Also, seeing probably the set that I wanted the most ever but never got, the Black Sea Barracuda.
Anyways, read the article on Gizmodo and watch the video. One day I will reassemble my LEGO collection, one day.
Monday, July 21, 2008
The LEGO Vault
My sister sent me a news article from Gizmodo that made me want to cry tonight. It was an article on the LEGO vault that contains all the LEGO sets ever created. Just amazing. Just seeing the video which only highlighted a few sets made me get emotional. I can't even imagine how it would seeing that in person, overwhelming. Saw a few of my sets that are in storage right now on the video, like the Airport Shuttle.
Also, seeing probably the set that I wanted the most ever but never got, the Black Sea Barracuda.
Anyways, read the article on Gizmodo and watch the video. One day I will reassemble my LEGO collection, one day.
Also, seeing probably the set that I wanted the most ever but never got, the Black Sea Barracuda.
Anyways, read the article on Gizmodo and watch the video. One day I will reassemble my LEGO collection, one day.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Three Times The Charm
It would have been if Need For Speed Carbon was a better game. It's so odd it became like a casual game it was so easy once you got the hang of it. But not a bad game necessarily and it had some good music, sometimes. Anyways, I have now beat the game with all three sides: exotic, muscle, and tuner. Therefore I have now played the game three times from beginning to end and have unlocked everything save for the online unlocks. Don't know what I'm going to do now to get my racing fix since Colin McRae still isn't working since I got the Mac Pro (very very very sad about that). Anyways I figure I would celebrate the occasion with posting the three highest tier cars I used.
My blue Nissan GTR R34 from my first time through the game under the tuner class.
Here's the good ole' red Ford GT from when I played the muscle class, very fun car with very nice engine sound.
Lastly we have my matte black Porsche Carrera GT which is the best sounding and fastest car of the whole bunch.
My blue Nissan GTR R34 from my first time through the game under the tuner class.
Here's the good ole' red Ford GT from when I played the muscle class, very fun car with very nice engine sound.
Lastly we have my matte black Porsche Carrera GT which is the best sounding and fastest car of the whole bunch.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Times Square Fails
Today Audrey and I along with two of her friends went to see WALL-E down at the Regal 13 in the Times Square area. We got there a bit early and audrey spotted this sign with a dialog box on it and I was like no way. Apparently someone's massive LED display down in the Times Square area has a warning for it's owner. That being that the virus definitions are 30 days old and out of date and they have been updated. Of course letting the owner know this interrupted whatever ad or ads running on this display. Even though the dialog box really only notifies you of this and does nothing else other than the option for this box never to come up again. Yeah, that might be a useful thing to check in this case. But no, it's after 5 and the work day is over. It'll be like that til tomorrow morning and people will be pissed.
A video of the display at 42nd and 8th Ave.
A few stills as well for good measure, wish I didn't just have my camera phone on me to get this.
On a separate note WALL-E was pretty great. Really enjoyed it. But really pretty scary, not quite Fallout level scary but scary none the less. Especially with the Buy Large corporation. I was though really impressed with the lighting in WALL-E, down to the little particulates in the air on earth, probably the best I've seen done yet.
A video of the display at 42nd and 8th Ave.
A few stills as well for good measure, wish I didn't just have my camera phone on me to get this.
On a separate note WALL-E was pretty great. Really enjoyed it. But really pretty scary, not quite Fallout level scary but scary none the less. Especially with the Buy Large corporation. I was though really impressed with the lighting in WALL-E, down to the little particulates in the air on earth, probably the best I've seen done yet.
Friday, June 20, 2008
In Response to the LA Times Article "Amid rising gas prices, more in L.A. turning to commuter rail"
I grew up and lived in LA for most of my life, however grad school took me out to NYC. Which in a lot of ways have given me a certain amount of perspective on how vastly different the cities operate and the effects of public transit.
In NYC you have a very small land area that is extremely dense population wise. LA is as we know spread out and diffuse and sprawling with many different neighborhoods and cities that are encompassed by LA county and neighboring counties. Therefore you end up with two major problems with mass transit, the first being decentralization of the population that needs to be serviced which often requires traversing longer distances than cities with large mass transit systems. The second problem is how to effectively plan and build transit lines to service all these areas effectively and equally. NYC may not have such a large issue with population decentralization but they definitely still deal heavily with the issue of effective planning and location of transit lines. They essentially have done very little to address the push of people having to leave Manhattan due to rent prices, to the outer boroughs. They have essentially done nothing or very little to address this problem which makes commuting a nightmare for a large amount of people with commutes taking as long as or worse than LA gridlock. This is because the system is completely Manhattan centric and does not effectively allow for transportation between the boroughs coupled with less service.
I see this same problem for when I used to ride the Metrolink in LA. The time between trains was ridiculous, miss one train (oh and they used to leave early often times) and your waiting 20-40 minutes. There is no margin for error. At least most of the time in NYC they run enough trains to actually make it feasible to catch the next one. However, LA may fall into the same trap as NYC with becoming downtown centric or limiting service only to specific select areas and completely disenfranchising areas. However can this be avoided with the current structure of LA?
Another aspect is once you get off the train, how fast or how hard is it to get to your destination. When I was taking the Metrolink, my destination was anywhere from 20-30 minutes by bus from the train stop versus a 5-minute car ride. This is yet another deterrent and problem with the train system that being the low number of stations along the lines and infrequent and slow bus service to pick up where the trains leave off.
Lastly in regards to fare prices, I saw the rate hiked during the course of my riding the Metrolink without absolutely any change in service at all save for the impact it was having on my wallet. Yes there is needed more funding needed but if it is not spent to improve the overall infrastructure it will ultimately be a band aid over a wound that needs surgery stat. There needs to be broad and coordinated restructuring and re-evaluation of the transit systems of LA. Those are my thoughts.
You can read the original article here at the LA Times
In NYC you have a very small land area that is extremely dense population wise. LA is as we know spread out and diffuse and sprawling with many different neighborhoods and cities that are encompassed by LA county and neighboring counties. Therefore you end up with two major problems with mass transit, the first being decentralization of the population that needs to be serviced which often requires traversing longer distances than cities with large mass transit systems. The second problem is how to effectively plan and build transit lines to service all these areas effectively and equally. NYC may not have such a large issue with population decentralization but they definitely still deal heavily with the issue of effective planning and location of transit lines. They essentially have done very little to address the push of people having to leave Manhattan due to rent prices, to the outer boroughs. They have essentially done nothing or very little to address this problem which makes commuting a nightmare for a large amount of people with commutes taking as long as or worse than LA gridlock. This is because the system is completely Manhattan centric and does not effectively allow for transportation between the boroughs coupled with less service.
I see this same problem for when I used to ride the Metrolink in LA. The time between trains was ridiculous, miss one train (oh and they used to leave early often times) and your waiting 20-40 minutes. There is no margin for error. At least most of the time in NYC they run enough trains to actually make it feasible to catch the next one. However, LA may fall into the same trap as NYC with becoming downtown centric or limiting service only to specific select areas and completely disenfranchising areas. However can this be avoided with the current structure of LA?
Another aspect is once you get off the train, how fast or how hard is it to get to your destination. When I was taking the Metrolink, my destination was anywhere from 20-30 minutes by bus from the train stop versus a 5-minute car ride. This is yet another deterrent and problem with the train system that being the low number of stations along the lines and infrequent and slow bus service to pick up where the trains leave off.
Lastly in regards to fare prices, I saw the rate hiked during the course of my riding the Metrolink without absolutely any change in service at all save for the impact it was having on my wallet. Yes there is needed more funding needed but if it is not spent to improve the overall infrastructure it will ultimately be a band aid over a wound that needs surgery stat. There needs to be broad and coordinated restructuring and re-evaluation of the transit systems of LA. Those are my thoughts.
You can read the original article here at the LA Times
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Pitching Terrorist Attacks
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Personally the attack they pitched was a bit boring and generic, not like we haven't seen that in a hollywood movie before. I like the end part about having an appointment with Hezbollah. Oi. Anyways, Maybe I'll get some graduation pictures up here soonish? Hopefully.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Flight 666
That's crazy I didn't know the front man for Iron Maiden was also a commercial pilot. I swear sometimes rockstars surprise me.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
SNL Actually Having Something Funny On It???
Yeah, who woulda thought. I happened to be eating when it was on so I watched some of it. The General Petraeus skit was pretty damn funny
But not as funny as. "Death By Chocolate." Now I normally hate Ashton Kutcher and find him utterly annoying, however this was awesome.
I didn't get to see the 1st one, but did see the 3rd one, I hope it gets posted somewhere cause that was even funnier. Basically the chocolate bar sees a guy digging through trash in an alley and kind of quietly walks up to him and is right behind him watching what he's doing. Then out of nowhere he pulls a kitchen knife and ganks the guy and then tosses the knife and starts running and flailing away. So, funny and dark.
But not as funny as. "Death By Chocolate." Now I normally hate Ashton Kutcher and find him utterly annoying, however this was awesome.
I didn't get to see the 1st one, but did see the 3rd one, I hope it gets posted somewhere cause that was even funnier. Basically the chocolate bar sees a guy digging through trash in an alley and kind of quietly walks up to him and is right behind him watching what he's doing. Then out of nowhere he pulls a kitchen knife and ganks the guy and then tosses the knife and starts running and flailing away. So, funny and dark.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Kool Aid, Totalitarian Societies, and Ambulances
I just stumbled upon this guy by the name of Yahtzee who reviews games apparently. Bloody awesome. Here's this ridiculous funny review of Sim City Societies. Favorite moments, the mention of Nazi germany and how totalitarian societies make my balls feel big and the ritualistic suicide qualified with the Kool Aid man jumping out from seemingly nowhere. Yes, yes, yes, do watch it.
and on a second note, best ambulance ever.
and on a second note, best ambulance ever.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
New Additions, Thesis, & What's Cooking?
So, firstly I would like to show you all some additions to the hallway. It makes it a bit dark but still I like, ominous though. Thoughts suggestions?
I had a bit of time before school started up again to cook cook cook. Decided to cook up a nice London Broil roast. I haven't cooked this in probably like 7-8 years now, it's been a long time. It came out well though so worth the effort. Also, the meat dry aged for 20 days, gosh dang it was good meat, I wish I had pictures of it when it was raw. Anyhow I got some pics of it just about done.
The beginning of the end has begun. In fact its now two weeks in and for some classes three weeks in. I'm only taking three classes this semester. One on java and basically working with massive amounts of textual information. It's supposed to be a hard first 4 weeks and then downhill from there. I was on the verge of head splode. Yeah, regular expressions in java, TreeMaps, HashMaps, and Big O! (I miss watching that show on Cartoon Network, I miss cable, CalArts dorms the good ole' days) But ya, head splode it was like the TreeMap biz today with mentions of the HashTable, gosh, talking about stuff like the amount of cycles it will take to index into a concordance N amount of numbers ends up being things like, N to the 12th power, but then we can get it down to N log base 2 N. It's like gagh!!! Next week it's bayesian filters and the hash. Gonna need some hash to get through that class.
Second class is Sousveillance Culture, which is pretty cool, seminar on inverse surveillance. Pointing the camera back at the Man wherever he may be. Have a good teacher, so it should be a good class as well as a nice compliment to my last class the biggie.
THESIS! Yes, it is here, the thesis seminar. Well looks like from the schedule we're presenting every single week 10-15 minutes or more, with weekly crits. This week we had to present some contextual references and contextual projects, present on parts of our personal statement, our background for coming to this project, and our methodology. Pulled out of course some Michael Foucault about the panopticon and then went all og like that and went to the source. Mista Jeremy Bentham himself, the father of the panopticon, 1780's baby. Oh yeah, if that don't get you excited hell I dunno what would. Anyhow, it actually is quite interesting and I have come to realize on re-reading some of the Foucault that Tekserve's database system and its way it operates is a panopticon. The database is always observable from any point and all work is tied into it along with all marks on productivity. Anyone can see what anyone is looking at, at any given time, or working on for that matter, before or after any sort of transaction. Complete control. Anyhow, that aside the presentation went well, I felt I covered all the points that needed to be covered. I presented for the project references Finishing School's "Today It's Voluntary" and Meagan Collins, myself, and Roman Jaster's street sign project back from 2005. Made me start to miss CalArts thought thinking about the street sign project and the people's.
Back to the Tekserve, had a bit of an issue a bit ago had to take somethings up with the HR. However, I may have a chance at a paid internship with Turnstone Consulting LLC. It's the company of one of my professor's. So, if so more than likely I will be taking "this time to tend to my resignation." I'm pretty excited about this prospect. We'll see.
Other than that, it's been mostly school. I didn't even get to watch the super bowl. But I did find the most awesome commercials aired during it. Audi's. The first is the Godfather one, I love the detail with the oil stains all over the sheets, as if it were blood. Take a look here.
However, the best one though is this one. "Truth in the Blacklist." Showing off one of the evilest cars ever made, the Audi quattro S1, the Group B version. Group B rallying that is, aka unlimited technologies, only need for 5000 car production numbers, unlimited boost = unlimited power, basically the monsters. So the quattro, pretty wicked, 600-1000 brake horsepower, 4WD, 2.1L 5 cylinder turbocharged engine, 0-60 in just over 2 seconds. So, fast it was claimed to drive faster than a driver can think. So, yes the best commercial goes to the Group B Audi spot. Enjoy.
Oh, and I almost completely forgot, news. "Death, Destruction, and the Weather Coming Up Next" is coming to NYC in April. It's going to be screened at the Anthology Film Archive. It's going to be part of the New Filmmakers series, I'm going to show with a group of friends from CalArts both the experimental animation program and film/video program. It should be awesome. Lots of CalArts nostalgia going on lately. Anyways that's it for now, back to it.
I had a bit of time before school started up again to cook cook cook. Decided to cook up a nice London Broil roast. I haven't cooked this in probably like 7-8 years now, it's been a long time. It came out well though so worth the effort. Also, the meat dry aged for 20 days, gosh dang it was good meat, I wish I had pictures of it when it was raw. Anyhow I got some pics of it just about done.
The beginning of the end has begun. In fact its now two weeks in and for some classes three weeks in. I'm only taking three classes this semester. One on java and basically working with massive amounts of textual information. It's supposed to be a hard first 4 weeks and then downhill from there. I was on the verge of head splode. Yeah, regular expressions in java, TreeMaps, HashMaps, and Big O! (I miss watching that show on Cartoon Network, I miss cable, CalArts dorms the good ole' days) But ya, head splode it was like the TreeMap biz today with mentions of the HashTable, gosh, talking about stuff like the amount of cycles it will take to index into a concordance N amount of numbers ends up being things like, N to the 12th power, but then we can get it down to N log base 2 N. It's like gagh!!! Next week it's bayesian filters and the hash. Gonna need some hash to get through that class.
Second class is Sousveillance Culture, which is pretty cool, seminar on inverse surveillance. Pointing the camera back at the Man wherever he may be. Have a good teacher, so it should be a good class as well as a nice compliment to my last class the biggie.
THESIS! Yes, it is here, the thesis seminar. Well looks like from the schedule we're presenting every single week 10-15 minutes or more, with weekly crits. This week we had to present some contextual references and contextual projects, present on parts of our personal statement, our background for coming to this project, and our methodology. Pulled out of course some Michael Foucault about the panopticon and then went all og like that and went to the source. Mista Jeremy Bentham himself, the father of the panopticon, 1780's baby. Oh yeah, if that don't get you excited hell I dunno what would. Anyhow, it actually is quite interesting and I have come to realize on re-reading some of the Foucault that Tekserve's database system and its way it operates is a panopticon. The database is always observable from any point and all work is tied into it along with all marks on productivity. Anyone can see what anyone is looking at, at any given time, or working on for that matter, before or after any sort of transaction. Complete control. Anyhow, that aside the presentation went well, I felt I covered all the points that needed to be covered. I presented for the project references Finishing School's "Today It's Voluntary" and Meagan Collins, myself, and Roman Jaster's street sign project back from 2005. Made me start to miss CalArts thought thinking about the street sign project and the people's.
Back to the Tekserve, had a bit of an issue a bit ago had to take somethings up with the HR. However, I may have a chance at a paid internship with Turnstone Consulting LLC. It's the company of one of my professor's. So, if so more than likely I will be taking "this time to tend to my resignation." I'm pretty excited about this prospect. We'll see.
Other than that, it's been mostly school. I didn't even get to watch the super bowl. But I did find the most awesome commercials aired during it. Audi's. The first is the Godfather one, I love the detail with the oil stains all over the sheets, as if it were blood. Take a look here.
However, the best one though is this one. "Truth in the Blacklist." Showing off one of the evilest cars ever made, the Audi quattro S1, the Group B version. Group B rallying that is, aka unlimited technologies, only need for 5000 car production numbers, unlimited boost = unlimited power, basically the monsters. So the quattro, pretty wicked, 600-1000 brake horsepower, 4WD, 2.1L 5 cylinder turbocharged engine, 0-60 in just over 2 seconds. So, fast it was claimed to drive faster than a driver can think. So, yes the best commercial goes to the Group B Audi spot. Enjoy.
Oh, and I almost completely forgot, news. "Death, Destruction, and the Weather Coming Up Next" is coming to NYC in April. It's going to be screened at the Anthology Film Archive. It's going to be part of the New Filmmakers series, I'm going to show with a group of friends from CalArts both the experimental animation program and film/video program. It should be awesome. Lots of CalArts nostalgia going on lately. Anyways that's it for now, back to it.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Long Post Running
Soo, its been a long time, yeah very long time. What can I saw November was insanely hectic as was the beginning of December. School was clamping down, the projects were piling up, the papers where down to the wire. So, I guess the big thing for this semester was the winter show for the NNW, it went very well but I'll post more about that later once the video is edited and I've sorted through all the photo documentation, I've been lagging, aka been on vacation finally!
Well vacation is almost over now and I have spent about 2 and a half or almost 3 weeks sick, it sucked. Being home was a lot of fun, and I needed it. Got to hang with all my friends and stuff and wander around the neighborhood. Saw the Murakami show, I have experienced the "superflat" that is Murakami and his Corporation of art. Ran into this while at the mall while shopping in the heat of the Christmas 11th hour madness that seemed oddly non-existent.
This is from the newly remodeled formerly Max Foods now an Albertson's.
It's weird a lot of things changed when I was back home, a local news reporter died, another news reporter split from the only station I ever knew him on to of all places Fox. Stores were erected and houses as well. Things remodeled and updated. Things appearing out of nowhere.
My mom got some new rubber on her car, so I had a little bit of fun while driving her car when I was back home. I realized one of the biggest differences between NY and LA driving. Throttle. You never put it anywhere near the floor in NY. Gosh I miss mashing that pedal to the floor. Especially during the delivery dash of Christmas cards.
Speaking of driving though, Colin McRae Rally for Mac finally came out, may he rest in peace. Awesome game, totally addicted and one of the reasons why I haven't posted during this vacation besides WoW. It's made me contemplate getting a racing wheel and pedals, they got this nice one from Logitech with paddle shifting, MOMO. Here's some mayhem from the game.
Flying through the air in a Lancia Delta.
Heavily damaged Ford Cosworth.
Flying Subie sans hood.
And Rolling the Subie.
One last jump.
and of course a Rick Roll siting.
It's actually funny Rick Rolling or rather the concept behind rick rolling ended up coming towards the end of the semester which was awesome. Speaking of awesome, a couple of things, first seeing the Lawerence Weiner exhibit at the Whitney during Thanksgiving which was really good and tasty I have to dig up a picture of the Turkey, it came out so damn tender, juicy. The continuing series of Nikkatsu Action Cinema, also super awesome. As well as this new cuban place me and Audrey tried out, the meat was soo good. Oh and danish.
and mariachis
And with that I will end this post for today, more to come hopefully soon.
Well vacation is almost over now and I have spent about 2 and a half or almost 3 weeks sick, it sucked. Being home was a lot of fun, and I needed it. Got to hang with all my friends and stuff and wander around the neighborhood. Saw the Murakami show, I have experienced the "superflat" that is Murakami and his Corporation of art. Ran into this while at the mall while shopping in the heat of the Christmas 11th hour madness that seemed oddly non-existent.
This is from the newly remodeled formerly Max Foods now an Albertson's.
It's weird a lot of things changed when I was back home, a local news reporter died, another news reporter split from the only station I ever knew him on to of all places Fox. Stores were erected and houses as well. Things remodeled and updated. Things appearing out of nowhere.
My mom got some new rubber on her car, so I had a little bit of fun while driving her car when I was back home. I realized one of the biggest differences between NY and LA driving. Throttle. You never put it anywhere near the floor in NY. Gosh I miss mashing that pedal to the floor. Especially during the delivery dash of Christmas cards.
Speaking of driving though, Colin McRae Rally for Mac finally came out, may he rest in peace. Awesome game, totally addicted and one of the reasons why I haven't posted during this vacation besides WoW. It's made me contemplate getting a racing wheel and pedals, they got this nice one from Logitech with paddle shifting, MOMO. Here's some mayhem from the game.
Flying through the air in a Lancia Delta.
Heavily damaged Ford Cosworth.
Flying Subie sans hood.
And Rolling the Subie.
One last jump.
and of course a Rick Roll siting.
It's actually funny Rick Rolling or rather the concept behind rick rolling ended up coming towards the end of the semester which was awesome. Speaking of awesome, a couple of things, first seeing the Lawerence Weiner exhibit at the Whitney during Thanksgiving which was really good and tasty I have to dig up a picture of the Turkey, it came out so damn tender, juicy. The continuing series of Nikkatsu Action Cinema, also super awesome. As well as this new cuban place me and Audrey tried out, the meat was soo good. Oh and danish.
and mariachis
And with that I will end this post for today, more to come hopefully soon.
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