Thanks for posting a comment on my previous post. It helped me track down more info about your work. You can find more of the work at poppaintings at Flickr.
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Or by email at poppaintings AT gmail DOT com
I now have a new favorite. The red John Cusack. The Bill Murray is nice too and thats a fact Jack.
One of the things I love about Flickr is finding great photographers. Only thing I know about him is whats in his Flickr profile. I read something about him on another blog once. he does good work. Some of him work is at events or party’s. Other stuff looks like school projects. Most importantly all of its interesting. Oh yeah and he’s from Holland.
You can see him on Flickr here.
I’ve been getting up at like 5am for the last 3 days in a row. Last two days was 4:40 on the dot. I’m thinking I must be falling asleep around 11pm. Its just odd. I prefer to get up around 8am. I got on a scale over the holidays also. I’m like 188 lbs. 185 lbs is about my ideal weight based on height. I still have a gut at 185 but thats just a matter of where that ideal weight sits. That a 15 lbs loss over the last few months. I was hovering around 200 lbs. its odd i lost this weight while eating like a pig. I was expecting a weight gain after the way I have been eating the last few months. Must be all that riding I do on my bike.
I’ve been accused of ripping on myspace too much. I was just told the other day that I’m a hypocrite for not liking myspace when it always shows that I’ve logged in to my account there recently.
Well to my dislike a lot of bands good and bad rely on myspace as there only home on the internet. I tend to use pitchfork as a source for new music. Some of the albums reviews there get linked to myspace when you go to listen to the tracks. I understand that if you’re not on a major label that creating a webpage on your own can be overwhelming.
I know for a fact that it’s inexpensive. Not free but under $5 a month for a small hosting plan. I also understand that not everyone understands html code. Myspace uses html code for most of the user added content that is added to myspace pages. Most of you with myspace pages just copy and paste it from some other site offering html code to use anyways. If you ask me the only difference between having your bands “home on the web” at myspace VS your own domain is which road you take. Do you want to take the long road or the short road. The long road requires some reading and learning of the basics. The short road is copy, paste, finished. If you’re into self promotion then do it right. Take some pride in your work. Better yet take some pride in your image to the world.
This article reflects my views on the subject.
“With the ease of updating and adding content, it’s understandable why so many bands are relying solely on MySpace to promote their music. I guess that’s fine if you don’t mind having a website that uses web standards that are ten years behind. Each page has a comments section, which is nothing more than a glorified guest-book. Other MySpace members become friends and leave messages, usually amounting to phrases such as “Hey, I love your music!”… spamming the site to draw traffic to their page. How many times have you visited a band’s MySpace page and found two different songs playing at the same time, as the media player kicks on and a music video starts up without waiting for the visitor to push play? Once the veneer of being “hip” is stripped, these annoying qualities become obvious.”
I’ve can not remember when I got serious about building with legos, but guess it was around 5 maybe 6. The “expert” sets just came out. The big box had plans for a car , a motor cycle and a drag racer. There was a batteries powered motor that came with it also. The expert sets had gears and axles so you could built transmissions and trans axles to drive wheels. The control box was corded so that sucked. I spent up to 5 hours at a time for days building. I came real close to building a Trans Am like the one in Smoky and the bandit. I used regular legos like the roof pieces to makethe body rounded. I used the fence piece and another small angled roof piece to create that unique grill TA’s had.
Being an only child I noticed early on that my friends that had siblings were not really into playing legos at my house. I had two friends that loved playing with legos for hours with me. One had an older sister who was 17 years older and a brother that was 22 years older when he was only 12. The other friend was another only child.
This now makes me think about the connection between isolated children and their affection for legos. One of the most productive ways to deal with isolation or being alone is to use your mind to solve problems and create without any importance really on the end product. It’s the motions that simulate the mind not the satisfaction of making something useful or attractive.
A lot of these lego kids go on to use computer with the same attitude of “What can I do with this thing” just like legos. I remember firing up my first home commuter and playing a few games. That wore off in about one day since I already had an Atari. I was then left staring at a blinking curse wondering what can I do with this?
Today legos are amazing. You can build tons of things from their site with online step by step instructions. They even have a program that lets you build something virtually and then they will make instructions for you. I know they have robotic legos that are connected to a PC also I just never checked them out.
First off I think this is funny. I did a google search for “Dee Snider” The first pic is of Sarah Jessica Parker. way too funny. they both look like bad trannys.
Now Here screen shots of the fight caught on video of Dee in pink pants getting sucker punched. Dee then goes on to body slam him to the ground and then shoves him around and punches him a few times.
Heres the video link Dee Snider Fight
Its only been uploaded by two people on youtube and both of them fucked up the spelling of his name and spelled it “Dee Snyder”
I was watching the Jesus Camp Documentary and had to turn it off. I got to the point when they are praying the opening day of camp. She prays for god to make sure the devil stays away from her Microsoft Power Point presentation. I wish I would have know Jesus did tech support. She goes on to say that Harry Potter should be killed for being a warlock.
What a fucking waste of time spent talking to Jesus that way. I mean earlier in the movie a little girl about 10 is praying right before she bowls.
Lets face it, children have absolutely no rights in America. Yet I find it disturbing that adults will raise their children to follow their beliefs. Excuse me for wanting children to form their own ideas of life and science. Christen views never used to offend me till they started getting political. Abortion and gay rights are on top of course. This is fucking America. Freedom of choice. So why do christens want non christens to conform to their beliefs? Why can’t they understand that everyone has a choice? They have the choice to have their beliefs.
I don’t know maybe if i was stupid I’d need an organization to think for me too.
Ok what would Jesus do? I think he’d stop typing and concentrate his efforts into something more important than bashing a few sheep.
Jaime Lees @ Atomic Cowboy
I’ve been receiving about 4 or 5 a day for the last month. Its the Monday before the election and I just received my 5th call today, and its only 12:30 pm. These are legal to make. I mean as long as its for a political campaign. Today Bill Clinton and Micheal J Fox spoke to me threw miracle of a voice recorder and the technology made for telemarketers. Sounds evil right? Well i is politics.
I have no idea what the numbers of sales VS calls made are for telemarketers. Ok you piss off 1000 people with your sales pitch, but make one sale. Thats fine because the people you pissed off don’t matter. With the Prerecorded Campaign calls if it changes someones mind about an issue or makes them remember to vote thats great. On the down side if you piss me off with all these Prerecorded Campaign calls I might just say fuck you and stay home Tuesday.
I don’t have the time to invest in a system to call all of you so I can bring you this message.
Please Stay Home on Tuesday and Do Not Vote.
I know animated pictures big deal. Well when I had a 35 mm SLR camera with a motor drive I could have done this. It would have also cost me a lot of money. Not to mention that besides making a flip book from prints how would you present it?. I did this with my Canon EOS 3oD on slow continuously shooting mode. Its 11 pictures rendered in flash with Adobe Imageready. I had the ISO set high so there is a bit of noise (grain). Next time I’ll light it better. This was just to test the ability to do animation with my digital SLR
Embeding Flash on this wordpress blog is a pain. I’m reading up on it and why its not as easy as it should be.
I just watched this video about photosynth. Its basically the answer to the “Why geotag the location of a flickr picture”. photosynth takes the Google Earth thing to the next level by using our photographs to “wire frame” a 3D environment on the internet. Not only is it in 3D , but you can fly around and zoom in. The whole time being able to identify the picture that is making this environment happen and linking to the site that the picture came from. This way people can connect with others making it social. Oh and its from Microsoft. (GASP) At least all their money is goingto some use. Also contributing is the University of Washington.
I heard a lot about the new doctor Who BBC series last year. I purposely waited to watch this show till the first season was finished. That way I can watch them straight threw. I hate waiting for shows week by week. Not to mention I’m currently watching enough shows right now that air weekly.
First off I’m not a big Dr Who fan, but I really enjoyed the new series. I remember being up in the eighties on a Sunday night and tuning in to PBS to watch the show before it was canceled in 89’. (Unless I had cable and the monkeys and The Young Ones aired on MTV l) I had no idea the DR Who ran form 1963 to 1889. That’s one hell of a run. The BBC must make a fortune selling those DVDs. I found one on Amazon with just a bunch of episodes from the old series. Has 46 DVDs and sells for $644.
I watched 3 episodes last night before bed and will finish up the 1st season today.
In related British trivia I watched SNL last week (pretty good episode) Hosted by Hugh Laurie the guy from House MD. Now I used to watch this show with my ex girlfriend. She loved medical shows. This one was actually pretty good for a doctor TV show. Now I know why. Hugh Laurie was a British actor that co stared on Black Adder. I didn’t recognize him because in House MD because he uses an American accent in the show. A fucking damn good American accent at that. Bravo to him for breaking that silly British humor stereo type. Of course he was great at silly British humor. I just don’t see Rowan Atkinson or any of the Mighty Python cast doing more American style humor.
So this last few weeks I’ve been working on optimizing my sites for search engines. I also had to build two new sites. I’m even thinking of buying a few more domains and just creating a huge network of sites. I have daily work that produces income. Now I want to concentrate on my main pages. (The Blog part of my work domains) I got both of my new blogs listed in google in about a week. I was shocked. That’s rather quick.
Also took on the responsibility of moderating my friend’s paysite forum. Not that it takes up much of my time, but it’s another daily chore.
Summer slump is over. Let the sales roll in.
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