I am writing this post in the middle of my two weeks of Finals. Really there’s only one week of Finals but I have some due this week so I’m calling it two. As such don’t expect many updates until Thursday when my semester is complete. And if I am posting then I am neglecting my studies (just like now). To tide you over have a look at a robot that can balance itself perfectly on a ball. It’s pretty neat. [source]
I love when an album is released that I can’t help but listen to over, and over, and over again. The last album that had that effect on me was the debut album from Two Doors Cinema Club, whose review I posted in February.
These type of records are filled with songs that flow into one another, breathing life into the next song and cherishing the music that just passed. They work as complete albums and as stand alone tracks; songs to be played in the dead of night or to begin a new sunny day. They get my heart pumping and my spirits soaring while I bob my head along to the beat.
The debut album from twenty-one year-old Bobby Ray Simmons – aka B.o.B. – is causing my head to bob so much its giving me a stiff neck. The beats are infectious, the rhymes are tight, and the singing is strong. I don’t think I’ll grow tired of this album until it grows tired of me.
His album is named B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray and it fits. Coming off of a few mix-tapes with some successful singles, B.o.B. is relatively unknown. Yet from what I’m hearing on his album he definitely knows himself.
This is the first movie review I’ve written for my site. The format and structure of these reviews are bound to change like me – and hopefully for the better.
This past week I watched the documentary We Live in Public. Described (as of this writing) on Wikipedia as, “a 2009 documentary by Ondi Timoner about the loss of privacy in the Internet age, which focuses on Internet pioneer Josh Harris.”
This description is incredibly understated.
Josh Harris was one of the early dot-com pioneers, profiteers, and failures. His company Pseudo.com was one of the first video podcasts on the Internet. It hosted a variety of internet shows with lively hosts and information, streamed for the enjoyment of anyone who logged on.
Did I mention this took place in 1994?
Harris’ grand vision of everyone filming and wanting to film themselves has proven to be far ahead of its time. Today we have YouTube and a variety of other sites dedicated and thriving off of user-created content. To be so prescient with this business plan was both Harris’ blessing and curse.
This film took me on a roller-coaster ride around and through emotions that I had never experienced sequentially. The debate surrounding privacy is thoroughly investigated and the details of Harris’ exploits are boggling.
Clocking in at 90-minutes the film is direct and to the point. There is no excess and Timoner lets the archived video speak for itself.
I’m extremely amazed and surprised that I did not know anything that was presented in this film, but I’m extremely grateful to have seen it.
Watch the trailer embedded below.
I have just completed the switch to a new web server for this site. It should be faster and snappier. Let me know if you experience any problems.
Also: check out this track from B.O.B. called The Kids. It’s very catchy.
The new news today is Boy Genius Reports, a site dedicated to mobile news including iPhone’s and BlackBerry’s, has been sold and its previously un-named owner revealed. The site founder wrote under the alias Boy Wonder for the entire duration of the site’s existence until its purchase today. The fellow is named Jonathan Geller, a fellow Greenwich High School student, someone whose name I’ve previously known and last I heard of was attempting a rap career. Congrats Jon.
I liken 1-year of a computer’s life to 25 in human years. That means that a 3-year old laptop is similar to a 75-year-old person. Some laptops last more than others, as this chart shows, based off a report by warranty firm SquareTrade. So next time you’re in the market for a new laptop be aware of their average life expectancies. For more details check out the full article at CNET.
I made my YouTube account about two years ago and haven’t done much since its creation. That changed last week when I uploaded a new video and made it public.
When you click over to my channel you’ll see that I have three videos uploaded. I had an idea around a year ago to start making little shorts and upload them to see what attention I could garner. I ended up flaking because I was afraid of all the imagined negative reactions that would result. The two videos that remain from that period I loved too much to delete.
The video I’m drawing your attention towards today was filmed on April 6th this year, a little over two weeks ago. I had the chance to perform three songs on the campus of UConn Stamford. This was my first live performance playing guitar and singing and I will admit that I was nervous as all.
So click below to see the video I crudely put together in iMovie.
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Trying out an additional format to post updates. It’s called an Aside in WordPress vernacular, and it should encourage me to post more.
Last weekend my friends and I crammed ourselves into a room for seven hours and worked on the Charlie Christ movie. We got a lot of work done, a lot of planning done, and we also got some video podcasts filmed. Expect to see them up on the NientePeaches website in the very near future.
What we managed to do later that day was film a performance of Amazing Grace played on an iPad. There’s an entire post up on Niente’s site. Check it out here.
For now enjoy the new video from LCD Soundsystem’s upcoming LP, This is Happening. The single is Drunk Girls and the video is strange and awesome. Have a look.
