Check out Kanye West’s new bootleg: Can’t Tell Me Nothing mixtape. A coupla’ great songs including “Us Placers” with the wicked Thom Yorke sample, nice. and Kanye’s funny-talk interludes with faux self-deprecating humor: I went crazy on this drug called fame, I’m all better now though. shah right. Grab the dlow at The FADER.
The trailer for 5-25-77 made me smile uncontrollably. a movie about a kid obsessed with movies and star wars, featuring John Francis Daley, the kid from Freaks n Geeks. yay!
Lauren Dukoff also has some amazing photos. the portrait section in particular is subtle and wonderful. [via Isaiahrocker]
i’m totally flipping my wig, right now, for the photography of Catherine Ledner. her work is amazing! check out the ‘archives > animals’ section. i am in contemplative awe at the moment.
It took me awhile to figure out just what The Stash is. It’s a run at Northstar. created by the Burton folks. Next season, i’m there. check the video section.
Microsoft says they are coming up on 1 million Zunes sold. John Gruber is doubtful on MS’s numbers, saying he’s never seen one in the wild. Come to think of it, neither have I. and I live in Mexico, Microsoftlandia. Seeing a mac in the wild here is like seeing an old guy surf a short board. Yet everyone rocks the ipod. Is it that Zune just hasn’t penetrated Mexico yet and the ipod is just a status symbol? or are people making informed choices? i’m not sure.
The Morning News has some excellent links over at their 2007 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence.
This came out yesterday: Microsoft Surface. It’s either the biggest piece of vaporware ever floated or Microsoft beat Apple to the multi-touch punch. I know it’s marketing and all, but damn this looks good! I loved the interactivity of real world objects like a cellphone or mp3 player with the device, seamless, but something smells funny.
Yesterday we got a nice little swell. Salim is in town, visiting from Dallas, so the homies all went out for a morning seshin. We hit ‘El Paredon’ and the waves were 5 to 6 feet or so and glassy. Sharp drop-in and not the longest ride, but nice speed. We all had fun.
As I got back to the house and put in some finely concentrated work, from my desk I could hear the waves pounding against the sand, 2 blocks away. As the day progressed the pounding got heavier. At 4:00pm, I headed back out to ‘El Paredon’, to catch some mo’. After the long and arduous walk down the beach, I could see that the swell wasn’t hitting ‘El Paredon’ so I schlepped back to the car and headed for Burros. Burros had 6 to 8 foot waves rolling through. helluv nice. 30 people in the water and 3 dudes dropping in on each other every wave. But atypical of Burros, the sets were arriving in regular 3 to 5 minute intervals, Inna Fine Style.
I had a bunch of fun.
Huge battle brewing over the future of the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve near Careyes. [via PVsatellite]
A few pictures from The ‘07 Vallarta Kiteboarding Torneo this past weekend, in Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico.
the Nomad yurt is pretty cool. perfect for your yuppie surf adventures. i’d buy one but they cost between 8 and 10k, oops, I must not be part of the target market. still these things are pretty dope. [via core77]
Designing With Grid-Based Approach by Smashing Magazine. a great collection of links to articles on grid-based layouts. [via 31Three]
wicked new backup drive disk array nerd thingy called Drobo. Part disk array, part robot, fully automated data storage, redundancy built in. it’s basically for all those people who have ever lost a disk drive from not backing up properly. But, for the drobo and 1TB of redundant storage costs 1,000 bucks. ew, that’s hard to swallow. what sez you?
I’m diggin’ on this absolutely wonderful deceptively simple flash band site Common Rotation with low-tech vagaboombap art by Kori Girard. great programming too. [via Isaiahji]
Just updated my site again. for various reasons, i wasn’t too happy with the color scheme and header. So I spiffed up the colors a wee bit, changed the header, logo and nav. Now it’s complete with mexican folk typography, new for ‘07. and all i changed were a few images and the stylesheet, pretty cool. have a gander.
Photos from the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (aka S21) in Phnom Penh. the lower right photo pretty much says it all.
extra cool new flash slideshow action Monoslideshow. ultra-customizable, works with Flickr, great minimal design and best of all, you don’t need to use Flash, you can customize the whole thing, preview it and download the xml via their demo page. wow!
Cambodia (and southeast asia in general) have incredible open-air markets, usually organized by product. Fish, veggies, bread, used clothing, cheap chinese imports. These photos are a small sliver of market-themed photos I took along our trip. In Cambodia I became obsessed with markets, in Phnom Penh we visited pretty much every one of the major marketplaces in town, about 5 of ‘em. Admittedly, I was on the hunt for used clothing. Your old tshirts from high school all end up in Thailand or Cambodia, I was on a mission to find good tees and old military clothing. I schlepped Marcia to market after market chasing an idea in my head of what I might be able to find. But the reality is that most Cambodians are looking for polo and benetton shirts from the early 90s. It’s the 90210 complex.
These series of photos were taken on a tour of an ethnic Vietnamese floating village on Tonle Sap lake, south of Siem Reap. Amazing people.
The end of Thailand marked a turning point in our trip. As the time wore on in Cambodia we began to feel the first pangs of stress relatedly to our travel schedule. By the time we hit Phnom Penh we were pretty tired and started to take our daily sightseeing a little more leisurely. The problem with being an aspiring pro-am photographer is that I was constantly pushing to see more, experience more, dig deeper and Phnom Penh marked the first time that we both started to feel travel-fatigued because of this. Phnom Pen marked the spot in the trip where we started to upgrade our hotels from $5 to $15, if you catch my drift…
Steve Simon, at O’Reilly’s Inside Aperture blog, has a great tutorial on how to achieve realistic skin tones using Aperture’s Color Tool. great stuff.
Feist performs I Feel It All live in an LA transit bus on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. too good, this chick is bananas! [via GvB]
DO Research A modern prefab process document blog. really gorgeous prefabs. tons of ideas. [via Coudal]
Hi, my name is Ed Fladung, I'm a recovering web-designer who moved to Mexico about 4 years ago. Learned to surf, got married and bought a nice camera. This is my weblog/photoblog. It covers broad subjects like becoming an ex-pat, surfing, photography, graphic design, music, art, architecture, living in mexico, all things Apple and WordPress related, etc... You can find more about me here. I hope you enjoy.
