different shows at two venues in Prenzlauer Berg. The first, at Zu Mia Oder Zu Dia, was a bust due to a lack of items for me to hit. The next two, both at Intersoup, were much more succesful. The first set consisted of originals while the second was mostly covers (which we rehearsed once, in a flat, with a blanket over the drumset) and a few of our own that were left-out in the first set.
Between the two sets, my four couchsurfers showed up with a gift of cake for me. Part of the reason I waited to write about the night was that I had to wait for Julien to email me my only memento of the evening.
Et .... voila:
My guess is this photo was taken around 4 am. We wound up playing until roughly 5:30, and a few friends came by around 6. All in all, the night went to day and I came in from the cold at 9:30. To the best of my knowledge, that's the latest I've ever partied on NY's. What's next after the party's done? Perhaps at my age, I get the best of both worlds, because I wasn't tired, yet had no problem surrendering to sobriety.
After a low-key Christmas with a group of Americans and Colombians, I spent New Years playing three different shows at two venues in Prenzlauer Berg. The first, at Zu Mia Oder Zu Dia, was a bust due to a lack of items for me to hit. The next two, both at Intersoup, were much more succesful. The first set consisted of originals while the second was mostly covers (which we rehearsed once, in a flat, with a blanket over the drumset) and a few of our own that were left-out in the first set.
Between the two sets, my four couchsurfers showed up with a gift of cake for me. Part of the reason I waited to write about the night was that I had to wait for Julien to email me my only memento of the evening.
Et .... voila:
My guess is this photo was taken around 4 am. We wound up playing until roughly 5:30, and a few friends came by around 6. All in all, the night went to day and I came in from the cold at 9:30. To the best of my knowledge, that's the latest I've ever partied on NY's. What's next after the party's done? Perhaps at my age, I get the best of both worlds, because I wasn't tired, yet had no problem surrendering to sobriety.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Good News!
Another reason for me to avoid Facebook:
An Australian couple have been served with legal documents via the popular social networking site Facebook.
An Australian couple have been served with legal documents via the popular social networking site Facebook.
Friday, December 12, 2008
ready to Amarok
Amarok 2.0 was released earlier this week. I only found out late Wednesday night, after checking my email before bed I decided to quickly drop by the Kubuntu forums; must have had a feeling.
Of course I got very, very excited being the semi-geek that I am and wound up staying up until 5am playing with it.
It really is the nicest music player out there - kicks the shit out of iTunes, but then so does Songbird.
Here's a screenshot of the shiny new interface with built-in Wikipedia info:
Some instructions for downloading & installing on Ubuntu
Of course I got very, very excited being the semi-geek that I am and wound up staying up until 5am playing with it.
It really is the nicest music player out there - kicks the shit out of iTunes, but then so does Songbird.
Here's a screenshot of the shiny new interface with built-in Wikipedia info:
Some instructions for downloading & installing on Ubuntu
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