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Monthly Archives: August 2008

My Top 40 Most Played: A Selection

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

I’m a bit of a music junky, and I rotate what I listen to in phases. Usually, it is a guarantee I am listening to something you’ve never heard of. Recently, I was in a synthpop phase. Now I’ve inexplicably found myself listening in a wispy pop-rock from Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland. (Lise Westzynthius, Stina [...]

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The Blue Screen of Death, How I Loathe Thee

Friday, August 22, 2008

I’m a preferred OSX and Linux (unbuntu flavor) user. I do all my video, audio and design work on a beefed up G5 Powermac. I use windows a good bit too, I’m actually writing this post on my Alienware laptop. But there is a missing elegance in everything windows does. Even with vista, it’s like [...]

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A typical week in New York?

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

It really has hit me. I’m working in Manhattan, I’m up to my eyeballs in the Olympics and other projects. A month out, and it feels like I’ve been here forever, and that’s a good thing. I wanted to share the sheer absurdity and tranquility that is New York through a series of (sometimes blurry) [...]

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Working in Manhattan on a Saturday Night

Saturday, August 16, 2008

On an impromptu trip into the city I’ve found myself working at the studio at 9:15 p.m. on a Saturday night.  The city is currently bustling with activity, great Broadway shows, stand-up comedy, and concerts. Maybe one day, I’ll go check them out. With the Olympics gig – I’ve already worked a painstaking 60 hour [...]

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Night is Day, Day is Night

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Ouch, I’m dragging ass. I’ve been working nights since Sunday and it has put my schedule on its head. Actually, right now (it’s 2 a.m.) I have a little bit of a lull in work, but for the most part it has been pretty busy since Sunday. One of the great benefits of this gig [...]

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Organic Reinterpretations of Electronic

Monday, August 11, 2008

I love deconstructed music, it acts as a great counter measure to the complex and multi-layered. A great example is the Still disc of Nine Inch Nails “And All That Could Have Been” which features stripped down and descontructed versions of songs such as “The Fragile”. Last night around 3:30 am, I was listening to [...]

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Salvador Dalí: An exhibit at MoMA

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Like many, I’ve always been intrigued by Salvador Dalí’s work. Most people usually don’t think much past his iconic work The Persistence of Memory. His imagination was vast, sweeping all corners of the human psyche and beyond. So, what an opportunity this past Friday when I visited the Museum of Modern Art and see the [...]

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A Typical Day in New York

Thursday, August 7, 2008

I was going to write a long detailed post about my day, and how I walked 5 miles, biked 10 miles, worked in the city until 8:30, raced 20 blocks to catch a train at Penn Station, came home to find my car had a flat tire and just now finished eating dinner at a [...]

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“It is about to get real busy” or “Hello Olympics care to dance?”

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

This Sunday I will begin my 2008 Beijing Olympics work schedule which is comprised of several back-to-back 10 hour night shifts in Lower Manhattan (TriBeCa) – It’s going to be balls to the wall until the end of August. The work I’m doing requires video encoding for the Internet TV platform TVTonic. TVTonic has partnered [...]

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