As if x-mas wasn’t close enough, office Max has a pretty damn cool game where you put your face on a dancing elf and watch it dance. Great time waster for those lame afternoons at work: www.elfyourself.com
A blog by Raul Coto Batres.
Archives for the month of: December, 2007
Watch as this amazing duo play their instruments creating an amazing mix thats just incredible. If these guys ever come out with an album, I’ll be there to buy it!
The guys over at Sounds Familyre are putting together a nice compilation of Christmas songs. The songs are remakes of classics as-well as originals played by Sufjan Stevens, Danielson and Soul-Junk, just to name a few. They will be releasing 1 song each day for 13 days, so make sure to go back for your daily fix. The songs are available for download at the Sounds Familyre Blog.
Here are two of my favorite tracks:
Christmas Eve Nite by Danielson
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We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Sufjan Stevens
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via Stereogum.
What the heck is a Keepon you may ask? Keepon is a small yellow japanese robot designed by Hideki Kozima to study social interaction mainly amongst kids but also adults. This small cute yellow robot has been recently featured in Spoon’s newest music video for “Don’t You Evah” as a Japanese scientist takes the robot to the streets of Japan to see how people react. See if you can spot the band members throughout the video:
Just today Flickr, one of the best online photo sharing sites, has introduced online photo editing capabilities. They partnered with Picnik to provide the tools necessary to make simple yet handy and fun changes to your pictures.
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Once you click on the ‘Edit Photo’ button on top of any image you will be taken to this screen. From here you can crop, rotate, change the exposure, sharpen or fix red eyes just to name a few. Under the ‘Create’ tab, you add fun photoshop like effects, text, and frames to your pictures. Some of these features are only available under a premium service which is almost as much a year as your Flickr subscription but there is plenty of free options make your pictures look their best. Flickr even gives you the option to save your changed image as a different version and keep the original, very handy for archival purposes.
Overall its a great addition to an already great photo service. Make sure to check it out.
My friend’s band just recently released their new album “The Musician” and they have used one of my pictures for the cover. The band, Looking Glass Wars is an alternative indie rock band from Westchester NY. Brandon, their singer is a good friend of mine that I met years ago while designing a website for another friend’s band.
The cover they used was a photograph I took back in 2006 in a alley near City Hall in NYC.
The album is now on sale in iTunes or you can listen to some of their tracks on MySpace.
Looking Glass Wars – She’s Mad, Madly in Love
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Stay tuned as the band will be doing a special promotion on x-mas and we will be doing a fun shoot for it. Make sure to check out the band and support them by buying their music.
Links:
Looking Glass Wars – MySpace
I’ve been meaning to update my blog for months now and finally got around to it. As you can see I changed the header image to match the season better. That picture was taken back 2003-04 I can’t quite remember, it’s a street near where I live. I added a music player dubbed “Potatoine Player”, I am still trying to figure out how to make it work while you are reading a post, I think it’s all in the CSS (geeky stuff). What else, what else? Oh yeah, I integrated my Last.fm weekly top albums and added an RSS feed of my Del.icio.us links. Oh wait…almost forgot, also added a small script that allows you to view images on the same page without sending you to another screen. Here’s an example:
Pretty cool huh? Now we tune you back to your regular schedule.