i think i’m down

for your life

dope anime western short from ben hibon of blinkink for mtv asia. peep and learn.
code hunters or here

the reason i’ve been m.i.a. for a bit was because of my thesis show, which was up from april 25^th—30^th. though incredibly stressful and tiring, both mentally and physically, now that it is behind me i’m pretty happy with the whole experience.

when i signed on to do a thesis many months ago the idea was pretty different than what i ended up doing. the original plan was to create a video animation à la cory arcangel, a big inspiration or mine. however, in doing some flash animation mock-ups i realized that the arcangel method of hacking nintendo cartridges was ultimately too restrictive for what i wanted to do in that it is limited (of course) to only those images/sounds that can be produced on a nes. it’s also really fuckin hard to do. eventually it morphed into what you can see now on my website in the work section. i hope you like it.

a big thanks to professor david schorr, my principal advisor on the project and to jonas carpignano who helped to film the video for the animation and my brother evan, giantmecha for a bomb-ass original score.

props to my brother for letting me know about this jam. joey beats: killing it

indie rock blues

if you remember my friend opie than you can join me in a moment of sadness for his passing.

and to the bastards that did this, i got two words: karma, sucka

in a post totally unrelated to events of the past week or so, here is some interesting info on anonymous bittorrenting. there are two methods, using tor or i2p. both are open-source, though i can only vouch for tor—which i could only get working on my pc.

take that richard gill

buy it on amazon

update: i received the following very accurate comparison:

i guess the speculation was that apple wasn’t going to go this far with the whole windows on a mac business, but it turns out they just released a public beta for a boot camp which does exactly that. the truth is that having a mac and a pc is nicer if you can use em at the same time, but at least I won’t have to wait for the mac release of spore. propz to steve.

note that the boot camp page, in usual apple fashion, is not without some ‘tude:

Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.

secret lovers