Sunny Feeling - Wilco
I’m in a serious Wilco world right now. Getting ready for the show this Saturday. Here’s a track from the latest album.
Wow, I nearly forgot that I’m going to this show on Saturday too; it’s here in my hometown at LeLacheur Park, home of the Red Sox short-season single A affiliate Lowell Spinners. Hopefully the weather holds up, this should be a great show.
Tiger (link)
The Zenfolio software I’m using should make it substantially easier for me to sell some prints online. In the past, the effort/expense of framing, fulfilling orders via PayPal, and mailing the finished product was just too much work to be profitable at all. Photoshelter was an improvement, but didn’t have framing options; it was also far too expensive for my needs.
I’ve added five high-resolution prints for now. I’m curious to see how it works out.
Back in early 2007, I was itching for a way to automatically tweet links to my photos on Flickr.
A few months later, Dave Winer wrote a web service called Flickr-to-Twitter. Dave was nice enough to give me access back then and I wrote about it at the time. And for the past two years, that’s how I’ve been posting flickr links to Twitter for the most part.
Since then a number of 3rd party apps have emerged to post photo links on Twitter. Many of them are fantastic. Simple & fast.
Earlier this week, Flickr announced that they had officially integrated with Twitter. It provides much of the same functionality as Dave’s original application with some additional bells & whistles.
It’s terrific that Yahoo built this into Flickr. It will help many users tie together two great products in a simple way.
But right now I’d like to say thanks to Dave for building his app. I appreciated it then and I appreciate it now.
Excellent, I had missed this (tangentially, seems like I don’t spend ANY time on Flickr anymore, which is sad). I noticed they had added the flic.kr shortening into their source code a few months back, and I’ve used this helpful bookmarklet since then in an effort to avoid TwitPic.
Kilroy Reunion
Helped out with some group photos at a friend’s family reunion this past weekend, and just sent along the finished files. I recently decided on Zenfolio for gallery sharing/printing, and I was pretty happy to see that they just installed an embeddable gallery module. This was one of the last things I missed from playing around with Photoshelter. I think I actually like this one better.
Five Favorite Films with Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida
a good read.The writers of Away We Go talk about their 5 favorite movies.
Interesting list. These kinds of things are always dangerous, and tend to change constantly, but I have some time to kill:
The trailer for Ricky Gervais’ new movie, “The Invention Of Lying,” about a world in which everyone tells the truth. Remember the first time you got high with the funniest person you know? This is that to the 10,000th power.
I worked on this movie! Few days as an extra, one as a P.A. I thought the name change (from This Side of the Truth) was just a rumor, according to Gervais’s blog, but apparently I was wrong. Very interested to see how this came out, as the scenes I worked on were very funny. Louis CK & Gervais are the best, and there’s an Ed Norton cameo that should be good.
EDIT: why is this so damned choppy? it’s happening in the embedded version, on YouTube, even in the mp4 version. annoying too, because I can see at least two scenes I worked on but the quality is terrible.
EDIT 2: ok, i found the original, it’s a Yahoo UK exclusive, someone must have ripped it and uploaded to YouTube, losing a ton of frames in the process…much better quality here: http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/features/exclusive/
MakingOf - Insiders - Darren Aronofsky - Darren Aronofsky’s Screenwriting Strategies
I love how forthcoming Aronofsky is in his interviews, here, on SlashFilm, and elsewhere. He’s like the rare athlete that doesn’t speak in cliches and actually gives you insight into their particular universe. Every interview with him that I’ve seen or listened to has been informative, personal, and seemingly heartfelt; I really get the sense that he’s interested in helping other potential filmmakers learn. Yet another reason that I’ll watch anything he does, and why I am still a bit devastated that he dropped out of The Fighter.
Sam Rockwell Will Be In Duncan Jones' Mute
Whoa. I hadn’t heard about Duncan Jones’ next project, Mute, until now…but he’s following up Moon with another sci-fi movie that counts Blade Runner as its biggest visual influence? Sweet jeebus, I’m hooked on this guy. Duncan Jones, prepare to join Darren Aronofsky on a platform of current directors who most fascinate me.
The Replacements - Temptation Eyes (Grass Roots)
Cover Friday. I love when a cover works better than the original. Westerberg’s voice is perfect for this song.
Michael Jackson,James Brown,and Prince on stage (via xoMoonieMJxo)
For me, the order of entertainment talent/historical importance will always go James Brown, Prince, Michael Jackson…but nonetheless, I suppose I’ll throw my bit of RIP nostalgia on the fire.
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