Red Square, Moscow

Imagine if this was occupy oakland.

This is Moscow, Russia on February 4th, 2012. That date is today.
These are the people protesting the clearly rigged election, resulting in the victory of Vladimir Putin.
This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to see it here

KSPACE.TV ///// M.I.A.’s new video: “Born Free”

*reposted from kspace.tv
A hoveled apartment complex gets raided: scenes of crack smoking, fatty fornication, and relentless brutality by somesuch security force. Within a sea of carrot-topped and supposed ne’er-do-wells is an/our anti-hero, one FAS-afflicted scowl you could confidently diagnose with ODD. A group of ginger freedom fighters sporting red kaffiyehs hoot and holler, ineffectual. As a short film the video is completely engrossing, a perfect storm of car crash sad, odd, and violent, filmed beautifully and expensively. Something’s happening, right? Respectable minds attempt to unpack: “Faddish political pastiche.” “Goofy political allegory.” “Repositioning tool.” “Like an episode of 24.” It’s notable that the day MIA releases a new video she has also taken over Pitchfork’s twitter account, which so far she has been using for nothing more than self-promotion. I think the music video for an internationally known artist was designed to do the same thing. People have long mused on the political bend of MIA’s work, usually arriving at the crossroads of commerce and not-really-sure. “Born Free” doesn’t stray. Also, the song isn’t that great.

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

there's a thunderstorm outside, and sporadic lightning

Might as well check out one of my favorite sites, featuring the works of one of my favorite poets- T.S. Eliot
I encourage you to visit http://www.whatthethundersaid.org/

If i still have power- I'll update and post more after dinner.

Tried to get cute with cookies, containers and javascript

But I got it anyways. With all due respect to the artist, I am merely creating an alternative resource link so that I may properly bookmark and tag the image above as a favorite on ViSualize.us . I would like to acknowledge how from this single image; fit, form and function achieve balance. And it's simple, cool and I would even speculate would cost you about $100. And I believe that the interior designer should get street cred.

I have a taste for fresh baked french bread made by koreans in chinatown here in oakland

and the title of this post  is completely unrelated to the content embedded above. I've been updating my hulu profile (yeah, i know, but) Joost has lost some it's appeal and i'm avoiding Fancast because i don't want to deal with this on again/off again client who probably can't pay me right now.  My dad shared an observation with me awhile ago that i wish to summarize here which is:  not to confuse activity with achievement. And let me see if i can do this- hold on. Right now i'm getting txt from the client, which i did not expect,  and is one of the un-resolved issues (#1 no project timeline/deadline, #2 how much will i be getting paid) In the beginning i told the client one of my conditions for this project is that I would not be responsible for generating content. Site functionality, compatability and mobility were the areas of expertise I was offering. [translation: i'm not gonna do the graphics, I'm not gonna moderate comments or deal with hosting services/domain admin stuff. I will however take what you got so far, optimize it for search engines, make sure it's listed correctly on google maps and show up on GPS and looks ok on your phone] However, my gut tells me that my role has evolved and expanded into marketing and branding [translation: setting up twitter and facebook accounts/pages] that could then be added or embedded on the clients' website. whoa there, I need to wrap this up- because he just called and i told him i was gonna call him back.

Wrap. It. Up: I got hungry while browsing around hulu. I was on hulu because i was avoiding fancast. I was avoiding fancast because i did not want to deal with client. found a cool movie, and wanted to share it on blog. while posting to blog- attempted to include wisdom from father and how incorporated that into consulting services. unclear as to whether or not that point came across. incidental. client called. coincidence. as a result of taking so long to get to this point, i feel compelled to return call to client, and revise role/responsibilities and compensation (or participation).  bread.


 

non-verbal communication

• 18 from 14 is not an equation
• the number 18 and 14th st are points along a route
• and while i was walking, i couldn't stop thinking about how i was able to provide some of the answers. and it wasn't even about me.
• Here's the cool part: i was productive, without having an agenda. It was  time well spent, and everything seemed to work because it just did. 
• There is a lot more to this, but i'm not going to blog it, and ruin it- for now this is what i wanted to share. 
• One more thing. she said something at trader joe's in rockridge that reminded me of something i published not too long ago. This is what i wanted to share:

• gotta go- the imac i ordered has arrived

daylight savings soon

Taken in downtown sf not too long ago

glass on vi.sualize.us

if you need a reference, here