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DM Stith at Crawdaddy

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:13:50 +0200

I went to see DM Stith play Crawdaddy back in May, and having just received my D90 camera, I tried to take a video at the concert. I should've brought a tripod however, or shaken less on my hands that evening, and I should probably have practiced a bit on the manual focus as well, but at least the music is good! We enjoyed it.

It cuts off a little abruptly, as there's a 5 minute max length for video-clips with the camera.

You can download the track for free from the album profile on Last.fm

On a sidenote, As a child I used to play with the funny sound tubes they swing over their heads, forgot what they are called, anyone?

Breaking my drum

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:49:07 +0200

Sylvester

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:29:57 +0200

Swedish genius

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:19:08 +0200

MOVITS! Fel del av g�rden from Axel S�derlund on Vimeo.

Franz Kafka International - Worlds most alienating airport

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:11:21 +0200

Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport

Monie Love, The Erin Brockovich of Hip-Hop

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:43:35 +0200

D-Nice, once a full time MC, has taken to the camera to document some of the true stories of Hip-Hop. Seeing that Hip-Hop is a culture of much hyperbole and frivolous claims to this and that, this one with Monie Love on life, love, and Hip-Hop is especially relieving.

D-Nice Presents True Hip-Hop Stories: Monie Love from D-Nice on Vimeo.

Blame Transfer Protocol

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:13:49 +0200

The Blame Transfer Protocol or BTP is a Transport layer Protocol used to transfer blame. It is similar to TCP in its guarantees of data transmission and packet ordering, but instead of being a Connection-oriented stream-based protocol, it employs the Connectionless Datagram model, such as that employed by UDP. #

From the trusted source of hilarities at Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense.

Update: This post reminded me of the whole geeky RFC lore where people would sometime suggest highly non-sensical, but usually very well documented, entries. Like the Standard for Transmissions of Datagrams on Avian Carriers, and the equally funny Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol.

Fields of Peace

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:18:15 +0200

Term originally coined by Andre Miripolsky in his 1993 short film "Fear No Art! A Crash Course in Reality".

Photo taken by Thomas Hawk.

DoF

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:07:59 +0200

When you focus a lens, it�s blurred just in front and just behind.
It�s very pretty just a little in front and a little behind.
It�s too sharp when it�s exactly focused.
Beauty is killed by precision.

— Jacques Henri Lartigue

Update: A kind YouTube user has uploaded a documentary on Lartigue.

Another fairly useless single-serving site

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:29:22 +0100

Yesterday, while the other people in my household were cooking dinner, I made a weather single-serving site for Dublin. Is it raining in Dublin? will answer that question, and that question only. There's no user-generated content, there are no dot-oooh effects either, but it has a favicon!

There might sometimes be a slight delay (~15-20 minutes) in the weather data, and if it's very local showers, heck, then I won't know about them. Apart from that, it should be pretty sturdy.

A couple of useless features comes to mind, and they are already on my extensive roadmap of this top notch, bleeding edge web application. The possibilities are endless.

Thanks to domai.nr for making it so easy to get my mittens on the domain I wanted.

Liquid Sky

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:33:58 +0100

Eureka moment

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:31:25 +0100

The DJs at the time were picking up the arm and dropping it down exactly on the break of the song. But I was dancing, and I noticed everybody's head was bobbing at the same time, and then suddenly everyone's heads would go into disarray, and then come back together again. I found this to be very strange. From that moment, I decided to come up with a science that would allow me to have full control to manually edit the beat. I came up with the science called the Quick Mix theory. It consisted of me having to do something that DJs at the time never did: placing my fingertips on the vinyl. I was ridiculed for a long time. I was told that I ruined needles, ruined styluses, ruined records, and also that placing my fingers on the vinyl was something DJs never did because I'd make the record filthy. But I knew that I had to do it to have full control over the vinyl.

— Grandmaster Flash

Can I Kick It?

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:14:16 +0100

Lykke Li at The Sugar Club from Bobby Bonzai on Vimeo.

And I was ridin' by...

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:58:16 +0100

like this...

Raabified

jonas.voss@gmail.com (Jonas) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:18:14 +0100

Max Raabe does a good job at taking all the sex out of Sex Bomb, respect! He also does a pretty good job on Tainted Love, if you are in need of something new this morning.