Folks, this Thursday looks to be quite a treat, with 3 wonderful happenings goin on..

6-8 PM
Donald Jurney @ Arcadia Fine Arts: 51 Greene St, New York, NY 10013
Donald Jurney is an incredible landscape painter, and will be showing works spanning 30 years at Arcadia Fine Arts.

7-9 PM
Adam Stennett @ 31GRAND: 143 Ludlow St. New York, NY 10002
Adam Stennett, know for his gorgeously realistic paintings of mice, will be showing new works and a new direction.

10 PM
Schocholautte @ Ottos Shrunken Head: 538 E 14th St, New York, NY 10009
B51 alum Michael P, of Aquaman karaoke fame, will be playing with his band at a Tiki Bar.

Come on out, it should be a fun night!

“Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes”
I love this video. A very entertaining & informative summary of why this web 2.0 thing is so dern cool. Use it to educate your less geeky friends

Randy Pausch was perhaps the most influential professor I had while at Carnegie Mellon. His class, Building Virtual Worlds, was the most challenging and rewarding class I’ve ever taken. He is now dying of pancreatic cancer, but has not let that dampen his energy, resolve, and enthusiasm.

I will write more here later, but I just wanted to get this post started so I could put this video up.

The company I work for, Local Projects, is featured in the latest issue of Print Magazine.

Click the images above, download the PDF, or go to printmag.com to read the article.

Believe it or not, there are actually 3 pictures of me in this spread, but they are all blurry, tiny, or of the back of my head

I’ve been in love with Google Earth since long before Google bought Keyhole, but they just keep making it better and better. In addition to lots of other neat upgrades that I’ll not mention, you can now explore SPACE and fly right into panoramic photos. Getting lost zipping around the solar system and exploring distant stars is frikkin sweet, ya should check it out.

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Last night I finally got WordPress on my own server, and started building my new template.
As you can see, there’s still much to be done, but we’s got some nice progress here, yo.

Best. Show. Ever.

Going into this, I heard a lot of hype. I heard that people who weren’t even Daft Punk fans (yet somehow went?) described it as a “religious experience”. Personally, I’d not call anything short of playing shuffleboard with Jesus a religious experience… but I certainly get where those folks were coming from.

Awesome show… certainly the best I’ve been to. (though if I could have somehow attended the Pink Floyd: The Wall tour, then this would possibly fall second)

Anyway, here are some clips that I managed to shoot in between frantic dancing and screaming. Enjoy.

PS: the video above, while reasonably good for web streaming, is half the quality of what
it really should be. (plus, this is just more fun to watch on your TV or iPod)
Right click here and choose “save as” to download a high-resolution
(& iPod / iTunes / iTV / iPhone friendly) version

If you haven’t already seen it, check out the new “Street View” feature in Google Maps.

Totally cool: now you can take a virtual tour of Central Park, or actually scope out the particular building you are going to.

How do they get that street level imagery, you ask? Check out this van.

First Apple busts out consumer multitouch with the iPhone, then Microsoft shows up with Surface, a (almost) consumer multitouch table. Very cool. I love the table I made, but it definitely has it’s shortcomings: I’ll be nice to see what a real software/electronics company can come up with, and it looks like that’s exactly what we’ll see in the coming years.

MS Surface official site
Popular Mechanics article (featuring video & Jeff Han)
CNN article (with video)
CNET article (with video)
Forbes article
New York Times article