about DC Paper Show

about Seattle

I like seattle..

about Growing Up Online.

A clip from the PBS documentary "Growing Up Online."

about jess3 client service lesson 2

sometimes bargaining for consulting fees with clients is like dating women.. other times it's like asking your parents for stuff at xmas time.. you wanna ask for as much as humanely possible.. but you are willing to take whatever they give you (you would assume that based on the year before you would get as much or more?) and you can always throw a tantrum and get nothing.. or like i did.. be a polite tantrum thrower.. and walk away with as much as possible.. but never walk away with nothing (coal)

about Heath Ledger’s Final Portrait

"It “was an idea we discussed together and came up with… it was about how we all have different consciences and voices in our head that tell us what to do and how to react. They’re not good or bad, they’re just voices that we hear, telling us how to behave. That’s what the other figures are in the painting,” says the artist, Vincent Fantauzzo, who painted Heath just weeks before his death.

Something tells me this is going to end up as a poster on the wall of teenagers everywhere for many years to come."

about lindsey lohan naked!

Lohan poses as monroe.. kinda creepy!











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this is how i remember lindsey




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Lindsay Lohan.. naked.. doing a backwards crab walk.

about Kelly Rowland - Daylight feat. Travis McCoy

this is off of the new asterix movie soundtrack..

how many people out there know who asterix is? shout to dogmatix!






update-

I was reminded of how much i loved this song back in the day.. "..and I love you"

about MySpace: A Horrific Tale of Obsession

about yes we will (bite obamas shit)

baratunde posted this and it really has me confused about hillary.. she is saying "yes we will".. why cant she get her own shit? thats like reebok coming out with a new ad campaign "just do that"..

about a few things cutting their losses

Format war is over. Blu-Ray Wins!

Castro officially resigns as President, Cuban Commander-in-Chief.

about Phantom of the Paradise

I love this poster design

about Salvador Dali on TV

and for all of you that havent seen the rare disney movie never shown, destino

about Dead Presidents Day!

classic shit.


just to give you kids an idea of how classic this is.

this came out when NaS was doing his thing with Illmatic, new york rap was at its pinnacle. Jay emerges as the new star, and this rubbed NaS slightly the wrong way. They didnt do any songs together, but Jay samples NaS on this track. If you notice at the end of the video jay is sitting around playing cards with some friends, including long time partner Dame Dash..... and a young AZ. AZ is one of NaS crew, and was in his Firm team, an experimental album that somehow flopped despite production from Dr.Dre and a team that included NaS, AZ and Foxxy Brown. "Affirmative Action," a song from Nas' second album, It Was Written, featured Foxy Brown, AZ, and Cormega, each taking a verse, along with Nas; it became an album highlight as well as a much-talked-about song on the streets. For The Firm, Cormega was replaced by Nature, reportedly either because Stoute and/or Nas preferred Nature, or because Cormega would not sign a contract with Stoute. Following this replacement, Cormega recorded the inflammatory track "Fuck Nas and Nature" and let it circulate through the mix-tape market.



nas and jay recorded historic hip hop diss tracks, Nas recorded Ether after Jay did The Takeover, which was produced by a young Kanye West!

ironically in 2007, jay signed nas to def jam and they recorded a dead presidents remix.


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The firm - Firm Biz





the firm - phone tap (dr dre beat)









nas - ether live in central park 2007





making soul beats

about eDemocracyCamp Logo

I designed the branding for the upcoming eDemocracyCamp here in DC.

about Busboys and Poets homepage redux

Here is my most recent version of the busboys homepage.. click here for the large version

The slideshow at the top is going to use the slideshowpro engine

thoughts?

about claiming your Twitter account on Technorati

Ed Kohler at Technology Evangelist shares the 5 steps to getting this going (thanks Ed!):

How do you do it?

1. Click the "Claim Your Blog" link on the homepage.

2. Enter your Twitter Username's URL: http://www.twitter.com/yourusername

3. Choose Post Claim

4. Grab just the URL of the post claim URL and post that as a Twitter tweet. For example, if it said you should post Technorati Profile

Just grab http://technorati.com/claim/abcdefg

and post that as a Tweet on Twitter.

You can add additional text after the URL (give it a space) to explain to your friends what they heck you're doing.

5. Once you've posted your new Tweet, confirm that on Technorati and you'll be good to go.

Posted by: Leslie

about Ellwood Thompsons Blog

Ive got so much work to share from Ellwood Thompsons, but ill start with just this blog.

about my priorities

1. Making client work look amazing
2. Working cost effectively
3. Researching new technology to use in client work
4. Talking to people in the industry about being better

about MyBlogLog's "New with Me"

Via Ian Kennedy, Product Manager, MyBlogLog (I am sure many of you received this email as well)...

"This feature will use the URLs on the Services tab of your MyBlogLog profile to aggregate your latest activity on sites such as Twitter, Last.fm, Digg, and YouTube. [...] Your latest Flickr photos, Last.fm tracks, and YouTube videos, will all be in one place."

So what does that mean?

"Simply put, the New with Me feature will transform your static profile into a dynamic one."

Also, so as to avoid a Beacon Level Error, Ian also tells us in the "old-fashioned email" announcement:

"MyBlogLog respects your privacy. We will aggregate and display only information that is publicly available. If you're uncomfortable with MyBlogLog aggregating and displaying publicly available information from a particular service, you can remove that service from your profile at any time."

The only problem with this is many online users aren't necessarily aware of what is publicly available and what isn't -- the "opt-out" model vs. the "opt-in" benefits the platform owner first and foremost, and secondarily, its members who want their data all over the place (believe it or not, some don't and don't readily understand that it is an "opt-out" system).

That said, I am still interested to see how this will work. I have been impressed with the way that platforms like Blogger/WP, del.iciou.us, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr -- to name a few -- have evolved to integrate and "talk" with one another -- truly great "syndication" systems. We'll see how "New with Me" fits in.

Post by: Leslie

about barack obama is your new bicycle

http://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/







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about Google Me

Apparently a new video is coming out called "google me" by Teyana Taylor..

uh.. wack. did google pay for that?

but I did find a bunch of related videos





then I found a guy making a movie called "google me"










Jim Terr parodies the 1971 King Floyd hit "Groove Me" in this live performance in Santa Fe, NM.



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Funny Google Me song by Chara Sype - Concordia University NE



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and a budget hiphop video

about Barack Obama: Yes We Can

Barack Obama speaks in Nashua, New Hampshire on the night of the primary. Highlight footage from the past week in New Hampshire included.

about user experience of the future

I believe that the Wii remote represents a glimpse of user experience of the future. I use the term Wii remote lightly, its more likely going to be your cell phone that will allow you to point at stuff and interact with screens in public places. imagine if when you paid for your parking in a garage you just pointed your cell phone at the machine. but.. it gets better. its not just pointing at the machine and your done.. you have options.. yes.. options.. we also like dragging and dropping things.. you can interact with a machine without touching it.. which in itself is a step forward. but if you dont have your cell phone with you.. which is a whole other interesting issue. you could touch this interface and thru a verification system click into your account and make what ever instant transaction was needed


example:

how come on atm machines you dont drag and drop the ammount of money to a bucket.. how come its still such a boring experience? why hasnt a premium bank emerged to provide such a unique experience in a world of cluttered ugly atm machines..









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I cross posted this on the creativeconnects blog

about My Valentine

to my valentine Leslie.

I couldn't pick just one video..