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Download some Democracy

^{Image: Participatory Culture Foundation}

With a name like Democracy (formerly DTV), this application makes a strong statement by making the user somewhat of a program selecter. You choose which channels to subscribe to, you choose which clips to keep, delete, etc. As of right now, there’s a limited amount of channels that provide good, quality content, but what do you expect for free? I suppose you could say the same for 90% of the podcasts out there. At any rate, the interface of Democracy is well thought out and quite nice to use—not perfect though. While it’s easy to subscribe to channels and navigate through them, once you’ve downloaded more than 10 clips, they get stuck in a huge, scrolling row on the right. I suspect these small tweaks will be attended to as the development progresses. Other than that, it’s a real nice app, a pleasure to use—definitely fills a gap with internet TV/videos.

One more thing…on Mac OS X, once you start downloading clips, the default file location is in your Videos folder, which makes them accessible via Front Row. Nice!

Great job to everyone at the Participatory Culture Foundation!

Posted on Tuesday, 21 Feb 2006
Tags: mac, os x, software, video

Abraham Lincoln vs. John F. Kennedy

^{Art: Brian Morris}

In honor Presiden’t Day today, I pledge that I will sleep late, watch plenty of daytime TV… offer all of you conspiracy theorists some remarkable presidential factoids to impress your history teacher with. I found this text document years ago and for some reason kept it. I regret that I cannot credit whoever wrote this thing, so I apologize in advance. At any rate, check out these similarities between these two former United States presidents:

• Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846, John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

• Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

• The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

• Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.

• Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

• Both Presidents were shot on a Friday…in the head.

• Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy, Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.

• Both were assassinated by Southerners.

• Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

• Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

• John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839 while Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

• Both assassins were known by their three names, of which both contain fifteen letters.

• Lincoln was shot at the theater named “Ford,” while Kennedy was shot in a car called a “Lincoln,” which is a Ford.

• Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse, Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

• Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

• A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland and the week before Kennedy was shot, he was with (in?) Marilyn Monroe.

Posted on Monday, 20 Feb 2006
Tags: birth and death, politics

The Büro Destruct office

^{Foto: www.burodestruct.net}

The Büro Destruct office is 100% recyclable.

Posted on Friday, 17 Feb 2006
Tags: graphic design

Matej Kren's book sculptures

^{Idiom, Ṣo Paulo Рheight: 500cm, Foto: www.matejkren.cz}

The photographs of Matej Kren’s book sculptures are amazing—I imagine to see them in person is indescribable. There are some images on his biography page as well as a few nice ones here.

“Matej Kren’s work is remarkable for its exceptional scope. In recent years his distinctive approach to sculpture, object, installation, drawing, print, painting, action art, film, music, sound and word has attracted attention at many prestigious international art shows.

His work not only touches on very contemporary problems, such as erasing the boundaries between reality and fiction, memory and the present, but also on classic themes in art – the relation between inner and outer, the part and the whole. Typical of his work is a searching for a complexity of content expressed in a monumental and comprehensible language.”

Posted on Sunday, 12 Feb 2006
Tags: art, sculpture

Mobile retail fix

I made my first purchase on the internet at the tail end of 1998 with Amazon (I bought a copy of the Hannibal book as a gift). I went on to buy a bajillion things through the years—mostly books and CDs.

Eight years later, I find myself in the “mobile revolution,” so with my Sprint Treo 650 in hand, I went to amazon.com/pocketpc and decided to check it out first-hand. By the way, there’s a page on their site that gives you a few different points of entry depending on your device—click here to see it for yourself.

So, I do a quick search for the latest Portastatic CD and boom, it comes up without a hitch. Then I went through the same steps: add to cart, checkout, verify shipping address, etc.

I remember after completing the transaction I felt like it dumped me on a “nowhere” kind of page, but other than that, I think the whole user experience was pretty fluid. I will probably not use it too much, but that’s because I’m not buying things as much as I did 5 years ago. At any rate, it’s a nice option to have. I couldn’t help to think that it would be a terrific “delayed gratification tool” when, let’s say I’m in Barnes & Noble thumbing through a $50 art book. Hmm, let’s see how much Amazon is selling this thing for—whoa! $35 with free shipping!

Has anyone else give this a try? Whether it be with Amazon or otherwise, I’d be interested in your mobile commerce experiences. Feel free to drop me a line.

Posted on Sunday, 05 Feb 2006
Tags: amazon, e-commerce, mobile

Dave Werner, renaissance man

MC D. Werner annouces his departure from school…in the form of a rhyme. Final grade for this novel approach: A+

So, if the man is out there listening, give this young buck a job.

Posted on Friday, 03 Feb 2006
Tags: funny, graphic design, video

The Solaire in Battery Park City

Lower Manhattan’s Solaire building is the city’s first green residential high-rise. The building has its own wastewater and stormwater systems, uses special lights & appliances, as well as a wealth of other features. The building uses 30% less energy than a building comparable in size.

There’s a ton of information at their web site as well as the Battery Park City’s site.

This is hopefully the beginning of a lot more to come from architects and real estate developers. Anyone who lives in Manhattan probably knows how much energy is wasted—especially in a lot of the old buildings.

Posted on Wednesday, 01 Feb 2006
Tags: architecture, green, new york city

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik, revolutionary media artist, passed away on Sunday. Although I don’t know too much about his work, I was able to see his exhibit at the Guggenheim in 2001 and it truly blew my top off.

R.I.P.

Posted on Monday, 30 Jan 2006
Tags: art, birth and death, video

Michelle Hines: Fartist, Sleep-deprived

Peristaltic Action is the title of Ms. Hines 26-foot long poop art concept. She also set a record for sleep-deprivation.

Damn, talk about suffering for your art!

Posted on Monday, 30 Jan 2006
Tags: art, funny

Mark Jenkins, Storker Project

Street artist/tape sculptor Mark Jenkins tapes up parking meters making them look like lolipops, places his storker babies stategically in street scenes, and overall does a whole lot of really amazing things…with tape. He has several photos of his impromptu street and nature installations from New York, DC, Rio de Janeiro, etc. at Storker.net. Highly recommended, so check it! If you want to see even more, check his Flickr page.

Posted on Sunday, 29 Jan 2006
Tags: art, street art

Tramp stamps

There’s something special about all those gorgeous ladies sportin’ tattoos right above their buttcracks. That’s a special woman that’s definitely worth taking home to meet mom. Apparently, this genre of ink that stinks is called a “Tramp stamp.” Heh, funny. Check out a few choice ones here.

Posted on Sunday, 29 Jan 2006
Tags: funny, tattoo

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

“You haven’t seen the last of me.”

Trailer & more info.

Posted on Sunday, 29 Jan 2006
Tags: funny, video

Fuckcast, World Premeire

John Oxton has debuted the world’s first Fuckcast and made it available to the masses. According to my calculations, he ranked an impressive 5,913 “fuckcount.” This figure is based on the transcript provided—thanks to CMD-F.

All in all, I think this is a big day for the media industry. I can only hope Mr Oxton’s trailblazing genius inspires the youth to go forth and make good use of every (godamned) four-letter word available.

Posted on Friday, 27 Jan 2006
Tags: funny

Google vs. Yahoo visualization

Visualize search results ranking from Google and Yahoo.

(Via information aesthetics)

Posted on Tuesday, 24 Jan 2006
Tags: google, search, visualization, yahoo!

Four things…

In the spirit of keeping up with the latest trends and techniques of the worldwide internet culture, I will now give you a few things…in fours:

Four jobs I’ve had in my life

• Research Lab Technician
• Donut Maker
• Network Technician
• Senior Art Director

Four movies I can watch over and over

• any James Bond movie with Sean Connery
• Black Mask
• Star Wars
• Amelie

Four places I have lived

• North Carolina
• Panama
• Rio de Janeiro
• New York City

Four TV shows I love to watch

• Law & Order
• History Channel
• My Wife & Kids
• Bernie Mac Show

Four places I have been on vacation

• Interstate 40
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Paris, France
• Paraty, Brasil

Four of my favourite dishes

• Mac & cheese
• Beans & rice
• some kind of eggs
• bacon (from a pig, not a turkey)

Four websites I visit daily

• flickr.com/photos/beemo
• google.com/analytics (just to check in on my 20 hits a day ;)
• beemo.net
• del.icio.us/beemo

Four places I would rather be right now

• a nice beach somewhere in Brasil
• maybe Barcelona
• wherever Juliana Paes is
• at the bank cashing my trust fund check

Posted on Monday, 23 Jan 2006

What the Fleck? Sign me up!

Joke or not, all the buzzwords are in line, so watch out for Fleck to deliver…something.

Soon?

Update:
Just came across something from the early sixties that looks remarkably similar to the Fleck logo:

Posted on Sunday, 22 Jan 2006
Tags: software