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Poor Kids Transformers

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:27:23 +0000

Megan Fox in Transformers
Image by nicogenin via Flickr

Besides Megan Fox, and Michael Bay doing Transformers again, I really want to see this movie. Transformers 2 may seem like a cheezy flick, but let me tell you, I was jealous of kids with Transformers when I was a kid. Nope, I wasn’t exactly the rich kid in my neighborhood. I had to settle for the cheap ripoff of GoBots. GoBots were the Ghetto Transformers. I think there were only 6 of them. Three good and three bad guys. That’s it. And not as cool as the big ass transformer toys. You would not be surprised to find GoBots in a Happy Meal. Oh but when that happened! JackPot! To all the GoBot kids out there, I SALUTE YOU!!!

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PETER FUNCH and DREAM AMSTERDAM

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:46:43 +0000

The pictures from the Dream Amsterdam project made by Peter Funch are now online on the IWONDER site. If you haven’t registered for the project, go check it out. Art translates into what you love about a city. Here are some pictures made with Sabine and Marc an me.

Here is the press release sent out with it.
“Dear I WONDER participants,
The I WONDER section and images made by Peter Funch are online!
The images can be viewed if you added yourself as a member and have accepted us as your friend.
Have fun looking for your image! Don’t forget to add your personal story to your image.”

Here is my story:
Here are some treasures of mine. My laptop, my green hat and my dad’s jacket. This is the laptop that I used for the last few years, traveling around the world talking about video blogging, creating cool projects, from XOLO.TV days through Mobuzz.tv days. The laptop has been through so much (so many stickers as well) that I let it retire at my home to watch films and videos online. I can’t realy take it anywhere nowadays because I abused it so much while traveling. Then there’s my green hat which I bought at Lowlands, and has been with me partying for the last year. That hat has been on many beautiful heads of friends, family, or co-clubbers at night.The jacket is from my dad. He bought it in College just before having me. He wore it to all the great concerts like “The Who”, “Led Zeplin”, “Pink Floyd” and many more. When I turned 16 he gave it to me, and I’ve worn it all over the world to many concerts, parties, etc. In the last 30 years, this jacket has ALWAYS been in style and I always have people asking me where I got it. When I have it on I feel safe, remembering as a kid being held in my dad’s arms while we wore the same jacket.

@Marlooz Twitter Love

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:01:02 +0000

As those of you who read this blog, or know @Marlooz you know she had her laptop stolen while at the #140conf in New York City. Her twitter followers raised enough money for a new one for her. She put together this compilation (was working until late last night I can tell you) to thank everyone. Excellent video! GO MARLOOZ!

History of Gaming

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:51:08 +0000

Do you want to know the amazing story of how video games came to be the way they are today? I found this great 5 Part documentary series that takes us through Pong being made on an oscilloscope( I think ), to the Virtual Worlds we have today. And every beautiful Ms. PacMan, Legend of Zelda, Tetris and Leisure Suit Larry story in between. Although it talks mostly about Atari’s scandals, it touches on others. Like the feud between Nintendo and Sony that dates back to the change from cartridges to disc. I loved this series. It was like my own personal histroy in front of me. Every console, every hype, to live through that. Fuck the Baby boomers and thier Televisions. We have FREAKN! VIDEO GAMES!!!!

You wanna know how long I’ve been playing Video Games? Well, I remember as a kid recording programs over the radio onto a cassette. Then on a camping trip to Washington, to help stop a highway being built in the neighborhood, (my mother the activist), we actually plugged in the Atari to the RV. Started playing the cassette tapes for hours, and finally after about 3 tries it would work!!! Voila! We had an amazing video game with 10 monochromatic pixels. Those were the days when software and games were all free. Now, according to the worldometers, Some 8 million $ have been spent this year on Video Games. Nice.

Discovery Channel - Rise of the Video Game Level 1
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Discovery Channel - Rise of the Video Game Level 3
Discovery Channel - Rise of the Video Game Level 4
Discovery Channel - Rise of the Video Game Level 5

Note to all you “Viral Marketers”. I’m sorry but if you don’t know about video games, you have absolutly no idea why this video clogging Utube.

Dark Night Viral Campaign

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:06:28 +0000

Many people wonder how Viral Campaigning works. Many beleive that all you have to do is make a funny video woth a cat and that will spread the message. Sorry, that was about 2-3 years ago. The truth is nowadays you have to create a Multi Media Alternate Reality Game. Otherwise known as an ARG. There are puzzles spread over the internet, areas to communicate with other players, real world phone calls and emails. This is how you create a Viral. Not just a 30 sec. clip but an allround Media experience, puzzle and immersion. These are the types of projects that my students have been developing over the last few years. One of the first of my DVTG students created on his own, with no budget, an alternate reality game that spread from temples in Thailand, lockers in London, phone calls from New York and the Vatican. Using the tools available all over the internet with free sites, this is how Alternate Reality Games are spread. Below we see a video of the Dark Night Campaign, and there are 2 of the Transformers virals that were spread. Those videos spread from the transformers is called, “The Rabbit Hole”. Or the first video trigger that leads one into the Alternate Reality Game.

A BOY AND HIS BIKE!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:27:43 +0000

Since I’ve been back in Amsterdam, I have been unable (too lazy) to get a bike. My old one, is dead somewhere near GabeB’s place and I can’t find the key. Marc had another bike which he lost the key to outside my house since August. Good condition though. I finally got around (was awake and in the country, and remembered that I could) to going to the bike shop across the street to get the lock taken off. They do this between 10 and 12 on Saturday. I mean seriously, when you go out on a Friday night, the last thing you think about is getting a bike lock sawed on a Saturday morning. I finally got to it, and Marc even threw in a new seat for it. What a great friend! He has a video and some great pics on his blog here. I can’t tell you how nice it is to have a bike again in Amsterdam. After cleaning it, throwing on some stickers (need to customize your bike in Amsterdam always), and putting the seat on, we went for a ride in the VondelPark. I was so happy, like a kid who just got a new bike for Christams. That’s really how it feels. Even in these rough times, it is with a little help from my friends like Marc that help me through. MARC YOU ARE MY HERO!!!!

Save Bloggers lives through Twitter

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:34:29 +0000

I just got a message through facebook saying this:

If you have a Twitter account, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Security forces are apparently hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians’ access to the internet. Cut, paste and please pass it on to everyone you know.

So I did it. If I can save a few fellow activists fighting for a free democracy just by changing my twitter settings, DONE!

HELLOO GERMANY!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:18:06 +0000

So last weekend or so I was in Berlin to Speak at a workshop, and I did an interview with gruenderszene as well as some other journalists. In any case gruenderszene posted the video interviews as well as a nice writeup. In the interviews I talk about twitter, the difference between entrepreneurs in Europe, United States, and Israel. I also talked briefly about my thoughts about how there should be a fund by technology VCs and investors that be given to artists to try and understand the meaning of what we are building. Of course this is already happening, becuase artists will always do this, but it helps stimulus when they can actually live off of these crazy pieces they do. It’s an idea that Paulo Cohello says will come but in years time at Le Web. Well here are the videos. They are posted on gruenderszene.de. The translated post is here>

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MyLife Pics

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:45:02 +0000

Hey family and friends that read this. Here are a whole bunch of pictures that I haven’t gotten to posting. Everything from going to Berlin, DreamAmsterdam, Steve’s B-Day party, GabeB singing at Panama, breakfast with Sabine and more in between. Slideshow frenzy!

WARNING! IRAN VIDS R DISTURBING

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:34:58 +0000

Yesterday I saw this video come up onto facebook. Now I see it coming in on youtube. I had trouble watching it the first time, and it does not get better. It is the cold harsh truth of what is happening in Tehran at the moment. I must warn you that the video is extremely difficult to watch as you see and young girl killed by gunfire in Tehran, Iran. The videos and images coming out of IRAN via social media is mind blowing and you have to ask yourself, where to get the context without journalists there? These are citizen reporters. They are reporting, and it is up to us at the moment to filter these stories, verify them and make sense of what the context is. We have to be our own journalists for ourselves. Not something everyone is ready to do, espically when material such as this video is flashing across our facebook, twitters and blog posts. WARNING it is very graphic.

update: Crooksandliars.com has more about the details of what happened.

Brand Talk with Friends

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:06:09 +0000

Joking around with friends about the Adidas campaign “Impossible is nothing”. Rose Bertins tells the story.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: rosebertins, adidas, shows, brand, advertising, branding, nike

Image via Wikipedia

The thing about Freelance…

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:28:50 +0000

The thing about working freelance…

Is TV so Bad?

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:01:37 +0000

I haven’t had a TV in Holland for a little over a year now. Actually I never really watched dutch TV to be honest when I did. When Bicyclemark skyped Amserdamize and I if we wanted to be on TV, we said sure why not? A friend of his Shylo (fun geek girl who loves games) +, was asked to be on about the whole Twitter and Iran story. She was friends with BicycleMark and he called us and we went with the 4 of us there. I cannot devulge all that happend but it was lots of surprises. I thought it was going to be some Dutch sitting around a table drinking coffee talk type of program which they have mastered. Nope it was a revision of the classic “The Gong Show” but now with audience support and twitter. Something called “NON“. I broadcasted backstage via my live stream and some stuff after wards on Qik. But to really see how it went, just watch the clip. Warning it is in Dutch, and it makes no sense at all! A BIG SHOUT to Zenuno for recording this and putting it up for us so quick! and ANOTHER BIG SHOUT to J.P. Oosterom that took the twitpic. Love ya guys!

My dad is Qikking it

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:31:33 +0000

My dad is Qikking at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. My mom works there saving the environment like she has always done. I remember chaining myself to trees as a kid with al the other neighborhood kids, in protest to a highway being built through a park in the area. Great memories. Love my parents for that. And I love my Dad for running around streaming a local charity event. Activism on the internet doesn’t have to be global scale, it can also be local and niche. That’s the beauty in the flexibility of the internet. Reach the world, or just your neighborhood. Either way, it is good. I love the part in one of the videos when the guy says, “I didn’t sign a release” and my dad says, “Yeah well I’m publishing it anyway.” What a rebel! I have the coolest dad. I love him. “Happy Pre-Father’s Day dad!” You’re QIKKING IT!

Iran and the Web

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:41:01 +0000

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It is interesting to see how the web is being used as a tool for activism in Iran. And probably more importantly how people around the world show their support for the cause. Let’s take Twitter and Iran. Most of the news is coming out of this country through Twitter. And journalists really don’t have to much way to verify it. Information is coming in through facebook, direct messages blogs and more. And then we see a serious problem begin to occur. The point of Anonymity. I posted about my conversation with Ethan Zuckerman a number of years ago. My friend Rodrigo Sepulveda filmed part of that conversation at Le Web. But one part when we talked about political activism didn’t get in there. He said something very important. The fact that citizen journalists need to be able to have anonymity in the tools they use to be able to report without risking their lives. The stories out of twitter and the other social news site while being one of the only means of communication out, also become difficult to verify and track. But it may save peoples lives, the ones that are posting if they keep their anonymity. Or at least from prosecution should things really go south. Something to think about.

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But now I see also the slew of information and support from things such as the Green Icon creators, Facebook Cause Pages, and other digital support to keep pressure on the press and the media to keep reporting about it. Through that exposure I beleive change does happen. And let’s be honest, it would nice to think about someone else’s problem rather than our own nowadays.

Tomorrow I might be joining, Bicycle Mark along with Amsterdamize and some other people to talk on National Dutch TV, VPRO about Activism and 2.0. I suspect they will talk about the twitter revolution, but I’m not sure if they realize the greats like, InvisibleChildren.com, Josh Wolf’s story or a slew of others. I said once, You want to make a change in the world? The tools are there on the internet. Use them.

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It’s Caturday Again!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:54:00 +0000

Caturday means more cats. Actually I’m more of a dog lover being allergic to cats, but virtually I think they are awesome. Maybe I need a virtual cat on the XBOX like Milo? Today coming from my buddy Nuno is Cats on Catnip. For more videos check his post here.

Milo Xbox of AI friends

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:31:27 +0000

Xbox and Steven Spielberg have gotten into a project called “Milo“. It is scarely like A.I. that was made by Spielberg, and really shows how far the “Tamagochi” Phenomenon can happen. When we feel lonely our laptops and our games are our new friends. Scary and sick but this is how it is going. But does Milo have a soul? Do these inatimate items that we had as kids, such as the blanket, doll, or star wars figure we loved have a soul? A new generation of imaginary Virtual Friends is about to occur. Get ready, because everything ios about to change! Thanks for the tip GabeB!

Just a couple of Virals

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:15:18 +0000

Ok. If you haven’t seen the Fly Swatting Obama in the last 24 hours, you haven’t been online. Reminds me of some technology a friend of mine is working on that is a laser guided mosquito killer, but I digress. Then there is Wierd al Yankovic’s Craigslist song. I met Craig from Craigslist once at Picnic and interviewed, but never put the whole interview online because it was so boring… You want to disillusion some geeks? Put them in a room with Craig Newmark ans George Lucas for 24 hours, and I guarantee they will be bored out of their minds!

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@Maarlooz and the twitter Love at 140conf

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:55:53 +0000

My roommate Marlooz gave a presentation today at the 140 conf by Jeff Pulver. Back in Kinnernet, Pulver and I where in a group talking about twitter and I shared my TwitterDate experience with Marlooz. Now Marlooz and I are roommates. He said he wanted that story at the 140conf. So Marlooz was able to go becuase it was with her vacation with her family. She is such a wholesome girl. I was helping her out with the presenation till late last night. Then this morning I see a brief twitter about her laptop being stolen.

@marlooz
“#140conf My MacBook Pro looks like this: http://mobypicture.com/?ea0wih Please keep an eye out for it. It got stolen at Touch.”

Then I started to see donations flowing in after that. Briefly I was able to skype chat with marlooz, all of 3 sentences before she had to go. I had no idea how the laptop was, the presenation would go, nothing. Presentation comes and I start to see a slew of comments about it come up in my search. As the presenation was about twitter love, when people heard that Marlooz had raised some €700 for a new laptop, people started understanding love in another way.

Let me tell you something about Marlooz. She is the best roommate. We don’t have much money at the place, both struggling, but she knows how to shop cheap and make money stretch. And even though I have other clients, having worked for Marlooz and get paid from her, she was fast with payment. Something I don’t see often in the freelance business. And that laptop of hers was her life. Once already she had spilled water on it, and borrowed my old laptop while it dried for a week. Then just before she had to goto London to film a project, her laptop died. Luckily I still had mine, but the battery is completely shot on it, and no new batteries help. Then she was able to fix her old laptop herself, (all kinds of screws on the kitchen table and stuff). Just before leaving for the States. THEN IT GETS STOLEN!!! I can’t wait to see her when she gets back and I hope that there was enough money donated so that she could buy a really great laptop while she is in New York.

An Awesome Geek Chick like Marlooz, needs a laptop!

—Update—
She has raised enough money now to get her laptop…. I see here. I guess I should start to love twitter again as well. This story has brought me over from my twitter hate.

Happy Birthday Sabine!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:06:00 +0000

A picture for an awesome girl for her birthday. Happy Birthday Sabine! I hope this year is the best one yet!

Puppettime!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:41:09 +0000

It’s time for some Puppets and muppets. Why? Because you can never go wrong with them. I see a revolution coming with puppets here. Much like the revolution in Animation spearheaded by greats like Spike Decker, Bill Plympton, Danny Antonucci and later the boys from South Park and others. Going from Disney kid animations, and trust me that is the mindset up until just 10 years ago in media. To shows like Family Guy, and Adult Swim being shown on major channels. That is going to start happening more with Puppets I think. Starting to see it Triumph the insult dog, and 1938 Media, crank yankers etc. But I think it will start to go more extreme. Much more extreme, and will be above John Malkevich. Here are some more examples off main stream ads by Nike, a muppet remake on the viral Numa Numa, plus some others, just for fun. Oh and an interview I did with Danny and Spike once.

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog - Star Wars
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EVOM My new Fav Video App on Mac

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:43:59 +0000

So, I come across a video that I would like to save on the internet. I may wanna use it for a class, to create a mash-up, keep a copy of friends videos, use it to VJ, etc. I need to download a lot because of either copyright, or loss of account or some other issue, it is hard to find those AMZING vids again on the net. Yes the internet has an expiration date on video. more than it has on text. I guess because video files are larger than text, they don’t seem to be archived and saved and distributed as much. Text is easier to find when the source is gone. Video, a lot harder.

My method was use some Video Download plug-in in FireFox which would download the flash file from sites like Youtube, Dailymotion, etc. However these don’t always play so well on the Mac. I usually watch all my flash videos in Miro, which seems to be the best for me, and also FREE. However flash files don’t work at ALL in editing programs such as iMovie or Final Cut Pro. Good bye mash-ups then. I am constantly fu*#ing with converters to get flash turned into quicktime to be able to edit them. That has all changed for me today with Evom.

Evom is a FREE app for the mac that allows you to drag and drop, and easily encode videos for the web. Wheter it be to convert for iPods, AppleTV, or even post directly to Youtube. However for me there are a number of other programs that do this better. But that’s not why I like it.

A small (only seen in the small print) feature is that by adding a bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar, Evom will download, automatically convert, and even place a video from a website into your iTunes. YES!!! Thank you! I beleive my Msic Video collection as a VJ is about to grow a lot more. Damn I need to run and get another 1TB hardrive for all these great vids. Free for a Mac, go get a copy if you are into Video on the web and a Mac person.

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Create Passwords EZ with L33T

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:05:44 +0000

The other day I was helping my friend Isabelle out with her blog. Of course setting up a blog with your own hosting etc. you need some good passwords. Isabelle was having trouble with good passwords that were easy to remember. I told her about my L33T technique and she thought it was brillant. Here is what I told her.

A good password has a number of letters and text at least 8 chracters long. Many sites requie this. Howver most people just use thier phone number, or name or a word which are all easily hacked using a dictionary or number crack. As I talked about before, having a few passwords for different sites is a good idea. I usually say 3 max so that if one doesn’t work, you can try one of the other 2 before getting locked out. This is becuase most sites allow for password retry for 3 times. Ready to make one of your own?

1. think of a phrase that you like or can easiy remember. A good idea is to have some letters like O and I in it. for instance:
“I Love Gummy Vodka”

2. Writedown your phrase on a piece of paper and start replacing letters for numbers. Also add a couple letters as Capitals.
1LuvGummEV0dkA

3. There is your new password. however if you are still having trouble with it, just take your phrase and place it into a LEET translator, and remove the spaces to get this:
1l0V39ummyV0Dk4

4. No this is not a password I use, but I am waiting for my gummy bear vodka to be ready. Another week or so now I think.

Leet is a style of writing that popped up on the message boards when certain words were being censored or filtered and has found it’s way into our culture. Much of the LOLSPEAK and SMS or TEXT message techniques we use today are derived from LEET speak. Thank you L33T for helping mne remember my passwords.

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Andy Samberg is a Viral Genius

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:24:07 +0000

Some of you may have seen some of the popular work that Andy Samberg, Jorna Taccone and Akiva Schaffer have done. Most recently they have come out with the hit “I’m on a Boat”. One of the songs off The Lonely Island album “Incredibad“. But to know the back channel this comic genius of our time is also inspiring for us netizens.

I’m On A Boat (ft. T-Pain) - Album Version

Andy Samberg is living the dream that many youtube wannabes have. Years ago Andy and his comedy crew of “Lonley Island” have been clogging the tubes. Early on, music videos they uploaded had a wit to the culture of online with references to geekdome. From MMO Gaming to just plain teenage dream fulfillment. The flicks spread quickly across the message boards and the internets, giving the group more traction. One project brought them to the attention of Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night live, which is where they run rampant now.

Andy and Justin Timberlake became friends and Justin has appeared in many of the skits and songs of the group. These are such hits like “Jizz in my Pants“, “Dick in a Box” and most recently the SNL skit of Beyonce Single Ladies. They have all been internet viral successes. For many this has thrown JT into a more respected level on the internet.

However other stars such as Natalie Portman havw also appeared in skits since the group started with SNL, but probably the most talked about Lonely Island Lore is when the group was filming a “fake” Mugging skit on the street. Keffer Sutherland saw this, jumped out of his convertible and kicked their asses thinking it was real. Unfortunately the guys stopped filming as Keffer pulls up because he “blocked the shot”! DOH! FAIL! This became a subject on the talk shows as Keffer promoted 24 and giving more old school media fame injections.

Saturday Night Live - Dick In A Box

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To compute the comic genius behind this crew, you must watch “Hot Rod”. In most Social Bubbles a widely un commented flick. IMHO because you have to be a complete geek to understand it.

WARNING! This is not a movie that your Mom will like, or your Tax Auditer. (Trust me I tried striking up a conversation with my auditer about it. I know I lost him when I was talking about wanting to be on a boat like Leo with my flippy floppies. Not so good.)

The source code that compiles Hot Rod to a WIN is because any scene in this movie could be trolled on message boards and become a headshot. Butt it encloses the worst Latte Butt Wax “Hollywood” story line known to man. (Not women because there are a lot of crappy chick flicks out there as well. Anything with Renee Zellwigger would be worse.) And this is where “the rest” don’t get it. This film is for an ADD generation that likes to flip through windows and tabs faster than particles screaming around the Hadron Collider to create a Black Hole. To uz the movie has an on demand quality allowing us to pause, reload on beer, bongs or a jump into a WOW raid, and return without missing a beat. So if you enjoy Viral Films, just watch this movie and feel understood. You can order the movie On Demand here from Amazon or watch it with lots of Asian adds and lower quality here.

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ComputerTan Viral

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:34:18 +0000

How many people spend hours behind the computer screen. I do, but I also face a window so I get some sun during the day as well. (Speaking of which I really need to clean my window. Very dirty.) In any case REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY has now allowed computertan.com to give people tans by a computer monitor! Actually it is a viral for Skin Cancer in the UK, but funny none the less. Go see how many friends download the iPhone app or try it out. I’m going to the park down the street to get some vitamin B, but I will put on some lotion first.

PowerPoint Karaoke

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:21:54 +0000

Have you played PowerPoint Karaoke yet? Ok this is one for the real nerds and geeks. The rules are simple.
1. Have a powerpoint or slideshow that no one knows yet.
2. A presentor tries to present the Powerpoint or Slideshow and make a coherent (and often humoruos) presentation.
3. (Optional) Presentor must take a shot after every second slide or other interval for drinking game varioation.

I first saw this played at Kinnernet09. I realised this is an excellent game to use in my presentation techniques course at the HKU. Unfortunately there is a lack of powerpoints created for Powerpoint Karaoke. so I had my students make a bunch of them. Here is a whole slew of free Karaoke presenations that you can use with your friends or co-workers that they made. Just click on one of the links and start playing.

Interview for GameBizz.de

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:17:22 +0000

Last weekend in Berlin I met with a number of journalists to talk tech. GameBizz.de is a popular site about gaming which also did an interview with me. Here is the interview in which I talk about Games, Game Development, teaching at the HKU, female gaming demographics and what Newspapers could be doing with Gaming to increase their online presence over their competitors. Here is the interview:

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Barcelona Extreme 2009

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:36:51 +0000

Image via Wikipedia

This is an excellent roundup video from Wolfgang Gaebler of the Barcelona Extreme Sports event. Everything from biking, water boarding, skating, bungy jumping, and more in sunny Barcelona. Very cool. Check it out for the extreme sports fans!

more about “Barcelona Extreme 2009“, posted with vodpod

GAMES GAMES GAMES!!!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:26:23 +0000

Next week I am attending the HKU Design for Virtual Theater and Games EXPO in Utrecht at the Huis aan de Werf. It will be a great show on June 18 and 19. Don’t miss it!

For an example there are a couple free games to try out that some of my students made. Felisberto de Brito has made eggCademy and Ziggy Naumann has made Hotel Luma. Both are in the running for the Festival of Games 2009 award from the NLGD. Go and check them out if you can’t handle the humpday this week. Enjoy!

UPDATE:

Felis just emailed me that he has an english version of his game online to enjoy. http://eggcademy.com

HammerTime!!!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:01:37 +0000

MC Hammer via last.fm

The Hammer is back in this Flash Mob in a store in LA. Honestly who growing up as a teenager in the 90’s didn’t do the hammertime with the pants. Honestly? via: http://videoculmination.blogspot.com/

Dream Amsterdam - Peter Funch Event

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:30:17 +0000

Who:
Peter Funch is a Danish artist in New York that is working with the Dream Amsterdam project.

What:
The artist will be making a photograpgh where he is asking for
people to particiapte in. this is part of the IWONDER project of Dream
Amsterdam. People are asked to bring an opbject that is dear to them
from home. Peter will then make one of his famous compositions. These
photographs are truly transcendent representations of the moments and the
beauty in the stories that happen in cities everyday on the corner of
the street.

When / Where:
At Central Station in Amsterdam on Saturday June, 6 2009 @ 16:00 (4 pm). To be specific - the mid tunnel, downstairs at platform 4/5.
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Chris Cornell in Groningen Photos

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:30:16 +0000

I went to see Chris Cornell this week up in Groningen. It was help at the Kleine Zaal in De Oosterpoort Art complex. The concert was in a small venue, not as small as a band at a bar, but a high school auditorium size. It was really amazing. first time I saw him was a Pink Pop along with Pearl Jam. I was about 15 or 16 then. Subsequently I’ve seen him perform over the years in Amserica and in Europe. this had to be one of the top concerts I expereinced form him. Right up in front, shaking hands, recieving guitar pics and making some cool videos and pics. There was such a great vibe there. there were no mosh pits like when I was a kid. Just good vibes amoung everyone. I was going to do a longer post, but I’ll save that for with the videos.

Toy Story 3 Teaser Pixar History

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:02:29 +0000

Ok, I admit I was excited to see the Toy Story Teaser from Pixar. I’m just a huge animation fan, and Pixar is one of the most amazing stories in animation. It started out as a research group with George Lucas inside ILM. Because Lucas was getting divorced he had to sell some stuff from his empire, and the research group (which was looking into computer generated animation techniques) was one to go. Steve Jobs stepped up then and bought the company. Actually Ross Perot almost bought it first. When Pixar was finishing on Toy Story, Jobs, who had a lot of free time on his hands and was going through a bit of a crisis after Apple and Next, became slightly obsessed with the project. To his name, he struck a 3 picture deal with Disney, but more importantly made sure that the Pixar

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Leader came in the opening credits . This created Pixar as the name in 3D animation when Toy Story was released in the early 90’s. So much so that other movies following that used 3D animation, such as Dream Works, were in the public’s eye attributed to Pixar. Good branding. If you would like to read more about that part of Pixar’s history, you should check out the book The Second Coming of Steve Jobs. But he was a real tyrant as well. He almost moved the Pixar animation Studio acros the state so that his commute for the meetings would be shorter. This in the final months of production with a huge deadline, and the first time a 3D Full Length Feature was ever created by Pixar. Luckily this didn’t happen.

Seeing as today John Lasseter is now running Disney Animation (Principal Creative Advisor), it will be very interesting to see how this movie comes out.

Toy Story 3 - Teaser
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maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:00:48 +0000

Be careful not to turn social media into anti-social media.

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It’s Caturday!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:51:32 +0000

Today is Caturday, so I figured I just post a bunch of awesome Cat pics. At least it will cheer me up over the whole Twitter ordeal.

No MORE Twitter!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:07:45 +0000

File this in the category: WTF? I log into my twitter today to see this:

MY FREAKN ACCOUNT IS SUSPENDED! FOR WHAT? And what pisses me off the most is the fact that there is no email to sent to me to give a “Head’s Up!” or WHY? Nothing what so ever. I have to surf through the site for 30 min. to put in a request that will probably take a week or so for me to get through. Screw it. If this service treats it’s users with such fascist authority, I’m out. Fuck Twitter, Fuck Biz Stone fuck the lot of you…. So I’ll probably burn in hell for this. Might as well post my shitter video with Chris Sacca (one of the investors in twitter). Yes I can feel the burn now…

update: It seems that there was a glitch in the matrix with twitter. I again have access, but all the sudden I started following strange people in my account. Looks like I have to purge my followers. I beleive my twitter account was hacked actually. Marc believes it was Russians. Great, now I’ve got Russians hacking me to worry about. In the end I’m still upset and turned off by twitter as I still have no idea, no correspondence, nothing to what happened or what it going on. Come on guys! Can’t you even explain what happened in 140 characters to me? I find this lack of communication disturbing.

More Free MMO Game Reviews

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:17:06 +0000

I wanted to add the last videos that I produced for MMOHub.org. Free MMO Game reviews. It was fun to do, and depending on how well they do we may be expanding it to a whole MMO Game lifestyle show. That would be great.

Dinner with @Marlooz and @askfrasco

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:08:12 +0000

Had a great dinner this weekend with @Marlooz and @askfrasco. Bit salty, but it was nice. Marlooz took us to a new place around the corner. Sitting outside with the weather not too cold, but still sunny was nice.

Make your Perfect City with Dream Amsterdam

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:00:53 +0000

There is this really great project that my friend Jamain is doing. It is called Dream Amsterdam. This year she is asking for entries on the site to then select and actually make some happen. This is the chance to change your city conceptually. Go over and join the iWonder project, and give your ideas of what your perfect city is like.

Within the I WONDER community, we are searching for ‘the ideal city’
and are giving you the opportunity to express your desires regarding
your dream city. Become a I WONDER member aka DREAMER by signing up
through the button on the right and answer the simple question: “I
wonder what the city would look like if.”

Find more photos like this on Dream Amsterdam Foundation

Cannes young Lion Awards are Viral Stew pots

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:01:46 +0000

Cannes together with youtube are doing the 48 Hour AD Contest. There is only limited time to vote, but there are a lot of great potential virals for the charity OXFam Novib. What a great campaign this is for charity. Any Tarentinos in the mix you think?

Google Wave - Play them off Keyboard Cat

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:01:15 +0000

The Google Wave team gets played off by Keyboard Cat. Why? Should they have practiced the demo first.If you want to see the full demo check here.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: google, wave, keyboardcat, fail, demo, funny, googlewave

Sergey Brin: Google Wave Will Set A New Benchmark For Interactivity (techcrunch.com)
Google Wave: Reinventing Online Communications? (rotorblog.com)
Catching the Google Wave (rev2.org)
Google Climbs to New Heights of Arrogance With Wave (gigaom.com)

Dancing with Miriam in Bilbao

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:23:38 +0000

Today I saw that Eitb news had picked up on Marc’s video post of us riding around through Bilbao. Another great video shot at the Nonick Conference I just saw is from Manu Srikumar. He posted a video of me and Miriam Reyes dancing. Miriam used to sit next to me everyday when we worked at Mobuzz.tv. She is one of the sweetest and nicest girl I ever met. I am really happy that her new project together with other mobuzz coworkers won a prize at nonick. If you speak Spanish, check out LaComuna.tv.

Obama picks up Heidi Klum with iPhone Viral

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:55:17 +0000

Check out this new Viral Video that was just launched for the iPhone Love Lips app. I pissed myself laughing when I saw it. I so want to go get this app and try it out. Watch Obama and Heidi Klum get it on!

A bike ride to Guggenheim in bilbao

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:57:00 +0000

Last month when I went to moderate a session about online video in Bilbao for the nonick conference. the day after the conference, Marc from Amsterdamize and I rented a couple bikes from the hotel to go explore the city. This video Marc edited as a part1 of that wonderful day we had together. I know he is working on more, with some fun action shots through Bilbao, but this sets a nice tone for the day.

If you do goto Bilbao, I highly recommend checking out The Guggenheim Museum. Besides being an amazing building, I really loved the exhibitions they had there. Marc and I spent close to 4-5 hours in the museum hanging around and checking out the work. At the moment they have some amazing Video Art pieces that you can sit and literally loose yourself in for hours. If you were not stoned before going in, the effects of these films will transport you to that state. Then head up to the top floor to see Murakami. An awesome artist that has been highly influenced by popular culture in Japan such as Anime, Manga as well as traditional artists. If you are into Anime, contemporary art or Asian culture, this exhibition is for you!

Free Audiobooks for summer

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:45:35 +0000

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Many of you may be planning a vacation, or maybe staying around town for vacation. One thing I love during vacations or long drives is audiobooks. It’s nice to listen to podcasts, but sometimes a nice audiobook for a longer period is better. Although you can buy many audiobooks on Amazon and Audible.com, there are a lot of FREE audiobooks at LibriVox. Also great for you students who have to read some books over the summer! Have a look, and have a listen. It is opensource, so that means if you really like a book, you could create an audiobook from it as well (as long as it is public domain). Yes that is the catch. Only public Domain books, but there are quite a lot of classics amoungst them. Enjoy!

Ask Frasco Likes Grow Flash Games

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:18:22 +0000

I’m sitting here after dinner and @askfrasco is setting next to me on the couch. I asked her if she played flash games online. “Not really” she said. So I told her about one fun game, Grow. Have a look for yourself. Once you play it 2 or 3 times you will get it, and then you can spend hours on the different games. Enjoy free flash games!

DailyMugShotMosaic

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:54:11 +0000

I was procrastinating while waiting for some pizza to cook. So I decided to make a Mosiac video using Widgets on OSX. Using Safari I just made a bunch of webclips from some favorites on DailyMugShot.com, and did a screen capture of that to some music that was playing. Simple, fun, procrastination.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: dailymugshot, mosaic, dailyportrait, friends, mashup, webtools, screencast, pokerface, fun

Facebook Virus and Hacking Passwords in Firefox

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:34:25 +0000

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Sometime this afternoon I started getting mails from people asking me about a link I had mailed through facebook. I thought it was one of the links I put through twitter. Then I noticed it was a message I hadn’t sent at all., and it had sent iot to practically everyone in my friends list. Some application, website, something somewhere had hacked into my facebook account and sent emails saying “Look at this” with a link to something called silvertag.be. As soon as I noticed I started replying to people saying it was not from me. Then I quickly changed my facebook and some other passwords. Fortunately I don’t use the same passwords for facebook and twitter type sites. This makes it easier for me to make sure that even though one attack might get through on one of these sites or apps, it will not hit anything that can really make my life miserable. Like my paypal or banking passwords. It is a good idea to create a series of passwords that you can remember easy for different levels of security you would like on different sites. Here are some tips to good passwords.

One nice thing about the MacOSX is that it has a secure keychain for many passwords. However, what many people do not know is that Mozilla browsers are easily hackable if you do not secure them. One way to do this is to go into your mozilla browser (such as Firefox or Flock) and set a Master Password.

Firefox-> Preferences -> Security. This makes sure that all those saved passwords on all the different websites will not atuo fill in when someone else tries to use your browser. By setting a master password, Firefox or Flock will ask you for your password at startup. If you enter it, then it will auto fill and auto login to all those sites you use most often. If you do not set it, then no passwords or sites will be logged into. It’s not the be all end all of securtiy measures, but it does help.

I am sorry i got tagged with this virus on FB, and am sorry to any friends that it inconvienced. Sorry folks.

update: I just saw on Mashable Pete Cashmore talking about it. He said ” Today my Facebook inbox shows there’s another attack underway that’s suckering even some of the most tech savvy users:”. Now I don’t feel as bad at being suckered in.

Phishing attacks on Facebook - don’t “look at this” (timesonline.typepad.com)

Saturday Squirrel Time

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:28:04 +0000

Just about to head to the park, as should many of you this weekend. At least for a bit. But before I go, here is a video of Squirrels. I know we all hate them, these pesky rodents. I actually don’t like pigeons, but squirrels are ok in my book. Anyway enjoy Baby squirrel learning the ropes on College Campus in the states.

Ben and Celes Wedding Rock

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:55:58 +0000

Last night I went to a wedding of 2 friends Ben and Celestine. I could probably write a novel about all the stories that went on last night. The stories of my past, the friends that were there, the relationships, the circular moments in life. It was a real trip. In the end it was a lot of fun, but I am spent. Here are some pics and a vid from last night… Thanks Ben & Celestine. It is wonderful you guys tied the knot. I wish you both a wonderful, loving life.

Rocking with GabeB, Marc, Rose, Wiendelt and Esther at Ben & Celestine’s wedding on a boat. Rock and roll with Rolling Stone.

These are pics from Marc van Woudenberg

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: blues, live, music, band, wedding, party, rollingstone, rock

Registration of Events with UGC

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:22:13 +0000

Last night I went to a wedding for Ben and Celestine. Marc and I of course were making LOTS of pics and videos, as usual. I will be uploading them soon, good fun. However this morning Marc shows me this video from Onion News which is so funny, and so true in many ways. A reconstruction of events by police to figure out what happened in a fire using pics from phones, cameras, twitter, etc. You can laugh first, but there is brillant insight here. This very well could be the future of law investigation. However there are lots of questions that arise from it. How admissible are tweets, photos and the like in court?

Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire

Trip to see Nuno and Nikki

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:10:42 +0000

While at Webcom, I added a few days to stay the weekend so I could see my good friends Nuno and Nikki. I love those 2! When I arrived Nuno and I promptly started geeking out and catching up on the latest apps and tricks about vlogging, internet, and also talking about life. He talked about selling his place, staying in Waterloo, how google is moving there, and things are starting to pick up again.

Within a few hours of arriving we hit the pub where we met up with some of thier friends, and then hit a club. Lots of drinks, lots of dance, lots of fun, which eventually ended in an afterparty at Jenn’s place (a friend of Nikki’s). It was absolutly hilarious fun time. At one point people huddled onto the couch and started listening to all the stories I was telling about Hollywood, New York and Europe. Real fun.

Next day we hit the Diner where Nuno and Nikki met. Nuno read his comics, then we started making drawings, chilling talking, then someone ordered 2 Godfather Burgers. OMG! These things were massive! As you can see very only 40 something people have actually finished this massive burger. It reminds me of the steak in the movie “The Great Outdoors”. when I asked if they had to finish the fries as well, Jenn said, “We let that slide nowadays. But I will tell you that it seems to be asians that always finish it. LOL?”

That night we initiated Nikki to The Big Lebowski. Halfway through we got hungry so Nuno and Nikki took me to Harvey’s and gave me this complete artery clogging meal. Delicious!

The next day I drove back to Montreal and caught my flight back to Amsterdam, but I relived every moment the 2 days before. So much fun, such good ideas, Thanks Nuno and Nikki! U 2 ROCK!!

Interview at Webcom

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:38:21 +0000

At Webcom I gave an interview after my talk about the virtual immortality project. It goes on for a while, but it was a fun interview to do.

webcom : Gabe McIntyre
by amicalmant

For More interviews from Webcom check Christian Aubry’s page.

Social Network fatigue? Proxy Networking the answer

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Last week at Webcom in Montreal I met a lot of great people, and saw some old friends. One of the friends I got to catch up with is Marc Canter. Now Marc has always been ahead of the curve. He was making the first synthesizers himself. He created Director to be able to create his multi-media musical extravaganza art pieces and performances. Director later became Flash and then Macromedia (now Adobe). Since then he’s been doing a lot as well as building the first social networks that we know today.

Marc has been a Paul Revere when it comes to open information, and allowing the users to choose what information goes where rather than the networks we give the information to. When I traveled to MIPTV a couple years ago we shared a cab from Nice to Cannes. While in the cab I asked him why he was doing so much work for Open internet and information. He told me that because he made Flash proprietary, he was paying for his sins now by going the other way. I guess it is kinda like when a smoker stops smoking, they are worst non-smokers than the people who never smoked.

In any case, we got to have dinner in Montreal together with Patrick Chanezon from Google. Marc was talking about all kinds of stuff with me and Patrick. One of the stories that really got me excited was the idea that his wife did with the teacher and class using BroadBand Mechanics tools. Broadband Mechanics is the current company Marc has built which is a Social Network tool set and service. The service is being used by a number of big clients such as some government groups, education institutes, media corporations, and non-profit organizations, as well as ordinary people because it is free. Although if you want to custom stuff, that will cost money. Which is a sound business plan as long as there are not too many glitches in the source matrix.

In any case Marc explained this idea using his wife’s story as an example in what I can only refer to as “Proxy Social Networking”. I’ll try to explain. Imagine I start a Social Network for some of my classes. I know that a number of my students understand the social networks, but maybe not all want to get on it right away. On this social network I could be placing assignments, links, photos, a knowledgebase in a way. Other students could be uploading the homework, interacting with each other on assignments, etc. etc. Now when I create the network, I add all my students in with a profile. After a while those students who didn’t want to be on the network at the start, can evaluate the added value and then decide to join on. However when they do join on, they already have thier profile setup with credits in assignments, videos, etc. Half the work was already done for them.

Now this becomes even more interesting when you think of a talk that (I think Robbert Scobble but I could be wrong) did at Next Web last year. He explained that sites like twitter, facebook, and other social media sites are no fun if you have no friends. Kinda like in life I guess. Well except for freaky porn sites. You don’t really want to have too many friends on theier when you first enter. Along the way fine, depending on your preference. But I digress… But there is a point that twitter, and the like only become fun once you have a few friends already.

Now to get rid of a lot of Social Network fatigue that people are getting nowadays, this could be the solution. I mean, to go and invest in porting sections of my firends to a new social network service is a big undertaking nowadays. I mean, do I really have too? That’s what a lot of people think. At least in an older generation. It turns into Social Network Fatigue. However if I join and there are already friends there filled in as well as stuff I was in, such as in the example when my students decide to join, that fatigue goes down real fast.

So by allowing people to create Social Networks with the ability to Proxy members, this could be a way that prevents the fatigue that users experience when entering the network. Now if I could only find a way to do this with new girlfriends and meeting my family, that would be excellent! Or as as Marc van Woudenberg says, integrating illegitimate brothers and sisters.

Here is an interview with Marc Canter at Picnic

Our present become echos of our past online

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:02:18 +0000

After coming back from Webcom where I gave a presentation on Virtual Immortality, I opened up my monthly photojojo time capsule and am floored yet again. This month I see pics from when Nuno and Nikki came to visit last year. I just got back from visiting them in Canada this weekend.

Not only that but I see pics of the wedding of Hans and Neltje from last year, on a boat where this week other friends of mine will be getting married on that exact same boat.

I twittered earlier that “blogging allows me to appreciate the present, by allowing me to see through my eyes in the future, and appreciate the past which is now.” Now I realize that everything becomes more cyclical in life than I had realized. As I said in my talk in Montreal, “THE APPLICATIONS AND DATA WE CREATE TODAY WILL BE OUR COMMUNICATION WITH FUTURE CULTURES AND BEINGS,” and now I beleive ourselves as well.

links for 2009-05-18

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:12:43 +0000

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How to connect Twitter to Wordpress

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New Video Podcast project MMO REviews

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:12:12 +0000

Many people have been asking me online and offline if I am going to start something new. Well there is a “New Show” in the works, but as I said before I need money to be able to really do it. One of the ways I am earning some money after the massive loss of being in 2 bankrupt companies last year, is MMOLIFE.TV.

I am really excited about working with MMOLIFE as I feel that games are a passion that I have had since I was a kid. I programmed my first games as a kid in Basic, and then next to a film degree got a Masters in Video Game Design. So for me to do a project that will explore the lifestyle of MMOs is really exciting. Here are a couple review shows that we made, and hopefully many more will come, in different languages, and a lifestyle show as well. There are a lot of kinks that need to be worked out with the publishers in getting good materials, but I feel that this is a good start. Hope you enjoy!

update: I shot, produced, edited, and did the motion graphics for this project. I didn’t do the scripts or get the game footage. That is just 2 much work right off.

ATTN Universal Music Group, Lady GAGA wants 2 be Open 2 Viral!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:49:46 +0000

I really loved the new campaign that Universal Music Group has put out. It starts with a segment from Lady GaGa “Poker Face”. When you see the video on youtube it explains very easily that you must try to play the game. What is the game?

Watch 20 sec. of Universal Music Videos of artists and answer a trivia question of what you saw.

There are some great roots in the Viral and I suspect that the agency saw some viral hits like this awareness test video.

Test Your Awareness: Do The Test

Did you enjoy that? UMG feels it can capitalize on that idea and sell records. Great, do it. However It would be a HELL of a lot easier to spread this if they allowed people to at least embed the first video (the entry level) onto thier blogs, facebooks, etc. I’ll put it in old school marketing terms for ya UMG so you understand. The first video in this sequence of interactively linked Youtube videos which create a game needs to have a point of entry. Not just people search Lady GAGA on youtube. Allow the mebed and it turns into an old school banner! You will not endanger the copyright more, you will not be loosing out. You will gain by opening up. Of course I admit I am proud of you for taking these first steps. Very good, you have your training wheels on now. Time for dad to take them off and push you down the hill. What are you afraid you will get hurt UMG?

Get Ready for a RECYCLE Meme! VOGUE

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:53:02 +0000

Cover of Vogue

You remember back in the early 90’s with Madonna’s Vogue. It was a dance sensation, taken from the Dance and club scene. It was a crossover song that brought the “Clubbing” scene of cross genders, queens, sexual explorations, XTC, and events such as “Love Parade” in Berlin to the attention of the main stream. Again Vogueing is coming back to the streets, this time through the Hip Hop scene. do not be surprised to see some serious HArd COre BAck BReaking Vogueing to start hitting the Music videos in the coming months or year. Watch the video, and prepare….

Talking about Wordpress Fashion Sexy

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:30:20 +0000

Last week my friend Rose Bertins asked me to explain Wordpress in a testimonial for a communication project she is working on in the fashion industry. She posted the video, and here it is. Why is Wordpress cool? Why is it one of the largest Content Management Systems in the world, and why do people love it so much?

Singing love is strange

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:06:05 +0000

My friend Catalina and I do a rendition of Love is Strange, a 50’s song made popular by the movie Dirty Dancing. We are walking on the streets of Madrid as we do it.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: gabemac, gabe, gabrielmcintyre, travel, life, madrid, spain, fun, catalina, sun, dirtydancing, sing, song, funny, outtake, blooper, vlog, friends

Youtube is really becoming evil!

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 17 May 2009 05:30:21 +0000

If you think that Youtube is still a platform for independent film makers, think again. Watch this video about how they are slowly turning into a site purely for corporate means, and killing independent film maker oppurtunities. Youtube needs to be careful, otherwise it will fall leaving room for others to take the market such as Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Viddler and others.

A Day in Toledo, Spain

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:06:11 +0000

This video is a compilation of a daytrip to Toledo, Spain in the late summer of 2008 with Catalina, her cousin Jules and GabeMac. It was a beautiful day, with a horrific storm at the end. A day to remember.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: toledo, spain, storm, travel, fun, catalina, jules, sun, vlog, friends, gabemac, gabe, gabrielmcintyre, life

links for 2009-05-16

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:10:41 +0000

ComicPress - The WordPress Comic Publishing Theme

Wordpress Publisher for Comic sites

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Salamanca with Sabine

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:01:01 +0000

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I had a wonderful weekend trip to Salamanca, Spain with Sabine. This is some video from the trip together with some live performance I saw of “The Script” in Pacha in Madrid, Spain.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: thescript, salamanca, spain, vacation, sabine, gabemac, gabe, gabrielmcintyre, travel, life, pacha, madrid

Baby, Baby, Baby

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:12:03 +0000

So people think it is strange that I dance out on the street in the middle of the morning. If you do, then you must not be French. Check out this music video for “Make the Girl Dance”. Although I am rather disappointed that none of the girls actually dance. Even still, I suspect it will go Viral. Why?

Viral Recipe for Video:
1 shot
Simple VFX of um… tracking… (I wonder where the uncensored version is)
3 naked women
A juxtaposition of reality
Plus I think I saw Tony Hawk’s name there somewhere

Make The Girl Dance “Baby Baby Baby” ( official video )
envoyé par placeblancherec - Clip, interview et concert.

links for 2009-05-14

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:12:37 +0000

Telestream Wirecast - Overview

Live Video Streaming Software

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Luv 2 Dance - Queensday

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:31:08 +0000

Another dance video. This time in Amsterdam to The Cardigans. This was taken at about 5 a.m. on Queensday morning. Make your own dance video and send it to me.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: dance, luv2dance, like2dance, love2dance, amsterdam, street, dancing, streetdance, holland, queensday, dancemachine, entertainment, gabemac, gabe, gabrielmcintyre, travel, life

Canada here I come

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:19:28 +0000

Today I am traveling to Montreal Canada for a few days to talk at the WebCom 2009 conference. At this conference I will talk be talking about our digital identities and how we need to preserve them or not for future generations. Hopefully I will have a video to post of it afterward. If you are in Montreal, the session I will be giving is for free tomorrow. Have a look if you are in town.

BlogArt

maceverywhere@gmail.com (Gabriel McIntyre) — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:10:12 +0000

Later this year at Theater Spui in Amsterdam Den Haag is Blog-Art. I am really excited to see how this event unfolds so that we can see the art that is Blogging and Vlogging. It is an artform that many are forgetting about in their quest for SEO domination.

blog-art work in progress (wip) apr09 from Marco Raaphorst on Vimeo.