Artist - Teacher - Game Designer - Filmmaker - Traveler - VJ - Dudeist
This is filed under, "What the fuck was the homework assignment?". This guy made a robot which moves around. I know what you are saying, the Japanese are doing this, so what? Well, this robot is being controlled by a COCKROACH! Things are springing to my mind. I think the most prominent is:
A cockroach is killed by raid. Other cockroaches get together and say, "We can rebuild him. We have the technology!"
This is a world wide issue, that vould cause the next dot com crash. What is the issue? If you haven't heard about Net Neutrality yet, imagine a world in which telecom providers in the US restrict access to various web services such as google, or flickr, or even iTunes. Slowwing down access to these sites or even rerouting to another site which has paid them more money to service. This is being down also under the umbrella of "security". Or more like Sensorship. What an aweful world that would be, with no easy access to my family photos, indenpendent record labels, independent press and citizin journalists, or even my friend's blog. Well it's happening in theUS right now and will affect all of us worldwide. This needs to be stopped.
YOU READING OR WATCHING THIS! If you love the internet and the freedom of information that you can access on it goto:
dienstag abend #2
Originally uploaded by couchpotatoes.
Here's a pic from Pre Podcastday 2006 (i.e. getting drinks the night before). You wouldn't know it but those are big name podcasters sitting around me. I guess that's the perks of podcasting vs. vlogging, you don't show you face as much and are more anonymous. :-) Thanks for the shot chouchpotatoes!!!
strida for gabemac
Originally uploaded by mindcaster.
Well, it looks like I decided on my new company mode of transit. Only an incredibly cool fold up bike for us green vloggers! www.strida.com
Went to Spain this weekend to chat with Anil about our World Cup gig, and Rodrigo was in town (VpodTV) so we all had a few bottles of wine together. Rodrigo posted the same video from his phone on rodrigo.typepad.com
I just heard from an inside source that Greenpeace has placed a container of radioactive waste in the front hall of VROM. VROM is the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment for the Netherlands. Workers at VROM are scared to leave as they may pass by the radioactive waste. They are basically trapped. Greenpeace is leaving the waste at VROM until 17:00 today but are hoping that Deputy Minister Van Geel officially accept this "gift" from Greeenpeace.
UPDATE:
Aparently the Deputy Minister is going accept the gift in a couple of hours @ 17:30. Another bit of news, those "Ambtenaars" (Dutch word for government workers) are so stupid, there were a number of them just standing around the container talking and drinking coffee after they recorded enough radiation within 6 feet of the container to be dangerous. HELOOOOO!!!!!!
Reading through my daily dutch news I see my good buddy Marc turns out to be a wanted hacker!!! Oh my god! I turned to Marc here in the office and said, "Dude, you're wanted! The cops have busted into your home and all!"
"What?, Where?"
"Here look on my laptop!" He looked shit scared for a second. Then we clicked and all was revealed.
So Gabe B and I are travelling today to Leipzig, Germany for the Mini experience at the AMI (Auto Motor International).
Mini is sending us to go vlog there. We've got lotsof tapes, mic, and I'm about to go get a funky haircut. I think it should be pretty cool. German Blogger Thomas Gigold will be showing us around, because we are a bit green. In any case if you wanna check out the vlogfest check out, www.vlogbymini.de
Cause lets face it…
Sending me & Gabe to a German auto convention...
With the freedom to vloggin’ vlog what ever they want...
Could be vloggin’ interesting.
BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Star Wars TV 'saviour for fans': "With Rick McCallum (Producer of Star Wars for those that didn't know) saying they are going to be making over 100 hours of a new Star Wars TV show.
So that's what the BBC is reporting. Oh man at least 100 hours of new episodes. My god!!! LEt's see we've already got the Animated series, 6 films, enough making of's to throw us into a coma, and now 100 hours of a TV series that's going to be released of Star Wars!!! I'm going to have to go on sick leave for 2 weeks just to make a decent Star Wars marathon...
On the other hand Lucas at the same time is saying that Big Budget films are doomed. "The market forces that exist today make it unrealistic to spend $200 million on a movie. Those movies can't make their money back anymore. Look at what happened with 'King Kong.'"
But what I think is the kicker is when he says, "it's no accident that the "small movies" outclassed the spectaculars in this year's Academy Awards. Is that good for the business? No — it's bad for the business. But moviemaking isn't about business. It's about art!" Right Luke! It's about Vlogging and the force is with us!!! I can't wait for the first multi-million dollar vlog. That would be hilarious.
Studierstube.org:
" The Handheld AR project extended from PDAs to Smartphones. In March 2006 we created a simple demo that shows our technology on an i-mate SP5 phone.
This demo shows an animated character rendered live on an ARToolKitPlus marker."
