You see, I keep firing off messages on Twitter that I might otherwise save and collect into a larger, cohesiver thought.  Of course, once they’re gone, they’re gone and this space is most wounded by those lost thoughts.  I do want to stick this in here tho,  KoinUp has done a swell job of cataloging interesting places in Second Life and making them easily accessible to the masses.  Take a look at the little slide show here to see some of the slick builds and avatars people are working on.

<a href=”http://www.koinup.com/places/”>Second Life Places</a>

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Not to be melodramatic but this is it.  The end of civilization commences on July 15th:

(via LAist)
“There’s so very little to watch tonight. It’s strange to think that between now and July 27th (the season premiere of AMC’s “Mad Men”), the only thing we’re waiting for is the July 15th series premiere of G4′s “Hurl!” Yes, the reality show in which contestants force feed themselves vast quantities of questionable substances and then subject themselves to various stomach turning abuses”

See you on the other side.  Wear a helmet.

Tags: tv, the end, what have we become, gluttony, fame whores, america

Last night Becky and I went to see the (roughly) octogenarian choir, Young at Heart.  The age range is actually from 70 to 95. There’s currently a documentary in theatres about them and it just so happened they were performing at the Wilshire Theater which is right next door to my office.  They started in a retirement home in Northampton Massachusetts and have toured all over the world.  The kicker is they sing songs from their grandchildren’s generation.  Their first number?  ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ by the Rolling Stones.  The crowd went nuts.  The very mixed crowd that is.  People screamed, whistled, applauded, yelled in between songs all as if they were actually watching the Stones.  Who else does the choir cover?  Nirvanna, Radio Head, Jefferson Airplane, Jimmi Hendrix (their rendition of Purple Haze was fucking awesome), the Ramones (old people singing ‘I Wanna Be Sedated’ is also fucking awesome), Bruce Springsteen, and on and on and on.

The show was absolutely inspiring.  How can anyone complain about anything when 2 dozen old folks are rocking out on stage before you?  Not to mention the comedy and new meaning that any drug reference in any song takes on when the elderly set sings is it.  The show was really fantastic and I urge everyone to at least catch the documentary if you can’t see them live.  If you DO have the opportunity to see them, GO!  Not even kidding, it is sooooo worth it.

Here’s a link to the trailer for Young@Heart

Tags: youngat heart, concert, old people, wilshire theater, los angeles

We’re an hour and a half in and the crowd has been pretty steady for a Saturday morning.  The last couple of art walks it seems people always trickle in until about 2.  Then the larger groups start filling in.

Slight interruption there.  One guy was very complimentary.  That makes it worth while.  I’m already into the sauce.  Khalua in the coffee.  Need something to get thru the random strangers judging me in their minds.

More later.        

Tags: artwalk, brewery, los angeles, art

Ambitious.

Presenting a stone (picture of) that was created 3 million years ago (by erosion) but moved to a cave by a pre-homo sapien.  And now onto plaques that are on the 2 Voyager probes that are rather far away from us at this point. 

High energy presentation…good stuff.

All of art in 3 words.  Ancient Middle. Modern.  That’s how you do it in 40 mins…I like the heirarchy he’s using to present this.  You can find it here: http://art110.wikispaces.com/

We moved through pre-history in about 10 mins.  Nice.  Definitely going to go through the heirarchy thingy later.  Flying through Greece and Rome.  Tying ancient Rome to Adobe and Fonts…more good stuff.

Done with ancient art.  Now in middle…or as paraphrased, “1000 years of religion…it’s not pretty.”  With a dash of Renaissance.

Modern now.  Speeding through modern history!  Kinda wish I was videotaping this. 

Ha, refers to Burning Man as a 21st Century art form.  I’ll concur.  Well done presentation.  Very well done. 

Ok, 3 million years in 43 mins.  Artists…never on time. 

Tags: barcamp, barcampla, barcampla5, bcla5, session, art, art history

Fume by ~alexalvarez on deviantART

You know who you are.

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Tags: smoking, smokers, art, deviant art, fume

I’ve been following the Arch (a blog focusing on in-world architecture) for a while now.  They’re always playing with nifty things (like Reflexive Architecture) that make building in a virtual world way more interesting than the more common “Hey, I can build my own (insert existing RL building) in here!”   They’ve now created a fantastic answer to the “How do you build collaboartively in 3D?” question that you may or may not have asked yourself.  Check out the video.  Very smart, a giant step in the right direction.

Embedded Video

Credit:Theory Shaw (Ryan Schultz) and Keystone Bouchard (Jon Brouchoud).  Technology developed in collaboration with i3Dnow.  Music by DJ BLUE, via ccMixter.

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Tags: wikitecture, architecture, 3d worlds, metaverse, second life, virtual worlds, building

A little live music to start this one.  Nice.  Acoustic guitar sounds pleasant.  I think I should know the song he’s playing…I don’t.

Why would you want to blog a cover?  Perhaps you reallllllly enjoy the music and performing it is an important part of your appreciation.  Borrowing, mixing, recomposing is all part of our musical culture.  Copyright and the internet clash and make it very difficult to do this.

Nice breakdown of music copyright and what exactly is copyrighted and what isn’t. 

Playing an old Tiny Grimes (sp?) song.  “Romance without Finance” which I think I might have to find online…eMusic here I come.  So basically, stripping out the copyrighted stuff (the notes that are on the copyrighted page) allows you the freedom to blog the cover.  It seems like that doesn’t make sense but the notes on the page are a small, small bit of what’s in the actual song.

Enjoying Lucas Gonze’s info and knowledge of early 20th century music.

Ah yes, Creative Commons has done well in letting remixes exist but not covers.  Certain music has been completely removed from the public domain thus damaging our musical culture.

In summary:  If you’re going to record a cover and blog it, cya.  Research your options and play between the copyrighted bits. 

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Tags: barcamp, barcampla 4, barcampla, music, covers, blogging

In the event you don’t know (I’ve posted this in many places) I recently uploaded my paintings to DeviantART.  You can go there and see them and purchase prints if you’d like.  I haven’t ordered any prints so I’m not sure how they come out.  I assume they’re of excellent quality as DeviantART is quite popular.

Check out my DeviantART Gallery.

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Tags: art, deviantart, gallery, prints

Fall art walk has come to an end.  The doors are still open tho just to catch any last minute folks who trickle in.  I sold another piece today and that feels pretty good.  Now to keep painting in prep for the spring.

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Tags: art, art walk, brewery, los angeles, live, live blog