Posted February 28th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Drawings| Paintings| Projects| Visual Art
This is one of the last oil paintings I did… This picture was taken a little bit before I decided it was done, and the others in the series burnt up in a fire. Also, the more recent pictures had of it burnt up in my last hard drive crash. The ‘finished’ painting, I gave to some friends of mine and they actually have it hanging up in their home. I love that. I will try to remember to take an updated picture of it next time I’m at their house in the daytime. Anyways, I like the basic idea of it so I thought I’d post it here.
I think it’s about 30 inches wide.
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Posted February 28th, 2008, in: Art Etc| Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc| My Music (music made by Andrew A. Peterson)| Projects
“In The Beginning”
MP3 LINK HERE [blip.tv ?posts_id=710308&dest=-1]
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This is a piece of music I made for the first episode of the Four Eyed Monsters Video Podcast. Arin sent me a loop of him playing his nylon string guitar and said “See if you can do anything with this…” or something like that. So this is what I did with it and they liked what it added to the episode, so after a few revisions (there’s always revisions), this became the score for that episode.
Because I never intended for it to be listened to on its own, I can’t help but not really consider it a song. Musically, it’s sort of a one-trick-pony, doing the same couple of phrases over and over, but I get so many requests for it and so many people put it on their MySpace Profiles when it was up on myspace, that I decided to make it available to anyone that wants it. I guess people like it. 
I should mention that Episode 6 has a piece of music I made to compliment this one. It’s based on a Minor-ized version of the same theme so I’m posting that here too.
“Begging”
(As heard in Episode 6 of the Four Eyed Monsters Podcast)
MP3 LINK HERE [blip.tv ?posts_id=712854&dest=-1]This work is licensed under a
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Posted February 28th, 2008, in: Ideas, Observations, Opinions, Rants Etc
In case you didn’t know, I’m looking for a job right now. All the fuss got me thinking about how silly the process is, at least for me. I find myself in a weird sort of personal Woody Allen movie, where not only am I totally insecure and the world around me more or less completely nonsensical, but at the same time I find myself entertaining totally self-absorbed notions in a world where I appear to be the only one bothered by all the nonsense. It’s an “I must be the only sane one here” type of thing. Of course, that’s an oxymoronical idea. The insane one is the minority by definition. And that would be me. I thought it would be cathartic for me and possibly entertaining for you if I purge some of my observations and insecurities here. Here are the first two bits of this.
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Posted February 23rd, 2008, in: Uncategorized
Calla Lilies (Zantedeschia Sometning-or-other) (big ones)
and
Daffodils (Narcissus?)
Oh man. I hate cutting the flowers, but I sure do love looking at these.
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Posted February 21st, 2008, in: Events| Intellectual Property| New Media| Technology| Videos| Viral Marketing| Web 2.0
- No submission Fees
- Filmmakers actually make money
- Filmmakers retain all their rights
- Prize: Global Distribution
For more info, visit From Here To Awesome
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHUwTkbAvn4&rel=1]
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Posted February 21st, 2008, in: Videos
Here’s the video Lessig made about this.
“10 minutes to announce two ideas”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLIniks2O0s&rel=1]
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Posted February 20th, 2008, in: Technology| Web Browsers
UPDATE: I’ve had to change this post. I learned after posting this that WebKit is merely the rendering engine that Safari uses. Although Safari updates will eventually include the latest ‘stable’ version of the WebKit engine, by running an instance of Safari using the latest ‘beta’ version of WebKit you can take advantage of improvements being made to the engine now, but at the risk of encountering bugs etc, which so far I have not.
Anyways, I’ve had a hard time completely abandoning Safari for Flock. It turns out, while Flock has some features I really like and use on a daily basis, as well as the ability to run FireFox Extensions, it is a little clunky compared to Safari. I found myself still using Safari because it’s FAST. It’s just a more efficient App.
And I just recently learned about WebKit. Running Safari this way seems even faster than normal. They update WebKit on a nearly daily basis -seems like about every other day.
Anyways I’ve found that I’m using different browsers for different things. This is nice for two reasons. First, I’m taking advantage of each browser’s strengths, choosing which one to use depending on what I’m doing. Second, I’m addicted to Keyboard shortcuts and I love being able to Apple+Tab between the various things I’m doing.
One thing that would make doing things this way a lot better would be to have an aggregate view of my browsing history from across all the Browsers I use, Safari, Flock, NetNewsWire & FireFox. Then when I look at my history, it could be in chronological order regardless of the browser I used, but returning to an item in my history could open it in the same browser I opened it in the first time. Alternately, maybe a contextual (right-click/Control+click) menu could let me choose amongst them. I bet there’s a way to set this up using Automator, or maybe someone has thought of this and there’s an app out there somewhere. We’ll see.
Here’s what I use the various Browsers for as of today:
Safari w/ latest WebKit release
- System’s Default Browser… The articles that come in on the feeds in NetNewsWire usually get opened with this.
- Extended research sessions. I can’t stand waiting for Flock when I’m really trying to get some learning done or whatever.
- Quickly grabbing links and such while I’m blogging in Flock
NetNewsWire
- RSS/Atom Feeds for News, Blogs, continual queries of certain sites like craigslist
Flock
- My “HomePages.” Flock is set with three tabbed homepages, My WordPress Dashboard, FaceBook and MySpace. I don’t go too far from home with Flock
- Quick Web Searches via the add-on capable search thingy. I have stuff like dogpile, wikipedia and del.icio.us in there (and a ton more) (I wish pipl and definr would work in it)
- Generally I blog using Flock, Apple+Tabbing over to reading materials open in NetNewsWire, and the two instances of Safari I’ve been running at the same time (with and without the latest WebKit release).
- Flock’s blog editor comes in handy for quickly editing lite HTML while blogging, commenting or doing things like updating my MySpace (I’m such a dork).
FireFox
- I use FireFox for all the Extensions I don’t need to have in my face and clogging things up during normal operation. Stuff like the Google Toolbar, The Web Developer Toolbar, Etc Etc Etc… Ugh! Disgusting. I hate all the toolbars. So much clutter.
Safari
- I still find myself opening the normal version of Safari to have two history paths, or to be able to have one more space to Apple-Tab over to… But basically right now I’m mostly content with the “WebKit version.”
Anyways, I wish there was an automated way to always get the latest stable or near stable version of WebKit automatically…. It’s getting annoying constantly downloading disk images, mounting them, dragging the app, ejecting the image… An automator script maybe?
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Posted February 20th, 2008, in: Hard Drive Drama
NOTE: the following refers to DP 5.1 on a Mac with OS 10.4.11… If you have a different version of OS X or if you’re running an older version of DP, things might be a little different
After cloning my drive with Carbon Copy Cloner and migrating to the clone, I found that Digital Performer wasn’t able to save files! Error Says:
An Error occurred while writing to the disk. The file [name] was not saved. This file was created in a later version of Digital Performer and cannot be opened in this version. Try to save your file on another disk or folder, or with a different name.
Oh no!
A little digging found me these Instructions from MOTU but they are slightly incorrect, at least they were for me.
The fix is to delete an invisible file called Auth-DigitalPerformer 5.0 from your Hard Drive’s root directory.
If you’re not comfortable doing things in the Terminal, File Buddy is a great app for this sort of thing. It’s like a souped-up Finder allows you to work with invisible files and do all kinds of other advanced things with the stuff on your Mac. It’s a very useful program but it does cost like $40 bucks.
A free Applications that will get the job done just as well is called Visibility and it’s made by a company called Zevrix Solutions. Download it, install it, launch it, click on Show Invisible Files, the Finder will relaunch, then you will see the file called Auth-DigitalPerformer 5.0 in your Root directory. Trash it and DP should be happy again. Afterward you can use Visibility to put the Finder back to normal.
Do be really careful not to move or delete any of the other invisible files. They’re hidden from you for a reason.
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Posted February 16th, 2008, in: Videos
This is sad. And I’ve seen behavior like this on the part of law enforcement officers far too many times. I like to think that all this interconnectivity between us with our gadgets and the web is going to make it harder for our public servants to get away with treating us like this.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWrV8TcUc&rel=1]
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Posted February 13th, 2008, in: Semantic Web| Technology
Some steps I’m taking to get all my contacts in order:
- Syncing my phone with my Desktop Address Book using iSync. (Unfortunately, my phone, a Nokia 6126 isn’t supported by iSync so I had to find a hack to make it work)
- Installing Plaxo‘s extension for AddressBook on my computer so I can take advantage of Plaxo’s syncing service
- Setting up Plaxo to retrieve as much info about the people I know as possible from the various online services on which we are connected.
- Manually attempting to find redundancies in this master-list of connections and fix them. I have multiple incomplete address cards for many people, often with each one containing different pieces of the puzzle. Also, I wanto to include MySpace URL’s and Blogs that aren’t discoverable using Plaxo or any of the other tools I have at my disposal. I guess I have to do this more or less manually.
- Re-Syncing with Plaxo then Re-Syncing with my phone.
- With a few exceptions, I’m not going to include people who I’ve only met online thru Social Networks Etc.
- Publishing this data, Minus Private information like emails addresses and phone numbers in Semantic Formats like FOAF, XFN Etc. I wonder about how other people would fee about the ethics of this. I’ve decided that since I’m not revealing anything that isn’t already findable on the public web, via a MySpace search etc, it isn’t unethical even though many of the people I know might haven’t thought through what the implications are of participating in the Social Web. I am going to take special care to not reveal blog sites and other things that people I know are doing anonymously.
- This will probably take me a few days at least and I’m not looking forward to the work.
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