"You like ZZ Top?"
Monday, December 18, 2006
Biker-Crackers
So, there's this building store front near my school on 10th St. between Broadway and 4th Ave. They have 6 giant nucrackers in the window all done up like this. Make me think of biker nucrackers or "ZZ Cracker."
Camo Tree
I forget which day it was I think it was during finals week that It rained and this tree still moist looked like it was painted with camoflage.
National Security
Well I'm guessing the department of Homeboy I mean Homeland Security got a tip off that the Stuyvesent Town Christmas tree was in danger of being attacked.
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Not sure which department store this is but it's right across a street from the CompUSA on 5th Ave.
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Well the week after Thanksgiving during my quest to find boots I wandered up and down the city in and out of shoe stores all over. I forget which building this is but it looked really nice. I got to see a lot of decorated buildings along my wanderings which was rather nice.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
And I'm Back
Well I'm back. The semester is over, all my projects are done and I'm back home in good ole' South San Gabriel, California. First day back and it rains. What's the deal? Went to the D1 Grand Prix (drift racing) at Irwindale Spweedway. It was the last race of the season. It was good, pretty crazy especially since it was raining. Team Orange totally dominated in the end. Ireland was out there representin' which was cool. But, yeah I'm tired and I'll post up pics and info about the last weeks of the semester and such and what I'm up to now (probably lots of nothing and eating).
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
The Govenator
"I am the Govenator of Kali-forrrrnia." So, apparently before you leave or when you arrive at L.A.X. you can pick up your "Govenator" t-shirt. Scary isn't it? (The Govenator is brought to you by Audrey mind you, props where props are due.) Oh, finished one final which is awesome. In the process of finishing it or coming to conclusion it was finished I dumped out about a week and half to w weeks worth of work or so of animation stuffs I was originally going to use. Depending on how lazy I am or when I get around to it after I get these other projects done I will be posting it up (which involves learning how to sign a java applet). So, back to verk!
RGB2CMYK-TIME-Trump
So, this is what I've been working on for my final project for Pixel by Pixel. So, what is it I am actually doing? I am currently taking a still image and compositing part of it and placing live video behind it that is being processed to be converted to CMYK from the RGB color space. Why do this? I'm interested in the whole content associations that are established with color spaces (probably because I have dealt and worked two long with both worlds and have utterly lost my mind dealing with color spaces, proofing, and the like). Print (C.M.Y.K.- Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, & Black), has a certain of weight and value to it inherently due to the costs associated with mass production print as opposed to the RGB color space. RGB (Red, Green, & Blue) is seen basically in anything that is video, tv, your computer, your camcorder, digital camera, etc. Even though on the high end with broadcast video there are large budgets and big dollars being thrown around on one side of the spectrum there is also the other end which is the person who has that crappy Hi-8 camcorder, little point and shoot digital camera, or even just a computer. All of these use the RGB color space and so there is a wide gamut of who has access to these technologies. The biggest issue thus far with this project was trying to figure out a work around for the issue of two video buffers of different sizes eventually being put into the same destination buffer, aka GWorld, (no relation with Ghandi the rap star formerly known as G Spot"). On that note, go watch Clone High (why did you cancel it MTV!) and I am back to work on trying to make this program work faster than a putrid 9fps.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Cobra Commander in Plaid!
COBRA COMMANDER in plaid. Yes, it's gotten cold enuff for me to bust out the scarf and my grand spanking new jacket with "radial arm motion." Supposed to snow in like 2 hours or least that's what weather.com says. We shall see what we shall see. COBRA COMMANDER demands snowmen to be constructed to create a protective barrier against gung ho and mister LaFitty! But yeah back to programming now =|
Sunday, December 03, 2006
The Godfather & The Return of Ska
Well just this week I picked up two new ska albums at a local Tower Records going out of biz massive sale. Those two were Ska-Boo-Da-Ba by the Skatalites and The Last of the Skinheads by Judge Dread. Awesome albums both of them. I've been listening to them all week. Especially one song from the Skatalites by the name of Confucius. Awesome bass in it. So, tonite I was working on my pixel by pixel homework which I was having some difficulties with but made progress and solved a huge prob. I'll post some example pics from it later. Anyhow I meant to go to sleep instead I ended up on You Tube and I ended up looking up the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. That's right Japanese ska for all of you who haven't heard the news. They've been around for awhile. Got to see them last summer at the House of Blues while they were on their first tour in the states. Amazing. The trombone player, the trumpet player and the drummer unbelievable. So, I was wondering You Tube and ran into the fact that they've played with Puffy Ami Yumi but also that they had covered the Godfather theme. Amazing especially when they slow it down and then go into double time right after. Blood great. T.S.P.O.!
Saturday, December 02, 2006
The Hunt for Red-Bootober
Yes, I am on a hunt for boots. Boots for the winter when it hits. I've been trying on boots this week on my to and from different areas. Still haven't found like that perfect pair. However, I have seen these two pairs of ASICS that are rather nice. The red one I like more.
Styuvesent Town & Peter Cooper Village
This is Styuvesent Town & Peter Cooper Village from 1st Avenue and 15th St.. Such very nice weather we've been having all this week. We even hit into the 70's this week, totally bizzare.
Cîtroen
There's this old Cîtroen near where I live I finally got a chance to take a picture of it.
Giant X-Mas Tree
Here Styuvesent Town workers are busy decorating this giant Christmas Tree. I remember them building the scaffolding. I wish I could go climb on it, however they have a guard on duty at all times circling the tree, which is crazy. They're crazy.
"Phase 1: Deploy wreaths and garland!"
It is now officially Christmas time, so New York is changing all over the place. Store windows, streets, etc etc. Here in Stuyvesent Town they have begun their decorating.
Lobster's End...
This is the death of our friend the lobster by Audrey's Dad the chef. He was a rather tasty lobster in the end. His sacrifice will not be forgotten and will always be remembered as a transformation from regular sea creature to tasty dinner.
Lobster's Quiet Protest.
After coming back from finding a winter coat Audrey's Dad was in preperation for making a good dinner. Including a fresh lobster. This is our friend the lobster, he's not particularly thrilled and doesn't emote much for the camera I think it's possibly protesting quietly.
Friday, December 01, 2006
The Carton
The White Castle slider carton. Audrey and Me split a Sack Meal, which was 4 sliders w/cheese, those crinkly like fries, and a Coke. So, good. However, I ended up devouring 3 out of the 4 burgers. Not sure if Audrey will ever forgive me. Actually my mouth is starting to water thinking about them right now, mmm.
White Castle
Here I am standing in front of a White Castle location just outside Chicago. I have finally arrived.
B.K. Games Sans-Whopper Value Meal
That's right I got all three games without having to buy a single BK food product. The worker was like, "Oh so you don't want to destroy your innards just get the games?" Yes. Does anyone have an XBox I can play Sneak King on? Oh, yeah and Audrey might wanna tag along.
Me and T.K.
So, we found something on that day in downtown Chicago. However, still no coat. We set forth the next day looking for one this time to a different area. We also had the other goals of acquiring the Burger King Games that had just been released, or rather I did and to go to White Castle since I had seen one nearby and was like OH MY GOSH WHITE CASTLE! First stop Burger King. Here I am with The King aka T.K.. Both got the sunglasses going, oh yeah. The double crossandwhich, meat and cheese, meat and cheese.
No Flask is Holier Than Thou...
Indeed. I believe it would go well with the virgin mary hanging from the rearview mirror of many cars in East. L.A.. They should be sold as a set maybe you get a price break if you order both online through Amazon. That'd be awesome. Anyways, post-thanksgiving Audrey and I and her sister, Jasmine, set out on a quest to find me winter provisions to be properly prepared. I don't have a winter coat, gloves, and the rest. So, we departed and went into downtown Chicago. So, nice during Christmas. We went into the Urban Outfitters and we found this wonderful religious trinket. Oh and apparently American Apparel has pants that are still in the R&D phase for sale. Audrey tried on a pair, really weird, testbed pants, how does that work? I thought that was something for like the Military Industrial Complex and such.
DAD The Movie
Yeah, I almost forgot when Audrey and I went out to get supplies for the apple sauce she needed to get a card for her dad since it's his birthday. This one didn't make the cut but was rather "visually stunning." It definitely led the pack in the special effects category.
Brown Sauce?
Yeah, a lot of us were trying to figure this one out. Is it like gravey is not gravey? Is it just some random generic brown colored sauce? It was good though but I still may never know if it was really gravey or not.
Thanksgiving in the Greater Chicagoland Area
So, Thanksgiving. I hope it was good for all of you. I had a good time I didn't spend it back home I spent it in Chicago with Audrey and her family. So, nice, had such a good time and the weather was even good (aka not cold in the least bit very abnormal). Without further delay the food. Great, amazing, "visually stunning," and "fun for the whole family." Anyways, lots of food, turkey, ham, seafood salad, homemade apple sauce (Audrey and I made it), bread turkey (aka a bread shaped like a turkey), mashed potatoes, yams, seafood salad, fruit, and the list goes on and on much liken to the "beat." So pictures!
"I'm Teflon, Biatch!"
That's right it's Ronald Grand Master Pimp Reagan. He's arrived and so have new blog updates and pictures. I ran out of bandwidth for the month of November so yeah, but it's December now so it's open season once again.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Pimpidents
"Where's my money ho? Oh what? Does a pimpident have to dispatch military advisors to the site known as the upside of your head? Maybe you want a "bunker buster" or a "cuban." Or maybe you want me to send you to build a house for my NPO. See how much you like splinters." Yes, I had to get these magnets so awesomely hillarious. Dubbya Freaks me out a lil with all that exposed chest, he's riding a fine line between pimp and ho.
Well I had a smashing good time in Chicago with Audrey's family for Thanksgiving. The weather was actually nice (strange but true). More details and pics to come no time right now. I gotta work on my final projects. Working on some motion detection algorithiming for me Phys Comp class. Got my advisement appointment tomorrow with my advisor for classes for next semester so gotta get that together. SOO LITTLE TIME LEFT AGH! Ok back to work. More to come soon hopefully.
Well I had a smashing good time in Chicago with Audrey's family for Thanksgiving. The weather was actually nice (strange but true). More details and pics to come no time right now. I gotta work on my final projects. Working on some motion detection algorithiming for me Phys Comp class. Got my advisement appointment tomorrow with my advisor for classes for next semester so gotta get that together. SOO LITTLE TIME LEFT AGH! Ok back to work. More to come soon hopefully.
Pimpton
This is Pimpton telling you to party down with one of his fine NYU ladies @ the Stuyvesant Community Center.
Pimpush
Pimp Senior Bush wanna say, "Read my lips no mo high rates." Pimp Dubbya wanna say, "Don't hate the President hate the Terrorists. And a shout out to all my peeps in Texas, cause they're like that."
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Green & Black
Well, as you can tell I'm up quite late again. I'm busy playing the Fall of Saigon. What do I mean? I should clarify. I'm busy trying to get the data off my secondary hard drive of my G5 because the damn thing has gone belly up again. So, yes, I'm busy transferring files very slowly in firewire target to disk mode. The first signs of something amiss it stopped burning DVD's again. Then it became unstable. Then it just started taking like 15 minutes to boot and 10 to get to the desktop. Applications where beach balling sporadically and then the hard drive started clicking. What does this all mean. I have to take the damn thing back in again. Tell them once again, replace the darn processors like you should have when I took it back in circa September. Blasted 5th Ave. The thing will also prolly need its hard drive replaced, logic board, sata controller, etc, oh yeah and don't forget the casing because the last time it was in they mishandled it and dented and dinged it up. As you can tell not to found of the 5th Ave store. Anyways that's going along slowly the transfers because the G5 is limping along and sometimes having to get restarted and restart transfers over again. It can't transfer anything larger than about 10GB's or so at a time.
So, in the meantime I got productive. I started working on my I.C.M. final project. I started working with parsing the names of the soldiers who have been killed by I.E.D.'s in Iraq thus far. I have a preliminary text only visual of it. NamesGRNBLK The green and black a throw back to the computer commandline. I'm not sure what I think of this, but I almost am interested in just the text itself and the names alone without anything else. We shall see where it goes. Now I sleep.
So, in the meantime I got productive. I started working on my I.C.M. final project. I started working with parsing the names of the soldiers who have been killed by I.E.D.'s in Iraq thus far. I have a preliminary text only visual of it. NamesGRNBLK The green and black a throw back to the computer commandline. I'm not sure what I think of this, but I almost am interested in just the text itself and the names alone without anything else. We shall see where it goes. Now I sleep.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
I Want To Gag On My Dinner, That Means It's Finals Time Johnny...
That's right, if you can supply me with a chicken bone to obstruct my breathing let me know, i'll even pay extra for the shipping. Joking of course, that's right mid terms have concluded bloody finally however now it is time for final projects. That final push. That final half of a semester, oh whoops I mean 3-4 weeks? Seriously I don't get that, midterms ended so late it should be called Three Quarter Terms or something. I'm a lil bit edgy about final projects, I have a lot of work ahead of me and I know I'm going to be exhausted by the end. I hope it all ends up working out. So, what am I actually going to be doing for the next few weeks that will probably hamper me from updating this very often? Should we tell them Johnny? All right kids, these are for you and you, and hey wait not you, you go home, who let you back in here, security. First up, Intro to Computational Media, I will continue working with I.E.D. statistics and visualizing them. The visuals from this actually will tie into my Physical Computing final project which will be an IED field. (NOTE I'M NOT GOING TO BLOW ANY OF MY FELLOW CLASSMATES UP OR ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC. THERE IS NO REAL EXPLOSIVES BEING USED. I STILL WANT TO BE ABLE TO BOARD PLANES TO FLY HOME. THANK YOU.) It will consist of de-centralized proximity sensors within the classroom that will communicate hopefully (fingers crossed) wirelessly to my computer to drive the visuals of explosions happening from a top down map view. It will have audio com chatter and the explosions on screen will be based off of the positions of the triggered proximity sensors (I.E.D.s) within the classroom. They will be hidden and embedded as to stay in accord with the idea of an actual I.E.D.. Thirdly, Pixel by Pixel, I think I will be re-visiting my RGB to CMYK live image processing idea. The idea really stimulates me on an intellectual level about the whole idea of color space and the implications in commerce, business, and society. So, I have a lot of work? Yes.
Actually today I was thinking about why they call I.E.D.s, I.E.D.s. I thought about the fact it feels almost like a new term to describe something that has been around for a rather long time. It's odd how it has been rebranded and brought to the forefront and in turn the fixation that the media seems to have on it. Yes, my thought of the afternoon.
The weather has been better oddly lately, not as cold. I wanna go see the new James Bond, even though Daniel Craig looks like your typical "Baddie" instead of a good guy. The action should be really good since the stunt coordinator for Ong Bak I heard was doing them. Also the guy who started parkour aka free running is apparently a bad guy in the movie and they do a parkour-esque chase scene. Man I've seen videos of that stuff crazy, looks like a lot of fun, I'd love to learn how to do it. Hopefully I'll get to go see the new movie soon, I'm such a Bond junkie.
Ran into a friend from CalArts today randomly on the way home from class today. My friend Chi Chi, so bizzare, apparently she's out here in New York working. Small world hey. Oh speaking of class today, I had class today, yes on friday when I don't have class. Why? Makeup class because we had holidays and fell behind due to them. My teacher had an awesome t-shirt on, I had to give him props. It was like an aircraft carrier but made out of office supplies. The best part was the fact that it had paper airplanes for jets.
Anyways, I'm going to be get back to work. Four more weeks and I'll be done with a quarter of my graduate degree kinda skary. I'll also be back home in California. Hopefully if I get back in time, I'll be able to go to D1 GRAND PRIX! DRIFTING! Ohhhh Yeah! Laters.
Actually today I was thinking about why they call I.E.D.s, I.E.D.s. I thought about the fact it feels almost like a new term to describe something that has been around for a rather long time. It's odd how it has been rebranded and brought to the forefront and in turn the fixation that the media seems to have on it. Yes, my thought of the afternoon.
The weather has been better oddly lately, not as cold. I wanna go see the new James Bond, even though Daniel Craig looks like your typical "Baddie" instead of a good guy. The action should be really good since the stunt coordinator for Ong Bak I heard was doing them. Also the guy who started parkour aka free running is apparently a bad guy in the movie and they do a parkour-esque chase scene. Man I've seen videos of that stuff crazy, looks like a lot of fun, I'd love to learn how to do it. Hopefully I'll get to go see the new movie soon, I'm such a Bond junkie.
Ran into a friend from CalArts today randomly on the way home from class today. My friend Chi Chi, so bizzare, apparently she's out here in New York working. Small world hey. Oh speaking of class today, I had class today, yes on friday when I don't have class. Why? Makeup class because we had holidays and fell behind due to them. My teacher had an awesome t-shirt on, I had to give him props. It was like an aircraft carrier but made out of office supplies. The best part was the fact that it had paper airplanes for jets.
Anyways, I'm going to be get back to work. Four more weeks and I'll be done with a quarter of my graduate degree kinda skary. I'll also be back home in California. Hopefully if I get back in time, I'll be able to go to D1 GRAND PRIX! DRIFTING! Ohhhh Yeah! Laters.
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Doesn't that one Sumo on the top left of the front most cup look like one of the members of KISS? They call me Dr. Sumo.
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Sushi with Audrey. Such nice presentation. They even put some caviar on top of some of them. It was really good.
Friday, November 17, 2006
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Today in Physical Computing we etched our own circuit boards. It was oddly satisfying. Not so much that this is a funcional thing that I've made but rather the aesthetic aspects around this functional object that has been created. It feels like it could potentially more about the design then about the circuit at all possibly. Yes much to ponder on that note. Anyways, so this is the circuit with the template after being heated onto the copper clad. People seemed to like the whole Skull thing. He's growing on me.
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After a rather painful journey home from JFK aka the L train deciding to be stopped and having to take a rather round about route home while being hungry and missing Audrey, I went to Veselka's. I had myself some pancakes with raspberry syrup, bacon, orange juice, and some tea. So, good. Audrey and I had gone there also for dinner one night and had peroiges. Rather good and very filling. We also went to this sushi place near my school, oh my gosh that was good. I don't have the pics yet off my phone I'll post them soon if they came out. But yeah, good foods and good times were had by us.
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I had never been to see J.F.K. International Airport. I still haven't but got to see it from affair from the Air Train terminal.
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Me & Audrey before leaving to take her to JFK so she could flly home. She's wearing her cat hat.
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So Audrey decided to add some items that I should pick up at the market on the white board. Yes, love the whole O.J. Simpson Orange Juice Carton, classic.
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So, Audrey was able to come and visit me this past weekend. So nice to see her. The night she came in we went to my friend Rona's b-day party. She had it her friend's place out near Time Square, my gosh was totally swanky. Even had a view. Really sweet place. It was a nice time. The next day me and Audrey went to go see Borat, my gosh that was hillarious. Yet there were some parts that were like gosh, did it have to be that graphic especially with the fight between him and his producer, yeah, "...that's going be scorched onto my retina."
Lotus Exige on Bio Ethanol, Hells Yeah
I want bio-ethanol but mostly I want a lotus. I'm not picky i'd be fine with either a Elise or an Exige. Love that car, for me it's like today's MR2. Toyota needs to bring that back after the Supra. Please bring them back.
Friday, November 10, 2006
"Because I'm an Army of One."
I stumbled upon this guy by accident earlier this week while procrastinating like what I'm doing right now. "Popes I can't stand them with their pope hats and their pope mobiles." He's so bloody funny. Watch his stuff u'll die laughing.
Big Salty Balls
"Have you ever seen my balls they're big, they're salty?" No prime I haven't, nor have I tasted them.
Holy Shiite Batman
I dunno what needs to be said, it's pretty self-explanatory and awesome. Who woulda known Robin had such a foul mouth, haha, the boy wonder.
I Fought The Law & The Law Won
Yes, Vader, he fought the law and the law won. Cheap shots. They have no honor.
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